20 education of your children. This matter should be para- mount to all other things in our minds of worldly nature. You can help them to no greater gift. Their future destiny depends upon it as does also our State and nation, of which we are justly proud. Then let us be mindful that our children profit by our own experiences. CONCLUSION. Thanking all - citizens, teachers and scholars - for their courteous treatment and hearty support in the school work for the year, this report is respectfully submitted. LOREN W. RUMILL, Superintendent of Schools. Tremont, Me., February 18, 1899. I9 TEXT-BOOKS. In the text-books, as I have stated, there is a marked SCHOOLS. deficiency in quantity and quality. When the schools were all in session at the same time, as in the spring and fall, most of them were deficient in books. In winter the schools in the eastern and western parts of the town were in session at different times, SO we managed by transferring There will have been taught in this town at the close the books from one section to the other. In the spring of the school year forty-one terms of schools, each school terms we used the same histories which have been in use having the same number of weeks, a total of twenty-five for many years, being copyrighted in '71, and last revised weeks for the year, excepting Bar Island which has in '85. Instead of buying fifty copies of this kind to meet twenty weeks, and is now in session, and Hardwood the demand, we concluded to buy a hundred new ones of Island which had ten weeks in the spring, but for the '97 edition, and make a complete change, and, as the book winter term was transferred to Bayside. fund was inadequate to meet this emergency, we made ar- At McKinley the school opened under the instruction rangements with the publishers who supplied the books of I. F. Burton who came to us very highly recom- who agreed to wait for their pay until the appropriation amended, but although he was a fine scholar, yet his ser- was made for 1899, for which we owe them, in exchange vices were not profitable, and a change was made. The for our old ones, about $70. remainder of the term was a success. During the coming year there should be a change The fall schools at Nos. I and 5 also No. IO were in- made in our physiologies, and books enough of other kinds terrupted by sickness of the teachers. Substitutes were added to our present supply to make it possible for each promptly secured and the schools terminated successfully, school to have books enough of its own, and thereby avoid excepting No. I., which was not satisfactory. swapping to a great extent. The school at West Tremont opened in the spring as SCHOOL BUILDINGS. a mixed school with forty-seven scholars, too many for one teacher to do justice to, therefore after a session of As the superintending school committee have recom- three weeks a primary teacher was engaged, and the mended quite extensively on this matter, I will not enter into the details. school graded, which resulted in a decided success. PARENTS. The schools as a unit, laboring as they did under a I beg to remind you, some of whom are negligent of marked shortage of books, did admirably well. of the magnitude of your trust in the moral training and 16 I7 WINTER TEMRS. FALL TERMS. Names of Names of Schools and Teachers. Schools and Teachers. Norwood's Cove, Norwood Cove, Andrew Brown $10 oo 28 25 .89 8 Edith S. Gilley (part) $ 6 50 22 18 .82 I Freeman, Grammar, A. Eugenie Smiley (bal.) 6 50 16 II .81 8 B. E. Larabee 12 75 36 32 .89 8 Freeman, Grammar, Freeman, Primary, Belle Lord IO oo 27 .97 9 Louise M. Heath 9 oo 20 18 .90 8 29 Manset, Freeman, Primary, 7 oo 26 9 Byron P. Carter II oo .85 38 30 .79 8 Louise M. Heath 22 Seawall, Manset, Frances E. King 8 OO 18 II .61 8 Caroline R. Lawler 8 oo 40 36 .90 9 McKinley, R. M. Rumill Seawall, 12 50 21 Frances E. King 6 50 22 19 .86 9 Head of Bass Harbor, C. Louise Lawton* 8 oo 22 McKinley, West Bass Harbor, Grammar, Katherine Carroll (part) 7 oo 33 30 .90 4 Bertha Farnsworth* 9 50 26 R. M. Rumill (bal.) 8 50 31 30 .97 4 West Bass Harbor, Primary, Ida E. Norwood* 8 oo Head Bass Harbor, 24 C. Louise Lawton 6 50 22 19 .86 9 West Tremont, Grammar, Matthew McCarthy 12 50 29 West Bass Harbor, Grammar, West Tremont, Primary, Zulma E. Lunt 750 19 15 .79 9 Lulu R. Mayo* 8 oo 22 Seal Cove, No. 9, West Bass Harbor, Primary, Florence Ober* 9 50 21 Harriet E. Benson 6 50 32 28 .88 9 Seal Cove, No. IO, A. J. Carver (part) II oo 21 16 West Tremont, Grammar, .76 4 18 Myra H. Powers (bal.) 9 50 20 Phebe Wilson 7 50 17 94 9 Bayside, West Tremont, Primary, Josie Billings* 7 OO 16 Reta M. Sprague 5 OO 27 24 .89 9 Center, Myra H. Powers IO oo 30 27 .90 8 Seal Cove, No. 9, Gott's Island, Gertrüde Rumill 6 50 22 20 .90 9 O.S. Smith* 16 OO Bar Island, Seal Cove, No. IO, Maude P. Chaffey* 3 oo Ida E. Norwood 6 50 19 16 .84 9 *In session. FREE HIGH SCHOOL. Bayside, Rosa E. Benson 5 OO 12 9 -75 9 McKinley, I. F. Burton (part) 14 oo 28 24 .85 4 Center, R. W. Rumill (bal) 14 00 20 16 .80 4 Myra H. Powers 6 50 31 26 .84 9 Seal Cove, W. W. A. Heath 14 00 25 19 .76 8 Gott's Island, Manset, Esther M. Dixon 6 50 13 12 .92 9 Clarence E. Dow (in session) 14 00 32