| BARTLETT HIGH WAS NAMED FOR CAPT. BARTLETT Donor of Clock and Chimes To The School Was Honored By the Town About Ten Years Ago FAMOUS CHIMES The change in the name from Webster High School to bartlett high school was made by the town in honor of a citizen who gave to the school a memorial that is “looked up to” and listened for by most of the townspeople. The late Capt. Amos Bartlett, prominent citizen thuout his many years in Webster, a veteran of the Civil War, and associated with the Slater Mills for half a century, gave to the school the tower and chimes that adorn the building. These chimes stricking at the quarter hour, are always noticed by a stranger, but to a Webster resident attract little notice, so familiar have all become to the cadence of the four notes on the quarter, eight on the half, twelve on the three quarters and sixteen on the hour. The tower will be removed from its present location with the completion of the junior high school and town office and auditorium building to create the desireed effect. At the time that the town voted to change the name of the high school to Bartlett high, ten years ago, a son of the donor of the chimes was chairman of the school board. Spaulding Bartlett. The choice of a name was therefore doubly appropriate altho it was of course, in memory of Capt. Bartlett that the name was chosen. |