Town annual report for the town of Duxbury for the year ending 1920-1925, Part 3

Author: Duxbury (Mass.)
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 922


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We would also call your attention to the expenditures of the board for the year. Of the appropriation of $750 for the work of the department, $9.10 weekly, or $473 for the year has been paid for the maintenance of a tubercular patient at the County hospital. This amount is eventually refunded to the Treasury of the town, by the state, but not credited to the Health account nor is it further available for their use. The board is glad at all times to answer questions or impart such information as they may have. Below is a list of communicable diseases as reported for the year :


Measles,


37


Whooping Cough,


13


Mumps,


3


Chicken Pox,


2


Pulmonary Tuberculosis,


1


PAUL C. PETERSON, Chairman.


CHARLES W. EATON, Secretary.


EUGENE E. COVELL,


Board of Health.


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STREET DEPARTMENT.


To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of Duxbury : Gentlemen :


The work on the streets during the past year has been ac- complished under much difficulty, owing to lack of labor and high cost of the work and materials.


The general highways were put in fairly good condition, repairs being done on all of them, also new guide posts have been replaced where needed and the signs newly painted.


Patching and repairs being needed on all the stone roads, it was attended to, also three miles covered with a seal coat.


There being no appropriation for the maintaining of stone roads, the cost of this work has to be taken from the Highway appropriation.


On the new construction work, over three miles of sand and asphalt road was built. Some of the material purchased did not prove satisfactory and samples of the material and road have. been taken by the State Highway Commission to be analyzed,. to locate what the trouble is. A seal coat was applied to the surface of the road and at the present time seems to be standing; all right.


There are over 300 barrels of asphalt and 15 tons of coal on hand to commence the Spring work. The machinery is also in good condition.


Respectfully submitted, EDWARD S. O'NEIL, Superintendent of Streets.


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REPORT OF FOREST WARDEN.


To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of Duxbury, Greetings :--


We have had a number of small grass and brush fires, but the prompt call and response of the firemen have kept the area burned over very small.


We will have two small trucks loaded with extinguishers and water, one at Herrick's garage and one at Cushing's garage, also the usual fire wagons and my Deputy Wardens are awake to the fact that fires should be fought while small.


In anticipation of the Plymouth celebration and co-operating with the state, we have cleaned up a fire break around Captain's Hill-one of the most beautiful spots in America.


This town is highly spoken of at the State House for their efficiency in fighting forest fires and I wish to thank you all for your co-operation in fire prevention. Any suggestion you care to make at any time I will be very grateful for, as we all want this a fireless town if possible.


Respectfully submitted,


H. E. MERRY, Forest Warden.


REPORT OF MOTH DEPARTMENT.


To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of Duxbury, Gentlemen :


I submit the following report of Moth Work done since last report. Continued from Dec. 6, 1919, finished up the street tree treating and orchard work about the 24th of May. It was then time to start the summer spraying. Sprayed the roadsides and cemetery and this, with the large amount of private spraying done, took until the 17th of July. The four sprayers had then


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to be cleaned and put under cover, this taking another man and myself until 14th of August. No more work being done in this department until Sept. 16, when I started with another man, treating some of the bad roadsides until Nov. 30, 1920. Started the orchard treating Dec. 16, which I am still doing.


INVENTORY.


1 One-horse power sprayer.


3 small power sprayers.


4 Worthley nozzles.


4 galvanized strainers.


2,450 feet large hose.


6 pieces suction hose.


2 hand sprayers.


1 40-foot extension ladder.


1 15-foot ladder.


1 12-foot ladder.


10 galvanized pails.


1 burning tank.


2 cross cut saws.


2 1-man saws.


2 hand saws.


6 pairs climbing irons.


1 large tool box.


3 small tool boxes.


1 grindstone.


5 pairs scales.


2 shovels.


2 pairs draw cut pruners.


2 rakes.


4 scythes.


1 100 gallon galvanized tank.


Respectfully submitted, JOHN D. MORRISON, Local Superintendent.


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REPORT OF TREE WARDEN, 1920.


Citizens :


The work in this department has been trimming and cutting out limbs on the following streets, Myrtle, St. George, Powder Point avenue, Alden, Depot, Chestnut and Standish. There are lots of trees all over town that should be trimmed. But this department only had $100.00 and I did the best I could with same.


Respectfully submitted, JOHN D. MORRISON, Tree Warden.


REPORT OF CEMETERY TRUSTEES FOR 1920.


A much traveled gentleman came to a trustee in charge of the work in Mayflower Cemetery and said, "I want to purchase a lot here. (Which he did.) I have been over many burial grounds in England and America and I have not seen so fine a church yard! You do not realize what you have." Within the enclosure of twenty-six acres are seven thousand burials and more than a thousand trees. To this may be added six acres on the south side of Mayflower street as yet undeveloped. Continuing on there is eight acres adjoining that is owned by the Rural Society, making an unbroken front from the William Freeman place, so-called, nearly to Bailey's Corner. It is in- tended to make extensive improvements on grounds in front of the Public Buildings and at same time the Cemetery should improve the corner and approach to the main gate.


A ladies committee have advised us they would pay for repairs on some of the old stones in addition to cleaning and repairs to the Dr. Allen monument, which has been neglected for many years.


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At Standish Burial Ground there has been a fence built on two sides, this furnishes the foundary of the lot. The cost for the material and labor was several hundred dollars, a large por- tion of which was subscribed by the members of the Golf Club and a few citizens, to which the Standish Monument Society added enough to complete the work. Much credit is due them for their generosity, as is also to Trustee White, who took charge of the subscription and supervised the work. There is need of repairs of graves and stones and the enclosure of the Miles Standish lot. It ought to be regraded and sown down to grass and such an arrangement made as would keep the public out. One of our oldest citizens of old Pilgrim stock takes a great interest and looks after the welfare of the grounds, as evidenced by this story told by him recently-Seeing some half-grown girls fixing stones at the Standish grave markers, he said to them, "What are you doing? If you don't know any better than that you had better go home and have your mothers teach you !" The girl said: "O mother don't care, she got a piece here yes- terday !"


The appropriation for 1920 was the same amount as that of 1919. But the rate of labor per day increased 33 per cent., which cost us one hundred days work with the result we could not do the raking of leaves in the fall and will have to be done this Spring at an increased cost. Other work needed is trim- ming trees, painting fences at all of the four cemeteries and regrading corners.


We feel and ask you to appropriate for cemetery use not less than two thousand dollars for the year of 1921.


Respectfully,


CEMETERY TRUSTEES OF DUXBURY.


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REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPT., DUXBURY.


To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of Duxbury, Greetings :


I am very thankful to say that we have had very few house fires in the past year. A number of small ones and two (2) chimney fires and two (2) in which the houses were totally destroyed. At one of these fires we lost two (2) of our most highly esteemed citizens. It is the first time in my capacity as chief to have any loss of lives in a fire. We will never know how or why this happened but it was a very tragic ending for people of their years.


The apparatus is in good condition. The old Ford still r'ambles along and puts out fires.


I am glad to see No. 1 Engine Company has taken a new lease of life and if I am any judge No. 2 will hear from them very shortly and it will not be a whist tournament either.


I wish to impress on your minds how essential it is to have your chimneys in good condition and kept clean. In case of chimney fires, plain baking soda or salt is the best thing to use.


Thanking the firemen for their loyalty to me in the past year,


Respectfully submitted,


H. E. MERRY, Chief.


REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF DUXBURY FREE LIBRARY To the Selectmen :-


The Duxbury Free Library has been more extensively used during the past year than ever before. The names on the register at present number 3482, and there has been issued since January 1st, 1920, as many as 13,488 books. Of these 2896 were non-fiction. The Librarian has had on exhibition the


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Pilgrim relics owned by the Library, and during the year a collection of children's books were placed on view. The basket delivery to the six out-stations, North Duxbury, South Dux- bury, Ashdod, High Street, Island Creek and Tarkiln Gram- mar School have been continued. The usefulness of the Library to these out-stations, and to the residents of Duxbury as well, will shortly be further increased by the publication of a new catalogue which is complete to date, and now ready for the printer. The number of new books added to the Library by purchase was 149, and 64 were received by gift.


RICHARD T. LORING, Clerk.


PROPOSED RE-LAYOUT OF PORTER SHORE ROADS.


In 1901, the part of the Standish Shore known as Porter Shore Lots was laid out, and a plan put on record with the Plymouth deeds, Plan Book 1, Page 227. This plan shows Puritan Road and the four parallel roads from it to the shore, Elder Brewster, Samoset, Sagamore and Massasoit. Some of the lots were sold.


Two years later, Columbus Avenue was cut through; the unsold lots were changed in size and renumbered as shown on a revised plan on record in Plan Book 2, Page 290.


The town accepted Columbus Avenue, and the portions of the four parallel roads between it and the water in 1907, and last year accepted the westerly part of Massasoit Road and the part of Puritan Road south of it.


Meanwhile, fragmentary surveys have been made as lots were sold and houses built.


It is now found that there is a shortage of land of about twelve feet in length, measured along Columbus Avenue, and endless discrepancies between the different surveys of lots, the worst being caused by some starting from the north boundary and some from the south.


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The confusion is so great, intensified by the actual lack of 6,000 square feet or more, that after a consultation with many owners and their petition for a new layout, the Select- men have had a new survey made in the hopes that, by the town giving up a portion of its roads and changing their lines slightly, and by mutual concessions of the owners, an equitable solution may be obtained.


It must be remembered that the roads have so far not been changed, and no bounds moved. The new bounds merely show the result of the present survey, only to become final in case of acceptance.


The old bounds on the shore indicated the street lines, but not their eastern extremeties.


In the new survey each block between the parallel roads is made the full 220 feet wide, and the shore bounds give the full distances called for by the plans and deeds, so that each owner will get his lot of the size bought, though in some cases it will be in a slightly different position from the one he claimed.


The survey does not mark the divisions of the blocks into individual lots.


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TREASURER'S REPORT


Dr.


Balance January 1, 1920,


$3,312 90


Received from


Taxes,


$115,253 53


Licenses and Permits,


464 79


General Government,


74 88


Forestry,


944 88


Charities,


1,998 87


Soldiers' Benefits,


1,122 00


. Health,


403 29


Cemeteries,


40 00


Interest,


2,181 07


Municipal Indebtedness,


· 103,000 00


Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds,


1,050 00


Refunds,


330 75


Fines,


91 50


Weights and Measures,


19 98


Schools,


12 13


Police,


25 00


Unclassified,


21 25


$227,032 92


$230,346 82


Cr.


Paid on Selectmen's Warrants,


$213,510 29


Balance,


16,836 53


$230,346 82


GEORGE H. STEARNS, Treasurer.


REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE DUXBURY FREE LIBRARY, INC.


FOR THE YEAR 1920.


Town of


Duxbury


Wright


Fund


Winsor


Fund


Hathaway


Fund


Hall Fund Duxbury


Harding


Fund


Total


per report,


$9.26


$16.02


$5.21 $24.26


$54.75


RECEIPTS :


1,075.00 $1,240.15


220.00 $111.87


142.50


15.00


2,834.52


Total,


$1,084.26 $1,240.15 $236.02 $111.87 $147.71 $69.26 $2,889.27


Temporary loan, borrowed in anticipation of income, Total receipts.


500.00


$3,389.27


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Jan. 1, 1920. Balance on hand,


PAYMENTS : Salaries and care of library and


grounds,


$701.45


$559.82 $178.75


$108.34 2.55


$1,548.36


Telephone,


14.25


9.35


2.50


28.65


Heat and Power,


209.23


496.55


6.24


112.02


Sundries,


56.28


63.94


6.79


10.19


137.20


Books and magazines,


103.05


78.44


13.63 $111.74


13.50 $45.49


365.85


Total,


$1,084.26 $1,208.10 $207.91 $111.74 $134.58 $45.49 $2,792.08


Temporary loan paid,


500.00


Total payments,


$3,292.08


Dec. 31, 1920. Balance,


$32.05 $28.11


$ .13 $13.13 $23.77 $97.19


The accounts of the Treasurer of the Duxbury Free Library, Inc., have been examined and found correct.


E. R. BELCHER, Auditor.


Respectfully submitted, B. C. LEAVITT, Treasurer.


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DUXBURY CEMETERY TRUST FUND ACCOUNT.


NAME OF FUND


Amount


of fund


Balance


Dec. 31, 1919


Dividends


Payments


Balance


Dec. 31, 1920


Samuel Atwell,


$100.00


$106.99


$4.84


$5.00


$106.83


Cordiana Bailey,


50.00


54.64


2.46


2.00


55.10


George H. Bailey,


100.00


148.91


6.75


155.66


Louis M. Bailey,


100.00


104.21


4.73


5.00


103.94


Hiram W. Barstow,


100.00


98.75


4.46


3.00


100.21


William Barstow,


50.00


51.43


2.32


2.00


51.75


Lydia A. Bates,


100.00


122.60


5.56


5.00


123.16


Nettie R. Batsford,


100.00


100.00


Josiah S. Battis,


100.00


105.21


4.77


5.00


104.98


Bourne-Harrington,


200.00


200.00


9.09


2.00


202.09


John Bradford,


100.00


103.16


4.68


11.00


100.84


Morton Bradford,


100.00


103.60


4.68


5.00


103.28


Henry O. and Joseph B. Brewster,


100.00


106.10


4.82


5.00


105.92


Joseph Brewster,


100.00


117.58


5.33


22.00


100.91


Edward Gray Brown,


100.00


100.89


4.57


5.00


100.46


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William E. Brown,


100.00


103.22


4.68


5.00


102.90


Mary F. Bryant,


100.00


100.00


Alden Chandler,


100.00


98.25


4.46


2.00


100.71


Henrietta Chandler,


100.00


148.38


6.73


15.00


140.11


Henry B. Chandler,


100.00


100.00


Horatio Chandler,


100.00


100.89


4.57


5.00


100.46


Luther S. Chandler,


100.00


105.57


4.77


5.00


105.34


Lydia W. Chandler,


100.00


101.47


4.59


5.00


101.06


Mary O. Chandler,


50.00


50.00


1.13


1.50


49.63


Nathaniel L. Chandler,


100.00


101.89


4.61


3.00


103.50


Chandler and Ryder,


100.00


87.56


3.96


3.00


88.52


Georgianna W. Clapp,


500.00


500.00


11.25


5.00


506.25


Willard Clark,


100.00


105.28


4.77


4.00


106.05


James Cooper,


50.00


51.27


2.32


2.00


51.59


Elizabeth S. Carthell,


100.00


108.69


4.93


13.00


100.62


Mary R. Crocker,


100.00


102.04


4.64


5.00


101.68


Eveline E. Curtis,


100.00


96.94


4.39


2.00


99.33


Cushman & Bryant,


200.00


207.37


9.43


16.00


200.80


Josephus Dawes,


100.00


104.53


4.73


109.26


Henry Delano,


100.00


105.16


4.77


5.00


104.93


Mrs. Nathan Delano,


50.00


57.20


2.59


9.00


50.79


-67-


Emma M. Drew,


100.00


100.95


4.57


5.00


100.52


William J. Dunham,


50.00


50.00


1.69


1.50


50.19


Ellison-Richardson,


200.00


206.02


9.37


10.00


205.39


Ellison & Howes,


200.00


216.76


9.83


8.00


218.59


Ferdinand Emerson,


100.00


109.33


4.95


5.00


109.28


Joseph B. Emerson,


500.00


582.06


27.81


8.00


601.87


Benjamin Ford,


50.00


44.50


2.00


1.00


45.50


Dr. E. Jeanette Gooding,


100.00


117.75


5.33


5.00


118.08


Edwin S. Goodspeed,


100.00


100.00


3.40


4.00


99.40


Marianna Goodspeed,


100.00


102.09


1.64


1.00


10.73


Thomas Gorham,


100.00


100.00


Mary H. Green,


100.00


104.55


4.73


109.28


Briggs Gullefer,


100.00


115.62


5.25


20.00


100.87


Georgianna Hamilton,


100.00


93.78


4.23


2.00


96.01


Judah Harlow,


100.00


121.14


5.49


5.00


121.63


Henry W. Hathaway,


1,000.00


1,080.55


49.14


120.70


1,008.99


Rufus Hathaway,


100.00


106.50


4.82


5.00


106.32


Gertrude W. Hollis,


100.00


100.00


Rebecca T. Holmes,


100.00


107.53


4.86


5.00


107.39


Frank Huckins,


200.00


214.52


9.75


5.00


219.27


Cassius Hunt,


200.00


212.29


9.65


8.00


213.94


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Deborah Hunt,


50.00


65.75


2.97


2.00


66.72


Parker Jones,


100.00


108.86


. 4.93


5.00


108.79


Latham Fund,


500.00


547.93


27.69


20.00


555.62


Bailey Loring,


125.00


132.36


6.01


9.00


129.37


Harriet E. Loring,


100.00


103.06


4.68


3.00


104.74


Jairus Magoun,


150.00


187.35


8.51


5.00


190.86


William and Mary Myrick,


150.00


150.00


Mary E. Nepton,


100.00


101.13


4.59


4.00


101.72


Susan B. Nickerson,


173.00


174.52


7.93


10.00


172.45


Philander Nutter and George Brown,


100.00


104.56


4.73


5.00


104.29


John Porter,


100.00


118.06


5.36


5.00


118.42


Thomas C. Powers,


100.00


120.57


5.47


5.00


121.04


William Prior,


200.00


206.14


9.37


10.00


205.51


Rachael D. Reed,


100.00


99.82


4.53


4.00


100.35


Parker C. Richardson,


100.00


102.60


4.64


5.00


102.24


Reuben Ring,


200.00


200.00


Augustus Sampson,


100.00


117.49


5.33


5.00


117.82


Eden S. Sampson,


100.00


104.76


4.75


5.00


104.51


George T. Sampson,


100.00


101.47


4.59


5.00


101.06


Joseph A. Sampson,


100.00


111.28


5.04


5.00


111.32


Martin Sampson,


100.00


100.00


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Luther W. Sherman,


100.00


100.00


Joseph W. Simmons,


50.00


47.43


2.14


3.00


46.57


Mary Simmons,


50.00


18.04


2.18


3.00


47.22


Hambleton E. Smith,


100.00


112.66


5.11


10.00


107.22


Winfield Smith,


200.00


204.50


9.29


5.00


208.79


George Soule,


200.00


215.15


9.77


5.00


219.92


Lot Soule,


100.00


110.96


5.02


- 5.00


110.98


Zilpha S. Soule,


100.00


101.26


4.59


5.00


100.85


Zeruah Soule,


100.00


109.82


4.97


5.00


109.79


Edith May Southworth,


300.00


347.11


15.78


362.89


Robert A. Southworth,


100.00


108.30


4.91


5.00


108.21


Henry C. Tanner,


100.00


100.68


4.55


5.00


100.23


Georgianna L. Thomas,


100.00


104.24


4.73


5.00


103.97


John Thomas,


100.00


118.77


5.38


10.00


114.15


Jennie S. Tower,


100.00


100.82


4.57


5.00


100.39


Alexander Wadsworth,


200.00


247.48


11.25


10.00


248.73


Henry Wadsworth,


100.00


106.80


5.37


2.00


110.17


Joseph and Ann Wadsworth,


100.00


112.81


5.11


5.00


112.92


Augusta M. Watson,


100.00


100.00


3.40


5.00


98.40


Bradford Weston,


100.00


107.25


1.86


5.00


107.11


Edmund B. Weston,


1,000.00


1,012.04


46.04


25.00


1,033.08


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Harrison G. Weston,


50.00


61.77


2.79


2.00


62.56


Joshua Weston,


100.00


149.44


6.77


156.21


Samuel N .. Weston,


300.00


317.49


14.42


5.00


326.91


100.00


100.00


3.40


4.00


99.40


James E. Winsor, William H. Winsor,


75.00


82.05


3.72


4.00


81.77


Zenas Winsor,


100.00


111.38


5.04


5.00


111.42


$14,623.00


$14,591.68


$650.17


$660.70


$15,631.15


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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK


MARRIAGES RECORDED IN DUXBURY IN 1920.


January 6. In Kingston, John W. Flavell of Marshfield and Olive M. Freeman of Duxbury, by Rev. H. S. Kilborn. January 14. In Kingston, E. Burton Freeman and Lucy A. Simmons, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Charles F. Andrews. January 26. In Boston, Omer W. Cornwell of Boston and Helen B. Chandler of Duxbury, by Rev. Clyde W. Robbins.


March 4. In Kingston, Ernest Bates and Violet G. Johnson, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Charles F. Andrews.


April 6. In Kingston, Benjamin Geel of Kingston and Eliza- beth J. O'Neil of Duxbury, by Rev. H. S. Kilborn.


April 10. At Dorchester, Stephen W. Gifford, Jr., of Duxbury and Marjorie Young of Boston, by Rev. Harry Foster Burns. April 13. At Plymouth, Edwin W. Sollis and Bessie Bailey, both of Duxbury, by George B. Howland, Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace.


April 24. In Duxbury, Ernest W. Churchill and Daisy I. Peck, both of Hanson, by Rev. J. C. Osgood.


April 30. In Kingston, Frank H. Williams and Ethel F. Cush- ing, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Charles F. Andrews.


May 9. In Duxbury, Bernard L. Herrick and Editha B. Buck- len, both of Pembroke, by Rev. J. C. Osgood.


May 16. In Duxbury, Henrique Fontes and Ruth A. Scott, both of Duxbury, by Rev. J. C. Osgood.


May 25. In Duxbury, Clifton P. Burgess and Lillian D. Langille, both of Marshfield, by Rev. J. C. Osgood.


May 29. In Duxbury, Edward W. Turner and Kathryn M. Bradley, both of Boston, by Rev. Andrew Hahn.


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June 5. In Duxbury, John R. Abbot of Andover and Helen Maxwell of Duxbury, by Rev. Reginald H. Coe.


June 27. In Duxbury, Alfred O. Ziegengeist and Barbara G. Bennett, both of Plymouth, by Rev. John Pearce.


June 27. In Kingston, Joseph J. Hayes of Braintree and Ina B. Nickerson of Duxbury, by Rev. James P. Dowling. August 2. In Duxbury, Walter H. Baker of Duxbury and Har- riet M. Welcome of Plymouth, by Rev. J. C. Osgood.


August 24. In Duxbury, Milton K. Ellis of Plymouth and Hattie F. Soule of Duxbury, by Rev. Lewis J. Thomas.


September 4. In Hanover, Henry R. Peterson of Duxbury and Florence E. Hammond of Hanover, by Rev. Edwin H. Gibson. September 18. In Duxbury, Malcolm V. Macdonald of Cam- bridge and Rebekah B. Robinson of Duxbury, by Rev. Abbot Peterson.


October 4. In West Medway, Willard H. Taylor of Duxbury and Grace A. Leather of Gilbertville, by Rev. Henry F. Burdon.


October 16. In Duxbury, Bennett J. Johnson of Mansfield and Minnie A. Erb of Boston, by Rev. Ralph H. Cheever.


October 23. In West Medford, Everett C. Langley of Dux- bury and Dorothy Heyward of Cambridge, by Rev. Ernest M. Reddock.


November 20. In Brockton, Eugene R. Glass and Amelia G. Cox, both of Duxbury.


November 25. In Plymouth, Herbert Wadsworth of Duxbury and Alma M. Carleton of Plymouth, by Rev. Theodore E. Busfield.


December 12. In Whitman, James B. Burns of Plymouth and Anna P. Chandler of Duxbury, by Rev. William W. Dornan.


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BIRTHS REGISTERED IN DUXBURY IN 1920.


Date


Name


Parents' Names


Maiden Name of Mother


January


1


Jimo Todd Pike


January


15


Dorothy Ellen Churchill


Walter T. and Gertrude A.


February


29


Carl Josef Berg


Earl D. and Hattie M.


Ellis


March


Farlo Davis Baker, Jr.


John J. and Priscilla M.


Vidali


March


25


C'aroline Mary Govoni


Alfred B. and Mabel E.


Baker


April


3


Benjamin Bliven York


William C. and Josephine B.


Nickerson


April


7


Gordon Lewis Baker


Fred W. and Eva M.


Publicover


April


11


Fred Wanton Wadsworth, Jr.


Alexander


May


13


Josephine Fernandez


Wendell C. and Edith


Burt


May


25


Pirbara Amaroett Glass


Hortense E. and Laura M.


Duff


June


13


John Edwin Merry


Walter C. and Rona I.


Brown


June


24


Raymond Parker Chandler


Paul S. and Cora M.


Randall


July


1


Cora Frances MeAuliffe


William N. and Mary E.


Readon


July


16


Robert Cronin


Ernest and Violet G.


Johnson


July


20


May Florence Bates


William J. and Muriel W.


Chandler


AAugust


16


Winthrop Allen Murphy


Sidney R. and Amie M.


Smith


August


17 Velson Merritt Ferrell


September


4


Priscilla Field - Field


Twins


Richard M. and Fanny L. D.


Seymour


September


13 Barbara Norton Mott


Arthur J. and Mary L.


Norton


November


5


Stewart


Robert H. and Catherine I.


Ryder


November


12


With Cordon Hodedon


Nahum M. and Ella May


Davies


November


25


John Haywood Shirley


John Newton Shirley and Eloise H.


Clover


George E. and Elizabeth ' P.


Todd Glover Swanson


March


17 Forrest Barry Edwards


Sebastian and Angelina


August M. and Emily


June


Seldon Lester Brown, 2d


Parker B. and Sarah E.


Gilman


C'arl G. and Anna S.


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DEATHS REGISTERED IN DUXBURY IN 1920.


Date


Name


Age Y. M. D.


Cause of Death


Parents' Names


January


8


Cordelia Freeman


(Weston)


S)


10 4


Hypostatie pneumonia


Otis and Lydia B. Brewster


January


13


Flora B. Peterson


(Shaw)


42


6 24


Lobar pneumonia


Charles M. and Frances M. Pettengill


January


22


Victor E. Lamb


6)


1 18


Cerebral embolism


Israel and Mary E. Smith


February


9


Julia E. Blodgett


(Wygant)


('erebral hemorrhage


Thomas and Hannalı Ketchum


February


17


Harold W. Glass


33


3


3


Broncho pneumonia


Eugene and Elizabeth Flemming


February


22


William S. Frazar


87


1


2


Arterio sclerosis


Samuel C. and Maria Winsor


March


4


Jane Burns


18


-


--


John and Matilda Moore


March


18


Theodore P. Freeman


76


10


Broncho pneumonia


Joseph and Mehitabel Josselyn


March


25


Julia A. Peterson (Fitzgerald) 84


5 21


Myocarditis


William and Julia


April


5


Charles L. Brown


57 5 18


William and Sarah A. Bock


April


10 Arthemise Berriault (Talbot)


68


6


18


Valvular heart lesion


Willard and Willette


April


21 Clara Holmes (Winsor)


90


21


C'erebral embolism


Charles and Beulah Wadsworth


May


9 John M. Winsor


John and Martha Howett


May


13 Jeanette R. Batsford (Harris)


54


3


Tabes dorsalis


May


27


Clara E. Miller (Villaire)


59


1


4


Pulmonary tuberculosis


Charles and Angeline Crow


June


8


Susan A. Wilde (Mowry)


9


13


Mitral regurgitation


Harris J. and Fanny C. Scott


July


15 Charles W. Jones


Parker and Judith Clapp


July


25


John E. Josselyn


73


5


17


('erebral hemorrhage


August


30


Frances O. W. Benedict (Wheeler) William N. Hartshorn


75


10


5


('erebral hemorrhage


September


4


Field


Richard M. and Fanny L. D. Seymour


September


16


Priscilla Field Twins


75


21


Nathaniel H. and Soplironia Atwood


September


19


Dorothy E. Churchill


Walter T. and Gertrude A. Glover


September


23


Mercy E. Merry (Merry)


75


-


Myocarditis


Ed. and Margaret Kniffin George Y. and Sarah E. Miller


September


30


George E. Batsford


64


6


Chronic interstitial neplmitis


October


18


Ellen F. Adams (Ryder)




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