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FRANCIS B. LEE, Auditor.
ASSESSORS' STATISTICS.
Number of polls assessed, males, 657. State tax, $1.00.
County tax, $1.00. Poll tax, $2.00.
Value of assessed personal estate. $183,510 00
66 66 real estate, buildings 1,377,054 00
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66 66 66 “ land. 860,641.00
Total valuation.
$2,421,205 00
Value of property of residents
$1,539,015 00
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" " non-residents
882,190 00
$2,421,205 00
Tax on personal estate $2,110 38
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real 66 25,733 49
polls . 1,314 00
$29,157 87
State tax
$1,435 00
County tax 3,127 37
Town tax
24,350 00
Overlayings '245 50
$29,157 87
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Rate per $1,000
$11 50
Valuation in 1897
$2,421,205 00
Valuation in 1896.
2,319,080 00
Increase in 1897 $102,125 00
Number of horses 508
Cows.
334
Sheep
50
Meat cattle, other than cows
11
Swine
69
Fowls
2,570
Dwelling houses
877
Acres of land
9,696
Number of residents assessed on property
688
non-residents assessed on property . 467
Total number assessed on property 1,155
Number assessed for poll tax only
198
Total number of persons assessed 1,353
GEO. H. WEBB, Assessors
H. J. STOCKBRIDGE,
of
AZRO TURNER,
Scituate.
SCITUATE, December 31, 1897.
LIST OF JURORS
Submitted to the Town for revision and acceptance at the annual meeting to be held March 7, 1898 :
Edwin W. Bates,
Charles A. Bates,
George S. Bates,
Thomas F. Bailey,
Moses B. Colman,
Alfred H. Newcomb,
William O. Clapp, .
Charles F. Clapp,
Thomas J. Newcomb, William H. Osborne, John E. O. Prouty,
Frank O. Clapp, Elijah T. Clapp, Jr.,
Langdon W. Cook,
Horace J. Poland, Elijah P. Pratt, Edward Rogers, Alfred A. Seaverns,
Frank Doherty, Henry E. Damon, Charles M. Ferguson, William W. Gordak,
Charles P. Seaverns, Chester Sherman,
Freeman H. Gannett,
Charles N. Turner, Benjamin T. Turner,
Lorenzo F. Hyland, E. Clayton Hyland, William W. Hunt,
Frank T. Vinal 2d,
Henry L. Vinal,
Andrew J. Waterman,
Stephen Litchfield, Jr., Abner Litchfield,
E. Parker Welch.
Horace Litchfield, George A. Litchfield, Ernest F. Litchfield, Thomas F. Kane,
GEO. H. WEBB, H. J. STOCKBRIDGE, AZRO TURNER,
1. Selectmen of Scituate.
BY-LAWS OF THE TOWN OF SCITUATE.
ARTICLE I .- GENERAL CONDUCT OF TOWN AFFAIRS.
SECTION 1. The financial year shall begin with the first day of January and shall end with the thirty-first day of December.
SEC. 2. The annual meeting shall be held the first Monday in March.
SEC. 3. Town meetings shall be notified by posting an attested copy of the warrant, calling the same, in the Post Offices, at the Town House, seven days, at least before the day appointed for said meeting, and by publication in a newspaper, if any be published in the town.
SEC. 4. At the annual meeting, the reports of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, and all other town officers, and all standing committees, shall be first in order after the choice of Moderator.
SEC. 5. All motions shall be submitted in writing, at the discre- tion of the Moderator or Clerk.
SEC. 6. Twenty-five voters shall constitute a quorum for the raising and. appropriating of money, under an article in the warrant providing for such action.
SEC. 7. The Selectmen shall have the power to appoint Pound Keepers, Fire Wardens, Field Drivers, Fence Viewers, Surveyors of Lumber, Sealers of Weights and Measures.
SEC. 8. The annual report of the town officers shall be printed and distributed at least ten days before the town meeting.
SEC. 9. The duties of all town officers not specially provided for by law, nor by these rules, shall be determined by the rules of parliamentary law contained in Cushing's Manual, so far as they are adapted to town meetings.
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ARTICLE II .- STREETS AND PUBLIC LANDS.
SEC. 1. The Selectmen may grant permits to any persons to build sidewalks in front of their own land, or on any of the streets or ways of the town, whenever the public safety will permit ; which permit shall specify the width, and mode of constructing the same.
SEC. 2. Whenever complaint shall be made to the Selectmen that the practice of coasting on any of the streets or sidewalks in the town has become dangerous to the public safety, they may, if they shall judge it expedient, post up a notice in some conspicuous place, on the side or corner of such streets, forbidding all persons to coast upon the same ; and if any person shall be found coasting upon the same, after the posting of such notice, he shall pay a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars, for every such offence, to be recovered of the offender, his parent or guardian.
SEC. 3. No person shall wheel, drive or draw any handcart, bicycle, hand-sled or any other carriage of burden or pleasure-baby carriages excepted-nor permit any horse or other beast to go upon any sidewalk, nor to encumber the same with any boxes, barrels, or any articles whatever, to interfere with the convenient use of the same.
SEC. 4. No person shall place, or cause to be placed, in any public or private way of the town, the contents of any sink, cesspool or privy, nor place any dead animal, or dead animal substance, rubbish or garbage in the same, except for the purpose of immediate removal therefrom, under a penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars for each offence.
SEC. 5. The words "public or private way" in the foregoing section shall be understood to include alleys, lanes, yards, or any other place where the presence of such refuse shall give offence to neighbors.
SEC. 6. One or more persons standing on any sidewalk or cross- walks, in such a manner as to obstruct a free passage for foot passen- gers, who shall not disperse immediately when ordered by any of the Selectmen, police officers or constables of the town, shall sever- ally forfeit and pay a fine of three dollars for any violation of this By-Law.
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SEC. 7. No person shall use any indecent, profane or insulting language, in any street, or other public place in the town, or near any dwelling-house or other building therein, or be or remain on any sidewalk, or public passageway, or way or ways to any public hall or church, court or public office, or upon any doorster, portico or other projection from any such house or other building, to the annoy- ance, disturbance or obstruction of any person lawfully entitled to pass or resort thereto - and no person shall sit upon any wall, fence, bank or doorstep facing on any public place, not being the owner or occupant thereof, without the express consent of such owner or occupant-nor shall any person, by any noise, gesture or other means, wantonly or designedly frighten or drive any horse in charge of another, in any street or public place in town ; and for any offence against this By-Law, each offender shall pay a fine of five dollars.
SEC. 8. Any person who shall use the street or highway as a race course, or any person who shall furiously drive a horse or any other animal on any street or highway of the town shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars for each offence.
SEC. 9. No person shall move any building through any street, lane or alley without license from the Selectmen.
ARTICLE III .- TRUANTS.
SEC. 1. The town of Scituate hereby avails itself of the several provisions of the Statutes of this Commonwealth, now in force, relating to habitual truants and absentees from school, and in pur- suance of anthority conferred thereby, adopts the following By-Laws :---
SEC. 2. All children between the ages of seven and fifteen years residing in said town, and who may be found wandering about in the streets or public places of said town, having no lawful occupa- tion or business, not attending school, and growing up in ignorance, shall be committed to the truant school at Lawrence, in the County of Essex. No truant school having legally been established within
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and for the County of Plymouth, the aforesaid truant school in said Lawrence is hereby affixed to be the place of confinement, instruc- tion and discipline of all children convicted a truant under these By-Laws.
SEC. 3. Two or more Truant Officers shall be appointed annually, whose duty it shall be to inquire into all the violations of the truant laws, and of the law relating to compulsory education, and to do all the acts required of them by the laws of the Commonwealth.
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of every Truant Officer, previous to making any complaint under these laws, to notify the truant or absentee from school, also his parent or guardian, of the offence committed, and of penalty therefor, and if the Truant Officer can obtain satisfactory pledges for the restraint and reformation of the child, he may, at his discretion, forbear to prosecute, so long as such pledges are faithfully kept.
SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the School Committee, the Teachers of the Public Schools, and the Citizens generally, to aid the Truant Officers as far as possible in the discharge of their duties.
SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Truant Officer to keep a full record of all their official acts, and make an annual report thereof to the School Committee, who shall publish the same with their own report.
SEC. 7. Nothing in these By-Laws shall be so construed as to alter or impair the obligation and duty of teachers to enforce punctu- ality and regularity of attendance, and to preserve good order and discipline.
ARTICLE IV .- MISCELLANEOUS.
SEC. 1. Whoever posts, affixes, or in any way attaches any poster, hand-bill, notice, advertisement or placard to or upon any wall, fence, building or structure not his own, without the permis- sion of the owners or proprietors of such wall, fence, building or structure, shall forfeit and pay for such offence a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars.
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SEC. 2. Whoever paints, draws or stamps any letter, notice figure, advertisement or marks upon any wall, fence, post, tree, building or structure not his own, without the permission of the owner thereof, or without said permission, mars, defaces, or dis- figures in any way, such wall, fence, post, tree, building or structure, shall forefeit and pay for each offence a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.
SEC. 3. Any persons congregating together in a disorderly man- ner, who shall not disperse when ordered by any Constable or Police Officer ; and any person or persons congregating or loitering about in any schoolhouse yard or out-building, not being a member of the public schools, who shall not immediately disperse and leave the premises when ordered or requested to by any School Teacher, Constable or Police Officer of the town, shall severally forfeit and pay a fine of five dollars for every such offence.
SEC. 4. No person in a nude state shall bathe or swim in any public or exposed place in the town.
SEC. 5. No person shall play at ball, or throw balls, stones, snow-balls or any other missles within or upon any of the streets or public places of the town.
SEC. 6. It is ordered that it shall be the duty of the Constable and Police Officers to enforce the foregoing By-Laws.
SEC. 7. These By-Laws may be amended at any annual town meeting, articles for that purpose having been inserted in the warrant.
CHARLES MANSON, FRANCIS B. LEE, Committee. HENRY T. BAILEY,
CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.
TOWN OF SCITUATE, in account with
ROLAND TURNER, Treasurer.
DR.
1897-98.
Amount of orders drawn. $28,903 75
Interest paid on town notes. 2,846 38
State tax paid. 1,435 00
County tax paid. 3,127 37
John F. Turner, by order of Second Dist. Court. 200 95
Wm. E. Supple, by order of Second Dist. Court.
117 15
Charles L. Spring, by order of Second District Court
39 20
Interest on money borrowed and paid.
235 22
State Treasurer, corporation tax overdrawn. .
182 08
Town note
3,000 00
State on account of liquor licenses
712 50
Roland Turner, fees for collecting taxes.
287 26
Discount on taxes.
1,061 04
Uncollected taxes of 1897. 6,339 70
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1898 6,082 52
$54,570 12
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1
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CR.
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1897 $4,586 80 Received of Andrew J. Waterman, auctioneer's license. . 2 00
Received of Perkins Livermore, pedler's license. " Fred L. Lane, pedler's license ..... 8 00
8 00
" John Monoham, pedler's license .. . 8 00
" Albert W. Lapham, pedler's license. 8 00
" James Ward, bowling-alley license. 2 00
. 66 66 pool table license ... 2 00
" James E. Otis, bowling-alley license. 2 00
Received-
Mary R. Cushing, billiard table license 2 00
Mary R. Cushing, pool table license . 2 00
George T. Otis, slaughter house license 1 00
Frank H. Young, slaughter house license 1 00
Arthur C. Litchfield, tuition
9 00
George E. Ellms, tuition
3 50
Lyman Industrial School, tuition
15 00
Mass. School fund. 170 85
County dog fund.
242 27
State, on account of Superintendent of Schools
416 67
Second District Court, fines
304 40
Leonard L. Perry, use of town hall
3 00
Estate of Roland Hayden.
25 00
Sale of fish rights
6 00
Silas Pierce, West Grammar school house and land 620 00
Charles H. Davie, Central Street school house and lot . 300 00
Irving F. Litchfield, Charles Street school house 57 50
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Walter B. Ellis, No. Main school house and lot
$525 00
State, on account of State road 2,741 79
Cattle inspector 75 20
Wm. H. Burke & Co., liquor license 1,300 00
James E. Otis & Co., liquor license 1,300 00
William Stanley 250 00
Benjamin T. Ellms, gravel sold 48 08
Langdon W. Cooke, gravel
2 50
Town of Natick, Frank H. Brown
14 00
Burial of indigent soldier 35 00
Corporation tax
1,603 42
Reimbursement of State aid
2,005 00
Interest for money on depoist
57 82
Town note .
2,500 00
National Bank tax
240 19
Taxes collected of 1893
13 55
66 1894 .
42 28
66
66 1895
518 46
66
66
1896
5,333 97
Tax bill of 1897 for collection
29,157 87
$54,570 12
ROLAND TURNER, Treasurer.
SCITUATE, Dec. 31, 1897.
I have examined the account of the Treasurer and find it correct.
FRANCIS B. LEE, Auditor.
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF SCITUATE FOR THE YEAR 1897.
DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
RESIDENCE OF EACH.
PLACE OF MARRIAGE.
BY WHOM MARRIED.
May
29.
June
3,
Albert Wallace Ainslie, Mary Jane Emerson, Charles Melburn Wagner, Ella Florence Varney, Charles H. White, Rosanna Vinal, Frank T. Whittaker,
North Scituate,
Scituate,
Cohasset,
North Scituate,
29,
Emily C. Merritt,
Rufus H. Vickery,
July
28,
Charlotte Stewart,
Scituate, Scituate, Hyde Park, Scituate, Woburn, Scituate, Scituate, Scituate, Scituate, Boston,
Scituate,
Rev. Albert D. Spaulding, North Scituate. Rev. Seelye Bryant, Scituate.
Rev. I. P. Egan,
20,
Cohasset. Rev. Albert D. Spaulding, North Scituate. Rev. Seelye Bryant,
Scituate.
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Aug. 25,
26,
Sept. 12,
George S. Hatch, Anna Berger, Seelye Bryant, Kate Wheeler Skeele, Lee Warren Cole, Sarah T. M. Stevens. Reuben S. Gurney, Catherine Bruce, Charles B. Cushing, Marian Harris, Elisha F. Brown, Irene E. Jellows,
Norwell, Scituate, Scituate, Scituate, Scituate, Plymouth, Scituate, Duxbury, Marshfield, Scituate, Scituate, Scituate, Scituate,
Cohasset, Scituate,
Plymouth,
Duxbury,
Coliasset,
Oct. 4,
..
6,
Frank A. Damon, A. Maude Litchfield, Frank W. Dyer, C. Winnifred Litchfield, Arthur Merritt, Ella Sophia Northey, Lester Merritt,
Scituate,
Norwell, Scituate,
Hanover,
Norwell,
Scituate,
Scituate, Scituate,
Cohasset,
24,
Fannie H, Bates, Clarence Studley,
24,
Bertha Liswell, Henry T. Fitts, Florence E. Turner, Ernest R. Seaverns,
Dec.
15,
Beloit, Wis.,
66
25,
Clara M. Voss, Atwood L. Ford, Flora E. Bates,
Norwell, Scituate,
Norwell,
Rev. John Wriston, Cohasset. Rev. Albert Bryant, Scituate. Rev. J. F. Thompson, Plymouth. Henry Barstow (Justice of the Peace), Duxbury. Rev. Charles F. Cowen, Cohasset. Rev. Daniel M. Murphy, Cobasset. Rev. Albert D. Spaulding, North Scituate. Rev. Melvin S. Nash,
Hanover. 55
Rev. T. Thompson, Norwell. Rev. Joseph Osgood, Cohasset. Rev. Albert D. Spaulding, North Scituate. Rev. F. H. Goodwin, Marshfield. Rev. Albert D. Spaulding, North Scituate.
Rev. T. Thompson, Norwell.
20,
29,
Nov. 2,
25.
Cohasset, Cohasset, Cohasset, Scituate, Scituate, Scituate,
North Scituate,
Marshfield,
North Scituate,
14.
Cohasset,
North Scituate,
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN SCITUATE FOR THE YEAR 1897.
DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
MAIDEN NAME.
January
12,
Ruth Dunlap Northey,
66
21,
Ethel Colman Young,
Frank H. and Louise A., Thomas and Lizzie,
Driscoll.
22,
Rena Lois Damon,
Ney. Ellis.
February
2,
Henry Alison Dean, .
William W. and Flora C., Henry and Edith A., William W. and Lottie S., David and Melissa A.,
Torrey. Dixon.
56
March 66
14,
Frederic Gordon Peirce,
Hardwick.
66
22,
Kenneth Vinal Merritt,
Compton. Burleigh. Quinn. Ford.
April
. 8,
14,
Lois Bailey,
Hall.
66
15, Madge Adella Brown,
16,
Harry Wendell Burrows, Reed Prouty, Marian Nichols,
May
1,
8, Mary Ethel Graham,
30,
Margaret O'Neil,
June
5,
Alma Clarisa Hyland,
Charles H. and Adelaide L. C.,
J. Charles and Maria W., Herbert M. and Mary E., Francis E. and Fannie L., Edward and Bridget T., Joseph and Mary, Albert E. and Marion B., Ernest J. and Grace A., Harry J. and Fannie G., Clement J. and May W., Virgil and Sophia, Edward J. and Delia, Henry P. and Mary, E. Clayton and Mary C.,
Brown. Hall.
21,
Thomas Connors, Jr.,
26,
Frederic Torrey Waterman, Ada Pearl Cobb,
5,
28, Mildred Elizabeth Merritt, 29, Isabelle Ward, Sarah Esther Flynn,
27,
Mallory. Cole. Willcutt. De Costa. O'Brien. O'Donnell. Apts.
June July
15, 1,
10,
12.
66
14.
19,
August 66
September
3, 7.
19,
23,
Esther Howard Merritt,
24,
28,
October
3,
28.
Marion Elizabeth Vickery,
. November
16,
Charles Marshall Brown,
20,
John Sanford Fitts,
December
5,
Esther Elizabeth Cole,
16,
Esther Gertrude Ellms,
16,
Ola May Longfellow,
18,
Albert Leo Andrews,
Mary Ward,
66
24,
Leroy Merritt Whittaker,
Ralph Burbank,
1
Edward J. and Sarah M., George N. and Lillian C., George E. and Jennie B., Joseph H. and Lizzie M., Ernest T. and Lizzie B.,
Edmund and Annie L., Henry T. and Mary E., George O. and Henrietta B., Abram and Celia, Warren I. and Annie E., Antoine F. and Kate, Henry E. and Minta C., Edwin H. and Cora F., John B. and Elizabeth, Frank W. and Sarah E., Charles L. and Ethel M., C. Albert and Mary F., John T. and Julia E., Henry T. and Maud T., Job L. and Emeline F., Eugene and Mary E., Antoine and Mary,
Joseph A. and Augusta G.,
Frank T. and Emily C.,
George O. and Henrietta B.,
Delaney Rooney Jones. Peirce. Clapp.
Mitchell. Bamford. Merritt.
-
Hines. Grassie. Bowditch. Damon, Gordon.
Hackett.
Cook. Litchfield.
Jenkins.
Elliott.
Hyland. Butler. Fratus. Dubois. Merritt.
Merritt.
June
5,
Sarah Augusta Murray, George Joseph Damon, More, Cora May Merritt, Alice Constance Peverly, Illegitimate,
Julia Allen Landers,
27, 5, Wilson Bamford Fanton,
31,
Edward Burbank,
Fannie Esther Edelstein,
Clifton Irving Whittaker, Mary Elizabeth Vargus,
Olive Alberta Litchfield, Catherine Quinn, Olive Esther Litchfield,
57
19,
1895.
DEATHS REGISTERED IN SCITUATE FOR THE YEAR 1897.
AGE.
DATE.
NAMES.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Years.
Months.
Days.
Jan. 22,
Joseph E. Merritt,
Paralysis and Pulmonary
79
11
Feb. 2,
Harry Briggs Brown,
Phthisis, [Congestion,
29
17
Old Age,
[Shock,
81
10
5
4,
Frances B. Hart, Thomas Merritt, Catherine Maddock,
Pneumonia, following
64
4
4
Rheumatism and Heart
64
1
18
Paralysis, [Complaint,
70
1
24
Fever and Bronchitis,
67
Pneumonia,
64
-
/
Gastritis (Chronic),
45
5
S
William J. and Susanna. Benjamin F. and Almira.
" 28,
Roland Litchfield Hayden, Jane Litchfield, Delilah Nott,
Influenza, Influenza,
84
11
23
Noah & Cynthia Whitcomb
.. 7,
'' 10, Joseph Litchfield,
Influenza and Pneumonia,
84
-
1 Nathan and Mary E.
" 10, Edward B. Smith,
Brights' Disease,
26
3
" 16,
Sarah M. Turner,
Pneumonia,
70
6
48
-
- -
Michael & Olive Levange.
58
5,
9. Harvey D. Northey, 9, Patrick Gammon, John T. Maddock, Estella Jenkins,
Chronic Gastritis,
29
4
John and Sarah E. Turner.
" 21.
Clara Ann Newcomb,
Pneumonia,
62
Mar. 3,
92
5
24 Lewis and Lucy Studley.
14 John H. and Florette C. John and Sally Tilden.
Mar. 19,
Mary Girardin,
La Grippe,
PARENTS' NAME.
Ensign and Sally. Henry and Adeline. Nathaniel & Rebecca Blake Bailey and Lucy.
Murphy. Joseph and Hannah. Maurice and Mary. John T. -
14, 14,
4,
" 20, George H. Clark, " 25, " 25, “ 26, Abigail Y. Prouty, Frederic L. Pratt, Catherine Mclaughlin,
26, " 31, Ap'l 13,
Henry Levange, Margaret E. O'Hern,
Pneumonia, Pneumonia, [of Lungs,
1
Influenza and Congestion
53
4
Croup,
4
5
May 4, 66 9,
George Welch,
Croup,
93
7
1
Valvular Disease of Heart,
82
8
Old Age,
87
9
12
Phthisis,
10
9
-
" 21,
Henry Julius Topping,
Softening of Brain,
68
11
23
Aug. 3,
William Corliss,
Rupture,
2
7
Thomas and Annie Kane.
3, 9,
Alice Meuse,
-
6
Dennie and Mary.
66
18,
Annie McGreevy, Louise Eber,
Peritonitis,
12
6
Jacob F. and Emma C.
'' 21,
James H. Dean,
Dysentery,
3
9
3
Henry and Edith A.
" 21,
Levi J. Bradley,
Phthisis,
72
1
William and Ruth.
" 25,
James T. Bearce,
Apoplexy,
58
-
Sept. 4,
.Cecil Morgan,
Cholera Infantum,
1
1
25
Charles L. and Mary.
Typhoid Fever,
25
Lawrence and Ellen.
" 20; "' 30,
Sarah T. Litchfield,
Paralysis,
71
5
-
Asaph & Eliza'th Dedham.
Cerebral Hemorrhage, Old Age, Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, Old Age,
62
8 8
81
19
78
38
8 21 George H. and Hannah. Peleg and Mary Jenkins. Elijah P. and Mary. Daniel and Rose McIntyre. - Michael and Olive. - 3 Maurice and Mary A. Alexander and Caroline L. John and Mary E. John and Mary E.
" 10, June 9, '. 12, July 3,
Hannah Merritt,
Adeline B. Hayden,
Susan Daniels,
Robert E. Damon,
Bridget Mulkern,
Phthisis,
26
Cholera Infantum,
Phthisis,
23
3
Edm'd & Cath'ne Landers.
" 19.
Thomas and Mercy Clapp. John M. & Susan Germaine. Joseph & Hannahı Bennett. Frank M. and Josephine. Nelson H. and Catherine. Michael J. and Annie M.
59
Ebenezer and Mary A.
Felix I. Sullivan,
Alexander B. Anderson, Agnes Welch,
9
Gangrene,
DEATHS REGISTERED IN SCITUATE FOR THE YEAR 1897. - Continued.
AGE.
PARENTS' NAMES.
DATE.
NAMES.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Years.
Months.
Days.
Oct. 6,
Frank M. Damon,
Phthisis,
42
5
Marcus M. and Sarah. John and Margaret.
Nov. 4,
Annie E. Sullivan,
Phthisis,
22
7
-
5,
Lyman Pratt,
Typhoid and Heart Failure,
22
10
15
Charles B. and Fostina.
" 12,
Alice E. Litchfield,
Typhoid Fever,
17
2
20
" 23,
Mary Amelia Vargus, John Murphy,
Old Age,
80
-
" 11,
Charles W. Clapp,
Consumption,
62
1
19
" 16,
Fanny McCarthy,
Paresis,
65
-
-
Thomas and Mary Kelly.
“. 17,
Hannah W. Bailey,
Paralysis,
64
1
18
James S. & Selina Briggs.
" 22,
Mary King Kelton,
Old Age,
94
8
6
Mason and Mary D. Shaw.
" 28,
Eunice K. Miller,
Apoplexy.
60
5
28
Simeon and Irene.
60
D. Brigham and Delia. Antoine and Kate. John and Mary. Harvey and Hannah.
La Grippe,
2
4
Dec. 3,
61
THE FOLLOWING WERE BROUGHT TO TOWN FOR INTERMENT.
AGE.
DATE.
NAMES.
Years.
Months.
Days.
1897.
Jan.
1,
Charles B. Stowell,
34
1
17
Vernon, Conn.
Melvin T. Ward,
1
1
21
Boston, Mass.
Feb.
16,
Joanna Barry,
56
Rockland, “
March 23,
Amos F. Curtis,
48
2
Somerville, "
April
7,
Carl'n Willis Rogers,
4
10
4
Brockton, "
May
24,
Henry G. Vinal,
58
2
4
Plymouth, "
June
10,
Martha A. Gannett,
88
10
10
Quincy,
July
5,
Harriet Cushing,
88
6
13
Norwell,
66
Oct.
1,
George M. Litchfield,
61
-
Medway,
66
10,
Amos E. Tilden,
46
11
4
Cohasset,
12,
Clarisa G. Bates,
87
2
24
Brockton,
Nov.
8,
Nellie M. Murphy,
23
4
Rockland, "
28.
Rhoda Curtis,
83
10
8
Somerville, "
Dec.
25,
Mabel W. Cook,
75
10
27
Boston, 66
66
29,-
Chas. Carroll Vinal,
66
3
12
Cambridge,“
SUMMARY.
Number of births registered in Scituate for the year
46
Males
18
Females .
28
Number of marriages recorded
19
Number of certificates issued
19
Number of deaths for the year
53
Males
25
Females
28
Brought to town for interment
16
Whole number recorded for the year
69
Number of dogs licensed for the year 1897
135
Males
.
123
Females
12
Amount received for the same
. $306 00
CHARLES MANSON, Town Clerk.
Scituate, Dec. 31, 1897.
1
Aug.
19,
Chas. H. Whittaker,
59
5
Boston,
1897 .
18,
PLACE OF DEATH.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF SCITUATE
For the Year Ending Dec. 31st, 1897.
PLYMOUTH : AVERY PRINTING COMPANY. 1898.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1897.
To the Citizens of Scituate :
It is one of the important duties of the School Committee to make a printed annual report of the condition and welfare of the public schools, and to make such statements and sug- gestions as may, in their judgment, be proper and tend to increase the efficiency of the schools.
It is very grutifying to your Committee to note the in- creased interest taken by the parents in our schools since the opening of the Hatherly School, as is shown by the greater number of visits they have made during the past year. The parent cannot hope to intelligently co-operate with the teacher to secure the normal and symetrical de- velopment of the child, unless she keeps in touch with her and knows exactly what the child is doing at school.
Taken as a whole, the schools of Scituate are more effi- cient than at any time during the past decade. Several years of skilled supervision and the closer grading of the scholars, and the greater enthusiasm of the teachers, which have resulted therefrom, have been powerful factors in rais- ing the general standard of our schools.
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