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Laryngismus Stridulous
Dec. 26
Charlotte A. Vickery
54
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Choletethiasis .
Charles H. Osborne and Martha A. Merritt Calif Stetson and Juliann Merriam Samuel Brown and Louisa Clapp
George M. Allen and Hannah E. Otis Joseph Hall and Alice Ryder Charles A. Cole and Elizabeth Pedix Israel Merritt and Julia A. Litehfield Thomas J. Burrows and Betsey W. Vinal Gilbert Currell and Martha Clapp John Damon and Almira White James Otis and Almeda Colman Luther Litchfield and Bethia Clapp Loring Pratt and Laura Vining Isaac Harrub and Matilda Shultz Levi Vinal and Mary B. Chandler Michael Welch and Sarah Brown Henry G. Lewis and Julia W. Cobey John Dalby and Cynthia Cook Anthony Ryan and Margaret Reardon Thomas Shaw and Mary Flagg Watt W. Reynolds and Grace Byrne Shubael Sanborn and Mary Childs George W. Freeman and Mary H. Jefts William G. Bradford and Juliette Taylor Charles D Dowse and Mary A. Baldwin James Kennedy and Margaret Gallagher Daniel Ward and Charlotte McLean Enoch Cole and Roxanna W. Grose Patrick Flaherty and Ellen Connell Henry A. Fish and Alice Carson
Daniel Kenniff and Ellen Murphy Charles H. Damon and Polly Pinson Arthur Williams, Jr., and Elizabeth Lamb Peter Curran and - William R. Damon and Harrict Eaton
- Beechan and Jessie Spaulding Andrew Murdock and Harriet Edson Philip S. Bailey and Maud de Haven Howard James C. Calkin and Gertrude C. Prouty James C. Calkin and Gertrude C. Prouty Joseph Delory and Rose Baeon Howland Otis and Susannah Wood John Stewart and Sarah Thayer
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Report of Town Clerk - Deaths
Oct. Nov. 2
Wiley S Damion .
59 9 6
Locomotor Ataxia.
46 11 4
Fracture of Neck of Femur
Premature Birth
· Acute Intestinal Indigestion
60
2 - Tubercular Peritonitis
Dec.
26
38 4 22
June
6
Nora Hall .
Acute Gastro Enteritis.
Carcinoma of Uterus.
Cerebral Hemorrhage.
Intestinal Obstruction, Malignant
Bright s Disease .
Cerebral Apoplexy .
Cerebral Apoplexy .
Acute Gastritis, Arterio Sclerosis.
John P. Flaherty . Susie Amelia Ellis
Acute Cerebral Meningitis .
Old Age. .
Enteritis, Senile Dementia
Gunshot Wound .
18
Mary Flaherty
92 8 17
Chronic Nephritis. Valvular Heart Discase.
May
10
Preston Pratt. .
66 10 22
Sarcoma of Breast.
Arterio Sclerosis .
Broncho Pneumonia.
BROUGHT INTO TOWN FOR INTERMENT, 1917
DATE
NAME OF PERSON
AGE Y. M D
CAUSE OF DEATH
PLACE OF BURIAL
PLACE OF DEATH
Jan. 16
Annie L. Vinal.
64
2 19
Influenza .
Fair View Cemetery
Jan.
29
Martha Woodfall Curtis.
92 11 4
Asthenia .
Catholie Cemetery .
Jan.
30
Rev. Farrah A. Brogan.
51 4 10
Groveland Cemetery.
Braintree
Jan. 29
Georgietta F. Turner.
64
Cerebral Hemorrhage.
Groveland Cemetery.
Salem
Feb. 15
Wendell H. Bain.
20
Pneumonia .
Mar. 22
John Murray .
1
Premature Birth
Catholie Cemetery .
Boston
Apr. 21
Lydia J. Hateh
77
4
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Union Cemetery . Union Cemetery .
Weymouth
June 20
Ellen I. Witherell
68
8 14
Diabetes.
Catholic Cemetery
Boston
Sept. 13
Ella T. Bates.
73
3
24
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Union Cemetery .
Boston
Dec. · 13
Sarah E. Hinekley
81
2
Chronie Nephritis
Groveland Cemetery
Boston
Dee. 25
George C. Merritt.
52
16
Caneer .
Union Cemetery
Weymouth
Oet. 24
(1916) Lydia C. Webb
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4
Old Age.
Fair View Cemetery
Leominster
Cherry Chase, Md.
Cerebral Thrombosis
Boston
Norwell
Aug. 10
Dorothy G. O'Neil.
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Enteritis .
Groveland Cemetery.
Braintree
Report of Town Clerk - Interments
115.
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Report of Town Clerk - Summary
SUMMARY, 1917
Number of births registered in Scituate for the year 1917 39
Males 21
Females 18
Number of marriage licenses issued . 28
Number of marriages recorded . 28
Number of deaths for the year 45
Males. 20
Females 25
Brought to Town for interment and recorded . . 13
Number of dogs licensed for the year 175
Male . 141
Female . 33
Breeders 1
Amount less Town Clerk's fees paid into the County Treasury . $462 00
Number of resident hunters' certificates issued 158
Non-resident certificates .1
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REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE TOWN OF SCITUATE OCTOBER 27
Males 757
Females 134
Male residents of the Town of Scituate, between the ages of 18 and 45 years, subject to military duty . .449
All persons are requested to report omissions or correc- tions in the births, marriages and deaths. Blanks for the return of births will be furnished to those applying therefor by the Town Clerk.
JETSON WADE,
Town Clerk.
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Report of Scituate Water Company
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDI- TURES OF THE SCITUATE WATER COMPANY FOR THE YEAR 1917
Receipts
Jan 2. Water rates $196 80
Jan. 6. Town bill . 2,166 66
Jan. 17. Service rates 131 51
Jan. 18. Meter rates
278 89
Jan. 31.
Interest on deposits 20 82
April 20. Loan .
1,000 00
April 30.
Water rates
449 07
April 30.
Interest on deposits
9 53
June 1.
Loan.
500 00
June 30.
Service rates.
32 10
June 30.
Water rates
946 50
July 3.
Town rental
2,166 66
July 5.
Water rates
11,170 01
July 30.
Service rates
142 37
Aug. 15.
Water rates
5,090 72
Aug. 30.
Service rates
59 07
Sept. 17.
Water rates
1,044 95
Sept. 17. Service rates 17 25
Oct. 1.
Meter rates .
521 20
Oct. 30.
Water rates .
1,588 71
Oct. 30.
Interest on deposits
36 55
Nov. 3. Water rates
285 42
Nov. 26. Loan .
500 00
Nov. 30. Service rates
55 00
Dec. 1. Service rates
206 59
Dec. 1. Water rates
300 00
Dec. 31. Insurance
2,888 75
$31,805 13
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Expenditures
Jan. 3. Pumping expenses $243 02
Jan. 3.
Distribution operation
200 00
Jan. 13. Distribution maintenance 208 67
Jan. 22. Commercial expense
299 02
Jan. 23. General expense
76 45
Jan. 28.
Interest on bonds
2,500 00
Jan. 29.
Service maintenance
138 24
Feb. 1.
Dividend on Preferred Stock
2,500 00
Feb. 28.
Distribution operation
100 00
Feb. 28.
Distribution maintenance
32 75
Feb. 28.
Pumping expenses
35 73
Feb. 28.
Commercial expense
9 92
Mar. 8.
General expense
12 65
Mar. 26. Taxes
23 34
Mar. 26.
Pumping expenses
12 85
Mar. 26.
Distribution maintenance
48 78
Mar. 31.
Commercial expense
50 00
April 6.
Distribution operation
100 00
April 6.
Pumping expenses
30 90
April 6.
Distribution maintenance
82 50
April 26.
Interest on note
30 00
April 26. Legal expenses
85 00
May 1.
Interest on notes
315 00
May 3.
Commercial expense 250 00
May 3.
Pumping expenses 670 49
May 3.
Distribution operation 100 00
May
26.
General expenses
43 95
May 26. Service maintenance
54 00
May 31. Distribution maintenance
260 19
June 1. Taxes
198 28
July 13. Commercial expenses
171 21
July 13. Distribution maintenance
152 19
July 13. Distribution operation
100 00
July 18. Interest on notes and bonds
2,658 75
July 18. Pumping expenses
350 42
July 18. Purification
251 34
July 19. General expenses
92 50
Report of Scituate Water Company - Expenditures 119
July 19. Return Loan $500 00
July 19. Legal expenses 15 00
July 19. Service maintenance 42 50
Aug. 1. Dividend on common and preferred stock. 8,500 00
Aug. 22. Pumping expenses
832 19
Aug. 22. Purification expenses 544 71
Aug. 22.
Distribution operation 100 00
Aug. 22. Distribution maintenance 133 75
Aug. 22. Commercial expenses 146 62
Aug. 22.
General expenses .
42 50
Aug. 22.
Service maintenance
43 25
Sept. 18.
Commercial expenses
141 38
Sept. 18. Pumping expenses
81 00
Sept. 18. Purification 13 70
Sept. 18.
Distribution operation 100 00
Sept. 18.
Distribution maintenance 83 31
Sept. 18. Service maintenance 102 00
Oct. 9. Interest on notes 180 00
Oct. 18.
Commercial expenses
173 22
Oct. 20. Distribution maintenance
223 16
Oct. 25. Pumping expenses
130 53
Oct. 25. Purification
126 95
Oct. 31.
Distribution operation
100 00
Oct. 31. Taxes
5,625 00
Oct. 31. Service maintenance
65 00
Oct. 31. General expenses
61 00
Nov. 1. Commercial expenses
174 45
Nov. 1. Distribution operation
100 00
Nov. 1. Pumping expenses .
74 37
Nov. 5. Interest on notes .
450 00
Nov. 14.
Taxes . .
80 02
Nov. 27.
Distribution maintenance .
127 12
Dec. 2. Commercial expenses
125 00
Dec. 2. Distribution maintenance
127 97
Dec. 7. Pumping expenses
16 75
Dec. % Purification 8 00
Dec. 20. Distribution operation
100 00
120 Report of Scituate Water Company -- Expenditures
Dec. 20. Interest on note
$150 00
Dec. 31. Return loan 500 00
Dec. 31. Replacement 31 25
Dec. 31. Service maintenance 96 00
$32,755 84
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Report of the Park Commission
REPORT OF THE PARK COMMISSION
To the Citizens of Scituate:
The various plots in the Town have been properly cared for by the appointed custodians. The old "pound" has been restored, thus preserving one of the relics of the "good old days" of long ago. On account of the prevailing con- ditions no action has been taken on the question of bathing beaches. The Park Commission recommends that this matter be postponed for the present.
In the matter of the "Cedar Point Lighthouse" the pay- ment of $1000 has been made to the Government, the deeds have been passed and the property is now in the hands of the Town. The lighthouse has been properly restored, and put in such a condition that it may well wait until the Town is able to complete the work. The dwelling connected with the lighthouse is in very poor condition, however, and an immediate expenditure of, say, $200 would be advisable in order to make. necessary repairs and preserve the building from further decay.
In the care of the Town plots the coming year, it is the purpose of the Park Commission to appeal to the patriotism of the former custodians, and ask them to look after these plots this season without recompense from the Town. We expect all will be willing to do so.
' We again express our hope that when better days come, the Town may look with favor on our suggestion to move the "lockup" to some other location, and maintain the present site as an open park.
The resignation of Mr. Henry T. Bailey as a member of the Park Commission is very much regretted. The mem- bers who have worked with him have always found him broadminded, painstaking and fair in his judgments. By his removal to a distant city, the Park Commission has, for
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the present at least, lost the services of a man of remarkable ability; a man who believed in Scituate, who loved her and who willingly gave his time toward the upbuilding of her physical and moral welfare.
Signed : WILLIAM H. NORTH, Chairman, WALTER S. HARRUB.
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Report of Tree Warden
REPORT OF TREE WARDEN
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To the Citizens of Scituate:
During the past year I have followed the customary policy of spending as much of my appropriation as was not abso- lutely needed for repair and upkeep work in setting out and replacing young trees. I have set out from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy-five trees. Some were re- placed, others, new lines were planted out. The upkeep of growing trees is by no means an unimportant part of the Tree Warden's work. Trees, young and old, must be pruned, dead limbs must be cut, cavities must be carefully cleaned and filled, splitting and cracking must be prevented by bolt- ing, and other needs must be looked after.
Every intelligent, well-informed man will advocate a generous appropriation for trees.
Scituate has over one hundred miles of roads; some of the roads have the natural growth of ash, elms and maple which make very good shade trees. I have cleaned some very bad corners that made it very dangerous to travel.
I wish to thank all who have shown interest in my work in the past year, and hope they will continue to show interest in the future.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM F. FORD, Tree Warden.
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Report of Board of Health
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
To the Citizens of Scituate:
We present herewith our report for 1917. The following cases of reportable diseases occurred during the year:
Chicken-pox
14.
Diphtheria
1
German measles
4
Measles .
147
1
Mumps
2
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Total. 169
All dairies were inspected early in the season and certain suggestions made for improvements, most of which we found to be acted upon when we made a later inspection.
Many complaints, especially in the summer colonies, have been investigated and nuisances abated.
The conditions at the beaches in the thickly settled com- munities, particularly at the north end of North Scituate Beach, are bad. The creek at this place should be straight- ened and cleaned out, which would do away with a lot of stagnant water and mosquito-breeding territory.
We ask the householders to report at once suspicious cases of sickness in case they have no doctor, so that we can investigate and perhaps head off an epidemic.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
WILLIAM P. GROVESTEIN, Chairman, GEORGE T. OTIS, HENRY WEBB, Secretary.
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Report of Inspector of Milk
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF MILK
To the Citizens of the Town of Scituate:
There were fourteen milk licenses issued the past year, three more than the previous year.
I have tested samples of milk for bacteria and butter fat, and have found an improvement on other years. The milk dealers are keeping their milk up to the required standard.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE T. OTIS, Milk Inspector.
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Report of Inspector of Slaughtering
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING
North Scituate, Mass., December 31, 1917.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen.
Gentlemen: Since May 22, 1917, I have inspected twenty- one slaughtered animals, four of which were beef; eight, veals; and nine, swine, all of which I found in perfect condition and suitable to eat.
Respectfully yours,
J. F. BRESNAHAN, Inspector.
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Report of Inspector of Plumbing
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING
Scituate, Mass., January 1, 1918.
Board of Health, Scituate, Mass.
Dear Sir: I have issued permits to all plumbers who have made application for same, have inspected their work and find they are performing the work in accordance with the laws governing plumbing of the Town.
Yours respectfully,
ARTHUR R. MERRITT, Inspector of Plumbing.
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Report of Fire Department
REPORT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
To the Board of Selectmen.
Gentlemen: The Board of Engineers appointed by you at your April meeting met at the Town Hall May 14 and organized as follows: Chief, E. R. Seaverns; First Assist- ant Chief, C. M. Litchfield; Second Assistant Chief, D. P. Sylvester; Clerk, F. W. Litchfield; District Engineer, A. B. Cole.
During the past year the department has been called upon for greater service than any other year since the department was organized, and it is the second time within three years that we have had to call for outside help.
Conditions being abnormal this year, we voted at our last meeting to try and get along with our present equipment, but it is to be hoped that in the near future we shall be able to have some motor apparatus which we need, and it will enable us not only to give better service for our own citizens, but to reciprocate the assistance that has been rendered us by our neighboring towns.
The Town has lost one of its noted landmarks this year, the Hotel Kent, which was destroyed last April. One build- ing was struck by lightning on August 21, and burned, one building was set by spontaneous combustion and destroyed.
The fire which destroyed ten houses at Humarock Beach, September 16, was caused by the putting of hot ashes in a wooden bin connected to the house. It is to be hoped a little more care will be exercised by parties in dumping hot ashes. The department was complimented by a number of the residents of that section, also by your honorable Board, for the efficient manner in which the conflagration was handled, but in accepting this, we must not overlook the work that was rendered by the bucket brigade of men and women of that neighborhood before the arrival of the depart-
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ment. Neither do we want to forget the credit due the Cohasset and Hull Fire Departments, the latter coming a distance of twenty miles in record time. The work done by the Hull pumping engine for nearly three hours, in giving us water with good nozzle pressure, through a line of hose three thousand feet, should convince any one that a similar one for this Town would be a good investment.
By permission of the telephone company we have a white band painted around the poles nearest the hydrants, one on either side.
Last spring your Honorable Board, with our Board and some members of the Advisory Board, visited the several hose houses to acquaint ourselves with the conditions, and after investigating, we received some suggestions from your Board, which our Board voted to comply with, and they were done.
We recommend an appropriation of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3500) for the maintenance of the depart- ment.
Respectfully submitted,
E. R. SEAVERNS,
Chief, C. M. LITCHFIELD, First Assistant Chief,
D. P. SYLVESTER, Second Assistant Chief, FRANK W. LITCHFIELD,
A. B. COLE, Clerk,
District Engineer.
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Report of Committee on Street Nomenclature
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STREET NOMENCLATURE
To the Inhabitants of Scituate:
The undersigned, Committee on Street Nomenclature, being continued for service from March, 1917, for further activity, submits herewith its second report.
Acting upon the first report of your committee, the voters of the Town, at the annual meeting in 1917, voted to change the name of Main Street from the Cohasset line to the North River to the "Country Way"; the names of Gannett and Beach Streets, to Gannett Road; Blossom Street from Gan- nett Road to the Country Way, to Mordecai Lincoln Road; Mt. Vernon Street, to Ann Vinal Road; to accept the report of the committee as to the other changes recommended and continue the committee.
Since then committees and municipal officers of Plymouth, Kingston, Duxbury, Marshfield, Hingham, Weymouth and Quincy have followed the lead of Scituate and it may be expected that the ancient colonial and provincial road lead- ing from old Braintree to Plymouth will be continuously marked as the Country. Way through these towns. In this connection, the same committees have recommended to Kingston, Duxbury, Pembroke, Hanover, Norwell and Hingham that the original name of the other colonial way - the Massachusetts Path -- be restored to the highway pass- ing through those towns from Plymouth to Hingham. In some of them this has already been done. It is intended that these changes shall form a part of the plan which the Pilgrim Tercentenary Commissioners recommend for the celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1920, and in which the committees and town officers of the Old Colony towns pro- pose that their municipalities shall join.
The Tercentenary Commission has abandoned its former
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plan for a World's Fair at Boston, in connection with the Pilgrim celebration, and, notwithstanding the war, has reported to the Legislature that the preliminary work should be begun.
The initiative which Scituate has taken in this matter should be maintained. The cost will be inconsiderable. Out of a small appropriation ($50) made for guideboards and streetboards in 1917, the Selectmen awarded twenty- five dollars toward the cost of the signs for the "Country Way," and the Scituate Historical Society has contributed the balance. The Society has already voted to make a like contribution this year so that the beginning thus made may be continued in a limited degree. It is recommended that an appropriation of twenty-five dollars be made by the Town, to which the Historical Society and others will add a sum sufficient to place signs, duplicates in color and design of those marking the Country Way, on Gannett Road (3); Hatherly Road (2); Collamore Road (2); Stockbridge Road (3) and to repaint the signs on Hollett Street and Hatherly Road.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY ANN FORD, JAMES W. TURNER, HARVEY H. PRATT, HENRY T. COLE.
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Report of the Clean-up and Paint-up Committee
REPORT OF THE CLEAN-UP AND PAINT-UP COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Scituate:
The Committee organized April 24, 1917, and opened the Campaign May 1, extending it to September 30, the first week of May being devoted to a general clean-up and removal of rubbish from public and private grounds, and our records show approximately thirty double loads and several auto truck loads removed and burned.
We then followed up our 1916 Campaign by offering prizes to school pupils for best-kept home grounds from May 1 to September 30, as well as prize cups for the best vegetable gardens.
We also enlisted the services of the Boy Scouts under Scoutmaster Edward Bush and a special clean-up troupe of twenty-five boys under the excellent and efficient leader- ship of Rev. Ezra M. Cox. The two troupes kept the streets of the entire town free of litter and rubbish during the entire summer in a manner that was apparent not only to our citi- zens, but especially to visitors passing through the Town.
The competition for cups among the school pupils was so close that the Park Commissioners acting as judges awarded special prizes to eleven pupils, which the Chairman, Mr. William H. North, with his usual public spirit, generously contributed.
The Committee entered the Town of Scituate in the con- test for prize offered by the New England Clean-Up and Paint-Up Campaign Committee for the most efficiently managed Campaign of all cities and towns of less than five thousand population, and were successful in winning first prize, a beautiful silver cup, in competition with 212 cities and towns throughout New England.
We have no hesitancy in saying the credit for this mag-
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nificent showing was due entirely to the boys and girls of Scituate and we therefore give below the list of prize winners.
For most attractive home grounds:
First prize: Hatherly School, Franklin T. Sharp.
First prize: Jenkins School, Mary and John O. Prouty.
Special prizes: Mary O'Hern, Evelyn Smith, Annie Mc- Carthy, Julia Stanley, Mildred Vinton, Eugene Jellows, Alice Doherty, Nelson Lee, George Kelly, Dorothy Appleford, Donald Wells.
For best vegetable gardens:
First prize: Nathaniel Tilden.
Special prizes: Paul Gillis, Whitford Brown, Ezra Litch- field, Nelson Lee, Kenneth Bates, Nelson Bates.
The appropriation by the Town for Campaign was $200 00
Balance from 1916 Campaign. 47 57
$247 57
Our Treasurer's report shows expenditures of . . . 244 38
Leaving balance on hand
$3 19
Respectfully submitted,
PAUL F. BURKE, Chairman.
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Report of Forest Warden
REPORT OF FOREST WARDEN
To the Citizens of Scituate:
In submitting a report of the Forest Warden I would like to call your attention to the number of fires this depart- ment has been called upon to extinguish. Some could have been put out without calling the department, if the parties who discovered them at the start would have interested themselves in the welfare of the Town.
There have been quite a few complaints about the manner in which some have had fires - burning rubbish, grass, etc., without regard to his neighbor. Also, some think they have a right to build a fire in the open at any time, but the law says they shall have a written permit to have a grass or bonfire in the open from March 1 to December 1.
A party set one bush fire, without a permit, that caused the loss of a $12,000 structure and cost the Town more than $100 to fight the fire.
I will also call attention to the slash law of the State. I have posted notices at various times, but in case some have forgotten about it, I will insert the three sections of Chapter 101 of the Statutes:
Section 1. Every owner, tenant or occupant of land, and every owner of stumpage, who cuts or permits the cutting of wood or timber on woodland owned or occupied by him or on which he has acquired stumpage by purchase or other- wise, and which borders upon the woodland of another or upon a highway or railroad location, shall clear the land of the slash and brushwood then and there resulting from such cutting for such distance. not exceeding forty feet, from the woodland of such other person, highway or railroad location as the local forest warden shall determine, and within such time and in such manner as he shall determine.
Section 2. Any person who cuts or causes to be cut trees
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or bushes or undergrowth within the limits of any highway or public road shall dispose of the slash and brushwood then and there resulting from such cutting within such a time and in such manner as the forest warden of the city or town wherein such cutting is done shall determine.
Section 3. Whoever neglects to comply with the direc- tions of the forest warden with regard to the disposal of slash and brush, as provided in sections one and two of this act, may be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.
One hundred and fifty dollars was paid toward the cost of the watch tower at Hingham out of the appropriation of $600 this year.
I recommend an appropriation of $500 for the ensuing year for forest fires.
Yours respectfully,
E. R. SEAVERNS, Forest Warden.
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Trustees of the Scituate Historical Society
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE SCITUATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Scituate:
At the annual meeting in March, 1917, the Town appro- priated three hundred dollars for the purpose of making definite repairs upon the Cudworth house. To this was added a substantial subscription by the Society itself, all of which appears in detail in the Selectmen's report. With the sums thus provided new sills and floors were laid, the roof, which was in bad condition, was patched, new doors of ancient pattern hung and the windows replaced throughout by new ones, which are copies of the originals. All that has thus far been accomplished has been done with the view to restore the house to its original appearance.
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