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30.36
Arthur C. Withem
2.33
Boston Drinking Cup Co.
6.68
Frank T. Whittaker
1.33
Adams Stationery Co.
1.50
Ernest L. Hooper
1.67
S. F. Connolly
6.00
William J. Jenkins
2.00
M. F. Ellis & Co.
10.78
Chester Taylor
1.33
Albert M. Vinal
36.77
Pilgrim Paper Corp.
7.35
Ethyl M. Duffey, P. M.
3.00
George R. Wagner
45.00
$12,331.59
New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co.
15.95
A. P. Billings
1.50
$14,353.54
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Trucks:
C. M. Merritt
$18.00
Blaine Brown
20,67
$1,537.15
Randall O'Hanley
.67
Surplus Commodities Division
George W. Duffey
2.50
Nemaskct Transp. Co., Inc.
137
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Labor:
Fred La Vange 24.00
Irving Cobbett
$5.20
Scituate Electric Co.
13.07
James Cobbett
5.20
J. Edward Harney
47.93
Frank Cole
4.50
The Welch Co., Inc.
12.20
James Dolan
3.90
Bradford Weston Inc.
21.00
Fred LaVange
9.10
Frederic T. Bailey & Co.
8.80
James McIntire
3.90
First National Stores, Inc.
6.25
Clarence Shelton
5.20
Elmer W. Litchfield
18.00
Ernest F. Litchfield
13.00
Brockton Edison Co.
11.32
John F. Dalby
13.00
The Seaverns Store
1.80
Charles E. Mitchell
13.00
Mabel P. Knox
25.50
Roy Cole
15.60
Fred T. Waterman
18.10
Thomas R. Stearns
39.00
Richard Barnard
50.00
Expenses :
W. Stanley Dorr & Son
$11.61
$748.58
Town of Scituate
97.00
The Harvey Douglas Co.
343.00
$858.18
FEDERAL COMMODITIES OFFICE
Expenses :
Joseph A. Fern
7.11
Station Alleys Inc.
3.50
George T. Otis & Co.
1.75
John S. Fitts
82.08
Kenmure W. Moffatt
7.01
Atwood Paper Co.
4.08
Francis J. Reardon
10.50
New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co.
22.44
Surplus Commodities
$329.36
FISH AND GAME CONSERVATION
Expenses :
Morse Game Farm
$32.50
Chase Wild Animal Farm
15.00
Merle W. Grey
26.60
CHANNEL MARKINGS
Expense:
Leon Hatch
$75.00
COUNTY AID TO AGRICULTURE
County of Plymouth
$100.00
MEMORIAL DAY
Expenses :
The Satuit Band
185.00
J. W. Appleton
$8.00
The Satuit Press
26.00
Wilson Brown
8.00
Fred T. Waterman
114.75
Prescott A. Damon
8.00
The Welch Co., Inc.
45.50
Robert E. Huntley
8.00
Carl Whittaker
8.00
Lovell Bus Lines, Inc.
48.00
Charles H. Pratt
36.00
$495.25
ARMISTICE DAY
Expenses :
The Village Shoppe
16.13
Joseph Gann
$7.00
Fred T. Waterman
21.00
Moderne Market
20.40
Mrs. Ina Wilder
3.00
Scituate Post American
Whittaker Brothers
5.00
Legion No. 144
25.00
E. C. Sharp
6.00
$143.53
Whit Tillson's Orchestra
40.00
138
$74.10
Sponsors Fund
163.39
Quincey Station Alleys, Inc.
$17.50
Ferdinand Feola
10.00
$91.60
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
QUARTERS FOR VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Expense :
Allen Library Association
......... $350.00
CONTROL OF SHELLFISH
Expenses :
F. Malbon Chase
$2,120.00
Robert S. Boles
51.52
Young's Shell Service Station
38.16
Edward Stewart
80.00
$2,289.68
REFUNDS
Mary E. Cross
$21.75
John P. & Annie J. Neilan
23.52
Benjamin H. LaVange
11.75
Lizzie Widger et al
95.76
Harry E. & Helen M. Anderson
5.04
Walter A. Tapley 67.20
James A. & Anne G. Dunbar
39.48
Lotta J. Springer
33.60
Walter L. Enos
3.36
Jennie H. Ball
11.76
Edmund V. & Ethel G. Evans
13.44
Hatherly Playground Ass'n
11.76
J. Joseph & Josephine Hughes
.84
Frances T. Hodgdon
100.80
Fanny Brand
.84
Anna Moriarty
48.72
Hans & Tilda Manson
3.36
Helen L. Noonan
23.52
Minnie Mullaly
5.04
Gertrude Pierce
84.00
Granville B. Fuller
8.40
Milton F. Higgins
1.63
Cohasset Savings Bank
25.20
Williams B. James
8.10
Ralph M. & Doris W. Johnson
8.40
Joseph F. Cressy
1.48
Manning A. & Eileen N. Williams 25.20
Edith W. James
2.64
James H. MacDonald
29.40
Roy E. Litchfield
9.61
Elson N. & Maude L. Blunt
10.08
Keith A. Shangraw
6.18
Annie M. & Mabel Coulter
6.72
Carlyle L. Thayer
1.86
Helen F. Cummings & Mary McAuliffe
25.20
Hazel M. Zucker
2.73
Madeline I. Curry
5.04
Donald A. Whittaker
.55
William J. Davidson
134.40
Robinson Auto Rental Co.
15.02
Mary E. Downes
47.04
John S. Fitts
16.80
Florence V. Durant
25.20
Muriel D. Macintosh
18.61
Edna F. Ellis
11.76
Erma W. Nichols
.74
Walter L. & Katherine M. Enos
8.40
Edward P. Breen
10.11
First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Boston
16.80
S. S. Pierce Co.
1.10
Fannie H. Joslin
16.80
Velma K. Huntley
7.97
A. William Krause
33,60
Florence M. Wilson
.94
Jesse P. Litchfield
8.50
Samuel A. Agnew
16.56
Ellen T. McDonald
8.40
Mildred Sharp
27.76
Minot Village Associates
25.20
Christopher Gunderson
5.73
Dorothy M. Curtis
8.40
Luther W. Turner
16.02
Helen W. Richmond
1.68
Sarah Green O'Brien
84.00
Bertha W. Spear
.94
John J. E. Rothery
52.08
Caroline E. Bowman
.94
Louise J. Rothery
25.20
Fred A. Conroy
2.94
Charles Star
5.04
Clarence G. Wheeler
13.24
Gilbert H. Tapley
3.36
Kathrynne L. Cummings
6.86
Merle F. Warren
6.72
Anthony Bongarzone
9.56
Thomas & Arthur Chesterton
45.36
Wilmot M. Brown
4.17
Thomas Kennedy
8.40
Della M. Chipman
.94
Emma O. Kingsbury
20.16
Fitts Farm, Wilson S. Brown
Richard T. & Winifred L. Leahy
6.72
d/b/a
30.77
139
Atlantic National Bank of Boston
16.80
Edward S. Marvin
7.94
Ashton L. Goddard
18.21
William F. Murphy
.97
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Jacqueline K. James
15.24
Murray Snow
4.60
June M. Brown
5.15
Jackson E. Bailey
.58
Esther M. Spear
11.04
Frank E. Clark
1.04
Charles M. Wagner
12.14
Ernest J. Inge
10.21
Williams B. James Jr.
6.44
Helen W. Kelley
1.70
Rita M. Friel
14.96
Woodworth N. Murray
4.14
Jesse G. Swift
10.49
Mary M. McJennett
6.19
Mildred N. Driscoll
10.73
Benjamin W. Peckham
.94
Dennis F. Quinn
10.51
Michelena M. Pimental
3.40
Alden S. Torrey
1.31
Arthur N. Colman
5.89
Margaret E. Lane
5.33
Mae C. Hurwitch
2.00
Clara N. Mayo
18.89
Elizabeth B. Doten
15.00
M. W. Murrill Co.
7.45
Harry & Fannie Litchfield
21.00
Fred W. Stanley
10.73
Annie S. Kaplan
38.00
Charles A. Williams
6.87
Frank W. Clapp et al.
21.00
F. Malbon Chase
6.86
Catherine Buckholz
21.00
James A. Dwyer
6.65
Anne E. Ritzau
21.00
Eve Fay
10.51
Elsa Koebele
24.00
Stephen R. Walker
1.31
Robert H. Lord
37.00
Catherine J. Coveney
11.77
J. Hennigar Burton
7.00
John J. Steverman
1.31
Annie M. & Joseph P. Shea
15.00
Liberty Mutual Ins. Co.
5.36
Helen F. Cummings
48.00
Ernest B. Nord
4.17
Alice E. O'Neill & Mary A. Bell
21.00
George H. Savage
6.44
Teresa B. Courtney
21.00
Lillis F. Burke
2.14
Pilgrim Co-operative Bank or Earl Hutchinson
21.00
Joseph A. Humphreys
4.97
Eileen A. Smith
9.66
Virginia E. Vines
12.02
Marie E. Kirby
13.50
Thalia P. J. Hall
7.51
Elizabeth P. Carney
26.00
Webster C. Clark
8.28
Sarah Gray
5.82
Walter H. Greene
3.00
Charles F. Avery
23.00
Joseph A. Moran
9.21
Lucy E. Allen
10.50
William M. Wade
1.68
John W. Cooke
18.00
Warren H. or Margaret E. Litchfield
12.42
Phoebe Coombs et al by Tr.
42.00
Margaret E. Litchfield
7.86
Belle G. Chaffee, by Execrs.
13.28
Lena Gants
6.90
Arthur W. Drew
.64
Guido H. Brungardt
3.68
Frank L. Nason
4.66
Mary E. Gallagher
8.89
Arthur L. Crowley
2.85
Jesse G. Swift
6.13
Martha Lavoine
15.00
Prescott A. Damon
11.59
Mabel M. Dalby
48.72
Barbara W. P. Short
10.30
Edna P. Elliott
55.61
Julian S. Dexter
26.07
Myrtle K. Gallagher
47.88
National Boston Lead Co.
6.01
Mabel E. Hutchinson
49.56
Eleanor Vining
7.85
Alice M. Lavers
56.28
Byron W. Reed
4.97
Elmer H. Perkins
67.20
James J. Steverman
4.23
Josephine T. Seymour
67.20
Anna M. Sorensen
8.58
Charles T. Hudson
2.61
Thomas B. Alexander
13.74
William L. Searles
3.68
Bessie M. Dudley
4.90
Joseph G. Traeger
4.23
George A. Grauer
5.36
Albert F. Gordon
2.94
Louis O. Haartz
4.29
Worthington Holt
3.06
Freeman V. Locklin
6.44
Jessie M. Turner
2.57
Wilfred D. Smith
1.99
Joseph V. Feeley
5.82
Ella G. Waterman
6.13
Frederick R. Chase
2.27
Mary E. Jarvis
12.51
Carl L. Morehardt
13.06
Sara T. Vinal
2.30
Frances Mazure
1.68
$3,132.26
140
Annie Edson
25.00
Beatty & Gorham Inc.
6.86
Inman Trust Co. of Boston & John N. Kane
37.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
BAND CONCERTS
Expense :
The Satuit Band
$250.00
WATER DEPARTMENT
Salaries :
George Fleming
$2,322.00
Hobbs & Warren, Inc.
55.24
Charles Fleming
2,131.00
New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co. 214.29
Gladys Wheeler
1,032.00
Smith Appliance Co.
8.00
William Sherman
2,131.00
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.
25.84
Frank Whittaker Jr.
1,972.00
Thomas R. Stearns
50.10
J. F. McJennett
180.00
Dyar Sales & Machinery Co.
232.69
W. B. James
52.50
Eddy Valve Co.
1,030.76
S. C. Webster
180.00
E. L. LeBaron Foundry Co.
79.58
William J. Lumbert
2,635.34
Rockland Transp. Co., Inc. 1.50
Wm. J. Lumbert
114.58
Sanderson Brothers
61.38
R. J. Wilder
127.50
Merrill's Auto Express
51.99
Bertha Roberts
30.00
The Seaverns Store
6.77
Young's Shell Service Station
27.18
John S. Fitts
315.07
Labor:
H. R. Prescott & Sons
3,318.91
Wilfred Prouty
$7.50
The Quincy Oil Co.
.94
Clarence Clapp
289.58
Sumner & Dunbar
1,080.24
Kenneth Whorf
449.81
John H. Wyatt Co.
22.50
Kenneth Bolivar
98.80
Addressograph Sales Agency
33.80
Julian Jacobucci
67.60
Spaulding Moss Co. 12.47
270.24
Steven Andrews
57.20
Howe & French, Inc.
17.04
Steve Andrews
202.15
Johnnie's Service Station
100.25
James Duffey
122.20
W. J. Lumbert, Supt.
18.86
Primo Montenari
216.13
Geo. A. Caldwell Co.
407.88
Rodger Kenney
39.00
Calgon, Inc.
347.18
Roger Kenney
49.40
Roche Brothers Co.
6.00
Everett Dorr
35.43
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co.
82.26
Walter S. Allen Jr.
3.00
Tr. N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co.
5.00
Harry Kane
3.00
The Ockers Co. 2.25
2.00
Merton Burbank
5.20
Mrs. Charles T. Fish 12.00
7.22
Daniel Andrews
3.90
Edward C. Hohes, Register
68.35
Howard Clapp
32.18
The Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co., Inc. 135.95
$2,037.64
Expenses :
Bound Brook Garage
$352.62
William M. Wade
40.00
Bound Brook Press
95.26
Brockton Edison Co.
4,533.50
Egypt Garage & Machine Co.
Pierce-Perry Co.
170.71
Co., Inc.
535.01
Hersey Manufacturing Co.
2,496.69
Liba F. Litchfield
3.25
Homelite Corp.
211.61
Town of Marshfield
1,287.82
John L. Rothery Co.
161.70
Ralph's Repair Shop
171.82
Remington Rand, Inc. 102.91
John A. Russell
112.12
Norton Company
24.64
Satuit Garage Co.
21,85
Geo. M. Lantz 16.00
W. R. Schultz Co., Inc.
9.75
Commonwealth of Massa-
The Welch Co., Inc.
449.41
chusetts 55.83
William Brenchick
79.63
Codex Book Co., Inc.
Herbert Dwyer
5.20
William H. Harney
Crosby Steam Gage & Valve Co.
19.07
Boston Pipe & Fittings Co., Inc. 9.40
56.43
Front St. Sales & Service
Johns-Manville Sales Corp. 1,194.93
Eureka Pipe Co., Inc. 184.77
Hancock Paint & Varnish Co. 8.18
Julius Jacobucci
270.73
Walworth Co.
$12,907.92
Whittaker Brothers 572.96
141
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Town of Norwell
27.93
New England Transportation Co. .54
Pinkham's
6.49
The Harding Uniform and
Priscilla Turner, P. M.
142.96
Regalia Co.
3.50
Berg-Di Mare & Berg
10.64
Mueller Co.
17.18
Nemasket Transp. Co., Inc.
2.87
General Electric Co.
26.70
S. C. Webster 42.60
Joseph J. Murray
15.68
Stearns, Perry & Smith Co. Carpenter Mfg. Co.
11.78
Westinghouse Electric Co.
1.06
Louis E. Cole
3.50
Starkweather Engineering Co.
1.65
J. F. McJennett
62.88
A. P. Billings
3.50
Henry A. Litchfield
108.00
Pilgrim Paper Corp.
13.62
Allan R. Wheeler
167.28
Underwood Elliott Fischer Co. 129.60
Registry of Motor Vehicles
8.00
J. Edward Harney
4.50
Edward P. Breen
222.00
J. Comer Jones Power
& Pump Co.
13.46
EXTENSION OF WATER MAINS
Expenses :
Eddy Valve Co.
$230.60
Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
2,016.61
E. L. LeBaron Foundry Co.
23.60
PUBLIC LANDINGS
Salary :
C. Harry Driscoll
$600.00
Expenses :
Atlantic Marine Exchange Inc. 40.00
Thomas R. Stearns
$7.00
Town of Scituate
18.00
Jerry McCarthy
52.00
$842.79
Ray's
32.00
Scituate Yacht Yard
196.69
$1,442.79
The Welch Co., Inc.
97.10
OLD CEMETERY-CUDWORTH ROAD
Expenses :
- W. W. Hunt ...... $120.42
CARE OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Expenses :
Elmer F. Ramsdell
Roy C. Merritt
$12.00
St. Mary's Cemetery Ass'n
80.00
William W. Hunt
36.00
Fred T. Waterman
196.00
Charles F. Andrews
56.00
Harry E. Bates
52.00
$638.00
Groveland Cemetery Corp.
196.00
INTEREST
Merchants National Bank
$578.36
MATURING DEBT
Merchants National Bank
$13,000.00
365.03
Railway Express Agency
3.63
Russell J. Wilder 16.36
$22,442.91
$37,388.47
$2,270.81
Bradford Weston Inc. 400.00
10.00
142
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
INTEREST-WATER LOANS
Merchants National Bank
$21,516.25
MATURING DEBT-WATER LOANS
Merchants National Bank
$33,000.00
TEMPORARY LOANS
Second National Bank
$150,000.00 150,000.00
Merchants National Bank
$300,000.00
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$163.16
INCOME FROM TRUST FUNDS
Cash Aid
$391.76
STATE TAX
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$30,690.00
STATE PARKS AND RESERVATIONS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$350.16
AUDITING MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$658.55
COUNTY TAX
County of Plymouth
$23,024.91
HOSPITAL OR HOME CARE FOR CIVIL WAR VETERANS Commonwealth of Massachusetts $408.00
PROCEEDS FROM DOG LICENSES
County of Plymouth
$1,014.60
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ALLEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY REPORT
REPORT OF THE ALLEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The Allen Memorial Library Association suffered a great loss in 1941 through the death of Dr. Thomas B. Alexander, who had served as President for a number of years. The members of the Association are deeply conscious of the contribution Dr. Alexander made to the progress of the library, and since his death, we have done our best to continue certain programs and policies he established.
During 1941 considerable work on redecorating the interior of the building was finished, and we feel that the library is in better shape today than for a number of years.
With the completion of rather extensive alterations and repairs conducted in 1939 and 1940, a larger amount of our appropriation was available for the purchase of books-text books, fiction, and non-fiction-and we are very glad to report a steadily increasing circulation.
Our building is being made available for civic and defense purposes, and we hope to have been helpful to the people of the town in this policy.
As a special service, a member of the Association has taken upon herself the duty of distributing books to soldiers who are in camp within the town limits, and we believe this is a very practical addition to the service of the library.
No report would be complete without a word of appreciation for the splendid services rendered by our Librarian.
We look forward to broadening, if possible, the value the Allen Memorial Library to the community in 1942.
Respectfully submitted, HOWARD O. FRYE.
REPORT OF THE PEIRCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The trustees of the Peirce Memorial Library submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1941, and thank the citizens of Scituate for their assistance and co-operation.
Books in circulation in 1941
21,203
Magazines in circulation in 1941
1,837
Books purchased in 1941
556
Books received as gifts in 1941 40
Books rebound in 1941
41
There has been an increase in the number of cardholders during the year, but a slight decrease in the number of books and magazines in circulation, due without doubt to war activities; also the number of new books purchased is a bit lower, as the cost of books has increased.
The financial report of the Peirce Memorial Library will be found on another page.
Respectfully submitted,
KATHERINE ELLIS, President.
144
TOWN COUNSEL REPORT
REPORT OF TOWN COUNSEL
Besides the usual variety of legal problems involving liquor licenses, lay-outs, appropriations, town meetings, real property, welfare, dogs, contracts, nuisances, mossing. shellfish, civil service, municipal rights and liabilities, legislation, zoning by-laws, statutes, planning, taxation, employment, and funds, the year 1941 was marked by special activity in the field of public aid. At the April term of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth your counsel argued the case of Cohasset v. Scituate determining the Town of Scituate's obligation as to certain welfare aid furnished a mother and children moving from the town to Cohasset. The Full Bench decision was favorable to Scituate so that the town has been saved a large sum of money. The opinion of the Court supported your town counsel's contention that the Cohasset Board of Public Welfare could not continue giving a family ordinary welfare aid if entitled to Aid to Dependent Children benefits, to which the Federal Government contributes one-half and the State department one-third, leaving Cohasset to pay only one-sixth of any such support money. Under ordinary aid law Cohasset looked to Scituate for full reimburse- ment, claiming the case to be one of a family with a Scituate settlement for such aid. i.e. place of last five years' residence.
This Supreme Court decision is far reaching, the interest of the Common- wealth being evidenced by the presence of the State Commissioner of Public Welfare at the argument.
In two other welfare cases your counsel collected $377, including $257 from another town and the balance from the estate of a deceased recipient.
Your counsel participated in the Old Colony-New Haven Railway proceedings resulting in conditional inclusion of the Old Colony Railroad in the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co. reorganization plan. Threatened with discontinuance of our local service, we have retained eight trains daily, four each way, between Greenbush and Boston, besides off-peak hour service from Cohasset.
With improved conditions your counsel believes every person interested in added train service from the Scituate stations to Boston and return should write the Old Colony Railroad, South Station, Boston. Appeals from any and all groups for additional trains will help, too. Very little interest has been shown by the local people up to right now when auto traffic is being curtailed.
Your counsel was, however, encouraged by the Board of Selectmen in his efforts with assurances of monetary compensation. but served throughout the case without fees, the Interstate Commerce Commission refusing allowance of fees to "public interest" representatives, including counsel for the Commuters' League and the Commonwealth who were partially paid by their clients. Your counsel waived such pay as it would have meant an additional appropriation expense to the town. (In fact served without compensation for November and December general legal services.)
Scituate, with one railroad crossing requiring tenders, is deprived of service because of the expense of maintaining tenders at so many crossings in Cohasset, Hingham, Weymouth and Braintree. This maintenance of crossings is more than the passenger traffic can bear. Under present employment conditions, the railroad should install lights as proposed and release the employees for other service to
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SCITUATE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE
save many thousands of dollars. The railroad trustees' failure to make such savings and the Public Utility Department's non-insistence are difficult to under- stand. Instead, we have seen destructive practices such as the removal of our second track to Greenbush (a dubious expense of operation).
Now that both the rail employers and employees have had a raise, they might consider John Q. Public of the South Shore and give him something-at least let him ride through the old home town to the Hingham 9 A.M. train and not make him or Mrs. J. Q. P. come home at sundown. In other words, we should have a through train to Greenbush in the evening after supper. A readjustment of schedule, moreover, should be considered to meet the needs of defense workers at Hanover, Hingham, Quincy and Boston. All who agree with these sentiments are urged to let the Old Colony management know it. Demand train service.
Feb. 2, 1942.
VERNON W. MARR.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICE
During 1941 the Scituate Public Health Nursing Service held eight regular meetings at which there was an average attendance of fourteen members. Two special meetings and one meeting of the executive board were held during the year. Following the resignation of Mrs. John McJennet in April, Mrs. Joost DeHaan, the Vice-President, took the President's chair. Due to the later resig- nation of Mrs. DeHaan, in September, Mrs. William A. Reynolds, the acting Vice-President, assumed the office of President for the remainder of the year.
At the special meeting held in March authorization was given to sell the automobile belonging to the Service which had been purchased at the beginning of the year. This action was taken following notification by town officials that each nurse was to be responsible for her own car. The Service was also notified that there would be two health nurses for the town: Miss Margaret O'Donnell under the direction of the Board of Health and School Department, and Mrs. Alice Dowd as General Health Nurse. At the same meeting Mrs. Chester Harts was appointed chairman of the Thrift Shop Committee.
An office on Front Street has been maintained by the Service as headquarters for the nurses and as an aid to the Board of Health. The Thrift Shop is also located here and has been very successful under the able direction of Mrs. Harts. During the year the office clerk, Miss Helen Chicko, left to enter a training school for nurses and her place was taken by Miss Geraldine Dowd. .
A tonsil clinic was conducted during the summer under the guidance of Miss O'Donnell. Seventy-five dollars was voted by the Service for pre-school dental work. Two fully-equipped medical bags were procured for the nurses and the Service voted to take care of all emergency supplies required for the nurses.
The treasurer's report will acknowledge all the fine gifts to the Service during the past year. The secretary would like particularly to note the generous gift of the Women's Betterment Club. Also appreciated is the assistance of the Motor Corps of the Red Cross which was of great help in transporting patients to hospitals and clinics. Excellent work was done by Mrs. Chester Harts in handling the annual membership drive and by Mrs. Louis Rouleau who headed the Tuber- culosis Seals Sales Committee.
Respectfully submitted,
ESTHER F. GILLESPIE, Treasurer.
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TREE WARDEN'S REPORT
REPORT OF THE TREE WARDEN
To the Citizens of Scituate:
During the past year, we have planted seventy-eight shade trees on our streets.
The Elm Tree Beetle situation is becoming very serious.
The Gypsy and Moth conditions are very bad in Marshfield, Cohasset, and Hingham, the outlook for defoliation this season looking bad in these towns. Because of this, we are kept very busy scouting and spraying to protect our own trees.
The Brown Tail Moth has infested Humarock Beach. But that is the only part of Scituate where that pest has located.
I have tried to keep the corners and intersections, and highways free from brush to provide the best possible vision for motorists and pedestrians.
Respectfully yours, WILLIAM F. FORD, Tree Warden.
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
To the Board of Health, Scituate, Mass .:
I wish to report that I have quarantined all dogs which have bitten people and have attended to all matters relative to cattle, goats and swine.
CHARLES O. CHASE, Inspector of Animals.
REPORT OF THE MILK INSPECTOR
To the Board of Health, Scituate, Mass.
January 20, 1942.
Gentlemen :
I have issued 47 milk licenses, 4 oleomargarine licenses, 1 milk pasteurization.
The last Commercial producer of raw milk in Scituate has gone out of business. Raw milk may still be purchased here but the majority of milk sold here is pasteurized. Samples have been taken and tested and found above Stand- ard.
Respectfully, GEORGE H. OTIS, Milk Inspector.
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REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE
REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE Erection of Fire and Police Station-Humarock Beach
Your Committee selected the site for the Fire and Police Station on town owned property abutting the town parking space off River Street, Humarock Beach. Plans and specifications were drawn and bids invited by advertising in the Scituate Herald. An effort was made to interest local contractors to enter bids, without success.
The contract was let to Walter S. Robbins, contractor of Falmouth, Mass., who submitted the lowest bid. Bids were handled in accordance with Chapter 480 of the Acts of 1939, entitled, "Fair Competition to Bidders" etc. and the contract called for compliance with Chapter 461 Acts of 1935, having to do with the "Minimum Wage Scale."
The supervision of the construction of the building was delegated to Mr. Frank Westerhoff, whose experience as a building contractor and the deep interest he showed in the supervision of the work was of great value to the committee and the town.
The contractor was paid a bonus of $30.00 in accordance with an agreement had with the committee which called for the completion of the building to the satisfaction of the committee on or before July 15, 1941. The completion of the building was accepted as of July 12, hence the three days bonus at $10.00 per day.
The building as completed includes living and sleeping quarters for two firemen, kitchenette, shower bath, toilet, boiler room and apparatus space for the fire department and an office room including first aid facilities for the police. Public convenience stations for men and women are also a part of the building.
The grounds surrounding the building were laid out, filled in, graded and seeded and early in August a well kept lawn was in evidence. Shrubbery was planted and asphalt walks laid out, all of which, in the opinion of your committee, added to the attractiveness of the building.
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