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Surveyors of Highways.
EDWARD TISDALE. DAVIS COPELAND. JOHN L. HAYWARD.
Library Committee.
FRANCIS E. HOWARD. JAMES HOWARD.
MRS. M. K. CROSBY. MRS. HENRY COPELAND.
CHARLES R. PACKARD. MRS. EDWARD TISDALE.
Constables.
LUCIUS DUNBAR. ELI WHEELER. WILLIAM LINEHAN.
Auditors.
HEMAN COPELAND. EDWARD TISDALE.
JAMES HOWARD.
REPORT OF THE ASSESSORS.
VALUATION.
(As assessed May 1, 1881.)
Value of real estate .
$718,886.00
personal property
144,776.00
Total
$863,662.00
ASSESSMENTS.
State tax
$780.00
County tax
1,029.48
Town grant
8,450.00
Overlaying on taxes .
I 36.80
Total tax
$ 10,396.28
.
Rate of tax, $1I per $1,000. Poll tax, $2.00.
Number of polls
448
dwelling-houses taxed,
35I
acres of land
9,804
horses
287
COWS
508
oxen
46
sheep
6
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APPROPRIATIONS.
For support of schools
$3,000.00
school repairs
350.00
repairing highways
2,500.00
support of the poor
1,300.00
town officers
700.00
incidentals
300.00
public lectures
100.00
town farm implements
150.00
repairing old cemeteries
50.00
$8,450.00
TOWN PROPERTY.
Value of town farm .
$4,000.00
personal property
.
.
1,723.60
nine school-houses
11,700.00
town library
2,500.00
HENRY COPELAND,
Selectmen
MOLBRY A. RIPLEY,
and
SAMUEL H. HOWARD,
Assessors.
.
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
INVENTORY OF ALMSHOUSE, FEB. 1, 1882.
2 oxen $155.00
7 COWS
280.00
I horse 40.00
3 hogs 45.00
40.00
I ton of bedding hay
8.00
2 tip carts,
80.00
2 hay carts
32.00
I express wagon
32.00
3 harnesses
35.00
I buffalo
3.00
I pair of wheels
5.00
I sled and drag
6.00
- farming tools and plows
50.00
2 ox yokes
5.00
- mowing machine, rake, and harrow II5.00
- manure
100.00
I M shingles
2.00
25 bushels of corn
19.00
50 bushels of potatoes 50.00
5 bushels of beans
10.00
- other vegetables
3.00
Amount carried forward, .
$1,455.00
72 fowls
12 tons of English hay
240.00
8 tons of meadow hay
100.00
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Amount brought forward, .
· $1,455.00
100 lbs. of salt pork
10 00
50 lbs. of ham
6.00
30 lbs. of lard
4.50
2 bushels of salt
1.00
4 bags of meal
6.00
100 lbs. of shorts
1.25
- soap
1.50
- pickles
60
- eggs
1.00
- coal
5.00
- grass seed
1.00
5 stoves 42.00
I bureau, 15 chairs, 4 tables, 7 bedsteads 44.00
16.00
- crockery ware, etc.
10.00
- stone ware
5.00
- glass ware, lanterns, and lamps
5.00 ·
- knives and forks, spoons 2.00 .
2 churns, butter box, and stamp I2.00
- wooden ware and clothes wringer
10.00
I barrel of flour
8.75
- salt beef, fish, and groceries 10.00
- bedding 60.00
- linens and towels .
6.00
$1,723.60
Inventory for 1881
$1,674.73
- tinware .
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RECEIPTS OF ALMSHOUSE.
E. T. Ellis, as Warden, from February 1, 1881, to April 1, 1881 :
For hay and poultry
$68.25
Fames C. Leighton, as Warden, from April, 1881, to February, 1882 :
Received for milk
sold
280.92
butter
84.10
eggs
.
37.29
poultry
21.29
wood
4.00
hay
94.89
calves
20.40
hay and lumber
66
21.88
labor off farm .
31.75
hogs
.
96.04
lumber
.
5.52
soap grease
.42
two lodgers
.40
oxen
1 60.00
beef cow
23.54
40.00
26.00
half beef cow
15.00
onions
66
5.50
horse let .
.50
old iron
.6c
premium on corn,
1.25
entertaining tramps
11.50
attending with hearse
28.00
Bills due house
40.00
Increase in inventory
48.87
$1,167.91
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EXPENDITURES OF ALMSHOUSE.
E. T. Ellis, as Warden from February to April I, 1881 :
Paid for groceries $21.63
clothing
16.70
care of Ames
10.00
household utensils
16.00
meat and fish
6.60
use of stock 2,50
farming tools and blacksmithing 3.04
F. W. Howard 28.36
Pierce & Packard's bill 47.63
William H. Tobey . 6.25
Shaw & Rice . 5.08
Dean's grain and flour
87.93
James C. Swan
4.00
E. T. Ellis, Warden, salary for two months 41.67
$297.39
February 1, 1881 :
Paid for meat
53.75
fish
9.37
clothing
51.37
blacksmithing
19.75
soap
4.3I
coal
6.75
labor hired on farm
107.14
house and farm utensils
26.51
potatoes .
11.13
salt, lime, and phosphate
6.50
funeral exp's of Willard Ames .
18.50
Shaw & Rice, flour, grain and groceries
472.0I
for oxen
I 30.00
lumber for farm
35.59
grinding and seeds .
9.08
Amount carried forward,
$297.39
·
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Amount brought forward,
$297.39
Paid for use of stock
$4.00
sundries .
2.00
James C. Swan 3.00
M. A. Ripley, for a cow . 45.00
Bradford Copeland, for a cow
47.50
William C. Howard
24.28
F. W. Howard
.
52.87
Cyrus Brown, for a cow
40.00
James C. Swan
3.00
cash drawn from treasury for
Warden's use on farm 176.27
James C. Leighton's salary for ten months
250.00
lumber and findings
4.51
1,614.19
Total expenditures during year $1,911.58
Total receipts during year . 1,167.91 .
Total expense of poor in house
$743.67
Total expense of poor out of house .
681.80
Total expense of poor
$1,425.47
NAMES OF PERSONS SUPPORTED IN ALMSHOUSE DURING THE YEAR 1881.
Galen Howard, age 74
52 weeks.
Michael Ryan, 34
52
Henry Packard, 15 .
52
Fred Packard, "
9
52
Esrom Morse,
8
52
Mary A. Morse,
5 .
52
Emma Morse, I3
40
Chloe Field,
83
28
Albert Staples,
39
23
Willard Ames, 84
I2
Frank Fadden, 25
I
Abbie Fadden, " 63
7
.
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Discharged during the year, 2. Died during the year, I. Average number during the year, 8 7-52. Average cost per week, $1.75 38-47. Number of tramps, 23.
EXPENSE OF POOR OUT OF HOUSE.
Help to Joseph Morse, groceries and physician $116.25
George Poole, funeral expense 22.50
Jacob Talbot at town of Scituate 80.60
Will Dunn at Plymouth and Taunton Lunatic Hospital 55.31
Mrs. Jemima Howard, board
182.00
Mrs. Richardson, care
3.00
Warren Corbet, supplies 4.15
William Durgan, groceries .
16.25
poor children for school-books 14.37
Frank Fadden, Taunton Lunatic Hospital . 15.83
Hervey and Eaton families, at Taunton 206.54
Mrs. Fisher, physician 5.00
Martha Cornwall, physician and supplies
58.79
Total paid
. $780.59
Due from Bridgewater for M. Cornwall $58.79
Received from Milo Howard 40.00
Total receipts · 98.79
Total cost of poor out of house .
$681.80
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ALMSHOUSE.
There are at present eight inmates at the almshouse, which the report shows has been about the average number for the year. The appropriation of $150, voted for farm implements, has been used in the purchase of a mowing-machine, horse- rake, and harrow, at an expense of $122.50, these being very much needed.
Of the expenditures at the almshouse about $100 has been used in laying a new linter floor, etc., and repairing the hen- house.
The management of this institution under the present Warden has kept the farm in good condition, and the inmates have been well cared for, while the farm has afforded a larger profit than for several years.
POOR OUT OF THE HOUSE.
In this department there has been an increase of expense from last year of nearly $150. This is due in part to the care of sick who have needed help and medical aid, and our in- sane at Taunton Lunatic Hospital. Others have been assisted where it has been deemed best that they might in part care for themselves ; and we think aid has been rendered only in such cases as seemed to demand relief.
HENRY COPELAND, MOLBRY A. RIPLEY,
SAMUEL H. HOWARD,
Overseers of the Poor.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
HIGHWAY SURVEYORS' ACCOUNT.
Bills paid by approval of surveyors :
L. A. Flagg
$21.90
Albert Alger
3.00
L. E. Copeland
3.75
Levi Walker
54.60
Abiel Washburn
2.70
J. Q. Hartwell
3.00
Davis Copeland .
672.00
Edward Tisdale
. 1,037.92
H. W. Howard
104.00
D. W. Gardner
19.65
S. D. Bartlett
3.60
O. K. Ness
6.00
Bradford Copeland
80.80
S. G. Copeland
208.65
Thomas Snell
.
40.75
Horace Bartlett .
52.50
Lewis Ryder
16.85
C. Howard
14.32
J. L. Hayward
268.71
Erland Thayer
12.60
Dwelly Forbes
3.75
Clinton P. Howard
4.50
E. E. Miller
. 2.50
Amount carried forward, · · $2,638.05
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Amount brought forward . $2,638.05
Horatio Howard .
161.57
Daniel Donovan .
12.00
J. T. Ryder
.
2.55
Patrick Keenan .
2.00
James C. Swan
19.00
Jonas Leonard
8.55
James Howard
22.75
$2,866.47
STATEMENT.
Appropriation for highways,
1881 . ·
. $2,500.00
Amount expended by surveyors 2,805.72
Overdrawn .
$305.72
As submitted by the surveyors,
EDWARD TISDALE.
DAVIS COPELAND.
JOHN L. HAYWARD.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF THE SCHOOLS.
Receipts.
Appropriation for 1881
. $3,000.00
State school fund .
231.94
Dog fund
.
200.79
East Bridgewater, for tuition,
10.04
$3,442.77
Expenditures.
John J. Rackiffe, salary, Cochesett school $248.00
E. W. Schnerch,
I 10.00
Irene S. Wood,
272.00
Care of house
13.50
Wood, and housing the same
37.50
$681.00
Approved by W. H. Jennings.
Amount carried forward
$681.00
.
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Amount brought forward, .
$681.00
Ralph Barker, salary, Center school
· $580.33
Lavinia Bowen,
· 102.00
Edith Snell,
I50.00
Care of house
8.00
Wood, and housing the same
54.00
894.33
Approved by L. Dunbar.
Abbie A. Frawley, salary, Jerusalem school, $272.00
Care of house
8.00
Wood, and housing the same
17.50
297.50
Approved by W. A. Linehan.
.
M. B. Wyman, salary, North school
$192.00
L. M. Swift,
85.00
Care of house
5.00
Wood, and housing the same
17.50
299.50
Approved by A. Copeland.
P. H. Burr, salary, North Center school $ 102.00
L. M. Toothaker, “
I 70.00
Care of house
5.60
Wood, and housing the same
20.00
297.60
Approved by A. Copeland.
Wealthy A. Holmes, salary, South school $272.00
Mary A. Dewyre,
305.50
Care of house
5.00
Wood, and housing the same
38.00
620.50
Approved by C. P. Howard.
Hattie Alger, salary, East school .
· $108.00
H. E.Wentworth, “
.
·
180.00
Care of house
.
5.00
Wood, and housing the same
33.30
326.30
. Approved by J. E. Ryder.
$3,416.73
.
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STATEMENT.
Paid Beaver school
$110.33 *
salaries of school teachers
3,148.83
care of school-houses .
50.10
fuel, and housing the same
217.80
Cost of schools
$3,527.06
Receipts
. 3,442.77
Overdrawn,
.
· $84.29
SCHOOL REPAIRS.
Abiel Washburn, repairing, etc. .
$I.II
Albert Copeland, school repairing, etc.
28.53
William A. Linehan, repairs
1.85
E. F. Howard, repairs .
27.12
W. J. Howard, lumber and repairing
51.54
George Bent, repairs
7.00
A. R. Beal, school furnishings
93.85
F. W. Howard, repairs
43.28
George Wilbur, repairs 10.50
Clinton P. Howard, school furnishings .
16.80
Lucius Dunbar, furnishings .
28.48
J. E. Carr, stove furnishings .
22.17
J. E. Ryder, school furnishings
7.25
Shaw & Rice, furnishings
8.10
Lucius Dunbar, furnishings ·
15.29
L. E. Hayward, repairs
1.80
Albert Copeland, repairs
2.00
Lucius Dunbar, repairs
6.1I
$372.78
Appropriation
350.00
Overdrawn
$22.78
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OLD CEMETERIES. Expenditures at Jerusalem Cemetery.
· L. E. Hayward, labor on yard
$16.50
A. Conant,
5.00
Patrick Conoly,
.
3.00
E. W. Hayward,
5.00
Friend W. Howard,“
4.37
Clinton P. Howard, lumber
8.00
Oakes S. Soule,
17.31
Josiah Q. Hartwell, .
33.35
$92.53
Appropriation for 1881
$50.00 ·
Received of Wm. C. Howard for lumber, 30.03
80.03
Overdrawn
$12.50
INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT.
George T. Shaw, tolling bell $6.00
Samuel D. Bartlett, tolling bell, &c.
10.25
Daniel Perkins, office rent
18.00
F. E. Howard, town hall rent
75.00
A. T. Jones & Co., printing .
75.00
Ernest W. Thayer
17.40
Luther Richards, gravel
1.70
E. W. Hayward,
10.00
J. L. Hayward,
1.70
Horatio Howard, «
200.00
J. E. Ryder,
8.20
Albert Copeland, work on guide-boards
18.00
George M. Pratt, postage
2.00
Selectmen's traveling expenses
20.00
J. D. Burrell, work around monument . Molbry A. Ripley, work around monument
7.20
Selectmen's stationery and postage
2.50
$477.85
Appropriation for 1881 .
300.00
Overdrawn .
. $177.85
4.90
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STATE AID.
The following named persons have received State and mili- tary aid :
James P. Gallagher
$72.00
Charles T. Morse
54.00
Francis W. Wood
.
72.00
Patrick Dorgan 72.00 .
John A. Freese 46.50
William H. Jennings
54.00
James S. Card
72.00
. Lucius Dunbar 18.00
Bradford Packard
13.50
Mary E. Howard
48.00
Mary E. Kingman
48.00
Salome Stetson 48.00 .
Lucinda S. Lothrop
48.00
Hannah R. Stanley
48.00
Julia A. Sargent
I2.00
Harriet S. Bouldry
48.00
Mary J. Reeves
48.00
Amelia Gilmore
.
40.00
$862.00
MILITARY AID, CHAPTER 252.
Timothy W. Fisher
$48.00
Jacob Talbot
10.00
58.00
Due from the State, January 1, 1882 . ·
. $920.00
.
.
.
.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
Samuel H. Howard, selectman, assessor, etc.
$63.00
J. Q. Hartwell,
80.75
Henry Copeland,
.
175.00
Molbry A. Ripley, 66
45.00
James Howard, town clerk .
41.20
George M. Pratt, town treasurer
I 50.00
Lucius Dunbar, school committee
9.80
Albert Copeland, 66
14.00
William H. Jennings “
9.75
Clinton P. Howard
90
William A. Linehan, «
3.75
Lucius Dunbar, constable
II.OO
Eli Wheeler, .
11.50
Charles E. Simmons " .
3.00
$618.65
.
.
Appropriation
$700.00 Unexpended balance, February 1, 1881 . $81.35
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TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.
Receipts.
Balance in treasury, February I, 1881
$2,010.15
·
Mark Dunbar, to note .
500.00
Francis Dunbar, to note
400.00
Daniel Perkins, to note
100.00
Francis E. Howard, to note .
500.00
Francis Dunbar, to note
600.00
Amasa Howard, to note
200.00
Francis Dunbar, to note
1,200.00
Received from Bridgewater
17.00
James Howard, part of library fund
300.00
Balance of monument fund .
92.79
Bank and corporation tax
651.85
Assessment of taxes from assessors
10,413.49
Bank tax
965.66
State aid
817.50
Relief for soldiers and sailors
48.00
Income from State school fund
231.94
Interest on taxes for 1880
I21.81
Dog fund
200.79
Received for Mrs. Jemima Howard
40.00
Adjustment of bank tax
7.76
$19,418.74
Expenditures.
State tax
$780.00
County tax
1,029.48
Francis Dunbar's note and interest
2,249.47
F. E. Howard note and interest
516.33
Daniel Perkins note and interest .
104.50
Amasa Howard note and interest
208.00
M. Dunbar note and interest
527.50
Discount on tax for 1881
624.81
Amount carried forward,
. $6,040.09
.
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Amount brought forward, .
$6,040.09
Support of schools
3,527.06
School repairs
377.78
Highways
2,866.47
Town farm
987.81
Poor out of house
780.59
Lectures
100.00
Old cemeteries
62.50
State aid
862.00
Military aid
48.00
Incidentals
477.85
Town officers
618.65
Abatement of taxes
·86.99
Due from Bridgewater .
58.79
Balance in treasury February 1, 1882
2,524.16
$ 19,418.74
GEORGE M. PRATT, Treasurer.
CONDITION OF TREASURY.
$ 1,024.16
Uncollected taxes .
1,500.00
$2,524.16
Due from State for State aid furnished
862.00
military aid furnished
58.00
Bridgewater .
58.79
$3,502.95
Due library fund .
312.50
In favor of treasury .
$3,190.45
Cash on hand
There is also in the hands of the treasurer, belonging to the library fund, the East Bridgewater Savings Bank book of about $740.00.
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AUDITORS' REPORT.
We, the undersigned, have examined the accounts of the treasurer of West Bridgewater for the year ending February I, 1882, and have found them properly cast and vouched for.
HEMAN COPELAND, JAMES HOWARD, Auditors.
EDWARD TISDALE,
LIST OF JURORS FOR 1882.
(As prepared by the Selectmen.)
Cyrus Alger. Edward W. Hayward.
George M. Pratt.
Herbert Alger.
Linus E. Hayward.
Japhet Packard.
Horace Bartlett.
Jonas G. Hartwell.
Sylvester Rice.
Charles W. Bacon.
James Howard.
George D. Ryder.
Dennis Callahan.
Charles T. Howard.
Justin W. Richards.
Davis Copeland.
Benjamin B. Howard.
Erland Thayer.
Henry Copeland.
Henry S. Keith.
Henry N. Thayer.
Lucius Dunbar.
William A. Linehan.
Frank S. Tisdale.
Curtis Eddy.
John A. Millett.
GUIDE BOARDS.
The Selectmen recommend that guide boards be main- tained at the following places :
Joshua T. Ryder's.
Molbry Ripley's.
Justin W. Richards's.
James Alger's furnace.
Joseph Kingman's.
Cyrus P. Brown's.
Lewis Ryder's. Pine Hill cemetery.
Joseph Alger's.
Barnabas Dunbar's.
Charles Howard's.
Stillman W. Hersey's.
West of almshouse.
Dwelley Forbes's.
Edmund Gerry's.
Benjamin Howard's.
Pardon Copeland's.
George Wilber's.
North Center school-house.
John B. Holmes's.
Heman Copeland's. Nahum Leonard's.
G. R. Drake's store.
Center post-office.
Gardner's corner.
J. Q. Hartwell's. John Walker's (2).
Waldo Howard's.
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We recommend the town to appropriate :
For support of the poor $1,300.00
support of schools
3,000.00
school repairs and school incidentals 400.00
highways 2,500.00
town officers .
700.00
town incidentals
500.00
public lectures
100.00
repairing old cemeteries
50.00
memorial services
50.00
The next annual town meeting will be held on Monday, the 6th day of March next, at I o'clock, P. M., 1882.
HENRY COPELAND,
MOLBRY A. RIPLEY, Selectmen. SAMUEL H. HOWARD,
WEST BRIDGEWATER, February 1, 1882.
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
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Marriages Recorded in West Bridgewater in 1881.
April 4. Frank H. Williams, of West Bridgewater, and Hat- tie F. Allen, of Easton.
April 15. Horatio S. Shaw and Olive B. Allen, both of West Bridgewater.
April 23. George C. Beals, of West Bridgewater, and Fanny Holmes, of Bridgewater.
April 24. James S. Manchester and Eunice M. Folsom, both of West Bridgewater.
May 25. Edwin L. Wilds, of West Bridgewater, and Lizzie Swift, of Plymouth.
June 9. J. Nelson Harris, of New York, and Alice A. Tis- dale, of West Bridgewater.
Nov. 24. Wilton Copeland, of West Bridgewater, and Lucy A. Field, of East Bridgewater.
Nov. 19. John Reed, of East Bridgewater, and Lydia C. Richards, of West Bridgewater.
Nov. 24. Theodore F. Wentworth, of Bridgewater, and Dora York, of Cambridgeport.
Nov. 29. Waldo Howard and Harriet E. Howard, both of West Bridgewater.
Dec. 22. Walter S. Edson, of Brockton, and F. Antoinette Howard, of West Bridgewater.
Births Recorded in the Town of West Bridgewater in 1881.
DATE OF BIRTH.
NAME OF CHILD.
SEX.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
1881.
Ella Gertrude Miller
Female
Elbridge E. and Sarah E. Miller.
January
IO
John Hayes .
.
.
Female
.
Albert and Delia Hutchinson.
March
12
Jessie B. Hutchinson
.
·
.
Timothy and Mary Ann Mullen.
17
Mary Mullen .
Nathan A. Alger
.
Female
Philip and Margaret Kent.
April
7
.6
28
Alice Gertrude Howard
Horace W. and Ann A. Howard.
May
12
Anna Eveline Hennessey John Galvin
Male
Michael and Anna Galvin.
June
I
Michael J. Loaby .
.
Herbert A. and Affie G. Millett.
July
22
Frank Holly Millett
.
Lorenzo A. and Mary S. Tower.
September
14
Thomas Carroll .
Robert and Elizabeth Carroll. Elijah and Lydia F. Baxter.
October
3
Lewis Orin Alger .
Male
Edmund L. and Sarah C. Alger.
12
Alton Eugene Alger
.
·
Eugene F. and Lucy P. Alger.
I 5
Julia Gorman
.
.
Male
.
Patrick and Margaret O'Conner.
November
6
Charles Frank Turner .
·
.
.
Jonas G. and Ellen A. Hartwell.
24
- - Sylvia .
.
.
.
Parents are Portuguese,-cannot speak our language. Charles T. and Helen I. Howard.
December I
Harry T. Howard
Male
.
.
.
.
.
.
Male
.
Fred and L. Adelaide Wilder.
February
19
Essie Rebecca Wilder
.
.
Male
Nathan J. and Sophronia A: Alger.
18
23
Mary Kent .
Helen Hathaway Gardner
James W. and Maria H. Hennessey.
17
David and Margaret Loabv.
26
Walter Sheldon Tower .
.
Female
Philip and Mary Sullivan.
7
Female
William and Hannah Gorman. Ellis R. and Eudora Holbrook. .
19
James Rinaldo Holbrook Arthur O'Conner .
·
.
-
Luther C. and Emma F. Turner.
20
Lizzie G. Hartwell
Female
·
20
John and Ellen Hayes.
.
.
Daniel W. and Marietta F. Gardner.
24
26
Minnie Gertrude Baxter Ellen Sullivan
.
21
Deaths Registered in the Town of West Bridgewater in 1881.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Age.
Place of Birth.
Disease.
Name of Parents.
1881.
Y.
M.
D.
Feb.
5
6
Julia M. Bryant
43
6
20
Mansfield
IO
Hiram Grover
81
7
13
George W. Johnson
65
IO
18
West Bridgewater Bridgewater
Pneumonia Anæmia
Mar. 5
Mary R. Edson
72
I
19
Portsmouth, N. H.
Old age
31
Eliza Sweetlove
74
I
9
Apr. 10
Fred Hartwell
32
6
18
West Bridgewater Ireland
Pulmonary phthisis Capillary bronchitis
19
Luther Richards
82
5
22
West Bridgewater
56
25
Willard Ames
83
West Bridgewater Albany, N. Y.
May
I
Melvin O. Perkins
79
5
5
Diphtheria
20
Ralph 1 .. Williams
4
7
7
West Bridgewater
12
Lizzie E. Holmes
16
4
19
Josiah and Susannah Talbot.
July 7
78
II
II
Apoplexy Asphyxia
Michael and Anna Galvin.
4 18
2
IO
West Bridgewater Falmouth
Pulmonary consumption
Aug. 8 0.0
33
8
3
North Bridgewater
I3
Austin Packard
80
6
29
West Bridgewater
13
Julia Kingman
66
IO
9
West Bridgewater Middleboro'
Abial and Abigail Washburn.
Sept. 2
18
7
West Bridgewater
5
George Poole
64
II
26
West Bridgewater
Oct. 10
Etta L. Wilder
7
I
15
24
Sewell Mitchell
4
28 West Bridgewater
Membraneous croup
29
Anna Keith White
78
8
West Bridgewater 3
Paralysis
James F. and Harriet H. Rumrill. Jonathan and Mehitabel Kingman. John and Susan Poole. Frederic and L. Adelaide Wilder. Henry G. and Eudora Mitchell. Salmon and Anna S. Howard.
25
June 4
Michael J. Loaby
3
West Bridgewater Sharon
2
West Bridgewater
Cerebro-spinal meningitis
Age and debility
Ansel and Mary Alger. Thomas and Joanna Packard. Ira and Sarah Hayward. Elbridge E. and Sarah E. Miller.
Ella G. Miller Olive Washburn Elsena Rumrill
83
3
20
IO Boston
Melzer Kingman
69
9
West Bridgewater
Peritonitis
Dennis and Ellen Buttomer. Isaac and Abigail Edgecomb. Lemuel and Sally Grover. Thomas and Hannah Johnson. William and Sally R. Edson.
James and Ruth Coffin. Josiah Q. and Hannah O. Hartwell.
Seth and Matilda Richards. Jonathan and Patience Ames.
Peter and Mary Gainer.
Mary Frawley
38
West Bridgewater
Old age Consumption Phthisis
Nathaniel and Hannah Perkins.
5
West Bridgewater
Anæmia
Chas. E. and Martha M. Williams. David and Margaret Loaby. John A. and Elizabeth S. Holmes.
500 00
Nancy F. Howard John Galvin Mabel H. Wilder Mary H. Dunbar
Frederic and L. Adelaide Wilder.
16
7
6
Paralysis Congestion of lungs
21
David Whalen
49
Enlargement of heart
25
John Buttomer
58
Ireland
Bath, Maine
Peritonitis Acute laryngitis Old age
Age and debility Bright's disease Fracture of skull bone Dissipation
Consumption
Deaths Registered in the Town of West Bridgewater in 1881 .- Continued.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Age.
Place of Birth.
Disease.
Name of Parents.
1881.
Y.
M.
D.
Nov. II
Betsey H. Copeland
78
IO
13
North Bridgewater West Bridgewater Ireland
Apoplexy Phthisis
Dec.
2
Daniel McCarty
15
8
7I
IO
28
5
Lizzie L. Turner
2
I
24
Brockton
6
Elizabeth P. Ripley
52
6
4
Yarmouth
8
Justin M. Swan
27
4
23
West Bridgewater
John Crowley
38
4
8
Ireland
Owen D. Perkins
77
7
27
Hallowell, Me. Portugal
28
- Sylvia
20
Strangulated hernia Laryngitis Tumor and blood poison Laryngeal consumption Accidental drowning Pneumonia Pyæmia
Luke and Mary Perkins. Michael and Elizabeth McCarty. Dennis and Ellen Buttomer. Charles J. and Fanny J. Turner. James and Mercy Taylor. James C. and Harriet A. Swan. Charles and Julia Crowley. Nathaniel and Hannah Perkins. Not ascertained.
JAMES HOWARD, Town Clerk.
26
4
Andrew Buttomer
.
.
23
27
REPORT OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
In presenting the annual report on the public library, the directors have the pleasure of acknowledging a donation from John S. Martin, Esq., to the library, of 207 volumes, consisting of different classes of books which are useful and interesting in a library ; it is therefore a valuable acquisition.
There has been added by purchase also during the year ending January 3Ist, 177 volumes. The total number of books in the library is now 1,447.
The weekly distribution of books from the library during the year has averaged about 144 volumes.
On account of the inconvenient size of the room which was first rented and prepared for the use of the library, it was found necessary to make some change; and while the direct- ors were prospecting for a more commodious situation, the trustees of the Howard School building offered to them a room in that building for the use of the library, which was accepted as being the most suitable, under existing circumstances, of any situation which was available. The cost of furnishing said room with necessary shelving, furniture, stove and fix- tures for heating, and preparing the entrance thereto, and the lamps and fixtures for lighting both room and entry way, was $103.59. The library was moved into said room and the first issue of books made therefrom November 12th, 1881.
The following statistics will exhibit its financial condition January 3Ist, 1882 :
Balance in the treasury, January 3Ist, 1881 . Received on the original subscriptions
$256.87
2.00
for fines, sale of catalogues, etc.
29.80
of J. Howard, interest on a note
7.50
Amount carried forward .
$296.17
28
Amount brought forward
$296.17
Received of C. Leonard, note and interest
54.50
Drawn from the Copeland bequest to balance acct.
42.55
Total receipts during the year
$420.97
Expended for fitting up the present location of the
library
$103.59
66
" librarian's salary (53 weeks)
79.50
extra time
5.93
books
183.61
binding books .
11.90
66
" printing .
II.OO
" record book
3.00
covering paper
3.25
express on books, etc.
1.25
" fuel and preparing the same
4.50
one year's rent on old room
9.00
" sundry items for the room during the year
4.44
Total expenditures during the year
$420.97
When the town voted to accept the library, in March, 1879, with the conditions upon which it was offered, it also voted to make an annual appropriation for its support. Last year the town failed to make such an appropriation.
The library appears to be doing a good and useful work ; but it necessarily costs from $200 to $300 annually to sus- tain it in a prosperous condition, and without this support it must inevitably fail in its useful work. The directors, feeling that it is an obligation devolving upon the town and also a wise use of the means, therefore recommend that the town make such appropriation for the public library.
Respectfully submitted,
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