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140 00
$1,622 25
Uncollected,
$ 21 00
Construction.
Due by last report,
$25 82
Paid Treasurer,
$25 82
QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1917.
Water Rates.
Commitment,
$3,460 20
Subsequent Commitment,
5 25
Total,
$3,465 45
Paid Treasurer,
$3,264 04
Abatements,
144 40
3,408 44
Uncollected, $ 57 01
97
Construction.
Commitment, Paid Treasurer,
$81 72
Abatements,
21 58
$103 33
QUARTER ENDING JUNE 30, 1917.
Water Rates.
Commitment,
$3,321 07
Paid Treasurer,
$3,202 95
Abatements,
51 62
3,254 57
Uncollected,
$ 66 50
.
Construction.
Commitment,
$49 56
Paid Treasurer,
$38 71
Abatements,
3 50
42 21
Uncollected,
$ 7 35
QUARTER ENDING SEPT. 30, 1917.
Water Rates.
Commitment,
Paid Treasurer,
$2,902 05
Abatements,
10 50
2,912 55
$103 30
$3,222 30
Uncollected, $309 75
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Construction.
$92 47
Commitment, Paid Treasurer,
52 27
Uncollected,
$40 20
QUARTER ENDING DEC. 31, 1917.
Commitment,
$3,222 95
Paid Treasurer,
$1,636 82
Abatements,
13 13
1,649 95
Uncollected,
$1,573 00
Construction.
Commitment,
$206 00
Paid Treasurer,
$74 88
Abatements,
2 50
77 38
Uncollected,
$128 62
FRANK L. HOWARD,
Collector.
Report of Treasurer of Water Department.
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SINKING FUNDS.
RECEIPTS.
Jan. 1st, 1917, balance,
$4,095 77
Water for Quarter ending June 30, 1916,
199 75
Water for Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1916,
399 50
Water for Quarter ending Dec. 31, 1916,
1,487 50
Water for Quarter ending Mar. 31, 1917,
3,264 04
Water for Quarter ending June 30, 1917,
3,202 95
Water for Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1917,
2,902 05
Water for Quarter ending Dec. 31, 1917,
1,636 82
Transfers,
4,000 00
Interest on deposits,
20 34
Shutting off Water,
7 00
Refund,
17 25
Lewis G. Lowe & Son, insurance,
7 97
$21,180 94
PAYMENTS.
Paid Bonds,
$4,460 00
Interest on Bonds,
4,403 30
100
2,528 61
City of Brockton, for water, Transfers.
4,000 00
E. H. Lothrop, pay rolls,
606 67
E. H. Lothrop, personal,
240 40
E. H. Lothrop, cash expense,
3 93
Arthur C. Peckham,
14 00
Allan Bros.,
3 05
Arthur H. Willis,
41 50
Wm. E. Gibson,
40 14
J. Wallace Eagan,
50 50
Union Water Co.,
23 40
Clinton P. Howard,
1 50
Frank L. Howard,
1 50
E. M. Gambao,
2 00
Frank P. Hatch,
12 95
Lewis G. Lowe & Son,
79 75
L. Richmond & Co.,
7 19
N. E. Telephone Co.,
13 70
Geo. S. Drake,
1 01
Dec. 31, 1917, Balance,
4,645 84
$21,180 94
CONSTRUCTION.
RECEIPTS.
Jan. 1, 1917, Balance, $500 95
Quarter ending June 30, 1916,
2 00
Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1916,
39 09
Quarter ending Dec. 31, 1916,
25 82
Quarter ending Mar. 31, 1917,
81 72
Quarter ending June 30, 1917,
38 71
Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1917, 52 27
Quarter ending Dec. 31, 1917,
74 88
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Harold O. Packard,
3 25
School Dept., North school,
6 92
Arthur Bendenelli,
6 10
Samuel B. Hetherington,
1 75
Joseph Benson,
2 00
Turning off water,
5 00
Howard Wilbur,
18 18
Transfers,
2,500 00
Interest on deposits,
26 34
$3,384 98
PAYMENTS.
Paid Transfers,
$500 00
Frank P. Hatch,
12 30
Keystone Job Print,
9 50
Wm. E. Gibson,
22 00
Wm. L. Woodworth,
1 56
Fred A. Houdlette & Son,
30 16
N. Y., N. H. & H. Ry.
77
Corcoran Supply Co.,
419 35
F. H. White & Co.,
10 00
C. F. Dahlborg & Sons,
26
National Meter Co.,
1 25
J. Wallace Eagan,
3 85
T. S. Powers,
1 65
J. E. Holland Co.,
45
H. Mueller Mfg. Co.,
1 48
O. C. Foundry Co.,
27 00
T. Prescott Snell,
3 50
Adams Express Co.,
41
Geo. S. Drake,
14 63
Albert Manley,
1 50
102
City of Brockton, E. B. & C. L. Hayward,
10 60
279 16
Joseph C. Howard,
1 00
N. E. Telephone Co.,
9 64
E. H. Lothrop, pay rolls,
640 10
E. H. Lothrop, salary,
524 29
Orvis F. Kinney,
285 00
Hervey Dunham,
50 00
Dec. 31, 1917, balance, 523 57
$3,384 98
Outstanding Water Bonds as per last report,
$105,600 00
Paid during the year, 4,460 00
$101,140 00
Permanent Sinking Funds in Savings Banks.
East Bridgewater Savings Bank, $12,353 94
Brockton Savings Bank, 2,486 92
$14,839 82
East Bridgewater Savings Bank, Construction,
$3,182 00
FRANK L. HOWARD, Treasurer.
Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Trustees of Public Library For the year ending Dec. 31, 1917.
TRUSTEES.
Helen H. Foye,
Term expires 1918.
Rev. L. B. Codding,
Term expires 1918.
Martha B. Mason,
Term expires 1919.
Harold S. Lyon,
Term expires 1919.
Edith F. Howard,
Term expires 1920.
Daniel J. Lothrop,
Term expires 1920.
HONORARY TRUSTEE. Elizabeth Kingman.
ORGANIZATION.
Chairman, Secretary,
Treasurer,
Daniel J. Lothrop. Edith F. Howard. Martha B. Mason.
BOOK COMMITTEE.
Helen H. Foye, Martha B. Mason,
Edith F. Howard, Daniel J. Lothrop.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICER. Daniel J. Lothrop.
The Trustees are pleased to report that in spite of the unsettled conditions of the past year there has been a decided increase in the circulation of books and magazines. This fact seems to show that though sorrow and anxiety have entered nearly every home in this town, our people still keep their interest, and do not lose their faith and courage.
The Library Association has tried in a quiet way to help the boys who have responded to their country's call. Forty- five books have been sent to the soldiers at Camp Devens.
Through the efforts of Miss Mason many persons were invited to make picture scrap-books for the soldiers in the hospitals. About fifty have been sent to the Boston Library. From there they are sent to France or wherever there is a call for them.
In September a campaign was started for raising a fund to establish libraries for the soldiers and sailors. The amount asked of this town was $140.00, -five per cent. of the popula- tion. A thorough canvass was made and $117.12 was re- ceived.
The death of L. A. Tower may well be regarded as an irreparable loss to the library as well as to the community. For nine years he served the Association as Treasurer. His careful attention to details, and the prompt exactitude with which he administered his office, won for him the confidence and respect of all. He was a man of decided opinions, and one who had no patience with shams. His advice, always to the point, and overflowing with common-sense, will be greatly missed by his co-workers.
EDITH F. HOWARD, Secretary, For the Board of Trustees.
Report of Treasurer
of the
Trustees of Public Library.
ENDOWMENTS.
In 1880 Nathan Copeland gave the West Bridgewater Public Library $1,000.00, all of which was expended in organizing the Library. In 1916 the trustees voted to draw the accumulated interest on the Cornelia Alger Fund to replace in part the Nathan Copeland Fund. So in January, 1917, $352.17 was drawn from the Cornelia Alger Fund and deposited in the name of the Nathan Copeland Fund, thus reinstating Mr. Copeland on the list of benefactors to the Library.
January, 1917, the endowments were:
Cornelia Alger Fund,
$675 00
Francis E. Howard Fund,
520 20
Mary N. H. Edgerley Fund,
539 02
Nathan Copeland Fund,
352 17
$2,086 39
FUNDS FOR 1917.
Balance,
$45 65
Dog Tax,
493 08
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Appropriation from Town, 200 00
Interest from F. E. Howard Endow., 20 20
$758 93
EXPENSES FOR 1917.
Paid Librarian H. E. Cary, $175 01
M. B. Jewell, assistant librarian, 80 82
S. B. Hetherington, janitor, 60 00
S. B. Hetherington, repairs,
1 35
Edison Electric Ill. Co., 11 06
G. S. Drake, coal,
46 13
C. P. Howard, 1 cord wood, 8 00
Plymouth Co. Trust Co., deposit box,
2 00
C. E. Lauriat Co., 143 39
E. A. Merriam,
20 70
A. M. Thompson, magazines,
64 60
F. H. Redman,
5 10
James Edgar Co.,
5 36
Library Bureau,
22 07
Loring & Howard,
10 69
Lewis G. Lowe & Son,
49 60
N. Michelson & Co.,
21 00
Fraser Dry Goods Co.,
12 50
A. H. Hauser,
1 85
Boylston Pub. Co.,
.75
N. S. Hoagland, fire exting.,
10 00
Porter Sargent,
2 25
Bernard Saxton, ledger,
75
Type writing and postage,
59
Express and postage,
2 56
$758 13
Balance,
80
$758 93
MARTHA B. MASON, Treasurer.
Librarian's Report.
The past year has been a busy one. Owing to the added calls for work of many of our readers had looked for a de- crease in circulation, but find a decided increase in all classes.
The Elm Street branch has also a good circulation. The reading room is still much used by the pupils of the grammar grades on Wednesday. Have received as a gift one year's subscription to Every Child's Magazine which is much appre- ciated by the children. We note with pleasure the increase in books taken for school use, one hundred and ninety-four being used.
Following is circulation for the year and books added:
Adult Fiction,
5,383
Adult Non-Fiction,
661
Juvenile Fiction,
3,331
Juvenile Non-Fiction,
562
Magazines (bound),
412
Reference,
184
10,533
Magazines,
2,013
Total,
12,546
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BOOKS ADDED DURING THE YEAR.
ADULT FICTION.
A Cathedral Singer,
The Eternal Feminine,
Charge It,
The Light in the Clearing,
Mistress Anne,
The Lookout Man,
Mrs. Hope's Husband,
The White People,
Dominie Dean,
Search of Basil Lyndhurst, (replace) Bambi,
Cinderella Jane,
The Seventh Christmas,
Where Your Treasure Is,
Skinner's Baby,
Skinner's Dress Suit,
The Bird House Man,
The Definite Object,
Fanny Herself,
They of the High Trails,
Wildfire,
Abner Daniel,
The Georgians,
Helen,
The Wanderers,
The Passing of The Third Floor Back, High Heart,
Extricating Obediah,
Mary 'Gusta,
Simon The Jester,
Dawn of the Morning,
Allen Andrews Bacheller Bacheller
Baily Bower Burgess Burnett
Butler
Carey
Cook Cook Dawson Day Dodge Dodge Eaton Farnol Ferber Garland Grey Harben Harben Hardy Johnson Jerome King Lincoln Lincoln Locke Lutz
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Finding of Jasper Holt, Voice in The Wilderness, The Witness, Green Fancy,
Ladies Must Live,
The Reversible Santa Claus,
The Last Shot,
The Road to Understanding,
The Brown Study,
Red Pepper's Patients,
The Whistling Mother.
The Far Cry,
Miss Million's Maid,
Herself, Himself, Myself,
This Way to Christmas,
The Worn Doorstep,
Sawyer Sherwood Snaith
The Sailor, The Road to Ambition,
Sterne **
The Preacher of Cedar Mountain,
Thompson- Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days, (copy 2)
From the Earth to the Moon and a Journey Around it, Verne
A Journey to the Center of the Earth, (copy 2)
Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, (copy 2)
Verne
Mr. Brittling Sees it Through,
Wells
The Wishing Ring Man,
Widdener
Jaunty in Charge, Wemys
Also a full set of R. L. Stephenson's works.
ADULT NON-FICTION.
Universal Book of Knowledge and Wonders, 030 R
Nicknames and Pseudonyms, The Hilltop on the Marne, New Civics,
030 R
940 A Aldrich
353 A Ashley
Lutz Lutz Lutz Mccutcheon Miller Nicholson Palmer Porter Richmond- Richmond Richmond Rideout Ruck Sawyer
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Boston, A Guide Book, Pruning Book, Stars and Stripes, Ambulance, No. 10,
974-4 B Bacon 634 B Baily Brown 940 B Bushwell 973 E
Epoch Making Events of American History,
Laugh and Live, How to Grow Vegetables,
A Son of the Middle Border,
Classic Myths of English Literature and Art,
My Four Years in Germany,
Hawaii Scenes and Impressions,
World Corporation,
Making of a Newspaper,
Across the Continent by the Lincoln High-
104 F Fairbanks 635 F French 921 G Garland 291 G Gailey 943 G Gerard 910 G Gerould 380 G Gilette 070 G Given
Adventure of Life, Handbook of New England,
A Student in Arms, Getting Together,
Land of the Prophets,
Manual of Fruit Diseases,
Historic Places of Old New England,
My Home in the Field of Honor,
The Jews in the Eastern War Zone, New Stock Exchange and Public Opinion, War Taxation, Art and the People,
Straight America, Corn Meal and its Uses,
Economical Uses of Meat in the Home, Government of American Cities,
Heroines of Service,
Lighthouses and Lightships of the United
way, 973-1 G Gladding 824 G Grenfell 974 H
941 H Hankey 327 H Hay 956 H Heusser 634 H Hesler & W
974-4 H 940 H Huard 940 J 332 K Kahn 320 K Kahn 704 K Kahn 172 K Kellor 641 L Langworthy 641 L Langworthy 332 M Munro 920 P Parkman
States, 359 P Putman
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JUVENILE FICTION.
Roger Paulding, Gunner, (replace)
In Camp with the Muscoday Camp-Fire Girls, Alma's Senior Year,
Ranny,
Understood Betsy,
Children's Book of Patriotic Stories,
Boy Patrol Around the Council Fire,
Ellis
Boy Patrol On Guard,
Ellis
Flying Boys in the Sky,
Ellis
Flying Boys to the Rescue,
Ellis
Launch Boys Adventures in Northern Waters,
Ellis
Launch Boys Cruise in the Deerfoot,
Ellis
The Girl Next Door,
Emerson
Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall,
Emerson
Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp,
Emerson
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill,
Emerson
The Flag,
Green
Poor Little Rich Girl,
Gates
Little Polly Prentiss,
Gould
Katrinka,. (Story of a Russian child)
Haskell
Blackbeard's Island, 1
Holland
. Don Strong of the Wolf Patrol,
Heyliger
A Boy's Town,
Howells
Pretty Polly Perkins,
Jackson
Camp Jolly,
Little
Emmy Lou's Road to Grace,
Martin
Mother Goose and Favorite Fairy Tales.
Cruise of the Deep Sea Scouts,
Parker
Boy Scouts' Badge of Honor,
Payson
Boy Scouts' Campaign of Preparedness,
Payson
Boy Scouts' Under Sealed Orders,
Payson
Morning Face,
Porter
Story of the Little Angels,
Porter
Beach Blanchard Breitenbach Brubaker Canfield Dickinson
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Indian Tales for Little Folks, With Sam Houston in Texas, .
Phillips Sabin
JUVENILE NON-FICTION.
Bird Life, (replace)
Inventing for Boys,
Grizzely King, Forest Friends,
Easy Steps in Gardening,
Easy Steps in Housekeeping,
Mary Francis' First Aid Book,
You are the Hope of the World,
Boys' Book of Warships,
Story Life of Lincoln,
Story Life of Washington,
Universal Standard Speaker,
y595 C Chapman y621 C Collins y599 C Curwood y599 D Dixon y635 F Fryer y640 F Fryer y649 F Fryer y172 H Hagedon y690 S Stevens y921 L Whipple y921 W Whipple y808 U
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State Guard Company.
By direction of the Selectmen the following statement is embodied in the Annual Report of the Town of West Bridge- water.
FREDERIC E. FOYE, Captain Commanding.
In order that the voters of this town may know the reason for the expenditures of the fund appropriated for the use of the local Committe of Public Safety the following statement is issued:
The present State Guard was created under Chapter 148 of the Acts of 1917, and the Governor, through the Massa- chusetts Committee of Public Safety, requested through the local committees, that companies be organized in the cities and towns of the Commonwealth.
On May 14th, 1917, the local company was inspected with 65 men present. On May 16th it was accepted by the State Guard Board as Company 23. On June 25th the Company was mustered with 51 men and 3 officers, 24 men who were present at inspection failed to appear for various reasons. The Company was then recruited to 65 men which was the minimum strength.
The State Guard Board, however, would only allow equipment for 60 men on account of lack of money. It must be remembered that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts fully equipped her National Guard in everything that was
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lacking before turning it over to the National Government. Experience gained during the Spanish war, and the many pitiful and heart-rending scenes which I have witnessed since, as a member of the veteran organization which came out of that war, where young men in the strength of their manhood went out in full faith to serve this government, and who through lack of about everything that made an efficient army returned home broken in health and dying by inches before their alloted time, made me resolve that if the time ever came that the command of a company fell to my lot that everything possible would be done for the care and com- fort of the men.
In order to have an efficient company it must be properly armed, properly equipped, properly fed, and properly instruc- ted, and it was for those reasons that an appropriation was asked of the town, there being no funds available in the hands of the local Committee of Public Safety.
The first expenditures were for gun racks and insurance on the state property. In order to further equip the officers and men it was necessary to purchase six Colt 45 cal. auto- matic pistols, and several uniforms and books of instruction. During the Civil and Spanish wars thousands of men found themselves on the line of battle who had never fired a rifle. That this would not happen if this company was called to duty, and for self protection as well, the rifle range was built and one thousand rounds of ammunition purchased. Through the courtesy of Mr. Prescott Snell the use of his land was offered gratis. Through the courtesy of Fire Chief Warren F. Laughton the planks from the horse stalls, doors, and mis- cellaneous pieces of lumber from the old stable was obtained so that the actual expense of the range was very little, as the labor, with the exception of one day, was volunteered by members of the company.
As the men had no suitable shoes, after looking over several makes, sixty-five pairs of viscolized winter shoes
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made on the U. S. Army last were purchased of the Brockton Co-operative Shoe Co. at $4.85 a pair, and they are superior to the regulation army shoe for our use.
About this time the Regimental Commander obtained an option on eight hundred trench coats, which were an overlay of an order for the Allies, and the Company Commanders of this regiment were urged to purchase these coats for their men.
The subject was talked over with the Selectmen and it was concluded that the company had used its share of the fund. The Regimental Commander was so notified. On two occasions attempts to raise money by subscription had failed, the excuse being in many cases that the money be taken from the sum appropriated by the town. At a subsequent meeting of the local Committee of Public Safety conditions were ex- plained and it was pointed out that it would be a hardship and the cause of sickness to send the men of this company to duty with nothing but a summer uniform. A motion was then made to the effect, "That it was the sense of local Committee of Public Safety that the Selectmen of this town be notified that the State Guard Company be allowed to expend the balance of the fund if necessary." This motion was passed without a dissenting vote, and sixty-seven over- coats were purchased at $7.50 each.
These coats paid for themselves on Oct. 5, 1917, when the company was ordered as escort to the Governor at the Brockton Fair, there being one of the worst storms of the season on that day. At the regimental drill on Oct. 21st; overcoats and rations for the men were sent by auto to Quincy and this was the only company in the regiment which fed its men and the overcoats were issued to the men at the end of the drill when they were needed on account of the cold. In order to further protect the men sixty-seven half-shelter ponchos were purchased at $3.50 each, as these are absolutely needed for service.
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It costs about $5,000 to fully equip a company and the state furnished about $1,100 worth of property. The com- pany has expended about $600 of its own funds, raised by themselves, for further equipment and expenses. In a num- ber of cities and towns the whole of the equipment of the companies was furnished either by appropriation or by the local Committee of Public Safety. West Bridgewater was the first in the state to my knowledge to appropriate money for this purpose.
It has been a tremendous undertaking to bring the com- pany up to the standing which it has today, and the one fac- tor of encouragement has been the feeling that the citizens and officers of this town have been back of us in our efforts.
In order to prepare the children of the town for the future business of life this town has appropriated an approxi- mate average of $15,500 for the past six years. The money expended for the State Guard Company has been for the pur- pose of educating them in no small measure for the greatest business the world has ever produced, the present war, as they are subject to call at any time to protect not only the interests of the state, but also that of those at the front, who are making the great sacrifice for humanity and democracy.
FREDERIC E. FOYE,
Captain Co. F., 14th Reg't Inf., M. S. G.
Town Clerk's Report.
BIRTHS RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER IN 1917.
DATE.
FULL NAME OF CHILD.
NAME OF PARENTS.
1900.
Jan. 19 Ralph Bertram Carver
1903.
April July
8 Myron Otis McAuliffe
31 Manuel Coreio Travers
1917.
Jan.
1 Grace Cheney Sands
4 Martin William Riley
13 Helen Elizabeth Pillsbury 13 George Souza
Feb.
16 Arthur Edward Holyoke .19 Swimmier 20 Charles Chaves 20 James Chaves 20 John Augustinho 4 Lillian Asach 11 Clark
Mar.
12 Harry Peter Habib
15 Edith Walker Downs
17 Adolor Horton Bernier
18 Roger Howard Keith
24 Anna DeLaura
25 Barbara Louise Beals 30 Wesley Alan Howard 1 Eva Wedge
April
4 Harry Stanley Anderson
17 Charles P. DeLaura 20 Raymond Hayden Ryder
24 Ernellinda Rigo 28 Lee
May June
11 Curtis 18 Alphonzo Chaves 15 Margaret Helen Garvey
16 Muran 19 Edna Jeannette Conant
25 Howard Bertram Simmonds
July 10 Audrey Laura Daisy Johnson 20 Ernest Melbourne Rice
John G. and Lillian M. Dore
Cornelius I. and Lilla M. Estes Jose B. and Rose Coreio
John W. and Lottie E. Cheney Joseph J. and Margaret Allen Fred N. and Gertrude E. Pierce Manuel and Mary Chaves George A. and Carrie A. Moore Ralph E. and Grace Harris Antonio P. and Mary Burgess John and Mary M. Salvador Manuel and Annie Chaves Michael J. and Sophia Thomas Chester E. and Hazel O. Stevens Charles and Ruth A. Sadoian Lewis E. and Permelia F. Hall Thomas J. and Alice M. DeForest Sumner D. 2d and Bernice E. Martin Victor C. and Amelia Carralho Edgar W. and Lena L. Peterson Henry M. and Mary P. Fidler Joseph and Mary Souza
Charles P. and Agda J. Bernstein Augustinho and Umbelina P. Chaves Ralph D. and Elsie J. Rae
Antonio T. and Mary P. Chaves Albert F. and Margaret M. Slattery William F. and Edna W. Thompson Manuel and Mary Jesus Arthur J. and Helen G. Leary Samuel and Celia Raya
Herbert W. and Jeannette G. Poper Charles H. and Miriam Willett
Astor F. R. & Lovelette N. D. Snell- Ernest O. & Maud A. Kniffin [grove
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BIRTHS RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER IN 1917.
DATE.
FULL NAME OF CHILD.
NAME OF PARENTS.
July 29 John Elsmore Dugault
Aug. 4 Helen Elizabeth Davis 15 Lloyd Welland Rogers 29 Helen Louise Frizzell 31 Arthur E. Spillane
Sept. 7 Carlyle B. Joy, Jr. 7 Merrill Hubert Gardner 23 Arthur Tavares Oct. 2 Joseph Andre
Ernest Woodbury Nute )
22 Edward Freeman Nute
Nov. Dennis Roderique 7 Warren Daniel Packard
11 Goodwin
19 Aldona Gerulitis
21 Annie Manz
Dec.
4 Albert Everett Maden
9 Marjorie Irene Shaw
10 Edith Frances Howard 13 Walter Chester Morse
24 Robert Arthur Berry
31 Edwin Theodore Gibson
Alfred F. and Rose W. Cyr Clifford W. and Jennie W. Worcester Henry R. and Mary E. Macleod Jay H. and Edna D. Holmes Stephen F. and Alice M. Murphy Carlyle B. and Nella M. Brown Charles M. and Maude E. Gatcomb . Manuel and Virginia Piva Manuel and Verginia Barros
Orin F. and Laura F. Hurrell Manuel and Mary G. Chaves Harold O. and Hazel F. Mosher Clifford C. and Beatrice R. Wallace Charles and Antonia Bachutis Manuel and Albina Ventura William L. and Florence M. Mottage George D. and Ruby A. Alger Albert A. and Fannie C. Browne Chester H. and Jennie E. Dunbar Charles W. and Ivanetta E. Wilbur William E. and Nettie E. Hirtle
Nunmber of Births recorded, 54.
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER IN 1917.
Jan. 13. Antonio Almeda of West Bridgewater and Pheli- mena S. Viega of Brockton.
March 1. Alfred H. Macomber of Bridgewater and Celia F. Holyoke of West Bridgewater.
April 4. Forrest A. Wentworth of West Bridgewater and Mary E. Leigh of Hingham.
18. Daniel Crowley of West Bridgewater and Delia Dugan of Brockton.
28. Charles H. Doyle of West Bridgewater and Valma M. Thibadeau of Plainville.
June 2. Clarence J. Erving of Brockton and Edith G. Goldie of West Bridgewater.
2. George E. Carver and Mabel R. Doble, both of Bridgewater.
11. Harold T. Mason of Brockton and Verna M. White of West Bridgewater.
16. Leslie C. Carter of West Bridgewater and Bea- trice L. Thrasher of Brockton.
28. Lloyd A. Emery of Brockton and Katherine V. Mitchell of West Bridgewater.
July
7. Francis J. Hannan of Brockton and Lila H. Pills- bury of West Bridgewater.
Aug. 18. Carlton H. Brooks and Bessie E. Godfrey, both of West Bridgewater.
Sept. 7. Clifton C. Goodwin and Beatrice R. Wallace, both of West Bridgewater.
Oct. 6. Jose J. Freitas of West Bridgewater and Isabel M. Borjes of Taunton.
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27. Carroll W. Pearl of West Bridgewater and Fran- cis B. Willgoose of Needham.
29. Manuel S. Chaves of West Bridgewater and Maria C. Moura of New Bedford.
Nov. 4. Joaquin A. Gomes of Brockton and Gildamena L. Enos of West Bridgewater.
22. John Rosen of West Bridgewater and Emelia L. Quist of Boston.
28. Charles Payne of Brockton and Ruth A. Hope of West Bridgewater.
Number of marriages recorded, 19.
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DEATHS RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER IN 1917.
DATE.
NAME.
AGE YMD
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Jan.
3 Malcolm S. Broughton
- 4 16
Bronchial pneumonia
6 Agnes M. Alger
33
6 2
Lobar pneumonia
25 Margaret Kent
42 -
Fibroid tumor
27 Patrick Keenan
92 3 -
Senility
Feb. 5 Flora A. Bates
62
Chr. paren. nephritis
6 Rodney W. Alger
29
3
Lobar pneumonia
16 Charles E. Miller
50 7 24
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Mar.
11 Mary Guinea
70
Cancer of liver
20 Eben L. Lothrop
71 2-
Arterio Sclerosis
27 Annie M. Robinson
73 7 22 Chronic endocarditis
April
4 Mary McCormick
8- -
Acute endocarditis
12 Frank Peabody 17 Peter Keenan 28
58 8 11
Angina pectoris
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