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Police :
Wages
$656.19
Auto hire
192.50
Printing
6.50
Uniforms
11.50
Lanterns and Oil
11.94
Care of lanterns
40.00
Repairing Silent Policemen
7.50
Store room, stock and labor
35.28
Telephone
51.80
Matron
4.00
$1,017.21
Dog Officer
$2.50
Fire Department :
Wages
$472.50
Wiring and Alarm System
57.75
Station duty
61.00
Equipment
343.23
Repairs
317.75
Supplies
77.16
Express
2.68
Telephone
88.67
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Bonus
170.00
Insurance
3.50
Auto hire
5.00
Clerk
3.50
Repairs, Combination No. 1
Water for Hydrants
$1,000.00
FORESTRY EXTERMINATION.
Superintendent, wages
$880.63
Labor
1,426.63
Supplies
95.26
Team, spraying
133.00
Books
1.20
Equipment and repairs
66.00
Freight and express
16.28
Registration
4.00
Storing sprayer
10.00
$2,633.00
Tree Warden :
Wages
$473.00
Equipment and repairs
17.12
Supplies
5.65
Traveling expenses
3.50
$499.27
INSPECTION-SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Wages
$65.00
Equipment
78.61
Express
.93
$144.54
$1,602.74 $598.85
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HEALTH AND SANITATION.
Board of Health, quarantine, vital
statistics, and other expenses :
Salaries
$26.00
Stationery and postage
3.50
Printing
2.50
Matron
5.00
Quarantine
21.00
Vital statistics
124.50
Fumigation
2.00
Alcoholism, case of
3.00
Schick test
111.13
Schick test supplies
10.61
Plymouth County Hospital
912.60
Plymouth County Hospital, main- tenance
738.84
Brockton Hospital
500.00
$2,460.68
INSPECTION-ANIMALS AND SLAUGHTERING.
Animals :
Salaries
$100.00
Slaughtering :
Salaries
$369.50
Telephone
30.54
$400.04
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Superintendent's salary
$940.00
Labor on streets
2,884.75
Cement, sand, gravel, cinders, tile and pipe
68.39
Lumber
292.19
Equipment and repairs
203.95
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Oil and oiling
221.00
Supplies
252.59
Snow removal
508.00
Survey of gravel lot
3.00
Freight
3.71
Painting signs
9.00
Truck
675.00
Truck hire
30.00
Truck insurance
64.89
State Highway tax
632.20
$6,788.67
WEST CENTER STREET.
Survey
$18.00
Construction
373.45
$391.45
STREET LIGHTING.
Edison Electric Illuminating Co. $1,178.04
Edison Electric Illuminating Co., New
Lights 16.58
$1,194.62
CHARITIES.
Salaries $15.00
Printing 5.40
Aid rendered to persons residing in town and settled elsewhere 1,520.34
Aid rendered to persons settled in town residing elsewhere 580.43
$2,121.17
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SOLDIERS' BENEFITS.
State Aid
$630.00
Soldiers' Relief
50.00
Soldiers' Burial
34.05
$714.05
EDUCATION.
General:
School committee, salaries
$372.00
Superintendent, salary
1,733.04
School physicians, salaries
200.00
Attendance officer
87.75
Stationery, printing and postage
37.41
Telephone
137.21
Traveling expenses, Superintend- ent and teachers
354.75
School census
25.76
Freight, express and trucking
29.13
School nurse:
Salary
555.00
Traveling expenses
147.20
Equipment
2.16
Teachers' salaries, elementary
18,360.78
Teachers' salaries, high
12,772.50
Continuation school
197.16
Text and Reference books :
Elementary
915.47
High
281.96
Equipment and supplies :
Elementary
597.80
High
472.95
Town of Bridgewater, tuition
171.00
Transportation, elementary
3,646.50
Transportation, insurance
320.00
Janitors' services, elementary
2,025,94
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Fuel and light, elementary
1,717.65
Gas, high
29.08
Maintenance :
Water rates, high
21.00
Water rates, elementary
168.00
Repairs, elementary
3,795.46
Electric power, elementary
21.00
Janitors' supplies, elementary
42.24
Paid tree warden
6.00
Grading
35.50
Cleaning
26.00
Inspection, plumbing
10.00
Furniture and furnishings : Elementary
88.10
Diplomas and graduating exercises
30.91
Printing
19.25
$49,453.66
LIBRARY.
Salaries and Wages
$386.64
Books
461.84
Supplies
46.40
Janitor
87.00
Fuel
107.75
Repairs
120.01.
Light
8.79
$1,218.43
RECREATION.
Celebrations and Entertainments :
Memorial Day
$50.95
PARKS AND GARDENS.
Monument Grounds $28.25
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UNCLASSIFIED.
Printing and distributing town reports
$383.00
Numbering houses
124.55
Plymouth County Aid to Agriculture
100.00
Insurance (fire)
236.60
Insurance (liability)
64.88
Damage settlement
134.00
WATER DEPARTMENT.
Administration :
Commissioners' salaries
$150.00
Superintendents' salaries
50.00
Clerks
143.50
City of Brockton, water
4,323.74
Stationery and postage
58.50
Printing and advertising
50.60
Bonds
3,700.00
Interest
2,739.60
Truck
813.50
Insurance
193.56
Maintenance :
Labor
450.00
Truck hire
50.00
Pipe and fittings
1,199.76
Supplies
125.30
Equipment and repairs
176.83
Repairs on truck
127.43
Hydrants
343.49
Freight
11.62
New Service Connections and Construction:
Labor
$3,638.25
Pipe and fittings
2,819.07
Freight
457.12
Sidewalk and street boxes
101.41
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Explosives Cash advance
47.70
25.00
$21,795.98
CEMETERIES.
Care of cemeteries $47.00
INTEREST.
On temporary loans
$736.29
On highway loans
1,542.50
$2,278.79
MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS.
Temporary loans
$30,000.00 9,000.00
Highway loans
$39,000.00
Taxes :
State Tax
$4,800.00
Civilian War Poll Tax
$2,421.00
County Tax
4,114.81
$11,335.81
REFUNDS.
Taxes $3.00
$155,142.11
Cash balances :
General
Water Library
$15,025.33. 1,391.71 15.00
$16,432.04
$171,574.15
Balance Sheet, December 31, 1923.
GENERAL ACCOUNTS.
ASSETS.
Cash :
In banks and offices:
General
$15,025.33
Water
1,391.71
Library advance 25.00
$16,442.04
LIABILITIES.
Appropriation balances : Motor Equipment, Highways $755.00
Permanent Road West Centre Street 32,608.55
Liability Insurance 300.00
Water Department 1,391.71
Accounts receivable Catherine M. Howard, Collector :
Taxes :
Town Farm account reserve Overlay (reserved for abatements) :
Levy of 1921
$72.69
Levy of 1921
$218.48
Levy of 1922
3,776.88
Levy of 1922
984.78
Levy of 1923
71,609.14
Levy of 1923
731.87
$25,458.71
$1,935.13
Water Rates, 1921
$16.50
Surplus overlay
$2,876.69
Water Rates, 1922
128.00
Water revenue
$2,799.55
Water Rates, 1923
2,655.05
Surplus revenue
$18,697.72
$2,799.55
$35,055.26 $6,000.00
Commonwealth of Mass.
State Aid
$630.00
Soldiers' Burial 34.05 Highway State Aid 11,000.00
$11,664.05
County of Plymouth : Highway County Aid 11,000.00
$67,364.35
$67,364.35
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Debt
$94,140.00 Water Loans Highway Loans 23,000.00
$71,140.00
$94,140.00
$94,140.00
TRUST ACCOUNTS
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds : Mrs. Henry Copeland fund $109.48
Samuel G. Copeland
fund
200.00
Martha K. Crosby fund
108.16
Trust Funds :
Cash and Securities
$21,473.44
Mary A. Dewyre fund 108.88
Isabel Howard fund 108.81
Harriet M. Jennings fund 100.00
Henry J. LeLacheur fund 107.13
Rosa R. Shaw fund 272.78
Oren Smith fund 161.34
South St. Cemetery fund 270.29
Charles C. Thayer fund
165.02
Library Funds :
$1,711.89
Cornelia Alger fund $742.48
Nathan Copeland fund
479.43
Mary N. H. Edgerly fund 523.25
Francis E. Howard fund
523.25
Mary L. Perkins fund 1,029.27
Mary P. Whitman fund 16,463.87
$19,761.55
$21,473.44
$21,473.44
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STATEMENT OF TRUST FUNDS.
CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS.
Savings Banks Deposits
Totals
On hand at beginning of year
$1,366.86 $1,366.86
On hand at end of year
1,711.89 1,711.89
Receipts
Income
$62.03
Bequests
300.00
Payments Deposited in Savings Banks
$362.03
$362.03
$362.03
Withdrawn from
Savings Banks
17.00
Expenditures
17.00
$379.03
$379.03
BALANCE.
Name of Fund
Jan. 1, 1923
Receipts
Withdrawn Jan. 1, 1924
Mrs. Henry Copeland
$104.73
$4.75
$109.48
Samuel G. Copeland
200.00
200.00
Martha K. Crosby
103.48
4.68
108.16
Mary A. Dewyre
104.15
4.73
108.88
Isabel Howard
104.08
4.73
108.81
Harriet M. Jennings
100.00
100.00
Henry J. LeLacheur
102.49
4.64
107.13
Rosa R. Shaw
267.13
12.15
$6.50
272.78
Oren Smith
154.34
7.00
161.34
South St. Cemetery
268.59
12.00
10.50
270.29
Charles C. Thayer
157.87
7.15
165.02
$1,366.86 $362.03
$17.00
$1,711.89
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LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS.
Savings Banks Deposits Totals
On hand at beginning of year
$19,768.23 $19,768.23
On hand at end of year
19,761.55 19,761.55
Receipts
Payments
Income
$607.75
Deposited in Banks
Withdrawn from
$607.75
Bank
614.43
Expenditures 614.43
$1,222.18
$1,222.18
Name of Fund
Jan. 1, 1923
Receipts
Withdrawn Jan. 1, 1924
Cornelia Alger
$717.50
$36.31
$11.33
$742.48
Nathan Copeland
456.35
23.08
479.43
Mary N. K. Edgerly
511.37
22.51
10.63
523.25
Francis E. Howard
511.37
22.50
10.62
523.25
Mary L. Perkins
1,000.00
29.27
1,029.27
Mary P. Whitman
16,571.64
474.08
581.85
16,463.87
$19,768.23
$607.75 $614.43
$19,761.55
ARTHUR C. PECKHAM, Town Accountant.
Report of Moth Work.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: Gentlemen :
I submit the annual report of the Moth Superintendent for the year ending December 31, 1923.
Through careful creosoting the gypsy moth egg clusters and spraying, we have been successful in prevent- ing the stripping of the leaves off the trees on the highways in the town, although there are a lot of moths back in the woods. The Brown-tail moth has been nearly exterminated and we hope by watching carefully to be able to prevent their return. For financial statement see report of the town accountant.
INVENTORY OF GYPSY MOTH SUPPLIES
2 Spraying machines
1 Ford truck
500 feet of hose
100 gals. of creosote
5 axes
1 push cart
1 rake
10 long handle brushes
2 5-gal. cans
4 pruners
1 6' cross-cut saw
3 small saws
CHRISTOPHER READ, Local Superintendent.
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen :
I herewith submit my report as Sealer of Weights and Measures for the year ending December 31, 1923.
I find the scales, weights and measures in the town in fair condition.
The law demands that all weighing and measuring devices be tested and sealed once a year. I would recom- mend that all dealers watch their scales and measures care- fully and if they have any doubt as to their accuracy, that they call the sealer and have them tested. If they have been sealed once during the year there is no charge for testing. If they have to be adjusted there is a small charge for that.
The following scales, weights and measures have been tested and sealed during the year :
Adjusted
Condemned
Platform scales
Sealed 20
2
1
All other scales
30
1
Avoirdupois weights
70
11
Liquid measures
51
Oil measuring pumps
27
3
1
Yard measures
1
CHRISTOPHER READ, Sealer of Weights and Measures
Report of Tree Warden.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of West Bridgewater:
Herewith find report of Tree Warden.
There has been a lot of dead limbs taken out of the trees of the town that were dangerous. There are a lot more that should be taken out. I have cut down six trees that were dead and dangerous. I have cut bushes on Bed- ford St., Keenan St., Progressive Ave., Spring St. and Brooks Place. It is now necessary to trim trees higher owing to the large loads that are carried on trucks. I would especially call your attention to the damage done to our small trees by careless autoists and mischievous boys. I would suggest that a reward be offered for evidence that will lead to a conviction for maliciously damaging trees be- longing to the town. For financial statement of this depart- ment see report of the town accountant.
Respectfully submitted,
CHRISTOPHER READ,
Tree Warden.
Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of Public Library.
TRUSTEES.
Helen F. Foye Rev. L. B. Codding
Martha B. Mason
Louis B. Hayden
Edith F. Howard
Daniel J. Lothrop
Term expires 1924
Term expires 1924
Term expires 1925
Term expires 1925
Term expires 1926
Term expires 1926
ORGANIZATION.
Chairman Secretary Treasurer
Daniel J. Lothrop Edith F. Howard Martha B. Mason
BOOK COMMITTEE.
Helen F. Foye Martha B. Mason
Edith F. Howard Daniel J. Lothrop
EXECUTIVE OFFICER.
Daniel J. Lothrop
Librarian's Report.
The past year has been one of increased activity in the work of the library. The circulation of all classes of books being greater than any previous year. The State Certificate Reading Course begun in 1922 in co-operation with the schools, has been successfully continued, nearly a hundred children having received certificates for reading five or more books required on the State list. Three children who have read twenty-five or more books of those on the State list have received handsome honor certificates.
Number of books taken in grade schools: Fiction 517, Non-Fiction 391, Magazines 14. High School Fiction 322, Non-Fiction 132, Magazines 1.
Following is circulation for year and new books added:
Adult Fiction
5,113
Adult Non-Fiction
700
Juvenile Fiction
4,442
Juvenile Non-Fiction
1,052
Magazines Bound
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10,358
Magazines
2,291
Total
13,649
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ADULT FICTION.
Silver Moon
- Dim Lantern Big Heart Journey's End
Abbott Bailey Brandon
Old Crow
Brown Brown
Shining Road
Brown
The Queen of Farrandale
The Wind Bloweth
Lost Lady
- One of Ours
The Man Who Knew Too Much
This King Business
Drusilla With a Million (Gift) Alaskan
Chesterton Collins Cooper Curwood Curwood Curwood
- Flaming Forest
- Valley of Silent Men
Day
Lonely Furrow
Diver
My Garden Doctor (Gift)
Duncan
Faint Perfume
-Globe Hollow Mystery
Conquestador
Gale Gartland Gerould Gibbs Gilbert Goodchild
Middle of the Road
Carnace's Folly
Trooper O'Neil
Lincoln Conscript
Greene
- Lone Winter Step on the Stair -
Greene
-Wanderer of the Wastelands North of 36
Green Grey Hough Hough
The Covered Wagon
- Lummox
Hurst
- Temptress
Ibanez
Burnham Byrne Cather Cather
The Loving Are the Daring Tetherstone
Dell
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- Croatan
- End of the House of Alard Happy Isles Actions and Reactions A Diversity of Creatures Day's Work Eyes of Asia
Five Nations
Life's Handicap
Many Inventions
Naulahka
Soldiers Three
Under the Deodars Wintergreen
Dr. Nye
- Fair Harbour
Meredith Mystery
Lengthened Shadows Call of the Wild (Gift) Sea-Wolf White Fang
Big Blue Soldier Mystery of Mary
-Tomorrow About This Time Sky Line of Spruce
-- Church on the Avenue Spinsters of this Parish Oliver October Viola Gwyn
Blowing Weather The Man Who Was Good Bread
- Certain People of Importance
- White Flag
r- Stella Dallas
- Craig Kennedy Listens in
Judgment of Charis
Johnson Kay-Smith King Kipling Kipling Kipling Kipling Kipling Kipling Kipling Kipling Kipling Kipling Laing Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Locke London London London Lutz Lutz Lutz Marshall Martin Maxwell Mccutcheon Mccutcheon McIntyre Merrick Norris Norris Porter Prouty Reeve Reynolds
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-Rufus -Dancing Star -Sir or Madam Secret Service Smith Ponjola Jewel of Seven Stars
On Secret Service
Penrod and Sam
. Lad: A Dog
- Masquerader
His Children's Children Valley of Ghosts A Son at the Front
- J. Hardin and Son
- Exile of the Lariat
Wilson
The Able Mclaughlins The Mine With the Iron Door Wright
ADULT NON-FICTION.
Birds
Wild Flowers
A Man From Maine
598-B Blanchan 580-B Blanchan 920-B Bok
Cape Cod and the Old Colony
974.4-B Brigham
Lincoln the Greatest Man of the Nineteenth
Century 921-B Brown Outline of Literature 808-D Drinkwater Dear Old K. (Gift) 974-D Duane Social Life in the Insect World 595-F Fabre 921-F Ford Meaning of Service 240-F Fosdick Tales of Lonely Trails 910-G Grey Cotton and the Cotton Market 633-H Hubbard Rudyard Kipling Verse. Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918
My Life and Work
Essays of Elia Jewish Chaplain in France (Gift)
821-K Kipling 824-L Lamb 240-L Lindsey
Richmond Ruck Ruck Scott Stockley Stoker Taft Tarkington Terhune Thurston Train Wallace Wharton Whitlock Willsie
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America of Yesterday
Massachusetts Beautiful
Vermont Beautiful
Good Stories for Great Holidays
Good Stories for Great Birthdays
920-M Mayo 973.1-N Nutting 973.1-N Nutting 394-0 Olcott 920-O Olcott
- Beasts, Men and Gods
- Life of Christ The Fool
Analysis of the Interchurch. U. M. Report on the Steel Strike 330-0 Olds 947-O Ossendowski 973.1-P Papini 922-P Pollock 915-P Powell
By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne
Wise Men From the East and From the West
Making of an American
Forging the Sword (Gift)
Trees
Book of Boston
Book of New York
Joseph Conrad
My Experience at Scotland Yard
Outline of Science. IV Vol. Butterflies
Akhnaton, Pharoah of Egypt
Autobiography
942-R Rihbany 921-R Rüs 974-R Robinson 500-R Rogers 974-S Shackleton 974-S Shackleton 820-S Stauffer 365-T Thomson 500-T Thomson 595-W Weed 930-W Weigall 921-W Wilmer
JUVENILE FICTION.
Pied Piper in Pudding Lane
Tale of Peter Rabbit Betty Alden
Little Black Mingo
Little Black Quibba
Little Black Quasha Little Black Sambo
Right Guard Grant
For the Good of the Team
Sentimental Tommy
Addington Altemus Austin Bannerman Bannerman Bannerman Bannerman Barbour Barbour Barrie
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Marines Have Advanced Story of a Submarine Buster Bear Twins Adventures of Buffalo Bill Scott Burton Logger
Money Making for Boys
A Little Maid of Maryland Felicia (Gift)
Gould
Felicia's Friends (Gift)
Gould
Felicia's Visits (Gift)
Gould Gould
Jim Mason Backwoodsman
Gregor
Jim Mason Scout
Sunbonnet Babies in Italy
Rewards an Fairies
Pieces of Eight
Story of Doctor Doolittle
Story of Mrs. Tubbs
Story of Peter Pan
Adele Doring at Vineyard Valley
Filipino Twins
North Perkins Phillips
Story of Nancy Hanks
Men of Iron
Pyle
Boy Hunters
Reid
Heart of the Ancient Wood
Roberts Rolt-Wheeler Rolt-Wheeler
The Saraha Hunters
Third Base Thatcher
Scott Seaman Shute
Real Diary of a Real Boy
Young Wireless Operator With the U. S. Secret Service
Theiss Van Dyke
The Blue Flower
Bishop Bishop Burgess Cody Cheyney Collins Curtis
Felicia's Folks (Gift)
Gregor Grover Kipling LeGallienne Lofting Lofting Maeterlink
A Toreador of Spain
Tranquility House
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JUVENILE NON-FICTION.
Burgess Flower Book Land of the Long Night
Children of the Arctic
580-B Burgess
948-D DuChaillu
990-P (Mrs.) Peary and her Daughter
ALICE A. GODDIN, Librarian.
Report of Work done in West Bridgewater under the Plymouth County Extension Service.
All those interested in receiving help from the Plym- outh County Extension Service have had a profitable year. The Women's Clothing Construction Group completed the first course in June, and is represented in the advanced class this winter. The aim of the Extension Service is to pass on to others the help received, so once started, even a few can reach many. The Kitchen Improvement Group report progress in work begun last year. Several have added time saving equipment in their kitchens. A four day school for canning for sale was held last summer in Boston with Prof. Cole of the Extension Service in charge. It was attended by leaders who brought the work back to West Bridgewater.
The interest in fruit growing was proved by the well attended pruning demonstration in this town. Trips were taken to larger orchards in Bridgewater and Lakeville. Pruning, spraying, cover crops and marketing were points emphasized.
The poultrymen of the town are represented in the Plymouth County Poultry Association which has quarterly meetings in Halifax. The hen thief problem is only one of many handled by the Association.
Most encouraging progress was made in Junior Club work. Poultry, Canning, Bread, and Garden Clubs were formed in Cochesett. They worked through the summer to
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such good effect that prizes were won at both Bridgewater and Brockton Fairs. A local exhibit proved to the parents in the community that the children had raised good vege- tables, grown fine birds, canned wholesome fruit and vege- tables and made good bread. The Poultry Club is still car- rying on, keeping daily egg records and profiting by the ad- vice of Mr. Freeman, the Junior Extension Leader. A Gar- ment Club, organized this fall, is thriving with Miss S. B. Codding as Local Leader. The enjoyment of the boys and girls at their club meetings furnishes wholesome interest in their daily home tasks.
Records show that sixty families have received direct help. Indirectly the whole town has profited by this serv- ice to the county.
Last year $100 was appropriated for this work,-a similar amount is asked for this year.
KATHARINE B. JAMES,
Town Director.
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Report of Treasurer.
Cash balance Jan. 1, 1923
$13,482.31
Total receipts for year 1923
158,091.84
$171,574.15
Total payments for year 1923
155,157.11
Cash balance Dec. 31, 1923
$16,417.04
CATHERINE M. HOWARD, Treasurer.
Report of the Collector of Taxes.
TAXES OF 1920.
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1923
$13.54
Abatements, 1923
13.54
TAXES OF 1921.
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1923
$2,281.81
Collections
$2,121.60
Abatements
87.52
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1923
72.69
$2,281.81
TAXES OF 1922.
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1923
$19,320.65
Collections
$15,524.69
Abatements
19.08
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1923
3,776.88
$19,320.65
TAXES OF 1923.
Commitments $81,778.96
Collections
$59,824.00
Abatements
345.82
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1923
21,609.14
$81,778.96
CATHERINE M. HOWARD,
Collector.
Report of Collector of Water Department.
WATER RATES 1921
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1923
$107.75
Collections
$73.75
Abatements
17.50
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1923
16.50
$107.75
WATER RATES 1922.
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1923
$2,430.01
Overpayments
12.25
$2,442.26
Collections
$2,157.99
Abatements
144.02
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1923
140.25
$2,442.26
WATER RATES 1923
Commitments
$15,700.71
Overpayments
5.25
$15,705.96
Collections
$12,865.41
Abatements
180.25
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1913
86.20
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1923
2,574.10
$15,705.96
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CATHERINE M. HOWARD,
Collector.
Town Clerk's Report.
BIRTHS RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER IN 1923
Date Child's Name
Name of Parents
1895 Feb.
25 Edna Marie Soder
1897
May 20 Sarah Lillian Soder
1917
April 30 Helen Louise Benton 1923 Jan.
11 Illegitimate
15 William Howard Curtis
17 Donald Edmund Clark
25 William Leon Reardon, Jr.
25 Robert Dow Keith, Jr.
31 Clifton Vernon Vandyke Feb.
16 John Alton McRae
16 Lillian Loraine Sturgis March
7 Lloyd Dana Keith
19 Stillborn April 1 William Douglas McLean
1 Muriel Elizabeth Leach
Carle J. and Charlotte E. Lind
Carle J. and Charlotte E. Lind
Ralph L. and Emma L. Rounds
William Jr. and Helen C. Howard Edmund F. and Katherine W. Goldie
William L. and Mabel L. Hudson Robert D. and Phyllis Logue Donald J. and Eva E. Sanborn
Walter L. and Laura B. Spaulding Harold S. and Grace W. Cyr
Sumner D. 2d and Bernice E. Mar- tin
Malcolm and Anna McDonald Willard R. and Lila W. Stickney
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13 Lawrence Carleton Leavitt
17 Patricia Hartley Morse
18 Phyllis May Trow
19 Carolyn Luella Keller
30 Daniel Timothy Crowley May 3 Helen Frances Souza
15 Norman Barton Weatherbee June 5 George Polus, Jr.
10 Arthur Lewis Howe
12 Bertha Virginia Libby
22 Barbara Marjorie Ward
22 David Dallas Perry
28 Lena Souza Chaves
July 1 Agnes Loraine Simmons Manuel Rubero 1-
15 Stephen Alfred Rossi
18 John Joseph Madden
24 Lillian Antonnette Ventura
24 Fred S. Kates
26 Frank Warren Woodman
29 Olive Newton Reynolds
August
1 Fred Michael Asach 17 Ervin Gardner Lothrop
19 Antonio Souza Barros
20 Barbara Elmira Weaver
23 Elsie Anna Bergstrom 31 Evangelina Munise September
7 Henry Hagopian 7 Loraine Elizabeth Cassidy
11 Edward Andrew Pingree October
11 Alice Mabel Dean
13 Alma Freda Peckham
14 Angus Joseph Kennedy, Jr.
16 Louise Barbara Hackensen
16 Alice Dorothy Shaves
Harry G. and Daisy A. Hunt Jesse L. and Ada B. Woodward Louis A. and Frances M. Murray Everett W. and Florence M. Nick- erson
Daniel F. and Delia Duggen
Manuel and Mary Chaves Charles E. and Ada E. Brown
George and Libby Morses Ernest A. and Laura C. Spratt Lester H. and Bertha J. Reed Robert J. and Ruby L. Towers Antone C. and Mary Burgess Antone S. and Mary Souza
Albert L. and Agnes Murphy John and Jaccinde Serra Giuseppi and Ernesta Roynont John W. and Edith E. Dehline Joseph F. and Phoebe B. Piva Sidney E. and Zelda Sagarin Chester S. and Viola G. Pratt Horace F. and Edith M. MacDon- ald
Michael J. and Sophie Thomas Ervin W. and Helen H. Gardner Manuel and Emily Chaves Ernest S. and Emma J. Parent Eric P. and Gerda V. Lundin Manuel and Albina Ventura
Jacob and Sarah Mamigonian John J. and Edith J. Erickson Mikel and Frances Yodis
Robert G. and Alice M. Cunning- ham
Fred G. and Annie E. Salisbury Angus J. and Ebba V. Anderson Rudolph and Betty C. Anderson Joseph S. Jr. and Mary S. Moura
94
17 Reeves Philip Relyea
27 Charles Wesley Hopkins
November 26 Edith Marion Madan
29 Dorothy Parker Verity December
11 Robert Arnold Monroe
21 Edward Bernard Keenan
Number of Births recorded 56
Charles R. and Edna T. Lantz William H. and Clarissa B. Ryder
Lorenzo J. and Ethel M. Hardy Edward A. and Gertrude A. Parker
Robert A. and Gladys L. Holbrook Bernard F. and Annie E. Nee
95
MARRIAGES RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER IN THE YEAR 1923.
Jan. 6. James C. Stafford of Newport, R. I., and Myra Bennett of West Bridgewater, at Brockton. 13. Averill S. Lock of West Bridgewater and Gladys E. Ellis of Cambridge, at Cambridge.
Apr. 18. Ernest A. Howe and Laura C. Spratt, both of West Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater.
June 2. Carlton B. Holmes and Catherine F. Parry, both of West Bridgewater, at Boston.
14. Wilson L. Corkum and Annie W. Clark, both of West Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater.
20. Elmer S. Wright of West Bridgewater and Edith C. Stodder of Brockton, at Brockton.
25. Harry E. Parry of West Bridgewater and Linnea Hagglund of Mrockton, at Brockton.
26. Hiram M. Kimball and Mary E. Dolbec, both of West Bridgewater, at Bridgewater.
28. Howard L. Chadwick, Jr., and Jennie Henderson, both of West Bridgewater, at East Bridge- water.
30. Ernest W. Picard and Grace J. French, both of West Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater.
July 3. Gerald L. Wilbur of West Bridgewater and Anna H. Nelson of Easton, at Easton.
7. John Teixiera of Brockton and Emily Burgess of West Bridgewater, at Bridgewater.
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