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Arthur Ryder, Chairman of Finance Committee, ex- plained the error made in the amount of their first ap- proval of the Budget. James A. Hemenway followed, voicing his good will to the Finance Committee and his disagreement.
Moved and voted Town officers' report be accepted and filed.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1938, and to issue a note or notes thereof, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
On motion this article was carried.
Article 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the Town charges for the ensuing year and make appropriations for the same.
On motion this article was carried.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used in connection with Chapter 90, Highway work, on North Elm street. Said appropriation to be used together with any sum of money that may be alloted thereto by State and County.
. Voted: That the sum of three thousand dollars be raised and apppropriated for Chapter 90, Highway Work, to widen North Elm Street, to be used with any sums that may be alloted thereto by State and County. The above appropriation of three thousand dollars is to be provided for by raising $1,756.90 in Tax Levy of 1938 and by transferring from available unexpended balance of $1,243.10.
Amended that the Town's share not exceed one quar- ter of the amount allotted by the State. Amendment carried.
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Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used in connection with Chapter 90, Highway work on Spring Street. Said appropriation to be used together with any sum that may be allotted by the State and County. On motion, passed.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to rebuild and black top Forest Street from Cross Street to John Peura's barn. By petition. On motion this article was passed.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to grade and black top Vital Avenue and raise and appropriate $250.00 for the same. By petition. On motion this arti- cle was passed.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400.00 to curb and black top sidewalk for a distance of 1000 feet by 4 feet wide on West Street, starting at West Center Street. By petition.
This article was passed.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from available Water Surplus the sum of $3,000.00 to purchase 6" pipes and fittings for extension on Crescent Street from the present dead-end to the water main on West Center Street, providing that labor can be fur- nished by the W.P.A.
Moved that we appropriate the sum of $3,000.00. On vote it was carried. .
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to lay new water pipe on Pleasant Street, pipe not to be less than 6" pipe provid- ing W.P.A. will provide the labor. By petition.
Move we pass, not carried.
Moved that the sum of $1000 be appropriated for the above. Yes and no vote doubted. Hand vote taken by count.
By vote, it was carried.
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Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to extend the water service with 2" pipe from a point on West Street at property of Daniel Penpraese 1000 feet northwesterly to property of Carl Raymond Pearson.
Moved that the necessary amount be appropriated to complete this work and that the sum of $750 be appro- priated. Carried.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum not exceeding $2,000 to install ade- quate modern sanitary equipment in the rear building of the Center School group.
Moved that this sum be appropriated. So voted.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars for the pur- pose of erecting an addition to the Matfield School. By petition.
Moved that $5,000 be appropriated for addition to Mat- field School.
On motion this article was passed.
Article 16. To see what amount the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the use of Plymouth County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture (Plymouth County Extension Service) and choose a Town Director as provided in Sections 41 and 42 of Revised Chapter 128 of the General Laws and act thereon.
Moved that $100 be appropriated and that Corelli Alger be chosen as Town Director.
On vote this article was carried.
Article 17. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,501.32 for maintenance of Plymouth County Hospital under provisions of Chapter 111, Sec- tion 85, of the General Laws.
It was so voted.
Article 18. To see if the Town will raise and appro-
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priate the sum of $300 for maintenance of visiting Nurse Service in West Bridgewater.
It was so voted.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate sum of money for a road machinery account for the purpose of repairing and operating road machin- ery, said sum to be raised by taxation or transferred from available funds in the road machinery fund, or take any other action relative thereto.
This article was passed.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell a small lot of land on Walnut Street.
It was so voted.
Article 21. To see what action, if any, the Town will take regarding petitioning the Legislature to be relieved from the Civil Service requirements now governing the Police Force.
This Article was passed.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50 for the purpose of preserving the Town Records.
It was so voted.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500 for Federal Project Ex- pense.
Amended for an additional sum of $1,000. Article car- ried as amended.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $685.42 land damage, on Spring Street.
It was so voted.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $112.12 land damage, North Elm Street.
It was so voted.
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Article 26. To see if the Town. will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100 to pay deficit in the Inspec- tor of Animal Account, 1937.
It was so voted.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to Surplus Revenue the following balance $30.55 from Elm Square Flag Pole appropriation.
It was so voted.
ยท Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to transfer unexpended balance of $41.63 on Heriza's Ditch to the W.P.A. Project Account.
Moved that this amount be transferred into the Sur- plus Revenue Account. It was so voted.
Article 29. To see if the Town will accept the Library Trust Fund of Eliza Porter Dalton and Millard O. Dal- ton for the sum of $250 received in 1937.
Motion and article carried.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to incorpor- ate into the By-Laws the following article: There shall be an unpaid commission of three, to administer and su- pervise the care of the park in West Bridgewater. This Commission to be made up of the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, one member to be appointed annually by the West Bridgewater Post, No. 66, American Legion, the third member to be appointed annually by the afore- mentioned members. It was so voted.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds in the Treasury a sum of money to be used by the Assessors to reduce the tax rate for the current year.
Article was carried by motion that the Assessors be and hereby are authorized and directed to use not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) or a sum approved by the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation, from "Free Cash" toward the reduction of the 1938 tax rate.
It was so voted.
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Article 32. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
It was voted that hereafter a check list be used at the door and only voters be admitted. This was carried.
It was also moved by Eddy P. Dunbar that hand rails be placed at entrance of Town Hall. Upon vote the mo- tion was carried.
On April 4, the following committee was chosen to appoint the Finance Committee: Christopher Read, Lewis Hayden, Ralph Frellick, Willard Peterson. The following were appointed to comprise the Finance Com- mittee : Arthur E. Ryder, Chairman; Alfred T. Wells, Secretary; Walter D. Crowley, John E. Howard, Stanley Freeman, John M. Richards, Horace R. Snell.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, MAY 19, 1938
Held Thursday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. Meeting called to order by Moderator Howard B. Wilbur. The warrant was read by Town Clerk, H. E. Bryant, after which the Moderator declared the meeting open for transaction of business.
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,475.00 for Federal Project Account.
Moved that the sum of $4,475.00 be appropriated from the surplus revenue for the Federal Project Account, provided that work on Maple Street be the last work done.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $525.00 to the Machinery Ac- count.
It was so voted.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $200.00 to purchase a power lawn mower.
It was so voted.
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STATE PRIMARY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938
The polls were opened at 10 a.m. by the reading of the Warrant and declaration of the Warden, James A. Hemenway.
The ballot box was inspected by the Police Officer in charge and the Register set at zero.
At 8 p.m. the Warden declared the Polls closed and the register in the ballot box showed that 450 ballots had been cast.
The result of the ballot was as follows :
GOVERNOR
Republican
Frederick Butler
8
William H. McMasters
87
Leverett Saltonstall
265
Richard Whitcomb 31
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
Dewey E. Archambault 9
Horace T. Cahill
89
J. Watson Flett 24
Charles P. Howard
108
Kenneth D. Johnson
126
Robert Gardner Wilson
17
SECRETARY
Frederic W. Cook
351
TREASURER
William E. Hurley
175
Alonzo B. Cook
177
John J. Hurley
17
AUDITOR
Carl D. Goodwin
130
Russell A. Wood
206
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ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Howe Coolidge Ames
77
Clarence A. Barnes
Frank W. Walters
158 63
CONGRESSMAN
Charles L. Gifford
256
Harry L. Avery
35
William B. Taylor
62
COUNCILLOR
Edgar S. Lindsay 243
John McDonald
10
Walter E. McLane
55
Frederick P. Whitten
67
SENATOR
Charles G. Miles 303
Ralph W. Copeland 77
REPRESENTATIVE, GENERAL COURT Leo F. Nourse 315
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Edmund R. Dewing
317
Joseph G. Schumb 33
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
George M. Webber 255
Joseph B. Estes
69
Oscar H. Tracy
32
COUNTY COMMISSION (To fill vacancy)
Horace C. Baker
142
Elroy S. Thompson
38
James A. White
15
LeRoy A. Whitten
6
Oscar E. Young
27
SHERIFF
Charles H. Gifford 301
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DELEGATE TO STATE CONVENTION
Lulu B. Gardner
291
Orvis F. Kinney
299
Albert C. Snow
293
Alice M. Dean
306
GOVERNOR Democratic
Charles F. Hurley
20
James M. Curley
21
Francis E. Kelley
2
Richard M. Russell
4
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
James Henry Brennan
20
Edward T. Collins
2
Alexander F. Sullivan
7
Joseph C. White
9
William P. Young
4
SECRETARY
William J. Ahearne
4
John M. Bresnahan
7
Henry Clay
0
Katherine A. Foley
15
William F. Sullivan
11
John H. Wallace
4
TREASURER
William F. Barrett
2
Ernest Joseph Bracan
1
William H. Burke, Jr.
3.
Joseph W. Doherty
8
Owen Gallagher
10
John Frederick Harkins
3
Daniel J. Honan
3
John J. McGrath
9
AUDITOR
Thomas H. Buckley
33
John J. Barry Leo D. Walsh
6
4
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ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Paul A. Dever 42
CONGRESSMAN
John D. W. Bodfish 22
Henry L. Murphy 17
COUNCILLOR
J. Dolan Hathaway 6
Philip J. Russell 29
SENATOR
John E. Manning 21
Joseph A. Noonan 22
REPRESENTATIVE, GENERAL COURT John B. Thorndike 39
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Alonzo Bartlett Greene
8
Daniel L. Kelleher, Jr. 35
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Louis A. Reardon 41
COUNTY COMMISSIONER (To fill vacancy)
William Leslie Ross 27
SHERIFF
Albert M. Heath 39
DELEGATE TO THE CONVENTION
Walter D. Crowley, Jr.
29
Edwin Craddock 1
John Fallon 1
The Election Officers were as follows: James A. Hem- enway, Warden, Joseph B. Porter, Ervin W. Lothrop, Chief of Police, Chester Ripley, Constable. The Check- ers were: Mrs. Mary Pratt, Mrs. Grace Keenan, Mrs. Ellen Brown, Mrs. Lulu Gardner. The Counters and Observers were: Arthur Ryder, Daniel Sullivan, Eunice Logue, Francis Luddy, James Kehoe, Harry Pomeroy, Claire Erbeck, Daniel Otter.
Meeting adjourned at 8:00 p.m.
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STATE ELECTION, NOVEMBER 8, 1938
The polls were open at 8:00 a.m. by the reading of the warrant and declaration of the Warden, James A. Hemenway.
The ballot box was inspected by the Police Officer in charge and the Register set at zero.
At 8:00 p.m. the Warden declared the polls closed and the register in the Ballot Box showed that 1273 bal- lots had been cast.
The voting showed the following results :
GOVERNOR
Henning A. Blomen
3
Roland S. Bruneau
1
Jeffrey W. Campbell
5
James M. Curley
292
William A. Davenport
1
Otis Archer Hood
2
Charles L. Manser
0
William H. McMasters
9
Leverett Saltonstall
938
George L. Thompson
6
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Manuel Blank
5
James Henry Brennan
266
Horace T. Cahill
953
Freeman W. Follett
9
Joseph F. Massida
3
George L. McGlynn
5
SECRETARY
Frederick W. Cook
995
Hugo DeGregory
8
Katherine A. Foley
236
Eileen O. Lane
3
Malcolm T. Rowe
5
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TREASURER
Frank L. Asher
7
Albert Sprague Coolidge
9
Owen Gallagher
227
John J. Hurley
14
William E. Hurley
983
Ralph Pirone
3
AUDITOR
Thomas H. Buckley
300
Michael C. Flaherty
8
Horace I. Hillis 5
Michael Tuysuzian
6
Guy S. Williams 15
Russell A. Wood 897
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Clarence A. Barnes
875
Paul A. Dever
336
Joseph C. Figueiredo
7
George F. Hogan
4
Alfred B. Lewis
7
Fred E. Oelcher
3
CONGRESSMAN
John D. W. Bodfish 339
Charles L. Gifford 889
COUNCILLOR
Edgar S. Lindsay 943
Philip J. Russell, Sr.
258
Lester M. Shulman
9
SENATOR
John E. Manning 259
Charles G. Miles 969
REPRESENTATIVE, GENERAL COURT Leo F. Nourse 889
John B. Thorndike 342
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Edmund R. Dewing 944
Daniel L. Kelleher, Jr. 286
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Louis A. Reardon 283
George M. Webber 937
COUNTY COMMISSION (To fill vacancy)
Elva M. Bent
1001
William L. Ross
206
SHERIFF
Albert M. Heath 258
Charles H. Robbins
953
BIENNIAL SESSION
Yes
518
No
343
TAXI CABS
Yes
399
No
453
ALL LIQUORS
Yes
522
No
565
MALT AND WINES
Yes
539
No
509
PACKAGE STORES
Yes
540
No
518
HORSE RACING
Yes
456
No
577
DOG RACING
Yes
425
No
614
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The Election Officers were: James A. Hemenway, War- den, Herbert E. Bryant, Town Clerk, Ervin W. Lothrop, Chief of Police, Chester R. Ripley, Officer. The Checkers were: Grace Keenan, Mary Pratt, Ellen Brown, Lulu Gardner. The Counters and Observers were: Arthur Ryder, Albert Snow, Eunice Logue, Loraine Wilbur, Eve- line Johnson, Frank Grant, H. W. Shaw, Daniel Sullivan, Francis Luddy, John H. O'Shaughnessy, Harry Pomeroy, Daniel Otter, Helen Ross.
Meeting adjourned at 8:00 p.m.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, DECEMBER 6, 1938
Meeting called to order by Moderator Howard B. Wil- bur; warrant read by Clerk, H. E. Bryant.
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from Surplus Revenue the sum of $500 to the Election and Registration.
Moved by A. Ryder that the sum of $500 be appropri- ated from the Surplus Revenue to the Election Registra- tion Department account for the use of the Board of Registrars for any expense incurred prior to the passage of the annual budget in 1939. It was so voted.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to appropriate from Surplus Revenue the sum of $500 to the Federal Project Account.
Moved the sum of $500 be appropriated from Surplus Revenue to the Federal Project Account.
It was so voted.
HERBERT E. BRYANT,
Town Clerk.
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Vital Statistics
BIRTHS IN WEST BRIDGEWATER, 1938
Name
Parents
te nuary John Raymond Finch
James C. and Lelia May Holyoke
bruary Illegitimate
arch
Stanley Ernest Fongeallaz, Jr. Stanley Ernest and Alice A. Crosier ay
Robert Alvin Coelho
Anthony Peter and Angelina Perry Braga
ne
Mary Ann Martin
John and Edna M. Turley
ily
Thomas Francis Herlihy Thomas Francis and Arlene Jeanette VanDyke
gust Francis Joseph Silva
Louis A. and Gloria R. Silva
ovember Roy Francis Jackson
Stanley French and Irene Foster Hatch
ecember
Margaret Mary Rockwell
Clifton Grandville and Margaret A. Erickson
BIRTHS ELSEWHERE TO WEST BRIDGEWATER PARENTS, 1938
ate Name
Parents
anuary 3 Anne Bradford Foye Clifford Aldrich Wilmot
3 Thomas Russell Roulstone
Allen Bradford and Gertrude L. Howard Clifford Aldrich and Dorothy Esther Baker Forrest R. and Dora E. Hall
ebruary Neil Edward Engstrom
2 George Henry Willis 4 Robert Wayne Hunt
farch 1 Joan Elizabeth DeMoranville
Janet Louise Henry 5 April 5 Douglas Wayne Bunker
6 James Edward Norris
Roland Edward and Alice Greta Babcock Russell Stanley and Mildred Ida Swift Richard Francis and Julia Braga
Donald Bruce and Mary E. Mullins Frederick Eugene and Beatrice Louise O'Brien
Frank Clisby and Esther L. Ensher John Henry and Evelyn Sylvia
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Births Elsewhere to West Bridgewater Parents, 1938 (Con't.) Name Parents
Date
May
2 Charles Clinton Leonard
6 Wendell Evan Golder
6 George Wendell Kinney
13 Malcolm Arthur Carlson
21 Nancy Susan West
June
27 William Herbert Ledin
July
4 Nancy Harriet Greene
6 Philip Dwight Barrett
18 Barry Edward Ensher
23 Marie Carol Martineau
August
19 James Phillip Reynolds
25 Frederic Earle Caswell
25 Stillborn
September
2 Richard Del Bianchi
4 Robert Alvin Cheever
October
3 Donald Walter Turner
10 Margaret Dorothy Phillips
27 George Leslie Perry
November
5 Marilyn Alberta Gifford
9 Leon Thomas Szemeta, Jr.
18 Stillborn
December
20 Nancy Ann Golder
21 Judith Ann MacDonald
27 William Andrews Holmberg
31 Charles Ascel Spear
Charles Edward and Muriel Frances Romaine Wendell Foye and Betty Josephine Pope James Copeland and Elizabeth G. Studenski Carl William and Rebecca Clark Russell Lyman and Marion Christine Hedin
Herbert August and Ranghild Camilla Anders
Harry Daniel and Capitola Grace Nelson Wilmer Dwight and Evelyn Marie Anderson Edward J. and Gladys V. Handanyan Donald M. and Myrtis Woods
Lester Warren and Alice Louise Swift Lawrence Merrill and Ruth Marion Foye
Adelmo Joseph and Bessie Baker Frank Alvin and Mildred Olga Kidston
Warren Archer and Anna M. Swanson William Wesley and Alma Christina Carlson George Leslie and Ruth A. Messier
Earle Clifton and Elsie Lillian Holmberg Leon Thomas and Anastasia Chambers
Kenneth Francis and Ruth A. Turner Robert Earl and Marion Smith Bryant Oscar Theodore and Edna Harriet Andrews James Wilbur and Blanche E. Barnard
HERBERT E. BRYANT,
Town Cler
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN 1938
Jan.
1 George Caten Piver of West Bridgewater and Mary Grace Falconeri of Middleboro, at Mid- dleboro, by Rev. Edward J. Reid.
5 Arthur Paltsios of Bridgewater and Louise Harvey of West Bridgewater, at West Bridge- water, by Rev. Falvin Cheever.
8 Louis Fabrizio of West Bridgewater and Blanche C. Harrison of Canton, at Brockton, by Rev. David B. Matthews.
11 James E. Bolin of Brighton and Ruth Evelyn Swanson of West Bridgewater, at Brockton, by Rev. Peter Froeberg.
12 Forrest R. Roulstone of West Bridgewater and Dora E. Hall of West Bridgewater, at Brockton, by Rev. Albert Sullivan.
Feb. 2 Lawrence Avery Hawkins of Brockline and Amy Ellen Reid of West Bridgewater, at Easton, by Rev. John P. Fitzsimmons.
5 Casmir Kirkell of Middleboro and Grace Doro- thy Silveria of West Bridgewater, at Bridge- water, by Rev. Cornelius P. Murray.
10 Francis Joseph Luddy of West Bridgewater and Caroline Anna Lincoln of Brockton, at Brockton, by Rev. Father Morrisroe.
19 George Marshall Bettencourt of West Bridge -. water and Mildred Rogers of Taunton, at Taunton, by Rev. E. Sousa de Mello.
Mar. 8 Howard Adolf Anderson of West Bridgewater and Jessie May Place of Middleboro, at Middle- boro, by Rev. Arthur G. Cummings.
Apr. 17 George Crosby Alger of So. Easton and Beula- bel Betty Hargreaves of West Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater, by Rev. Sydney Adams.
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19 Lawrence Everett Brooks of Brockton and Anna Gertrude Ericsson of West Bridgewater, at Easton, by Rev. John P. Fitzsimmons.
23 Alan Duncan Kinsley of Newton and Mada- leine Juilette (Ellis) Erskine of East Bridge- water, at West Bridgewater, by Rev. Wilburn B. Miller.
26 Raymond Hayden Ryder of West Bridgewater and Gertrude Mae Alger of West Bridgewater, at Brockton, by Rev. Peter Froeberg.
May 22 Minot A. Edson of West Bridgewater and Ar- lene L. Phillips of West Bridgewater, at Brock- ton, by Rev. Edwin H. Gibson.
28 Eric Wilfred Bernsten of West Bridgewater and Lucy Mary Cartullo of Brookville, at Hol- brook, by Rev. Patrick J. O'Connell.
30 William R. Brown of West Bridgewater and Anna E. Mello of West Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater, by Rev. Cornelius L. Reardon.
June 12 Alexander Roscoe Eisnor of Brockton and Elma L. Bernsten of West Bridgewater, at Brockton, by Rev. Peter Froeberg.
18 Harold Everett Nevins of West Bridgewater and Marcella Margurite Knox of West Bridge- water, at Worcester, by Rev. Theo. W. Brust.
22 Richard Alfred Charnock of West Bridgewater and Viola Gertrude Maher of No. Dighton, at No. Dighton, by Rev. John J. Shay.
24 Lloyd Jennings Jones of West. Bridgewater and Shirley Mae King of Brockton, at Brock- ton, by Rev. Horace F. Holton.
July 17 Clifford Emery Soule of West Bridgewater and Virginia Whitman Vining of Brockton, at Brockton, by Rev. Francis L. Cooper.
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27 Henry Thomas Morin of Hyannis and Emily Maud Copeland of East Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater, by Rev. Cornelius L. Reardon.
Aug. 14 Lyle Montross Butts of Eastondale and Helen Mildred Tufts of No. Easton, at Plymouth, New Hampshire, by Rev. A. Brownlow Thomp- son.
Sept.
3 Charles Phillips of Quincy and Anfrey Ruth George of West Bridgewater, at West Bridge- water, by Rev. Cornelius L. Reardon.
4 Stanley J. Dzengelewski of Dorchester and Blanche E. Michalowski of West Bridgewater, at Brockton, by Rev. John B. Missa.
4 Andrew John Pagani of West Bridgewater and Jennie DiCarli of Brockton, at Brockton, by Rev. Jeremiah J. Minihan.
10 George Wendell Hennessey of West Bridge- water and Clara Andrews Jennings of West- port Head, at Westport Head, by Rev. R. E. Durkee.
25 Everett Lincoln Tingley of West Bridgewater and Ruth Elizabeth Demenkow of Abington, at Abington, by Rev. Arnold R. Perron.
Oct.
9 George Sperry Reagan of Brockton and Made- line Agnes Sullivan of West Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater, by Rev. Cornelius L. Rear- don.
21 Clifford E. Broman of West Bridgewater and Ruth M. Meyer of West Bridgewater, at Brock- ton, by Rev. Axel Bergstedt.
29 Richard B. Leland of East Bridgewater and Priscilla W. Peterson of West, Bridgewater, at Brockton, by Rev. Peter Froeberg.
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Nov. 10 Anthony Chaves of West Bridgewater and Annie Beatrice Perry of West Bridgewater, at. Boston, by Rev. Christopher D. A. Hourin.
22 Fred William Baker of West Bridgewater and Annie Kathleen Stiles (Forsythe) of Brock- ton, at Brockton, by Rev. David B. Matthews.
26 Roger Wendell Anderson of West Bridgewater and Edith Aurora Hollertz of Brockton, at Brockton, by Rev. Peter Froeberg.
Dec. 31 George Sousa of West Bridgewater and Mar- garet Louise Keith of Bridgewater, at Bridge- water, by Rev. Burton A. Lucas.
RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR 1937 REPORT
Dec. 18 Warren Broman of West Bridgewater and Ju- lia Cannon of East Bridgewater, at Nashua, New Hampshire, by Rev. Earl F. Nauss.
Oct. 3 John Francis Martin of West Bridgewater and Edna M. Turley of Brockton, at Brockton, by Rev. Father O'Leary.
HERBERT E. BRYANT,
Town Clerk.
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DEATHS RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER, 1938
Name
Age Y. M. D.
Cause
ary
ida M. Baker
59 11 25
Fractured Skull, Intracranial Injuries, Fall off Porch
Richard Davis
1
2 6
Lobar Pneumonia
uary
Ethel F. Lindell
44 9 5
Carcinoma of the Breast Lobar Pneumonia
Joseph Pacheco
54 - -
Josephine Cassiani
81 2 8 Chronic Myocarditis
Mary J. (Barrows) Bisemore 65 7 2 Carcinoma of Caecum with Acute In- testinal Obstruction
ch
Gustave Adolph Peterson
67
6 10
Coronary Thrombosis
Joseph H. Bisemore
66
8 22
May L. Johnson (Chesley)
72
8 23
Arterio Sclerosis, Heart Disease, Hypo- static Pneumonia
Etta F. (Record) Gray
82
4 19
Arterio Sclerosis, Hypertension and Hypertensive Heart Disease, Cerebral Hemorrhage
il
Damien E. Therrien
73
8 28
Angina Pectoris, Hardening of Arteries Senility, Chronic Arthritis
Anthony Mederios
76
Annie A. Kingman (Thurlow) 77 7 5
Diabetis Mellibis
e
Harry Hayward
83
2 17
Nathaniel G. Shaw
72
9 22
Broncho Pneumonia, Cardiac Failure Arterio Sclerosis, Myocarditis, Coronary Thrombosis
Octave Belmore
81
2 8 Coronary Sclerosis, Chronic Myocard- itis, Hypertension
George A. Ross
62 11 12
Coronary Heart Disease
Michael Fraher
80 6 8
Myocardial Insufficiency
Antone Perry
67
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Strangulated Inguinal Hernia, Intes- tinal Paralysis
Julia Thomas
85
2 11
Arthur F. Cunningham
44 9 26
Arterio Sclerosis, Cerebral Hemorrhage Coronary Occlusion
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