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Voted, that a report of its financial affairs be printed and in the hands of the voters bv February 15, 1915.
Article II. Will the town appropriate a sum of money to be expended in the cemetery on Washington street.
Appropriation made under Article 4.
Article 12. What price will the town pay for labor on the highways for the ensuing years ?
Voted, that the highway surveyor be authorized to hire such men and teams as he sees fit and pay what he con- siders them worth, up to the maximum price of 25 cents per hour for men, and $5.00 for man and two horses for eight hours.
Article 13. What action will the town take in regard to keeping the sidewalks in repair.
Voted, to pass over this article.
Article 14. Will the town give any instructions to town officers ?
Voted, to instruct the school committee to appoint Fred- eric D. Lyon, school physician.
Voted, that the selectmen as trustees, be authorized to receive any monies offered to the town for the care of burial lots, the income of which is to be used annually for the preservation and care of the lot or lots of the doners.
Voted, that the overseers of the poor use their own judg- ment as heretofore, in regard to a town physician.
Article 15. What price will the town pay for work at fires for the ensuing year ?
Voted, to pay 50 cents per hour for work at fires.
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Article 16. Will the town take any action in regard to the care of parks, squares and triangles and make any appropriation for the same.
Voted, that the tree warden have charge of the appro- priation for this purpose.
Article 17. Will the town make an appropriation for the James Library in return for the free privilege of tak- ing books which the townspeople now have.
Appropriation made under Article 4.
Article 18. Will the town act in conjunction with the town of Hanover to have an electric light at the terminus of River street. Norwell, and Broadway, Hanover at the Third Herring Brook.
Voted, to join with Hanover in maintaining a light at this location.
Article 19. Will the town appropriate the sum of $446.38 for the suppression of gypsy and browntail moths .
Appropriation made under Article 4.
Article 20. What sum of money will the town appro- priate to pay the superintendent of schools?
Appropriation made under Article 4.
Article 21. Will the town appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for fighting fires?
Appropriation made under Article 4.
Article 22. What sum of money will the town appro- priate for the spraying of the elm trees along the highways ? Appropriation under Article 4.
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Article 23. Will the town raise and appropriate a sum of money to widen and straighten Mount Blue street, near the residence of E. G. Bates.
Voted, that Mr. Bates be employed to do this work un- der the direction of the selecmen.
Article 24. Will the town raise and appropriate a sum of money to oil and repair Main street, from the Scituate town line to the Soldiers' Monument ?
Voted, to repair with tarvia, sand or stone, the above road. An appropriation of $2,490 was made for this pur- pose and it was voted that the work be done under the direction of the surveyor of highways.
Article 25. Will the town raise and appropriate a sum of money to install a heating apparatus in the almshouse?
Voted, that the selectmen have charge of the appropria- tion for this purpose.
Article 26. What action will the town take in regard to the making of a town surevy ?
Voted, to pass over this article.
Article 27. To see if the town will petition the director of the Bureau of Statistics for an audit of its accounts in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 589, Acts of 1910, and amendments thereof.
Voted, to pass over this article.
Article 28. Will the town raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars to make repairs on Pleasant street.
Appropriation made under Article 4.
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Article 29. Will the town vote to make the moth tax general.
Voted, not to make the moth tax general.
Article 30. Will the town take any action relative to a water supply for the town, or relative to any petition now pending in the legislature?
Voted, that Charles W. Thomas, William D. Turner, Edward W. Gardner, Henry D. Smith and John H. Prouty be a committee to look out for the interests of the town in this matter.
Article 31. Will the town accept the provisions of Chapter 119, of the Acts of 1913, and authorize the treas- urer to issue notes in accordance therewith.
Voted, that the town accept the provisions of Chapter 119 of the Acts of 1913, and that the treasurer is hereby authorized, with the approval of the selectmen, to issue notes in accordance therewith.
Article 32. Will the town appropriate a sum not ex- ceeding $15,000 for the rebuilding and permanent repairs of existing highways to be expended upon such terms and under such conditions as the town may hereafter vote at any regular or special meeting called for this purpose.
Voted, to pass over this article.
Article 33. Will the town authorize and instruct the selectmen to petition the legislature forthwith for leave to borrow on serial bonds, or notes, of the town, such sums of money as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the preceding article.
No action taken.
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Article 34. Will the town appropriate a sum of money to be expended under the direction of the Massachusetts Highway Commission in the construction of a mile of road on Main street, running west from the residence of Harri- son Wilder.
Voted, to refer this matter to the next annual town meeting.
Article 35. Will the town raise and appropriate a sum not exceeding $500, to build a Telford road on River street· beginning at its junction with Dover street and run- ning south about 500 feet.
An appropriation of $500 was made for this purpose and it was voted to begin the work at Dover street and run South.
Article 36. Or act or do anything relative to the above. Voted, that the selectmen act as fence viewers.
Voted, that the constables act as field drivers.
Voted, that the cemetery committee consist of W. W. Farrar., Frank W. Jones and Arthur T. Stoddard.
Voted, that the salary of treasurer be $150.
Voted, that the salary of Collector of Taxes be $225.
Voted, that the auditor receive $50.
Voted, that the secretary of school committee receive $50, the other members $25 each.
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George S. Hatch purchased the two fish rights for twenty-five cents for one and thirty-five cents for the other.
Voted, that the moderator be paid $Io for his services.
Voted, that this meeting be dissolved.
Attest : JOSEPH F. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
TOWN MEETING, MAY 20, 1914
Pursuant to a warrant duly executed the qualified voters of Norwell met at the Town Hall on the above date, and took action as follows :
Chose John Whalen moderator by ballot, under provis- sions of Chap. 835, Sec. 397, Acts of 1913. He was sworn by the Town Clerk.
Article I. Will the town authorize the Selectmen to sell the town flats.
Voted, to instruct the selectmen not to sell the town flats.
Article 2. Or act or do anything relative to the same.
Voted, that the selectmen be instructed to call a town meeting two weeks from tonight, to act upon the question of a sale or lease or giving of a right of way over the four acre meadow located near the mouth of the First Herring River.
Voted, that the selectmen keep the warrant open for the reception of any articles until Saurday, May 23.
Voted, that this meeting be dissolved.
Attest : JOSEPH F. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
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TOWN MEETING, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1914
Pursuant to a warrant duly executed, the qualified voters of Norwell met at the Town Hall, on the above date and took action as follows :
Article I. To choose a Moderator.
Chose John Whalen, moderator, by ballot and he was sworn in open meeting by the town clerk.
Article 2. What action will the town take upon the question of a sale, or lease or giving a right of way over the four-acre meadow located in the Town of Scituate, near the mouth of the First Herring River?
It was voted that the Treasurer of the town be author- ized and instructed to sign, seal, execute and deliver in the name of the town, to the Boston Sand and Gravel Com- pany the right to excavate and maintain a right of way by canal or ditch over the land of said Town at Gulph Is- land Meadow, so-called on such terms and conditions as may be determined by a committee of five, appointed at this meeting, by the chair.
Committee-Horace T. Fogg, Ezra E. Stetson, Henry D. Smith, Ernest H. Sparrell, Henry C. Ford. The com- mittee after conferring with the representatives of the Bos- ton Sand and Gravel Company, recommended that a right of way be given over this meadow for the sum of $250, not to take more than one-half of the meadow.
Voted, that the report of the committte be accepted and the recommendations adopted.
Article 3. Will the town appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to sand and tarvia River street
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from the residence of Maria Tolman to the junction of River street and Common avenue.
Voted, to appropriate $150 for this purpose.
Article 4. Will the town instruct the road surveyor to expend the entire sum of two thousand four hundred and ninety dollars for regravelling or to top dress with crushed stone where necessary, and to tarvia and sand the main street from the Scituate town line to the Soldiers' Monu- ment at Norwell Center, as per vote at the annual town meeting on March 2, 1914.
Voted. to leave this matter with the highway surveyor to use his best judgment.
Article 5. Will the town appropriate a sum of money to sand and tarvia Main street, from the Soldiers' Monu- ment, westerly to the junction with Lincoln street.
A motion to appropriate $500 for this purpose was voted down.
Article 6. Will the town stop any person building lawns into the highway.
Voted, to pass over this article.
Article 7. Will the town instruct the highway sur- veyor to cause all unlawful obstructions to be removed from the sidewalks at once.
Voted, to pass over this article.
Article 8. Or act or do anything relative to the above. Voted. that this meeting be dissolved.
Attest : JOSEPH F. MERRITT, Town Cerk.
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STATE ELECTION, TUESDAY, NOV. 3
Pursuant to a warrant duly executed, the qualified voters of the Town of Norwell met at the Town Hall on Tuesday, November 3, 1914, at 6 A. M. Ezra E. Stetson, chair- man of the Board of Selectmen, acted as presiding election officer. The other election officers were Amos H. Til- den, William D. Turner, Frank W. Jones, John Whalen, Charles Scully and Charles W. Thomas. The polls were opened at 6 A. M. and closed at 12.45 P. M. Two hun- dred and sixty-nine names were checked on the lists as voting, and the same number of ballots were cast.
The result was declared by the town clerk as follows:
GOVERNOR
Alfred H. Evans, Prohibition
I
Samuel W. McCall, Republican 184
Arthur E. Reimer, Socialist Labor O
Samuel C. Roberts, Socialist I
Joseph Walker, Progressive Party
I7
David I. Walsh, Democratic
56
Blanks IO
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Edward P.Barry, Democratic
53
Grafton D. Cushing, Republican 182
Arthur Howard, Prohibition
3
James P. Magenis, Progressive Party
16
Sylvester J. McBride, Socialist
[
Patrick Mulligan, Socialist Labor
0
Blanks T 4
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SECRETARY
Percy B. Ball, Socialist 2
Frank J. Donahue, Democratic
52
James W. Holden, Socialist Labor
I
Albert P. Langtry, Republican
I73
William G. Merrill, Prohibition
2
Russell A. Wood, Progressive Party 20 Blanks 19
TREASURER
Charles L. Burrell, Republican
176
Joseph M. Coldwell, Socialist
I
Frederick Fosdick, Progressive Party
19
Thomas A. Frissell, Prohibition
I
Karl Lindstrand, Socialist Labor
0
Frederick W. Mansfield, Democratic Blanks 18
54
AUDITOR
Alonzo B. Cook, Republican
I73
Daniel R. Donovan, Socialist
I
John Drysdale, Prohibition O
Frederick P. Glazier, Progressive Party
I8
Fred E. Oelcher, Socialist Labor
O
Frank H. Pope, Democratic 53
Blanks 24
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Henry C. Attwill, Republican 172
Thomas J. Boynton, Democratic
54
John Hildreth, Progressive Party I8
Howard B. Rand, Prohibition
2
22
John Weaver Sherman, Socialist I
William Tayolr, Socialist Labor
O
Blanks 22
CONGRESSMAN-Sixteenth District
Thomas C. Thacher, Democratic 74
Thomas Thompson, Progressive Party
20
Joseph Walsh, Republican 1
I54
Blanks 21
COUNCILLOR-First District
John D. W. Bodfish, Progressive Party 19
James P. Doran. Democratic 47
David L. Parker. Republican I71
2
Elmer A. Wright. Socialist
Blanks 30
SENATOR-First Plymouth District
Charles S. Beal. Republican 163
Charles E. Burbank. Progressive Party 34
George E. Mansfield. Democratic 57
Forrest O. Nichols; Socialist I
Blanks 1,4
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT Second Plymouth District
I76
Ralph C. Ewell, Progressive Party
2.4
Edgar L. Hitchcock. Democratic 53
Blanks 16
Edmund Baker. Republican
COUNTY COMMISSIONER-Plymouth County Daniel E. Damon, Progressive Party 34
Jere B. Howard. Republican 167
23
Joseph E. Lacouture, Socialist I
John R. Sinclair, Democratic
46
Blanks 21
Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "An Act relative to vacations of laborers employed by cities and towns," be accepted ?
Yes
90
No
74
Blanks IO5
"Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen to make Saturday a half- holiday, without loss of pay, for laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the Commonwealth and otherwise to regulate their empolyment, be accepted?“ Yes
107
No
71
Blanks 97
"Shall the act passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, providing for the abolition of party enrolment at primary elections, be accepted ?" Yes
129
No 40
Blanks
100
Meeting dissolved.
Attest :
JOSEPH F. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
TOWN CLERKS' CONVENTION
At a meeting of the qualified voters of Representative District Number Two in the County of Plymouth, held on
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the third day of November, for the choice of Representa- tive to the General Court, Edmund Baker of Marshfield was elected to said office. Dated at Marshfield, November 13, 1914.
HERBERT I. MACOMBER, Town Clerk of Marshfield, JOSEPH F. MERRITT, Town Clerk of Norwell. WILLIAM A. KEY, Town Clerk of Pembroke.
GEORGE H. STEARNS, Town Clerk of Duxbury. JETSON WADE, Town Clerk of Scituate.
The vote was as follows :
Total Baker
Ewell
Hitchcock Bl'ks
Marshfield
276
209
2I
38
8
Scituate
365
180
45
125
I 5
Norwell
269
176
24
53
16
Duxbury
252
181
18
4I
I2
Pembroke
I52
78
46
24
4
-
-
- -
I314
824
I54
28I
55
Whole number of ballots
1314
Edmund Baker
824
Ralph C. Ewell
I54
Edgar L. Hitchcock
28I
Blanks
55
REGISTERED VOTERS At the close of registration, October 24, 1914, there
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were 509 assessed polls, 377 male voters and 4 women registered to vote for school committee.
ENROLLED MILITIA
There were 201 men enrolled for military duty, April Ist, 1914.
HUNTERS' LICENSES
There were 67 resident hunters' licenses issued during the year ending. December 31. 1914.
DOGS' LICENSED
For the year ending. December I. 1914.
Whole number licensed, 151.
134 Males at $2.00 $268 00
17 Females at $5.00
85 00
$353 00
Less clerks' fees, 151 licenses at 20c. 30 20
$322 80
Amount turned over to County Treasurer,
June 1, 1914 $138 60
Amount turned over to County Treasurer. Dec. 2, 1914 $184 20
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN NORWELL DURING THE YEAR 1914
March 8. Married in Marshfield, Percy Emanuel Joseph, and Bessie Florence Kaiser, both of Norwell, by Rev. Thomas H. Goodwin.
April 19. Married in Brockton, Calvin Shepherd West of Norwell, and Abbie Lydia Curtis of Brockton, by Rev. Albert M. Hyde.
April 29. Married in Norwell, Donald Porter and Daisy Belle Gemmell, both of Norwell, by Rev. Edward L. Houghton.
May 17. Married in Norwell, Walter Orcutt Hatch of of Rockland, and Edith Marion Thomas of Abington, by Rev. Will C. Harvey.
May 29. Married in Hanover, Richmond Litchfield. and Mabel Rose Osborne, both of Norwell, by Rev. Mel- vin S. Nash.
June 6. Married in Cohasset, Lemuel Francis Hardwick of Scituate, and Mary Elizabeth Ryan of Norwell, by Rev. Francis Moon.
June 17. Married in Scituate, James Edwin Dolan, and Olive Elizabeth Briggs, both of Norwell, by Rev. B. J. Stambaugh.
June 27. Married in Norwell, William Otis Henderson, and Bertha Lillian Bennett, both of Norwell, by Rev. Will C. Harvey.
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June 27. Married in Norwell, Charles Edwin Appleford of Whitman, and Winifred Morton Hunt of Norwell, by Rev. Frederick E. Kidder.
June 28. Married in Rockland, Joseph Tolman of Nor- well, and Bertha Wheeler Marks of Rockland, by Rev. Louis A. Walker.
July 8. Married in Hanover, Henry W. Ainslie and Mary Elizabeth Almeida, both of Norwell, by Rev. Melvin S. Nash.
July 9. Married in Scituate, Frederick Fredrickson of Norwell, and Gertrude Helstrom of Boston, by Rev. George L. Thurlow.
August 26. Married in Scituate, Elmer Nathaniel Leavitt of Norwell, and Ellen Lillian Litchfield of Scituate, by Rev. Howard Key Bartow.
August 22. Married in Hanover, George Lancaster Snowdale, and Jennie Gertrude Gardner, both of Nor- well, by Rev. Melvin S. Nash.
September 15. Married in Hanover, Henry Waterman, and Mary Martha Anderson, both of Norwell, by Rev. Marcus Carroll.
September 16. Married in Norwell. Edwin R. Studley of Norwell, and Adelia Frances Randall of Easton, by Rev. Melvin S. Nash.
September 22. Married in Cohasset, George Harold Stod- dard of Cohasset, and Emily Louise Wagner of Nor- well, by Rev. Frank B. McAllister.
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October 8. Married in Rockland, Jacob O. Bullard, and Hattie A. Gilmore, both of Norwell, by Rev. John C. Prince.
October 13. Married in Norwell, Lyman Ashley Mason of Abington, and Atha Agnes Burpee of Rockland, by Rev. Will C. Harvey.
October 24. Married in Norwell, Leon Esquera, and Mary Paira, both of Scituate, by Rev. Edward L. Houghton.
October 25. Married in Cohasset. Joseph Landry of Nor - wood, and Mabel Brown of Norwell, by Rev. F. A. Brogan.
October 31. Married in Hanover. Lloyd Stetson Shep- herd of Hanover, and Ruth Almeida Robertson of Norwell, by Rev. Edwin H. Gibson.
November 14. Married in Hanover. Alfred Howard Al- len and Gertrude Estelle Brooks, both of Norwell, by Rev. Marcus H. Carroll.
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN NORWELL DURING THE YEAR 1914
Date of Birth
Name of Child
Names of Parents
Maiden Name of Mother
February 8 . .
Emily Martha Smith
Charles H. and Josephine
Birne
February 21
Carleton Owen Gardner
Harry A. and Nina G.
Robinson
March 13
Edith Esther Bates
Henry W. and Nollie M.
Hammond
March 19
Francis Morton Ilill
Ernest S. and Catherine A.
Kennedy
April 1
Emerson Stoddard Merritt
Archie and Nollie
Stoddard
May 23
Horatio Nelson Spinney
Nelson P. and Marjory F.
Stetson
June 24
Priscilla Foster Pease
Howard M. and Lilliam M.
Brigham
June 30
Donald Munroe Coughlan
Charles E. and Hester S.
MacDougall
29
July 19
Leonard Leroy Hatch
George S. and Anna
Berger
Angust 11
Rachael Moulton
John A. and Annie
Damon
August 11
Ruth Moulton
John A. and Annie
Damon
Angust 23
George Frederick MacDougall, Jr.
George F. and Emma D.
Mills
October 4
Vincent Charles Lincoln
Lyman and Carrie
Bates
November 21
Dolan
James E. and Olive E.
Briggs
December 19
Norman Cedric Robbins
' Herbert E. and Emma A.
Eddy
1895
April 17
George Lancaster Snowdale
Albion and Sarah E.
Long
Angust 19 .
Catherine Smith
Arthur C. and Sarah
Belton
Blanks for returning births will be furnished by the Town Clerk.
DEATHS RECORDED IN NORWELL DURING THE YEAR 1914
DATE
NAME
Age
Cause of Death
Birthplace
Place of Deaths
Jan. 25
Samuel A. Lester
76
2 21
Chronic heart disease .
Connecticut
Norwell
Jan. 28
Abbie M. Collamore (Farrar)
74
16
Chronic interstitial nephritis .
Scituate
Norwell
Feb. 2
Charles Melvin Damon
63
9 27
Heart discase
Maine
Norwell
Feb. 8.
Charles A. Bates
66
6 8
Valvular disease of the heart
Cohasset
Norwell
Feb. 21
Lydia Ford (Damon)
70
..
6
Myocarditis, arterio sclerosis
S. Scituate
Norwell
Feb. 20
Matilda Wade Brown (Damon)
82
5
17
Old age
Scituate
Norwell
Feb. 23
Meriel R. Baker (Damon)
78
8 25
Septic pneumonia
Scituate
Norwell
Mar. 1
George O. Torrey
93
6
2
Senility artrio sclerosis
Scituate
Mar. 10
Charles H. Wilder
80
1 21
Chronic heart disease
Scituate
Norwell
Mar. 13
Joseph DeCost
43
.
Rupture of ascending arch of aorta
Nova Scotia
Braintree
Mar. 15
Harold Burton Bates
3
11 26
Malnutrition
Norwell
Norwell
Mar. 17
Austin W. Blanchard
3 4
Simple meningitis
Norwell
Norwell
Apr. 1
Charles E. McPherson
52
5 24
Bright's disease .
Stoneham
Norwell
Apr. 8
Caroline E. Turner
58
1
5
Progressive muscular atrophy
S. Scituate
Norwell
Apr. 8
Benjamin P. Foster
82
3 22
AAcute intestinal indigestion . .
Scituate
Norwell
May 14
Daniel D. Sprague
91
2
7
Bright's disease
Scituate
Norwell
May 20
Trene Baker (Snowdale)
72
9
5
|Chronic cystitis
Maine
Norwell
May 23
Edwin B. Reeves
64
.
..
Ulcer of stomach,
Maine
Norwell
May 24
L. Walter Litchfield
70
10 9
| Entero colitis
Scituate
Norwell
Y. M
D
30
Norwell
.
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DEATHS RECORDED IN NORWELL-Continued
DATE
NAME
Age
Cause of Death
Birthplace
Place of Deaths
June 9
Lucile E. Jones
17
5 15
Meningitis
Pawtucket, R.
Norwell
July 4
Maria Gerrish .
57
8
. .
Thrombus mesenteric vessel
Scituate
Boston
June 26
George A. Ayling
77
9
15
Arterio sclerosis
Boston
Norwell
Aug. 15
Florence D. Harvey (Derry)
30 . .
Post partum eclampsia
Vermont
Boston
Sept. 21
Benjamin B. Poole .
73
8
15
Apoplexy
Illionis
Norwell
Sept. 27
Wilbur Francis Gardner
66
8 24
General paresis
S. Scituate
Norwell
Nov. 11
Charles D. Barnard
76
. .
23
Arterio sclerosis
Nantucket
Norwell
Dec. 2
Susan F. Clapp (Ewell)
69
11
15
Cancer of left breast
Pembroke
Norwell
Dec. 3
Lillian Peabody Paine .
(Peabody)
61
11 14
Myocarditis
S. Groveland
Norwell
Dec. 11
Helen J. Stoddard (Cowing) . .
49
8 19
Acute Bright's disease
S. Scituate
Norwell
Dec 17
. .
Caroline C. Turner
79
7 17
Oesophageal stenosis
Scituate
Norwell
Y.
M
D
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BROUGHT INTO TOWN FOR BURIAL IN 1914
Date
Name
Age
Cause of Death
Place of Death
1913 Feb 20
Henrietta A. Litchfield
71
2 19
Perricious evacina with mixed sclerosis
Middleboro
Mar. 9
Abner White
9
9
1
Osteomyelitis
Boston
Mar. 31
Viiles S. Turner
59
. .
. .
Myocarditis
Boston
May 30
Ebenezer T. Fogg
52
3
4
Fracture of skull by train
Hull
May 30
Fanny M. Fogg.
45
3 12
Fracture of skull by train
Hull
June 1
Lyman B. Fitts
75
4
. .
Duxbury
1914
Hypostotic pneumnoia
Apr. 29
Mary Louise Briggs
72
1
Endocarditis bronchitis
Quincy
.Aug. 27
Mary C. Turner
53
8
6
Surgical shock
Boston
Nov. 10
Wealthea Alden Merritt
84
4
4
Myocarditis
Cohasset
Dec. 16
Lillian Langston .
40
·
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Boston
Dec. 18
Sarah Elizabeth Merritt
65
7
Lobar pneumonia
Scituate
1877
Nov. 5
Emma B. Poole
13
4
9
1902
Dec. 27
Lois Wilder
52
4 25
Cancer
Boston
Number of births, 14.
Number of marriages, 23.
Respectfully submitted,
Number of deaths, 30. JOSEPH F. MERRITT Town Clerk.
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Report of the Town Treasurer.
January 17, 1914, to January 16, 1915 For Year 1914.
RECEIPTS
To cash on hand
General funds
$397 44
High school fund
262 80
$660 24
From William H. Spencer, Collector of Taxes"
Assessment of 1912, Interest and
abatements
$31 28
Assessment of 1913, Interest and
abatements
7,588 68
Assessment of 1914, interest and
abatements
17,504 50
$25,124 46
Bay State St. Railway, Excise Tax
$382 75
From loans in anticipation of revenue, 1914 South Scituate Savings Bank $11,000 00 Rockland Trust Company 6,500 00
$17,500 00
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From loan under Chapter 119, Acts of 1913, to refund old notes. Trustees of "Otis and Coffin Funds" From Miscellaneous Sources.
$3,300 00
Superintendent of Almshouse $42 00
Second District Court, fines 168 96
Second District Court, refunded payment 8 26
Sealer of Weights and Measures 7 10
Estate of N. Cushing, moth refund 27 16
Estate of John F. Totman, board and expenses 124 82
Bay State St. Railway,removing snow 81 59
Mrs. John F. Wilder, telephone 8 56
E. E. Stetson, telephone 24
E. E. Marden, insurance on schoolhouse 4 00
Horace T. Fogg, tarvia
27 00
E. H. Sparrell and P. G. Power, tarvia 42 75
George S. Hatch, fish rights 60
School department, fire extinguisher 10 00
Joseph H. Curtis, fire extinguisher 10 00 Harry T. Fogg, fire extinguisher 10 00
Interest on Bank Balance 34 40
Quincy & Abington Fire In- surance Co. 26 00
Boston Sand & Gravel Co., right of way 250 00
$883 44
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For School Purposes Only.
County Treasurer, dog tax $288 59
State Treasurer, income of Mass. school fund 1,313 36
High School Fund
500 00
Tuition of state children
375 00
Superintendent of Schools 416 66
$2,893 61
From State Treasurer.
Public Service Corporation Tax $38 66
Public Service Corporation Tax 784 70
National Bank Tax 642 35
Street Railway Tax 514 30
Refund on Fire Equipment 6 13
Inspector of Animals
19 00
State Aid Refunded
1704 00
Burial of Soldier 37 00
Income for Sawyer lot in cemetery 8 00
$3,754 14
Aid Refunded.
Town of Scituate
$200 50
Town of Hanover
124 03
Town of Canton
179 52
Town of Hull
71 50
$575 55
Licenses. Charles L. Gleason, pedler's license $6 00 John Monahan, pedler's license 6 00
36
Eugene B. Tobey, pedler's license 6 00 Herbert Simmons, slaughtering
license I 00
Corthell Bros., slaughtering license I 00
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