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Article 20. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Town Accountant to close out the unexpended bal- ances on the following appropriations, the purpose of which has been completed.
Highway, Green Street balance $ .14 Highway, Main Street balance .45
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Highway, Winter Street
balance
.88
New School Building Com.
balance
1.93
Fire Department Equipment
balance
84.86
Total
$88.26
(Approved by the Advisory Board.)
Voted to authorize the Accountant to close out the above unexpended balances.
Article 21. To make allowances to town creditors.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men, to borrow money from time to time in anticipa- tion of the revenue of the financial year beginning Jan- uary 1, 1938, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Lows.
Voted 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 therefor payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for less than one year in · accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 23. 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, 1939, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Voted to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the
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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 therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for less than one year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 24. Will the town act with the town of Han- over to maintain electric lights at the junction of River Street, Norwell, and Broadway, Hanover, and at Assin- ippi.
Voted to act with Hanover to maintain lights at the above locations.
Article 25. Will the town give any instructions to town officers?
No instructions given.
Article 26. What salary and compensation will the town vote to pay all its elected officers in accordance with Section 108, Chapter 41, General Laws?
Voted the following :
Selectmen, per day $ 5.00
Assessors, per day 5.00
Board Public Welfare, per day 5.00
Tree Warden, per day
4.50
Highway Surveyor, per day
4.50
Town Clerk
600.00
Town Treasurer
500.00
Collector of Taxes
800.00
Secretary of School Committee
150.00
Other Members of School Committee, each
75.00
Secretary Board of Health
100.00
Other Members Board of Health, each 25.00
Moderator 10.00
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Milton H. Bird purchased the Fish Rights, paying $1 for the first and $2 for the second.
Subsequent Meeting for Election of Officers, Saturday, March 12, 1938, at 11 a.m .:
Article 27. To bring in their votes for a Town Clerk, for one year, one Selectman, one Assessor, and one men- ber of the Board of Public Welfare, for three years; a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, a Surveyor of Highways, five Constables, a Moderator and a Tree Warden for one year; one member of the School Committee for three years; one member of the Board of Health for three years; one Trustee for the William J. Leonard Library for three years.
Pursuant to the above article the qualified voters met and took action as follows: Moderator Cecil E. Whitney, presided. The election officers were Clifton S. Deane, Herbert A. Lincoln, William O. Henderson, Carlton O. Litchfield, Norman L. Wiggin. Alice C. Merritt, Mary DeMarchi, Floretta Whiting and Margaret Crowell.
The polls opened at 11 A. M. and closed at 6 P. M.
The number of names checked on the voting list, the number of ballots cast, and the number taken from the ballot box agreed-565. The ballot box register failed to register correctly.
On being canvassed and counted in open meeting they were found to be for the following persons :
MODERATOR (for one year)
Cecil E. Whitney 436
Henry Ford
1
Charles Pike 1 Blanks 127
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TOWN CLERK (for one year)
Joseph F. Merritt 480
Blanks 85
SELECTMAN (for three years)
Ralph H. Coleman 462
Blanks 103
ASSESSOR (for three years)
Ralph H. Coleman 451
Blanks
114
BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE (for three years)
Ralph H. Coleman 455
Blanks
110
TREASURER (for one year)
Herbert E. Robbins 445
Blanks 120
TAX COLLECTOR (for one year)
Alfred H, Prouty 435
Charles Baldwin 1
Earl Nash 1
Herbert Lincoln
1
Blanks
127
CONSTABLES (for one year)
J. Warren Foster 408
Frederick H. Hall 415
Lloyd B. Henderson 426
John T. Osborn 433
Bert I. Richardson
32
H. B. Atwater
1
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HIGHWAY SURVEYOR (for one year)
Douglas S. Mitchell 200
Perry H. Osborn 357
Blanks 8
SCHOOL COMMITTEE (for three years)
Nellie L. Sparrell 429
Charles Baldwin 1
Louise Goosby 1
Ida Ross
1
Blanks
133
BOARD OF HEALTH (for three years)
Horace D. Gaudette 420
Blanks
145
TREE WARDEN (for one year)
John T. Osborn 443
Arthur Merritt 1
Blanks
121
TRUSTEE WM. J. LEONARD MEMORIAL LIBRARY (for three years)
William O. Prouty 435
. Blanks .
130
Meeting dissolved.
Attest : JOSEPH F. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
Special Town Meeting, October 10-24, 1938
Pursuant to a warrant under the hands of the Select- men, the qualified voters met at the Cushing Memorial
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Town Hall, Monday, October 10, at 7.30 P. M. Moderator Cecil E. Whitney in the chair. After two adjournments for lack of a quorum the tellers reported one present October 24, at 8.15 P. M.
At this time action was taken as follows :
Article 1. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Old Age Assistance.
Recommended $3000. Approved by Advisory Board.
Voted to appropriate $3,000 for Old Age Assistance.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Public Welfare.
Recommended $2,000. Approved by Advisory Board. Voted to appropriate $2,000 for Public Welfare.
Article 3. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the removal of trees from the highway.
Recommended $975. Approved by Advisory Board.
Voted to appropriate $975 for removing trees fron highway.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used in connection with W. P. A. proposed project at the High School.
Recommended $906.90. Not approved by Advisory Board.
No action taken on this article.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used in connection with
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W. P. A. proposed project for Moth Control.
Recommended $1,030. Approved by Advisory Board.
Voted to appropriate $1,030.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used in connection with W. P. A. proposed project at Washington Street Ceme- tery.
No amount submitted. Not approved by Advisory Board.
No action taken on this article.
Voted to borrow the money necessary to carry out the above appropriations, in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1939, reaffirming the vote passed at the Annual Meeting, March 7, 1938, to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time, in antici- pation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1939, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for less than one year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Voted that the meeting be dissolved.
Attest :
JOSEPH F. MERRITT,
Town Clerk
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STATE ELECTION November 8, 1938
Pursuant to a warrant under the hands of the Select- men, duly executed by John T. Osborn, a Constable of Norwell, the qualified voters met at the Cushing Memorial Town Hall on the above date. Clifton S. Deane, Chair- man of the Selectmen, was Presiding Election Officer. The other officers were: Ralph H. Coleman, Herbert A. Lincoln, Carlton O. Litchfield, Norman L. Wiggin. Howard N. Jackson, Alice C. Merritt, Floretta Whiting, Mary DeMarchi and Arline Smith.
The polls opened at 6 A. M. and closed at 8 P. M.
883 ballots were cast, 11 of them were for absent voters The result of the voting was as follows:
GOVERNOR
Henning A. Blomen, Socialist Labor Party ()
Roland S. Bruneau, Independent 1
Jeffrey W. Campbell, Socialist
James M. Curley, Democratic 6
119
William A. Davenport, Independent Tax Reform 0
Otis Archer Hood, Communist Party
Charles L. Manser, Sound, Sensible Government. 0
William H. McMasters, Townsend Recovery Plan 1 5
Leverett Saltonstall, Republican
743
George L. Thompson, Prohibition
0
Blanks 8
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Manuel Blank, Communist Party 1
James Henry Brennan, Democratic 113
Horace T. Cahill, Republican 742
Freeman W. Follett, Prohibition 1
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Joseph F. Massidda, Socialist 5
George L. McGlynn, Socialist Labor Party
Blanks 20
SECRETARY
Frederic W. Cook, Republican 755
Hugo DeGregory, Communist Party 3
Katherine A. Foley, Democratic 93
Eileen O'Connor Lane, Socialist 6
Malcolm T. Rowe, Socialist Labor Party 1
Blanks 25
TREASURER
Frank L. Asher, Communist Party 2
Albert Sprague Coolidge, Socialist 9
Owen Gallagher, Democratic 85
William E. Hurley, Republican 741
Ralph Pirone, Socialist Labor Party 1
Blanks 31
AUDITOR
Thomas H. Buckley, Democratic 137
Michael C. Flaherty, Socialist 5
Horace I. Hillis, Socialist Labor Party 1
Michael Tuysuzian, Communist Party 1
Guy S. Williams, Prohibition 7
Russell A. Wood, Republican 687
Blanks 0
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Clarence A. Barnes, Republican 675
Paul A. Dever, Democratic 166
Joseph C. Figueiredo, Communist Party 1
George F. Hogan, Prohibition
0
Alfred Baker Lewis, Socialyist 6
Fred E. Oelcher. Socialist Labor Party 1
Blanks 33
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CONGRESSMAN (Fifteenth District)
John D. W. Bodfish, Democratic 151
Charles L. Gifford, Republican 691
Blanks 41
COUNCILLOR (Second District)
Saul Friedman, Socialist 7
Clayton L. Havey, Republican 708
John J. Sawtelle, Democratic 105
Blanks 63
SENATOR (Norfolk and Plymouth District)
Newland H. Holmes, Republican 709
Noel C. King, Democratic 108
Blanks
66
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT (Second Plymouth District)
George W. Duffey, Democratic 111
Nathaniel Tilden, Republican 718
Blanks 54
DISTRICT ATTORNEY (Southeastern District)
Edmund R. Dewing, Republican 721
Daniel L. Kelleher, Jr., Democratic 110
Blanks
52
COUNTY COMMISSIONER (Plymouth County)
Louis A. Reardon, Democratic 147
George M. Webber, Republican 681
Blanks 55
COUNTY COMMISSSIONER (Plymouth County-to fill vacancy)
Elva M. Bent, Republican 700
William Leslie Ross, Democratic 117
Blanks 66
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SHERIFF (Plymouth County)
Albert M. Heath, Democratic 110
Charles H. Robbins, Republican 717
Blanks 56
QUESTION No. 1
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
Shall an amendment to the Constitution providing for biennial sessions of the General Court and for a biennial budget which is further described as follows :-
This amendment annuls all existing provisions of the Constitution and its prior amendments which require annual sessions of the General Court, commonly known as the Legislature, and provides for biennial sessions in their place. It also provides that the budget of all pro- posed expenditures of the Commonwealth shall be so prepared as to cover two fiscal years instead of only one as at present required,-which proposed amendment was approved by the General Court and in a joint session of the two branches held May 27, 1936, received 141 votes in the affirmative and 117 in the negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 19, 1937, received 158 votes in the affirmative and 112 in the negative,-be approved ?
Yes 341
No
234
Blanks 308
QUESTION No. 2 LAW PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION
Shall the proposed measure which provides that in any city or town which accepts its terms, the licensing author- ities shall establish free public taxicab stands for the use of all taxicabs and motor vehicles for hire whose owners
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are licensed within such city or town, and shall abolish all other forms of taxicab stands on any public highway within such city or town,-which was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 96 in the affirm- ative and 109 in the negative and in the Senate by a vote of 4 in the affirmative and 35 in the negative,-be approved ?
Yes 271
No 335
Blanks 277
1. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whisky, rum, gin, malt beverages, wines and all other alcoholic bever- ages) ?
Yes 285
No 439
Blanks 159
2. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of wines and malt beverages (wines and beer, ale and all other malt beverages) ?
Yes
356
No
360
Blanks 167
3. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises ?
343
Yes
363
No
Blanks 177
1. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed horse races be permitted in this county ?
435
Yes
No 275
Blanks 173
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2. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed dog races be permitted in this county ?
Yes
359
No
339
Blanks
185
Meeting dissolved.
Attest :
JOSEPH F. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
Town Clerks' Convention
At a meeting of the Town Clerks in the several towns comprising the Second Plymouth District, held at the Clerk's office in Marshfield on Friday, November 18, 1938, Nathaniel Tilden of Scituate was elected Repre- sentative in General Court. His certificate was signed by the Clerks of said district. The vote was :
Duffy Tilden
Blanks
Total
Marshfield
140
1081
40
1261
Norwell
111
718
54
883
Scituate
560
1542
83
2185
Duxbury
153
901
55
1109
Pembroke
114
581
28
723
Kingston
331
756
100
1187
1409
5579
360
7348
George W. Duffy of Scituate
Nathaniel Tilden of Scituate
5579
Blanks
360
Total
7348
Shirley R. Crosse, Town Clerk of Marshfield
Joseph F. Merritt, Town Clerk of Norwell
William W. Wade, Town Clerk of Scituate
Joseph T. C. Jones, Town Clerk of Duxbury
George W. Cushman, Town Clerk of Kingston William A. Key, Town Clerk of Pembroke
1409
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REGISTERED VOTERS
At the close of Registration, October, 1938, there were 991 voters on the list.
ENROLLED MILITIA
299 men were enrolled for military duty in 1938.
DOGS LICENSED TO DECEMBER 28, 1938
10 Males (1937 Books) at $2.00 $ 20.00
Clerk's fees, 10 licenses at .20 $ 2.00
Paid Town Treasurer $ 18.00
90 Males at $2.00
$180.00
16 Females at $5.00
80.00
29 Spayed at $2.00 .
58.00
2 Kennels at $25.00 50.00
$368.00
Clerk's fees, 137 licenses at .20
27.40
Paid Town Treasurer
$340.60
-
Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Licenses, 1938
21 Resident Fishing Licenses at $2.00 $ 42.00
66 Resident Hunting Licenses at $2.00 132.00
23 Resident Sporting Licenses at $3.25 74.75
6 Women's and Minors' Licenses at $1.25 .
7.50
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1 Trapping License at $5.25 5.25
$261.50
10 Resident Sporting and Trapping Licenses (Free)
Fees, 117 Licenses at .25 29.25
Paid Division of Fisheries and Game . . $232.25
Marriages Recorded in Norwell During the Year 1938
April 3. Married in Whitman, Clarence Leland Damon of Norwell and Florence Belle Chesley of Whitman, by Rev. Carl R. Barth.
April 19. Married in Abington, Weston Oakley Nichols of Norwell and Winona May Peacock of Dux- bury, by Rev. Merrill C. Ward.
June 5. Married in Chelsea, Peter James Smellie of Norwell and Agnes Muriel Connolly of Chelsea, by Rev. Daniel J. Scully.
June 10. Married in Norwell, Lawrence Merton Turner of North Abington and Madeline Lamson MacDonald of Norwell, by Rev. Alfred J. Wilson.
June 25. Married in Hanover, Durwood Parker of Taunton and Delia Gaudette of Norwell, by Rev. V. A. Loescher.
June 30. Married in Hanover, Harold West Francis of Norwell and Mary Elizabeth Moulton of Hanover, by Rev. V. A. Loescher.
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July 12. Married in Weymouth, Walter Gordon Haslett of Norwell and Anastasia Fisher of Weymouth, by Rev. Joseph Rodney Newton.
July 20. Married in Rockland, Spencer Percival Joseph of Norwell and Ellen Lincoln Merritt of Scituate. by Rev. Clarence E. Southard.
Sept. 6. Married in Springfield, Nova Scotia, Perley C. Keene and Bessie E. Parr, both of Norwell, by Rey. Henry L. Strothard.
Sept. 17. Married in Norwell, Robert Luther Litch- field of Scituate and Janice Arline Ringe of Norwell, by Rev. Alfred J. Wilson.
Oct. 1. Married in Weymouth, Everett Thomas McPherson and Eulalie Estelle Lebrosquay, both of Nor- well, by Clayton B. Merchant, Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace.
Oct. 6. Married in Norwell, Alton Russell Stoddard and Charlotte Elsie Mesheau, both of Norwell, by Rev. Alfred J. Wilson.
Oct. 14. Married in Quincy, A. Forest Mitchener of Lewiston, Me., and M. Mildred Fowler of Norwell, by Emery L. Crane, City Clerk and Justice of the Peace.
Oct. 31. Married in Norwell, Richard J. Maxwell of Norwell and Welthea Stoughton of Cohasset, by Rev. Alfred J. Wilson.
Nov. 5. Married in Norwell, John R. Quick and Janet L. Carman, both of Freeport, N. Y., by Rev. Fred H. Rudder.
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Nov. 25. Married in Groveland, Lewis Edward Bates of Ashfield and Dorothy Louise Nelson of Norwell, by Rev. Hollis M. Bartlett.
Nov. 6. Married in Salem, Peter Sawchuk of Peabody and Helen Ann Mazur of Norwell, by Rev. Nicholas N. Metropolsky.
Dec. 24. Married in Scituate, Wilbur Nichols Burns of Norwell and Vivian Charlotte Hatch of Scituate, by Rev. Lewis W. Sanford.
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BIRTHS RECORDED IN NORWELL DURING THE YEAR 1938
DATE OF BIRTH
NAME OF CHILD
NAMES OF PARENTS
MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
PLACE OF BIRTH
February 10
Peter Hathaway Clark
John and Mary Jane
Dewey
Boston
April 28
Carolyn Mary Doe
Albert and Eugenia
Shaw
Quincy
January 13
Evelyn Higgins
William and Kathleen
Maguire
Quincy
January 19
Alton Lewis Mesheau
Jas. Kenneth and Helen Wanda
Haggerty
Weymouth
January 20
David Cheever
Frederick L. and Chris W.
Gladwin
Brockton
February 2
Nancy Trafton Henderson
Lloyd B. and Ruth
Rowell
Boston
May 20
James Marchblank Blake
Malcolm S. and Constance
Bailey
Boston
June 11
John Irving Henderson
Horace F. and Mildred R.
Robbins
Whitman
June 3
Theresa Louise Monti
Anthony and Mary A.
Cronin
Quincy
June 16
Thomas Edmund Osborne
Everett F. and Marion
Cann
Weymouth
June 26
Janet Helen Tingliay
Harry N. and Faith
Young
Norwell
July 7
Shirley Anne Duncan
Peter A. and Olga E.
Roman
Weymouth
July 17
Marilyn Malatesta
James J. and Doris A.
Danielson
Weymouth
July 27
George Edward Cavanagh
George F. and Monica M.
Rice
Norwell
July 30
Judith Kathleen Lawrence
Benjamin D. and Hazel Loretta
Dill
Boston
August 20
Ronald Wallace Yourell
William A. and Lizzie M.
Damon
Weymouth
August 28
Joan Frances Molla
Robert L. and Camilla
DeFabia
Norwell
September 29
Sandra Jane Page
John G., Jr., and Charlotte
Franklin
Weymouth
October 27
David Thomas Brown
Thomas E. and Marion H.
Hardwick .
Whitman
March 2, 1855
Amos H. Tilden
Amos H. and Martha
Hayden
South Scituate
Jan. 24. 1878 March 8, 1915
Sara Green
James and Bridget
'Costella
South Scituate
John Melvin Prince
John and Mary A.
Prince
Norwell
Nov. 25, 1937
James Francis Lyons
James F. and Alice
McCarthy
Norwell
The Town Clerk herewith gives notice as required by law that he is prepared to furnish blanks for returning births. Errors and omissions in the above list should be reported to him. It is very important that all births be recorded.
DEATHS RECORDED IN NORWELL DURING THE YEAR 1938
DATE OF DEATH
NAME
AGE Y. M. D. .
CAUSE OF DEATH
BIRTHPLACE
PLACE OF DEATH
January 12
William Sweetser Davis
79 6
4 Arterio Sclerosis, Cardiac Failure, Chronic Bronchitis
.. February 1 February 22 February 24 March · 6
Palmer Schultz Henry McHugh
70
6
8 Bronchial Asthma, Resp. Failure
73 10 18 Diabetes, Nephritis, Myocarditis
Lulu May Young (Verge)
Alpheus W. Thomas
77
0 12 Lobar Pneumonia, Mitral Heart Dis- ease
South Scituate
Norwell
April 23
Carrie Anna Woodman (Brad- ley)
78
7 0 Cerebral Hemorrhage, Arterio Scle- rosis, Chronic Bronchial Asthma .... 8 Cerebral Hemorrhage, Myocardial De- generation
Boston
Norwell
June 1
Elizabeth A. Trenholme (Mac- Donald).
76
Bronchial Pneumonia
Bayfield, N .B. Scituate
Malden Norwell
June 9
Albert Warren Litchfield
82 9
9 Hypostatic Pneumonia, Old Age
June 19
George Francis Knowlton
65 2
8 Arteria Sclerosis, Coronary Occlusion, Cardiac Failure
Cambridge
Norwell
July 13
Mary Allerton Kilbourn (Cush- man)
4 78 3 Cardio, Bladder Obstruction, Inflam- mation, Senility 43 11 23|Heart Disase presumably, Coronary Sclerosis, Occlusion
Sumner, Me.
Norwell
July 14
William Henry Schenck
Boston
Norwell
7
Leona, Mich.
Norwell
May 19
Carolyn Murray Queen
52
54 10 21 Carcinoma of Left Breast -
Boston Nova Scotia Canada Canada
Sharon Norwell Norwell Norfolk
DEATHS RECORDED IN NORWELL DURING THE YEAR 1938
DATE OF DEATH
NAME
AGE Y. M. D.
CAUSE OF DEATH
BIRTHPLACE
PLACE OF DEATH
July 29
Anna Marie Schiffendecker
67 7 11 Metastatic Carcinoma, Intestinal struction
Ob-
Cambridge
Norwell
July 29
Zelie Blanche Wood (DeMon- terlle)
54 2
8 Cancer of Right Breast
New York South Weymouth
Norwell Norwell
About May 9 Everett L. Torrey September 10 Albert Irving Farrar
53 10 11 Strangulation by Hanging (suicide) .. 6 70 9 Cardiac Failure, Arterio Sclerosis, Duodenal Ulcer, Pleurisy
South Scituate
Norwell
September 24
Fred R. Burnside, Jr.
20 8
7 Fractured Skull, Internal Automobile Accident
Injuries,
Boston Boston
Scituate Weymouth
September 13 October 6
William P. Bullard Frank Bailey
54
0 Cardiac Failure, Arterio Sclerosis Shock, clothing ignited in fire on dump, Hypertensive Heart Disease
Newbury, Vt.
Boston
October 15
Willard Thatcher
80
5 19 Chronic Myocarditis, Chronic Nephri- tis
Canada
Norwell
October 26
Esther L. Berry (Mann)
26 10 18 Typhoid Fever with Ulcerative Colitis, Bronchial Pneumonia
Randolph Yarmouth, N. S.
Boston Norwell
October 29
Elizabeth Ann Archer (Chute) Louise J. Vila
94
6 Myocarditis, Arterio Sclerosis Fracture of left Clavicle and Scapula from .accidental fall , Bronchial Pneumonia
Scituate
Taunton
November 25
Edna S. Coulter (Swift)
39 10
2 Acute Bronchitis, Bronchial Pneu- monia
Revere
Weymouth
69
11
96 11
November 3
BROUGHT INTO TOWN FOR BURIAL IN 1938
DATE OF DEATH
NAME
AGE Y. M. D.
CAUSE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
NAME OF CEMETERY
January 8
Charles Elmer Gardner
61
Chronic Nephritis, Injuries from auto collision
Boston
March 10
Edith T. Remington
56
0 16 Cancer of Breast
Brockton
Washington Street
March 15
Mary A. Brown
93
8
6 Lobar Pneumonia
Marshfield
Washington Street
March 22
Stillborn
Stillborn
Weymouth
Washington Street
April 27
Mary Jane Stetson
84
1
5
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Brockton
Pinehurst
May 24
Lloyd T. Hammond
78
2 23 Coronary Thrombosis
Leominster
First Parish
July 2
Lucy Ellen Ford
81
Coronary Thrombosis
Rockland
First Parish
July 3
Alvira S. Pray
72
6 18 Cancer of Pancreas
Boston
Washington Street
September 16
Sophia H. Sawyer
90
9 28 General Cerebral Arteria Sclerosis
Boston
Washington Street
October 3
Carol Jackson
8
5 27 Encephalitis (Equine)
Boston
Washington Street
November 22
Edward A. Vining
78 10 20 Senility
Hanover
Washington Street
Number of Births, 23. Number of Marriages, 18. Number of Deaths, 24.
Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH F. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
TOWN OF NORWELL
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
TOWN OFFICERS
Clifton S. Deane, Selectman, Assessor and
Overseer of Public Welfare. $ 600.00
Herbert A. Lincoln, Selectman, Assessor and Overseer of Public Welfare. 337.50
Ralph H. Coleman, Selectman, Assessor and Overseer of Public Welfare. 540.00
Herbert E. Robbins, Treasurer
500.00
Alfred H. Prouty, Tax Collector
785.00
Joseph F. Merritt, Town Clerk
522.50
Joseph F. Merritt, Registrar of Voters-Clerk
35.00
Edward B. Haskins, Registrar of Voters ....
25.00
Nellie L. Sparrell, School Committee-Clerk ..
150.00
John M. Lind, School Committee 75.00
75.00
Benjamin Loring, School Committee
Cecil E. Whitney, Moderator 10.00
Kenneth A. Torrey, Town Accountant
400.00
John T. Osborn, Constable.
115.00
Frederick H. Hall, Constable
159.50
Lloyd B. Henderson, Constable
39.00
Robert Goosby, Police.
39.00 1
Francis D. Hines, Police.
18.00
Carleton Litchfield, Election Officer
15.00
W. O. Henderson, Election Officer 10.00
Norman Wiggin, Election Officer 15.00
Floretta Whiting, Election Officer 15.00
Mary DeMarchi, Election Officer 10.00
Alice Merritt, Election Officer 15.00
Margaret Crowell, Election Officer 5.00
Bert I. Richardson, Constable
8.00
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EIGHTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
Howard Jackson, Election Officer
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