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CHARLES D. NEVENS, Treasurer of District.
Auditors' Report.
Cornish, N. H., Feb. 22, 1904.
We hereby certify that we have examined the accounts of the Selectmen, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Tax Collector, Trustees of Foss and Kimball Funds, Trustees of Cemetery Funds, Trustees of Public Library, School District Treasurer's' Report, Treasurer of the Memorial Day Fund, Board of Health, Town Historian, Trustees of the Mercer Fund and the Charles C. Beaman Fund, and find all of the accounts correctly cast and properly vouched.
EDWARD O. DAY, ELWIN W. QUIMBY, S
Auditors.
Report of the School Board.
TO THE INHABITANTS OF CORNISH :
The period having been reached at which this report is due it is with pleasant reflections that we are enabled to say that your schools during the past year have shown an increased interest over those of previous years.
Having secured the services of teachers who stand in the front rank as educators for the more advanced schools, the result of their work has fully met our expectations, and a good degree of improve- ment has been made in all of the schools. The teachers, it is fair to say, have worked faithfully. The failing, in a few instances, we have most reason to complain of, was the order. It is a fact this important element is too much neglected. If all scholars are made to understand at home they are to attend school regularly and punctually, that the rules of school are for them to obey, we certainly should see a greater advancement in our schools. We would gladly report the conditions and progress of the several schools and the merits of each teacher as they appeared to us on visiting them, but space will not allow.
We need the best of teachers and the support of the inhabitants, and by mutual effort we can hope for larger achievements.
Tax payers should not feel that a little assistance rendered our school is a burden. To secure the best teachers we must compete with the surrounding towns and pay living wages. We would urge upon parents and citizens to visit their schools oftener. We are led to believe by so doing much fault finding would cease.
We are pleased to state that the children of school age have attended school as required by law, with a few exceptions, and have , had the advantage of thirty-one weeks schooling, save Division 7 which closed after twenty-six weeks.
Parents have very kindly assisted the School Board in bringing about this result.
We would call your attention to the important consideration which is agitating the minds of educators of our state, viz. the
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decimation of our schools. The older portion of our citizens can recall the time when it was necessary to locate school houses where we now find them; and that these houses were filled. But times have changed. Communities have become nearly depopulated. Our scholars are growing less and less. The report of the 'Truant Officer's enumeration of scholars in town between 5 and 16 years of age is boys 59, girls 72. There is no prospect of our small schools increasing from local population.
Now, in the language of the good woman of Revolutionary times, who, when the British were marching to Lexington, called out to her boy, "Jonathan, get up, the red coats are coming; something must be done." We say something must be done. .
The law passed the last general court requiring the School Board to see a United States flag placed in a proper manner over every school house when schools were in session has been complied with except Division 9. No school was in session at the time. Much credit is due citizens, teachers and scholars in contributing staffs and erecting them with appropriate exercises.
The house in Division 5 has been thoroughly repaired and reseated ; so that it is now considered the prettiest room in town. The citizens contributed in aiding the work in many ways.
While the cost exceeds the amount of repair fund left over, we felt justified in completing the work. Other repairs have been made in Divisions 2, 3, 6, 9, 10 and 11. We would recommend the house in Division 3 be repaired and painted.
In closing our connection with the schools in town, we would acknowledge our obligation to the citizens for many expressions of interest manifested. Also the teachers and scholars for their cour- tesy and entertaining exercises we have heard in the school room.
School meeting March 12th, at one o'clock p. m., Town Hall. See posters.
JOSIAH DAVIS,
School Board
AMY I. HILLIARD, of
REBECCA BARTLETT, Cornish.
Roll of Perfect Attendance.
ONE TERM.
Edith Hammond, Haidee Williams, Lucy Ruggles, Ida Chad- bourne, Harold Ruggles, Willie Richardson, Harold Hammond, Mildred Hurd, Walter A. Wood, Helen I. Fifield, Mary R. Fifield, Florence M. Pardy, Harry E. Butman, Ernest L. Fifield, Walter C. Blake, Ray F. Blake, Cyril Hunt, Herbert I. Deming, John Bartlett, Ralph Wood, Ruth Bartlett, Edith Judd, Ada Judd, Ethel Diggins, Myrtie Strickland, Zebbie Fountain, Alice Benway, Lulu Thornton, Gladys M. Johnson, Rena Howard, Ralph Howard, Day Benway, Clayton E. Leslie, Nellie M. Nelson, Hattie E. Nelson, Bertie E. Nelson, Harry J. Nelson, Ruth L. Walker, Ernest E. . Redman, Alfred H. Sherwin, Gladys S. Johnson.
TWO TERMS.
Flora Thrasher, Nina Thrasher, Flora Jordan, Charlie Johnson, Harry Hurd, Lancing A. Reed, Beatrice M. Hurd, Sylvia A. Ken- yon, George I. Rowe, Hattie E. Dow, Edgar A. Plummer, Gilbert A. Pardy, Clarence E. Drew, Bernice Young, Agnes Huggins, Ada A. Weld, Irl V. Young, Willie Young, Leonard Smith, Charley A. Chase, Joseph Chase, Ford Child, George E. Hunt, Mildred Hunt, Leigh Hunt, Olive Hunt, Ruth Chase, Margaret Curtis, Ethel Wil- liams, Marion Peaslee, Daisy H. Redman, Beatrice F. Sherwin.
THREE TERMS.
Ralph Chadbourne, Byron Jordan, Carroll E. Kenyon, Mabel Wark, Ethel R. Barton, Winnie M. Blake, Jessie B. Deming, Fred James, Marjorie M. Johnson.
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Statistical Report.
School Divisions.
TEACHERS.
Weeks.
Wages per month.
No of scholars.
Average attendance.
Visits of School Board.
No. in Reading.
No. in Spelling.
No. in Penmanship.
No. in Arithmetic.
No. in Geography.
No. in History.
No. in Algebra.
No. in Physiology.
No. in Grammar.
Visitors.
18
2
Ina E. Bailey
11
9
7
3
9
9
9
8
8
6
1
9
7
10
Ada E. Weld
10
8
7
4
8
8
8
6
2
6
2
9
D. May Grout
10
24
7
6
5
7
7
7
7
6
6
G
6
2
3
Luella F. Smith
11
26
18
15
5
16
16
16
16
16
16
9
25
Alice E. Bailey
10
26
17
13
5
17
17
17
17
15
2
17
10
19
Amy L. French
10
22
14
13
4
14
14
14
14
10
14
7
28
Ina E. Bailey
11
24
13
13
3
13
13
13
13
10
7
4
12
Ina E. Bailey
10
14
12
4
14
14
14
14
11
8
6
16
6
Emma Cashion
11
32
25
23
3
25
25
25
25
19
10
16
37
Nellie M. Davis
10
37
24
22
5
24
24
24
24
21
4
14
28
* Nellie M. Davis Grace E. Colby
6
32
26
2
26
26
26
22
19
4
20
14
7
7
Lena C. Nevens
11
22
12
11
3
12
12
13
12
12
11
3
3
7
G
8
Rosetta A. R. Barton
10
22
13
12
4
13
13
13
13
10
10
13
9
20
Rosetta A. R. Barton
10
24
12
10
4
12
12
12
12
9
8
12
8
3
9
Rosetta A. R. Barton
10
20
11
8
5
11
11
11
11
10
1
11
10
8
10
Mary E. Goward Mary E. Goward
10
24
15
13
4
15
15
15
12
11
5
2
2
9
12
Jennie M. Cashion
10
24
15
11
5
15
15
14
11
11
2
1
5
25
11
Ella I. Richardson
11
22
17
13
5
15
15
15
15
15
13
4
14
25
Ella I. Richardson
10
24 16
13
3
16
10
16
16
11
11
9
11
15
Ella I. Richardson
10
24 11
9
5
11
11
11
11
10
7
6
7
21
*Deceased.
+6 2-5.
#27 1-5.
1
Ada E. Weld
11 1$22
8
7
3
8
8
8
8
1
2
Ethel A. Martin
10
$26
16
15
5
16
16
16
16
14
3
. 1
8
12
1
12
2
27
Ella M. Buswell Lucy L. Eastman
10
22
13
11
5
8
4
9
9
9
7
G
7
7
5
11
22
13
10
2
13
13
13
10
10
7
4
7
28
12
12
12
3
1 1
23 20
4
37
24
9
7
.
5
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VITAL STATISTICS.
In compliance with an act of the Legislature passed June Session, 1887, requiring "Clerks of Towns and Cities to furnish a transcript of the record of Births, Marriages and Deaths, to the municipal officers, for publication in the Annual Report," we submit the following :
Births Registered in the
Town of Cornish, N. H., for the Year Ending December
31, 1903.
1
Sex and Condition.
Date-1903.
Name of the
Name of Father.
Maiden Name of Mother.
Color of
Parents.
Residence
Parents.
Occupation of Father.
Birthplace and age of Father.
Birthplace and age of Mother.
May
10
M
6
Perry F. Burr
Abbie R. Hebard Annie Power
Farmer
Cornish
31|Cornish 42 St. Johns, N. F. 34 32 28| England
32
May
13
M
2
James D. Bryant Clifford C. Phillips
Lizzie Begnon
Valet
England
June
17
F
5
June
27
M
1
19
July
19 Edmund T.
M
2
Wentworth Stuart
Sadie Chase
Farmer
Windsor, Vt. Cornish
25 Cornish 33 Ireland
33
July 27
F
4
Peter T. Saunders
Nellie V. Spaulding
Coachman
Aug.
2
M
1
Earl W. Brown
Nora C. Benway Helen W. Beaman
N. Y. Lawyer
Chicago, Ill,
36 Calcutta, India 37 Cornish
22
Sept.
5
M
2
Frank H. Williams
Norma K. Chapman
Farmer
Boston, Mass.
25 West Paris, Me. 20
Sept.
12
Grace Ayers
Farmer
Hartland, Vt.
23 Manchester
20
Sept.
22
Oct.
Edwin L. Child
Ida L. Ford
Butter Maker
Cornish
60 Croydon 36 Danbury
36
Oct.
Frank C. Harris
Carmen Gordon
Farmer
Albany, N. Y.
32|W. Chazey, N.Y. 27
Oct.
26
Daniel H. Weld
Lizzie M. Sturtevant
Butcher
Cornish
39 Hartland, Vt.
25
Oct.
31
Fred L. Fifield
Ella C. Thayer
Farmer
Plainfield
42|Brooklyn, N. Y. 35
Nov.
18
3
F
Edmund B. Hunt
M. Maude Soule
Clerk
Cornish
39 Hong Kong
37
Dec. 5
Female.
Child. (if any.)
Male.
Living or Stillborn
No. of Child, 1st, 2d, etc.
Color.
White.
F. P. Dunne
Margeret Abbot
N. Y. Journalist
Sept. Sept.
M
Living.
1
Herbert C. Lakin
Worcester, Mss. 31 New York City
26
1 Hettie B.
F
1
1
1
2
Fred Williams Benj. F. Lindsay Stephen M. Thornton
Evangeline Child
Laborer
19 Aberdeen, Sctld 34|W. Windsor, Vt. 20 Windsor, Vt.
Farmer
21 Unity
Aúg.
14
F
1
Henry W. Dana
Margeret Sullivan
Laborer
Claremont, N. H. 19
Gertie Spencer
Cornish.
White.
Cornish.
Aurilla A. Hurd
Croydon
3
3
3
28 James B. 6 Adelbert C. 19 Edna L.
26
2
Plainfield
of
Marriages Registered in the Town of Cornish, N. H.,
for the Year ending
December
31, 1903.
1903.
Place of Marriage.
Name and Surname of Groom and Bride.
Residence of each at time of Marriage.
Color
Occupation of Groom and Bride.
Place or Birth of each.
Name of Parents.
Sing. or Wid. Name, Residence and 1st or 2d marriage. official station of per- son by whom married.
April
13| Windsor, Vt.
Charles E. Bryant Ellen Woods
Cornish
Farmer
|Cornish
Ireland
Edward Bryant Julia J. Gilkey John Woods Catherine O'Neil
J. C. McLaughlin, Clergyman, Windsor, Vt.
Deaths Registered in the
Town of Cornish, N. H., for
the Year ending
December 31, 1903.
Date 1903
Name and Surname of the deceased.
Age.
Place of Birth.
Occupation.
Name of Father.
Maiden Name of Mother.
Disease, or Cause of Death.
Name and P. O. Address of Physician reporting death.
Jan. 8 Alfred Fitch
Jan. 25 Almina Streeter
[41| 7|26 Cornish 43 5 28
Farmer
Chester B. Fitch- Norman A. Deming
Amy B. Westgate Lucy Bartlett
Cancer Consumption Broken Hip
D. Richmond, Windsor, Vt A. L. Marden, Claremont J. D. Brewster, Windsor, Vt Claremont
June
10 Eva L. Jordan
84 5 58 3 2 Claremont 49 3|16 Plainfield
Laborer
Farmer
Rufus G. Newton Horace L. Deming John P. Small 5 .. Frank H. Williams
Laura Newton Caroline P. Hilliard Laura A. Davis Norma K. Chapman
Pleuresy
Sept. 6
Williams
1 Cornish Plainfield
Sept. Sept.
25 James Brocklebank 29 Delilah F. Collins
74
84 3 18 Croydon
Christopher Forehand Betsey Walker Amos Fox
Cerebral Apoplexy
E. S. Munger, Windsor, Vt
Nov.
10 Mary J. Chapman
62 3 15 Plainfield
Run over by cars
H. C. Sanders, Claremont
Nov.
27 Elizabeth M. Walker 56 7 Cabot, Vt.
Dec.
27|Lucy L. Hall
74 4 16 Cornish
March Hall
Chase Choate
Neuralgia of Heart Pneumonia Bronchitis
Claremont E. S. Munger, Windsor, Vt
Dec.
27 George Jackson
89
3 28
Zu z single, marr'd
Farmer Farmer
Joseph Hilliard <
Roxana Day
Heart and Kidney Diseases L. Jarvis,
March 17 Hiram D. Hilliard
69 7 Cornish 9
March 31 Zilpha Hunter
Senile Dementia Heart Disease
G. W. Hunt, Cornish Flat Leonard Jarvis, Claremont 4
May 16 Helon R. Walker
Chronic Diarrhoea
G. W. Hunt,
Cornish Flat
June
14 William E. Deming 55 1|28 Cornish
Pyelonephristic
June
20 Clementine M. Hunt 19 10 25 Plainfield
Immaturity
J. M. Gill, Hanover, N. H Wm. A. Brady, Hartland, Vt Windsor, Vt Cornish Flat E. S. Munger, Windsor, Vt D. Richmond, G. W. Hunt,
Gastritis Cerebral Hemorrhage
Lucinda French
Nov. 21 Unknown
J. D. Brewster, Windsor, Vt H. C. Sanders,
Oliver Jackson
or widowed.
Y.M.D
Color
66
White.
Cook
& & Age, yrs.
Date
Feb. 26 Horace G. P. Cross 81 1 10 Piermont
White.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths are correct, according to my best knowledge and belief. PAUL DAVIDSON, TOWN CLERK.
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