Annual report of the selectmen and other town officers, Cornish, New Hampshire, 1904, Part 2

Author: Cornish (N.H. : Town)
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Cornish, N.H.] : [Town of Cornish]
Number of Pages: 48


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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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