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One Hundred and Forty-Ninth
Annual Report of the
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
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'OF THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
OF THE
TOWN OF COHASSET
AND THE
REPORTS OF OTHER TOWN OFFICERS .
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31
1918
THE BOUNDBROOK PRESS
1919
CONTENTS
Page
Officers 1917-18 3
Report of Town Clerk . 7
Records of Town Meeting . •, 7
Record of State Primary 14
Records of State Election 19
Convention Town Clerks . 27
Births, Marriages and Deaths 28
Auditor's Report 38
Recapitulation 84
Selectmen's Report 98
Assessor's Report 101
Report of Treasurer 103
Report of Engineers of Fire Department . 107
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures 108
Report of the Tree Warden . 109
Report of Supervisor of Moth Work 110
Report of Board of Health . 111
Report of Cohasset Free Public Library . 113
Report of Directors of Paul Pratt Memorial Library 115
Report of Surveyor of Highways 121
Report of Committee on Jerusalem Road 136
Report of Overseers of the Poor . 143
Report of School Committee 152
Report of Superintendent of Schools . 157
TOWN OFFICERS, 1918-1919
Elected by ballot
Town Clerk
HARRY F. TILDEN Term expires March, 1920
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Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of Poor
HARRY E. MAPES Term expires March, 1919
HERBERT L. BROWN Term expires March, 1921
DARIUS W. GILBERT Term expires March, 1920
Treasurer and Collector
NEWCOMB B. TOWER
Highway Surveyor
GEORGE JASON
Constables
SIDNEY L. BEAL FRANK J. ANTOINE
HENRY E. BRENNOCK JOHN T. KEATING
LOUIS J. MORRIS *EDWARD E. WENTWORTH
Tree Warden
GEORGE YOUNG
School Committee
GEORGE JASON, JR Term expires March, 1921
WALTER SHUEBRUK Term expires March, 1921
THOMAS A. STEVENS Term expires March, 1919
DEAN K. JAMES Term expires March, 1919
ANSELM L. BEAL Term expires March, 1920
GILBERT S. TOWERf Term expires March, 1920
REV. FRED V. STANLEY Term expires March, 1920
Board of Health
IRVING F. SYLVESTER Term expires March, 1920
FRED L. REED Term expires March, 1921
DR. HERBERT E. FERNALD . Term expires March, 1919
FREDERICK HINCHLIFFEf
*Appointed by Selectmen. tResigned.
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Trustees of Public Library
EDITH M. BATES Term expires March, 1920
MARTHA P. HOWE Term expires March, 1920
DR. OLIVER H. HOWE Term expires March, 1920
FLORENCE N. BATES Term expires March, 1921
SARAH B. COLLIER Term expires March, 1921
BURGESS C. TOWER Term expires March, 1921
GEORGE W. COLLIER Term expires March, 1919
EDWARD NICHOLS Term expires March, 1919
EDWARD H. TOWER Term expires March, 1919
Finance Committee
CHARLES W. GAMMONS Term expires March, 1921
CORNELIUS KEEFE Term expires March, 1921
EDWARD F. WILLCUTT, Term expires March, 1921
EDWIN W. BATES Term expires March, 1920
WILLIAM H. McGAW Term expires March, 1920
JOHN A. LAWRENCE Term expires March, 1919
ROSCOE H. TISDALE Term expires March, 1919
Town Officers Appointed by Selectmen
Field Drivers
HARRY C. BATES JOHN F. SMITH
IRA BATES EZEKIEL L. JAMES
Fence Viewers
EDWIN W. BATES. THOMAS A. ROCHE
GEORGE JASON
Public Weighers and Weighers of Coal
GEORGE P. TOWER WALTER C. WHEELWRIGHT
NEWCOMB B. TOWER GERTRUDE C. LOCKE
MARY P.. TOWER - JOSEPH A. VALINE
EVERETT C. WHEELWRIGHT
Public Weighers
HERBERT L. BROWN E. HAROLD BROWN
DAVID W. HOMER
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Pound Keeper
HENRY R. NICKERSON
Auctioneers
GEORGE F. SARGENT, JR. AUGUST F. B. PETERSEN
Measurers of Wood and Bark
EZEKIEL L. JAMES ELMER E. BATES
FRANKLIN BEAL ARTHUR O. HIGGINS
Surveyors of Lumber
JOSEPH A. VALINE ARTHUR O. HIGGINS
Harbor Master
MANUEL S. ENOS
Assistant Harbor Master
JOHN W. BRENNOCK
Inspector of Wires
GEORGE JASON, JR.
Sealer of Weights and Measures
CALEB NICHOLS
Chief of Police
THOMAS L. BATES
Police Officer
FRANK JASON
Special Police Officers
JOHN FLEMING JOHN T. KEATING
THOMAS H. STODDARD JOHN BATES
Burial Agent
THOMAS L. BATES