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Home My WebLink Abouttownofcohassetma1924seleCOHASSET TOWN REPORT 1924 One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of the BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OP THE TOWN OF COHASSET AND THE REPORT OF OTHER TOWN OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 1924 THE BOUNDBROOK PRESS 1925 CONTENTS Page Officers 1924-1925 3 Report of Town Clerk 9 Record of Town Meeting 9 Births,Marriages and Deaths 36 Accountant's Report 44 Recapitulation 118 Selectmen's Report .......•.141 Assessor's Report ..143 Report of Treasurer 145 Report of Tax Collector 147 Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures ...148 Report of Tree Warden 149 Report of Superintendent of Moth Work ....151 Report of Overseers of the Poor 152 Report of Board of Health 153 Report of Engineers of Fire Department ....156 Report of Cohasset Free Public Library ...158 Report of Directors of Paul Pratt Memorial Library .160 Report of Superintendent of Streets 166 Revised Jury List 168 Report of School Committee Appendix Report of Superintendent of Schools ....Appendix TOWN OFFICERS,1924-1925 TOWN RECORDS Elected by ballot Town Clerk HARRY F.TILDEN ..Term expires March,1926 Selectmen,Assessors and Overseers of the Poor HERBERT L.BROWN ..Term expires March,1927 DARIUS W.GILBERT ..Term expires March,1926 HARRY E.MAPES ..Term expires Ma^ch,1925 Treasurer and Collector of Taxes- HARRY F.TILDEN Constables THOMAS L.BATES JOHN T.KEATING ROYAL A.BATES WILLIAM J.POWERS FRANK J.ANTOINE Finance Committee HOLLIS T.GLEASON Term expires March,1927 JOSEPH N.WILLCUTT CARLTON M.WOODS EDWIN W.BATES WILLIAM H.McGAW JOHN A.LAWRENCE EDWIN T.OTIS. Term expires March,1927 Term expires March,1927 Term expires March,1926 Term expires March,1926 Term expires March,1925 Term expires March,1925 Tree Warden GEORGE .YOUNG School Committee ANSELM L.BEAL . FRED V.STANLEY MANUEL A.GRASSIE HELEN E.SCRIPTURE DEAN K.JAMES . EVERETT W.GAMMONS Term expires March,1926 Term expires March,1926 Term expires March,1927 Term expires March,1927 Term expires March,1925 Term expires March,1925 Board of Health IRVING F.SYLVESTER .Term expires March,1926 EDWARD L.HIGGINS ..Term expires March,1927 ADOLPHUS J.LANDRY ..Term expires March,1925 Trustees EDITH M.BATES.. MARTHA P.HOWE . OLIVER H.HOWE . FLORENCE N.BATES SARAH B.COLLIER BURGESS C.TOWER GEORGE W.COLLIER EDWARD NICHOLS EDWARD H.TOWER of Public Library Term expires Term expires Term expires Term expires Term expires Term expires Term expires Term expires Term expires March,1926 March,1926 March,1926 March,1927 March,1927 March,1927 March,1925 March,1925 March,1925 Town Officers Appointed by Selectmen Town Accountant EDWARD L.STEVENS ..Term expires March,1926 Registrars of Voters THOMAS W.DOYLE ..Term expires March,1926 HENRY E.SWEENEY ..Term expires March,1927 THOMAS F.KANE ...Term expires March,1925 HARRY F.TILDEN,ex-officio Clerk of Board Chief of Police THOMAS L.BATES Police Officers FRANK JASON JAMES J.SULLIVAN,JR. JOHN FLEMING Special Police Officers RALPH M.BRICKETT HERBERT C.SARGENT SPENCER H.STOUGHTON WILLIAM H.FITCH FRANK J.ANTOINE JOHN W.BRENNOCK FRANK F.MARTIN,JR.JOHN KENNEDY JOHN T.KEATING JOSEPH E.GRASSIE JOHN E.KINSLEY ALFRED M.SILVIA THOMAS BATES .THOMAS J.AYERS WILLIAM J.POWERS WILLIAM H.McARTHUR Sealer of Weights and Measures CALEB NICHOLS Inspector of Wires S.CHESTER PRATT Field Drivers FRANK J.ANTOINE JOHN T.KEATING ROYAL A.BATES WILLIAM J.POWERS THOMAS L.BATES ALFRED J.GONSALVES Superintendent of Streets DANIEL M.CROCKETT Fence Viewers EDWIN W.BATES DANIEL N.TOWER ARTHUR A.DAVENPORT Public Weighers and Weighers of Coal NEWCOMB B .TOWER FRANK W.WHEELWRIGHT MARY P.TOWER GERTRUDE C.LOCKE GEORGE P.TOWER WALTER C.WHEELWRIGHT JOSEPH A.VALINE EVERETT C.WHEELWRIGHT Public Weigher ALEXANDER S.HILTZ* Auctioneers GEORGE F.SARGENT,JR.THOMAS L.BATES AUGUST F.B.PETERSEN HARRY F.TILDEN Measurers of Wood and Bark FRANKLIN BEAL ELMER E.BATES ARTHUR O.HIGGINS EDWIN W.BATES Surveyors of Lumber JOSEPH A.VALINE WILLIAM H.ELLSWORTH Harbor Master JOHN W.BRENNOCK Assistant Harbor Master FRANK F.MARTIN,JR. Burial Agent THOMAS L.BATES Pound Keeper HENRY R.NICKERSON Town Physician EDWARD H.SCHOTT,M.D. Fire Engineers FRED C.BLOSSOM GEORGE F.SARGENT,JR. FRANK F.MARTIN,JR.ABRAHAM J.ANTOINE REGINALD R.BEAL Forest Warden ALFRED M.SILVIA Inspector of Animals DARIUS W.GILBERT,V.S. Superintendent of Moth Work GEORGE YOUNG Appointments by Board of Health Collector of Samples of Milk and Vinegar IRVING F.SYLVESTER Inspector of Slaughtering DARIUS W.GILBERT,V.S. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/townofcohassetma1924sele TOWN CLERK'S REPORT Election of Town Officers,March 3,1924 Article 1.Chose William H.Morris,Moderator,to preside at this meeting. Article 2.The following vote was declared : Total number of ballots cast,1143. Treasurer for one year Harry F.Tilden 956 Scattering 1 Blanks 186 Collector of Taxes for one year Harry F.Tilden 953 Scattering 1 Blanks 189 Selectman for three years Herbert L.Brown 571 Harry S.Parker 546 Scattering 1 Blanks 25 Assessor for three years Herbert L.Brown 569 Harry S.Parker 535 Scattering 1 Blanks 38 Overseer of the Poor for three years Herbert L.Brown 580 Harry S.Parker 531 Scattering 1 Blanks 31 10 Tree Warden for one year Joseph E.Grassie 550 George Young .570 Blanks 23 School Committee for three years Manuel A.Grassie 727 Helen E.Scripture 663 Scattering 1 Blanks 895 Five Constables for one year Frank J.Antoine 557 John P.Antoine 395 Royal A.Bates > 487 Thomas L.Bates 593 John T.Keating 670 Henry B.Kennedy 410 Robert W.MacKenzie 276 William J.Powers 436 Scattering 2 Blanks 1,897 Board of Health for three years Edward L.Higgins 776 Blanks 367 Finance Committee for three years Hollis T.Gleason 639 Joseph N.Willcutt 715 Carlton M.Woods 655 Blanks 1,345 Trustees,Cohasset Free Public Library for three years Florence N.Bates 691 Sarah B.Collier 693 Burgess C.Tower 693 Scattering 1 Blanks 1,347 11 Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this Town Yes 368 No 471 Blanks 304 Report of Meeting held March 8,1924 Article 3.Voted that the Selectmen appoint all Town Officers not required to be elected by ballot. Article 4.Voted that the reports of various Town Officers be accepted. Voted that the following sums of money be raised and appropriated : Article 5.Town Officers $9,675.00 Article 6.Law —Legal Counsel 500.00 Article 7.Engineering,Maintenance 100.00 Article 8.Engineering,Outlay,Tax Survey 1,000.00 Article 9.Town Hall 3,800.00 Article 10.Printing 1,300.00 Article 11.Water for Hydrants and Public Buildings 8,000.00 Article 12.Police Department 9,000.00 Article 13.Fire Department 9,400.00 Article 14.Forest Fires 1,000.00 Article 15.Moth Suppression 5,000.00 Article 16.Tree Warden 1,500.00 Article 17.Inspection of Wires 500.00 Article 18.Sealer of Weights and Measures 300.00 Article 19.Board of Health,General 2,500.00 Article 20.Board of Health,Dental Dispensary....1,000.00 Article 21.Board of Health,Tuberculosis Hospital, Braintree 2,346.37 Article 22.Straits Pond,Cat Dam and James Brook 1,000.00 Article 23.Inspection of Animals 125.00 Article 24.Highways,including Tarring Streets 35,000.00 Article 25.Removing Snow and Sanding Streets...6,500.00 Article 26.Electric Street Lights 8,572.00 12 Article 27.Fore River Bridge $1,000.00 Article 28.Harbor Maintenance 600.00 Article 29.Charities —Cohasset Home,Outside Poor and General Administration 15,000.00 Article 30.Soldiers'and Sailors'Relief 2,000.00 Article 31.State and Military Aid 500.00 Article 32.Education 60,450.00 Article 33.Libraries 4,300.00 Article 34.Parks,Town Commons,General 1,600.00 Article 35.Parks,Wheelwright 700.00 Article 36.Memorial Day 500.00 Article 37.Recreation,Ball Field 200.00 Article 38.Incidentals 3,000.00 Article 39.Telephones for Individuals 525.00 Article 40.^Cemeteries 600.00 Article 41.Interest 3,700.00 Article 42.North Cohasset Post Office Building...100.00 Article 43.Guild and American Legion Hall 50.00 Article 44.Bonded Debt 6,000.00 Article 45.Voted:That the Town Treasurer,with the approval of the Selectmen,be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1,1924,and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year,any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year. Article 46.No committees to report,so this article was passed over. Article 47.Will the Town accept the re-location,laying out and alteration of Margin Street,as made by the Board of Selectmen dated February 13,1924? Voted :That this article be laid upon the table as inexpedient and unwise. Article 48.Will the Town raise and appropriate $165 to pay for the land taken for relocation,laying out and altera- tion of Margin Street ? Voted :That this article be laid on table. Article 49.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum 13 of $1,000 for the purpose of constructing a street from opposite Depot Court to Highland Avenue,across the so-called St. John lot,deeded to the Town by the Cohasset Improvement Association,and abolishing the way now located next north of said lot,or act on anything relating thereto? Voted to construct the Street and the amount be taken from the Highway Appropriation. Article 50.Will the Town raise and appropriate $7,125 to repair and reconstruct the bridge over Gulf River,or act on anything relating thereto? Voted to take up articles 50 and 51 together. Article 51.Will the Town raise and appropriate $6,525 to repair and reconstruct the bridge over the mouth of Little Harbor,known as Cunningham Bridge,or act on anything relating thereto? Voted:That the Moderator appoint a committee of five to act with the Selectmen in procuring plans and estimates for both bridges,cement and stone,and to report not later than sixty days from today at a special Town Meeting and that $500 be raised and appropriated for the Committee disposal. Committee appointed:Edward F.Willcutt,J.Willard, Tuckerman,Jr.,Frank F.Martin,Jr.,Cleveland Bigelow,and Edward L.Higgins. Article 52.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,600 to refurnish the Town Hall with new chairs or act on anything relating thereto? Voted in the affirmative. Article 53.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 for the purpose of reconstructing and draining Pleasant Street,or act on anything relating thereto? Voted:That the work be done and that the sum be taken from General Highway Appropriation. Voted to take up Article 62. Article 62.A.J.Gonsalves and others.Will the Town reimburse Llewellyn A.Litchfield for damage done to his bees by spraying,or act on anything relating thereto? Voted:That the sum of $1,500 be expended for the purpose 14 specified under Article 62 of theTown Warrant and said amount be taken from Moth Appropriation. Voted:That we adjourn until Wednesday evening,March 12,at 8 o'clock p.m. Met according to adjournment. Article 54.Fred W.Sullivan and others.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $400 to install a hydrant on Smith Place m the vicinity of the property of Mrs.Margaret Dal ton,or act on anything relating thereto? Voted that $300 be raised and appropriated for above purpose. Article 55.Alfred M.Silvia and others.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $900 to purchase a new Forest Fire truck? Voted:That $800 be raised and appropriated for above purpose. Article 56 School Committee.Will the Town raise arid appropriate the sum of $1,600 for the purpose of acquiring about two and two-thirds acres of land now or formerly of Enos, Pratt,and Lincoln;said land to be acquired by the Town for a school playground. Voted in the negative. Article 57.Manuel E.Salvador and others.To see what action,if any,the Town will take relative to widening Margin Street at the Public Landing opposite the entrance to Stock- bridge Street? Voted in the negative. Article 58.George G.Monteiro and others.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $125 to be expended in the purchase of a hundred and ten feet of land owned by Catherine E.Antoine,in order to make a curve on that portion of Stock- bridge Street bordering the land of said Catherine E.Antoine, at present a sharp corner,or act on anything relating thereto? Voted:That this article be left to the Selectmen. Article 59.Ernest R.Shedd and others:Will the Town raise and appropriate $20 to install and maintain an electric light on Norfolk Road on pole about opposite the residence of Frank E.Rego,or act on anything relating thereto? 15 Voted:That above amount be raised and appropriated and left to Selectmen. The following resolution was adopted by a unanimous vote. Resolved:That it is the sentiment of this meeting that the Selectmen cause the stone crusher and other equipment now located at the junction of Pond Street,to be removed to the Town gravel bank on North Main Street and that the Tree Warden be instructed by the Selectmen to remove all un- necessary brush,etc.,between the railroad track and street. Article 60.John T.Keating and others:Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $40 to install and maintain two electric lights on the right-of-way to what is known as the old Mulvey estate leading off of Norfolk Road,Lincoln Hillside, or act on anything relating thereto? Voted:That $40 be raised and appropriated for above purpose and left to Selectmen. Article 61.Levi T.Lincoln and others:Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $20 to install and maintain an electric light on Beechwood Street,nearly opposite the residence of Oliver H.Bates or act on anything relating thereto? Voted that $20 be raised and appropriated for above purpose and left to the Selectmen Article 62.See above. Article 63.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000 to construct North Main Street,King Street and Forest Avenue,as laid out by the Norfolk County Commis- sioners in December,1923,as per plan on file in the Town Clerk's office? Voted:That the sum of $2,000 be raised and appropriated for above purpose. Article 64.Joseph F.Kendall and others:Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $300 or any part thereof to cover the expense of a band concert to be given on the Town Common on July 4,1924. Voted:That $300 be raised and appropriated for above purpose. 16 Presidential Primaries At the Presidential Primary held April 29,1924,the follow- ing result was declared. REPUBLICAN PARTY Delegates at Large Channing H.Cox 119 Henry C.Lodge *..121 Frederick H.Gillett 114 William H.Butler 116 John H.Sherburne 114 Anna C.Bird 113 Jessie A.Hall.112 Blanks .52 Alternate Delegate at Large Pauline R.Thayer 1 14 Elizabeth Putman Ill Charles H.Innes v 110 John J.Rogers 110 Robert M.Stevens 108 Mary B.Browne ...107 Spencer Borden,Jr Ill Blanks 90 District Delegates —Sixteenth District Mark M.Duff Ill Eben S.S.Keith 112 Blanks 23 Alternate District Delegates —Sixteenth District Helen H.Pierce 101 Thomas Otis 105 Blanks 40 17 DEMOCRATIC PARTY Delegates at Large David I.Walsh 9 Arthur Lyman :6 Joseph B.Ely 6 John F.Doherty 8 Helen A.MacDonald 4 Susan W.FitzGerald 8 Rose Herbert 3 Mary E.Meehan.5 Charles H.Cole 9 Blanks 38 Alternate Delegates at Large Arthur J.B.Cartier 4 William A.O'Hearn 4 Jermiah J.Healy 5 Edward A.Ginsburg 7 Dorothy Whipple Fry 4 Mary H.Quincy 5 Anne O'Keefe Heffernan 4 Mary Bacigalupo 2 William H.Doyle 11 Blanks 50 District Delegates —Sixteenth District John H.Backus,Jr 6 Manuel Joseph 8 Thomas F.Kelleher 7 Walter Welsh 7 Blanks'.20 Alternate District Delegates —Sixteenth District Willard Ellis Boyden 7 John A.Cheval 5 J.E.Grassie 1 Blanks 35 18 State Primaries At the State Primaries held September 9,1924.The following vote was declared. REPUBLICAN PARTY Governor Alvan T.Fuller 264 James Jackson 312 Blanks 53 Lieutenant-Governor Frank G.Allen 468 Blanks 161 Secretary Frederic W.'Cook 454 Blanks 175 Treasurer Otis Allen 31 William A.Allen 32 James W.Bean 34 Fred J.Burrell 96 Horace A.Keith 68 William S.Youngman 219 Blanks 149 Auditor Herbert W.Burr 118 Alonzo B.Cook 26 i Harold D.Wilson .'84 Blanks 161 A ttorney-General Jay R.Benton 448 Blanks 181 19 Senator in Congress Louis A.Coolidge 212 Frederick W.Dallinger 91 Frederick H.Gillett 222 Blanks 104 Congressman —Sixteenth District Charles L.Gifford 433 Blanks 196 Councillor —First District Edmond Cote 58 Edwin T.Wright 355 Blanks 216 Senator —Norfolk and Plymouth District Russell T.Bates 156 William Lyman 7 Walter Shuebruk 450 Blanks 16 Representative in General Court —Third Plymouth District John L.Mitchell 281 Henry F.Ripley 298 Blanks '50 County Commissioner —Norfolk Edward W.Hunt 379 Lawrence F.Power 128 Evan F.Richardson 253 Blanks 498 Register of Probate and Insolvency —Norfolk County Thomas V.Nash 431 Blanks 198 20 County Treasurer —Norfolk Frederic C.Cobb 413 Blanks 216 County Commissioner —Norfolk (To fill vancancy) Frederick A.Leavitt .410 Blanks 219 State Committee —Norfolk and Plymouth District James T.Kirby 337 Blanks 292 Delegates to State Convention Darius W.Gilbert 484 Emily B.Gleason 458 Edward E.H.Souther 474 Blanks 471 Town Committee Harold F.Barnes of North Main Street 388 Anselm L.Beal of Hull Street 395 Florence E.Bristol of Summer Street 382 Herbert L.Brown of Beechwood Street 408 Darius W.Gilbert of Highland Avenue .•415 Emily B.Gleason of Atlantic Avenue 394 Oliver H.Howe of North Main Street 407 Gertrude D.James of Atlantic Avenue 385 Mary F.Mapes of Elm Street ..376 Ruth G.Mealy of Beechwood Street 410 Sheldon N.Ripley of Ripley Road 398 Walter Shuebruk of Pond Street 416 Edward E.H.Souther of Highland Avenue 415 Eugene N.Tower of Beach Street 413 Philip L.Towle of North Main Street 398 Blanks 3,445 21 DEMOCRATIC PARTY Governor James M.Curley 33 Blanks 3 Lieutenant-Governor Thomas J.Boynton 9 John J.Cummings 4 William A.O'Hearn :11 Blanks.,12 Secretary H.Oscar Rocheleau 16 Blanks 20 Treasurer Michael L.Eisner 21 Blanks 15 Auditor Blanks 36 A ttorney-General John E.Swift 19 Blanks 17 Senator in Congress David I.Walsh 32 Blanks 4 Congressman —Sixteenth District Blanks 36 Councillor —First District Anthony J.Hohman 18 Blanks 18 22 Senator —Norfolk and Plymouth District Thomas H.Buckley 22 Blanks 14 Representative in General Court Blanks 36 County Commissioner —Norfolk Daniel A.Donnelly 20 James E.Foley .'15 Lawrence F.Power 7 Blanks 30 Register of Probate and Insolvency Thomas V.Nash 27 Blanks 9 County Treasurer Frederic C.Cobb 22 Blanks 14 County Commissioner Francis Moore 4 Blanks 32 State Committee Thomas H.Buckley 20 Blanks 16 Delegates to State Convention A.Antoine 1 J.E.Grassie 7 W.H.Morris 7 H.E.Sweeney 1 Blanks 21 23 Town Committee Joseph E.Grassie 6 John J.Grassie 5 Thomas F.Kane 5 William H.Morris 5 Eugene C.McSweeney 4 Michael J.Poland 3 William J.Powers 4 Joseph St.John 3 Henry E.Sweeney 5 Blanks 288 Special Town Meeting At a special Town Meeting held on June 7,1924,at 2.30 o'clock p.m.,the several articles contained in the warrant were acted upon as follows : Article 1.To choose a Moderator to preside in said Meet- ing. Chose William H.Morris. Voted :That the following resolution be adopted : Resolved:That it is the sentiment of this meeting that the Selectmen and heads of departments of this Town may pay the laborers $4.50 a day for eight hours work. Article 2.To hear and act upon the report of the Committee on Bridges appointed by the vote on Article 50 and 51 at the last annual meeting,said report calling for two new bridges at an expense of $138,600. Voted:That the report of the Committee (as read)be accepted and the thanks of this meeting be given the Committee. Article 3.To see whether the Town will appropriate the sum of $31,000 to relocate and reconstruct the bridge on Border Street over Gulf River,and in the exercise of the authority granted by statute to issue its notes or bonds payable in twenty annual installments,or take any action in relation thereto. Voted in the affirmative. 24 Article 4.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $2,246 to be applied in 1924,according to statute,to the payment of the relocation and reconstruction of Gulf River Bridge. Voted:That the sum of $2,246 be raised and appropriated for above purpose. Article 5.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $7,125 to repair the present bridge over Gulf River,or act on anything relating thereto. Voted:That this article be indefinitely postponed. Article 6.To see whether the Town will appropriate the sum of $107,600 to relocate and reconstruct the bridge on Atlantic Avenue,known as Cunningham's Bridge,and in pay- ment therefor in the exercise of the authority granted by statute to issue its notes or bonds payable in twenty annual installments,or take any action in relation thereto Voted in the negative. Article 7.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $2,246 to be applied in 1924,according to statute,to the payment of the relocation and reconstruction of Cunningham's Bridge. Voted that this article be indefinitely postponed. Article 8.Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $6,525 to repair the present bridge over the mouth of Little Harbor known as Cunningham's Bridge. Voted:That the sum of $6,525 be raised and appropriated for above purpose. Article 9.To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen, dated May 31,1924,upon the laying out as a Town way of Hill Street,at the top of Lincoln Hillside,from Norfolk Road to Pond Street. Voted:That Hill Street be accepted by the Town as laid out by the Selectmen from Norfolk Road,only to the wall or fence on northerly boundary of land owned by Hugh Bancroft. Article 10.To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to settle any suit against the Town. Voted :That the Selectmen n their discretion be empowered to settle any suit or claim of $1,000 or under against the Town. 25 Article 12.William F.Burke and others:Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $20 to install and maintain an electric light on Hill Street,so-called,between Ash and Oak Streets,or act on anything relating thereto. Voted in the affirmative. Article 13.H.S.Parker and others:Will the Town accept the provisions of the General Laws,Chapter No.147, Sections Nos.32 to 47 inclusive,or act on anything relating thereto. Voted in the negative. Article 14.Charles E.Howe and others:Will the Town raise and appropriate $500 for the purpose of moving the stone crusher and other road-building equipment from the land on Spring Street,where they are now located,and for the cleaning up and filling or grading said land so as to do away with the present unsightly and unhealthy conditions,or act on anything relating thereto. Voted in the affirmative. Article 15.Carrie Hyland and others:Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $150 for the purpose of furnish- ing Memorial Dinner to the Ex-Service men,or act on any- thing relating thereto? Voted:That the sum of $150 be raised and appropriated with the understanding that the money is to go to the Women's Auxiliary of the George H.Mealy Post for defraying the expense of dinners at the Post on Memorial Day. Article 16.Louise C.Bailey and others:Will the Town raise and appropriate $500 to grade and improve the baseball field,or act on anything relating thereto. Voted:That the sum of $500 be raised and appropriated for above purpose and left to the Selectmen. Special Meeting,July 19,1924 Article 1.Chose William H.Morris,Moderator. Article 2.Voted:That,for the purpose of meeting the appropriations of $33,246 for relocating and reconstructing the 26 bridge on Border Street over the Gulf River,made under Articles 3 and 4 of the Warrant for the special Town Meeting, he'd on June 7,1924,there be raised in the levy of the current year the sum of S3,246 and the Treasurer,with the approval of the Selectmen,be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $30,000 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, said bonds or notes to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 19 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than ten years from the date of issue of the first bond or note. Presidential Election At the Election held November 4,1924,the following vote was declared. ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT Coolidge and Dawes —Republican At Large George A.Bacon of Longmeadow 844 Hester S.Fearing of Boston 844 By Districts 1 Arthur S.Gaylord of Holyoke 844 2.Charles S.Warner of Northfield 844 3.Telesphore Leboeuf of Webster 844 4.Frank Roe Batchelder of Worcester :814 5.Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell 844 6.Gayden W.Morrill of Newburyport 844 7.Effie S.Attwill of Lynn 844 8.William W.Davis of Cambridge ..844 9.Emma Fall Schofield of Maiden 844 10.Frank Gardner Hall of Boston 844 11.Francis R.Bangs of Boston 844 12.Ida E.Hibbard of Boston :844 13.Henry F.Beal of Waltham 844 27 14.Harry H.Williams of Brockton 844 15.Charles C.Cain,Jr.of Taunton 844 16.Malvina L.Keith of Bourne 844 Davis and Bryan —Democratic At Large William A.Gaston of Boston 219 John F.Fitzgerald of Boston 219 By Districts 1.Joseph B.Ely of Westfield 219 2.Annie O'Keefe Heflernan of Northampton 219 3.Marcus A.Coolidge of Fitchburg 219 4.Peter F.Sullivan of Worcester.219 5.Humphrey O'Sullivan of Lowell 219 6.Charles I.Pettingell of Amesbury 219 7.Genevieve E.McGlue of Lynn 219 8.Edward W.Quinn of Cambridge 219 9.John J.Murphy of Somerville 219 10.Charles H.Cole of Boston 219 11.Andrew J.Peters of Boston 219 12.James A.Gallivan of Boston 219 13.Arthur Lyman of Waltham 219 14.Charles F.Riordan of Sharon 219 15.Edmond P.Talbot of Fall River 219 16.Hannah Ashley of New Bedford 219 Foster and Gitlow —Workers Party At Large George Kraska of Winthrop Michael M.Pleys of Boston By Districts 1.Robert Zelms of Boston 2.Charles Hedrich of Boston 3.Hyman Levine of Brockton 28 4.William Marttila of Worcester 5.Lewis Marks of Boston 6.Onni Saari of Norwood 7.Louis F.Weiss,Sr.of Worcester 8.John Louko of Norwood 9.Wirna Sointu of Walpole 10.Samuel D.Levine of Boston 11.Eva Hoffman of Boston 12.Israel I.Hurwitz of Boston 13.Sarah R.Ballam of Boston 14.Emma P.Hutchins of Boston 15.E.J.Sinisalo of Fitchburg 16.William Janhonen of Gardner Johns and Reynolds —Socialist Labor Party At Large Henry C.Hess of Boston !1 Samuel Ferguson of Everett 1 By Districts 1.Herman Koepke of Pittsfield 2.Oskar Kinsalis of Springfield 3.Bernel E.Wheeler of Westminster 4.Joseph Jiskra of Milford 5.John McKinnon of Lowell , 6.Thomas Brennan of Salem 7.Lois I.Galber of Lynn 8.Peter O'Rourk of Medford 9.Daniel T.Blessington of Somerville 10.James A.Carmichel of Boston :.. 11.Albert L.Waterman of Boston 12.Morris Becker of Boston 13.Alex Brady of Waltham 14.Patrick H.Loftus of Abington 15.Oden Johnson of Attleboro 16.James Hayes of Plymouth 29 La Follette and Wheeler —Independent-Progressive At Large Alice Stone Blackwell of Boston 65 George H.Wrenn of Springfield 65 By Districts 1.Albert Sprague Coolidge of Pittsfield 65 2..Walter J.Kenefick of Springfield 65 3.Adelbert L.Leeman of Townsend 65 4.Daniel R.Donovan of Worcester 65 5.Maude Wheeler Mitchell of Hudson 65 6.Parkman B.Flanders of Haverhill 65 7.Michael S.Keenan of Lynn 65 8.Elizabeth R.Day of Cambridge 65 9.Clarence R.Skinner of Medford 65 10.Thomas A.Niland of Boston 65 11.Thomas M.Nolan of Boston 65 12.Joseph P.Tynan of Boston 65 13.Florence H.Luscomb of Boston 65 14.Robert H.O.Schulz of Dedham 65 15.George Clark of Taunton 65 16.Abraham Binns of New Bedford 65 Blanks ,85 Governor John J.Ballam of Boston,Workers 5 James M.Curley of Boston,Democratic 385 Alvan T.Fuller of Maiden,Republican 775 James Hayes of Plymouth,Socialist labor 3 Walters S.Hutchins of Greenfield,Socialist 1 Blanks 45 Lieutenant-Governor Frank G.Allen of Norwood,Republican 768 John J.Cummings of Boston,Democratic 283 Arthur A.Cunning of Boston,Socialist Labor 5 Thomas Nicholson of Lawrence,Socialist .2 Edward Rand Stevens of Boston,Workers 9 Blanks 147 30 Secretary Frederic W.Cook of Somerville,Republican 770 Winifield A.Dwyer of Boston,Workers 14 Samuel Leger of Boston,Socialist Labor 4 H.Oscar Rocheleau of Worcester 219 Edith Williams of Brookline,Socialist 8 Blanks 199 Treasurer Michael L.Eisner of Pittsfield,Democratic 232 Patrick H.Loftus of Abington,Socialist Labor 4 Louis Marcus of Boston,Socialist 4 Albert Oddie of Brockton,Workers 4 William S.Youngman of Boston,Republican 732 Blanks 238 Auditor Strabo V.Claggett of Newton,Democratic 435 Alonzo B.Cook of Boston,Republican 540 Isidore Harris of Boston,Socialist Labor 4 James J.Lacey of Boston,Workers 4 Dennis F.Reagan of Brockton,Socialist 8 Blanks '..,223 A ttorney -General Jay R.Benton of Belmont,Republican 743 Harry J.Canter of Boston,Workers 8 Frederick Oelcher of Peabody,Socialist Labor 5 John Weaver Sherman of Boston,Socialist 4 John E.Swift of Milford,Democratic 228 Blanks 226 Senator in Congress Frederick H.Gillett of Springfield,Republican 679 Antoinette F.Konikow 2 David I.Walsh of Fitchburg,Democratic 410 Blanks 123 31 Congressman —Sixteenth District John H.Backus,Jr.of New Bedford,Democratic 238 Charles L.Gifford of Barnstable,Republican 708 Alvin C.Howes of Middleborough,Independent Progressive 25 Blanks 243 Councillor —First District Anthony J.Hohman of Abington,Democratic 210 Elwin T.Wright of Rockland,Republican 685 Blanks...319 Senator —Norfolk and Plymouth District Thomas H.Buckley of Abington,Democratic 243 Walter Shuebruk of Cohasset 778 Blanks 193 Representative in General Court —Third Plymouth District Henry F.Ripley of Hingham,Republican 682 Blanks 532 County Commissioners —Norfolk Daniel A.Donnelly of Norfolk,Democratic 199 James E.Foley of Randolph,Democratic 176 Edward W.Hunt of Weymouth 626 Evan F.Richardson of Millis,Republican 587 Blanks 840 Register of Probate and Insolvency —Norfolk County Thomas V.Nash of,Weymouth,Democratic,Republican 713 Blanks 501 County Treasurer —Norfolk Frederic C.Cobb of Dedham,Democratic,Republican. . 686 Blanks 528 32 County Commissioner —Norfolk (To fill vacancy) Frederick A.Leavitt of Brookline,Republican 685 Francis Moore of Franklin,Democratic 198 Blanks 331 Referendum Question No.1.—Amendment to Constitution. Shall an amendment to the constitution relative to the qualifi- cations of voters for certain state officers (striking out the word "male "),which received in a joint session of the two Houses held May 24,1921,258 votes in the affirmative and none in the negative,and at a joint session of the two Houses held May 10,1923,received 254 votes in the affirmative and none in the negative,be approved? Yes 478 No 226 Blanks 510 Referendum Question No.2.—Amendment to Constitution. Shall an amendment to the constitution to enable women to hold any state,county or municipal office,and which further provides that a change of name of any woman,holding a Notary Public Commission,shall not render her commission void but she shall re-register under her new name and shall pay such fee therefor as shall be established by the General Court,which received in a joint session of the two Houses held May 24,1921,216 votes in the affirmative and none in the negative,and at a joint session of the two Houses held May 10,1923,received 258 votes in the affirmative and none in the negative,be approved? Yes 494 No 253 Blanks 467 Referendum Question No.3.Shall a law (Chapter 370 of the Acts of 1923)which provides that no person shall manu- facture,transport by aircraft,watercraft or vehicles,import 33 or export spirituous or intoxicating liquor,as denned by Section 3 of Chapter 138 of the General Laws,or certain non-intoxicating beverages,as defined by Section 1 of said Chapter 138,unless in each instance he shall have obtained the permit or other authority required therefor by the laws of the United States and the regulations made thereunder,which law was approved by both branches of the General Court by votes not recorded, and was approved by His Excellency the Governor,be approved? Yes 482 No 445 Blanks 287 Referendum Question No.4.Shall a law (Chapter 454 of the Acts of 1923)which provides for the raising of funds toward the cost of the construction and maintenance of highways by means of an excise tax of two cents on each gallon of gasoline and other fuel used for propelling motor vehicles on the high- ways of the Commonwealth,said tax to be paid by the purchaser to the distributor,who,in turn,pays it to the Commonwealth, and the money to be credited to a fund to be known as the gasoline-highway fund,out of which reimbursement is to be made to purchasers,who shall consume the gasoline or other fuel in any manner except in the operation of motor vehicles on the highways,and the expenses of carrying out the act are to be paid,fifty per cent of the balance of said fund to be distributed to the cities and towns of the Commonwealth,in proportion to the amounts which they contribute to the State tax,and this fifty per cent to be expended in construction or improvement of public ways within the city or town limits, and the other fifty per cent to be expended by the State Depart- ment of Public Works on such highways as it may select, which law was approved by both branches of the General Court by votes not recorded,and was approved by His Excel- lency the Governor,be approved? Yes 320 No 533 Blanks 361 34 Referendum Question No.5.Shall a law (Chapter 473 of the Acts of 1923)which amends existing legislation on the same subject and provides that,subject to certain limitations,no person shall engage or be financially interested in the business of receiving deposits of money for safe keeping or for the purpose of transmitting the same or equivalents thereof to foreign countries unless he has executed and delivered a bond to the State Treasurer or deposited securities in lieu thereof, and has received a license from the Commissioner of Banks authorizing him to carry on such business;that any money which in case of breach of bond shall be paid by the licensee or surety thereon,or the securities deposited in lieu thereof,shall con- stitute a trust fund for the benefit of depositors;that the license shall be revocable by the Commissioner of Banks for cause shown;that the money deposited with licensees for safe keeping shall be invested in the manner prescribed by the act ;and that the violation of any provision of the act shall be punished in the manner therein prescribed,which law was approved by both branches of the General Court by vote not recorded,and was approved by His Excellency the Governor be approved? Yes 440 No 190 Blanks 584 Referendum Question No.6."Shall daylight saving be retained by law in Massachusetts?" Yes 492 No 452 Banks 270 Referendum Question No.7.Is it desirable that the General Court ratify the following proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States:—"Section 1.The Congress shall have power to limit,regulate,and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age.Section 2.The power of the several States is unimpaired by this article except 35 that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress."? Yes 188 No 779 Blanks 247 Special Town Meeting At a special meeting held November 12,1924,at 8 o'clock p.m.,the following articles were acted upon. Article 1.To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting. Chose William H.Morris,Moderator. Article 2.Will the Town appropriate from .the surplus in the treasury the sum of one thousand dollars to settle a claim for damages made by Joseph E.Grassie in connection with the lay-out and construction of the new Gulf River Bridge, in accordance with the terms of agreement made between the said Joseph E.Grassie and the Board of Selectmen or act on anything relating thereto ? Voted:That the Town appropriate from the surplus in the treasury the sum of $650 to pay the claim for damages of Joseph E.Grassie as result of laying out of Gulf River Bridge and that the Town accept a conveyance from Joseph E.Grassie of the parcel of land containing 2,600 square feet more or less shown on plan drawn by Hartley White dated October,1924. 36 Births,Marriages and Deaths recorded at Cohasset in 1924 BIRTHS Total number of births was forty-six of which nineteen were males and twenty-seven females. MARRIAGES Total number of marriages was forty-two of which twenty- eight were married in Cohasset. DEATHS Total number of deaths was fifty-one and included twenty- one who died in other towns or were brought here for burial. Of the thirty who died in Cohasset,fifteen were males and fifteen females. The causes of death were as follows: Pneumonia,9;cerebral hemorrhage,6;diseases of heart, 5;myocarditis,2,arterio-sclerosis,2;tuberculosis,carcinoma, cirrhosis of liver,uremia,chronic nephritis,and bronchitis, one each. 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(For Index,see "Recapitulation,"page 118.Detail as to labor,teams and trucks are given at the end of the Ac- countant's Report,page 131.) Town Officers Appropriation $9,675.00 Receipts,from Tax Collector....$4.60 Expenditures : Selectmen,salaries: Harry E.Mapes $400.00 Herbert L.,Brown 400.00 Darius W.Gilbert 400.00 1,200.00 Selectmen,expenses: Telephone of Chairman $72.47 Postage,stationery and box rent 69.05 Voting list stencils 5.68 Clerical help,account of Town Meetings 7.00 Subscription to American City magazine 2.00 Register of Deeds 2.75 Clerk of Courts,entry fees...9.00 H.L.Brown,traveling ex- penses 10.96 D.W.Gilbert,traveling ex- penses 15.15 L.E.Bates,transportation.. . 1.50 195.56 45 Moderator,William H.Morris, services $25.00 Town Accountant and Auditor, Edward L.Stevens,services..1,800.00 Town Accountant,expenses: Postage and stationery 31.04 Treasurer,Harry F.Tilden, services 1,200.00 Treasurer,expenses: Telephone (J/0 $19.40 Bond 50.00 Postage and stationery 88.83 American Bank Note Co.,ac- count of Border Street Bridge coupon sheets 24.30 Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts,certification of 30 bonds 30.00 Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts,certification of 2 notes 4.00 Insurance,robbery and burgla- ry Q4)W.H.Pratt 25.06 Railroad fares and expenses..3.82 245.41 Collector,Harry F.Tilden,ser- vices 1,200.00 Collector,expenses: Telephone (\£)$19.40 Bond 100.00 Postage,stationery,stencils, etc 45.30 Recording collector's deed....4.25 Edward E.H.Souther,adver- tising tax sale 13.50 Insurance,robbery,etc.Q/Q .25.05 207.50 46 Assessors,salaries: Herbert L.Brown $800.00 Harry E.Mapes 500.00 Darius W.Gilbert 500.00 Assessors,expenses: Books,blanks,forms,etc $61.97 Abstract of deeds 46.55 Postage and express 11.96 Subscription,Banker and Tradesman 7.00 D.W.Gilbert,transportation, $24;personal expenses,$4.35 28.35 H.L.Brown personal expense 4.35 $1,800.00 160.18 Finance Committee,expenses, 1,500 Reports $112.50 Town Clerk,Harry F.Tilden: Services (salary)$400.00 Services,recording 118.90 518.90 Town Clerk,expenses: Telephone i}/z )$19.39 Bond 4.00 Stationery,etc 34.49 J.F.James,transportation...50 58.38 Elections : Election Officers,services: Abraham J.Antoine $37.00 George P.Tower 37.00 Charles H.Pratt 37.00 John Roche 37.00 Caleb Nichols 37.00 Joseph H.Donovan 32.00 Fred C.Blossom 37.00 Edward M.Fleming 27.00 Frank F.Martin,Jr 20.25 Reginald R.Beal 25.25 47 Joseph L.Oliver $17.75 Thomas L.Grassie 25.25 Spencer H.Stoughton 25.25 Eugene C.McSweeney 25.25 $420.00 Election Officers,expenses: T.F.Kane,lunches 89.00 Registrars of Voters,services : Harry F.Tilden $100.00 Thomas W.Doyle 100.00 Henry E.Sweeney 100.00 T.F.Kane 100.00 400.00 Registrars of Voters,expenses: Transportation (for H.F. Tilden)$5.00 Postal cards .50 5.50 $9,668.97 Balance to Treasury 6.03 $9,675.00 $9,675.00 LAW,LEGAL COUNSEL Appropriation $500.00 Expeditures : Walter Shuebruk,services $500.00 ENGINEERING,MAINTENANCE Appropriation $100.00 Expenditures : Hartley L.White,layouts,etc. : Hull Street $14.00 Margin Street,Tilden's corner 42.00 Beechwood fire house,Doane Street 25.00 48 Border Street and Atlantic Avenue Pleasant Street $10.00 107.00 Balance over Appropriation to Incidental Account ....$98.00 $198.00 $198.00 ENGINEERING,TAX SURVEY,OUTLAY Appropriation $1,000.00 Expenditures : Hartley L.White,Tax Survey $850.00 Hill Street,layout 89.50 Town Commons,new street, layout 43.86 Border Street Bridge 29.50 Margin Street,drain 11.00 Balance over appropriation to Incidental Account 23.86 $1,023.86 $1,023.86 TOWN HALL Appropriation,general $3,800.00 Appropriation,for new chairs....1,600.00 $5,400.00 Receipts : Simeone Brothers,and N. Simeone $480.00 W.B.Harwood 90.00 L.J.Morris,janitor 454.63 Byron S.Jackson,for old chairs 221.00 $1,245.63 49 Expenditures : Janitor,Louis J.Morris, services $1,200.00 Janitor's supplies : E.H.Brown,brooms $10.50 Cohasset Hardware Co., general supplies 14.52 J.N.MacNeill,general supplies 17.16 Tower Brothers &Co 25.70 Masury-Young Co.,5 gallons spray 4.25 Litchfield's Express 2.40 Beale's Cohasset &Scituate Express .45 74.98 Telephone 66.74 Lighting: General $264.34 Motion picture machine 57.62 Exit 29.79 Heating: Tower Brothers &Co.,38,100 pounds coal $335.92 Tower Brothers &Co.,wood 21.13 Lincoln Brothers Coal Co., 46,355 pounds coal 382.43 J.T.Barnes,sawing wood..12.00 Wiring and lamps : Bosworth &Beal $9.48 Electric Light and Power Co., lamps 19.80 P.L.Towle,new footlights..152.00 P.L.Towle,general wiring..159.81 351.75 751.48 341.09 Erecting election booths,L.J. Morris 24.00 50 Piano tuning and repairs: Arthur L.Whitcomb $6.50 Brooks Piano Co 5.00 Building maintenance and repairs : Mason,patching,Thomas J. Hill '. .$6.00 Plumbing and heating,Hiltz McNeill 5.01 Plumbing and heating,A.S. Hiltz 110.44 Plumbing and heating,J.N. MacNeill 1.50 Setting glass,W.J.Coombs..3.96 Tower Brothers &Co.,lumber 1.75 Floor boards,labor,L.J. Morris 4.00 Iron hooks,W.P.Malley....1.00 Repairing ladder,J.A.McDonald .50 Repairing locks,Burditt & Williams 3.50 Refilling extinguishers,1923 and 1924,W.J.Brennock. . 4.00 Inspection boilers,-Com- missioner Public Safety....4.00 Furniture,new chairs : Readboro Chair Co.,84 two- seat chairs,64 three-seat chairs,360 at $3.75 $1,350.00 96 clamps 24.00 $1,374.00 less freight 36.29 $1,337.71 John J.James,trucking 17.50 N.Y.,N.H.&H.R.R.,freight 36.29 $11.50 145.66 1,391.50 51 Cement curbing : B.F.Morse,labor $24.75 C.F.Wilbur,labor 24.75 L.J.Morris,labor 7.20 W.T.Barnes,team 9.00 Tower Brothers &Co.,cement and lumber 19.00 Fences,etc. : C.S.McGaw,10 posts $9.76 Cohasset Hardware Co.,wire etc 23.60 J.F.James,trucking .75 $84.70 34.11 Labor,etc.,general (including fence): B.F.Morse $47.00 C.F.Wilbur 47.00 94.00 Carting brush,W.T.Barnes 6.00 Insurance : Employers'Liability on $800 .W.H.Pratt $8.84 Fire,$7,000,E.N.Tower....210.00 Fire,$5,000,W.H.Morris...150.00 368.84 Balance to Treasury $4,946.35 453.65 $5,400.00 $5,400.00 PRINTING propriation $1300.00 Expenditures : The Boundbrook Press: Selectmen,warrants,postals, etc $133.62 52 Selectmen,telephone pole notices $18.56 Selectmen,envelopes (small) . 4.08 $156.26 Finance Committee,1,800 reports (June)26.50 Town Accountant,500 notices 5.75 Assessors,50 poll tax lists,$23 ; holding forms,$5 28.00 Tax Collector,tax bills 28.34 Town Hall,500 envelopes and bill-heads.7.63 Cemetery,200 deeds 19.86 Incidental Account,Town Reports,1,100 (1923),186 pages at $4.75 883.50 The Journal Print,Hingham: Treasurer,for slips 2.25 Registrars of Voters 2.75 Elections,tally sheets,ballots, etc 177.50 The Da vol Printing Co.Registra- tion posters 3.00 Balance over appropriation to Incidental Account $41.34 $1,341.34 $1,341.34 WATER FOR HYDRANTS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS Appropriation,general $8,000.00 Appropriation,hydrant,Smith Place 300.00 $8,300.00 Expenditures : Cohasset Water Company : Hydrants,99%at $75 ... . $7,475.00 53 The above amount also includes the cost of water used by the town as follows : Town Hall,Osgood and Beechwood Schools,Moth De- partment,Street Department, Fire Department buildings, Paul Pratt Memorial Library, Stone Crusher,Town Wharf, Police Station,Drinking Fountains and Beechwood Improvement Association (not a town institution). Hingham Water Company: Hydrants,11 at $45 ..:..$495.00 Hose 3,house 11.00 $506.00 Cohasset Water Company,Outlay : Installing hydrant,Smith Place 295.25 $8,276.25 Balance to Treasury 23.75 $8,300.00 $8,300.00 POLICE DEPARTMENT Appropriation $9,000.00 Expenditures : Chief,Thomas L.Bates,services (11 months)$1,762.50 Services of officers : Frank Jason (11 months)1,512.00 John Fleming (11 months)...1,397.50 James J.Sullivan (11 months)1,517.00 John T.Keating 266.00 John Kinsley 521.50 54 William J.Powers $571.00 Spencer H.Stoughton (for 1923)75.00 Ralph M.Brickett 28.00 Thomas Bates 25.00 Frederick Mulhern 15.00 Frank J.Antoine,services, $13;automobile,$1 14.00 Assistance to Chief,including liquor cases 225.15 $7,929.65 Expenses of administration : Headquarters : Paid Chief Thomas L.Bates: Lamps and labor $4.96 Care of prisoners at Quincy ..5.50 For postage,stationery,etc..5.11 Dog burials (3)5.00 Uniforms,M.Linsky &Brothers, for cap 3.00 Lunches for officer,T.F.Kane 19.00 Cohasset Hardware Co 4.48 Tower Brothers &Co 1.71 Heating : City Fuel Co.,6,000 pounds coal $51.00 Lincoln Brothers Coal Co., 2,100 pounds coal 18.38 48.76 Chief's expenses,general,car- fares,etc 59.75 Telephones : Chief $77.04 Headquarters 52.26 North Cohasset 34.35 163.65 55 Tower Brothers &Co.,4,050 pounds coal $37.46 Lighting : Electric Light and Power Co., current $11.16 Bosworth &Beal,lamps 6.01 Transportation : Ruiter Motor Sales Inc. : Gas,548H gallons $113.15 Oil,3^gallons 3.00 Tires and tubes 47.20 General repairs and supplies. . 92.26 $255.61 Beal Brothers,battery repairs ...$8.00 Chief,for automobile supplies...31.15 Chief,for automobile hire 15.15 Chief,for automobile drivers....9.00 Edward R.Jason,for automobile hire 129.15 Lot E.Bates,truck 3.50 Litchfield's Express 3.75 Insurance,W.H.Pratt 57.75 Street Lights: Care of light,Beechwood,H. L.Brown $58.88 Main Street and Depot Avenue,beacon: American Gas Accumulator Co.,3 tanks gas 39.06 Expressing and trucking 4.82 $106.84 17.17 513.06 102.76 56 Painting roads,labor and paint. . $42.50 $8,984.14 Balance to Treasury 15.86 Unpaid bills:$9,000.00 $9,000.00 Payroll for December $925.23 Care Brook Street light,T.F. Kane 65.00 $990.23 FIRE DEPARTMENT Appropriation $9,400.00 Receipts : For badge $1.00 Tire and Tube 10.00 $11.00 Expenditures : Executive expenses: Edward E.H.Souther: 67 pairs rubber boots $368.50 65 rubber coats 471.25 65 hats 58.50 $898.25 J.M.Hardy,70 badges 81.25 Glass door of car of L.J. Morris (Snow fire)6.25 Edward R.Jason,automobile.1.50 Beal Brothers,gas for F.F. Martin,Jr 1.10 Telephone at Central station.59.83 $1,048.18 57 Outlay:Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.: Ford truck (formerly of Forest Warden)$150.00 Wages : Fred C.Blossom,chief $300.00 Alfred M.Silvia,driver Engine No.1 1,800.00 William J.Brennock,house- man,Central Station 500.00 Clarence S.Reddy,substitute driver Engine No.1 236.00 Walter McGrath,substitute house man 4.00 John P.Kane,substitute house man 4.00 Clarence S.Reddy,driver Hook and Ladder No.1 25.00 E.R.Jason,driver Hook and Ladder No.1 20.00 J.P.Kane,driver Hook and Ladder No.1 20.00 Frank T.Jason,driver Hook and Ladder No.1 5.00 Paul Brazill,driver Hook and Ladder No.1 5.00 E.A.Stone,driver Hook and Ladder No.1 5.00 A.M.Gonsalves,driver Combination No.2 10.00 E.H.Brown,driver Combina- tion No.2 5.00 Paul W.Pratt,driver Combina- tion No.2 5.00 R.G.Pratt,driver Combina- tion No.2 5.00 Ralph M.Brickett,driver Hose No.3 5.00 58 John P.Kane,driver Hose No.3 $10.00 Edward Fitzpatrick,driver Hose No.3 5.00 Charles H.Pratt,steward Combination No.2 29.00 Michael J.Gonsalves,steward Combination No.2 20.84 Clifford Studley,steward Hose No.3 50.00 Poll taxes,68 men 136.00 $3,204.84 Services at fires : Joseph M.Silvia $5.00 Joseph Silvia 5.00 Charles E.Jason 3.00 Henry B.Kennedy 3.00 John Kennedy 9.00 B.J.Salvador 12.00 Frank J.Antoine 4.00 Charles Hunter 5.00 $3,250.84 Repairs on and supplies for apparatus : Engine No.1 : Boundbrook Garage,vul- canizing $3.00 The White Co 11.13 Hook and Ladder No.1 : E.A.Patch Co 7.50 Beacon Motor Car Co 8.13 Egypt Garage and Machine Co.2.00 Anthony J.Sidney,labor ....8.00 Quincy Point Garage 2.50 Hose No.3: Anthony J.Sidney,labor...62.00 Beacon Motor Car Co 15.26 Crossman Plating Co 84.00 59 F.J.Antoine,transportation $2.00 Peerless Motor Car Co 20.95 Repairs on buildings : Central station: M.S.Leonard $37.20 Combination No.2: E.H.Brown,storing truck..10.00 S.H.Stoughton,mason 229.87 The Berger Manufacturing Co.,metal ceiling 193.00 Bosworth &Beal,wiring 45.07 G.Frank Sargent,Jr.,painting 220.00 G.Frank Sargent,Jr.,sign.. . 12.00 Alexander S.Hitz,heating,etc.106.43 W.H.McGaw,carpenter 222.97 George F.Sargent,labor 14.00 Cohasset Hardware Co.,glass 1.35 Outlay 1923,A.E.Salvador, wall 100.00 Hose No.3: M.S.Leonard,heating and plumbing 47.35 General supplies for houses : Central station: South Weymouth Laundry...$71.66 Minot Market 81.17 Cohasset Hardware Co 10.35 Tower Brothers &Co 20.59 L.Levine 10.00 Cousens &Pratt,2 flags,4x6 11.50 South Shore Boat and Lobster Co 1.75 Combination No.2: L.Levine 3.95 Cohasset Hardware Co 6.55 E.H.Brown 9.37 $226.47 $1,239.24 60 Hose No.3 : Tower Brothers &Co 13.25 Bosworth &Beal 3.60 Frank Sargent,shades 13.71 Fuel: Central station: Hull &Nantasket Fuel Co., 26,000 pounds coal $208.50 Lincoln Brothers Coal Co., 7,040 pounds coal 56.32 Tower Brothers &Co.,wood.2.50 Combination No.2 : A.M.Gonsalves,cord of wood 16.00 Hull &Nantasket Fuel Co., 12,000 pounds coal 98.00 Lincoln Brothers Coal Co., 12,260 pounds coal 98.08 Hose No.3: Hull &Nantasket Fuel Co., 35,550 pounds coal 287.41 Hull &Nantasket Fuel Co., wood 14.00 John T.Barnes,cord of wood 12.00 Equipment supplies: Engine No.1 : Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,gas, oil,etc S17.20 Beal Brothers,acid,grease, batteries,etc 214.05 Minot Market,gas and soda 28.44 George W.Salvador,gas,oil, alcohol,etc 30.75 A.L.Ahearn,alcohol 4.50 Pettengill-Andrews Co.,auto- mobile lamps 1.80 Cohasset Hardware Co.,vise and file 18.90 S257.45 $792.81 61 Cohasset Motor Co.,2 tires and tubes $224.46 Litchfield Brothers,repairing chain 2.00 M.J.Sullivan,chamois and sponges 13.50 F.W.Browne Pharmacy,soda 7.70 C.H.Trott Co.,soda . . 5.75 O.F.Kress &Sons,axe handles 9.40 Bosworth &Beal,battery 6.20 C.Callahan Co.,500 feet hose 375.00 C.Callahan Co.,nozzle and repairing hose 9.00 C.Callahan Co.,extinguisher supplies 20.25 Hook and Ladder No.1 : Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,gas and oil 7.10 Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,two tires 296.00 George W.Salvador,gas,oil and grease 11.10 Beal Brothers,gas,battery charging,etc 10.75 Minot Market,gas 4.82 M.J.Sullivan,chamois,etc..10.67 F.W.Browne Pharmacy,soda 7.70 Pettingell-Andrews Co.,auto- mobile lamps,cable,etc... . 9.96 •A.L.Ahearn,alcohol 4.50 Combination No.2: Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,bulb, etc 1.20 M.J.Sullivan,chamois,etc..6.00 E.H.Brown,gas,tire,chains, etc 14.73 62 Small truck: Beal Brothers,gas,oil,battery, etc $9.25 Hose No.3 : Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,gas, oil,grease,etc 32.75 Beal Brothers 39.05 G.W.Salvador,gas 1.05 Fitzpatrick &Happenny,gas.2.76 Litchfield's Express,7 keys...2.50 $1,460.79 Electric Lights: Central station $119.86 Combination No.2 7.71 Hose No.3 21.42 148.99 Fire Alarm : Current $56.96 Elwood F.Litchfield,labor..45.50 Bosworth &Beal 274.04 The Gamewell Fire Alarm Tele- graph Co 242.31 Beal Brothers,distilled water and acid 48.82 Electric Light and Power Co., labor,etc 43.16 Pet tingell-Andrews,500 feet wire 4.63 Pettingell-Andrews,Y2 m il e wire 40.72 Cohasset Hardware Co 14.87 Anthony Sidney,labor 7.00 C.S.Reddy,labor 26.25 Tower Brothers &Co 3.88 63 E.R.Jason,transportation...$3.00 F.W.Browne Pharmacy....1.50 !American Railway Express .. . .44 Beale's Cohasset &Scituate Express .35—$813.43 $9,388.20 Balance to Treasury 11.80 $9,400.00 $9,400.00 Unpaid bills. : Cohasset Motor Co.,supplies .$189.92 Schedule,filed late 689.66 $879.58 FOREST FIRES (For detail as to labor,drivers, etc.,see end of report) Appropriation,general $1,000.00 Appropriation,new truck 800.00 Receipts : N.Y.,N.H.&H.R.R.,on account of fires $135.00 Expenditures : Payrolls (fires)$577.00 Alfred M.Silvia,Forest Warden, services for 1924 50.00 Supplies : Minot Market,gas and soda..$9.05 Beal Brothers,gas,oil,batteries and acid 91.69 Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,oil, inner tube,etc 18.42 64 Bosworth &Beal,acid $21.23 A.L.Ahearn,gas and alcohol 5.70 Crossman Plating Co.,plating bell 6.00 Roxbury Iron &Metal Co., bell and hammer.:10.75 Tower Brothers &Co.,supplies and tools 16.30 C.Callahan Co.,bottles and hose 8.00 John Robbins Manufacturing Co.,2 badges 3.28 Lungmotor Corporation,one tube 2.06 Iver Johnson Sporting Goods Co.,revolver,holster and cartridges 29.05 C.H.Trott Co.,two brooms . 5.22 $226.75 William Sidney,labor on truck ..5.00 Paul Brazill,labor on truck 5.00 William P.Malley,repairs on truck 4.00 John Burke,automobile 10.00 John F.James,automobiles 7.25 New truck: Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,new Ford chassis,body,dash,etc.$923.00 Less allowance on old truck..150.00 $773.00 Bradshaw Pattern Co.,cylin- ders for extinguishers and other equipment 30.31 803.31 Insurance on trucks (fire),W. •H.Morris 13.18 65 Edward B.Gammons,posting notices Walter McGrath,watching fire $2.00 4.00 Balance to Treasury $1,707.49 92.51 $1,800.00 $1,800.00 MOTH SUPPRESSION Appropriation (Voted to take $1,500 from this appropria- tion for damage to bees of L. A.Litchfield).$5,000.00 Receipts : Frank H.Tyler,spraying $5.58 On tax bills of 1923 and prior.$366.67 On tax bills of 1924 962.22 1,328.89 $1,334.47 Expenditures (Detail as to labor, teams and trucks given at end of report) Payrolls : Superintendent,George Young, services $559.15 Labor 1,534.33 Printing,E.E.H.Souther, poison cards 12.96 Advertising,Franklin Publish- ing Co.,notices 19.20 Freight and express,paid by George Young 3.78 Teams and automobiles: George Young $166.89 General 276.26 443.15 66 Sprayers: George F.Mitchell,labor,re- pairs $209.65 Fitzhenry-Guptill Co.,crank shaft 67.50 Litchfield's Express,gas 3.45 Austin L.Ahearn,gas 13.65 Herbert Williams,50 gallons oil 40.00 $334.25 Frost Insecticide Co.,1,008 pounds dry lead and carting 216.64 Samuel Cabot,Inc.,50 gallons creosote 16.50 Supplies,general: Cohasset Hardware Co.,tools, etc $5.75 J.N.MacNeill,tools,etc 17.00 M.J.Sullivan,soap,sponges, etc 7.75 W.P.Malley,repairing tools.9.85 The Acme Rubber Manufac- turing Co 1.60 Joseph St.John,17 gallons oil 3.48 South Shore Boat &Lobster Co.,oil,clothes,gas,etc....25.25 Tower Brothers &Co.,oil, clothes 6.25 76.93 Elmer S.Williams,filing saws...$4.00 Frank Stoddard,filing saws 9.55 13.55 Expressing 2.57 Rent,F.W.Wheelwright 150.00 Insurance,Employers'Liability, William H.Pratt,on $4,000 113.60 67 Cohasset Motor Co.,washing car of Bresnahan $3.00 Trust,held for action of court (account of bees) $3,499.61 1,500.00 Balance to Treasury .39 $5,000.00 $5,000.00 MOTH WORK —PRIVATE LIABILITY December 1,1923 —December 1,1924 Private Liability Total Paid in December,1923 $61.25 $1,440.66 Paid in January to March 1923: Payrolls '59.50 853.47 Paid April 1 to December 1, 1924,spraying,private liability : Labor $254.95 Teams 106.68 Lead,1,306 pounds 326.50 Gasolene,68^gallons 15.48 Oil,13%gallons 11.72 715.33 2,100.59 $836.08 $4,394.72 68 TREE WARDEN Appropriation $1,500.00 Expenditures (Detail as to labor, etc.,given at end of report) : Payrolls : Tree Warden,George Young, services $324.75 Labor 806.17 $1,130.92 Teams,George Young $120.00 Teams and automobiles,general 56.90 176.90 Trees,C.A.Tanger 85.25 Litchfield Express 4.00 Joseph Breck &Sons,tools...5.65 John N.MacNeill 6.99 Fitzpatrick &Happenny,tools 9.25 Cohasset Hardware Co.,tools.3.88 Dodge,Haley &Co.,chains..9.76 Tower Brothers &Co.,tools and rope 5.13 W.P.Malley,repairing tools, chain,etc 21.40 J.A.McDonald,repairing tools 1.85 Frank Stoddard,filing saws ..7.45 E.A.Stone,filing saws 3.00 Insurance,Employers'Liability on $1,000,W.H.Pratt... . 28.40 $1,499.83 Balance to Treasury .17 $1,500.00 $1,500.00 69 INSPECTION OF WIRES Appropriation $500.00 Receipts for permits,credited to "Agency,''$137.75 Expenditures : Wire inspector,S.Chester Pratt,services $474.97 Wire inspector,telephone....25.03 $500.00 $500.00 SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Appropriation $300.00 Receipts for fees 51.39 Expenditures : Sealer,C.Nichols,services...$200.00 Postage,stationery,etc 11.18 Record book,Hobbs &Warren 6.16 Dues "Mass.Sealers "2.00 Assistance on pumps,T. William Fitch 12.00 Subscription,Sealers'Journal.2.00 Supplies,W.and L.E.Gurley 19.22 Test measure,Dover Stamping and Manufacturing Co ....14.06 Transportation : Edward R.Jason $7.00 Lot E.Bates 15.00 William H.Fitch 5.00 27.00 Insurance on test balances,on $1,608,ordered by State, William H.Morris 40.60 Balance over appropriation to Incidental Account 34.22 $334.22 $334.22 70 BOARD OF HEALTH Appropriation ($200 for District Nurse)$2,500.00 Receipts : Commonwealth of Massachu- setts,Division of Sanatoria.$234.29 Expenditures : Executive expenses : I.F.Sylvester,chairman, services $150.00 Edward L.Higgins,secretary, services $150;expenses $25.175.00 A.J.Landry,services 150.00 F.W.Browne Pharmacy, services and expenses 30.49 Hobbs &Warren,permits, blanks,etc 9.29 Boundbrook Press,printing ..9.00 Litchfield's Express .50 $524.28 Telephone of chairman 21.01 Quarantine and Contagious Hospital : Social Service League,for Dis- trict Nurse,1924 200.00 Inspection of milk and vinegar : I.F.Sylvester,services 150.00 Inspection of slaughtering : D.W.Gilbert,services 39.00 Vital statistics: O.H.Howe,M.D.,4 births (reporting)$1.00 C.W.and E.H.Sparrell, reporting 30 deaths 7.50 8.50 Incidental Account : Litchfield's Express $.50 John W.Bates,repairs to excavator 5.00 $5.50 $948.29 Balance to Treasury 1,551.71 $2,500.00 $2,500.00 Unpaid bill : H.E.Fernald,M.D $5.25 BOARD OF HEALTH —DENTAL DISPENSARY Appropriation $1,000.00 Paid Dr.Frank A.Derby,for services and supplies $1,000.00 BOARD OF HEALTH —NORFOLK COUNTY HOSPITAL Appropriation $2,346.37 Paid F.C.Cobb,County Treasurer,Norfolk County...$2,346.37 STRAITS PONDS,CAT DAM AND JAMES BROOK,ETC. (For detail as to labor and team?,see end of report) Appropriation $1,000.00 Expenditures : Straits Pond: Gates,care of George Young .$20.00 Payrolls : Labor (including George Young)360.50 Team and automobiles 42.50 72 Richard Lawrence,use of boat $9.50 Edith B.Hatch,use of boat..10.50 Fitzpatrick &Happenny,chain and hook 1.00 A.E.Salvador,work on gate.4.00 Cohasset Hardware Co.,marlin .90 South Shore Boat &Lobster Co.,rubber boots,1923... . 5.50 Cat Dam: Gates,care of,for part of 1923, William H.McArthur $6.50 Gates,repairs,A.E.Salvador, labor and supplies 255.80 W.P.Malley,iron work 31.00 William H.McGaw,carpenter's work,etc '.88.35 Tower Brothers &Co., cement,lumber,etc 15.47 J.N.MacNeill,padlock 3.07 James Brook : Gates,care of (1923,$30)C. A.Tanger $60.00 B.F.Morse,labor,6.75 C.F.Wilbur,labor 6.75 R.G.Pratt,labor .50 E.E.H.Souther,rubber boots 14.90 $454.40 400.19 88.90 Gulf River Dam,Joseph A.Valine, care of 5.00 $948.49 Balance to Treasury 51.51 $1,000.00 $1,000.00 73 INSPECTION OF ANIMALS Appropriation $125.00 Paid Darius W.Gilbert,services.$125.00 STATE HIGHWAY Appropriation $591.85 Paid Commonwealth of Massachu- setts.. .'$591.85 HIGHWAYS AND SIDEWALKS (Tarring Streets,see below) Appropriation (including tarring streets)$35,000 00 Receipts : Travelers Insurance Co.,refund of premium on stone crusher $37.00 Sullivan,use of roller 15.00 52.00 Expenditures (for detail as to labor,teams and trucks,see end of report) Superintendent of Streets,Daniel M.Crockett,services and transportation,3 months at $2,800 a year $700.00 9 months at $3,000 a year....2,250.00 $2,950.00 Superintendent of Streets,paid for freight .50 Superintendent of Streets,tele- phone 38.47 Stationery,Edward E.H.Souther 1.40 74 Labor,ordinary $5,519.44 Labor,engineer,M.L.Brown...805.44 $6,324.88 Teams $1,144.20 Trucking 2,958.00—4,102.20 Stone,sand,etc. : Boston Sand &Gravel Co.,867 yards and 18 tons of sand..$137.40 Bradford Weston,317.8 tons crushed stone 848.37 Bradford Weston,15.15 tons stone dust 42.77 Edwin L.Furber,3H>tons of stone 8.75 Edwin L.Furber,labor 4.50 J.W.Whitcomb,519 loads of gravel 213.95 N.Y.,N.H.&H.R.R.,129H yards cinders 129.50 $1,385.24 Trucking sand : George W.Mealy &Sons,453 yards $1,019.26 Litchfield's Express,977 yards 2,198.25—3,217.51 Carting barrels,etc.,Litchfield's Express 34.55 Fuel: Lincoln Brothers Coal Co., 49,885 pounds soft coal $293.08 John T.Barnes,Y2 cord wood 8.00 Edwin W.Bates,3 feet wood.6.00 307.08 Supplies : Headley Good Roads Co.,302 gallons patching material...$61.92 J.N.MacNeill,tools,etc 47.08 75 Cohasset Hardware Co.,tools, etc 3.70 Waldo Brothers &Bond,tools, etc 32.50 Tower Brothers &Co.,tools, cement,drain pipe,etc 33.87 Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,gas, etc*9.68 Austin L.Ahearn,kerosene...1.56 Middlesex County House of Correction,brooms 9.47 The Berger Manufacturing Co.,culvert 16.20 Buffalo-Springfield Roller Co., supplies 61.78 Puritan Iron Works,two grates 16.80 W.P.Malley,iron work 9.25 Joseph St.John,kerosene,etc.4.40 Atlantic Steel Co.,224 pounds steel 129.52 C.S.McGaw,cedar posts.. . 2.08 American Railway Express....47 440.28 Rent,Estate of H.L.Willard...125.00 Insurance : On boilers,W.H.Morris $94.00 Employers'Liability,on $10,000, W.H.Pratt 326.10 420.10 Brought Forward $19,347.21 Unpaid bills :. Tower Brothers &Co.,cement etc $30.13 The Barrett Co.,tarvia 59.75 $89.88 76 TARRING STREETS Appropriation,included in High- ways,general. Expenditures : The Barrett Co. : Tarvia B.58,506 gallons at 13H and 14 cents $7,984.19 Of the above,3,820 gallons were used on Pleasant Street at a cost of $534.80. K-P patching at 18^and 17^ cents,4,535 gallons 796.98 Brought Forward $8,781.17 PLEASANT STREET (For detail as to labor,teams,etc.,see end of report.) Appropriation,$5,000 from High- ways general Expenditures : Labor,ordinary $2,740.46 Labor,engineer,M.L.Brown...364.00 $3,104.46 Trucks $756.00 Teams 212.63 '968.63 Litchfield's Express,carting 18 yards sand 40.50 Litchfield's Express,for express..1.00 The Berger Manufacturing Co., 2,030 feet pipe 2,258.10 The Puritan Iron Works,12 grates and frames 135.00 N.Y.,N.H.&H.R.R.,freight 12.58 77 Tower Brothers &Co.,cement, etc $31.30 $6,739.99 Brought forward: Total of Highways,general ..$19,347.21 Total of tarring streets 8,781.17 $34,868.37 Balance over appropriation, North Main,King Street and Forest Avenue,forward 112.50 $34,980.87 Balance to Treasury 19.13 $35,000.00$35,000.00 MARGIN STREET (COVE)DRAIN —OUTLAY (For detail as to labor,trucks,etc.,see end of report.) Appropriation $1,025.00 Expenditures : Labor,ordinary $434.25 Labor,engineer,M.L.Brown...94.50 $528.75 Trucks 93.75 Bradford Weston,7.15 tons stone 19.66 Bradford Weston,dynamite 2 50 H.L.Hauser Building Co.,air compressor,drilling,etc 18.20 The Berger Manufacturing Co., 286 feet culvert 273.42 Lincoln Brothers Coal Co.,3,375 pounds coal 19.84 Litchfield's Express 6.00 78 C.M.White Iron Works,4 grates $60.00 J.N.MacNeill,supplies 1.02 $1,023.14 Balance to Treasury 1.86 $1,025.00 $1,025.00 HIGHWAYS —SELECTMEN No appropriation. Expenditures : Fountains (and signs) : George F.Sargent,care of fountain,Beechwood,1923 and 1924 $10.00 Painting: Austin L.Ahearn,labor 2.00 Gorham L.Bates,labor 1.50 Dominick Depiro,labor 1.50 Percy G.Sargent,labor 1.50 Cohasset Hardware Co.,paint 3.30 E.H.Brown,paint,etc 1.00 A.E.Salvador,setting post. . 2.00 J.N.MacNeill,28 feet pipe. . 18.85 $41.65 Century Sign Co.,signs: 5 "Evernu "$200.00 2 School warning 8.00 Transportation 10.00 Labor,2 men 25.00 243.00 L.Scott Roe: 4 Redflex signs $100.00 Less freight 2.16 97.84 79 American Railway Express $5.15 B.F.Morse,labor 2.25 C.F.Wilbur,labor 2.25 J.F.James,trucking 11.00 Litchfield's Express 1.25 E.R.Shedd,painting signs 10.60 L.J.Morris,making signs 6.00 Tower Brothers &Co.,cement...3.20 W.P.Malley,iron work 2.00 Total to Incidental Account . . $426.19 GULF RIVER BRIDGE —COMMITTEE —OUTLAY Appropriation $500.00 Expenditures : George F.Newton,preparing drawings,etc $500.00 GULF RIVER BRIDGE,BORDER STREET — REBUILDING —OUTLAY Appropriation,raised and appro- priated $3,246.00 Appropriation,issue of bonds....30,000.00 $33,246.00 Expenditures : J.R.Worcester &Co.,services as engineers,5 per cent of contract price of $29,591.00 $1,479.55 J.R.Worcester &Co.,services of inspector 765.00 $2,244.55 80 H.L.Hauser Building Co., (contract,$29,591)$10,041 due on contract $19,550.00 $21,794.55 Balance of appropriations carried to 1925 account see "Trust"11,451.45 $33,246.00 $33,246.00 Unpaid bill : H.L.Hauser Building Co., changing location of water pipe,$1,043.46 CUNNINGHAM BRIDGE —REPAIRS Appropriation $6,525.00 Receipts,William T.Barnes,old planks $12.00 Expenditures : The Boston Bridge Works, contract $6,500.00 The Boston Bridge Works, additional stringers under ' walk 100.00 $6,600.00 D.M.Crockett,traveling expenses 3.40 Balance over appropriation to Incidental Account $78,40 $6,603.40 $6,603.40 81 ENLARGING CORNERS OF NORTH MAIN STREET, KING STREET AND FOREST AVENUE — OUTLAY (For detail as to labor,teams and trucks,see end of report) Appropriation $2,000.00 Expenditures : Payrolls,under Superintendent of Streets: Labor,ordinary $590.61 Teams 358.89 Trucks 187.50 $1,137.00 Payrolls,under George Young,Tree Warden: Services,George Young $46.50 Labor 136.00 Team,George Young 20.00 Automobile 27.00 229.50 Bradford Weston,,steam Shovel, 14H d $725.00 Bradford Weston,truck,7 hours.21.00 746.00 Balance over appropriation to Highways general 112.50 $2,112.50 $2,112.50 Payrolls,under allowance of $200, by County Commissioners : Labor,ordinary,on wall 165.40 Total $2,227.90 82 MOVING STONE CRUSHER,ETC. (For detail as to labor,trucks,etc.,see end of report) Appropriation t $500.00 Expenditures:• Payrolls : Labor,ordinary $281.25 Labor,engineer,M.L.Brown 70.00 Trucks 114.00 $465.25 J.N.MacNeill,roofing paper and supplies 22.57 Tower Brothers &Co.,tools 12.15 $499 97 Balance to Treasury .03 $500.00 $500.00 REMOVING SNOW,TRACTOR,ETC. Appropriation $6,500.00 Receipts,L.J.Morris,shingles from repair of tractor house $10.00 Expenditures (for detail as to labor, etc.,see end of report): Labor,ordinary $763.28 Labor,1922,Cyrus W.Bates....2.00 Teams 556.75 Sand and hauling : A.A.Davenport $59.50 Litchfield's Express .152.75 Litchfield's Express,snow plowing 63.75 I.N.Pratt 9.75 Boston Sand &Gravel Co.,150 yards sand 30.00 83 Lot E.Bates,removing snow and sanding $60.00 $375.75 Tractor,maintenance: Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,in- stalling lights....-$52.17 Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc.,gas, oil,etc 93.26 L.J.Morris,labor 2.70 Cohasset Hardware Co.,bolts..50 The Holt Manufacturing Co., rods 1.28 Butts &Ordway Co.,washers 3.05 W.P.Malley,supplies,etc...21.56 D.M.Crockett,1925 number plates 2.00 Insurance,W.H.Pratt 101.00 277.52 Employers'Liability Insurance on $1,000,W.H.Pratt ....17.88 Total Maintenance $1,993.18 Outlay,for tractor and snow plow : Holt Manufacturing Co., tractor $4,375.00 Holt Manufacturing Co.,snow plow 1,050.00 5,425.00 Balance over appropriation to incidental account $918.18 Total for Removing Snow,etc.$7,418.18 $7,418.18 Unpaid bills : Tower Brothers &Co $4.61 Litchfield's Express 256.50 Cousens &Pratt 15.50 84 A.A.Davenport $20.90 Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc 5.75 Litchfield's Express .50 $303.76 ELECTRIC STREET LIGHTS Appropriation,general $8,572.00 Appropriations,Articles 59,60 and 61,March meeting,one light,Norfolk Road,two in private way off Norfolk Road,one,Beechwood Street, near residence of O.H.Bates.80.00 Appropriation,June 7 meeting, one light Hill Street 20.00 $8,672.00 Paid Electric Light &Power Co. : For January,February,March, April and May,5 months at $714.07 $3,570.35 380 sixty-candle power at 1.666 $633.08 14 two hundred and fifty candle power at 5.666 79.32 One sixty-watt multiple at 1.666 1.67 . $714.07 For June,as above $714.07 One on Beechwood Street,one on Norfolk Road . . 6.33 Two on private way off Norfolk Road 4.33 724.73 85 For July,August and September, 3 months at $720.73 $2,162.19 For October,same as September.$720.73 Additional light,Border Street bridge 1.67 One light,Hill Street .59 722.99 For November and December: 386 sixty-candle power at 1.666 $643.08 One sixty-watt multiple 1.67 14 two hundred fifty candle power at 5.666 79.32 Two months at $724.07 $1,448.14 $8,628.40 Balance to Treasury 43.60 $8,672.00 $8,672.00 FORE RIVER BRIDGE Appropriation $1,000.00 Paid William L.Foster,treasurer, assessments 145-156,inclusive; 12 assessments at $60 $720.00 Balance to Treasury 280.00 $1,000.00 HARBOR MAINTENANCE Appropriation $600.00 Expenditures : Harbor Master,John W.Brennock, services $100.00 Assistant Harbor Master,Frank F.Martin,Jr.,services 50.00 $150.00 86 Special officer,services,John W. Brennock :$110.00 Labor on floats,etc. : John W.Brennock $86.50 Frank F.Martin,Jr..12.00 Alonzo Pearson 44.00 Foster Cadose 4.50 John J.Oliver 5.00 $152.00 Care of grounds,Benjamin H. Crane 74.00 Supplies : Tower Brothers &Co $52.61 Jerry McCarthy,12 oil barrels 21.00 W.P.Malley,iron work 2.00 75.61 Rent of shop,John W.Brennock . 15.00 $576.61 Balance to Treasury 23.39 00 $600.00 CHARITIES —COHASSET HOME Appropriation,including "Out- side Poor,""General Adminis- tration,"and "District Nurse" ($400)$15,000.00 Receipts : H.R.Nickerson,for produce $1,591.20 C.H.Trott Co.,for produce..148.55 1,739.75 L.J.Morris,pasture 10.00 Board 455.00 $2,204.75 87 Expenditures : Superintendent,Henry R. Nickerson,services $1,200.00 Telephone 53.64 Electric lights .103.81 Stationery,Edward E.H. Souther .27 Fuel: Lincoln Brothers Coal Co., 106,505 pounds coal 872.05 Drugs and medicines : F.W.Browne Pharmacy ....$69.75 Dykeman Brothers 23.15 92.90 Nursing,Bertha A.Bates 31.55 Funeral of Katherine Murphy, C.W.&E.H.Sparrell 85.00 Tonsorial work : Beniamin Nichols 24.60 Groceries and food supplies : Joseph St.John $65.16 Minot Market 1,128.24 South Shore Boat and Lobster Co 49.55 E.H.Brown 141.35 C.H.Trott Co 184.14 Cohasset Cash Market 60.97 Simeone Brothers 37.67 George W.Mealy &Sons,ice.55.35 W.O.Souther &Son,ice 30.09 Charles Wilson,bushel of pears 2.00 1,754.52 Grain : Joseph St.John $525.10 Fannie J.Story 64.70 J.T.Fitts,hay and grain 45.35 635.15 88 Clothing : Mrs.Charlotte M.Bates,coat $3.00 Louis Levine 6.78 E.E.H.Souther 14.35 Jordan Marsh Co 12.75 M.J.Merriam 16.58 H.R.Nickerson,for repairing shoes.3.85 C.W.Wood,repairing shoes ..2.30 General supplies for house: Cohasset Hardware Co $70.80 South Weymouth Custom Laundry 204.23 E.E.H.Souther,newspapers.10.00 Joseph St.John,Sunday papers 9.36 Richard W.Robbins,repairing clock 3.50 Litchfield's Express 1.95 Buildings,maintenance of : W.J.Coombs,glass,etc $2.62 A.F.Nott,inside painting...278.08 W.H.McGaw,carpenter and materials 85.97 P.L.Towle,wiring 13.75 John N.MacNeill,plumbing and heating,repairs and sup- plies 54.61 M.S.Leonard,plumbing and heating 9.03 Tower Brothers &Co.,lumber, etc 90.84 Jordan Marsh Co.,sheets, plates,etc 33.56 A.R.Sherman,5 gallons spray 10.00 W.J.Brennock,refilling ex- tinguishers (2 years)4.00 $59.61 299.84 89 Charles T.Fish,repairing mowers $8.30 C.W.z E.H.Sparrell,repair- ing chairs 6.25 Inspection of boiler 2.00 Labor,inside house,Mary McPhee $607.80 Charles Butman,transporta- tion of Mrs.McPhee 35.00 General supplies: F.H.Woodruff &Sons,seeds.$14.25 Fottler,Fiske,Rawson Co., seeds 78.32 Joseph Breck &Sons,seeds...75.91 South Shore Greenhouses, plants 11.00 Samuel H.Nichols,pepper plants..,3.00 John P.Squire &Sons,bushes and plants 15.30 Ames Agricultural Implement Co.,harrow.27.00 E.H.Brown,lantern..2.50 Fertilizers : Lot E.Bates,2 cords manure.$14.00 Tower Brothers &Co 49.60 E.E.Bates 60.00 Labor (outside)and teams : Charles Kennedy,labor $706.25 Charles Butman,labor 848.25 Lot E.Bates,truck 549.20 Lot E.Bates,team 13.50 R.B.James,labor 54.00 George Young,labor 20.63 Charles Wilson,labor 19.13 $599.01 642.80 227.28 123.60 90 H.B.Kennedy,labor $7.00 W.T.Barnes,team 53.00 H.R.Nickerson,slaughtering two pigs 7.00 Walter Wagner,slaughtering two pigs 8.00 $2,285.96 Horses and team,maintenance of:, Hill &Hill,blankets $10.65 M.J.Sullivan,harness,etc...11.90 W.P.Malley,horse-shoeing, etc 49.95 72.50 Livestock : Thomas Daly &Son,horse...$100.00 John Daly,two pigs 20.00 John G.Milner,50 chickens..18.30 138.30 Automobile for J.H.Morris,E. E.Bates... ' 2.50 Tobacco (for inmates) : Minot Market $1.20 Joseph St.John 1.00 E.H.Brown 7.50 Simeone Brothers 8.00 17.70 Insurance,Employers'Liability on $600,W.H.Pratt 8.21 Total for "Home "'$9,330.80 Deduct Receipts 2,204.75 Net cost of "Home "for 1924 $7,126.05 Unpaid bills : N.Simeone $6.50 Joseph St.John,food supplies, etc 52.88 Joseph St.John,Sunday papers 4.68 91 A.S.Hiltz,plumbing 53.25 Dykeman Brothers,drugs....3.05 South 'Weymouth Custom Laundry 12.48 C.H.Trott Co 14.99 Minot Market 70.46 P.L.Towle,wiring 3.60 Cohasset Hardware Co .75 J.N.MacNeill 3.70 $226.34 CHARITIES —OUTSIDE POOR For appropriation,see Cohasset Home account,and Recapitula- tion after General Administra- tion. Receipts : Commonwealth of Massachu- setts,on account of Mothers' Aid $925.07 Town of Weymouth 101.35 $1,026.42 Expenditures : Cash,Town Aid,monthly $356.00 Cash,other aid,weekly 1,645.00 $2,001.00 Relief by other places,New Bedford 105.00 Medical attendance,Town Phy- sicians : Dr.Frederick Hinchliffe $300.00 Dr.E.H.Schott 300.00 600.00 District Nurse 400.00 92 Medicines : F.W.Browne Pharmacy $6.70 Dykeman Bros 6.55 Fuel: George F.Welch Co.,4,000 pounds coal $34.25 Lincoln Brothers Coal Co., 31,950 pounds coal 274.08 Lincoln Brothers Coal Co., 19 feet wood 52.25 Edwin W.Bates,4 feet wood.8.00 John T.Barnes,2 feet wood. . 5.00 Rent: Mary Reilly $180.00 J.W.Mulcahy 100.00 Alonzo Pearson 180.00 E.E.Bates 40.00 Groceries and provisions : F.W.Wheelwright,milk $58.56 John W.Bates 14.64 C.H.Trott Co 311.22 Minot Market 96.48 $13.25 373.58 500.00 480.90 Clothing : M.J.Sullivan,shoes $285.50 E.E.H.Souther,shoes 43.10 328.60 Total cost Outside Poor $4,802.33 Deduct receipts 1,026.42 Net cost Outside Poor,1924. . $3,775.91 93 Unpaid bills : F.W.Wheelwright $4.96 Lincoln Brothers Coal Co ... . 39.05 J.T.Barnes 9.00 $53.01 CHARITIES —GENERAL ADMINISTRATION The appropriation for Cohasset Home and Outside Poor also covers this account. Expenditures : Overseers,salaries: Darius W.Gilbert $200.00 Harry E.Mapes 200.00 Herbert L.Brown 200.00 $600.00 Hobbs &Warren,blanks .70 $600.70 RECAPITULATION OF POOR ACCOUNTS Appropriation for the three accounts $15,000.00 Amounts paid,totals : General Administration $600.70 Outside Poor 4,802.33 Cohasset Home 9,330.80 $14,733.83 Balance to Treasury 266.17 $15,000.00$15,000.00 The net cost of Poor in 1924 was . $11,502.66 94 SOLDIERS'AND SAILORS'RELIEF Appropriation $2,000.00 Receipts : Commonwealth of Massachu- setts,Soldiers'Exemptions.$46.41 Soldiers'Home,Chelsea, refund 15.00 Refund,from an individual...12.00 $73.41 Expenditures : Cash paid weekly $631.00 Cash paid monthly 130.00 $761.00 Rent,August F.B.Petersen 108.00 Food supplies : C.W.Hobart,milk $150.96 Minot Market :.185.37 336.33 Fuel: Tower Brothers &Co.,8,000 pounds coal and 4 bags of charcoal $77.78 Lincoln Brothers Coal Co., 4,000 pounds coal 33.00 110.78 Clothing,E.E.H.Souther .4.65 Automobile to Chelsea 15.00 SouthWeymouth CustomLaundry 14.21 Electric Light &Power Co.,light- ing 11.30 95 New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.,telephone....$14.10 Dr.E.H.Schott,services 35.00 $1,410.37 Balance to Treasury 589.63 $2,000.00 $2,000.00 STATE AID Appropriation $500.00 Receipts,Commonwealth of Massachusetts : Military Aid $5.00 State Aid 378.00 $383.00 Expenditures : State Aid $420.00 Balance to Treasury 80.00 $500.00 $500.00 EDUCATION Appropriation,including $500 fire damage,Article 32 '$60,450.00 Receipts : County of Norfolk,dog tax ..$338.20 Commonwealth of Massachu- setts,Department of Educa- tion,English Speaking Classes for Adults 85.00 Commonwealth of Massachu- setts,Vocational Education 473.88 96 Refund,Royal Typewriter Co.$3.25 Supplies,O.K.Collins,superin- tendent 137.75 Supplies,E.L.Stevens 6.61 Lunch account 1,852.00 Offset to Outlay,from insurance companies on account of fire in Osgood School 500.00 $3,396.69 Expenditures:(For detail of teach- ers'salaries,text books and supplies,janitors'services,fuel, maintenance of buildings,li- braries,health,transportation, tuition,lunch and sundries,see end of accountant's report.) School Committee,services for, Edward L.Stevens,Financial Secretary $75.00 School Committee,expenses Telephone..'$85.45 A.L.Beal,Secretary,expenses 25.00 Boundbrook Press,reports ...47.30 157.75 Superintendent,O.K.Collins, services 1,600.00 Superintendent,Attendance officer, Thomas L.Bates 75.00 Superintendent expenses : Personal $126.50 O.K.Collins,use of automo- bile 40.00 Stationery and car-fare 5.44 Clerical help,Marie Pedersen.5.00 176.94 97 Teachers'salaries: Supervisors $300.00 Principal of high school,A.C. Morrison 2,500.00 High 9,817.00 Elementary 21,497.00$34,114.00 Text books and supplies : Books $1,213.68 Supplies,general 1,986.00 Supplies,for lunch account...2,143.83 5,343.51 Janitors'services 3,501.00 Fuel 1,474.32 Buildings,.maintenance of,in- cluding light and power 4,840.12 Libraries 6:98 Health (reported under "Health and Sanitation "to State.See special appropriation for "Dental Dispensary "under Board of Health.)690.50 Transportation 5,521.68 Tuition 2,068.07 Sundries 804.39 $60,449.26 Balance to Treasury .........74 $60,450.00$60,450.00 Unpaid bills : There was a schedule of bills presented to the Accountant for payment early in January amounting to $339.39,most of which'were for supplies,etc.,furnished in December,and as it is impossible to get in bills for December before the accounts are closed January 1,and as such bills were not classified in previous reports as "unpaid,"it would be unfair to do so in this instance.The above will also apply to other departments. 98 LIBRARIES Appropriation,Cohasset and Beechwood $3,900.00 North Cohasset 400.00 •$4,300.00 Expenditures : Paid: Rev.F.V.Stanley,treasurer Paul Pratt Memorial Library $3,900.00 James A.Brickett,treasurer Nantasket (North Cohasset) branch 400.00 $4,300.00 PARKS —NANTASKET MAINTENANCE Appropriation $170.25 Paid State Treasurer.$170.25 PARKS —TOWN COMMONS —GENERAL Appropriation $1,600.00 Receipts: Massachusetts Trust Co.,divi-• dends for Wadleigh Park ..$200.00 Cohasset Savings Bank,for Centre $51.76 Cohasset Savings Bank,for Billings-Pratt Park 45.00 96.76 E.G.Coles,for two lawn mowers (1923)10.00 $306.76 99 Expenditures : Labor : B.F.Morse $396.69 C.F.Wilbur.379.81 Harry Wilbur •.4.50 $781.00 Removing seats from Common,L. J.Morris 1.50 Mowers,sharpening andrepairing : Charles T.Fish $4.50 William P.Malley 10.75 15.25 Mower (new),Cohasset Hardware Co 18.50 Supplies : Ruiter Motor Sales,Inc. : Sixteen gallons gasoline $3.40 One gallon oil 1.20 Tools,etc...2.02 $6.62 •Cohasset Hardware Co 4.99 Tower Brothers &Co 7.30 C.F.Wilbur,repairing shears .50 J.N.MacNeill 40 Wadleigh Park: George Young,services and team $4.00 Charles Wilson,labor 2.25 19.81 6.25 Billings-Pratt Park: Care of,for 1924,George F. Sargent ., 50.00 Paid B.H.Crane,for care of parks see list following this account.444.00 Insurance,Employers Lability on $1,300,W.H.Pratt 8.53 100 Pond at centre,making it water-tight : Paid Antoine E.Salvador: Labor $313.00 Carting clay 50.60 Oakum 1.50 $365.10 Total maintenance $1,709.94 Outlay : Ames Agricultural Implement Co.,motor mower 289.10 Balance over appropriation to Incidental account $399.04 $1,999.04 $1,999.04 ACCOUNT BY PARKS Town Commons,centre $1,498.79 Wadleigh Park 6.25 Beechwood Park (Billings-Pratt) . 50.00 Parks under B.H.Crane: Paul Pratt Memorial Library.$133.50 Guild Hall 108.50 Cove Park 90.00 Stoddard (Elm Street)84.00 Summer Street,front of Cous- ens'28.00 444.00 $1,999.04 WHEELWRIGHT PARK Appropriation $700.00 Receipts : Cohasset Savings Bank,divi- dends $450.00 101 Massachusetts Trust Co.,divi- dends M.J.Sullivan,wood George Young,wood $200.00 2.00 18.00 $670.00 Expenditures:(For detail,see end of report) Payrolls : George Young,services $85.25 George Young,team 38.75 $124.00 Labor,ordinary 457.26 Teams,trucks,etc 86.50 Joseph St.John,14 gallons oil ...2.80 Tower Brothers &Co.,lumber...25.33 Cohasset Hardware Co.,tools....1.40 Insurance,Employers'Liability on $400,W.H.Pratt 2.63 $699.92 Balance to Treasury .08 $700.00 $700.00 MEMORIAL DAY Appropriation,in March $500.00 Appropriation,in June 150.00 $650.00 Expenditures : Paid George H.Mealy Post No. 118,American Legion $500.00 Paid Louise Hyland,treasurer, American Legion Auxiliary...150.00 $650.00 102 RECREATION —BALL FIELD Appropriation,in March $200.00 Appropriation,in June 500.00 $700.00 Expenditures : Labor on bleachers (1923)W.H. McGaw $31.20 Payroll (June),labor and truck..44.00 Walter S.Kerr (June) : 170 hours labor $95.20 Team,3 days 27.00 Blasting 5.00 Miscellaneous 2.00 129.20 The Oaks Farm (August) : Labor $36.00 Teams 18.00 Loam,16 loads 64.00 118.00 Score board : L.J.Morris,making $2.40 E.R.Shedd,painting 3.00 Tower Brothers &Co.,lumber 3.02 8.42 W.H.Brine Co. : Set of bases $12.50 Home Plate 8.50 21.00 $351.82 Balance to Treasury 348.18 $700.00 $700.00 103 FOURTH OF JULY —BAND Appropriation $300.00 Paid Joseph F.Kendall for band.$300.00 INCIDENTALS Appropriation $3,000.00 Receipts: The Oaks Farm,rent of gravel pit lot for 1923 and 1924 ...$80.00 W.B.Binnian,refund for damages paid on account of damage to automobile,Mar- gin Street 30.00 Delano Wight,town histories.10.00 Police Department,safe sold . 5.00 Genealogy 4.00 $129.00 Expenditures : Unclassified, Town Clock: Care of,Caleb Nichols $52.00 Insurance,Employers'Liability on $300,W.H.Pratt .82 $52.82 Town Flag: Care of,and repairs,Caleb Nichols $186.15 Cousens &Pratt,two flags, 9x15 44.50 230.65 Town Reports: Delivering,Walter E.McGrath $45.00 Beale's Cohasset &Scituate Express 6.00 Hobbs &Warren,250 envelopes 4.25 E.E.H.Souther,43 envelopes 1.72 56.97 104 Damages : Archa B.Keith,automobile tire (refund by W.B.Binnian).$30.00 Edward R.Jason,damage to automobile,Summer Street.51.00 Mrs.Grace R.Stevens,damage to clothes by tarvia,Pond Street 100.00 H.E.Fernald,M.D.,services for Frank J.Silvia 15.00 Clam Chowder,for Highway Superintendents (July 15): B.F.Morse,labor $7.28 C.F.Wilbur,labor 7.28 C.F.Wilbur,for towels,cloth and ice .88 William T.Damon,clams....8.50 Atlantic &Pacific Tea Co., supplies 12.81 E.H.Brown,cigars 6.00 Henry B.Kimball,cook 10.00 Miscellaneous : Thomas Groom &Co.,three cash boxes for old records..$9.00 Litchfield's Express .70' The Boundbrook Press,1,000 ledger sheets 33.27 Hobbs &Warren,paper 9.23 Library Bureau,500 filing folders 6.10 L.J.Morris,sign for gravel pit lot .90 Elijah F.Lincoln,perambulat- ing town boundaries 5.00 $196.00 52.75 64.20 105 Insurance,Employers'Liability, W.H.Pratt $129.60 Total for Unclassified $782.99 Transfers : Engineering,maintenance and outlay $121.86 Printing 41.34 Sealer of Weights and Measures 34.22 Highways,Selectmen 426.19 Cunningham Bridge 78.40 Removing snow 918.18 Town Commons 399.04 Cemeteries 4.95 Guild Hall 105.08 $2,129.26 $2,912.25 Balance to Treasury 87.75 $3,000.00 $3,000.00 TELEPHONES FOR INDIVIDUALS Services for individuals,charged to departments,which are reimbursed. Appropriation $525.00 Due from Paid out Received other for in from in Name and Department years 1924 1924 W.O.Souther,Jr.,ex-Selectman.$41.85' Edward L.Stevens,Town Ac- countant $33.62 $33.62 Louis J.Morris,janitor Town Hall 17.56 17.56 Frank Jason,Police Department 2.53 21.56 22.11 John Fleming,Police Department 4.51 27.41 29.64 106 Due from Paid out Received other for in from in Name and Department years 1924 1924 Frank J.Antoine,Police Depart- ment $10.80 $22.39 $25.74 George F.Sargent,Jr.,Fire Depart- ment 22.45 22.45 Alfred M.Silvia,Fire Department 12.74 42.66 26.21 Arthur Studley,Fire Department 9.85 31.04 23.57 C.S.Reddy,Fire Department...3.71 20.80 17.78 Elmer E.Bates,Forest Fires 22.25 27.11 8.50 George Young,Moth Department and Tree Warden 27.04 27.04 John W.Bates,Board of Health.1.53 19.89 18.56 John W.Brennock,Harbor Master 17.51 17.51 District Nurse,Charities .06 25.10 25.10 Arthur C.Morrison,Schools 29.91 29.91 Thomas A.Stevens,Schools 4.28 24.07 23.87 Paul Pratt Memorial Library 2.60 25.15 25.75 Benjamin F.Morse,Cemetery...7.30 6.50 $116.71 $442.57 $401.42 Appropriation,forward $525.00 Expenditures 442.57 Balance to Treasury $82.43 CEMETERIES Appropriation $600.00 Receipts : From sale of lots and graves. . $541.85 From care of lots 99.00 $640.85 107 Expenditures : Labor : B.F.Morse $263.13 C.F.Wilbur 216.88 Harry Wilbur 33.75 $513.76 Mowing,William T.Barnes.25.00 Telephone of B.F.Morse 16.80 Recording 16 deeds,H.F.Tilden 16.00 Postage and stationery 2.05 Supplies : Cohasset Hardware Co $5.17 Cousens &Pratt,canvas 19.20 Charles T.Fish,sharpening mowers 4.50 B.F.Morse,express .50 29.37 Insurance,Employers'Liability, $300,W.H.Pratt 1.97 Balance over appropriation to Incidental Account 4.95 95 $604.95 INTEREST —METROPOLITAN PARKS Appropriation $49.12 Paid State Treasurer $49.12 INTEREST —GENERAL Appropriation $3,700.00 Received : On deferred taxes $2,362.77 On bank deposits 637.26 $3,000.03 108 Paid: Commonwealth of Massachu- setts,on Jerusalem Road notes,5.75%$517.50 Rockland Trust Company, anticipation of tax loans: 'Note No.45,due October 14, at 4.05%$492.07 Notes Nos.46 and 47,due November 2,at 4.12%457.78 Note No.48,due December 1, at 3.96%341.55 Note No.50,due December 1, at 2.80%224.00 Note No.51,due December 1, at 2.65%181.08 Note No.49 due December 15, at 3.92%360.95—$2,057.43 $2,574.93 Balance to Treasury 1,125.07 $3,700.00 $3,700.00 PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE NORTH COHASSET POST OFFICE BUILDING Appropriation $100.00 Receipts,rent from Edgar T. Brickett $100.00 No payments Balance to Treasury $100.00 109 PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE GUILD HALL AND AMERICAN LEGION BUILDING Appropriation $50.00 Receipts : Rent,George H.Mealy Post No.118,American Legion (1923)$1.00 Rent,Volunteer Veteran Fire- men's Association,1924....1.00 $2.00 penditures : William H.McGaw,repairs on roof,etc $132.08 Cohasset Water Co.,rates to July 1,1925 23.00 Balance over appropriation to Incidental Account $105.08 \$155.08 $155.08 MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS Metropolitan Parks Sinking Fund Appropriation $6.85 Paid Commonwealth of Massachu- setts $6.85 MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS Bonds from Revenue Appropriation $6,000.00 Received from the Rockland Trust Co.,proceeds of 30 coupon 4% 110 Notes,Nos.52-81,inclusive, $1,000 each,dated September 1,1924,payable $3,000 annual- ly at Second National Bank, Boston;interest semi-annual $30,000.00 Paid: Treasurer of the Common- wealth,Jerusalem Road re- building note,due June 15,1924 $6,000.00 MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS Anticipation of Tax Loans Received from the Rockland Trust Company the following proceeds : Note No.45,due October 14, less discount at 4.05%$17,507.93 Note No.46,due November 2, less discount at 4.12%9,771.11 Note No.47,due November 2, less discount at 4.12%9,771.11 Note No.48,due December 1, less discount at 3.96%14,658.45 Note No.49,due December 15, less discount at 3.92%14,639.05 Note No.50,due December 1, less discount at 2.80%19,776.00 Note No.51,due December 1, less discount at 2.65%....19,818.92 $105,942.5 Paid the Rockland Trust Com- pany,all the notes as listed above $105,942.57 Ill AGENCY,TRUST,ETC. Including amounts received for and paid from Corporation Tax,Licenses,Permits,etc. Appropriation,State Tax ...$11,200.00 Appropriation,County Tax 10,820.90 $22,020.90 Received from Norfolk County for land damages paid on account of enlarging corners of North Main and King Streets,and Forest Avenue $177.00 Received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,corporation taxes,1923: Public Service $68.16 Business 50.91 National Bank 121.06 $240.13 Corporation taxes of 1924 : Public Service 2,155.24 Business 506.70 National Bank 706.12 $3,368.06 $3,608.19 Received from Commonwealth of Massachusetts,Civilian War Poll Taxes,refund $399.00 Received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,Surplus War Bonus Funds,under Chapter 480,Acts of 1924,to be used only for indebtedness,or under Sections 7 and 8 of Chapter 44, General Laws.(See Payments- making of Trust Fund)$1,618.70 112 Wire permits $137.75 Police Department —for aban- doned Buick car,net 277.31 Licenses : Liquor,third class $1.00 Pistol (9)4.50 Garage (automobile dealers) (3)75.00 Gas registration (13)........ . 6.50 Gas licenses (1)1.00 Junk (3)30.00 Sunday (3)3.00 Pool (2)4.00 Bowling (1)2.00 Oleomargarine (1).50 Common Victualers (4)4.00 Alcohol (1)1.00 Innholders (3)3.00 Auctioneers (2)4.00 Pedlers —Commonwealth of Massachusetts (7)56.00 $195.50 $28,434.35 Paid: State Treasurer,State Tax ...$11,200.00 State Treasurer,34 of third class liquor license .25 County Treasurer,County Tax ..10,820.90 Land damages awarded by County Commissioners,enlarging cor- ners of North Main and King Streets and Forest Avenue : F.Lucas Sutcliffe $49.50 Frederick W.Pape 13.00 Anna D.Watson 94.50 Old Colony Road 20.00 $177.00 113 Trust Fund,Rockland Trust Co., deposit of Surplus War Bonus Fund,received from State $1,618.70 Outlay —Border Street Bridge, Ralph H.Cahouet,attorney, in settlement of claim of Joseph E.Grassie for land damage ...650.00 Outlay —William A.Jones,Jeru- salem Road rebuilding (1920), see Town Report of 1920,page 57,balance due on contract, held on attachment 200.00 Walter Shuebruk,town counsel, amount received by Town, minus expenses,for abandoned car of John E.Todd 277.31 $24,944.16 Balance 3,490.19 $28,434.35 $28,434.35 Balance forward $3,490.19 Receipts from corporation tax, licenses,etc.,estimated by Assessors to obtain amount on which tax rate was based. (See schedule below.)$5,000.00 Deficit 1,509.81 $5,000.00 114 ESTIMATED RECEIPTS Used by Assessors in making up 1924 Tax Rate Part of Part of Actual Estimate Actual Receipts Assessors Receipts Source 1923 1924 1924 Town officers $85.90 $40.00 $4.60 Town Hall 1,232.11 1,200.00 1,245.63 Forest fires \68.50 135.00 Moth suppression 3,271.60 1,300.00 1,372.67 Board of Health 260.71 234.29 234.29 Highways,general 54.00 52.00 52.00 Charities,Cohasset Home 2,874.71 2,000.00 2,204.75 Charities,Outside Poor 946.00 1,300.00 1,026.42 Soldiers'and Sailors'Relief 35.58 35.00 73.41 State Aid 519.00 370.00 383.00 Education (The State allowed the Town nothing on teachers' salaries for 1924;$4,240 allowed in 1923)7,123.37 7,000.00 3,396.69 Town Commons,general 296.76 296.76 306.76 Town Commons,Wheelwright Park 693.00 650.00 670.00 Incidentals 29.35 80.00 129.00 Municipal telephones 481.50 450.00 401.42 Cemeteries 754.30 .550.00 640.85 Interest 3,090.17 2,500.00 3,000.03 Public Service Enterprises 102.00 102.00 102.00 Agency : Licenses,etc 132.45 Fines and permits 254.50 J 700.00 Corporation tax 5,615.06 5,000.00 | 4,617.75 Civilian War Poll Taxes 297.00 396.00 J County Commissioners'award 1,778.00 177.00 177.00 Trust,Beechwood Cemetery 3.40 3.40 $29,930.47 $24,504.95 $20,173.27 115 A close examination of the above schedules will show the difficulty of "estimating receipts "with any great accuracy. The difference,or over-estimate, total was $4,331.68 Deduct other receipts of 1924,not in above schedules 87.79 Leaving a deficit of $4,243.89 The above deficit is about the amount,from the State,which was estimated for teachers'salaries,and not received. Amount estimated from general receipts forward $24,504.95 Income tax estimate,received from the State 35,592.35 Total estimated receipts,1924 $60,097.30 Other income tax received from the State for 1924 was $1,064.00.This amount may properly be taken from deficit above mentioned,$4,243.89,leaving a balance of $3,179.89 over-estimate. Note:See further remarks on "estimated receipts "at end of Accountant's Report. TRUST Received from the Cohasset Savings Bank,for care of Williams'lot,Beechwood Cemetery $3.40 Paid,H.L.Brown,treasurer,for care of lot $3.40 TRUST Balances withdrawn from 1924 accounts and carried to 1925 accounts : Border Street Bridge $11,451.45 116 Moth Department,held for action of court on account of damage to bees 1,500.00 $12,951.45 RESERVE FUND Under Chapter 59,Section 25,General Laws APRIL TAX ASSESSMENTS Net deficit reported as of January 1,1924 $11,715.51 Amounts to be added,abated in 1924: 1920 —assessments,poll,$35; real estate,$25 $60.00 1921 —assessments,poll,$60; moth,$41.54 101.54 1922 —assessments,poll,$55; personal,$10;real estate, $81.20 171.30 1923 —assessments,poll,$30; real estate,$247.25 277.25 $610.09 Total deficit 1924 OVERLAY,see Assessors' report Charges against in 1924 : Polls abated $2.00 Personal abated 21.00 Real estate abated 808.87 $12,325.60 $3,984.04 $831.87 Balance January 1,1925 Deduct from total deficit .... $3,152.17 1,152.17 Net deficit January 1,1925 M73.43 117 DECEMBER ASSESSMENTS Total balance from December assessments on January 1, 1924 $16,119.70 1924 assessments committed to the Tax Collector in December : Personal $336.00 Real estate 110.78 $446.78 Add assessments of 1924,no charges against 446.78 Total balance from December assessments on January 1, 1925 $16,566.48 118 IN <£.2£ 1 oS CM C/J .9'© o o Xw P p O H 5|Ow s 05 R"O _C8 'C fto p.a 3 §."2 O O 03 33b,j 09 *o C/J g o o co lO OHLO iQCDOh t^GO 00 lO CO i—l lO 00^o <N CM CO LO r-H CM i—i O CO co o ooo to i-H LO I-H CO 1—1 CO oa OS <M iO CO <M o ooo »o © t^o CO LO ©" o ooooooooooooooooooo ©ooooooooooooooooooo i—i q oq_co co_o?©^^©^oo i-H CO"r-T t-T 00"©"©r-T o o oooo oo oo ©'©'©'©©o o o o oOLO»0 CO LO LO T— I Ol t^O O OlOO^lO^OOOi—i i-HCOO CM OOOO0000»0 CO <M -—iNHCO CO 00 ©CN <M ooo od co Tti i—1 1— 1 cb ^'oo t^"co aJoJd t^ooCOOO(MLOOTtit^OOOOOO OOO CO ^ CO LO r- 1 qiOfOM(N05C0 05 00 ^t^_LO CO o ©"H co"i-H t-h oo"oo"o"co"i-H OOOOOH^COCDCO^Ttl^LOLOLOLOLOCOCO LO 00 o co co co oo X H C CO Vh O CD Oo_ aj 3 (1)-+J otna 5*3ooa -o #suaj CD +J CD £ C CD aj aj o o §.s ^o aj ^ I-H 0j 3 -a q Tt<aj p!J=l CO ±1 G CU i—I >,h3 C ^^Oh h •S vh ^n £^^^•j-^'o.^ 05 CO CO CO CO CD CD o o •lo O £^ a o si +->aj o CO s 8 «-M oo oq <1 Hrfl bfl rt .2 CD CD CD ^5 ^co aj r ^a cd ^CD <4-l o pq 119 © CO i-H CO CO i—i GO COo o t^O O iOOO(X) o o o <3 o o ©ooCOooOoOooo o CO O *0 H O LO O CO LO o o ooTtHO(N03 O <N O rJH <M o o ooCOOhioooLO<N LO O LO LO 1—1 <N LO i-H CO CO CO CO C<!CO 8 r>05 O LO !>•-^OS o LO o O O t^00 co Tt<O 00 CO i— I o LO ^LO t^h 05 1— 1 o CO 00 LO i— I 00 CO CO o Th CO (MiOOJ 00o«*^(N05 CO <M <N o OS o i—i CO Oi i-HoCOOii-H LO 00 o TjH LO t^CO 1—1 1—1 Tfl ^ <N Tfl i-H CO 1—1 CO <M L-- T— 1 ,—1 i—l CO CO CO t^00 00 oo Oi i-H oq (M t^t^l^L^l^I-l>l^l^t-!>•00 00 00 co t-H cd o W Sffi CO ^w CU t/3 w i•SS O cdQ3t—: ,—1 O •< -4_i CU 0)3 cd QQH ~rri g^$° K*|8 <-M ^Vh Ph Tj T3 4^>-*-3 Vh V-i fj as cd re o o P3PQ tX ^£*4-1 ™tuO wO£cd §§£.£ ^>i-H C^aj cd oo s £ H ffi ffi Ph hH HH 120 t3 <0 w p I— I p o >— ( H ill 2 43.60 280.00 23.39 cd CO <M 589.63 80.00 .74 00q oo 1—1 00 CO LO CO h-<M 00 00 o <M i—i '3 iO CM T*H COO<M CM O 73.41 383.00 396.69 CO O i>-o CO © CO 3 129.00 401.42 640.85 coo©©o <M H CO a o o oooo oo O O O O iO©©©©CM OOOOOOOOfMOOOOOOOOOi-iO .2 (MOO i>o o CO O CO ooo o o o o ooo^o o t^OiC^COH OOOOOOlCOOOooloooocno-^oCDNCONWO»OCO t^» oua 9 00 i— I 1— 1 (M O^t CO i-H CO CO OOi—lOWONOOOiO^OCOOOCONWONOIN rf(NO(NOO)N'0(NCOOOO00OOOO'—•05 $§r2 OOOCOO(NOOOOOOC^NNCOOOHIM^ON 05 050HONN^05^OJOliOiOOOO^O^Nococococot^^co io < 00 ©^i-l ©^ CO i-H CM 98B<J oooooooooooooiaio OOO-HIMCCCOIOCONNoooooooooo •a o CO > .gS O Vh cd o *cu fo £-i X -u =1 r-r.C ..cd co co cj cd cd ^ ££O ow .CO Vh cd O^,POPL,O <» tflg <L>CO 'So CD cd I CDU caoo iO 'cd g) *! 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January 17,1925. TRUST FUNDS Schools Ripley Fund: On hand January 1,1924 Dividends earned in 1924 .... $1,142.78 51.98 $1,194.76 James W.Nichols Fund : On hand January 1,1924.... Dividends earned in 1924 .... $2,225.39 101.25 September 16,1924 withdrawn by School Committee for scholarships $2,326.64 100.00 On hand January 1,1924 ....$2,226.64 Parks Robert Charles Billings Fund: Town Commons (Centre) : On hand January 1,1924 .... Dividends earned in 1924 .... $1,150.00 51.76 Received by town in 1924.... $1,201.76 51.76 On hand January 1,1924....$1,150.00 Billings-Pratt Park,Beechwood: On hand January 1,1924.... Dividends earned in 1924 .... $1,000.00 45.00 Received by town in 1924 .... $1,045.00 45.00 On hand January 1,1924 $1,000.00 125 Horace W.Wadleigh Fund : On hand January 1,1924 .... Dividends earned in 1924 .... $5,000.00 200.00 Received by town in 1924.... $5,200.00 200.00 On hand January 1,1924..$5,000.00 Wheelwright Park Fund: On hand January 1,1924 .... Dividends earned in 1924 .... $15,000.00 650.00 Received by town in 1924.... $15,650.00 650.00 On hand January 1,1924.$15,000.00 UNPAID BILLS OF 1924 Rendered after the accounts were closed or appropriation exhausted. Police Department $990.23 Fire Department 879.58 Highways,general 89.88 Gulf River Bridge,H.L.Hauser Building Co 1,043.46 Removing snow 303.76 Charities —Cohasset Home 226.34 Charities —Outside Poor 53.01 Education 339.39 $3,925.65 Quite a number of the bills listed above were for December and were not rendered in time for payment in 1924 accounts, 126 LIABILITIES OF COHASSET AS OF JANUARY 1,1925 Jerusalem Road rebuilding 5%% notes,payable to the Common- wealth of Massachusetts, June 15,1925 $6,000.00 Gulf River Bridge (Border Street) 4%notes,$1,000 each,dated September 1,1924,payable $3,000 annually at the Second National Bank,Boston;semi- annual interest $30,000.00 INSURANCE (Policies in Town Vault) Property Amount Town Treasurer and Tax Collector: Check alteration $10,000.00 Messenger and office robbery.2,000.00 Mercantile safe burglary 2,000.00 Town Hall 1,000.00 Town Hall 1,500.00 Town Hall 1,000.00 Police Department,automobile fire and theft 450.00 Police Department,automobile casualty and property damagel0,000.00 Removing snow,tractor,Habilityl0,000.00 Removing snow,tractor,fire....4,000.00 Cohasset Home 2,500.00 Cohasset Home 5,000.00 Cohasset Home 2,500.00 Cohasset Home 5,000.00 Schools : Osgood,building $10,000.00 Osgood,building 7,000.00 $36,000.00 Last Expires Premium 1925 Paid Apr.13 Aug.17 $18.76 Aug.17 31.35 Apr.1 28.75 Apr.10 50.63 Apr.10 34.50 Apr.14 Mar.22 57.75 Jan.7 57.00 Nov.10 44.00 May 23 106.25 May 23 212.50 May 23 106.25 Nov.1 340.00 June 11 178.72 June 11 154.00 127 Last Expires Premium Property Amount 1925 Paid Osgood,building contents $5,000.00 June 11 $120.00 Beechwood,building 3,000.00 June 11 80.40 Guild Hall.,1,000.00 Nov.19 48.30 Workmen's Compensation,Liabi- lity Apr.27 673.53 BALANCE SHEET,COHASSET RECEIPTS,1924 Revenue: General : Real and personal (tangible) taxes,1924 $145,805.36 Income tax (intangible)from State,1924 86,656.35 Poll taxes,1924 1,408.00 $183,869.71 Real and personal (tangible) 1923 and previous $43,078.62 Income tax (intangible)from State,1923 and previous...1,013.07 Poll taxes,1923 and previous.828.00 44,919.69 From State,see "Agency "$4,007.19 Licenses,general and permits.333.25 Licenses on dogs,from County, credit of Schools 338.20 4,678.64 $233,468.04 Offset to Outlay,schools,fire insurance 500.00 Commercial 14,624.71 Municipal indebtedness,bonds ..$30,000.00 Municipal indebtedness,anticipa- tion of tax loans 105,942.57 135,942.57 128 Agency,from County,land dama- ges $177.00 Trust,from Commonwealth of Massachusetts,surplus war bonus 1,618.70 Trust,from Police Department, proceeds sale of Todd automo- bile 277.31 Trust,Beechwood Cemetery 3.40 $386,611.73 Balances : Cash balance January 1,1924, as reported $14,934.37 Deduct net amount over-re- ported (see Auditor's report). . 29.71 $14,904.66 Grand Total $401,516.39 BALANCE SHEET,COHASSET PAYMENTS 1924 Maintenance $197,756.25 Interest on bonds and temporary loans 2,624.05 $200,380.30 Debt,bonds from revenue $*6,000.00 Debt,Metropolitan Parks Sinking Fund 6.85 Debt,temporary loans,anticipa- tion of taxes 105,942.57 111,949.42 Outlays,including William A. Jones and Joseph E.Grassie payments (see "Agency ")...$33,728.80 129 "Agency,"State Tax $11,200.00 "Agency,"County Tax 10,820.90 11 Agency,"Third class liquor license .25 "Agency,"County Commissioners award for land damage 177.00 $22,198.15 Trust,Beechwood Cemetery 3.40 Trust,Amount received from sale of automobile (paid town counsel)277.31 Trust,Balance of contract held on attachment ($200)included in "Outlay" Trust,Deposit at interest of Sur- plus War Bonus ,. . 1,618.70 1,899.41 Balances to 1925 accounts : Moth Department,held for action of court 1,500.00 Gulf River Bridge,balance of appropriation,held for com- pletion of contract 11,451.45 12,951.45 $383,107.53 Cash balance January 1,1925 18,408.86 Grand Total $401,516.39 FIXED PROPERTY —OUTLAY OF 1924 Engineering,tax surveys $850.00 Engineering,lay-outs ..173.86 $1,023.86 Hydrant,Smith Place 295.25 Fire Department,small truck... . $150.00 Fire Department,balance for wall, 1923 100.00 250.00 130 Highways,Margin Street (Cove) drain $1,023.14 Highways,Gulf River Bridge, Committee $500.00 Highways,Gulf River Bridge,re- building 21,794.55 Highways,Gulf River Bridge, Joseph E.Grassie land damage 650.00 22,944.55 Highways,enlarging corners, North Main and King Streets and Forest Avenue 2,277.90 Highways,removing snow, tractor $4,375.00 Highways,removing snow,snow plow 4.1,050.00 5,425.00 Highways,Jerusalem Road,re- building,balance from 1923 . . 200.00 $31,870.59 Town Commons,motor mower..289.10 $33,728.80 OFFSET TO OUTLAY Schools,Osgood,fire insurance...$500.00 In the matter of "Estimated Receipts "after the schedules before given in this report were made out,the Superintendent of Schools,telephoning the Department of Education,State House,from this office,was informed that receipts on account of teachers'salaries from the State were included in "Income Tax "estimates for 1924,$35,592.35.No mention of a specific amount for schools was made in the communication received from the Tax Commissioner,under date of July 30,1924,and no mention of a school fund was made in the statement rendered 131 by the treasury department of the Commonwealth,dated November 20,1924.Even if given in this latter statement it- would have been too late for any good,for receipts have to be "estimated "in July or August. Another department of the State,that of Public Welfare, Division of Aid and Relief,failed to give receipts "estimated " and due (bills rendered in January and June,1924)to the amount of $409.30.No reason has been given for this failure to the writer's knowledge. Another State controlled receipt is that for "Corporation Tax."In 1923,$5,615.06 was received by the town from this source,and $5,000 was "estimated "as a receipt for 1924,while only $3,608.19 was actually received in 1924. It is here emphatically repeated :It is exceedingly difficult to "estimate "receipts,particularly those that are State controlled. Respectfully submitted, EDWARD L.STEVENS, Auditor and Town Accountant. Cohasset,January 19,1925. Errata : Receipts for Moth Work should read as follows: Frank H.Tyler,spraying $5.58 On tax bills of 1923 and prior $404.87 On tax bills of 1924 962.22 1,367.09 Total receipts,Moth Suppression $1,372.67 FOREST FIRES Names as they appeared on the payrolls.Payments for labor or services,driving trucks,etc. A.or A.J.Antoine $4.50 H.Connery $.50 A.or Abraham J.Antoine,Philip Coyne .50 Jr 6.00 George Damon 1.00 Clarence Arnold .50 P.Donohue .50 Lot or Lot E.Bates ....5.00 Paul Donovan .50 Walter Baldwin .50 Ralph Enos 2.50 J.R.Brennock,Joseph Joseph Figureido 1.00 Brennock 5.50 Charles Fratus .50 William J.Brennock....46.50 George Frates 1.00 John Burke .50 Tony Gonsalves 1.50 William Burke 33.50 Clarence Grassie .50 LeviCadose 21.00 John J.Grassie 16.50 132 Martin Grassie $.50 John Figureido $1.00 Richard Grassie 1.50 1.50 Frank Fratus .50 Earle Higgins E.T.or Edward B. Fred Higgins .50 Gammons 15.00 Donald James 2.00 Tony or Antoine Grassie 25.50 Charles Jason 1.00 Fred Grassie .50 Frank E.Jason .50 Joseph F.Grassie 1.50 Frank Jason ....50 2.00 Norman Grassie Stephen Grassie .50 Frank T.Jason 4.00 J.,John or John P.Kane 21.00 George Henry .50 W.W.Jones .50 Milton Higgins .50 Harold Kennedy .50 Charles E.Jason«12.00 Bernard Kennedy 1.50 Edward R.Jason 7.50 William Kennedy .50 John L.Jason,Jr 1.00 James McArthur 1.00 Paul Jason .50 William McArthur,Jr...3.50 William Jason 2.00 Walter McGrath 5.00 Howard Jermaine .50 Edward McLean .50 Henry Kennedy 4.00 Henry L.McMahon.... George Monteiro .50 Henry Kimball .50 1.00 Charles Kennedy 2.00 Herbert Morse 3.00 J.,Jack or John Kennedy E.F.Litchfield ' 46.00 Frank F.Martin,Jr 8.00 .50 Joseph Madden 1.00 James McArthur 1.50 William Magner 1.00 Robert McKenzie 3.50 Chester Nott (Norwell)...50 John McLellan 1.50 Joseph or J.Oliver 9.50 Daniel McSweeney 3.00 John or John L.Pattison Fred Pape 2.50 Fred Maitland .50 .50 Albert J.Morris 1.00 Fred Peterson...50 .50 William Martin. Robert Manuela .50 Ernest Philbrick .50 Lawrence Poland .50 John J.Mulcahy 1.00 Frank M.Roche .50 Samuel Nichols .50 'Clarence S.Reddy 2.50 Harry Pattison 2.50 Peter Rooney .50 Harry Pattison,driving, J.Rosana .50 etc 15.50 B.or Baron Salvador....4.50 1.00 Arne Petersen 11.50 Chester Sargent Alfred Petersen 3.50 E.or Ellery Sidney 6.00 W.Poland 1.50 J.M.Silvia,Warden ...3.00 John J.Pratt 1.00 Joseph A.Silvia 10.00 Stephen Rooney .50 James Simeone .50 William Rooney 1.00 Carlton Andrews .50 William Richards .50 John P.Antoine .50 B.J.or Bernard Salvador 16.00 Frank P.Ayers 1.00 Louis Salvador 1.00 John Barnes 1.00 Anthony or A.Sidney ...18.50 Fred C.Blossom .50 William Sidney 6.00 Paul Brazill 6.50 .50 Charles J.or Charles SilviaJohnBrown 2.50 George Burke 3.50 Joseph M.Silvia Charles Smith . 26.50 Morton Burbank ...50 .50 5.00 1.00 Robert.Cortell Charles Stover,Jr Fred Sullivan 2.50 Cohasset Motor Co.,truck 5.00 Tohn Dolan .50 Joseph Sullivan 1.00 Cornelius Desmond .50 Charles Sylvia .50 J.H.or Joseph Donovan 41.00 Charles Tanger .50 Robert Donovan .50 Charles Vickery .50 E.Edwards 1.00 Charles Williams .50 133 Ralph Woods Edward Stone,Jr... Michael J.Sullivan. James Sullivan .... $.50 3.00 Irving F.Sylvester .... Frances Valine $2.50 .50 .50 Bert Williams 3.00 1.00 Henry Wilbur .50 MOTH SUPPRESSION Amounts paid under payrolls for labor or services,teams and trucks. James T.Bethel Charles E.Butman $28.00 George Damon $2.00 8.00 Louis J.Figureido 12.00 Robert J.Clark 49.00 Earle W.Higgins,labor Antoine S.Figureido....42.00 and automobile 35.25 George A.Henry 48.00 Thomas Keating 4.50 W.W.Jones,labor 159.00 Charles H.Kennedy ....12.00 W.W.Jones,automobile 51.88 George Lovering 8.00 Waldo W.Locke,labor ..53.00 Michael McAuliffe 14.00 W.W.Locke,automobile 30.62 George Mitchell,labor ..4.50 William F.Martin 8.00 John L.Munnies 51.75 Benjamin F.Morse 10.00 S.H.Nichols,labor ....130.74 William T.Murphy 5.63 S.H.Nichols,team 18.13 S.H.Nichols,Jr.,labor..70.50 H.A.Pattison 38.25 Daniel F.O'Brien 36.00 William J.Powers 8.00 Arne Petersen 22.00 Joseph A.Ryan 4.00 John W.Rooney 10.00 A.J.Sidney 35.60 George F.Sargent 16.00 John L.Silvia 19.50 A.L.Silvia 18.00 Edwin A.Stone 15.75 Charles R.Stoddard ....2.25 Thomas E.Valine 12.00 Fred P.Valine 10.00 16.00 H.W.White 12.00 Austin P.White Harry O.Wood on Charles F.Wilbur 94.75 sprayer 6.00 Charles Wilson 313.73 George Young,services ..559.15 Wilford L.Brown 50.63 George Young,team ....166.89 L.Cadose 40.50 TREE WARDEN Amounts paid under payrolls for labor,teams,etc. Lot E.Bates E.C.Clark Antoine S.Figureido .... George A.Henry Warren W.Jones,labor . Warren W.Jones,auto- mobile S.H.Nichols,labor .... S.H.Nichols,team $3.75 2.00 28.00 5.00 171.51 18.13 230.50 32.52 13.00 54.00 11.00 324.75 120.00 Walter P.Bates Robert J.Clark Louis J.Figureido Rufus A.James Waldo W.Locke,auto- mobile and services... Michael Meehan S.H.Nichols,Jr Arne Petersen $6.50 31.00 10.00 2.25 18.25 12.00 1.13 12.00 Antoine L.Silvia John J.Silvia Charles F.Wilbur Ellery Sidney Austin P.White Charles Wilson 1.13 4.00 192.90 George Young,services .. George Young,team .... George Young,paid for tools 4.00 134 STRAITS POND Amounts paid for labor,etc. Walter P.Bates $15.75 W.W.Jones,labor and Wilford L.Brown,labor automobile $104.75 and automobile 80.50 George Young,services Charles Wilson 87.75 and team 103.00 Clarence F.Bean 11.25 HIGHWAYS—GENERAL Amounts paid under payrolls for labor,teams and trucks. Atwood,Ainslie $40.00 Henry Ainslie $288.01 William T.Barnes,team 552.39 Ellery C.Bates,team ...84.50 William T.Barnes,truck 75.00 E.P.Bates,labor 589.76 Lot E.Bates,double team 60.75 Oliver Bates,team 18.00 Lot E.Bates,truck 660.75 Walter P.Bates 2.00 Albert Beron 16.00 Matthew L.Brown,engi- Michael A.Burke 644.38 neer 805.44 S.L.Damon 84.50 R.J.Clarke 278.51 George Denithorne 528.45 John De Mello 22.50 Antoine Francis 409.39 Percy Ford 98.82 George A.Henry 506.07 Joseph E.Grassie,truck 77.00 Rufus James 20.53 H.T.Henry 92.00 George Lovering 89.00 W.W.Locke 472.01 W.E.McGrath 8.00 M.F.McAuliffe 377.00 Daniel McSweeney 363.21 Henry L.McMahon,team 81.25 Charles Mitchell 64.00 E.C.McSweeney 73.50 Aaron Pratt,team 67.50 William J.Powers 137.00 Aaron Pratt,truck 1,343.25 Ira N.Pratt,team 84.50 Paul Pratt 28.00 John J.Pratt,team 87.75 Edward T.Reilly 576.79 Roscoe G.Pratt,truck ..1,016.50 Joseph Silvia ...15.75 George F.Sargent 19.13 C.R.Stoddard 94.50 Joseph J.Silvia 4.06 Robert White 44.00 J.W.Whitcomb,team..90.00 HIGHWAYS Changing corner of North Main and King Streets and Forest Avenue. Amounts paid under payrolls for labor,teams and trucks. H.Ainslie William T.Barnes,team Lot E.Bates,team Lot E.Bates,truck George Denithorne Antoine Francis H.T.Henry $87.19 Michael F.McAuliffe 122.63 Aaron Pratt,truck .. 118.13 John T.Barnes,team. 18.00 E.P.Bates 11.25 M.A.Burke 11.25 R.J.Clarke 32.75 Percy Ford $112.13 169.50 118.13 2.25 100.69 11.25 2.75 George Henry W.W.Locke . 135 $96.19 Daniel McSweeney $110.06 116.13 C.R.Stoddard 61.87 Amounts paid under Tree Warden Department on above work: George Young,services ..$46.50 W.W.Jones,labor and George Young,team ....12.50 automobile $41.00 S.H.Nichols 20.00 John J.Silvia 20.00 Antoine S.Figureido ....20.00 Joseph A.Ryan 20.00 Michael Meehan 8.00 Antoine L.Silvia 8.00 Charles Wilson 33.50 MOVING CRUSHER Amounts paid under payrolls for labor,trucks,etc. E.P.Bates $45.00 M.L.Brown,engineer..70.00 George Denithorne 45.00 W.W.Locke 45.00 Edward T.Reilly 36.00 Lot E.Bates,truck $114.00 R.J.Clarke 20.25 Antoine Francis 45.00 M.F.McAuliffe 45.00 HIGHWAYS —PLEASANT STREET Amounts paid under payrolls for labor,trucks,etc.The last few payrolls of this account were not divided by the Superintendent of Streets,and are reported under Highways, general. H.Ainslie E.P.Bates Lot E.Bates,truck .... M.A.Burke John De Mello John Ferreira... George Henry M.F.McAuliffe Charles Mitchell W.T.Barnes,team ... W.T.Barnes,truck ... £05.31 M.L.Brown,engineer..$364.00 197.72 R.J.Clarke 198.56 256.50 George Denithorne 194.06 216.00 Antoine Francis 194.06 70.31 W.W.Locke 204.19 45.56 Daniel McSweeney 22.50 201.37 William J.Powers 110.81 194.63 Aaron Pratt,truck 276.00 2.25 E.T.Reilly 148.51 167.63 Paul Pratt 4.50 12.00 C.R.Stoddard 121.50 HIGHWAYS —MARGIN STREET DRAIN Amounts paid under payrolls for labor,trucks,etc. H.Ainslie $58.50 M.L.Brown,engineer..94.50 George A.Henry 67.50 M.F.McAuliffe 49.50 Edward T.Reilly 15.75 E.P.Bates M.A.Burke W.W.Locke Aaron Pratt,truck C.R.Stoddard ... $45.00 69.75 65.25 80.25 63.00 136 REMOVING SNOW Amounts paid under payrolls for labor,teams,etc. H.Ainslie $25.88 H.W.White $30.00 William T.Barnes,team,Cyrus W.Bates (for 1922)2.00 truck,etc 99.00 E.P.Bates 140.26 Edwin Bates 3.00 Howard Bates 3.50 Edwin W.Bates,team ..34.00 Walter P.Bates ...22.50 Lot E.Bates,team 71.00 Albert Beron 2.00 Lot E.Bates,men and Michael A.Burke ..88.38 horses 85.00 Raymond Crane,engineer 16.25 C.C.Burgess 1.75 A.A.Davenport,team Robert J.Clarke Sanford Damon 4.00 and labor 117.50 4.00 George Denithorne . 10.25 Carl Davenport Arthur Flint 2.00 Antoine Francis ...24.50 2.00 Ruf us James Litchfield's Express, 11.00 George A.Henry 36.00 team H.R.Kennedy 17.00 or truck 81.75 W.W.Locke 4.00 Litchfield's Express,men W.E.McGrath 16.00 3.38 and horses 36.00 M.F.McAuliffe George Lovering ...29.13 Walter McLean 4.00 8.00 Frank McLean ....4.00 Daniel McSweeney Henry L.McMahon,,team 87.25 Daniel F.O'Brien 5.50 43.75 William F.Martin. William J.Powers.. 38.00 I.N.Pratt,team 30.00 John J.Pratt 22.00 Aaron Pratt 9.00 Edward T.Reilly ,107.00 Paul Pratt 46.50 Clifford Studley 2.00 George F.Sargent..8.00 John T.Barnes,men and J.W.Whitcomb...9.50 horses 16.50 WHEELWRIGHT PARK Amounts paid under payrolls for labor,automobiles,etc. George Henry $16.38 Antoine S.Figureido .... Harrison T.Henry $46 13 W.T.Barnes,team 36.00 16.00 Warren W.Jones,auto-Henry F.Keating 14.00 mobile and labor 6.50 Michael Meehan 20.00 Edward J.Mealy 50.00 Harry Pattison 22.50 S.H.Nichols 9.00 Joseph A.Ryan 12.00 J.W.Rooney 2.00 Antoine L.Silvia 24.00 V.V.Sestito,truck 48.00 Frank J.Silvia 36.00 John J.Silvia 99.00 Austin P.White 8.00 Charles R.Stoddard ....33.75 George Young,services..82.25 Charles Wilson 44.50 George Young,team ....38 75 137 BALL FIELD Amounts paid under payroll of Superintendent of Streets in rolling field,etc. Harry Ainslie $2.25 W.W.Locke 2.25 M.A.Burke.,2.25 H.G.Pratt,truck 6.00 E.P.Bates George Henry Aaron Pratt,truck ... M.L.Brown,engineer $9.00 2.25 6.00 14.00 SCHOOL DEPARTMENT Teachers'salaries (amounts paid superintendent and principal of high school,also amount paid attendance officer, given in main body of report under "Education ") Max H.Meyer $2,450.00 Victoria O.Howarth....$1,600.00 Marion C.Chandler ....1,600.00 Florence E.Kraus 1,600.00 Leita L.Sawyer 960.00 Mrs.Edward L.Stevens 330.00 Mrs.Lawrence T.Trott.10.00 James W.Doyle 2,130.00 Martha P.Bates 1,450.00 Elaine G.Wing 1,450.00 Helen G.Welch 1,485.00 Helen L.Brown 1,475.00 Jeane Sanborn 1,400.00 Mildred R.Garland ....1,395.00 Alma F.Barrett 1,316.25 Eleanor Duff 150.00 Lyllian M.Spinney 810.00 Kathleen McMahon....1,335.25 S^ra E.Fox 1,350.00 Frances M.Nash 1,280.00 Dorothy B.O'Donnell .. Doris C.Barrie 1,250.00 Luella Bailey 32.50 915.00 Mary K.White 300.00 Mrs.E.S.Johnson 30.00 Eva McGaw 50.00 Mrs.S.L.Abbott 5.00 Eleanor I.Whitney 480.00 Margaret Hibbard 585.00 Frederick A.Taylor ....240.00 Helen Trott Lewis Minnie E.Bigelow 450.00 1,700.00 es (schoo' Total $34,114.00 Text books and suppli s): Jordan Marsh Co $20.20 Ruiter Motor Sales Inc.$2.65 Carter,Rice &Co 18.50 Adams,Cushing &Foster 6.15 E.E.Babb &Co 463.87 Periodical Publishing Co.2.00 D.C.Heath &Co 93.46 Office Appliance Co 35.20 Milton Bradley Co 431.93 E.E.Whitney 24.63 American Book Co 139.71 School Board Journal...1.50 Mcintosh Publishing Co.1.07 Doris C.Barrie 4.00 Reformatory for Women 15.83 F.W.Browne Pharmacy, The Journal Print .35 Inc 22.35 Business Ability Institute 1.10 Government Printing Co..29 Boosey &Co. . 1.76 -Miller Falls Co. . 1.26 Royal Typewriter Co....21.25 Helen T.Lewis 2.90 Tower Brothers &Co....23.12 George H.Morrill Co....3.09 Litchfield's Express 9.25 Arle Publishing Co 20.50 Standard Book Co 4.27 Reed,Inc 30.37 Horace Partridge Co....171.32 Lyons &Carnahan 24.08 138 Atlantic Monthly Press..$3.93 Houghton Mifflin Co....50.08 Library Bureau 1.47 D.Van Nostrand Co 2.00 A.N.Palmer Co 21.74 Mid Valley Mfg.Co....3.30 J.B.Hunter Co 49.26 E.I.du Pont de Nemours Co 4.92 J.L.Hammett Co 286.45 Ginn &Co 440.79 Macmillan Co 53.55 Bruce Publishing Co.....3.52 L.E.Knott Apparatus Co 14.26 Allyn &Bacon 27.48 A.T.Stearns Lumber Co.163.25 Oliver Ditson Co 1.08 Silver,Burdett &Co 35.75 Remington Typewriter Co.3.87 Simeone Brothers 6.50 American Express Co....7.25 World Book Co 6.49 Cohasset Hardware Co...68.35 Beal Brothers .58 School Arts Magazine ...3.00 Janitors'salaries (schools): Thomas A.Stevens $1,590.00 Lillian Enos 396.00 Alice M.Fuller 10.00 Russell Sage Foundation . $1 .25 F.J.Barnard Co 56.94 Rand,McNally Co 25.94 Hinds,Hayden &Eldredge 1 .20 Kathleen McMahon ....4.80 Boston Music Co 4.42 Wright &Potter Printing Co 4.10 A.C.Morrison 1.43 National Child Welfare Association 9.00 Arthur P.Schmidt Co....1.47 M.J.Merriam 6.95 Spaulding-Moss Co .95 J.B.Lippincott Co 76.43 Iroquois Publishing Co..37.22 Binney &Smith 8.52 E.H.Sheldon &Co 11.37 Little Brown &Co 13.02 Dowling School Supply Co •34.68 Electric Light and Power Co.,current for cook- ing,etc 43.16 Total $3,199.68 Louis Mulvey $1,325.00 Fred Fuller 180.00 $3,501.00 Fuel,(schools) : Lincoln Brothers Coal Co .91,055 pounds coal $588.42 E.B.Townsend Coal Co 103,960 pounds coal 290.07 City Fuel Co 85,780 pounds coal 321.67 280,795 pounds coal $1,200.16 Edwin W.Bates,6 cords of wood 90.00 New York,New Haven &Hartford Railroad,freight and demurrage ....58.66 Lot E.Bates,carting coal 125.50 Total $1,474.32 Maintenance of buildings and grounds (schools) : Osgood School,lighting ..$435.46 Bosworth &Beal,motor Osgood School,power...222.56 ($328.50)and wiring..$684.10 Bates Building,lighting .32.28 Albert E.Grassie,painting Beechwood School,light-inside Osgood School ...503.25 ing 12.00 Tropical Paint and Oil Co.6.00 139 Philip L.Towle,wiring ..$9.40 Cohasset Hardware Co., supplies 132.86 D.F.Monroe &Co., supplies 72.00 John N.MacNeill,sup- plies 77.56 Massachusetts State Prison 30.92 C.H.Trott Co 18.78 Royal Typewriter Co....3.25 J.B.Hunter Co 2.70 Heywood-Wakefield Co., furniture 578.44 Lot E.Bates 20.75 Edgar W.Hood,repairing clocks 60.00 Tower Brothers &Co., supplies 106.56 W.W.Wade 6.00 W.C.Poole 38.40 R.B.McKim Co 4.75 On account of fire: Patrick Grassie,labor...3.00 Manuel L.Grassie,labor 3.00 Antoine Figureido,labor.3.00 William H.McGaw,car- penter 294.60 Hiltz &McNeill,repairing gutters,Osgood School 159.04 Hiltz &McNeill,repairing furnace,etc 30.71 Manuel Figureido,labor.$3.00 Manuel S.Leonard, plumbing,etc 283.00 Harry W.Lincoln,paint- ing Bates Building,in- side and out,etc 388.70 A.F.Nott,painting Beech- wood School 198.00 William J.Brennock,re- filling extinguishers ...6.00 Beal Brothers 81.90 H.I.DallmanCo 29.48 Andrews Paper Co.,sup- plies 5.50 E.E.Babb&Co 42.19 Commissioner of Public Safety,inspecting boilers 4.00 Litchfield's Express 8.25 F.H.Page Co.,supplies ..14.50 Underwood Typewriter Co.2.70 Lyon Metallic Manufac- turing Co .46 B.W.Collins,labor 3.50 S.L.Abbott 2.00 Masury Young Co......7.50 Henry B.Hardy 14.72 John W.Bates,repairing fence,Beechwood 4.00 Lincoln &Co 8.00 J.H.Winters 40.00 M.J.Sullivan 4^15 Driveway : Payroll,applying tarvia, Aaron Pratt,truck Lot E.Bates,truck W.W.Locke,labor E.P.Bates,labor : George Denithorne M.F.McAuliffe E.T.Reilly $6.00 6.00 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25 2.25GeorgeHenry The Barrett Manufacturing Co.,800 gals.Tarvia B $25.50 112.00 $137.50 Total $4,840.12 Libraries (schools): A.N.Marquis &Co $6.98 140 Health (schools): Oliver H.Howe,M.D Christina B.Morrill,nurse $150.00 500.00 $650.00 Transportation (schools) : Frank W.Wheelwright ..$4,950.50 William P.Malley,repair- ing busses 122.54 A.C.Morrison 5.08 Tuition (schools): City of Quincy,School Department City of Boston,School Department . Total Albert E.Grassie,paint- ing and repairing busses $435.00 James W.Doyle 8.56 Total $5,521.68 $2,015.00 53.07 $2,068.07 Sundries (schools): Insurance: Hollis,Perrin &Kirkpatrick William H.Pratt,Employers'Liability,on teachers $30,000 William H.Pratt,Employers'Liability,on janitors $1,000 Robert Woods Coe,graduation address Walter H.Sturgis,Inc.,musical instruments Lot E.Bates,carting A.C.Morrison John Daun,flowers South Shore Greenhouses,flowers Anna L.Norton • The Boundbrook Press , A.W.Morris The Little Shop George C.Marden $15.90 11.05 $383.70 26.95 25.00 262.00 10.00 14.89 27.00 6.00 13.25 13.00 5.00 10.10 7.50 Total Lunch account (schools) : Atlantic &Pacific Tea Co.$893.55 J.A.Simeone 208.05 John Madden 101.66 Central Market 17.31 Logan-Johnson Co 22.50 Cohasset Cash Market ..27.93 M.J.Merriam 11.83 Frank M.Wattendorf ...10.13 Litchfield's Express .70 $804.39 National Biscuit Co $177.71 Nicholas Simeone 139.05 Simeone Brothers 102.70 Max H.Meyer 24.75 George W.Mealy &Sons 35.49 Whiting Milk Co 34.02 Trimount Press 16.57 Lot E.Bates 11.88 Lillian Enos,assistant...308.00 $2,143.83 141 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN The year has given us the following subjects to report and bring to the attention of our citizens : Cunningham Bridge has been thoroughly overhauled and strengthened.The roadway has been covered with tarvia and the metal all well painted.We now have a structure that with proper painting at necessary intervals,should last for several decades. The work on the Gulf River Bridge has been so far advanced that the road is passable. The matter of providing the temporary water-pipe is an added expense which must have been overlooked by our engi- neer.This item may be covered by appropriating from a fund paid by the Commonwealth to our Treasurer from the surplus left over from the five dollar poll tax. The Norfolk County Commissioners are in the process of making a taking of the land on either side of the bridge,but have not issued a decree at this writing. The very great and continued improvement in the condition of our streets is an outstanding fact,and any unbiased person needs only to ride over the Town's roads and compare them with their condition in past years,to see what has been accomp- lished in two years. The widening at the junction of North Main Street and Forest Avenue has removed the most dangerous intersection that existed in the Town.The clearing away of the remaining material will soon be done. The further mutilation of the Town's property at the North Main Street gravel banks should be seriously considered by our citizens.The ruining of the good building lots does not seem desirable nor the lowering of the property values in that vicinity which must follow if we are to continue to dig away the building lots. The Selectmen would advise that the Town consider the advisability of selling the present gravel bank and the con- sideration of the purchase of the gravel bank owned by Joseph 142 W.Whit comb which contains the best material available in this vicinity for good road building. At this time it seems very probable that the County Com- missioners of Norfolk and Plymouth Counties will rebuild Hull Street in accordance with a special act of the Legislature. This act empowers the Commissioners to apportion the expense of the construction and land damages between the two counties and the two towns.We recommend that a sufficient amount be raised and appropriated to pay our share of the interest on the bonds if issued. If the Town is to carry out the enforcement of the so-called "Baby Volstead"act as endorsed by a majority of the voters of Cohasset and the whole Commonwealth,it will be necessary that we have proper officers and the necessary money.An appropriation will be asked for to cover this expense. The increasing motor traffic calls for the best manner of police control and it seems that the time has arrived when Cohasset should have an officer mounted on a motor cycle, especially during the months of heaviest traffic. For the first time,in many years at least,it is necessary to make extensive repairs on the town clock.The striking appara- tus is out of order and the estimated expense is two hundred dollars. There are many of our street signs that need to be either repaired and painted or replaced by better and more permanent ones.It appears that we should spend an amount each year to purchase and erect signs of the same material as were used at the squares on last Memorial Day.We recommend that five hundred dollars be raised and appropriated for such signs this year. We thank the citizens for their co-operation during the past year and hope for a continuation to the end that our Town may be well managed in every way. HARRY E.MAPES HERBERT L.BROWN DARIUS W.GILBERT Selectmen of Cohasset. Cohasset,January 17,1924. 143 REPORT OF ASSESSORS The Assessors of the Town of Cohasset herewith submit their report for 1924. Total valuation,1924 $9,109,726.00 Total valuation,1923 $8,983,972.00 Increase in valuation,1924 $125,754.00 December assessment 21,275.00 Town Grant,Annual and Special Town Meet- ings 226,489.37 County Tax 10,820.90 State Tax 11,200.00 State Highway Tax...591.85 Metropolitan Tax 226.22 Overlay 3,984.04 $253,312.38 Estimated receipts 60,097.30 954 Polls at $2.00 1,908.00 Valuation,$9,109,726 at $21.00 191,304.25 Fractions Making Tax 2.83 $253,312,38 Amount to be raised by taxation $191,307.08 Number of persons assessed 1,652 Number of persons assessed on property 1,268 Number of persons assessed on poll tax only ..384 Number of horses assessed 120 Number of cows assessed 272 Number of neat cattle assessed 97 144 Number of swine assessed 5 Number of dwelling houses assessed 890 Number of acres of land assessed 5,9403^ Number of fowl assessed 1,924 Respectfully submitted, HERBERT L.BROWN, HARRY E.MAPES, DARIUS W.GILBERT, Assessors. 145 TREASURER'S REPORT,1924 Receipts Balance January 1,1924 $14,904.66 Amount received of Tax Collector 194,854.44 Notes discounted in anticipation of taxes 105,942.57 Notes on Gulf River Bridge 30,000.00 Interest on bank deposits 637.26 Cohasset Home 2,204.75 Town Hall 1,245.63 School account,fire 500.00 School supplies sold and refund 147.61 School lunch 1,852.00 Norfolk County,dog licenses 338.20 Norfolk County,refund land damage 177.00 Parks and Commons (dividend)946.76 Woodside Cemetery 640.85 Licenses 195.50 Rent of buildings 102.00 Telephone service 401.42 Wire permits 137.75 Highways 52.00 Forest fires 135.00 Town Histories 14.00 Soldiers'and Sailors'Relief 27.00 Overseer of Poor 101.35 Police Department 277.31 Moth Department 5.58 Park Department 20.00 Fire Department 11.00 Trust fund 3.40 Fees returned by Sealer of Weights and Measures •51.39 Incidentals 147.00 146 From State Treasurer: Income tax,1922 and prior $285.07 Income Tax,1923 728.00 Income Tax,1924 36,656.35 Corporation tax,Public Service,1923 and 1924..2,155.24 Corporation tax,Business,1923 and 1924 557.61 Corporation tax,Domestic,1923 68.16 Civil War Poll tax,1920,1921,1922,and 1923.. . 399.00 Division of Sanatoria 234.29 Vocational Education 473.88 Department of Education 85.00 Mothers of dependent children 925.07 National Bank tax,1923 and 1924 827.18 Military Aid 5.00 State Aid..378.00 Soldiers'exemptions 46.41 Surplus War Bonus Fund 1,618.70 Total $401,516.39 Payments Paid Selectmen's warrants,No.1 to 57 inclusive.$383,107.53 Balance December 31,1924 $18,408.86 HARRY F.TILDEN,Treasurer. 147 TAX COLLECTORS REPORT,1924 Taxes collected on : 1920 assessment $753.99 1921 assessment 1,245.62 1922 assessment 7,387.46 1923 assessment 34,888.72 1924 assessment 148,211.28 Interest etc.,collected on: 1920 taxes $52.89 1921 taxes 233.01 1922 taxes 825.59 1923 taxes 1,224.25 1924 taxes 31.63 $192,487.07 2,367.37 Amount paid Town Treasurer $194,£54.44 Abatements on: 1920 taxes.$35.00 1921 taxes.1,652.27 1922 taxes 171.30 1923 taxes 302.15 1924 taxes 831.87 $2,992.95 Uncollected taxes December 31,1924 on: 1920 taxes $91.15 1921 taxes 780.27 1922 taxes 2,237.16 1923 taxes 9,898.29 1924 taxes 45,890.16 $58,896.95 148 REPORT OF THE SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES The Board of Selectmen. Gentlemen:Your sealer in submitting his twelfth annual report would respectfully state that the various duties in connec- tion with the testing and sealing of weighing and measuring appliances in the Town as required under existing statutes, have been complied with and a detailed report covering the same is now on file with the Director of Standards at the State House. The collection of fees now required of us by the State authori- ties has been in force the past year and as a result the sum of $51.39 has been paid by this Department to the Town Treasurer. Yours respectfully, CALEB NICHOLS,Sealer. 149 REPORT OF THE TREE WARDEN To the Citizens of Cohasset: As your Tree Warden for the year 1924,I submit the follow- ing report.The past year was a good one for shade trees. However,the severe wind and rain storm which occurred the latter part of August,damaged the trees to a certain extent. The older shade trees are not holding their own where they come in contact with the macadamized roads and tarvia. Four of these old trees are now ready to be removed.It will be impossible to replace these trees on account of the hardened condition of the roads. The gypsy moths are not increasing,and the brown tail moths are much less numerous than last year. Location of New Trees and Cost of Planting I submit the following items of expenses : 6 trees,King Street,labor $7 .75 4 trees,Cushing Road,labor 7 .75 9 trees,Norfolk Road,labor 15 .55 7 trees,Beechwood Street,labor 13 .00 2 trees,Border Street,labor 5 .25 8 trees,Wheelwright Park,labor 7.75 36 trees $57.05 Pruning and Cutting Trees I have expended the following amounts in pruning and cutting trees on streets : Brook Street $119.50 South Main Street 130.25 Summer Street 91.01 Sohier Street 84.00 Osgood School trees 48 .75 150 Pond Street $48.00 King Street 31.25 Jerusalem Road 30 .50 Atlantic Avenue 13 .50 Cleaning up brush after wind storm 120 .39 North Main Street 88.37 Highland Avenue 46 .77 Elm Street.30.52 Doane Street 21 .25 Church Street 21 .25 Beechwood Street 61 .25 Cushing Road 8 .75 Depot Avenue 8 .75 Ripley Road 4.38 Pleasant Street 12.50 Burning brush .' ..24 .75 Digging around trees 15 .50 $1,061.19 Respectfully submitted, GEORGE YOUNG,Tree Warden. Wheelwright Park Seven hundred dollars was appropriated for the upkeep and improvement of Wheelwright Park.This amount is refunded to the Town by means of the interest accruing from the Wheel- wright Fund.In this park,the dead trees were cut out,the brush was mowed,and the road was repaired. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE YOUNG,Superintendent. 151 REPORT OF MOTH SUPERINTENDENT To the Board of Selectmen. Gentlemen:Five thousand dollars was appropriated by the Town of Cohasset for the Moth Department.Fifteen hundred dollars of this amount is now not available for use,being set aside on account of the Litchfield Bee Suit.Owing to this shortage,only one-fourth of the usual length of roadside was cut and mowed after the spraying season was over.Also,for the reason above stated,I am unable to purchase lead and oil, and to have the spraying machines repaired for the coming year.These expenses will have to come out of next year's appropriation. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE YOUNG, Moth Superintendent. 152 REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR The routine affairs of this department have been attended to as usual.The expenditures have been kept within the amount that was estimated. The Overseers wish to express their grateful appreciation of the faithful eight years'services of Mr.and Mrs.Henry R. Nickerson as Warden and Matron at the Cohasset Home,and their regret that they are resigning on February 2.The resi- dents of the Home have been wonderfully cared for and the farm much improved and built up. The receipts for produce have shown a decrease on account of the dry season and the lower prices returned from sales. The net cost of the poor was $556.43 less than in 1923,the outside account was less and the Home was more.For compara- tive figures,see the Town Accountant's table. It is recommended that $14,500 be raised and appropriated for 1925. DARIUS W.GILBERT, HERBERT L.BROWN, HARRY E.MAPES, Overseers of the Poor. 153 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH The following cases of infectious and contagious diseases were reported to this Board during the past year. Measles 4 Scarlet fever 7 Mumps 12 Tuberculosis (pulmonary)1 Pneumonia (lobar)1 Whooping cough 7 Total 32 The usual number of complaints have been received and investigated. The inspector of slaughtering inspected (26)twenty-six carcasses during the year 1924,one of which was condemned. The Dental Clinic is proving very satisfactory,as the following report shows. Gentlemen:It gives me pleasure to submit to you the follow- ing as a summary of work completed by me from January 1 to December 31,1924.|M I \ Each year more work is given over to preventative work in the lower grades.This consists of treating the teeth of each child with silver nitrate and formalin,followed by a thorough cleansing of the teeth. The Public Health Nurse has given much of her time to instructing the children in the care of their teeth. Silver fillings 354 Teeth extracted 119 Silver nitrate treatments 397 Enamel fillings 67 154 Root-canal fillings 5 Treatments 84 Cleansings 137 Cement fillings 8 Respectfully submitted. FRANK A.DERBY,D.M.D. Respectfully submitted, IRVING F.SYLVESTER,Chairman. EDWARD L.HIGGINS,Secretary. A.J.LANDRY. Board of Health of Cohasset. 155 REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF MILK AND VINEGAR SAMPLES To the Cokasset Board of Health. As collector of milk and vinegar samples,I beg to submit the following report for 1924. I have taken samples of milk from dairies,stores and milk wagons and found none of them to be watered.The average percentage of butter fat found in samples taken was 4.34% (legal 3.35%). Of the samples taken only three were found to be high in bacteria. The examination of milk for cleanliness shows an excellent report. Numerous examinations of dairies have been made. Samples of vinegar examined were up to legal requirements. Respectfully submitted, IRVING F.SYLVESTER, Collector of Samples of Milk and Vinegar. 156 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS To the Board of Selectmen. Greeting: The Board of Engineers appointed by your Honorable Board for the year ending April 30,1925,met in accordance with your instructions and organized with the following choice of officers. Chief,Fred C.Blossom. Assistant Chief,Abraham J.Antoine. District Chief,George F.Sargent,Jr. District Chief,Reginald R.Beal. Clerk,Frank F.Martin,Jr. The Board of Engineers respectfully call the attention of the citizens of the Town to the apparatus located at West Corner which at present is out of commission and substituted with the Ford Forest Truck. We therefore recommend the purchase of a new piece of motor apparatus for that district. We respectfully recommend that the sum of $10,043.25 be raised and appropriated for the maintenance and salaries for the year 1925. Respectfully submitted, FRED C.BLOSSOM, ABRAHAM J.ANTOINE, GEORGE F.SARGENT,JR., REGINAL R.BEAL, FRANK F.MARTIN,JR. 157 REPORT OF WIRE INSPECTOR To the Board of Selectmen : Progress has been made during the past year in the electrical system of the Town by the installation of new wires,cables,and apparatus. The Electric Light Company have built a new sub-station. This station is constructed with approved electrical equipment and replaces the old station which was in use many years.The lines and poles of the company have received attention at various places and this part of the electric light plant will receive further attention during the coming year. The cables and lines of the Telephone Company are in good condition.These wires do not carry a dangerous voltage,but it is necessary to so construct and maintain them as to allow little chance of contact with wires of high voltage. The Fire Alarm System has been well maintained. Inside electrical wiring has received careful attention both in new and old installations.The public buildings have been inspected,and where necessary,improvements have been made. The companies operating and constructing both outside and inside electrical wiring and equipment are making a good effort to bring electrical installations to the highest point of safety in accordance with the requirements of the National Electrical Code and your inspection department. Respectfully submitted, S,CHESTER PRATT, Wire Inspector. 158 COHASSET FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY In Account with Oliver H.Howe,Treasurer Dr. To Payments in 1924 For Books $418.64 Support of Paul Pratt Memorial Library 418.13 Rent of Safe Deposit Box 8.00 Treasurer's Bond 2.50 Re-investment of Funds 4,758.75 Accrued Interest on Bonds 75.00 Commission on Re-investment 10.25 Stationery and Postage 1.10 Balance on Deposit,January 1,1925: Weymouth Savings Bank 105.88 New England Trust Co 185.00 $5,983.25 Cr. Balance on Deposit,January 1,1924 $451.56 Income from Investments 1,085.33 Michigan State Telephone Bond,Matured 500.00 Sale of Securities 3,926.25 Interest,Weymouth Savings Bank.5.67 Interest,New England Trust Co 14.44 $5,983.25 159 Schedule of Invested Funds Bonds $2,000.00 Union Pacific 1st Mortgage 4s. 1,000.00 Massachusetts Gas Companies 4}^s. 1,000.00 Detroit Edison Co.5s. 2,000.00 Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.5s. 2,000.00 Indiana Service Corporation 1st 5s. 1,000.00 Minneapolis General Electric Co.5s. 1,000.00 New York Telephone Co.6s. 1,000.00 Mississippi River Power Co.,1st Mortgage 5s. 2,000.00 Butte,Anaconda &Pacific R.R.5s. 2,000.00 United States Rubber Co.5s. 2,000.00 Ellicott Square Co.1st Mortgage 5s. 2,500.00 New England Telephone &Telegraph Co.5s. 1,000.00 Pacific Telephone &Telegraph Co.5s. 1,500.00 Western Telephone &Telegraph Co.5s. 500.00 New York Central R.R.ref.and imp.5s. $22,500.00 OLIVER H.HOWE, Treasurer. Cohasset,January 1,1925. We have examined the foregoing account and find it correct and properly vouched.We have also examined the securities, in which the funds of the Library are invested,as shown by the foregoing schedule. GEORGE W.COLLIER, EDWARD NICHOLS, Examining Committee. Cohasset,January 5,1924. 160 REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE PAUL PRATT MEMORIAL LIBRARY The Directors herewith submit their report for the year ending December 31,1924. The vacancy caused by the registration of Miss Sarah B. Collier as Librarian which was previously reported,has been filled by the appointment of Miss Marian E.Decker as Libra- rian. Miss Decker is a graduate of the Library Department of Simmons College and comes to us with experience in library work in the cities of Maiden and Somerville. Miss Decker,as her report shows,has inaugurated a series of story hours in the children's department,which have been well attended. The increased use of the Library also,as a circulating medium,as evidenced by an increase in the home use of about twenty-four hundred volumes,is a source of satisfaction to the Directors,and this gain of interest has been supplemented by the opening of the reading rooms every evening of the week days,instead of two evenings a week as heretofore. Of interest has been the addition to the reading room equipment of a large terrestrial globe,a gift to the Cohasset Free Public Library from funds of the Cohasset Literary Club, an organization which fostered literary interest in the town from 1890 to 1921,a period of thirty-one years. Subjoined are the reports of the Treasurer and the Librarian which show the expenses of operation,the circulation of books and the condition of the Library. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES C.WHEELWRIGHT,President, FRED V.STANLEY,Treasurer, EDWARD NICHOLS,Clerk, GEORGE W.COLLIER, HARRY E.MAPES, HERBERT L.BROWN, FREDERIC J.GAULD,Board of Directors. 161 PAUL PRATT MEMORIAL LIBRARY In account with Fred V.Stanley,Treasurer. Dr. To payments for the year 1924 : For librarians'and janitor's salaries $2,715.00 For books,magazines and binding 666 .09 For wood and coal 602 .15 For electric lighting 400.32 For repairs and maintenance 276 .38 For insurance 144 .40 For rent,Beechwood Branch 250.00 For supplies 93 .45 For printing and stationery 75 .16 For express,carting and other items 59 .63 For telephone 25 .15 For postage 13.03 $5,320.76 Balance,January 1,1925,in Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company 1,662.61 $6,983.37 Cr. By receipts for the year 1924: Balance,January 1,1924,on deposit in Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company $1,729.96 Income from Investments : Pepperell Manufacturing Company, dividends $288.00 Essex Company,dividends 99 .00 Commonwealth Electric Company, coupons 100 .00 United States Liberty Loan Bonds, coupons 170 .00—657.00 162 Town of Cohasset,appropriation for Library $3,900.00 Income from unrestricted funds of Cohasset Free Public Library 418.13 Fines,etc.at Library 262.71 Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, interest 15 .57 $6,983.37 We have examined the foregoing account and find it correctly cast and properly vouched.We have also examined the secur- ities in which the funds of the Library are invested. OLIVER H.HOWE, CHARLES W.GAMMONS, Auditors. Cohasset,January 17,1925. 163 LIBRARIAN'S REPORT TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE PAUL PRATT MEMORIAL LIBRARY The following is a report of the work in the Library for the year ending December 31,1924: REGISTRATION AND CIRCULATION Registration in force December 31,1923 2,497 Registration for 1924 185 2,682 Registration withdrawn 204 Registration in force December 31,1924 2,478 Books issued —including Beechwood Branch .21,169 CLASSIFICATION AND USE,INCLUDING BEECHWOOD BRANCH LIBRARY Juvenile Adult Total Philosophy and Religion 18 170 178 History and Biography 244 978 1,222 Travel 139 536 675 Literature 366 963 1,329 Social Sciences .. .'20 248 268 Natural Sciences 106 175 281 Arts "...110 626 736 Magazines 313 1,420 1,733 Fiction 4,067 10,670 14,737 5,383 15,786 21,169 164 ACCESSIONS Number of Volumes in.Library December 31, 1923 18,582 Number added by purchase,1924 345 Number added by gift,1924 59 Number added by binding magazines,1924 23 19,009 Number withdrawn,1924 296 18,713 Number replaced,1924 24 18,737 Thirteen Story Hours have been held at the Library.The average attendance has been twenty-eight.At Christmas time a small tree and an open fire added to the charm of the Christmas stories.On the Saturday before Christmas the Librarian went to the Beechwood Branch and repeated the stories to a group of about fifteen children. A new system of book repairing,the Toronto Method,is being used.It is very economical,as it will greatly reduce binding bills.Another favorable feature is that the book does not need to be out of circulation more than twenty-four hours. In August we started to rearrange the shelving in the stack- room.This laborious task is about half completed at the present time.It was undertaken for three reasons:first,to relieve the crowded condition of the shelves;second,to allow for expansion;third,to provide a simpler and more logical system of alphabeting. The Children's Collection has been entirely rearranged and a number of books,no longer suitable,have been removed.A lot of excellent new juveniles have been purchased to start building up the collection. The Library gratefully acknowledges the receipt of books from the following: 165 Mrs.William May,James Morgan,Boni &Liveright, A.W.Cobb,Macmillan Co.,Mrs.William Parker,B.A. Whittemore,Better Understanding Society,R.G.Badger,Mrs. Dexter,Miss Florence N.Bates,Massachusetts Society Sons of the American Revolution,Lenox Inc.,Edward H.Tower, U.S.Government,L.A.Birinyi,Jewish Publication Society. Respectfully submitted, MARIAN E.DECKER. Librarian. January 17,1924. 166 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS To the Honorable Board of Selectmen. Gentlemen:Work started this year under favorable condi- tions,as there were only a few holes and breaks from winter's frost;work done last year came through much better than expected.The streets have been edge cut and gutters cleaned. K.P.with crushed stone was used to patch holes and breaks in surface and a coat of Tarvia B applied. Scarifying and road surfacing was started when the ground became settled.Beach Street,a portion of Atlantic Avenue, Stockbridge Street,Snow Place,Cushing Road and intersec- tions,Border Street near Mr.Tower's store,and Beechwood Street from Bound Brook to Hingham line,were resurfaced and received two coats of Tarvia. The corner at No.Main Street,Forest Avenue and King Street will be completed as soon as spring weather permits. Pleasant Street beyond Cushing Road was rebuilt and a good drainage system installed. Margin Street drainage was installed with money appro- priated for same. The bridge over Little Harbor has been repaired and put in good condition.List of cost by streets below. COST OF HIGHWAYS 1924,BY STREETS Tarvia Name of Street Gallons Ash Atlantic Avenue 6,855 Beach Street 3,450 Beechwood Street 9,060 Bow Street Border Street 1,900 Cedar Street Church Street 400 Cushing Road 3,100 Doane Street 520 Elm Street 1,800 Supplies Amount Labor,Teams at 14 c.and Trucks Totals $127.25 $127.25 $938.70 747.10 1,685.80 475.00 369.50 844.50 1,239.10 853.13 2,092.23 76.56 76.56 256.50 136.00 392.50 55.00 55.00 54.00 54.00 434.00 478.67 912.67 70.20 572.90 643.10 243.00 243.00 167 Supplies Tarvia Amount Labor,Teams Name of Street Gallons at 14 c.and Trucks Totals Forest Avenue 1,490 $203 .15 $203 .15 Green Street 500 176.50 $109.00 285.50 Hull Street 100.50 100.50 Jerusalem Road 8,949 1,208 .12 60 .00 1,268 .12 Joy Place 24.00 24.00 King Street 3,612 487.62 487.62 Main Street,North (see special) balance,see acct's report ...112.50 112.50 Main Street,South 174 .50 174 .50 Margin Street 800 108.00 108.00 Nichols Avenue or Road 1,400 189 .00 189 .00 Norfolk Road 24.00 24.00 Parker Avenue 300 40.50 40.50 Pond Street 3,000 405.00 187.00 592.00 Pleasant Street 3,820 534 .80 6,739 .99 7,274 .79 Oak Street 176.00 176.00 Ripley Road 800 112.00 112.00 Short Street 150 20.25 20.25 Sidney Square (John W.)250 33 .75 33 .75 Smith Place '40.00 40.00 Sohier Street.3,100 420.00 141.00 561.00 Spring Street 500 67.50 67.50 Stockbridge Street 1,050 147 .00 165 .10 312 .10 Summer Street 1,200 162.00 162.00 Snow Place 500 67.50 68.00 135.50 Cleaning Streets 1,409 .08 1,409 .08 Cleaning catch basins 67 .50 67 .50 K-P patching 2,309.40 2,309.40 Applying Tarvia 1,392 .04 1,392 .04 58,506 $8,093 .19 $16,715 .72 $24,808 .91 Deduct for Tarvia furnished at 133^cents 109.00 Cost of Tarvia B $7,984.19 41,331 gallons of Tarvia B at .135 $5,579,685 17,175 gallons of Tarvia B at .14 2,404.50 58,506 gallons $7,984,185 Respectfully submitted, DANIEL M.CROCKETT, Superintendent of Streets. 168 COHASSET REVISED JURY LIST July,1924 Name and Occupation Street Ahearn,Austin L.,garage owner South Main Allen,Thomas L.,salesman Atlantic Avenue Ayres,Samuel L.,cotton broker Jerusalem Road Bates,Elmer E.,farmer ...Beechwood Bates,Ellery C,farmer Beechwood Bartlett,Walter J.,caretaker Cedar Binnian,Walter B.,bond salesman Margin Collier,George W.,merchant North Main Cousens,Harold B.,sail maker Summer Enos,Joseph G.,clerk Summer Hillis,Alexander,caretaker South Main Hyland,E.Clayton,carpenter James Lane James,Dean K.,merchant Atlantic Avenue James,Fred G.,foreman King Johnson,Howard A.,manufacturer Atlantic Avenue Kinsley,John E.,mason *Beechwood Luce,Matthew,wool merchant Jerusalem Road Morris,William H.,insurance agent Norfolk Road Mulvey,Edward A.,insurance Pond Petersen,August F.B.,real estate agent Sohier Skolfield,Sydney K.,U.S.Veterans'Bureau Sohier Stevens,Robert K.C,salesman Beechwood Stevens,Thomas A.,janitor Beechwood Studley,Arthur,railroad crossing tender Hull Tower,Burgess C,insurance agent Ripley Road Towle,Odin,salesman Border Towle,Philip L.,electrician Joy Place Vogel,Augustus H.Jr.,salesman Forest Avenue Wilson,Charles,laborer South Main Young,George,superintendent Hull ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE TOWN OF COHASSET MASSACHUSETTS For the Year Ending December 31,1924 THE BOUNDBROOK PRESS 1925 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Dean K.James ...Term expires 1925 Everett W.Gammons Term expires 1925 Fred V.Stanley Term expires 1926 Anselm L.Beal Term expires 1926 Helen A.Scripture Term expires 1927 Manuel A.Grassie Term expires 1927 Organization Fred V.Stanley Chairman Orvis K.Collrns Secretary Edward L.Stevens Financial Secretary Regular Meetings First Monday of each month at 7.45 p.m.,at Osgood School. Superintendent of Schools Orvis K.Collins,telephones,Cohasset 290,Hingham 181-W. School Physician Oliver H.Howe,M.D.,telephone,Cohasset 0014. School Nurse Mrs.Christiana Morrill,telephone,Cohasset 389-W. Attendance Officer Thomas L.Bates,telephones,Cohasset 372-W,and Cohasset 0305. School Calendar,1924-1925 First term opens September 5 closes December 24 Second term opens January 5 closes February 20 Third term opens March 2 closes April 17 Fourth term opens April 27 closes June 24 Janitors Osgood School Thomas A.Stevens Osgood School Louis Mulvey Bates Building Lillian Enos Beechwood School Fred Fuller Bates College 1918 Boston University 1921 Drexel Institute 1902 Mt.Holyoke College 1910 Radcliffe College 1920 Boston University 1924 TEACHING STAFF,1924-1925 Year Superintendent of Schools Elected Orvis K.Collins Middlebury College 1920 High School Teachers Arthur C.Morrison,Principal,sciences James Webster Doyle,history,athletics Minnie E.Bigelow,commercial subjects Marion C.Chandler,French,mathematics Victoria O.Howarth,English,French Margaret Hibberd,English,Latin Special Teachers Max H.Meyer,manual training *Columbia University 1918 Florence E.Kraus,drawing Penn.State Normal 1914 Helen C.Welch,domestic arts Framingham Normal 1919 Frederick A.Taylor,music 1924 Junior High Grades Martha P.Bates,history,geography *Boston University 1880 Jeane Sanborn,arithmetic Framingham Normal 1922 Frances M.Nash,language Bridgewater Normal 1923 Elementary Grades Helen L.Brown,Grade 6 Bridgewater Normal 1921 Alma F.Barrett,Grade 5 Missouri University 1924 Mildred R.Garland,Grade 4 Plymouth Normal 1922 Elaine G.Wing,Grade 3 Toronto Normal 1916 Elinor I.Whitney,Grade 2 Wheelock Normal 1924 Sara E.Fox,Grade 1 *Hyannis and Castine Normals 1883 Mary K.White,Grade 1 Wheelock Normal 1924 Anna H.Shaw,Special University of California 1925 Kathleen McMahon,Kindergarten Perry Kindergarten 1915 Dorothy B.O'Donnell,Beechwood School Bridgewater Normal 1918 *Not a graduate. REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE The report of the School Committee with the financial statement of the treasurer is herewith submitted to the Town. Full information with respect to the school work will be found in the reports of the Superintendent of Schools,the Principal of the High School and the Supervisors of Departmental Work. The appropriation for the support of schools for 1925 was $60,450.There was paid into the town treasury from the State School Fund,from the Tuition Fund,from the School Lunch and from other sources $7,496.69.The net cost of the schools to the Town for 1924 was,therefore,$52,952.57. The School Committee is compelled to ask for an increase of $2,900 in the appropriation for 1925.A part of this increase is needed to pay the tuition of students in the Trade Schools. Last year $2,068.07 was paid.It will require $2,400 in 1925 to care for the students now enrolled.This amount is not optional with the school authorities or with the Town.The Town is required by State law to pay this tuition.The State reimburses the Town for one-half the amount thus expended. The lower grade rooms have become so overcrowded that it is absolutely necessary to relieve the congested conditions. Four rooms now have respectively forty-seven,forty-eight, forty-nine and fifty pupils.The maximum number of pupils per room in standard schools is thirty-five.The overflow from two rooms can be grouped together in a third room under a separate teacher.By following this method with regard to the four most crowded grades temporary relief will be afforded. Two additional teachers will be needed for this work in 1925. Their salaries must be provided for in the appropriation. The total sum asked for this year is $63,350.If this sum seems large,let it be justified by the fact that it cannot be made less without allowing our schools to lapse from their present high standard of service.Th^citizens of Cohasset will never be content with anything but efficient schools.It can positively be said that it is necessary to have this appropriation in order 6 to do the work of our schools properly and efficiently.The School Committee has tried to keep expenditures within as narrow limits as the work in hand and good judgment would permit.The burden of maintaining our schools may at times be heavy but it cannot be laid aside,for to the schools does the rising generation look for what is best in terms of scholarship and training,and what is noblest in character and citizenship. The overcrowded condition of the Osgood School building and the need for additional room to properly carry on the education of the boys and girls of our Town have been brought to the attention of the citizens of Cohasset annually for the past eleven years.Surveys have been made,special committees have investigated and reported,all emphasizing the need of more classrooms and more adequate facilities for social and physical development. In 1921 the situation became acute,and the G.A.R. building was moved to the school grounds and renovated, making available two school rooms.This relieved the immediate pressure in the Osgood building but did not solve the problem of more adequate school accommodations.It simply postponed the problem. The situation has again become acute.There were thirty-two more pupils enrolled in the Osgood School in the fall of 1924 than the year before;and since there was a falling off in the high school enrollment the real increase in the grades was forty-one.While this is a larger number than usual,the popula- tion of the schools shows a steady increase from year to year. Two additional classrooms are absolutely needed at the present time to care for the overflow of pupils in the four grade rooms that are most overcrowded,and it will be a matter of two or three years only when more classrooms will be needed. The committee urges the citizens of the Town to adopt as a constructive policy,some plan that will provide for the necessary expansion of the schools.A new six or eight room school building to be used by the lower grades,and built on the unit system which would allow additional rooms to be added in the future if the increase in the number of pupils demand it,would, in the judgment of the School Committee,be the most satis- factory solution of the problem.A grade school building could be built at much less cost than a new high school building. Such a building would enable the young children to be separated from the older,.thus removing an unfavorable educational condition which now exists in the mingling of children so widely differing in age in the same building.It would release the assembly room in the Osgood building for the purpose for which it was planned.It would make available adequate rooms for the upper grades and the high school. Such a construction program can only be undertaken by the citizens themselves.That they may have the opportunity to adopt such a program,an article has been inserted in the Town warrant calling for the appointment of a committee to carefully study the situation,secure such plans and estimates as may be deemed advisable,and report their findings at a special Town Meeting. Respectfully submitted, FRED V.STANLEY, For the School Committee. 8 School Budget for 1925 General expenses : School Committee Expenses $400 00 Superintendent of Schools and enforcement of law: Salaries 2,000 00 Other expenses 250 00 Instruction : Principal and Teachers Salaries 36,000 00 Textbooks and Supplies 3,400 00 Operating School Plants: Wages of Janitors 3,500 00 Fuel and Lights 3,200 00 Repairs and replacement of equipment 3,000 00 Auxiliary Agencies : Library 200 00 Health 650 00 Transportation 5,200 00 Insurance 450 00 Sundries 300 00 Lunch 2,200 00 New equipment 200 00 Tuition 2,400 00 Total $63,350 00 REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS To the School Committee and Citizens of the Town of Cohasset: My report of the progress of the Cohasset public schools is respectfully submitted.I am including also the reports of the Principal of the High School,the teachers of Drawing,Music, Domestic Science,Manual Training,the School Physician and the Director of Club Work. Resignations and Elections Miss Leita L.Sawyer resigned in June to accept a position in Needham,her home town.Miss Sawyer had been with us three years as a very efficient teacher of Latin and English. The vacancy was filled by the election of Miss Margaret Hibberd.Miss Hibberd is a graduate of Boston University, and has had one year of experience in teaching these subjects. Miss Spinney,teacher of the second grade,resigned to be married in June.The vacancy was filled by the election of Miss Elinor I.Whitney.Miss Whitney is a graduate of the Wheelock Kindergarten Normal School,and also has had one year of experience in teaching. In September Miss Doris C.Barrie,teacher of the first grade,resigned to accept a position in Lowell,her home city. Mrs.Helen Trott Lewis substituted in the grade for the remainder of the fall term,and then Miss Mary K.White was transferred from special work to this grade.Miss White is a graduate of the Wheelock Kindergarten Normal School. The enrollment was so large in the fourth and fifth grades that it became necessary to employ a special teacher to assist in these grades.Miss White was engaged for this position and later transferred to the first grade. Miss Anna K.Shaw was engaged to continue the work. Miss Shaw had been a student for three years in the University of California. 10 Physical Training and Health Work We have been following out the plan of outdoor athletics the same as the previous three years.The junior baseball league between the schools of Hingham and Cohasset has been continued.There have also been other baseball teams of the younger boys. The girls'baseball was continued last spring in just as enthusiastic a manner.Our aim has been to have as many as possible engaged in some sort of athletic work,and not place the emphasis on a single team.On one afternoon last June there were eleven baseball teams from the two towns of Hingham and Cohasset playing under the supervision of different teachers. There were numerous track meets held during the spring for boys and girls of all ages.Cohasset was well represented and made a good showing at the South Shore track*meet at Marshfleld. In the fall the girls had field hockey teams and the boys three football teams.The triangular league of junior boys of Cohasset,Hingham High School,and the Lincoln School was continued. During the winter Mr.Doyle is conducting a class in physical exercises and boxing for the boys of the High School. We are planning some indoor meets for Hingham and Cohasset pupils this winter. We are deeply indebted to the Social Service League for the interest it is taking in the health work in the schools.The League is at present providing about seventy-five bottles of milk a day for children who are underweight. Enrollment and Organization Your attention is called to the enrollment,age grade,and attendance tables following. The comparative attendance for the past six years is as follows : 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 Kindergarten 41 33 41 50 43 46 Grade 1 33 63 60 65 69 72 Grade 2 40 38 43 46 do 49 11 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 Grade 3 32 43 35 52 49 59 Grade 4 51 42 46 37 45 47 Grade 5 59 40 39 41 34 49 Grade 6 45 61 40 39 42 48 Grade 7 51 34 57 44 49 50 Grade 8 55 37 28 43 34 40 Grade 9 32 53 32 39 38 35 Grade 10 27 28 42 36 24 25 Grade 11 19 27 21 29 25 21 Grade 12 ..17 15 25 21 23 21 502 514 512 532 530 562 The total attendance is thirty-two more than it was one year ago.The attendance in the grades has increased forty-one, while the attendance in the high school has decreased eight. There are ten more girls in high school than boys.Thirteen boys are attending trade schools in other towns. Owing to this condition and also to the fact that our high school requirements are somewhat more rigid than they have been,the number of high school pupils is twenty less than three years ago.There will probably be a slight increase each year hereafter.During this period there has been an increase of sixty in the grade enrollment.During the past term, four of the rooms have had an enrollment of forty-seven,forty- eight,forty-nine and fifty pupils.In the best school systems the size of the classes in the grades is limited to thirty -five pupils.It is very obvious that the efficiency of the work is being greatly impaired by this crowded condition.We have helped the situation in a small measure by placing a teacher in the room formerly used as the superintendent's office and sending groups of fourth and fifth grade pupils into this room for recitations.This has relieved the congestion in these grades for a part of the time. We need at once two additional classrooms,one for third and fourth grade pupils and the other for fifth and sixth grade pupils.The number of pupils to a teacher could thereby be 12 reduced to a maximum of thirty-five.This would mean much toward improving the character of the teaching. I,personally,feel that the Town has delayed much too long in its school building program.In 1919 the School Committee went to considerable expense in having a survey of the school system made.I call to your attention some of the recommenda- tions made at that time,when the enrollment was sixty less than at present. Under the head of School Buildings the report says: "The schools of Cohasset are at present housed in three buildings,the Osgood,Bates,and Beechwood.Of the three buildings,the Osgood comes farthest from serving its present use adequately.While it has a comely exterior,and the interior conforms to the requirements of the State with respect to sanitation and safety,the building was badly planned,particu- larly as to lighting,and the adaptations made in recent years to meet the needs of an increased school membership have augmented the faults of structure and of use.The Osgood building has a serious defect also in its lack of playrooms or gymnasium for elementary school children.This is a serious defect in any school building but it is especially serious in the Osgood School which is a central school to which children come from outlying districts,spending an exceptionally long school day on the school premises,including a long noon intermission. The defects of the Osgood building as a home for the high school are greater even than those with respect to elementary school work. The high school utilizes the large study room,library,and one classroom on the second floor,and the room designed originally as an auditorium,on the third floor.The stage of the auditorium has been utilized as a typewriting room,while one alcove of the auditorium is occupied by a banking desk. A mechanical drawing room,a laboratory,and a studio,have been provided out of attic and storeroom space.The adaptations which have been made are ingenious,but at the best are rather makeshifts than adequate school or classroom accommodations. The typewriting room,the mechanical drawing room,the 13 studio,and the laboratory are too small for some of the classes that need to meet in them. The main room,or study room,is peculiar in having seats set at so great distance from the windows that even on the brightest days,three or four rows of seats are very poorly lighted.Some light comes from the back through the glass doors opening into the library,but not enough to make the light sufficient even on light days. Another very conspicuous defect is the lack of a gymnasium. The school provides no playrooms or gymnasium,either for elementary or for high school pupils.Physical training is as important as any other single subject in the high school,and a gymnasium is as necessary as laboratories or special class- rooms.Civics,ethics and personal hygiene are so closely related to physical education that they can hardly be adequately taught without relation to physical education. On the social side of high school life an assembly room is essential.It is possible to get the high school together now, but it is with real difficulty and with decreased effectiveness. New England was developed in a marked degree by the Assembly. To meet the needs adequately,a new school building is required for the sake of both the elementary school and the high school.New quarters for the high school would release the old assembly hall for a combined play-room,gymnasium and assembly room for the elementary schools. A building for a junior-senior high school is recommended. It would be easier for Cohasset than for most communities of the State to attain schools as good as the best." The following letter dated January 17,1925,explains itself. It is written by Mr.Frank P.Morse,Supervisor of Secondary Education of the Commonwealth. "My dear Mr.Collins: I am herewith making my report of my visit to the Cohasset High School on Thursday,January 15. I am glad to say that I found a good high school at Cohasset. Mr.Morrison,the principal,seems to me to be a capable man and the teaching I observed was generally good.I feel that 14 the principal and teachers deserve a good deal of credit in maintaining so good a high school under what seems to me to be rather difficult surroundings,for I am compelled to say that I cannot speak in so complimentary terms of the school building as I can of the school. I found that you were conducting a high school in three separate buildings.This of itself is a very serious inconvenience, not so noticeable in pleasant weather,but in cold and stormy weather it constitutes a distinct disadvantage.It is also inconvenient,I believe,for the lower grades to be housed in the same building with the senior high school.Their recesses come at different times,and this of itself is usually a source of some disturbance and annoyance.More serious than this, probably,is the fact that these pupils are in widely different stages of educational progress,and it is,I believe,better for them to be separated in their school work.One of the main arguments,you remember,for the junior high school is the great advantage that comes from separating adolescent pupils from those who are older and from those who are younger. In the high school building you are using the third floor for purposes which were not contemplated when the building was constructed.Most of the commercial work is done in a room which was intended for an assembly hall.The typewriting is being done on what was the stage of this hall.The laboratory has been constructed under the roof of the building,and is not very convenient or satisfactory.In connection with the laboratory,I desire to make here a recommendation which I made to the principal,that as a source of heat he investigate the use of Fuelite in the laboratory and also the new alcohol lamp which is put out by the Cambridge Botanical Supply Company.It is a serious handicap to attempt to conduct work in physics and chemistry with the ordinary alcohol lamp. I also call your attention to the library in the school.It is altogether too small for work in a high school of the size you have in Cohasset.You ought to make at once substantial additions to this library.I cannot be too strong in my statement that the public library,even when it is a good one and when it co-operates well with the high school teachers,is not a sub- stitute for a good library in the high school building.The State 15 department is so strongly convinced of this that at the present time it has in process of preparation a manual for high school libraries containing selections of the most desirable books for use in the various fields of knowledge.I hope that your committee will recognize the importance of making a regular annual appropriation for the library.The first appropriation as I have intimated above,should be a liberal one. I have been in some doubt as to the recommendation which I ought to make with regard to housing conditions.I know that this subject has been under discussion in Cohasset for some years.I have a strong feeling,however,that the present building is not adequate or convenient,or a dignified housing for the Cohasset High School.It is not worthy of the town.It seems to me that the best solution would be the construction of a new high school building,or possibly the construction of a building that would take care of the six upper grades.I do not feel prepared to make the latter report at this time because I have not had sufficient time to study the situation,but I am quite sure that something ought to be done to provide the high school with better building accommodations. I desire to thank you for the courtesies which you showed me during my visit in Cohasset. Yours very truly, FRANK P.MORSE, Supervisor of Secondary Education." We should not pass over lightly the recommendation of the survey,nor of the Supervisor of Secondary Education.What they suggest is true.Cohasset does need a new school building. If any of the towns of the Commonwealth can afford to build, Cohasset can.Whether a high school should be built or a primary building is still a debatable question.The reports have been made by men primarily interested in secondary education.The needs of the grades are even greater than those of the high school. There is no doubt in my mind that the pupils of the Town should be housed in two buildings only;that the older pupils and younger pupils should be separated.The question comes 16 as to where the dividing line should come.If the Osgood School were to be used as a grade building,it would house the kinder- garten and eight grades.The assembly hall would be released for its proper use.If one of the class rooms were to be used for a domestic science room,then the eighth grade,too,would have to be eliminated.Inasmuch as the seventh grade work is so closely connected with that of the eighth and taught depart- mentally,the seventh would also be taken out.The kinder- garten and the first six grades would require ten of the twelve available rooms.The new building would then be a junior- senior high school containing the seventh and eighth grades and the high school classes. It would require the following units:four recitation rooms, a commercial room,a drawing room,a science laboratory, a domestic science room,a library,three grade rooms,a combi- nation gymnasium and assembly hall,and a manual training room.It requires just as many rooms to house a high school of one hundred pupils as to house one of one hundred fifty, and the same teaching force. Reverse the plan.Leave the high school in the present building.Have no classes on the third floor,use the assembly hall for both assembly and gymnasium purposes.The first floor could be used for sixth,seventh and eighth grades and for domestic science.The building now used for drawing and recitations would make a good manual training shop.A nine room building would be required for the kindergarten and the first five grades. A unit type of building should be built so that rooms can be added from time to time as the school population increases. It would be possible to build a four or six room section to start with and add the other rooms later. I trust that the Town will consider this matter seriously, and that a committee will be appointed to bring some definite plan before the voters. 17 Expenditures and Estimate The following table shows the expenditures for the past year and the estimate for 1925. 1924 1925 Expenditures Estimate School Committee,expenses of ad- ministration $232 75 $400 00 Superintendent and expenses of office 1,851 94 2,250 00 Teachers'salaries 34,114 00 36,000 00 Books 1,213 68 1,400 00 Janitors 3,501 00 3,500 00 Supplies 1,986 00 2,000 00 Fuel and lights 2,166 50 3,200 00 Repairs and upkeep 3,560 50 3,000 00 Library 6 98 200 00 Health ..690 50 650 00 Transportation .".5,581 00 5,200 00 Tuition,trade school 2,068 07 2,400 00 Insurance 410 65 450 00 New equipment 587 44 200 00 Lunchroom 2,143 83 2,200 00 Sundries ,334 42 300 00 $60,449 26 $63,350 00 Receipts of the School Department Dog tax $338 20 From the State for Evening school 85 00 Vocational education 473 88 Teachers'salaries 4,100 00 Refund from Royal Typewriter Company 3 25 Supplies sold 144 36 Lunch receipts 1,852 00 Insurance 500 00 Total receipts $7,496 69 Expended from tax levy 52,952 57 Total expenditure $60,449 26 18 The amount expended from the tax levy is $52,952.57 as compared with $52,147.73 in 1923,an increase of $804.84. It should be remembered that all receipts of the Department go into the general fund of the Town,and cannot be used by the Department.It is necessary,therefore,to appropriate the gross cost rather than the net cost of the schools,the net cost only being raised by taxation. Cost of Education in General In the United States,according to the last published census, 1H%of our income was spent on public education;4^%on government activities;11%on investments;8%on crime; 14%in preventable waste;22%on luxuries;243/2%on family living expenses;and the remainder on miscellaneous expenses. The amount we spend on public education depends entirely upon what people want,and since they want more education, more must be spent for it and less wasted in luxuries and in poor investments.Many times as much is lost each year in bad securities as is spent on public education. The following is a comparison of the totals spent for educa- tion in the Commonwealth for the year 1923-1924 with the corresponding totals for 1913-1914. In ten years the valuation of the property in the Common- wealth has increased 35%;the population,14%;the number of teachers,30%;the pupils enrolled,21%;high school pupils, 57%;high school teachers,71%. The cost per pupil for the items named has increased as follows:general control,77%;teachers'salaries,105%;books and supplies,81%;operation of school plant,91%;repairs, replacement and upkeep,120%;promotion of health,293%; transportation,143%;libraries,200%;miscellaneous expendi- tures,123%;new school houses,140%;total for support and outlay,111%;cost per high school pupil,86%. Modem Conceptions of Education For many years it was the general assumption in regard to education that children were alike in needs and capacities,and that the acquisition of book knowledge was the only necessary training for life and citizenship.Book knowledge and dis- 19 ciplinary drill dominated instruction.The general policy seemed to be to find out what the pupil could not do,and then give him plenty of it,or in other words train pupils in the things in which they showed the least aptitude so that they would all come out of the mold a like product. Today we place the emphasis on the development of each child rather than upon the subject studied.What educational opportunities will best assist this boy or girl to prepare for a life of usefulness in our democracy is the question constantly before us. Objectives of Education I refer again to the objectives of education which seemed of the highest importance to the Commission on the Reorganiza- tion of Secondary Education,appointed by the National Education Association.The report of this committee has been accepted by school men as the most authentic study of the subject that has been made.The Commission regarded the following as the main objectives of education:Health;Citizen- ship;Command of Fundamental Processes;Worthy Home Membership;Vocation;Worthy Use of Leisure;and Ethical Character. The naming of these objectives does not mean that the process of education can be divided into separated fields.No one of the Objectives can be attained without attention to some of the others.They apply to education as a whole, elementary,secondary,and higher.Some must receive greater emphasis in the earlier years of school and others in the higher grades and in the secondary school.The objectives of health, citizenship,and ethical character,must be kept constantly in mind from the first grade to the final grade attained by each pupil.The command of fundamental processes dominates the first six years of school and cannot be lost sight of in the latter years.A high school course falls short if it does not prepare in some degree for a vocation and worthy home mem- bership.One of the great problems that faces our democracy today is the use of leisure time.The shorter working day in industries has resulted in more hours of leisure.The use of this leisure time,or rather the misuse of this leisure time is a menace 20 to good government and home life.We must impress upon the youth the value of that recreation whi:h enriches the body, mind,and spirit.If leisure is to be utilized in a worthy manner throughout life,the leisure hours of youth must be guided. We cannot measure education by its financial returns alone. From it there result permanent values of cultural and spiritual influence which are immeasurable,and in the final analysis may mean more to our democracy than its monetary values. The training of the young to be loyal,useful,citizens is the most inspiring task that faces a democracy.It is a difficult problem,but at the same time a most fruitful opportunity. The result is a measure of its civilization.John Dewey says, "What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children.Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely,acted upon,it destroys our democracy." Our aim should be to train each generation of American boys and girls a little better than the preceding generation in body,mind and spirit.It is the road to the solution of the social, economic,and political problems of our American life. I know that this is the sentiment of the parents,and it should be the sentiment of even*patriotic citizen.Abraham Lincoln said,"Public sentiment is everything.With public sentiment nothing can fail;without it,nothing can succeed.He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions." I wish to express my appreciation of the loyal attitude of the teachers,the spirit of co-operation and good will shown by the citizens,and the frank and earnest consideration of all school problems that have been brought before the School Committee. Respectfully submitted, O.K.COLLINS. Superintendent of Schools. December 31,1924. 21 wH El 9 & co © Q * w P ^ &O P < Wo M^NiC00hMnCnOC000O!NMMNCD05OiOM0500m C^(N"^(M(M(MCOC<lCO'COC^KNMHH^HHHrH rH •(M CO CO CO rH LQ CO t^-CO •IMCOIOCONN'^CO rH hhHMHHtJIMWOOWOhh rH CO •©•CO 00 -tf O CO tH hh(MHiocOOt1)(N(N(N CO •MNWO00 00HH hhhNONMMCOCDtHC^ rH •rH rH 00 t-O 0>CD rH rH CO rH o lO C5 »o to CO CO O0T*iTj<©CO<NrH<M Tj<O fM ^rH mo OS CO CO to rH CO o-s o--o-s o-a o-£o-£o-~o-fa o-£o-g o-s o-swOmOrqOmOffiOfflOmOfflOmOrqOcQOmO mo WW,__££>>>>>>>>>>nsxxxxxxXX, V2 C/J too 22 STATISTICS FOR SEPTEMBER 3,1924 TO JANUARY 23,1925 Total Average Daily Per Cent Enrollment Membership Attendance Attendance Grade 12 21 Grades 11 and 10 46 Grade 9 35 Grade 8 40 Grade 7 50 Grade 6 49 Grade 5 54 Grade 4 49 Grade 3 47 Grade 3B 12 Grade 2 44 Grade 2B 7 Grade IF 27. Grade 1 31 Grade IB 14 Kindergarten ...44 570 539.73 500.66 92.76 20.84 20.01 95.99 44.28 42.28 95.46 32.77 31.04 94.46 39.08 36.64 94.77 45.41 42.01 92.44 47.63 45.64 97.78 52.20 48.92 93.70 47.45 43.12 90.87 45.49 42.85 94.40 11.30 11.01 97.43 40.18 36.62 91.48 6.20 5.24 84.52 27.88 24.78 88.40 27.07 24.40 89.45 13.30 12.18 91.57 38.65 33.92 87.26 23 REPORT OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL Mr.Orvis K.Collins, Superintendent of Schools. Dear Sir:I take pleasure in complying with your request for a brief report from the principal of the high school.Special teachers and supervisors will doubtless report on high school work in their various departments,consequently my report is of a general nature. The enrollment this year is smaller than for the past few years,due to small entering classes of two and three years ago. The fact that some boys of high school age entered the Quincy Trade School and the Norfolk County Agricultural School also explains,to that extent,a decreased enrollment.The high school last September was as follows:ninth grade or first year of high school,nineteen girls,thirteen boys;tenth grade,fifteen girls,ten boys;eleventh grade,ten girls,twelve boys;twelfth grade,thirteen girls,eight boys;postgraduates, one girl. With only one change in the teaching force,the resignation of Miss Leita L.Sawyer to accept a position in Needham,the work of previous years has been carried on along the same general lines.In the superintendent's report will be found excerpts from the report made by Frank P.Morse,State Supervisor of Secondary Education.He criticizes not the character of the work done,but the physical handicaps,such as using parts of three separated buildings for high school purposes,the lack of an assembly hall which could be used for dramatics,social and athletic events,as well as for assemblies in school time.The present assembly hall,made by opening folding doors between a recitation room and the study hall is not of right proportions for the use of stereopticon and motion picture machine,so essential in visual education,and being filled with fixed desks and seats,cannot be used for the other purposes mentioned above. 24 Athletics have been so planned as to serve the greatest possible number of pupils.Field hockey for the girls and football for the boys and track meets for both,comprised the fall program.Baseball for both girls and boys in the spring as well as track meets for the boys and girls of different ages have kept a large number out in the open during the spring months.The effort has been not to produce a crack school team but to get as many different individuals as -possible into some form of athletic activity sometime during the year.Here again we have a distinct physical handicap in the shape of an inadequate or distant playing field.During the winter months,small groups of boys have engaged in calisthenics and boxing in a recitation room on the second floor,Mr.Doyle being the teacher in charge.But for the most part athletic activities are allowed to lapse during the winter months. The school play as well as the Class Night of the Senior Class have become annual fixtures.Last year,the Junior Class added a "Prom "which was a delightful party and a distinct contribution to the social activities of the school. The Gold Medal Award of the George H.Mealy Post, American Legion,was won by Miss Louanna M.Davies,the assigned title for the competition being "Our Immigration Problems."A bronze medal offered by the Illinois Watch Company for the best essay on Lincoln was won by Arnold Peterson.The committee awarded the college scholarship to Miss Clara A.Stoddard.This year the Women's Alliance of the Unitarian Church increased their prize to fifteen dollars for the best essay on Japan,with particular reference to the relations between that country and the United States. Appended to this report is a list of pupils entering the Cohasset High School in September,1924 a list of those in the senior class of 1923-1924,and the names of last year's graduates in school this year,together with a table showing the numbers of pupils engaged in the different studies and curricula offered in this school. Very truly yours, ARTHUR C.MORRISON. 25 SUBJECTS TAKEN BY HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS Seniors Juniors Sophomores Freshmen Total English Boys 8 11 13 13 45 Girls. History Boys Girls Latin Boys Girls French Boys Girls Stenography Boys Girls Typewriting Boys Girls Bookkeeping Boys Girls. Chemistry Boys Girls Algebra Boys Girls Drawing Boys Girls Business English Boys Girls Commercial Geography Boys Girls Geometry Boys Girls Biology Boys Girls Shop Boys Commercial Boys Arithmetic Girls Household Arts Girls General Science Boys Girls 13 10 15 17 55 9 11 9 29 13 8 11 32 3 1 4 4 11 2 3 5 5 15 1 3 5 6 15 1 3 6 7 17 4 4 8 10 6 16 5 7 12 11 6 17 3 6 9 7 6 13 4 3 7 2 2 3 1 1 5 10 3 2 1 3 9 2 '2 5 8 17 10 4 10 17 41 3 3 6 ••8 8 5 5 .8 8 2 •4 6 1 5 4 8 6 4 8 1 1 3 10 15 1 11 12 12 12 ••8 17 10 25 10 15 15 30 26 HIGH SCHOOL COURSES TAKEN College Commercial General Total Civics Boys . . . . 13 13 Girls ....17 17 Senior Boys 3 4 2 9 Girls 2 10 . . 12 Junior Boys 3 4 3 10 Girls 3 6 2 11 Sophomore Boys 4 4 4 12 Girls 5 8 3 16 Freshmen Boys 4 11 ..15 Girls 5 12 ..17 29 59 14 102 27 Senior Edythe K.Antone Irving C.Blossom Hope P.Bosworth Ruth J.Brown Catherine E.Daley Grace A.Davenport Louanna M.Davies Ruth E.Deegan Ellis W.Gilbert Edith F.Grassie George S.Jason Otis R.Jason Class,September,1924 Roy C.La Coste Veola M.Lincoln Mary E.McCulloch Mary J.Modente Esther M.Munnis Mary V.O'Brien Marie A.Pedersen Richard Shebruk Margaret E.Souza Clara A.Stoddard Elizabeth L.Tilden Leighton S.Tower Members of Graduating Class Attending Other Schools This Year Irving C.Blossom,Wentworth Institute. Hope P.Bosworth,Framingham Normal School. Louanna M.Davies,Hyannis Normal School. Ellis W.Gilbert,Cushing Academy. Richard Shuebruk,Chauncy Hall School. Clara A.Stoddard,Boston University. Leighton S.Tower,Boston University. Entering Frederick E.Ahearn Myra E.Bates Sarah W.Bates Eva E.Campbell John J.Davenport Alexandria R.De Mello Christine L.Faria Mary D.Grassie Stuart Hiltz Sarah L.Lawrence Charles Lincoln Charlotte Litchfield Ralph R.Litchfield Class,September,1924 Helen E.MacNeill Millard E.MacNeill Manuel R.Marks Alberta M.Marsh Mary M.McLellan Mary A.Morris Rosalie E.Morris Abigail K.Poland Harry W.Rose Clarence W.B.Salvador Delia F.Sargent Peter Shuebruk Elizabeth F.Souther. 28 TYPEWRITING AWARDS WON IN 1924 How Awards Are Won Monthly tests are sent to the teacher,and the pupil is not permitted to see it until the trial test is given.The time allowed to the pupil to write the test,which can be given but once,is fifteen minutes,and five errors the limit.The awards are graded by different rates of speed and won at different times—some early and some late in the year,which accounts for the varying rate of speed of the pupils. During the year 1924,sixteen Remington certificates, seventeen Underwood certificates,and fourteen Royal certifi- cates were won —the rate of speed ranging from twenty-five to thirty words or over per minute. The speed for the Underwood Bronze Medal is from forty to fifty words per minute,and the Extra Bar,fifty or over. The medals were won by the following pupils : Ellis Gilbert,medal and bar 55 net Veola Lincoln,medal 40 net Edith Grassie,medal 45 net Leslie Tilden,medal 44 net Vedella O'Brien,medal 40 net Catherine Daley,medal and bar 53 net Margaret Souza,medal 46 net Ruth Brown,medal 45 net Clifton Blossom,medal 46 net Grace Davenport,medal 48 net Marie Pedersen,medal 43 net The speed for the Remington Cardcase is forty or over.It was won by the following pupils: Ellis Gilbert 50 net Catherine Daley 49 net Edith Grassie 47 net Veola Lincoln 49 net Margaret Souza 47 net 29 The speed for the Royal Gold Pin is forty-five or more net words per minute.The pins were won by the following pupils : Ellis Gilbert 55 net Edith Grassie 53 net Catherine Daley 48 net Veola Lincoln 45 net Leslie Tilden 49 net Grace Davenport 49 net Ruth Brown 47 net The names of the winners of this pin are enrolled as members of the Royal Proficiency Club. The speed for the Gold Medal (Remington)is fifty-five or more net.The winners of this medal were: Ellis Gilbert 58 net Catherine Daley 55 net Leslie Tilden 56 net Class of 1925 The class of 1925 has won,up to date,fourteen Remington certificates,nine Royal certificates (one by Geraldine Gillis absolutely perfect)and six Underwood certificates. Three Royal Gold Pins Faith Cogill 52 net Martha Bethel 55 net *Marie Pedersen 52 net *Doing extra work with the class of 1925. Two Underwood Bronze Medals Faith Cogill,medal 43 net Martha Bethel,medal and bar 50 net Three Remington Silver Pins Marie Pedersen 45 net Faith Cogill '48 net Martha Bethel 50 net The Cohasset pupils have won ten Remington Gold Medals, and one Underwood Silver Medal. 30 The pupils who have won the Gold Medals are as follows: Class of 1918 —Martha Blossom and Mary Nairn. Class of 1920 —Mary Neagle and Warren Bates. Class of 1922 —Dorothy Enos. Class of 1923 —Kathleen Madden and Helen Naun. Class of 1924 —Ellis Gilbert,Catherine Daley and Leslie Tilden. The highest rate of speed by which a pupil has won an award was made by Kathleen Madden,class of 1923.She won an Underwood Silver Medal at a net speed of sixty-six words per minute. 31 REPORT OF MUSIC SUPERVISOR Mr.O.K.Collins, Superintendent of Schools. My dear Mr.Collins:In presenting a music course to the pupils in school,our chief aim is to develop a love for the best in music and the ability to express through music,the finest emotions.The degree of success attained is dependent upon the ability to read music of moderate difficulty with words and syllables. The music course is designed to teach pupils to read music independent of help from outside source.From the first grade through the eighth,principles of time,syllable reading,two and three part singing are taught and drilled until as much proficiency is achieved as possible.From the sixth grade on changing voices are watched constantly and parts given in keeping with voice range and quality. In the seventh and eighth grades several boys have changed voices permitting bass parts to be added.The reading from the bass clef is being taught in these two grades.The three important factors in music,pitch,rhythm and interpretation, are being developed with good results. As singing is the natural means of expressing music this department receives most attention.But another excellent approach to enlisting an interest in music is through instru- mental instruction and the orchestra.Early this season fifty- three pupils registered for instruction in violin,three in clarinet, nine in cornet,one in drum.This work is conducted in class and to date excellent progress is being made.The orchestra can be started in the spring and bids fair to become a splendid addition to the music course. All pupils cannot sing,others do not care to play an instru- ment but all can listen.That every pupil may learn some appreciation of music,themes of classics commonly heard are copied from the board and sung with syllables.The list prepared contains opera,folk-song,and concert selections,themes from 32 standard orchestrations and symphonies.Another season I advise purchasing records for the Victrola to complete and round out the appreciational work in music. In the high school a girls'glee club,and boys'glee club have been organized and show every indication of achieving excellent results.With the chorus every effort is being made to further develop the ability to read independently the material at hand. A ukelele club under the direction of Miss Nash and Miss Whitney meets weekly and the members are instructed in the chords and general principles of accompaniment. By developing the three departments of music education outlined above,every pupil will have an opportunity to acquire a fair degree of musical knowledge. Sincerely yours, FREDERICK A.TAYLOR, Supervisor of Music. REPORT OF DRAWING SUPERVISOR Mr.Orvis K.Collins, Superintendent of Schools. Dear Sir:I hereby submit for your approval the annual report of the Art Department for the year 1924. The work of this department has been carried on along the same general lines as in the preceding year.This has been done in accordance with a definite plan or course of study which has been worked out,the purpose of which is not the training of possible artists,but rather the development in all of our children of a sense of beauty,an interest in order,the power of observation,and the habit of using the imagination. Few children are going to be great artists,but if we can instill into their minds those simple principles which seem to be manifested in all great works of art or things of beauty,we are opening the way to a keen enjoyment and understanding of the wonderful things in the world.The children will learn to see beauty in the workaday world also and in the simple things near at hand,and will realize that beauty and utility may be closely related.Such training is not only cultural, but on the practical side is making better artisans and craftsmen of our boys and girls.Surely this is all worth while. In the high school the free-hand drawing classes seem, by custom,to be made up entirely of girls.Perhaps some reasons for this have been a mistaken idea that the course has no value except for the girls,and also the fact that it has been difficult to accommodate large classes.We appreciate our present quarters very much and perhaps some classes could be formed if we found it desirable to offer a course .to the boys also.Those now taking mechanical drawing are,in most cases, boys who are especially interested in mechanics and who mean to take up that line of work. Supervision has been attempted in the first three grades, where the hearty co-operation of the teachers has produced good results.Two teaching periods a week have been devoted 34 to each of the grades or divisions from the fourth through the eighth. Our annual exhibition was held in the Town Hall in June, in conjunction with the Household Arts and Manual Training Departments. In conclusion,I wish to express my appreciation for your helpfulness and co-operation in the management of this department. Respectfully submitted, FLORENCE E.KRAUS. January,1925. 35 REPORT OF HOUSEHOLD ARTS DEPARTMENT Mr.O.K.Collins: Superintendent of Schools. Dear Sir:I submit for your approval and acceptance the annual report of the Household Arts Department. The same general program of work has been followed as in previous years,three grades receive instruction in sewing and three in cooking. The aim of this department might be expressed briefly by the motto "Learn by Doing "and it is hoped that this "doing " in school may help the girls to realize the work necessary in the home and to contribute their share toward it. Handwork is coming more and more to be recognized as an essential part of a girls'education and the girls of today in most schools receive,at least,a fundamental knowledge of the principles and methods of cooking and serving and a rudimen- tary knowledge of sewing and plain garment construction. An exhibit of the work of this department was held at commencement in the Town Hall in conjunction with the Manual Training and Art Departments. The school lunchroom which is an important feature of this department has been well patronized during the past year. It is the aim of the lunchroom to give the pupils of the school nourishing and appetizing lunches at the lowest possible cost. Many of the pupils buy their whole lunch and many buy milk, cocoa or soup to supplement lunches brought from home.The department supervises the lunches of the little children,helping them to spend their money wisely and obtain a satisfying lunch. In closing I wish to thank you for your co-operation and to express to the School Committee my appreciation of their helpful attitude toward this department. Respectfully submitted, HELEN C.WELCH. 36 REPORT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIAN This year has been comparatively free from epidemics, which is quite a relief after the widespread prevalence of mumps in 1923.The school population is rapidly increasing, and overcrowding of the schoolrooms is causing some anxiety. Three of the grades have an enrollment of forty-seven,forty- nine and fifty-four respectively.The former office of the superintendent,which was also used for medical examination, is now occupied by pupils.At present one small room has to answer for an office for the superintendent,principal,school physician and nurse.This condition tends to hamper the medical work,but it is carried on as well as conditions will allow. There is very marked improvement in the teeth of pupils since the establishment of the dental clinic and I believe that no one factor has contributed more to the health and well-being of the schools than this. The supply of milk for the underweight pupils,which is provided by the Social Service League,is proving a great benefit and its use,in almost every instance,is followed by a gratifying increase of weight and improvement in general condition. With grateful acknowledgment of the co-operation of the committee,superintendent,teachers and the school nurse. Respectfully submitted, OLIVER H.HOWE,M.D. 37 INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT Mr.Orvis K.Collins, Superintendent of Schools. Dear Sir:I herewith respectfully submit to you my report as director of the Industrial Aits Department for 1924. During the past year no marked changes have taken place in the operation of the department.There is a limit to the varieties of work that can be profitably carried on in our cramped quarters.Woodworking remains the most popular of the activities carried on.Printing,metal work and electrical work,while very valuable and like woodwork basic of many vocations,do not bring to the boys the variety,or the amount of related information that woodwork does.Printing and electrical work are to a large extent a matter of assembling, while carpentering,cabinet-making,pattern-making and wood- turning are creative subjects.Woodworking includes extensive tool processes and a great variety of modes of construction. The designing of projects exercises the imagination,and boys soon learn that good work requires accuracy in workmanship. A boy who has built a good project in the furniture line has done a constructive piece of work that has a social as well as a commercial value.It is generally conceded that the self- control and discipline,and the confidence in his ability gained in bringing the undertaking to a successful conclusion will carry over into other fields of endeavor.Last year a boy in the tenth grade had for one of his projects the building of a small room in the basement.He cut every piece of joist and boards,drove every nail,put in shelves and a window and finished his in a creditable manner with only a few suggestions from the instructor. The exhibit of the best projects held each year at the Town Hall in June may be regarded as a tangible report of the depart- ment.And yet if the main objectives aimed at are at all realized there should be some results that are not exhibitable.Among the intangible objectives held to,the following may be mentioned J 38 1.To develop an appreciation and respect for honest manual labor. 2.To awaken initiative and the creative instinct by using the "Project Method." 3.To build up self-control through the gradual withdrawal of restraints in the upper grades. 4.To lead boys to find themselves in purposeful experi- menting. 5.To foster the spirit of co-operation through the com- mon use of the shop equipment. 6.To acquaint boys with the vast opportunities in industry. There being but little vocational opportunity in the Town for our graduates,they must compete with boys who had had the benefit of specialized schools of the larger towns and of the city of Boston.I do hope that the near future will -provide the Industrial Arts Department with room or rooms,in which the best possible results may be obtained.Education is Cohasset's most important business,and the Town can ill afford to postpone giving its coming citizens every opportunity for development possible. In closing I would recommend the purchase of a portable moving-picture machine,that we might be able to take advantage of the vast amount of visual education possible, related not only to industrial arts,but also to other departments of our school. I wish to express my appreciation of your continued helpful interest in the department. Respectfully submitted, M.H.MEYER. 39 REPORT OF CLUB WORK Mr.Orvis K.Collins, Superintendent of Schools. Dear Sir:I herewith respectfully submit to you my report as director of club work for the season of 1924. The interest in club work seems to be as vital today as it was at any time during the six years that I have been connected with it.Some of the older children drop out each year,and younger ones fill in the ranks.The continued prosperity of our country depends largely upon such basic occupations as agriculture and animal husbandry.One-third of those gainfully employed are in these lines of work.To be successful one-third of the coming workers should therefore be planning and preparing for these occupations.Summer club work,besides keeping our youth in wholesome and healthy work during the vacation months,awakens and fosters an interest in these occupations during the plastic years of our boys and girls. The canning club was in charge of Miss Ethelle Hayes, County Club Leader of Junior Extension Work,and met at Bates Building every other week during the vacation months. The poultry club met monthly during the school season.The children have become interested in forcing bulbs into bloom during the winter months.Bulbs imported from Holland are secured for them at a very nominal cost. At the Eastern States Exposition,Arnold Peterson won the following prizes on poultry.First prizes on a Barred Rock cockerel and on a pullet.Second prizes on a Rhode Island Red pullet and on a Barred Rock cockerel.Third prizes on a Rhode Island Red hen,on a White Rock pullet and cockerel,and on a. Barred Rock hen.A fourth prize on a Rhode Island Red cock. Fifth prizes on a White Rock hen and pullet,on a Barred Rock pullet and on a Rhode Island Red cockerel. At the Weymouth Fair,Ralph Studly won a third prize on green beans.Frank Pagliaro won first prizes on cabbage, green peppers,green tomatoes,swiss chard,and a second prize 40 on ripe tomatoes.Osborne Ingraham won a first prize on summer squash,and Fred Barrows won second prizes on summer squash and cucumbers.Arnold Peterson won first prizes on onions,ripe tomatoes,potatoes,carrots and parsnips;second prizes on a variety display,sweet corn and table beets. The annual exhibit and awarding of prizes was held at the Town Hall,Friday,September 26.A complete list of the winners,and a financial report is appended. Respectfully submitted, M.H.MEYER. 41 CONTESTS AND AWARDS OF THE BOYS'AND GIRLS' SUMMER PROJECTS The prizes were contributed by the following citizens and residents of Cohasset:Mr.and Mrs.Hugh Bancroft,Mr. Clarence Barron,Mr.and Mrs.Edward B.Bay ley,Mrs.Mary K.Bolles,Mr.Lewis A.Crosset,Mr.and Mrs.Edwin L. Furber,Mr.Benjamin D.Hyde,Mrs.Ethel S.Leigh,Miss M.V.McCormick,Mr.J.F.McElwain,Mrs.Arthur N. Milliken,and Mrs.B.L.Sankey. GARDEN CONTESTS Age 10 to 18 A.Best cared for garden. 1.Silver cup Arnold Peterson 2.$2.00 Fred Barrows 3.$1.50 Frank Pagliaro and Manuel Marks B.Largest display of different vegetables. 1.$3.00 Arnold Peterson 2.$2.00 Fred Barrows C.Best display of four vegetables. 1.$2.00 Arnold Peterson 2.$1.50 Russell Marsh 3.$1.00 John Tanger Potatoes 1.$2.00 Arnold Peterson 2.$1.50 Manuel Marks 3.$1.00 Leslie Thompson Sweet Corn,Yellow 3.$1.00 Arnold Peterson 42 Sweet Corn,White 3.$1.00 Charles Tanger Carrots 1.$2.00 Sarah Lawrence 2.$1.50 Osborne Ingraham 3.$1.00 Fred Barrows Tomatoes,Ripe 1.$2.00 Manuel Marks 2.$1.50 Frank Pagliaro 3.$1.00 Ralph DeVito Tomatoes,Green 1.$2.00 Manuel Marks 2.$1.50 Russell Marsh 3.$1.00 Osborne Ingraham Table Beets 1.$2.00 Frank Pagliaro 2.$1.50 Lillian Lawrence 3.$1.00 Mary Lawrence Cucumbers 1.$2.00 Frank Pagliaro 2.$1.50 Arnold Peterson 3.$1.00 Mary Lawrence Cabbage 1.$2.00 Manuel Marks 2.$1.50 Fred Barrows 3.$1.00 Lillian Lawrence Squash,Winter 1.$2.00 Osborne Ingraham 2.$1.50 William Cogffl 3.$1.00 Mary Lawrence 43 Squash,Summer 1.$2.00 Osborne Ingraham 2.$1.50 Sarah Lawrence 3.$1.00 Mary Lawrence Turnips 2.$1.50 Arnold Peterson 3.$1.00 Arnold Peterson Parsnips 2.$1.50 Arnold Peterson Peppers 1.$2.00 Ralph DeVito 2.$1.50 William Gulla 3.$1.00 Frank Pagliaro Lettuce 1.$2.00 Osborne Ingraham 2.$1.50 Sarah Lawrence Swiss Chard 1.$2.00 Russell Marsh 2.$1.50 Frank Pagliaro 3.$1.00 Charles Lincoln .. Beans,Green 1.$2.00 Manual Marks 2.$1.50 Fred Barrows 3.$1.00 Osborne Ingraham Beans,Shelled 1.$2.00 Arnold Peterson 2.$1.50 Arnold Peterson 3.$1.00 Russell Marsh Egg Plant 3.$1.00 Fred Barrows 44 GARDEN CONTESTS UNDER TEN A.Best cared for garden. 1.Silver cup Russell Ma:sh 2.$2.00 Osborne Ingraham 3.$1.00 Richard Tisdale B.Largest display of different vegetables. 1.$2.00 Mary Lawrence 2.$1.50 Osborne Ingraham 3.$1.00 Russell Marsh RABBIT CONTEST 1.$2.00 Carl Sestito 2.$1.50 Robert Morris 3.$1.00 Robert Morris CANNING CONTEST A.Best display of five jars —three vegetable,two fruit. 1.Silver cup Julia Tower 2.$2.00 Louise Howe B.Best three jars,one variety. 1.$2.00 Laura Leonard 2.$1.50 Julia Tower 3.$1.00 Laura Leonard C.One jar of each variety canned. 1.One week at camp,name on cup. 2.$3.00 Julia Tower 3.$2.00 Kathleen Poland 4.$1.00 Laura Leonard FLOWER CONTEST A.Best cared for garden. 1.Silver cup Celia Barrows 2.$2.00 Flora Peterson 3.$1.00 Mary Pagliaro 45 B.Asters. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 C.Dahlias. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 D.Gladioli. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 E.Assortment of different flowers. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 Eva Marks Rosina Rosana Raymon Salvador Robert Jason Celia Barrows Arminda Marks Theresa Gulla Celia Barrows Florence Lincoln Arminda Marks Robert Jason Flora Peterson POULTRY CONTEST A.Red Cockerel. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 B.Rhode Island Red Pullet. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 C.White Rock Cockerel. 1.$2.00 D.White Rock Pullet. 2.$1.50 George Hinchliffe Philip Parker Irwin Dusenberry George Hinchliffe Arnold Peterson Arnold Peterson Arnold Peterson E.Leghorn Cockerel. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 Charles Pierce George Valine 46 F.Leghorn Pullet. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 G.Bantam Cock. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 H.O^r Breeds —Cockerel. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 I.0^6T Breeds —Pullets. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 J.Four Pullets and Cockerel 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 4.$1.00 K.Rhode Island Red Cock. 2.$1.50 Charles Pierce George Valine George Valine Leslie Thompson George Valine Arnold Peterson Ralph Studly Leslie Thompson Arnold Peterson William Cogill Arnold Peterson any breed. Arnold Peterson Arnold Peterson Ralph Studly .Charles Pierce Arnold Peterson L.Rhode Island Red Hen. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 Arnold Peterson Arnold Peterson Charles Pierce M.White Rock Cock. 2.$1.50 N.White Rock Hen. 1.$2.00 O.Bantam Hen. 3.$1.00 Arnold Peterson William Cogill 47 P.Other Breeds —Cock. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 Q.Other Breeds —Hen 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 R.Four Hens and Cock 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 S.Best Dozen of Eggs. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 T.Laying Feed. 1.$2.00 2.$1.50 3.$1.00 William Cogill William Cogill Leslie Thompson Arnold Peterson William Cogill Carl Sestito any breed. Arnold Peterson Fred Dolan Charles Pierce Arnold Peterson Philip Parker Axmold Peterson Irwin Dusenberry Charles Pierce SPECIAL PRIZES $1.00 Bantams $1.00 Bantams $1.00 Bantams $1.00 Pumpkins $1.00 Tomatoes $1.00 Pigeons Jerome Lincoln Eilene Schott Richard Tisdale Charles Lincoln James Holey Joseph Cadose GRAND WINNERS Ranking points in gardening. 1.One week in camp 2.$2.00 Ranking points in poultry. 1.One week in camp. 2.$2.00 Arnold Peterson,25 points Osborne Ingraham,17 points Arnold Peterson,42 points Charles Pierce,113^points 48 FINANCIAL STATEMENT Receipts Balance from 1923 $84.53 From public-spirited citizens 285.00 $369.53 Expenditures Cups $17.79 Cash prizes 208.50 Prize lists,printing 11.00 Use of coops,Hingham Agricultural Society 9.50 Poultry Club trip,traveling expenses 9.40 Cohasset Hardware Company 1.25 Postage 1.50 Engraving,A.G.Landry .75 Balance on hand 109.84 $369.53 Part of balance to be used in sending prize winners to camp in 1925.