Annual Reports of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, Town Clerk, and School Committee of West Bridgewater for the Year Ending

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

Town Officers

OF THE TOWN OF

West Bridgewater

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE TOWN OFFICERS

OF THE TOWN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER

FOR THE YEAR 1931

Town Officers for 1931

MODERATOR Howard B. Wilbur

TOWN CLERK Edward H. Crocker TOWN ACCOUNTANT

Arthur C. Peckham

SELECTMEN AND OVERSEERS OF PUBLIC WELFARE Elected Term Expires Walter C. Whiting 1929 1932 James A. Hemenway 1930 1933 Morton A. Simmons (Chairman) 1931 1934

ASSESSORS Elected Term Expires Albert Manley (Chairman) 1929 1932 Edwin H. Thayer 1930 1933 Robert G. Dean (Clerk) 1931 1934

TREASURER AND TAX COLLECTOR Catherine M. Howard 4

TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY Elected Term Exnires Edith F. Howard 1929 1932 Daniel J. Lothrop (Chairman) 1929 1932 Basil M. Soule 1930 1 (199 Ada M. Wood 1930 moo Louis P. Hayden 1931 Martha B. Mason 1931 i no a

SCHOOL COMMITTEE Elected Term Expires Edith M. Alger 1929 1932 Harold S. Lyon 1929 1 QQ9 Frank G. Chadwick 1930 ±uoo Edwin H. Thayer (Chairman) 1930 Corelli C. Alger (Secretary) 1931 Walter C. Whiting 1931 1934

WATER COMMISSIONERS Elected Term Expires Hervey Dunham 1929 1932 Faelton C. Perkins 1930 1933 Warren P. Laughton 1931 1934

TREE WARDEN Christopher Read

CONSTABLES Ervin W. Lothrop Chester R. Ripley

SURVEYORS OF LUMBER, WOOD AND BARK Chester R. Ripley, Albert A. Howard, James A. Hem- enway, Edwin H. Thayer, Robert G. Dean. 5

FIELD DRIVERS

Albert A. Howard George F. Ryder Francis J. Fay

FENCE VIEWERS

Charles E. Kinney Curtis W. Washburn

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Term Expires 1932—Arthur E. Ryder, Chester Thayer, Gustaf A. Peterson, George N. Davis, John Olson. Term Expires 1933—Bert L, Carter, Ralph S. Frellick, Emmons C. Porter, John M. Richards, Alfred T. Wells. Term Expires 1934—Mason W. Alger, Kenneth L. Harden- brook, George W. Smith, B. Frank Hanscon, Nils P. Nilson.

APPOINTED BY THE SELECTMEN

SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS

Daniel A. Penpraese

TOWN PHYSICIAN

Dr. Adolor 0. Belmore

CHIEF OF POLICE Warren P. Laughton 6

POLICE OFFICERS Ervin W. Lothrop Chester R. Ripley

SPECIAL OFFICERS Daniel A. Penpraese Christopher Read

CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT

Warren P. Laughton

REGISTRARS OF VOTERS Elected Term Expires John L. Sullivan 1929 1932 Paul Revere 1930 1933 Francis A. Mahoney 1931 1934 Edward H. Crocker, Town Clerk, ex-officio

SUPERINTENDENT OF MOTH WORK

Christopher Read

FOREST FIRE WARDEN

Warren P. Laughton

SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Christopher Read

INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS AND SLAUGHTERING

David Dailey

DOG OFFICER Ervin W. Lothrop 7

BURIAL AGENT

Edward H. Crocker

TOWN COUNSEL

Harold S. Lyon

PUBLIC WEIGHERS

Arthur D. Todd Chester R. Ripley Gustaf A. Peterson

DEPUTY FOREST FIRE WARDENS

Albert Manley, Ervin W. Lothrop, Levi T. Nute, Gerald L. Wilbur, Edward L. Bourne, William S. Irwin.

Town Clerk's Report

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

A meeting, duly warned, of the inhabitants of the Town of West Bridgewater, qualified to vote in Elections and Town Affairs was held in the Town Hall in said Town on Monday, March 2, 1931 at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, and the following is a record of the doings of said meeting, viz The meeting was called to order at 9 o'clock by the Moderator, Howard B. Wilbur and the call for the meeting was read by the Town Clerk. After article one had been read, which was to elect the Town Officers named on the Official Ballot it was voted to waive the reading of the other articles, the record of the service by the Constable was read by the Town Clerk, Edward H. Crocker. Following the reading of the call for the meeting and the Constable's return of the Warrant, the polls were de- clared open by Town Clerk Edward H. Crocker. The Ballot box was inspected by the election officers, and then locked and the key delivered to Ervin W. Lothrop, Constable at the ballot box. The following persons were sworn as election officers, viz: James S. Beless, Thomas Luddy, Mary H. Pratt, Grace G. Keenan, Margaret K. Kent, Jennie M. Sullivan, Lulu B. Gardner, Albert C. Snow. The polls were open ready for the reception of ballots at 9 o'clock A. M. and at 8 o'clock P. M. it was voted to close the polls. 10

Upon counting out the ballots from the ballot box it was found that the total number of ballots cast was 506, which agreed with the number registered on the ballot box and with the number of names checked on each of the check lists, there were 333 names checked on the men's list and 227 on the woman's list. After the ballots had been counted and the tabulation completed, the Moderator announced the result as follows:

FOR MODERATOR Howard B. Wilbur 465 John Courtney 1 Blanks 94 Total 560

FOR TOWN CLERK Edward H. Crocker 484 John Toomey 2 Blanks 74 Total 560

FOR SELECTMAN Bert L. Carter 153 Edward W. Packard 59 Morton A. Simmons 340 Blanks 8 Total 560

FOR ASSESSOR Robert G. Dean 440 George Sloan 1 Faelton C. Perkins 1 Blanks 118 Total 560 11 FOR TREASURER Catherine M. Howard 470 Blanks 90 Total 560

FOR BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE Bert L. Carter 148 Edward W. Packard 63 Morton A. Simmons 325 Blanks 24 Total 560

FOR TAX COLLECTOR Catherine M. Howard 460 William Crosby 1 Blanks 99 Total 560

FOR TREE WARDEN Christopher Read 451 Leo Lupien 2 Blanks 107 Total 560

FOR WATER COMMISSIONER (for 3 years) Warren P. Laughton 485 A. Luciani 2 Blanks 73 Total 560

FOR SCHOOL COMMITTEE (for 3 years)

Corelli C. Alger 419 Walter C. Whiting 404 Hazel Snow 1 12

Daniel Green 1 Arthur E. Ryder 2 George Peterson 1 Stanley Freeman 1 Blanks 291 Total 1120

FOR TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY (for 3 years) Louis P. Hayden 412 Martha B. Mason 416 Hazel Snow 1 John Madden 1 Blanks 290 Total 1120

FOR TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY (for 3 years) Basil M. Soule 440 Charles Andrews 1 Blanks 119 Total 560

CONSTABLES Ervin W. Lothrop 475 Chester R. Ripley 443 John Courtney 2 Arthur Peckham Patrick Sullivan Fred McCormick Fred Peterson Bert L. Carter Blanks 195 Total 1120 13

After the result of the balloting had been announced by the Moderator it was voted to adjourn the meeting to Monday night, March 9, 1931 at 7.30 o'clock for the tran- saction of business. Edward H. Crocker was sworn to a faithful performance of his duties as Town Clerk by the Moderator. The oath of office was administered to the Moderator, Howard B. Wilbur and to Morton A. Simmons as Selectman and member of the Board of Public Welfare for three years by the Town Clerk.

ADJOURNED MEETING, MARCH 9, 1931

In accordance with the vote passed Monday, March 2, 1931, the adjourned meeting was held this evening and the meeting was called to order at 7.30 o'clock by the Moderator, Howard B. Wilbur, the Town Clerk acting as clerk. The following action was taken on the articles in the Warrant.

Article 2. To choose Town Officers for the ensuing year not elected on the Official ballot. Chose—Chester R. Ripley, Albert A. Howard, James A. Hemenway, Edwin H. Thayer and Robert G. Dean, Sur- veyors of Lumber and Measurers of Wood and Bark. Field Drivers—Albert A. Howard, George F. Ryder and Francis J. Fay. Fence Viewers—Charles E. Kmney, Curtis W. Wash- burn. Finance Committee for three years—Mason W. Alger, Kenneth L. Hardenbrook, George W. Smith, B. Frank Han- scon, Nils P. Nilson. Pound Keeper—Charles E. Kinney. 14

Article 3. To hear the reports of Town Officers and Committees and act thereon. Voted—To accept the reports as printed in the town report.

In the report of the Finance committee it was recommended that a committee of three be appointed to work with the Selectmen in the planning of road construction during the coming year and that some definite program of road construction covering a period of not less than five years be worked out. It was voted that a committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to act for a term of three years in con- junction with the Selectmen in the establishment of a definite program of road construction for a period of not less than five years. The duties of such committee shall be advisory, and such committee shall have no power to order construction or the expenditure of money. The committee appointed by the Moderator included Henry 0. Davenport, Eben T. Wood and Gustave A. Peterson.

Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current year. Voted—That the 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 1st, 1931, 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 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropriation for the same. 15

Voted—To raise and appropriate the following sums of money to defray the Town charges for the ensuing year: Moderator $25.00 Selectmen 900.00 Town Accountant 725.00 Treasurer and Tax Collector 1,700.00 Assessors 1,600.00 Other finance officers and accounts 25.00 Town Clerk 650.00 Election and Registration 250.00 Law 75.00 Town Hall and Offices 2,500.00 Police 2,600.00 Dog Officer 30.00 Fire Department and equipment 2,500.00 Hydrant rental 2,500.00 Sealer of Weights and Measures 125.00 Moth Extermination 2,600.00 Tree Warden 500.00 Board of Health 1,200.00 Inspection of Slaughtering 300.00 Inspection of Animals 100.00 Plymouth County Hospital (maintenance) 1,043.26 Highways 21,000.00 Snow Removal 1,500.00 Sidewalks ($750) to be used on West Centre St 1,000.00 Street signs and Bridges 1,000.00 Street Lights (old) 3,775.00 Public Welfare 6,500.00 State Aid 300.00 Soldier's Relief 1,000.00 Military Aid 360.00 Soldier's Burial 200.00 Public Library 850.00 Care of Monument Grounds 60.00 . .

Flags and Parks 150.00 Memorial Day 100.00 Town Reports 543.00 Fire Insurance 600.00 Liability Insurance 523.00 Reserve Fund 2,000.00 Interest 2,000.00 Care of Cemeteries 100.00 Schools 49,975.00 Finance Committee 10.00 Aid Age Assistance 1,000.00

Article 6. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for a tarvia top road on East Street, south of East Centre Street. (By petition). No action taken on this article.

Article 7. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for a permanent road on Copelancl Street, provided the State or county allot a sum of money also. (By petition) Voted—To pass the article. Article 8. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for a tarvis top road on Crescent Street, starting from the junction of North Elm Street thence west to the saw mill. (By petition) No action taken on the article. Article 9. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction of a tarvia top road on Howard Street from West Centre Street to Main Street. (By petition). No action taken on this article. Article 10. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate sufficient funds to build a road similar to the South Street road, on Howard Street from River Street to West Centre Street. (By petition). No action taken on this article. 17

Article 11. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum not to exceed $1,600.00 for the purpose of draining, graveling and applying two coats of Tarvia B Standard, gravel and road treatment on Bryant Street, the work to begin at the intersection of Bryant and South Streets. (By petition). No action taken.

Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to construct a permanent road on Lincoln Street. No action taken on the article.

Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to construct a permanent road on South Elm Street. No action taken on the article

Article 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $10,600.00 for the completion of East Street, the unexpended balance to be used for the construction of a permanent road on Lincoln Street or South Elm Street as the Town votes, provided, that the State will reimburse the Town $5,300.00 and the County $2,650.00. Voted—That the town raise and appropriate the sum of two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars ($2,650.00) for the completion of the permanent road on East Street. Provided however, the State will pay five thousand three hundred ($5,300.00) dollars, and the County two thousand six hundred and fifty ($2,650.00) dollars toward the construction of the same, the unexpended balance to be used on South Elm Street. The vote was 84 yes and 21 no.

Article 15. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate sufficient funds to build a sidewalk similar to the one on North Main Street, or one equally as good as the road, from River Street through Howard Street to West Centre Street. (By petition). Voted—To pass the article. . "

Article 16. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 for the continuation of the black top sidewalk on the west side of North Elm Street. (By petition) Voted—To raise and appropriate $1,500.00 for the sidewalk.

Article 17. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate $600.00 for the purpose of putting a binder coat on South Street. No action taken on the article.

Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 81, "The Small Towns Act" so called. Voted—To pass the article.

Article 19. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for Calcium Chloride. An informal vote was passed at this time which was: "That it is the sense of this meeting that Calcium Chloride be purchased for the streets.

Article 20. To see if the Town will accept as a public street Sinnott Street, as laid out by the Selectmen. (By petition). Voted—That the town accept Sinnott Street as laid out by the Selectmen when three drains have been put in, all easements signed, and the street put in such condition as to satisfy the Selectmen.

Article 21. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the installation of a street light on South Main Street opposite the residence of John Mar- tin. (By petition). Voted—To raise and appropriate $18.00 for said street light.

Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to install four lights on Brooks Place, one near the line dividing the prop- erties of Henry O. Davenport and George W. Emerson and .

19 the other three to continue westerly from the residence of John Cassiani, and appropriate money for the same. Voted—To raise and appropriate $72.00 for the same.

Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to install two street lights on North Elm Street between Sunset Avenue and Brooks Place and appropriate money for the same. Voted—To install one new light at a cost of $18.00 and that the other lights on the street be relocated as necessary.

Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to install three street lights on Grant street, one easterly of the residence of Mr. Price, one at the little bridge and the third just easterly of the residence of John A. Penpraese, and appropriate money for the same. (By petition) Voted—To raise and appropriate the sum of $54.00 for the lights.

Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to install one street light to be located on Bryant Street about half way between Arch Street and South Street and appropriate money for the same. (By petition). Voted—To raise and appropriate $18.00 for the same.

Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to install one street light in front of the residence of Frank A. Peter- son on Matfield Street and raise and appropriate money for the same. (By petition). Voted—To raise and appropriate $18.00 for the same.

Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to extend the 6" water main from Matfield Street to the present 2" main on Copeland Street and to replace the present 2" main with a 6" main on Copeland Street and raise and appropriate money for the same. Voted—To pass the article.

Article 28. To see if the Town will take any action for the collection and disposal of garbage, ashes and other 20 waste matter and to make any appropriation for the same. (By Petition). Voted—To pass the article.

Article 29. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for the maintenance of Visiting Nurse Service in West Bridgewater. Voted—To raise and appropriate $300.00 for the above.

Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to allow the Parent Teacher Association the use of the Town Hall free of charge for the purpose of holding one meeting each month for a period of at least one year. Voted—That the matter be left in the hands of the Selectmen.

Article 31. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $3,925.00 for a gasoline power roller, scar- ifier and leveling blade. Voted—To pass the article.

Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 to seal coat Walnut Street, Manley Street and East Street. Voted—To pass the article.

Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $525.00 for the purchase of a Ford car for the Police department. Voted—To purchase a Ford car for the use of Police Department for $525.00, and that $125.00 of the amount be taken from the regular Police appropriation.

Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,300.00 to move the South Main Street Schoolhouse to the land adjourning the Town Hall and fix if for use as a garage for the Highway Department. Voted—To pass the article. .

Article 35.—To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell the Schoolhouse lot on South Main Street. Voted—That the Selectmen be authorized to sell the Schoolhouse and land on South Main Street at public auction and to execute and deliver all deeds and papers necessary to transfer title thereto. Article 36. To see if the Town will authorize the Se- lectmen to sell the East Street Schoolhouse and land. Voted—To authorize the Selectmen to sell the East Street Schoolhouse and land at public auction, and to execute and deliver all deeds and papers necessary to transfer title thereto. Article 37. To see what action the Town will take relative to paying the members of the School Committee salaries or other compensation, to appropriate money therefor, or take any action relative thereto. (By petition) Voted—To pass the article. Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $6,281.00 from Water Revenue to pay bonds and interest of the Water Department. Voted—That $6,281.00 be appropriated from Water Revenue to pay bonds and interest of the Department. Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $9,500.00 from Water Revenue for maintenance of the Water Department. Voted—That $9,050.00 be appropriated from the Water Department for the maintenance of the Department.

Article 40. To see what amount the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the use of the Plymouth County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture and choose a Town Director as provided in sect. 41 and 45 of Revised Chapter 128 of the General Laws and act thereon. Voted—To raise and appropriate $100.00 for the above and chose Mrs. Corelli C. Alger as Town Director. 22

Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of three men not holding office in the Town to look into the advisability of improving the Town Offices at the Town Hall and if they think advisable, to submit plans and estimates at the next Town Meeting. (By petition). Voted—To pass the article.

Article 42. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 to install a flush closet in the Town Hall for the use of the Town Officers. (By petition). Voted—To raise and appropriate $150.00 for the above.

Article 43. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign an agreement with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company in accordance with Chapter 417 of the Acts of 1930. Voted—That the Chairman of the Selectmen sign the agreement with the Railroad Company.

Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the Surplus Reserve the sum of $347.80 for unpaid bills for the year 1930 (Schools $312.80 and Public Welfare $35.00). Voted—To appropriate from Surplus Revenue the sum of $347.80 for unpaid bills of 1930—Schools $312.80, Public Welfare, $35.00.

All articles in the Warrant having been disposed of, it was voted to dissolve the meeting at 10.50 o'clock P. M.

A true record,

EDWARD H. CROCKER, Town Clerk. 23

DOG LICENSES ISSUED IN 1931

Licenses issued from January 1, 1931, to December 31, 1931. Male and spayed females, 333 at $2.00 $666.00 Females, 53 at $5.00 265.00 One kennel license at $25.00 25.00 $956.00 Less Clerk's fees, 387 at 20cts. 77.40

$878.60

June 1, 1931, paid County Treasurer $375.60

December 1, 1931, paid County Treasurer 503.00 $878.60

EDWARD H. CROCKER, Town Clerk.

SPORTING LICENSES, 1931

Number of Resident Sporting Licenses 103 at $2.75 $283.25 Number of Resident Trapping Licenses 5 at 5.25 26.25 Number of Minor Trapping Licenses 6 at 1.25 7.50 Number Sporting licenses issued free 4

Whole number issued 118 $317.00 Less Clerk's Fees, 114 at 25cts. 28.50

Paid Division of Fisheries and Game $288.50

EDWARD H. CROCKER, Town Clerk. List of Jurors Appointed July \, \ 93 J

Name Street Occupation Almquist, George 0. 149 Copeland Clerk Alden, William 0. 616 North Elm Insurance Bosworth, William F. 44 Walnut Shoeworker Brooks, Carlton H. 107 North Main Machinist Brown, Walter W. 174 South Main Shoeworker Carrigan, Curtis W. 26 Cyr Shoeworker Cheney, Clinton A. 40 Plain Shoeworker Cyr, Henry A. 23 Vital Avenue Shoeworker DeChambeau, James M 357 Matfield Teamster Dunham, Arthur E. 486 North Elm Mechanic Edson, Leon D. 288 North Elm Glazier Farnum, Lyle J. 113 Howard Truck Driver Gardner, Chester P. 236 Matfield Shoeworker Gaskill, George W. 9 North Main Salesman Golder, Lester J. 29 Maolis Avenue Farmer Green, Harry D. 199 Ash Farmer Hambly, F. Eldon 20 Kenneth Lineman Harlow, Elmer G. 10 Cross Shoeworker Healey, Ernest L. 256 North Elm Shoeworker Holmberg, Fred W. 493 West Centre Shoeworker Keith, Roy F. 72 Maolis Avenue Shoeworker Kimball, Loyd C. 38 Sunset Avenue Salesman Knight, Harry R. 556 North Elm Jeweler Levi, Charles F. 870 West Centre Shoeworker MacDonald, Robert 270 South Elm Electrician .

Mahoney, Francis A. lol Howard Shoeworker Ad A Miles, l nomas .o. 4U4 Crescent Truck Driver A Qf\ Mosher, Harwood S. 4oU west Farmer OIQ JNute, JLevi I. oto iviatneia Laborer Penpraese, Justin S. 1U1 West Laborer Peterson, Erik H. 4A Jriam Grocer no Peterson, Gustai r DO East Centre Farmer Pratt, Warren A. 17 lvierritt Foreman Read, Arthur L. zoo iviatneia Auto Mechanic Redmann, Frank H. 001 River Carpenter rvOCKWeil, V^HlLOIl Vjt. 90 ± eamster Soule, Basil M. 14 Merritt Clerk Staples, Daniel F. 74 Belmont Credit Manager Todd, Arthur D. 128 South Main Manager Wood, Eben T. 145 Spring Poultry

LIST OF JURORS DRAWN IN 1931 William 0. Alden Allie L. Ferranti George 0. Almquist Frederic L. Handy Frederick W. Baker Charles M. Hathaway Carlton H. Brooks Ernest L. Healey Frank D. Enos Elmer E. Peterson Forrest R. Roulstone Vital Statistics

NUMBER OF BIRTHS RECORDED IN WEST BRIDGEWATER IN 1931

Date Child's Name Parents' Name Jan. 9 Arthur Vincent Provost Alphonso and Harriet Eldridge 15 Frederick A. C. Merrier Frederick A. C. and Helen Frawley 17 David Ferguson Perkins Faelton C. and Dorothy Ferguson 19 Eldon Francis Moreira Joseph S. and Emma C. Silveria 30 Eleanor Claire Piver Edwin B. and Eleanor L. Perry Feb. 18 Giovanna Zeuli Alessandro and Lucy Capulupo

26 Lois Meryl Packard George E. and Mabel I. Sherwood 27 Elsie Lee Denley Harold F. and Anna J. Rugus 27 Louise Evelyn Finch James C. and Lelia M. Holyoke 27 Mildred Arlene Hagglund Arvid and Gladys M. Cogswell March 23 Shirley Louise Morse Willard A. and Edith M. Pittsley 29 David Lee Perkins Edgar E. and Freida Leonard April 5 Jacqueline Lillian Gaffney Royal A. and Anita E. Bolduc 20 Otis Carl Anderson Carl and Laura E. Nichols 25 Edmund Warren Piver Edmund B. and Mary Travers 28 Arlindo Arruda Manuel and Marguerite Guimarais May 4 George Alton Baker George E. and Virginia B. Philbrook 12 Evelyn Augusta Dickson Oliver A. and Emma Parsons 21 Mary Louise Staples Lloyd E. and Priscilla A. Packard June 6 Victor Everett Martelli, Jr. Victor E. and Sunta Martelli 16 Lorraine Frances Souza Manuel and Mary Barcia 27

16 Birino Dambrosio Tony and Lena Lafratta 20 Wallace Arthur Mignault Charles V. and Susannah E. Wright 20 Doris Franklin Taylor Howard S. and Wanda Larsson July 2 Richard Alfred Howe Ernest A. and Laura C. Spratt 7 Natalie Fay Porter Raymond B. and Annie K. Ellis 31 Albion Edward Sturgis Harold S. and Grace W. Cyr Aug. 3 Lorraine Marion Bolinder Warren G. and Mabel G. Kerr 5 David Thomas Bolinder Lawrence C. and Helen J. Kerr 18 Anne Elizabeth Bemis Clayton A. and Ella Curtis Sept. 4 Richard Turner Alger Mason W. and Dorothy Turner 10 Philis Lillian Ensher Napoleon J. and Virginia Essayan 13 Jenny Mary Peters John and Marie Perry 26 Jeanette Margret Rossi Joseph and Esther Lucetti 30 Anne Patricia Reid Roland F. and Lillian M. Conklin 30 Forrest Willard Goodwin Albert C. and Mary E. Harriman Oct.

1 Robert Warren Walcott Willard C. and Dorothy I. Munro 8 Manuel Perry, Jr. Manuel and Pheobe Shaves 10 Kenneth Gerald Amaral Manuel J. and Lena M. Susa 13 Priscilla Ann Read Samuel A. and Hattie M. McCurrach 18 Stillborn 25 Barbara Ann Brown Walter W. ,Jr., and Mildred F. Ellis Nov. 23 Marjorie Ann Hayward Alton J. and Helen G. Fish Dec.

12 Walter Clifford Haskins James O. and Lillian I. Thibodeau 17 Harriet Pearle DeChanbeau James M. and Pearle A. Gale 31 Margaret Mary Giovanoni Joseph and Sara Cassiani

Number of births recorded, 46. Males, 21; females, 25. 28

MARRIAGES RECORDED IN THE TOWN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER IN THE YEAR 1931

Jan. 24. Edward W. Parker of Weymouth and Hattie E. Bates of West Bridgewater, at West Bridge- water by Rev. F. Burton Long. Mar. 25. Frank D. Lawler of Conway, N. H., and Arlene E. Wardwell of Conway, N. H., at West Bridgewater by Rev. Edmund A. Miller. 28. Fred T. Corkum of West Bridgewater and Grace M. Bailey of Easton, at Easton by Rev. Allan W. Caley. April. 18. Earl G. Walden of West Bridgewater and Hazel M. Lawrence of Brockton, at Brockton by David B. Matthews. June 20. Thomas C. Lynch of Brockton and Mary Sousa of West Bridgewater, at Bridgewater by Rev. James A. Brewin. July 3. Melvin G. Winberg of West Bridgewater and Christine C. Nichols of West Bridgewater, at Brockton by Rev. John D. Mowrey. 3. Channing W. Willis of Brockton and Viola E. Walden of West Bridgewater, at Randolph by Rev. Eugene S. Philbrook. 11. Charles L. Farnum of West Bridgewater and

Eleanor I. Wheeler of West Bridgewater, at East Bridgewater by Rev. Carl G. Horst. 18. Charles E. Leonard of West Bridgewater and Muriel F. Romaine of Brockton, at Brockton by Rev. Daniel Rider. 18. Julius A. Hayward of West Bridgewater and Marion C. Hunting of East Bridgewater, at East Bridgewater by Rev. Carl G. Horst. 29

25. George A. Bland of West Bridgewater and Julia M. Kelleher of Brockton, at Brockton by Rev. Jeremiah J. Minihan. Aug. 9. Roy E. Fihlman of Brockton and Marion F. Creighton of West Bridgewater, at Brock- ton by Rev. Peter Froeberg. 29. Francis A. Brown of West Bridgewater and Lydia M. Boucher of Bridgewater, at Bridgewater by Rev. James A. Brewin. Sept. 6. Charles F. Travers of West Bridgewater and Jo- sephine H. Trojano of Brockton, at Brock- ton by Rev. Jeremiah J. Minihan. 9. Norman L. Cogswell and Helen E. Green, both of West Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater by Rev. F. Burton Long. 12. John L. Joyce of Bridgewater and Blanche E. Norris of West Bridgewater, at Bridge- water by Rev. James A. Brewin. 13. Melvert H. Wood of Brockton and Gladys L. Cheney of West Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater by Rev. W. M. Parker. 16. Frederick E. Olson of Brockton and Alice M. Rice of West Bridgewater, at West Bridge- water by Rev. Peter Froeberg. 16. Robert K. Hazzard of East Bridgewater and Pearl E. Turner of West Bridgewater, at West Bridgewater by Rev. Warren Goddard. Oct. 4, George D. C. Cogswell of West Bridgewater and Esther Jefferson of Bridgewater, at Bridge- water by Rev. Herbert Boyd. 11. Clifford H. Carlson of West Bridgewater and

Mae I. Nelson of Brockton, at Brockton by Rev. Reben E. Nelson. 30

18. Frank Ferranti of West Bridgewater and Marie A. Dondero of West Bridgewater, at Bridge- water by Rev. James A. Brewin. 31. George N. A. Menoche of Taunton and Jose- phine Tursky of West Bridgewater, at Brockton by Rev. Ignatius E. Limont. Nov. 10. Oscar Sanford Johnson of West Bridgewater and Louise S. Ferranti of West Bridgewater, at Bridgewater by Rev. Garrett W. Scollard. 26. Carl W. Cederquist of West Bridgewater and Celia Gillard of Brockton, at Brockton by Rev. Peter Froeberg. 26. James E. Hurley of Brockton and Edna A. How- ard of West Bridgewater, at West Bridge- water by Rev. Daniel Rider. 26. Charles T. Rubeski of Bridgewater and Sophie E. Tursky of West Bridgewater, at Briclge- water by Rev. A. Brewin.

Dec. 5. Lester P. Slater of Providence, R. I. and Mary E. Noonan of West Bridgewater, at Brockton by J. Albert Sullivan. 14. George W. Peterson of West Bridgewater and Caroline B. North of Brockton, at Brockton by Rev. Edwin H. Gibson. 24. Kenneth H. Lewis of West Bridgewater and Doris M. Shaw of Brockton, at Brockton by i!cv. David B. Matthews. 24. Everett W. Lawson of Brockton and Lena E. Dannin of West Bridgewater, at Brockton by Rev. Axel Bergstedt. 31. Arthur C. Lord of Bridgewater and Doris M. Black of West Bridgewater, at Quincy by Rev. Robert W. Jones.

Number of Marriages 32. 31

DEATHS RECORDED IN THE TOWN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER IN THE YEAR 1931

Date Name Age Cause of Death January Y. M. D. 2 Benjamin F. Baker 71 6 18 Cerebral embolism 28 Frederick W. Lincoln 80 9 21 Cerebral Hemorrhage February 7 John G. Sears 79 1 — Angina Pectoris 9 Margaret A. Cross 87 — — Senectus 9 George H. Stone 79 2 5 Grippe and Bronchitis 22 Charles I. Paine 83 5 28 Gangrene left leg March 3 Thomas Dunn 82 — — Carcinoma of mediastrimum 22 Frederic E. Foye 54 5 17 Angina Pectoris April 2 Richard A. Brown 79 9 17 Chronic Endocarditis 10 Grace G. Phillips 36 7 2 General Peritonitis and Septicaemia 14 Cornelia H. Packard 81 5 21 Arterio sclerosis-Chronic Myocarditis 14 Charles H. Leonard 74 5 2 Heart Disease and Cornary Artery Disease May 13 Charlotte E. Scott 77 8 1 Cerebral Hemorrhage June 20 Annis Kerisza 47 5 Carcinoma of Uterus 20 James A. Brewster 49 3 4 Asphyxia by drowning 28 Eldon L. Aldrich 52 4 28 Acute Nephritis July 8 John E. Blake 55 2 15 Poisoning by Denatured Alcohol 21 Myron H. Belcher 61 11 23 Heart Disease and heat exhaustion August 6 Helen P. Gillespie 80 26 Carcinoma Cervix Uteri Metastasis to intestines 14 Helen L. Cameron 55 4 8 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 1

September 1 Rose V. Gray 70 — 16 Chronic Myocarditis 11 Frank P. Hatch 63 5 19 Cerebral Hemorrhage 18 Charles E. Brown 80 — — Hemiplegis 26 Annie Elliott 59 10 29 Cancer of Uterus October

1 16 Charles W. Berry 56 i j. 91 1 UUfcJI LUIO&IS Oi l/Iie ijUIlgcs 18 Stillborn November 10 Margaret M. Bumpus 66 5 7 Cerebral Hemorrhage December 10 Clara J. Ripley 87 6 21 Carcinoma of aesophagua 22 Louisa J. Howland 79 0 13 Bronchopneumonia

Deaths recorded in 1931, 29. Males, 16; Females 13.

EDWARD H. CROCKER, Town Clerk. 33

ABSTRACT FROM CHAPTER 46 OF THE GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS

Sec 3. Physicians and midwives shall, within forty- eight hours after the birth of every child in cases of which they were in charge, mail or deliver to the clerk or registrar of the city or town in which the birth occurred, a notice stating the date and place of the birth giving the street number if any, color and the family name. They shall within fifteen days after the birth, mail or deliver to the clerk or registrar of the city or town in which the birth occurred, a report of the birth, stating the date and place, the name, if any of the child, its sex and color, and the names, ages, places of birth, occupations and residences of the parents, giving the street number, if there be any, and the number of the ward in the city, the maiden name of the mother, if the full return is not made within forty- eight hours. The fee of the physician or midwife shall be twenty- five cents for each birth so reported. A physician or midwife who neglects to report each birth within forty-eight hours or fifteen days thereafter, shall for each offence forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars. Sec. 6. Parents, within FORTY DAYS after the birth of a child, and every householder within FORTY DAYS after a birth in his house, SHALL cause notice thereof to be given to the CLERK of the city* or town in which such child is born.

The facts required for record, as stated in section 3, shall, so far as known or obtainable, be included in every notice given under the provisions of this section. Sec. 8. A parent, or other person who, by section 6, 34 is required to give, or cause to be given, notice of a birth or death, who neglects to do so for TEN DAYS after the time limit therefor, shall forfeit not more than five dollars for each offence. Sec. 24. The Town Clerk shall furnish blanks for re- turns of births to parents, householders, physicians and midwives who apply therefor. Report of Assessors

LIST OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1931

Moderator $25.00 Selectmen 900.00 Town Accountant 725.00 Treasurer and Collector 1,700.00 Assessors 1,600.00 Other Finance Officers and Accounts 25.00 Town Clerk 650.00 Election and Registration 250.00 Law 75.00 Town Hall and Officers 2,500.00 Police, ($125.00 for Police Auto) 2,600.00 Dog Officer 30.00 Fire Department and Equipment 2,500.00 Hydrant rental 2,500.00 Sealer of Weights and Measures 125.00 Moth Extermination 2,600.00 Tree Warden 500.00 Board of Health 1,200.00 Inspection of Animals 100.00 Inspection of Slaughtering 300.00 Plymouth County Hospital (maintenance) 1,043.25 Highways 21,000.00 Snow Removal 1,500.00 Sidewalks ($750. for sidewalk on West Centre St.) 1,000.00 Street signs and Bridges 1,000.00 Street Lights (old) 3,775.00 ^

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$121,792.25 37 ASSESSMENT ON PROPERTY

Appropriations of the Annual Town Meeting $121,792.26 State Tax 3,450.00 State Audit 256.58 State Park and Reservation Tax 59.16 Special State Tax, Old Age Assistance 990.00 County Tax 7,616.12 Overlay (Current Year) 1,143.47

Total 135,307.59 Less estimated revenue from all sources including Corporation National Bank, Income and Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 38,263.17

Net amount raised by taxation on Polls and Property 97,044.42 Less Polls and Old Age Assistance Taxes 2,984.00

Amount raised on Property $94,060.42 Subsequent Poll and Old Age Assistance Taxes 18.00

Total amount of Property Taxes plus subsequent Poll and Old Age Assistance Taxes committed $94,078.42

TABLE OF AGGREGATES

Number of male polls assessed 997 Number of persons, partnerships and corporations assessed on property 1091 Value of assessed machinery $281,970.00 Value of assessed stock in trade $11,575.00 Value of assessed live stock $66,485.00 Value of other assessed tangible personal property $2,450.00 Value of assessed tangible personal estate $362,480.00 38

Value of assessed real estate $2,741,773.00 Total valuation of assessed estate $3,104,253.00 Tax on each poll $2.00

TAX FOR STATE COUNTY AND TOWN PURPOSES INCLUDING OVERLAYINGS

On Personal Estate $10,983.21 On Real Estate 83,077.22 On Polls 1,994.00

$96,054.43 Rate per thousand $30.30 Number of horses assessed 122 Number of cows assessed 644 Number of sheep assessed 22 Number of neat cattle other than cows assessed 95 Number of swine assessed 33 Number of dwelling houses assessed 829 Number of acres of land assessed 9,471 Number of fowl assessed 13,025

EXEMPTED PROPERTY

Trustees of the Howard Funds in West Bridgewater $99,360.00 Old Bridgewater Historical Society 15,500.00 Unitarian Society 11,000.00 Methodist Episcopal Society 5,600.00 Baptist Society 5,500.00 Sunset Avenue Congregational Society 2,850.00 Town Hall and lot 20,000.00 Public Library and contents 5,200.00 Fire Engine Building 2,000.00 39

School Property 60,350.00 Cemeteries 3,900.00

$231,260.00

MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAX

Number of Motor Vehicles Committed to Col- if* i lector on 1st Commitment, April 1, 1931 7bl Number of Motor Vehicles Committed to Col

lector on Sept. 1, 1931, 2nd Commitment 273 Number of Motor Vehicles Committed to Col i OA lector Dec. 31, lyol, 3rd Commitment 130

Total number of Motor Vehicles Assessed llo4

Valuation of 1st Commitment $165,550.00 Valuation of 2nd Commitment 73,510.00 Valuation of 3rd Commitment 37,800.00

Total Valuation $276,860.00

Tax on 1st Commitment $4,984.81 Tax on 2nd Commitment 1,600.91 Tax on 3rd Commitment 421.19

Total Tax $7,006.91

Rates per thousand $29.25 List of Tax Payers, 1931

LIST OF PERSONS PAYING REAL ESTATE, PER- SONAL, POLL AND OLD AGE ASSISTANCE TAXES FOR THE YEAR 1931

Alden, Bela H., 506 No. Elm $3.00 Alden, William 0., 616 No. Elm 103.75 Aldrich, Eldon L., 22 Emerson 3.00 Aldrich, Ira F., 22 Emerson 90.11 Alexander, Alexander G., 140 So. Elm 190.86 Alexander, Arom B., 140 So. Elm 3.00 Alger, Corelli, 329 Pleasant 190.89 Alger, Dorothy T., 90 Howard 99.99 Alger, Edith M., 217 No. Elm 262.85 Alger, Frank W., Eastondale 28.33 Alger, George W., Est., 329 Pleasant 14.85 Alger, Herbert W., 217 No. Elm 3.00 Alger, Joseph, Est., Brockton 3.79 Alger, Mason W., 90 Howard 55.42 Alger, Mary E., 170 No. Elm 84.84 Alger, Nathan Alonzo, So. Easton 137.56 Alger, Nathan J., Est., So. Easton 48.31 Alger, William H., 420 No. Elm 131.78 Allard, Walter E., and Nellie A., 14 Sinnott 74.24 Allen, Laura D., Brockton 34.09 Allen, Henry F., 71 Thayer Ave. 3.00 Allen, Gertrude T., 49 Walnut 118.17 Allen, Ida M. S., 71 Thayer Ave. 56.81 Allen, Oscar H., Brockton 15.15 Allen, Samuel H., 49 Walnut 5.42 Allin, Norman, et al, Brockton 3.03 Almquist, George O., et al, 149 Copeland 83.30 41

Alves, Joseph C, Taunton . 22.12 Amaral, Manuel, 47 Brooks Place 3.00 American Tel. and Tel. Co., Boston 30.91 Ames, George F., 322 Manley 67.39 Ames, George F., et al, 322 Manley 40.60 Ames, Margaret C., 203 South 65.90 Ames, William N., 507 Manley 72.39 Anderson, Aaron, 218 East 3.00 Anderson, Anders, 218 East 3.00 Anderson, August, 31 Vital Ave. 31.03 Anderson Bros., 218 East 422.08 Anderson, Carl, 16 Hillside Ave. 3.00 Anderson, Carl and Laura, 16 Hillside Ave. 69.69 Anderson, Carl H., 373 Matfield 158.28 Anderson, Carl W., 391 No. Elm 3.00 Anderson, Carl W., et al, 391 No. Elm 113.63 Anderson, Elmer L., 218 East 3.00 Anderson, Elizabeth, 201 Howard 235.58 Anderson, Gustaf A., 201 Howard 29.52 Anderson, Ida C, Dorchester, Mass. 11.36 Anderson, John R., 34 So. Elm 3.00 Anderson, Margaret F., 34 So. Elm 56.81 Anderson, Oscar W., Brockton .45 Anderson, Ralph W., 391 No. Elm 3.00 Anderson, Roy, Brockton .61 Anderson, Warren H., 373 Matfield 3.00 Anderson, Wesley A., 50 Belmont 3.00 Andre, Anthony, 20 Cross 3.00 Andre, John, 20 Cross .45 Andre, Joseph J., 499 W. Centre 3.00 Andre, Manuel, 20 Cross 5.27 Andre, Mary, 20 Cross 67.42 Andrews, Albert M., Thayer St. 4.55 Andrews, Cecil N., 109 Spring 8.30 Andrews, Cecil N., and Mildred W., 109 Spring 92.42 Andrews, Charles D., 84 Maolis Ave. 62.09 Andrews, David, 84 Maolis 3.00 Andrews, Edward T., 109 Spring 3.00 Andrews, Georgia A., Maolis Ave. 3.79 Andrews, Henry E., 75 Maolis Ave. 60.31 Arnone, James V., 40 Walnut 69.66 Arruda, Manuel, 17 Progressive Ave. 3.00 42

Arvidson, Albert E., 431 No. Elm 3.00 Arviclson, Charles, 143 Copeland 3.00 Arvidson, Charles T. and Hilden, 143 Copeland 46.97 Arvidson, Eldon C, 431 No. Elm 3.00 Arvidson, Elsie E., 431 No. Elm 108.32 Asack, A. Gabriel, et al, 397 W. Centre 245.43 Asack, Edward G., 15 Brooks Place 3.00 Asack, Fred Bolus, East St. 3.48 Asack, Fred Bolus, et al, East St. 37.88 Asack, Louis, 15 Brooks Place 3.00 Asack, Michael Bolus, Bolton Place 3.00 Asack, Michael J., 397 W. Centre 4.52 Atwood, Carlton L, 272 No. Elm 115.11 Austin, Minnie B., 516 No. Elm 106.05 Austin, Wilbur S., 516 No. Elm 3.00 Avery, Henry P. and Mary E., Manley 18.48

Backstrom, Axel, 22 Shaw Ave. 151.32 Backstrom, Eldon, 22 Shaw Ave. 3.00 Backstrom, Harry A., 25 Samuel Ave. 3.00 Bacon, Emma C. 15.91 Bailey, George T., 548 No. Elm 3.00 Bailey, Mary H., 548 No. Elm 109.84 Baker, Benjamin C, 209 W. Centre 76.48 Baker, Benjamin F., 500 E. Centre 3.00 Baker, Charles F., 500 E. Centre 90.11 Baker, Edward E., 28 No. Main 3.00 Baker, Frederick W., 136 Copeland 12.09 Baker, George E., 17 West 86.33 Baker, Henry E., 136 Copeland 3.00 Baker, Herbert F., Brockton 9.09 Balboni, Emelia, 206 Copeland 66.66 Balboni, Henrv, 29 Keenan 90.87 Balboni, Tony Medre, 206 Copeland 3.00 Ballsdon, William E., 522 Manley 125.72 Barclay, William, 35 Woods Rd. 48.30 Barker, Albert D., 32 Prospect 134.84 Barker, Albert F., 38 Prospect 595.82 Barker, John S., 39 Prospect 3.00 Barr, Sidney L., 600 No. Main 222.68 Barrett, Neal K, 242 East 3.00 Barrett, Sadie K, 242 East 149.99 43

Barros, Bernardo, 35 Progressive Ave. 3.00 Barros, Manuel S., 59 Brooks Place 119.66 Barrows, Charles E., 50 Maolis Ave. 3.00 Barrows, Jennie L., 127 Belmont 57.57 Barrows, Ralph, 510 W. Centre 64.69 Bartlett, Henry, 104 No. Elm 597.03 Bassett, William H., et al, Bridgewater 3.79 Bates, Hattie E., 312 No. Elm 142.41 Baxter, Walter I., 21 Commonwealth Ave. 93.24 Beaumont, Laura A., 312 East 121.20 Beer, Thomas A., 14 Columbus Ave. 21.97 Belcher, John F., 32 Sunset Ave. 3.00 Belcher, Myron H., 539 No. Elm 3.00 Belden, Leon H., 282 No. Elm 113.75 Beless, James A., 40 Ash 3.00 Beless, James A., and Margaret, 40 Ash 103.02 Beech, Harvey, Bridgewater .61 Belmore, Adlor O., 4 So. Main 263.58 Belmore, Octave, 229 Matneld 304.49 Belmore, Ovela, 237 Matneld 3.00 Bemis, Clayton A., 37 Ellis 119.66 Benjamin, Charles A., 21 Crescent 3.00 Bennett, George A., 81 Walnut 65.12 Bennett, Rufus C. 24.24 Benson, Otto, 7 Progressive Ave. 35.60 Bergeron, Antonio J., 220 Copeland 3.00 Bergeron, Exina, 220 Copeland 65.15 Bergeron, Wilfred V., 220 Copeland 3.00 Bergstrom, Eric, 690 No. Main 8.45 Bergstrom, P. Eric, et ux., 690 No. Main 46.36 Bernstein, Eric F., 22 Grant 74.21 Berry, Charles W., 43 Francis Ave. 57.54 Berthiaume, Albert, 60 No. Main 3.00 Biladeau, Calice, 161 Matneld 98.90 Biladeau, Leon J., 145 Matneld 69.66 Billington, Edward N., 361 Spring 3.00 Billington, Elizabeth L., 361 Spring 77.27 Bines, Mollie, 123 No. Elm 380.57 Bines, Saul, 123 No. Elm 3.00 Bisbee, Fred B., 19 Thayer Ave. 3.00 Bisbee, Fred E., 19 Thayer Ave. 3.00 Bisbee, Fred E. and Florence E., 19 Thayer Ave. 68.18 44

Bisemore, Joseph, 45 Woods Road 3.00 Bisemore, Joseph and Maria E., 45 Woods Road 13.64 Bisemore, Joseph H., 165 W. Centre 3.00 Bisemore, Joseph H., Jr., 165 W. Centre 7.55 Bisemore, Lucy E., 165 W. Centre 97.72 Bittencourt, Antone, 19 Progressive Ave. 24.51 Bittencourt, Antone M., 632 No. Elm 3.00 Bittencourt, Jose M., 632 No. Elm 90.11 Bittencourt, Maria S., No. Elm 7.58 Black, William C, 41 So. Main 3.00 Black, William L., 41 So. Main 3.00 Black, William L. and Annie M., 41 So. Main 57.57 Blake, John E., 343 West 3.00 Blanchard, Albert C, 76 So. Elm 3.00 Blanchard, Edith M. and Albert C. 76 So. Elm 181.80 Bliven, Charles S., 32 Walnut 3.00 Bliven, Charles S., et al, 32 Walnut 147.71 Bloomgreen, Fred T., 492 Spring 3.00 Bloomgreen, Ruth A. and Fred T., 492 Spring 86.36 Blood, Hortense S., 256 Matfield 46.97 Blood, Leon H., 256 Matfield 3.00 Bluis, Michael, 319 E. Centre 124.20 Bolinder, Warren, 17 Belmont 3.00 Bolles, Clara J., 210 No. Elm 145.59 Bolles, Orrin F., 210 No. Elm 3.00 Bolster, Harold G., 59 Sunset Ave. 3.00 Bolster, Harold G., et ux., 59 Sunset Ave. 100.75 Booth, George P., 420 Crescent 3.00 Booth, George P. and Hattie M., 420 Crescent 62.12 Borges, Lewis S., 63 Brooks PI. 3.00 Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co., Boston 238.31 Bosworth, Albert F., 264 Matfield 3.00 Bosworth, William F., 44 Walnut 3.00 Bosworth, William F. and Mildred E., 44 Walnut 78.02 Bourne, Edward L., 21 Spring 3.00 Bowers, Emma L., 453 E. Centre 88.63 Bowers, Harry S., 453 E. Centre 7.55 Brackett, Elizabeth M., 27 Vital 12.88 Bradford, Nathan W., 120 Bryant 139.50 Brady, Joseph L., 29 Sinnott 3.00 Brady, Joseph L. and Diana, 29 Sinnott 80.60 Brady, Mary A., Bridgewater 13.64 45

Braga, Antonio J., No. Elm 206.95 Braga, Joseph J., 572 No. Elm 5.27 Bragga, Alphonse M., 21 No. Main 3.00 Bragga, Manuel J., 21 No. Main 151.47 Bragga, Mary J., 21 No. Main 99.99 Bresciani, Orestes and Ernesta, E. Bridgewater 10.30 Briggs, Charles E., 448 Matfield 67.39 Briggs, Wyman H., 254 No. Elm 149.96 Brock, Norman L., 535 No. Elm 129.50 Brockton Gas Lt. Co., Brockton 1,523.79 Brockton Heel Co., Inc., Brockton 3.79 Brockton Real Estate Exchange Inc., Brockton 166.65 Broman, Carl E., 348 No. Elm 96.93 Broman, C. Marshall, 348 No. Elm 3.00 Brooks, Carlton H., 107 No. Main 3.00 Brooks, Charles E., Brockton 7.58 Brooks, Fred H., 19 Sunset Ave. 3.00 Brooks, Fred H., et al, 19 Sunset Ave. 69.69 Broughton, Evelyn L. 159.83 Brown, Aubrey C, 312 East 3.00 Brown, Charles H., 23 Walnut 66.03 Brown, Dexter E., 36 Brooks PL 3.00 Brown, Dexter E. and Hattie M., 36 Brooks PL 121.20 Brown, Edward J., 177 So. Main 82.54 Brown, Ellen M., 174 So. Main 73.48 Brown, Francis, 174 So. Main 3.00 Brown, Frank A., Laura A. and Elizabeth Lanigan, 600 Walnut 42.42 Brown, George J., 174 So. Main 3.00 Brown, James C, 174 So. Main 3.00 Brown, Lura, et al, 455 W. Centre 78.76 Brown, Walter W., 174 So. Main 3.00 Brown, William J., 154 Forest 3.00 Bruce, Malcolm L., 22 Union 3.00 Bruce, Malcolm L. and Hattie A., 22 Union 62.12 Bryant, Herbert E., 24 Charles 3.00 Bryant, Grace M., 24 Charles 95.45 Bryant, Waldo R., Brockton 16.67 Bulmer, Elmer, 20 Commonwealth 3.00 Bump, Albert M., 14 South 3.00 Bump, Albert M. and Helen M., 14 South 95.45 Bump, Julia A., 261 W. Centre 90.90 46

Bumpus, Alton P., 35 Sunset 3.00 Bumpus, Everett H., 246 Matfield 109.81 Burba, Titus J., 509 Spring 4.52 Burba, Titus J. and Stella, 509 Spring 55.30 Burgess, Edward E., 42 Sinnott 3.00 Burgess, Harriett G., Trustee 7.58 Burque, Frank P., 26 W. Centre 3.00 Burque, Josephine A., 26 W. Centre 81.81 Burrill, Joseph H., 458 Matfield 3.00 Burrill, Joseph H., and Anna E., 458 Matfield 87.87 Burroughs, Edgar J. C, 51 Beacon 43.90 Butler, Alton Webster, 202 No. Elm 3.00 Butler, A. Webster and Alma D., 202 No. Elm 140.90 Butler, Lawrence A., 202 No. Elm 3.00 Butts, John V., 466 W. Centre 165.86 Butts, Ward W., 466 W. Centre 3.00

Cabral, Manuel, 18 Grant St. 3.00 Cabrall, Jose M., 97 Brooks PI. 3.00 Cahoon, Bernard M., 467 W. Centre 3.00 Campello Co-op. Bank, Campello 145.44 Canton Inst, for Savings, Canton 263.61 Capen, Frank A., 445 Spring 92.84 Capen, Florence M., 445 Spring 9.09 Capolupo, Vito and Alexander and Lucia Ziuli 96 So. Elm 198.47 Capozzio, Orazio, 129 Turnpike 90.26 Carlson, Carl P., 153 Brooks PI. 149.66 Carlson, Clifford H., 87 Brooks PI. 3.00 Carlson, Hulda, 403 Spring 68.94 Carlson, Ivan P., 153 Brooks PI. 10.58 Carlson, John, 87 Brooks PI. 185.56 Carlson, John E., 308 Matfield 3.00 Carlson, Oscar N., 288 Crescent 72.39 Carnes, Thomas J., 92 No. Main 3.00 Carnes, Thomas J. and Elsie, 92 No. Main 87.11 Carrigan, Curtis W., 26 Cyr 57.99 Carson, William B., 55 Sunset Ave. 3.00 Carson, Pauline D. and William B., 55 Sunset Ave. 131.81 Carter, Bert L„ 32 Merritt 87.84 Carter, Leslie, 58 Sunset Ave. 3.00 Carter, Leslie C. and Delia S., 58 Sunset Ave. 68.18 47

Carter, Rowland A., 32 Merritt 3.00 Carty, Frederick T., 289 Crescent 3.00 Carty, Frederick T., and Bessie B., 289 Crescent 84.84 Cary, Fred W., Brockton 28.79 Cary, Martha F., Brockton 12.12 Cary, Martha, Brockton .76 Cashion, Patrick J., et al, 388 Ash 99.23 Cassiani, John, 125 Brooks PL 19.67 Cassiani, John, et al, 125 Brooks PL 106.81 Castel, Frank A., Brockton 15.91 Caswell, Merrill, 381 East 3.00 Cavacas, John D., 103 Brooks PL 3.00 Cedergren, August L., Brockton .76 Cederquist, Carl W., 322 Matfielcl 3.00 Chadwick, Alice E., 19 Ellis 156.05 Chadwick, Frank G., 57 Francis Ave. 3.00 Chadwick, Frank G., and Elizabeth, 57 Francis Ave. 81.20 Chadwick, Frank G., Jr., 57 Francis Ave. 3.00 Chadwick, Howard L., 19 Ellis Ave., 12.12 Chadwick, L. Forrest W., 19 Ellis Ave. 3.00 Chandler, Albert L., Carver 67.11 Chase, Murray E., 29 West 3.00 Chassey, Adelle, et al. 4.55 Chaves, Amos, 582 No. Elm 3.00 Chaves, Amos and Mary A., 582 No. Elm 43.94 Chaves, Anthony, 45 Progressive Ave. 3.00 Chaves, Antone S., 45 Progressive Ave. 3.00 Chaves, John S., 49 Roosevelt Ave. 3.00 Chaves, John, 565 No. Elm 145.59 Chaves, Joseph S., 103 Brooks PL 75.74 Chaves, Joseph S., Jr., 28 Sinnott 87.23 Chaves, Mary J., Progressive Ave. 10.61 Cheney, Clinton A., 40 Plain 75.72 Cheyunskis, Francis, 763 W. Centre 3.00 Cheyunskis, Frank J., 763 W. Centre 244.49 Chickering, Krikor B., 375 Lincoln 3.00 Chickering, Wallace R., 565 Manley 72.69 Chisholm, Fred G., 46 Sunset Ave. 3.00 Chisholm, Fred G. and Florence, 46 Sunset Ave. 98.48 Chisholm, George, Est., Central Sq. 151.50 Choate, Sarah J., Sunset Ave. 7.58 Chouinard, William P., 85 Crescent 3.00 48

Chuckian, Samuel D., 375 Ash 3.00 Churchill, Edith F., 382 Matfield 65.90 Churchill, Edward T., 382 Matfield 3.00 Churchill, Edwin H., 509 No. Elm 3.00 Churchill, Grace, 263 Spring 66.66 Churchill, Thomas B., 494 E. Centre 81.02 Churchill, Thomas H., 494 E. Centre 3.00 Churchill, William R., 37 Vital Ave. 3.00 City of Brockton 26.51 Clapp, Albert V., 250 Matfield 3.00 Clarke, Arthur E., 480 West 167.98 Clark, Aubrey J., 18 Central Sq. 3.00 Clark, Edmund F., 398 Spring 94.51 Clark, Everett L., 480 West 3.00 Clark, Helen C, 520 No. Elm 112.11 Clark, Herbert J., West 96.93 Clark, Howard E., 520 No. Elm 3.00 Clark, Sarah C, 480 West 300.88 Clough, Elsie R., 393 Spring 107.57 Clough, John B., 393 Spring 3.00 Clulow, Percy F. 36.36 Cobbett, Anson W., West 3.00 Codding, G. Amber, 486 W. Centre 60.60 Codding, Sarah B., 480 W. Centre 116.66 Cody, Mary F., 59 Maolis 68.18 Cody, R. Joseph, 59 Maolis 3.00 Cogan, Edward Jr., 514 W. Centre 54.51 Cogswell, George, 18 Emerson Ave. 3.00 Cogswell, Norman L., 40 Ash 3.00 Colberg, Albert H., 62 Union 6.18 Colberg, Albert H. and Sophie O., 62 Union 74.24 Cole, Arthur, 19 Sinnott 3.00 Cole, Austin C, 402 No. Elm 82.54 Cole, Bessie, 380 No. Elm 76.51 Cole, Leah F., 19 Sinnott 84.23 Cole, Rowland F., 380 No. Elm 5.12 Commercial Dept. House, Inc., Marion Ave. 210.59 Conant, Herbert, 486 W. Centre 3.00 Condon, Ida F., et al, 85 Crescent 181.19 Condon, Fred T., 85 Crescent 3.00 Conley, Maurice H., Brockton 42.42 Connelly, Lorenz and Gertrude L., 25 Sinnott 67.57 49

Connor, Walter B„ 37 Walnut 56.81 Cook, Albert B., 487 W. Centre 3.00 Cook, Peter, 487 W. Centre 3.00 Copeland, Abbie H., et al, 25 Samuel Ave. 354.36 Copeland, Frank E., 551 Walnut 3.00 Copeland, Fred H., 318 Spring 3.00 Copeland, Frank H. and Helen S., 318 Spring 100.75 Copeland, Lida W., et al 15.15 Copeland, Myrtle L. and M. E. Moore, 541 Walnut 134.23 Copeland, May Alice, et al, 541 Walnut 67.42 Corkum, Eric P., 478 West 3.00 Corkum, Harold C, 478 West 3.00 Correa, Gill, 163 Copeland 8.63 Correa, Gill and Nellie, 163 Copeland 66.66 Cordeiro, Manuel M., Bridgewater 9.09 Cotter, Margaret, 242 South 116.95 Couite, Jose A., 93 Copeland 159.05 Couite, Manuel, 93 Copeland 3.00 Coulter, E. Joseph, Brockton .76 Coulter, Joseph E. and Evelyn M. 36.36 Courtney, John J., 136 No. Main 3.00 Cox, Edward F., 279 Pleasant 3.00 Cox, George H., 279 Pleasant 3.00 Cox, Harry F., 279 Pleasant 114.65 Craig, Irving R., Allston 1.21 Creedon, John, et al, Brockton 1.82 Crocker, Edward H., 216 Howard 3.00 Crocker, H. Eugene, 47 Matfield 3.00 Cromback, Harry, 142 No. Main 3.00 Crosby, Williard, 96 No. Main 3.00 Cross, Margaret, Est., 210 South 137.11 Crossman, Mary C, Taunton 6.82 Crossman, Percy R., 428 Manley 3.00 Crowell, Francis A., 50 Union 84.84 Crowley, Daniel F., 409 Walnut 92.23 Crimmins, Paul N. and Mary G., Copeland 4.55 Cunningham, Arthur F., 261 Pleasant 72.69 Cunningham, Charles T., 266 Pleasant 68.15 Cunningham, Charles T., et al 343.91 Cunningham, Martin, Raynham 2.27 Cummings, John E., 455 W. Centre 3.00 Curtis, Helen C, 161 Howard 262.10 50

Curtis, William F., Jr., 161 Howard 245.40 Curtis, William F., 44 W. Centre 3.00 Cushman, Lizzie B., Portland, Maine 110.60 Cutting, Josiah C, 326 Matfield 3.00 Cutting, Josiah C, et al, 326 Matfield 59.84 Cymbor, Anastasia, 395 E. Centre 91.81 Cymbor, Julius, 395 E. Centre 10.58 Cyr, Alfred H., 21 Vital Ave. 3.00 Cyr, George E., Vital Ave. 137.08 Cyr, Henry A., Vital Ave. 16.67 Cyr, Vital, 23 Vital Ave. 20.88

Dahl, John, Eastondale • 4.55 Dailey, David, 215 W. Centre 109.81 Daley, Daniel F., 271 So. Main 89.36 Dalyrimple, Albert A., 263 Spring 3.00 Dambrosio, Tony, 2 Plain 3.00 Dambrosio, Antonio and Nicoline, 2 Plain 130.29 Darling, Jennie F. 103.78 Davenport, Alma H., 18 Brooks PL 68.18 Davenport, Henry O., 18 Brooks PL 3.00 Davenport, Alma H. and Henry O., 18 Brooks PL 184.83 Davio, Charley, 42 Matfield 3.00 Davio, Fred F., 42 Matfield 3.00 Davis, Clarence, 21 Cross 3.00 Davis, D. Elmer, et al, 63 Sunset 123.47 Davis, Ellen P., 384 No. Elm 124.23 Davis, George N., 384 No. Elm 3.00 Davis, Howard Haley, 21 Cross 1.52 Davis, Howard Haley and Phyllis C, 21 Cross 54.54 Davis, Yvonne R., 42 Matfield 59.09 Davison, George, 510 W. Centre 3.00 Davock, Bessie L., 524 No. Elm 115.90 Davock, Thomas F., 524 No. Elm 3.00 Davock, Thomas F., Jr., 524 No. Elm 3.00 Dayton, James Wv 137 East 3.00 Dean, David G., Raynham 2.12 Dean, Robert G., 266 Pleasant 6.79 Dean, Robert G. and Charles T., Cunningham 266 Pleasant 20.45 Dearing, Charles S., 25 West 3.00 Dearing, H. Herbert, 25 West 3.00 51

Dearing, Herbert R., 25 West 3.00 Dearing, Theodore H., 25 West 3.00 Dearing, William S., 25 West 3.00 Dechambeau, James M., 357 Matfield 68.90 Dechambeau, Morrison, 357 Matfield 3.00 DeMattos, Manuel, 13 Grant 68.90 DeMattos, Manuel, 77 Walnut 106.78 Denley, J. Clifton, 93 Prospect 37.85 Denley, Harold F., 73 Prospect 3.00 Derby, Alice M., 33 West 68,18 Derby, Henry M., 33 West 3.00 Der Kevorkian, Krickor, Jr., 166 Ash 60.90 Desquin, Paul and Louise, 255 No. Elm 136.35 Dewitt, Harris A., No. Easton 22.73 Dexter, Lena W., 93 West 63.63 Dickson, Oliver A., 674 W. Centre 3.00 Di Giano, Anthony J., 288 Matfield 3.00 Di Giano, Frank, 228 Matfield 3.00 Di Giano, Frank and Theresa M., 228 Matfield 81.81 Di Giano, Joseph, 223 Matfield 3.00 Dillenschneider, Jules M., 524 W. Centre 3.00 Dillenschneider, Jules M., et al, 524 W. Centre 68.18 Dodge, Walter C, 61 Howard 3.00 Dolbec, Jules, 354 Pleasant 24.82 Dolbec, Jules and Alva, 354 Pleasant 109.84 Donahue, Hannah, Heirs or Devisees, Easton 3.33 Donahue, Thomas F., Whitman 5.60 Dorr, Harry L., 445 W. Centre 3.00 Dos, Santos Antonio, 445 W. Centre 75.75 Dotin, Edward A., 530 Manley 3.00 Dow, Howard M., 28 Union 79.96 Dow, Stuart, 28 Union 3.00 Downes, John, 39 Copelancl 3.00 Drislane, Dennis E., 457 So. Main 3.00 Drislane, Garrett, 457 So. Main 3.00 Dufault, Frank J. M., 547 Manley 3.00 Dufault, Theodore, 547 Manley 3.00 Dufault, Theodore, et ux., 547 Manley 96.20 Dunbar, Eddy P., 263 River 311.30 Dunbar, Hattie A., Brockton 7.51 Dunbar, Walter C, 26 Ellis 156.02 Dunham, Arthur E., 486 No. Elm 119.66 52

Dunham, Clifford S., 56 Charles 58.30 Dunham, Hervey, 216 Howard 6.33 Dunham, Hervey, et al, 216 Howard 237.86 Dunn, Bridget, 437 So. Main 86.36 Dunn, John W., 437 So. Main 3.00 Dupuis, Framus, 264 Matfield 6.03 Dupuis, Framus, et al, 264 Matfield 96.96 Dupuis, George S., 9 Vital Ave. 3.00 Dupuis, George S. and Malvina S., 9 Vital Ave. 84.84 Duxbury, Raymond, 272 Matfield 3.00

Eagan, Ermon W., 225 So. Main 3.00 Eagan, Ernest W., 225 So. Main 3.00 Eagan, Nellie A., 225 So. Main 71.21 Earl, George A., 268 No. Elm 3.00 Earl, Lillian J., 268 No. Elm 124.23 Easton Land Co., No. Easton 144.53 East Bridgewater Co-op. Bank, E. Bridgewater 77.42 Eaton, Alton S., 141 Crescent 3.00 Eaton, Elizabeth M., 141 Crescent 61.36 Eaton, Aubrey, 175 Lincoln 3.00 Eastern Mass. St. Railway Co., Boston 249.22 Eckstrom, Walter C, 223 River 3.00 Edison Elec. 111. Co., Brockton 2,862.80 Ebberson, Emma, 166 South St. 148.47 Edlands, Carl F., 495 E. Centre 3.00 Edmonston, Harriet M., 20 West 48.48 Edmonston, Leon J., 20 West 3.00 Edson, J. Bradford, 216 No. Elm 167.84 Edson, Leon D., No. Elm 3.00 Edson, Mabel A., 288 No. Elm 45.45 Eldridge, Adolphus, 205 W. Centre 109.05 Eldridge, Adolphus and Alice C, 205 W. Centre 86.36 Ellis, Abner, 188 So. Main 3.00 Ellis, Abner, et ux., 188 So. Main 87.11 Ellis, Albert, 308 River 3.00 Ellis, Ellsworth P., 37 Hillside Ave. 3.00 Ellis, Ellsworth P. and Ruth C, 37 Hillside Ave. 71.21 Ely, Horace L., 520 W. Centre 3.00 Emerson, George W., 10 Brooks PI. 3.00 Emerson, Idella C, 10 Brooks PI. 120.44 Emery, Charles, 85 Walnut 90.87 53

Engstrom, Martin D., 15 Highland 3.00 Enos, Frank, 117 Forest 247.49 Enos, Frank D., 117 Forest 3.00 Ensher, Charles, 175 Lincoln 3.00 Ensher, Edward J., 175 Lincoln 3,00 Ensher, Hosef E., 175 Lincoln 18.15 Ensher, Napoleon J., 175 Lincoln 3.00 Ensher, Napoleon J., Edward J. and Charles, 175 Lincoln 390.11 Erickson, Carl H., 67 Ash 3.00 Erickson, Carl J., 332 Matfield 4.67 Erickson, Edward A., 161 Ash 81.78 Erickson, John, 332 Matfield 77.27 Erskine, Frank G., 8 Arch 3.00 Evanoff, Stephen, 110 Stony Rd. 15.12 Evrard, Ernest M., 43 West 3.00 Evrard, Hattie R., 43 West 74.24 Everson, Wilmot J., Brant Rock 2.27

Fabrizio, Lewis, 321 Crescent 18.91 Fallon, John J., 76 Columbus Ave. 3.00 Fallon, Martin, 76 Columbus Ave. 3.00 Fallon, Michael, 76 Columbus Ave. 3.00 Fallon, Michael and Ellen J., 76 Columbus Ave. 47.87 Falzaiano, Gladys and Giusippi, 92 Union 137.87 Falzarano, Joe, 92 Union 3.00 Fantom, Charles W., 16 Francis Ave. 4.52 Fantom, Ida E., 16 Francis Ave. 74.99 Farnham, Almond F., 540 No. Elm 112.84 Farnum, Lyle J., 113 Howard 3.00 Farrar, Brooks, So. Easton 28.79 Farrar, Donald S., 108 Belmont 3.00 Farrar, Marshall, 108 Belmont 200.71 Fay, Francis J., 30 Crescent 6.79 Fay, William E., 30 Crescent 3.00 Fay, William E., et al, 30 Crescent 21.21 Filker, Albert B., Carmel, Me. 7.58 Ferranti, Albert L., 550 No. Main 3.00 Ferranti, Allie L., 550 No. Main 49.81 Ferranti, Frank, 550 No. Main 77.99 Ferranti, Louise and Nellie M., 550 No. Main 139.38 Ferranti, Ralph J., 550 No. Main 3.00 54

Ferrini, Bernard, 103 Copeland 82.08 Ferrini, Gemma, Plain 6.42 Field, Fred F., et al, Brockton 65.90 Finch, Albion H., 55 No. Elm 3.76 Finch, James C, 343 West 3.00 Fish, Herbert C, 13 Merritt 3.00 Fish, Ralph W., 373 No. Elm 3.00 Fish, Ralph W. and Alice C, 373 No. Elm 113.63 Fisher, Helen M., 120 S. Main 105.44 Fitzpatrick, William D., 194 Forest 3.00 Fitzpatrick, William D. and Mary K., 194 Forest 58.33 Fitzpatrick, T. Joseph, 151 So. Elm 34.09 Flagg, Lorraine A., E. Bridgewater 2.27 Flynt, Wm. E. and Delia B., 415 No. Elm 165.14 Fongeallez, Ernest A., 595 W. Centre 3.00 Fongeallez, William H., 257 So. Elm 3.00 Forbes, Durham W., No. Easton .61 Forbes, Ralph D., 8 South 75.72 Ford, Mary, 74 Matfield 28.03 Fowler, William J., 294 Manley 48.45 Foye, Allan B., 381 East 3.00 Foye, Frederick E. and Annie R., 381 East 69.69 Foye, Wilbur G. 103.78 Frahar, Michael, 413 East 3.00 Fraitis, Antoine, 153 Bryant 69.20 Fraitis, Arthur, 22 Keenan 11.18 Fratas, Joseph, 307 River 4.82 Fratas, Mary C., 22 Keenan 55.30 Freeman, Dorothy M., 419 Spring 116.66 Freeman, Stanley L., 419 Spring 3.00 Frellick, Arthur L., 255 East 138.14 Frellick, Ralph S., 294 East 118.14

Gaffney, Royal A., 16 Cyr 62.84 Gambao, Armando M., 620 No. Elm 20.42 Gambao, Armando M. and Clara, 620 No. Elm 116.86 Gammons, S. Clinton, 326 Spring 106.78 Gardner, Bruce, 482 No.Elm 3.00 Gardner, Chester P., 236 Matfield 3.30 Gardner, Dorothv G., Campello 2.27 Gardner, George E., 448 W. Centre 3.00 Gardner, Charles E., 448 W. Centre 3.00 55

Gardner, Inez C, 236 Matfield 75.29 Gardner, Lulu B., 448 W. Centre 87.87 Gary, William J., 47 Brooks PL 3.00 Gaskell, Arthur, 9 No. Main 3.00 Gaskell, George W., 9 No. Main 3.00 Gates, Gilbert L. and Myrtle F., 152 Walnut 73.63 Gay, Newell O., 85 Bedford 63.29 Gibbs, Frederic E., et al, 381 No. Elm 78.78 Gibbs, Thomas R. P., Belmont, Mass. 3.03 Gibson, Nettie E., 22 River 140.14 Gibson, William E., 22 River 24.66 Gillette, Halleck L. and Alma W., 506 W. Centre 108.47 Gillespie, Helen P., 3 Prospect 207.56 Gillespie, Olive, 15 Prospect 149.23 Gillespie, Wilfred S. and Nahum P., Tr., Prospect 9.70 Giovanni, Joseph, Glenmere 54.51 Glass, Marion S., 384 E. Centre 102.11 Gloves, Joseph, E. Cambridge 1.52 Godfrey, Calvin E., 107 No. Main 6.06 Godfrey, Jessie W., 107 No. Main 6.06 Godwin, Merritt A., Brockton 7.58 Goodwin, Robert H., 1 Prog Ave. 54.81 Goodwin, Albert, 96 So. Elm 3.00 Goldie, Geo. W., 368 No. Elm 3.00 Golder, Evan R., 29 Maolis Ave. 159.05 Golder, Lester J., 29 Maolis Ave. 3.00 Gonsalves, John D., 26 Cross 3.00 Gonsalves, John D. and Mary A., 26 Cross 147.71 Gorman, William J., et al, 276 Main, Bridgewater 11.36 Green, Daniel W., 199 Ash 58.15 Green, Harry D., 199 Ash 3.00 Greenkericz, Thomas, 279 E. Centre 51.79 Grenville, Percival F., 395 Spring 3.00 Groeger, George P., 648 W. Centre 5.27 Groeger, George P. and Clara C, 648 W. Centre 128.02 Guinea, Thomas F., 535 W. Centre 3.61 Guinea, Thomas F., et ux., 535 W. Centre 102.26 Guinea, Thomas, 535 W. Centre 3.00 Guimares, Domingos, 17 Progressive Ave. 60.57 Gummow, Earl R., 75 Bryant St. 120.56 Gummow, William H. 75 Bryant 36.03 Gummow, J. Robert, 94 No. Main 3.00 56

Gummar, Carl, 481 Spring 3.00 Gurney, Jennie M., 156 Bryant 48.63 Gurney, Louise, et al, Brookline 1.21

Hackinson, Rudolph, 273 Crescent 64.96 Hackett, Annie G., 32 Sunset 118.93 Hagglund, Arvid, 18 Emerson Ave. 3.00 Hagglund, Gladys D., 18 Emerson Ave. 84.08 Halgren, F. Albert, 406 No. Elm 77.27 Hall, Clifford, No. Raynham 7.27 Hall, Harold P., 23 Vital Ave. 3.00 Hall, Hattie A. 12.12 Hall, Laura Mae, 23 Vital 169.68 Hambly, Elbert A., 16 Commonwealth 3.00 Hambly, Elbert A. and Fannie G., 16 Commonwealth 68.18 Hambly, Fred E., 20 Kenneth 3.00 Hambly, F. Eldon and Edith L., 20 Kenneth 59.09 Hambly, Leroy W., 16 Commonwealth 3.00 Hambly, N. Winnifred, 55 No. Elm 134.89 Hambley, Ruth H., et al, 55 Prospect 79.54 Hambley, William A., 55 Prospect 6.30 Handy, Fred L., 16 Francis Ave. 3.00 Handy, Frederic L. and Augusta D., 16 Francis Ave. 81.81 Hanscom, B. Frank, 140 So. Main 84.05 Hanson, Charles E., Easton 13.64 Hardenbrook, Alberta A., 135 No. Elm 128.02 Hardenbrook, Kenneth L., 135 No. Elm 3.00 Harkins, Daniel T., 15 Walnut 3.00 Harkins, Dorris E., 15 Walnut 98.48 Harlow, Annie C, 34 South 115.14 Harlow, Elmer G., 10 Cross 3.00 Harlow, William J., 34 South 3.00 Harriman, Charles E., 351 No. Elm 3.00 Harriman, Charles E., et ux., 351 No. Elm 101.51 Harrington, Harriet A., 20 Charles 97.72 Harris, Lynn, 80 Howard 3.00 Hartwell, Etta L., 445 Manley 131.05 Hasey, Helen P., 18 Ellis 95.45 Haskins, Geo. L., 271 No. Main 9.06 Haskins, James O., 272 Matfield 3.00 Haskins, Malcolm, 481 Manley 3.00 Haskins, Malcolm H. and Zilpha L., 481 Manley 81.20 57

Hatch, Frank P., 17 W. Centre 3.00 Hatch, Frank P. and Marcia E., 17 W. Centre 105.29 Hathaway, Charles M., 449 Spring 3.00 Hathaway, Emily L., 449 Spring 48.78 Hawes, Albert O., 487 W. Centre 3.00 Hawes, John T., Boston 37.88 Hayden, Alfred A., 75 Pleasant 3.00 Hayden, Everett A., 65 Pleasant 3.00 Hayden, Louis P., 355 No. Elm 3.00 Hayden, May A., 355 No. Elm 88.63 Hayden, Minnie E., 66 Pleasant 37.42 Hayes, Arthur M., 46 River St. 3.00 Hayes, John H., 393 Ash 3.00 Hayes, John T., 393 Ash 3.00 Hayes, M. Esther, Bridgewater 31.06 Hayes, Martha M., Roslindale 75.75 Hayward, Chester L., 330 Spring 3.30 Hayward, Effie W., 330 Spring 82.57 Hayward, Elton T. and Bessie F., Manley 31.06 Hayward, Harry A., 399 Manley 3.00 Hayward, John L., 151 E. Centre 177.38 Hayward, Grace M. and John L., 151 E. Centre 176.65 Hayward, John P., Fitchburg 10.15 Hayward, Julius A., 151 E. Centre 6.03 Hayward, William P., Est., Portland, Me. 2.42 Healey, Ernest L., 356 No. Elm 3.00 Healey, Ernest L., et al, 356 No. Elm 93.93 Heath, Clyde W., 455 No. Elm 3.00 Hebert, Joseph, 269 Matfield 3.00 Height, Harold, 512 Spring 3.00 Height, Wiswell S. and Harold W., 512 Spring 49.24 Helgeson, Elmer, 154 No. Main 3.00 Hemenway, James A., 35 Plain 145.11 Hemenway, J. Russell, 48 Plain 3.00 Hennesy, Thomas, 457 East 3.00 Hetherston, Andrew F., 37 Howard 3.00 Hetherington, Samuel B., 140 No. Main 3.00 Hewett, Frank C, 373 Spring 3.00 Higginson, Wm. H., Est. 2.73 Hill, Everett O., 601 East 6.79 Hill, Everett O. and Edith E., 601 East 78.78 Hilman, Kiva, 61 Commonwealth 107.84 55

Hitchings. Eddv D.. 22 Sinnott 33.30 Holbrook. Encora. 37 High 13.03 Holbrook. James R.. 34 High 53.90 Holbrook. Robert M.. 90 Maolis Ave. 54.51 Hollertz. Annie V.. 216 Matneld 95.45 Hollertz. George V., 216 Matneld 4.21 Holman, Olin S.. 72 Maolis 77.2, Holmberg. Inez E. and Fred W.. 493 W. Centre 50.90 Holmberg. Fred W.. 493 \Y. Centre 3.00 Holmes. Albert J.. 259 Spring 3.00 Holmes. Albion M.. 312 So. Elm 215.1" Holmes. Annette. T.. 173 W. Centre 7". 45 Holmes. Floyd W.. 312 So. Elm 3.00 Holmes. George H.. Est., 88 No. Main 12S.7S Holmes. Herbert A.. 312 So. Elm 18.15 Holmes. Herbert. Est.. 45 Forest 100.75 Holmes, Oustis V., 46 No. Main 3.00 Holvoke. George A.. 39 High 20.42 Holyoke. George A.. Jr.. 39 High 3.00 Holvoke. Olin D.. Lincoln 3.00 Hopkins. Charles E.. 413 Crescent 3.00 Hopkins. Lizzie. 19 Ash 71.96 Horrigan. John J., 30 Maolis 3.00 Horrigan. Nettie A.. 28 Maolis 142.41 Horton. Elisha L.. 160 Matneld 88.60 Horton. Harold M.. 103 Crescent 90.87 Howard. Albert A.. 201 Howard Howard. Albert, et al. 201 Howard 54. Howard. Alfred E.. 157 Spring 3.00 Howard. Catherine M.. 35 Prospect 343.15 Howard. Charles E.. 35 Prospect 3.0" Howard. Clarence, et al. Brockton 3.33 Howard. Edith F.. 187 Howard 399.20 Howard. Edith S.. 157 Spring 141.35 Howard. Elmer E.. 161 Scotland 271.76 Howard. Henrv M.. 113 Howard 7.09 Howard. Henry M.. Tr.. 113 Howard 242.55 Howard. John E.. Howard 49.25 Howard. Joseph C. Est.. 113 Howard .76 Howard, Ralph E.. 157 Spring 3.0" Howe. Ernest A.. 321 Crescent 3.00 Howe. Fred G.. 46 Charles 3.00 59

Howe, Frederick G., 46 Charles 64.36 Howland, Frank L., 320 East 93.90 Howland, Harold H., 320 East 3.00 Hudson, Albert H., 668 W. Centre 3.00 Hunt, Alton E., E. Bridgewater 1.21 Hunt, Charles H., 63 Maolis 3.00 Hunt, Elmer W., 36 Charles 54.51 Hunt, Frank E., 148 No. Main 82.63 Hunt, Minnie L., 63 Maolis 68.18 Hunter, Howard L., 386 Matfield 63.60 Hunter, Warren G., 386 Matfield 3.00 Hyatt, William A., 42 South 3.00

Irving, James H., 28 No. Main 95.42 Irwin, Katherine D., 369 E. Centre 135.59 Irwin, William S., 369 E. Centre 3.00 Isabel, Samuel, 441 E. Centre 83.30

Jackson, Helen L., 506 Spring 95.45 Jackson, Stanley F., 506 Spring 3.00 Jaynes, John, 35 Woods Road 3.00 Jenkins, Effie A., 438 W. Centre 80.30 Johnson, Adolph, 530 Manley 3.00 Johnson, Arthur D., 20 Cyr 3.00 Johnson, Carl A., 388 Manley 79.51 Johnson, Carl E., 20 Sinnott 90.11 Johnson, Charles A., 392 Pleasant 5.42 Johnson, Charles A., et al, 392 Pleasant 127.71 Johnson, Charles A., 255 No. Elm 3.00 Johnson, Charles A., 85 Crescent 3.00 Johnson, Ellen M., 54 Sunset 102.26 Johnson, Fred W., 381 Spring 3.00 Johnson, Freclolph W. and Mildred M., 381 Spring 68.18 Johnson, Herbert C, 21 Crescent 3.00 Johnson, Hokan F., Easton 4.55 Johnson, Howard P., 190 W. Centre 3.00 Johnson, John H., 115 Crescent 54.05 Johnson, John P., Brockton 11.36 Johnson, Joseph T., 142 Turnpike 38.75 Johnson, Lucy A. and Jennie L. Ripley, 495 E. Centre 99.23 Johnson, Lucy M., 190 W. Centre 50.00 Johnson, Martin W., 142 Turnpike 3.00 60

Johnson, Mary A., 21 Crescent 99.23 Johnson, Oscar S., 210 Copeland 77.24 Johnson, Samuel C, 221 W. Centre 13.61 Johnson, Samuel C. and Esther E., 221 W. Centre 134.23 Jones, Charles H., 74 Matfield 3.00 Jones, Frank H., 22 High 3.00 Jones, Frank H. and Emma Louise, 22 High 67.57 Jones, Lloyd, 44 Walnut 3.00 Jones, Marcus E., 80 Matfield 15.12

Kahl, David G., 534 W. Centre 154.99 Kakas, William F., 612 W. Centre 297.82 Katwick, John J., 173 W. Centre 63.60 Keav, Arthur E., 369 E. Centre 3.00 Keav, Frank H., 20 Hillside Ave., 3.00 Keay, Frank H. and Elizabeth M., 20 Hillside Ave. 72.72 Keeler, Everett, 475 W. Centre 3.00 Keeler, Everett W. and Samuel C, 475 W. Centre 76.51 Keenan, Grace G., 457 So. Main 78.76 Keith, Albion T., 16 Commonwealth 3.00 Keith, Harold C, Campello 30.30 Keith, Horace A, Campello 10.61 Keith, James C, Campello 65.05 Keith, James C. and Orvis F. Kinney, Campello 24.24 Keith, Lulie H., Campello 1.52 Keith, Mary J., 10 Cross 56.21 Keith, Phyllis L., 26 Prospect 94.69 Keith, Ravmond C, 10 Cross 3.00 Keith, Robert D., 26 Prospect 3.00 Keith, Rov F., 72 Maolis Ave. 3.00 Keith, Sumner D., 2nd, 405 Crescent 3.00 Kent, John J., 167 So. Main 93.93 Kent, John J., Jr., 167 So. Main 3.00 Kent, John J., Sr., 167 So. Main 3.00 Kent, John J., et al, 167 So. Main 30.30 Kelsea, John B., Boston 16.06 Keriza, John, 475 Spring 118.14 Keir, William N., 10 Belmont 3.00 Kev, Walter K., 23 Commonwealth 4.06 Kimball, Llovd C, 38 Sunset Ave. 102.99 King, Annie L., 52 Charles 62.12 King, George T., Scotland St., 3.30 61

King, George T. and Mattie E., Scotland St. 42.12 King, Mary L. and Orrin A., 178 So. Main 67.11 King, Orrin A., 178 So. Main 3.00 Kihoe, James A., 137 W. Centre 3.00 Kingsbury, Luther C, 39 Walnut 6.03 Kingsbury, Lida, 39 Walnut 103.02 Kinney, Charles E., 509 No. Main 172.68 Kinney, Charles E., Orvis F. and Sarah L., 509 No. Main 128.02 Kinney, Clarence H., 35 E. Centre 3.00 Kinney, James C, 448 No. Elm 3.00 Kinney, Orvis F., 448 No. Elm 302.22 Kinney, Sarah L., 509 No. Elm 163.62 Kirbv, John B., 1 W. Centre 48.45 Kirbv, Owen J., 26 Commonwealth 62.84 Kirvockian, Krikor De., 166 Ash 3.00 Kizirian, Nahabed, 375 Lincoln 83.30 Knight, Harry R., 556 No. Elm 3.00 Knight, Harry R. and Marie B., 556 No. Elm 106.05 Kugis, Beatrice, 216 West 50.00 Kugis, John W., 216 West 18.15 Kyhn, Emil, 107 Matfield 82.23 Kyhn, Jean C, 107 Matfield 3.00

Lallis, Antone, 737 W. Centre 24.21 Lallis, Antone and Stacia, 737 W. Centre 103.02 Lang, Joseph, Brockton 4.55 Lapthom, Robert B., Bridgewater 15.15 Larson, Daniel M., 34 Commonwealth 3.00 Laughton, Mary E., 110 No. Main 87.11 Laughton, Warren P., 110 No. Main 3.00 Lavall, H. J., Spring St., 2.12 Lawrence, Joseph F., 35 Progressive Ave. 3.00 Lawson, Alfred, 401 Pleasant 11.33 Lawson, Alfred, et al, 401 Pleasant 146.96 Lawson, Alfred and Charles A. Johnson, 401 Pleasant 3.79 Lawson, Erma F., 37 Vital 36.66 Lawson, Theodore A., Brockton 7.58 Lays, James E., 612 No. Elm 3.00 Leach, Allen, 25 Sinnott 3.00 Leach, Ira A., 61 Plain 3.00 Leach, Lila W., 292 No. Elm 112.11 62

Leach, Wilfred R., 292 No. Elm 3.00 Leavitt, Daisy A. and Harry G., 547 No. Elm 111.35 Leavitt, Harry G., 547 No. Elm 3.00 Leavitt, Winfield C., 70 No. Main 3.00 Leavitt, Winfield C. and Ethelyn, 70 No. Main 74.99 LeBaron, Minnie K. 5.45 Leckstrom, Jenney F., 403 East 53.78 Leckstrom, John F., 403 East 3.00 Le Lacheur, Ellis S., 45 So. Main 323.42 Le Mothe, Alfred, Brockton .91 Leonard, Charles E., 11 Willow 3.00 Leonard, Charles E., Est., 11 Willow 312.09 Leonard, Charles H., 9 So. Main 1.52 Leonard, Charles H. and Anna E., 9 So. Main 115.90 Leonard, J. Herbert, Tr., Bridgewater 28.03 Leonard, Sybilla, 11 Willow 59.99 Levi, Charles F., 870 W. Centre 103.14 Levi, Charles N., 870 W. Centre 3.00 Levi, Susan, Est. .91 Lewis, Augusta, 265 So. Main 136.35 Lewis, Charles P., 263 So. Main 6.03 Lewis, Irving A., 39 Brooks PL 90.11 Lewis, Irving R., 39 Brooks PI. 3.00 Lewis, Kenneth H., 39 Brooks PI. 3.00 Lewis, Kenneth O., 263 So. Main 3.00 Liberty Club, 45 Sinnott 34.85 Lincoln, Frederick W., 390 Matfield 53.03 niLcoln, Lewis A., 20 Plain 3.00 Lindgren, Bertha E., 352 No. Elm 116.66 Lindgren, Ernest S., 352 No. Elm 3.00 Lindgren, Leslie, 354 No. Elm 3.00 Lindskog, Olaf, S. Bridgewater 6.36 Lothrop, Daniel J., 33 River 98.90 Lothrop, Ervin W., 11 Central Sq. 3.00 Lothrop, Helen H., 11 Central Sq. 110.60 Lothrop, Herbert A., 10 Charles 87.08 Lovering, H. V., 23 Plain 3.00 Lovering, Wm. B., 23 Plain 3.00 Luce, Arvin A. 3.79 Luciano, Michael, 327 So. Main 3.00 Luciano, Roffailo, 327 So. Main 71.18 Lucini, Albert, 357 So. Main 48.91 63

Lucldy, Charles B., 10 Willow 3.00 Luddy, Francis J., 39 Bedford 3.00 Luddy, John A., E. Bridgewater 2.27 Luddy, Thomas, 39 Bedford 61.33 Luddy, Thomas, et al, 39 Bedford 15.15 Leary, Clement, Brockton .91 Loveday, Edward, Brockton .61 Lukas, Anthony, 216 West 3.00 Lupien, Leo C, 108 Bedford 49.97 Lutted, Helen J., Brockton 189.68 Luz, Manuel, 18 Grant 80.27 Lyon, Algernon S., 221 No. Main 65.87 Lyon, Algernon S. and Harold S., 221 No. Main 150.74 Lyon, Arthur C, 463 Walnut 65.12 Lyon, Harold S., 221 No. Main 245.40 Lyon, Harold S. and Harold S., Tr., 221 No. Main 66.05 Lyon, Harlod S. Guardian for C. Richards, 221 No. Main 150.74 Lundman, John, 75 Bryant 3.00

Mac Currach, George A., 287 Matfield 3.00 Mac Currach, Geo. A. and Florence M., 289 Matfield 57.57 Mac Donald, Donald G., 270 So. Elm 101.63 Mac Donald, John H., 279 Pleasant 3.00 Mac Donald, Robert, 270 So. Elm 3.00 Mac Donald, Robert and Laura, 257 So. Elm 87.11 Mac Eachron, Edward I., 19 High 3.00 Mac Eachron, Edward I. and Bessie B., 19 High 57.57 Machin, Joseph, 153 Prospect 197.68 Mac Lean, Donald E., 563 No. Elm 3.00 Mac Lean, William J., 563 No. Elm 3.00 Mac Lean, William J. and Vida F., 563 No. Elm 102.26 Mac Leod, Alice M., 3 Pleasant 96.96 Mac Leod, Wycliffe S., 3 Pleasant 8.30 Macomber, William H., 102 W. Centre 3.00 Mac Pherson, Samuel A., 25 Highland 3.00 Mac Tighe, Charles R., 86 Matfield 3.00 Mac Tighe, Charles R. and Flora E., 86 Matfield 56.06 Madan, Lorenzo J., 104 Turnpike 3.00 Madan, Ethel M., 104 Turnpike 44.84 Madden, Catherine A., 92 Bedford 34.85 Madden, John W., 92 Bedford 3.00 64

Maglathlin, Clara, 16 Howard 190.89 Mahoney, Francis A., 161 Howard 3.00 Mahoney, John J., 32 Cyr 3.76 Mahoney, John J. and Catherine, 32 Cyr. 75.90 Major, Wilfred H., 34 No. Main 3.00 Manley, Albert, 445 Manley 582.85 Marble, Maud F., 196 W. Centre 103.02 Marble, Willard F., 196 W. Centre 3.00 Martin, John A., 192 So. Main 21.18 Martin, John A. and Margaret E., 192 So. Main 96.96 Martin, Joseph L., 35 Columbus Ave. 3.00 Martin, Manuel L., 35 Columbus Ave. 3.00 Martin, Mariano L., 35 Columbus Ave. 67.24 Martelli, Victor, 625 East 3.00 Martineau, Edith M., 506 Matfielcl 23.48 Martineau, Theodore, Matfield 3.00 Mason, Martha B., 69 So. Elm 90.44 Mason, Ralph, Roosevelt Ave. 3.00 Matson, Ruben W., 530 Manley 37.09 Matson, Ruben and Adolph Johnson, 530 Manley 345.27 Mattson, Reinhold, 578 No. Elm 3.00 Mattson, Reinhold and Beatrice E., 578 No. Elm 84.84 May, George W., 440 No. Elm 132.53 May, William R., 440 No. Elm 3.00 Mazza, Frank, 41 Sinnott 3.00 Mazza, Salvador, 41 Sinnott 77.39 McCarty, Jerry J., 10 Beacon 159.81 Mc Cormick, Edward B., 160 So. Main 83.30 Mc Cormick, Frank, 160 So. Main 3.00 Mc Cormick, Fred J., 160 So. Main 3.00 Mc Donald, Donald, 25 Commonwealth Ave. 89.36 Mc Donald, Edw-d F., 485 Matfield 3.00 Mc Donald, Mary R., 485 Matfield 75.75 Mc Fadden, Francis J., 616 East 3.00 McFadden, James, 616 East 66.64 Mc Farlan, John W., 389 Crescent 3.00 Mc Farlan, Marjorie E., 389 Crescent 83.33 Mc Geary, Catherine F., 168 So. Main 88.63 Mc Geary, Matthew E., 21 Emerson 89.66 Mc Geary, William, 25 Emerson 3.00 Mc Geary, William J. and Beatrice, Emerson 53.03 Mc Kenny, George H., 32 Prospect 3.00 65

Mc Meneman, Marjorie E., 389 Crescent 83.33 Mc Meneman, Mary, 389 Crescent 1.76 Mc Pherson, Gladys E. and Fred E. Smith 25 Highland Ave. 86.36 Mederios, Manuel, 94 Walnut 3.30 Mein, William, 139 No. Elm 3.00 Mein, William and Margaret C, 139 No. Elm 128.78 Mello, Manuel, 75 Bedford 9.67 Mello, Manuel J., 240 W. Centre 131.47 Mello, Mary, 75 Bedford 57.57 Merrill, Charles F., Jr., 58 So. Elm 3.00 Merrill, Charles F., Jr., and Theresa F., 58 So. Elm 115.14 Merrill, George G., 91 West 25.73 Merry, Clifford E., 259 Spring 81.02 Merritt, Lewis A., Alhambia, Cal. 19.09 Metcalf, Wilson H., 31 Hillside Ave. 68.15 Meyer, Walter J., 35 South 3.00 Michalowski, John, 108 Union 21.79 Michalowski, John and Josephine, 108 Union 101.51 Mignault, Victor J., 23 Pleasant 3.00 Mignault, Victor J., and Bertha M., 23 Pleasant 31.82 Mignault, Charles V., 671 W. Centre 3.00 Miles, Thomas B., 404 Crescent 3.00 Miles, Thomas B., et al, 404 Crescent 48.48 Miller, James H., 364 Spring 3.00 Miller, James H., et al, 364 Spring 76.51 Mills, George A., 539 No. Elm 3.00 Mills, Hazel G. and Nellie A. Belcher, 539 No. Elm 115.14 Miner, Charles E., 37 No. Main 3.00 Miner, Charles E. and Florence E., 37 No. Main 93.93 Minskv, David, 220 W. Centre 3.00 Mitchell, William G., 356 Spring 107.54 Mitchell, Susanna P., No. Main 230,28 Mitchell, Willard I., Brockton 11.36 Molito, James, Columbus Ave. 12.09 Molito, Michael A., Columbus Ave. 83.33 Molla, Ernest W., 626 East 3.00 Molla, Ernest & Margaret M., East 89.39 Monroe, Robert A., 37 High 3.00 Moore, Christopher D., 27 Walnut 3.00 Mondeau, Blanche B., E. Bridgewater 9.39 Montello Co-op. Bank, Brockton 68.18 66

Moore, Clarene L., 541 Walnut 3.00 Moore, Clarence L., Oscar Johnson, Geo. Stetson, 210 Copeland 3.03 Moore, Marion E., 541 Walnut 387.23 Moreia, Joseph, 131 Copeland 3.00 Morse, Edith M., 364 Walnut 112.87 Morse, Jesse L., 32 Plain 70.42 Morse, Willard A., 364 Walnut 25.42 Morris, Anna M., 115 No. Main 93.17 lVTnaTi fiy* TTq r*\x7rn~ir1 T /180 WpqI IVlUoIlcI , XldlWLUJLl J.., lOU VVCoL Murdock, Leonard, 30 North Main 3.00 Murdock, Ruth 18.94 Murray, James R., 13 Sunset Ave. 78.75 Murray, Patrick J., 187 Crescent 3.00 Murling, George A., 50 Matfield 3.00

Neale, Carrie W., et al 20.60 Nelson, Arthur G., 234 No. Elm 3.00 Nelson, Charles A., et al, 78 Matfield 16.67 Nelson, Harold, 304 E. Centre 3.00 Nelson, Signe E., 234 No. Elm 192.41 Ness, Charles, Atlantic, Mass. 14.85 Nevins, William H., 73 Thayer Ave. 61.51 N. E. Tel and Tel Co., Boston 3,132.68 N. E. Fur Industries Inc., Boston 39.36 Newcomb, Lizzie M., Brockton 1.06 Newman, Carl L., 270 Walnut 42.69 Nicholas, Edwin N., 59 Brooks PI. 80.27 Nichols, Otis, 131 Matfield 3.00 Nichols, Ruth E. and Otis, 131 Matfield 41.81 Nickerson, Albert E., 66 Pleasant 30.30 Nickerson, Carrie B., et al, 11 High 45.45 Nickerson, Cora B., Brockton 22.73 Nickerson, Howard W., 11 High 3.00 Nilson, Edward, Brockton .61 Nilson, Nils P., 27 Cyr 74.51 No. Abington Co-op. Bank, No. Abington 99.23 No. Easton Co-op. Bank, No. Easton 153.02 Noonan, Mary E., 375 Ash 56.06 Nordgren, Alma C., 481 Spring 3.79 Nordgren, Charles, 481 Spring 36.18 Nordgren, Charles and Alma, 481 Spring 119.69 67

Norman, Andrew J., 189 West 32.84 Norris, James H., 519 Spring 3.00 Norris, James H., and Eliza A., 519 Spring 65.90 Norris, John, 519 Spring 3.00 Norris, William E., 398 No. Elm 3.00 Norris, William E. and Mary E., 398 No. Elm 88.63 Norton, Lulu L., 362 Manley 82.57 Norton, Willard D., 362 Manley 5.42 Noyes, William W., 455 Spring 46.02 Nunckatissett Canoe Club 266.64 Nunes, Jack, 17 Progressive Ave. 3.00 Nute, George C, 378 Matfield 3.00 Nute, Harry F., 301 Matfield 3.00 Nute, Herbert E., 376 Matfield 3.00 Nute, Levi T., 378 Matfield 90.87 Nute, Orrin F., 301 Matfield 3.00 Nylin, Axel, 10 Beacon 3.00

O'Connor, George P., 269 No. Elm 305.85 Ohlson, Carl R., 12 Crescent 109.81 Ohlson, Charles G., 348 No. Elm 3.00 Ohlson, Forrest E., 440 No. Elm 3.00 Oldfield, Fred, 238 Forrest 3.00 Olson, John, 314 Matfield 79.51 Osborne, Frank, 459 Matfield 3.00 Ormsby, William N., 122 Lincoln 49.24 O'Shaughnessy John H., 25 Hillside Ave. 3.00 O'Shaughnessy, Anna Marie, 25 Hillside Ave. 71.21 Osword, John P., Brockton 4.55 Otter, Daniel, 427 No. Elm 3.00 Otter, Daniel and Lena M., 427 N. Elm 108.32 Old Colony R. R. Co. 318.66

Pacheco, Joseph, 50 Grant 3.00 Packard, Abbie M. 41,21 Packard, Charles E., 407 No. Elm 85.60 Packard, Edward W., 67 Maolis Ave. 3.00 Packard, Ellsworth E., 322 Matfield 81.78 Packard, Frederick W., et al, Brockton 3.03 Packard, George, 61 Belmont 3.00 Packard, George M. and Ida, 61 Belmont 52.27 Packard, Harold O., 194 Matfield 55.27 68

Packard, Mary L., 67 Maolis 71.21 Packard, Myron H., 451 Walnut 78.75 Packard, Walter T., Campello 1.52 Pagani, Tony, 357 So. Main 21.18 Pagani, Rise and Antone, 357 So. Main 77.27 Paine, Joseph A., 79 River 89.05 Payne, Ruth A., 25 Bryant 52.42 Payne, Charles, 25 Bryant 3.00 Parker, Charles, 17 Emerson .45 Parker, Clare E., 17 Walnut 100.72 Parker, James, 17 Emerson .45 Parker, Margaret M., 17 Emerson 83.33 Parker, Thomas, 17 Emerson 3.00 Parry, Henry W., 287 River 3.00 Patton, Arthur B., 384 No. Elm 3.00 Pearson, Esther S., 308 Matfield 105.29 Pearson, John, 408 Crescent 56.78 Pearson, Kenneth, 408 Crescent 3.00 Pearson, Lewis W., 47 Plain 96.93 Pearson, Oscar P., 308 Matfield 19.67 Pearson, Pauline E., Brockton 3.03 Pecheco, Joseph J., et al, 50 Grant 59.39 Peck, Fred A., 146 So. Main 5.27 Peck, Nellie E., 146 So. Main 82.57 Peck, Shirley, Bridgewater .61 Peckam, Arthur C, 222 No. Main 107.84 Peckham, Fred G., 61 Ash 94.66 Penney, Justin B., 18 Ellis Ave. 3.00 Penpraese, Catherine, Est., Ill West 65.15 Penpraese, Daniel A., Ill West 3.00 Penpraese, John A., 58 Grant 40.88 Penpraese, Justin S., 110 West 68.90 Peppe, John, 197 W. Centre 8.76 Peppe, John, Tr., 197 W. Centre 103.78 Perkins, Abbie J., 408 Spring 103.02 Perkins, Arthur F., 190 River 3.00 Perkins, Faelton C. and Dorothy F., 96 Howard 93.93 Perkins, Arthur F. and Mildred B., 190 River 66.66 Perkins, Faelton C, 96 Howard 3.00 Perkins, Warrington- N., 48 South 3.00 Perry, Anthony B., 21 Bryant 3.00 Perry, Anthony and Benjamin, 21 Bryant 49.24 69

Perry, Antoine C, 613 No. Elm 101.48 Perry, Antoine F., 615 No. Elm 134.81 Perry, Arthur, 613 No. Elm 3.00 Perry, Frances, 640 East 63.63 Perry, George F., 70 Ash 4.82 Perry, George F., et al, 70 Ash 64.54 Perry, Jesse J., Bridgewater 30.30 Perry, Quinteen J., 183 Brooks PI. 49.21 Peters, Henrietta K., So. Easton 9.09 Peters, John, 31 Progressive 3.00 Peterson, Anna L., 57 No. Main 12.88 Peterson, Anna S., 310 Manley 60.60 Peterson, Chester, 272 No. Elm 3.00 Peterson, Claus I., Forest 3.00 Peterson, Elmer L., 294 Matfield 3.00 Peterson, Elmer L. and Annie E., 294 Matfield 50.00 Peterson, Erik H., 4 Plain 159.05 Peterson, Frank A., 345 Matfield 84.57 Peterson, Frederick W., 310 Manley 3.00 Peterson, Gustaf A., 63 E. Centre 565.37 Peterson, Gustaf F., 63 E. Centre 3.00 Peterson, G. Willard, 63 E. Centre 3.00 Peterson, James P., 57 No. Main 120.56 Peterson, John, 179 Crescent 272.21 Peterson, John, 22 Roosevelt Ave. 3.00 Peterson, John, et ux., 22 Roosevelt Ave. 103.02 Peterson, Keziah, 179 Crescent 13.03 Peterson, Lars, Campello 1.06 Peterson, Lillian H., Roosevelt Ave. 16.67 Peterson, Martha S., Avon 10.61 Peterson, Paul, 63 Maple 3.00 Peterson, Sidney J., 615 Perry Ave. 3.00 Peterson, Victor, 63 Maple 216.62 Peterson and Porter, 4 Plain 27.27 Petrulonis, Sophia, Cor. Belmont and Plain 3.03 Peura, John, 238 Forest 68.60 Philbrick, Winthrop F., 44 Pleasant 46.63 Phillips, Abbie, East Providence, R. I., 9.39 Phillips, William J., 78 Matfield 3.00 Phillips, William W., 402 W. Centre 3.00 Pike, Alice M., 137 Copeland 102.26 Pillsbury, Doris M., 506 No. Elm 118.93 70

Pillsbury, Frank E., 506 No. Elm 3.00 Pillsbury, Fred N., 115 So. Main 3.00 Pillsbury, Frederick N. and Gertrude A., 115 So. Main 152.26 Pillsbury, Frederick, et ux., 115 So. Main 110.60 Pimental, John, 153 Bryant 3.00 Pingree, Michael, 416 Spring 3.00 Pingree, Michael and Frances, 416 Spring 68.18 Pinto, Justino, 156 So. Main 3.00 Pinto, Justino and Julia O., 156 So. Main 90.90 Piva, Joseph B., 173 Copeland 92.39 Piva, Joseph C, 97 Copeland 3.00 Piva, Manuel B., 173 Copeland 78.75 Piva, Louis B., 606 No. Elm 3.00 Piva, Manuel C, 97 Copeland 64.36 Piva, Edmund, 93 Copeland 3.00 Piva, Peter B., 606 No. Elm 136.32 Piva, Peter B., Jr., 189 Copeland 16.64 Piva, Peter B., Jr., and Nellie, 189 Copeland 70.45 Piver, Edwin, 63 Brooks PI. 3.00 Piver, Foster C, 97 Copeland 3.00 Piver, Manuel C, 97 Copeland 3.00 Place, George A., 396 W. Centre 3.00 Plvmouth Five Cent Savings Bank, Plvmouth 148.47 Polus, George, 15 Brooks PL 3.00 Polus, Libby, 536 No. Elm 159.08 Pomeroy, Harry J., 457 East 76.78 Poole, Horace A., Brockton 38.78 Poole, Ray, 254 No. Elm 3.00 Pope, A. Allen, 64 Maolis Ave. 3.00 Pope, Bessie M., 64 Maolis Ave. 89.39 Porter, Emmons C, 768 W. Centre 326.91 Porter, Erland R., 415 West 204.35 Porter, Ernest, 120 So. Main 3.00 Porter, Francis E., Easton 8.18 Porter, Harris W., 479 W. Centre 3.00 Porter, Joseph B., 157 No. Elm 188.13 Porter, Raymond B., 25 Belmont 3.00 Power, Harold F., Brockton .76 Pratt, Edwin L., 311 East 89.81 Pratt, E. Juliet, Est., 223 River 59.09 Pratt, Henrietta M. and Lillian W. Hamblin, East 48.48 71

1 r7 on Pratt, John H., 209 Willow 1 /.39 T~> J J T ~ 1 TT J OA A TTT'll _ Pratt, John H. and Eula C, 209 Willow 146.96 Pratt, Sherman, Heirs or Devises, Raynham 2.42 Pratt, Warren A., 17 Merritt 91.63 Presby, George P. 13.64 O A A Price, James H., 14 Grant 3.00 Price, James H., et al, 14 Grant 96.96 Pritchard, Allen K., 14 Ellis Ave. 3.00 Pritchard, Lewis L., 14 Ellis Ave. 3.00 O A A Prout, William P., 384 E. Centre 3.00 O A A Provost, Alphonse, 234 W. Centre 3.00 Provost, Harriet A., W Centre 71.51 Puffer, Clarence C, 345 So. Elm 160.74 Pulos, Alex, No. Elm 3.00 Pulos, Alex A., et al 63.63 Purdy, Leonard A., 121 E. Centre b.Oo Purdy, Leonard A., et ux., 121 E. Centre 1lUb.olAf! Q1

Quadros, Manuel, 55 Progressive Ave. 26.48

O A A Radigan, Edward J., 124 Turnpike 3.00 Radigan, Frederick, 124 Turnpike 3.00O A A A A O A Radigan, Frederick and Julia, 124 Turnpike 49.24 O AO Ransden, Annie M., Bridgewater 3.03 T> ~ „ -J A ....4.1. - T O ET t T\ /T i-XX ^1 J O A A Read, Arthur L., 355 Matneld 3.00 ,i /^C1_, Read,pi ^ „ Christopher,/».J_J._„'U ^-.^ 355OCTET MatneldT\TnJ-fi«l J 71.96 O A A Read, Samuel A., 247 Matneld 3.00 -1 Read, Samuel A. and Hattie M., 247 Matneld 86.36or* 0/ "i rr o a a Redneld, William L., 3b W. Centre 152.99 rr cr o Redman, Dorothy r . and Helen C, 231 River 7.58 iin 11 Redman, Fannie R., 231 River 112.11 K A tZ A Redman, Fannie R., et al, 231 River 54.54 1 oo Redman, Fannie R. and Geo. F. Ryder 1.82 Redman, rrank H., 231 River 4.52 Redman, Robert, 231 River .45A ET on Keea, George 484 East C7 xveeu, jonn vv., v£ iviaons avc. o.UU Reed, Lyman 0., 60 Plain 3.00 Reid, Lizzie G., 498 Manley 103.02 Reid, Roland F., 504 Manley 49.97 Reid, Wesley R., 498 Manley 4.52 Revere, Paul, 196 River 3.00 72

Revere, Paul and Lucy L., 196 River 87.11 Resimini, Louis, Bridgewater 4.24 Resimini, Mary, Bridgewater 7.58 Reynolds, Horace F., 23 Plain 91.63 Reynolds, Howard L., 17 Plain 100.72 Reynolds, Lester W., 26 Plain 3.00 Reynolds, Lester W., et al, 26 Plain 70.45 Rezendis, Joseph, 11 Keenan 40.12 Rice, Ernest O., 42 Brooks PL 104.51 Richards, Harriet E., Plain St., 11.36 Richards, Hannah, Plain St. 6.06 Richards, Howard M., 196 Howard 3.00 Richards, Jennie R., 196 Howard 170.44 Richards, John M., 1 Plain 146.93 Ridgeway, Warren V., 214 Copeland 3.00 Ridlington, Elbert H., 479 E. Centre 3.00 Ring, Mary, 671 W. Centre 75.38 Ripley, Chester R., 188 South 3.00 Ripley, Chester R. and Marion T., 188 South 43.94 Ripley, Clara J., 123 South 36.36 Ripley, Harry A., 495 E. Centre 3.00 Ripley, Lester P., 200 South 65.12 Roach, Michael F., E. Bridgewater 56.81 Robbins, Wildon F., 34 Commonwealth 3.00 Robbins, Shirley S., 123 South 3.00 Roberts, Alice O., 110 East 234.07 Roberts, Edward J. and Mamie L., Campello 6.67 Roberts, Ernest M., 110 East 7.58 Roberts, Robert A., 365 No. Elm 110.57 Robinson, Ernest W. 45 Howard 3.00 Robitaille, Charles O., 50 Union 15.12 Rockwell, Clifton G., 20 Arch 3.00 Rockwell, Clifton G., et al, 20 Arch 83.33 Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, Boston 16.67 Rooks, Roger F., 20 Charles 3.00 Rooney, Thomas T., 194 Forest 3.00 Rooslet, Eino, Stony Road 3.00 Roscoe, Anna C, No. Elm 139.38 Roscoe, Gesner H., 262 No. Elm 3.00 Rosen, Emelia, South 122.72 Rosen, John, 44 South 109.81 Ross, George A., 37 Francis Ave. 3.61 73

Ross, Gordon K., 37 Francis Ave. 3.00 Ross, Maud F., 37 Francis Ave. 74.99 Rossis, Joseph, 230 Copeland 3.00 Rossis, Joseph and Ernesta, 230 Copeland 54.54 Rostedt, Frank E. 19.70 Roulstone, Elizabeth A., 17 Spring 89.39 Roulstone, Forrest, 17 Spring 3.00 Ruben, Harris, 56 Pleasant 91.17 Ruben, Morris, 56 Pleasant 3.00 Ryder, Arthur E., 15 Charles 126.47 Ryder, George F., 322 E. Centre 35.17 Ryder, George F., Adm., 322 E. Centre 434.05 Ryder, Ralph D., 322 E. Centre 8.45

Salvador, Frank M., 11 Progressive Ave. 23.45 Salvador, Helen Chaves 4.55 Salvador, John M., 11 Progressive Ave. 3.00 Salvador, Joseph M., 32 Sinnott 70.60 Salvador, Joseph M., 2nd., 32 Roosevelt Ave. 52.24 Sampson, Edgar, 35 Sunset Ave. 3.00 Sampson, Harry F., 52 Walnut 75.72 Sampson, Miriam H. and Joseph W. Hathaway, Cambridge 12.88 Sampson, Ray D., 35 Sunset Ave. 159.05 Samuels, John M., 1 Frances Ave. 84.05 Sanborn, Ernest L., 51 River 3.00 Sanborn, Frank, 500 Spring 3.00 Sanborn, Gladys M., 500 Spring 87.11 Sanderson, George S., Shirley, Mass. .91 Saplus, Annie, 148 Turnpike 59.09 Saplus, Charles, 148 Turnpike 3.00 Satucket Athletic Ass'n., Campello 96.96 Savage, Earl C, 17 West 3.00 Sawyer, Harry J., 215 W. Centre 3.00 Scott, George V., 479 E. Centre 200.71 Scranton, Harvey A., 54 Prospect 3.00 Scranton, Harvey A. and Arlene M., 54 Prospect 102.26 Seaberg, Mathilda C, et al, 295 Matfield 56.06 Seaberg, William J., 295 Matfield 3.00 Seaberg, Edward W., 36 Plain 74.21 Seaberg, John E., 36 Plain 3.00 Sears, Esther M., Ill South 59.09 74

Sears, Evangeline L., 10 Francis Ave. 73.48 Sears, Harold S., Ill South 3.00 Sears, Lloyd W., 10 Francis Ave. 3.00 Sec. Mtge. Ass'n., Inc., Brockton 139.38 Sec. Co-op. Bank, Brockton 529.49 Sellstone, Carl I., Lynn 82.57 Sessine, Sophia, Bridgewater 3.79 Shaw, Alfred J. and Agnes L., No. Elm 129.53 Shaw, Clarence E., Brockton 6.06 Shaw, George D., 420 No. Elm 3.00 Shaw, Henry W., 29 Ellis Ave. 3.00 Shaw, Harlan and Nannette M., Bridgewater 9.70 Shaw, Mildred F. and Henry W., 29 Ellis Ave. 104.54 Shaw, Nathaniel G., 395 No. Elm 3.00 Shaw, Nathaniel G. and Bessie L., 395 No. Elm 126.65 Shean, Charles H., Jr., 69 Belmont 65.87 Sheidon, Thomas S., Taunton 7.58 Sherman, Frederic C, 18 Central Sq. 3.00 Sherman, Hazel M., Matfield 71.21 Sherman, Robert F., 461 Matfield 3.00 Shields, William, Highland Ave. 5.45 Shipman, Mary F., 3 Central Sq. 136.35 Shipman, William F., 62 Sunset Ave. 122.69 Shipman, William 0., 12 Central Sq. 3.00 Sias, George W., 102 Lincoln 3.00 Sias, George W. and Fred Stoddard, 102 Lincoln 53.03 Sigren, Hjalmer, 223 Matfield 184.80 Silva, Anthony F., 29 Progressive Ave. 34.82 Silva, Arthur, 113 Copeland 3.00 Silva, John A., 113 Copeland 3.00 Silva, Joseph, 23 Progressive Ave. 3.00 Silva, Lewis, 17 Progressive Ave. 3.00 Silva, Theresa, 113 Copeland 68.93 Silveria, Antoine F., 183 Brooks PI. 3.00 Silveria, Antoine J., 131 Copeland 68.15 Silveria, John, 35 Roosevelt Ave. 74.96 Silveria, John Jr., 35 Roosevelt Ave. 3.00 Simino, Frank E., 253 Matfield 96.93 Semino, Frank W., 269 Matfield 130.26 Simmons, Julia W., Est., 107 No. Main 206.04 Simmons, Martha A., 25 High 98.48 Simmons, Morton A., 107 No. Main 3.00 75

Sinclair, Ralph, 46 Belmont 3.00 Sinclair, Ralph, et al, 46 Belmont 71.21 Sinnott, Charles P., Bridgewater 34.85 Sisson, Charles G., 30 Charles 56.03 Slade, S. Agnes, 304 No. Elm 113.63 Slade, William E., 304 No. Elm 3.00 Slate, Anna M., 35 Commonwealth Ave. 55.45 Sloan, George H., 153 E. Centre 3.00 Small, Albert F., Jr., No. Weymouth 3.79 Smith, Alice D., 596 Walnut 61.21 Smith, Clarence, 2 Cyr 53.00 Smith, George S., 52 Maolis 80.27 Smith, George W., 194 No. Elm 3.00 Smith, George W. and Edith E., 194 No. Elm 132.56

Smith, Herbert S. and Nellie F., 26 Arch . 96.96 Smith, J. Murray, 455 W. Centre 3.00 Smith, John J., 596 Walnut 3.00 Smith, Kenneth W., 157 No. Elm 3.00 Smith, Richard J., 194 No. Elm 3.00 Snell, Arthur C, 416 Matfield 3.76 Snell, Elizabeth M., 352 Spring 156.50 Snell, Horace R., 359 No. Elm 80.57 Snell, T. Prescott, 332 No. Elm 204.35 Snell, Warren P., 352 Spring 7.24 Snow, Albert C, 20 Forest 50.27 Snow, Gustava F., 416 Matfield 189.98 Snow, Joseph C, Brockton 7.58 Snow, Richard A., et al, Brockton 12.12 Snow, Stella J., 20 Forest 6.06 Soderholm, Hjalmar F., 312 So. Elm 93.90 Soares, Evelyn, Roosevelt Ave. 6.82 Soule, Basil M., 14 Merritt 3.91 Soule, Lena L., 14 Merritt 87.11 Sousa, Antoine, 79 Howard 3.00 Sousa, Antoine and Elma, 79 Howard 77.27 Sousa, Frank, 50 Grant 3.00 Sousa, Joe M., 578 No. Elm 3.00 Sousa, John C, 13 Columbus Ave. 78.60 Sousa, Joseph, 218 Forest 3.00 Sousa, Joseph T., 109 Copeland 3.00 Sousa, Manuel, 141 Forest 3.00 Sousa, Manuel J., 218 Forest 33.45 76

Sparrow, Agustavus H., Boston 93.93 Spencer, Arthur B., 91 River 130.26 Sroczyuski, Laura, 43 Belmont 117.41 Staff, A. W., 120 Crescent 3.00 Staff, John A., 120 Crescent 115.26 Stankus, Anthony J., 471 Matfield 120.26 Stanley, Leslie, 488 W. Centre 3.00 Stanley, Leslie and Bernice K., 488 W. Centre 48.48 Stanley Works, Bridgewater 30.30 Staples, Albert F., 387 No. Elm 3.00 Staples, Albert F. et al, 387 No. Elm 112.11 Staples, Daniel F., 74 Belmont 3.00 Staples, Daniel F., et al, 74 Belmont 62.42 Staples, Edward F., 462 Matfield 65.27 Staples, Irving F., 462 Matfield 3.00 Staples, Lloyd E., 470 Matfield 13.61 Staples, Lloyd E. and Priscilla A., 470 Matfield 97.72 Staples, Richard, 462 Matfield .45 Stevens, George H., Brockton 13.64 Stevens, James H., Wakefield 10.61 Stevens, Walter F., Tr., Brockton 9.09 Stevenson, William, Bridgewater 3.79 Stewart, Burton and Emma J., No. Elm 9.09 Stockwell, Horace S., 15 Commonwealth Ave. 51.72 Stone, Johanna, 90 Matfield 37.88 Stone, Otis M., 90 Matfield 3.00 Straffin, A. Franklin, 499 W. Centre 180.29 Straffin and Andre, 499 W. Centre 33.33 Strisik, Phillip R., 217 Crescent 243.16 Sturgis, Harold S., 260 Matfield 3.00 Sturgis, Harold S. and Grace W., 260 Matfield 57.57 Sturgis, William G., 27 Vital Ave. 3.00 Sullivan, Charles E., 383 Crescent 91.63 Sullivan, Daniel T., 287 So. Main 27.24 Sullivan, Elmer F., 145 Bryant 3.00 Sullivan, Iva N., et al, Crescent 1.52 Sullivan, John L., 145 Bryant 68.90 Sullivan, Patrick, 287 So. Main 3.00 Sullivan, Phillip, Est., 287 So. Main 112.11 Sunset Ave. Cong. Church Corp., 377 Spring 71.96 Swann, Horace E., 47 Ash 3.00 Swann, Horace E. and Elizabeth, 47 Ash 66.66 77

Swanson, Edgar W., 408 Crescent 3.00 Swanson, Ellen J., 50 Matfield 44.84 Swanson, Oscar, 50 Matfield 3.00 Sylva, Edward S., 113 Copeland 3.00 Salvador, Antonia M., 11 Progressive Ave. 34.85

Tautkus, Anthony, Brockton .76 Taylor, Henry F., 58 South 87.08 Taylor, Howard B., 58 South 3.00 Taylor, Howard S., 455 No. Elm 3.00 Taylor, Jordan C, 31 Crescent 5.27 Taylor, Jordan C. and Jeane E., 31 Crescent 134.84 Taylor, Lucius and Martha A., Columbus Ave. 1.21 Taylor, Walter R., 453 E. Centre 3.00 Teixeira, John, 565 No. Elm 3.00 Thayer, Alton, Campello 2.27 Thayer, Chester, 347 East 101.48 Thayer, Edwin H., 180 East 26.18 Thayer, Edwin H. and Margaret M., 180 East 484.95 Thayer, Edwin H., Chester and Joseph E. 2.27 Thayer, Erland W., 180 East 3.00 Thayer, Joseph E., 16 Union 117.42 Thayer, Milton C. 4.55 Thayer, Virginia H., 61 Plain 124.23 The A. & P. Tea Co., 12 No. Main .91 Therrien, Damien E., 134 So. Main 3.00 Therrien, Fred, 134 So. Main 3.00 Therrien, Mary J. and Damien E., 134 So. Main 83.33 Thomas, Francis E., 138 No. Elm 102.23 Thompson, Clarence H., Campello 18.94 Thompson, Mary S., 44 W. Centre 146.20 Tillgren, Emelia, et al, 140 South 32.72 Tillgren, Hugo A., 140 South 3.00 Tingley, Chester, 93 West 3.00 Tingley, Miles, 348 Pleasant 3.00 Tingley, Samuel I., 348 Pleasant 3.00 Tinkham, Joseph, et al, Campello 6.36 Tobin, Alexander F., 296 No. Elm 3.00 Tobin, Annie M., 296 No. Elm 121.20 Todd, Arthur D., 128 So. Main 3.00 Todd, Arthur D. and Jennie L., 128 So. Main 103.02 Todd, Judson F., 605 W. Centre 3.00 78

Toomey, John H., 388 Ash 3.00 Tower, Mary S. and Alice B., E. Centre 90.14 Towers, Walter H., 449 No. Elm 114.65 Travers, Joseph B., 109 Copeland 66.64 Travers, Manuel, 15 Progressive Ave. 46.94 Travers, Manuel C, Copeland 84.81 Travers, Charles E., 109 Copeland 3.00 Tribble, Abram B., 660 No. Main 3.00 Tribble, Winifred M., 660 No. Main 59.09 True, Walter H. 113.63 Trustees M. E. Society, 520 W. Centre 50.75 Trummerin, Axel L., Laura P., Geo. M. and Maud T. 413 Crescent 82.57 Tuck, C. Eldon, 192 Spring 3.00 Tuck, Josiah C, 192 Spring 100.72 Tuck, Lawrence C, 192 Spring 3.00 Tucker, George G., 105 Union 4.97 Tucker, George G. and Mary Morse, 105 Union 110.60 Tuholski, Mildred B., 455 No. Elm 59.09 Turnbull, Earl, 93 West 3.00 Turner, C. Frank, 9 No. Main 3.00

Turski, Anthony C, 269 West • 28.30 Turski, Nellie, 269 West 135.59 Tyrer, Lloyd P., 41 Sunset Ave. 3.00 Tyrer, Lloyd P. and Dorothy N., 41 Sunset Ave. 93.17

Uva, Joseph, Avon .91

Vandyke, Donald J., 135 No. Main 57.54 Vandyke, Eva E., 135 No. Main 168.92 Vandyke, Harold, 88 No. Elm 3.00 Vandyke, Victor J., 222 W. Centre 3.00 Varnum, Wallace L., Tr., Brockton 7.58 Ventura, Joseph O., 205 Copeland 84.05 Verity, Edward A., 630 No. Main 3.00 Verity, Gertrude A., 630 No. Main 39,39 Vickery, Norman P., 14 Sinnott 3.00 Viegas, Bernardino S., 97 Brooks PI. 84.84 Viegas, Philimena S. 3.79 Vieira, Joseph G., 153 Bryant 3.00 Vinton, George C, 9 No. Main 3.00 Vinton, George C, Jr., 9 No. Main 3.00 79

Visnanskis, John, Eastondale .76 Von Bergen, Edwin, Scotland 3.00 Vosmus, Charles E., 432 W. Centre 154.96 Vosmus, Charles E., and Lillian M. 174.23 Vosmus, Charles E., et al 33.33 Vosmus, Everett S., 368 No. Elm 3.00 Vosmus, Hattie E., 368 No. Elm 92.42 Vosmus, Lillian M., W. Centre 24.24 Vreeland, George E. and Jennie, Campello 8.33

Wade, Evelyn B., 160 No. Elm 85.60 Wagner, Paul E., 276 No. Elm 3.00 Wainberg, August, 80 Howard 3.00 Waite, Willard, 12 Hillside Ave. 4.82 Waite, Willard H. and Mae L, 12 Hillside Ave. 61.36 Wakeling, Charles, 466 W. Centre 3.00 Walden, Arthur L., 188 No. Elm 143.14 Walden, Earl G., 188 No. Elm 3.00 Walker, Nathan K., 42 Sunset Ave. 80.27 Wardwell, Ethel G., 15 Crescent 90.90 Wardwell, Malcolm, 15 Crescent 3.00 Ward, Herbert D., Brockton 7.58 Warman, E. Norval, 496 Spring 3.00 Warman, Norval E. and Ellis A., 496 Spring 92.42 Washburn, Curtis W., 347 East 3.00 Washburn, Eben, 35 Roosevelt Ave. 3.00 Washburn, George S., 347 East 3.00 Washburn, George S., 465 E. Centre 80.72 Washburn, Nellie O., et al, 482 E. Centre 59.84 Waugh, Emily, Campello 22.73 Webber, Harry T., 136 Copeland 8.45 Webber, Minnie A., 136 Copeland 135.59 Webster, W. Herbert, 352 W. Centre 3.00 Weeks, Stella M., 451 Matfield 89.39 Wells, Alfred T., 69 Howard 106.78 Weeks, Warren E., 451 Matfield 3.00 Weirs, Oscar W. R., Eastondale 1.97 Western Union Tel. Co., N. Y. City 105.11 West Bridgewater Grain Co., 130 No. Main 420.58 Weston, Mary F., Est., E. Centre 2.27 Wetherill, Robert H., 56 Plain 57.57 Wetterberg, Algot A., 283 Matfield 3.00 80

Wetterberg, David, 304 Matfield 3.00 Wetterberg, David A., et al, 304 Matfield 72.72 Wetterberg, Ernest W., 304 Matfield 3.00 Wetterberg, George W., 304 Matfield 3.00 Wetterberg, Margaret A., 304 Matfield 69.69 Wheeler, Ada W., 352 W. Centre 118.93 Wheeler, Charles A., 160 No. Main 3.00 Whelan, John, 388 Ash 3.00 Whelden, Thomas W., 9 Crescent 74.99 White, Charles H., 17 Central Sq. 3.00 White, David Seymour, Litchfield Corners, Me. 11.36 White, Gertrude F., 17 Central Sq. 149.23 White, Howard C, 35 S. Main 3.00 White, Mary G., 35 S. Main 97.72 White, William H., Eastondale 18.18 Whiting, Emma J., 202 W. Centre 125.75 Whiting, Walter C, 202 W. Centre 6.03 Whitman, Asa and Ellen Miles 11.36 Whitman Co-op. Bank, Whitman 159.98 Whitmarsh, Willard F., Bridgewater 45.45 Wilbar, Harvey S., 328 East 3.00 Wilbur, Gerald L., 486 W. Centre 3.00 Wilbur, Howard B., 35 E. Centre 58.90 Wilbur, Howard B., et al, 35 E. Centre 1,115.65 Wilbur, Nahum J., 467 W. Centre 80.86 Wilbur, Harvie S., et al 107.57 Wilcox, George W., 433 Spring 91.66 Wilcox, John G. 30.30 Wilkins, Morton, 85 Bedford 3.00 Williams, Charlotte L., et al, 45 River 59.84 Williams, Clarence H., So. Easton 2.27 Wilbur, Sarah E., et al, Bridgewater 3.79 Williams, Lewis E., 239 Spring 3.00 Williams, Lewis E. and Edith W. 239 Spring 44.69 Williams, Doris F., 13 Merritt 69.69 Williams, Walter C, 137 Copeland 3.00 Willis, Albert M., 493 Manley 115.11 Willis, Daniel A., 493 Manley 3.00 Willis, Martin H., Eastondale 9.85 Winberg, Albert D., Campello 174.53 Winberg, Arvid L., Manley 6.06 Winberg, August, Est., 586 Manley 206.04 81

Winberg, Emil G., 586 Manley 6.79 Winberg, George A., 581 Manley 70.42 Winberg, Melvin G., 581 Manley 3.00 Winslow, Edward F., Plain 3.00 Winslow, Elva H., 65 Plain 106.05 Wood, Ada M., 145 Spring 174.98 Wood, Alexander, 351 Manley 3.00 Wood, Alexander H. M., 351 Manley 285.25 Wood, Eben T., 145 Spring 33.30 Woodworth, William B., 14 Ellis Ave. 3.00 Woodworth, William B., et al, 14 Ellis Ave. 99.99 Worthing, Frederic H., 365 Spring 3.00 Worthing, Laura W., 365 Spring 134.84 Wyman, Lewis, 544 No. Elm 3.00

Young, Cora C., 376 N. Elm 172.71 Young, Everett, 376 No. Elm 3.00 Young, James R., 376 No. Elm 3.00 Young, Joseph, 135 Prospect 3.00

Zeuli, Alexander, 96 So. Elm 12.09 Zionowicz, Joseph, 615 East 35.75 BOARD OF ASSESSORS,

Albert Manley, Edwin H. Thayer, Robert G. Dean. Fifty-second Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library

CIRCULATION AND GROWTH

This library in common with other libraries throughout the country has been exceptionally busy during the past year. The circulation has reached the 30,000 mark, an average of 10 books to each inhabitant. These 30,000 books have been taken out by approximately 750 different people. This record circulation shows an average of 315 for each day the library has been open with a high single day count of 1,222. The total gain for the year was 7,222 over 1930. The school circulation also shows a substantial increase of 3,580 due largely to an increased amount of reference work. We appreciate the co-operation of teachers in re- porting the school circulation of the book deposits in different sections of the town. There have been added 516 books, 485 by purchase and others by gift, notably the valuable gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Puffer.

IMPROVEMENTS

A new four shelf sectional book case for the housing of the more recent acquisitions of mystery and detective 83 stories has released needed space in other cases for different types of fiction. A new card catalogue case has made possible a more satisfactory arrangement of cards—Adult, juvenile and subject indices are now in separate cases. The nucleus of what we hope will prove to be a helpful picture collection is well started with several hundred pictures. The historical series, including views of incidents in the life of George Washington is already mounted and forms part of this library's exhibit in connection with the celebration of the 200th birthday anniversary of the Father of His Country. To all who have so sincerely co-operated with us during the year we extend our hearty thanks.

CHARLOTTE L. WILLIAMS.

CIRCULATION DATA

Adult Fiction 14,896 Adult Non-Fiction 1,529 Juvenile Fiction 10,188 Juvenile Non Fiction 1,464 Bound Magazines 111 Monthly Magazines 2,634

Total Circulation for 1931 30,822 Total Circulation for 1930 23,600

Gain in circulation (a 25% increase) 7,222 84

SCHOOL CIRCULATION

Elementary Schools: Fiction 4,184 Non-Fiction 693 Magazines 31

Elementary Total 4,908 Secondary Schools: Fiction 174 Non-Fiction 509 Magazines 47

Secondary Total 730 4,908

Total School Circulation 1931 5,638 Total School Circulation 1930 2,058

Total Gain 3,580

List of Books Added During 1931

ADULT FICTION

Kitty Frew Abbott Grand Old Man Acland Paulton Plot Adams Queen's Mate Adams The Cutters Aldrich Rim of the Prairie Aldrich White Bird Flying Aldrich 1 1

Green Wine Archer Blazing Tumbleweed Ash Untarnished AshA 1 Murder of Steven Kester Ashbrook Singing Swan Ashman MackerelH IT 1 1 Sky0 AshtonA 1 J Sophisticates Atherton Starry Adventure AustinA J_ • Mr. Fortune Explains Bailey Mr. Fortune Speaking Bailey , EbenezerT711 WalksTTT 11 WithTTr l 1 God1 Baker Mary Faith Baldwin Skyscraperen „ BaldwinT~» 11 * To-Day's Virtue Baldwin Westward Passage Barnes Murder Off Stage Barrett Irish Beauties Barrington Murder m the News Room Beck D'Artagnan's Letter Bedford-Jones Three Fishes Beeding

H IT TT71 T\ PC -\ /-< f i T» 1 Man Who Made Gold Belloc Imperial Palace Bennett Border Trail Bindloss Fraine Patrol Bindloss .bed Up Birmingham Jade Green Cats Blake Death by Appointment Bonnamy Silver Trumpets Calling Borden Pollyanna at Hollywood Borton Dark Horse Bower Long Loop Bower Happy Valley Brand Smiling Charlie Brand Red-Headed Woman Brush Blanket of the Dark Buchan 86

East Wind, West Wind Buck Good Earth Buck Silhouette of Mary Ann Buckrose Fighting Man of Mars Burroughs Festival Burt Click of the Gate Campbell Basque People Canfield Shadows on the Rock Cather Gitana Chambers War Paint and Rouge Chambers Avenging Saint Charteris Backfire Chase Murder at Hazelmoor Christie Jaws of Circumstance Clausen Enchanting Clementina Cleugh Barb Wire Coburn About 2 A. M. Coe Corpse in the Constable's Garden Cole Boathouse Riddle Connington Windymere Colver End of Steel Cooper Young Mrs. Meigs Corbett Steamship San Pedro Cozzens Hatter's Castle Cronin Bull Moose Crillum Faulkner of the Inland Seas Curwood Author Unknown Dane Opening of a Door Davis Finch's Fortune de la Roche Bridge of Desire Deeping Ten Commandments Deeping Storm Drift Dell Golden Alaskan Dorrance Loving Spirit du Maurier Murder in the Library Dutton 87

Father "Elizabeth" Pig-Boats Ellsberg Unfinished Business Erskine Story of Julian Ertz First Mrs. Fraser Ervine Mystery Chest Evans Lion's Den Fairbanks

The House Opposite Farj eon American Beauty Ferber Salute to Cyrano Feval The Old Crowd Fitzgerald 70,000 Witnesses Fitzsimmons Dressing Room Murder Fletcher Easy to Kill Footner Trial by Water Footner Rembrant Murder Forman Tales from the Argentine Frank Dr. Thorndyke's Cases Freeman Pontifex, Son of Thorndike Freeman Range Maverick Friend Maid in Waiting Galsworthy Winding Lane Gibbs Gay Bandit of the Border Gill Lido Lady Gilbert Dark Horse Grant St. Vitus Day Graham Murder on the Bus Gregg Silver Star Gregory Sunset Pass Grey Westminster Mystery Hamilton Prince of the Moon Hauck Sylvia Hauck Whispering Range Haycox Corporal Downey Takes the Trail Hendryx Limestone Tree Hergesheimer 88

Chance of a Lifetime Hill Kerry Hill Silver Wings Hills Midnight Mail Holt Yesterday's Thrall Holton

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Swift Water Loring Square Circle MacKail Appletons of Herne Marshall Doctor of Lonesome River Marshall Two Families Marshall Porcelain and Clay Martin Concave Mirror Maxwell Guardians of the Treasure McNeil Storm Against the Wall Meynell Two People Miln Vintage of Yon Yee Miln Best College Stories I Know Minot Water Mitchell Tangled Web Montgomery Birds of the Night Moore Black Daniel Morrow World Champions Morand John Mistletoe Morley Bar 20 Rides Again Mulford Buck Peters, Ranchman Mulford Cottonwood Gulch Mulford Hopalong Cassidy and the Eagle's Brood Mulford Hopalong Cassidy, Protege Mulford Hopalong Cassidy's Return Mulford Jimgrim Mundy One Hundred Days Mundy Albert Grope Munn Fighting Livingstons Nason Man in White Slicker Nason Belle-Mere Norris Love of Julie Borel Norris Best British Short Stories O'Brien Best Short Stories of 1931 O'Brien Twenty-five Finest Short Stories O'Brien Flower of Thorn Oemler t P

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Roc ; a Dog's Eye View of War Vale Palm Beach Vanderbilt Forty Stay On Vandercook Juror No. 17 Waddell The Calendar Wallace On The Spot Wallace White Face Wallace Windmill on Cape Cod Dunes Waller Stroke of One Walline* Above the Dark Tumult Wahoole Judith Paris Walpole Diana's Daughter Warwick Who Is the Next Webster Horror House Wells Umbrella Murder Wells Beggar's Choice Wentworth Danger Calling Wentworth Under the Red Robe Weyman 92

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TTTl * 1 ~ Ine Kirby s Whipple bpy Net White Murder at the Pageant Whitechurch Truth About Lovers Widdemer An Jjjnu to Mirtn Williams Pirate's Purchase Williams Night of the Wedding Williamson Separate Star Wilson Temperamental Jane Wilson two -DiacK bneep Wilson Big Money Wodehouse it l were lou Wodehouse Sowing Glory Wrenn r ooiprmis oi i^muereiia wyne Last Days of September Wynne Silver Scale Mystery Wynne Adel and Co. Yates Joan and Co. Yates Total, 271 Adult Fiction.

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Astrology for Everyone Adams Epic of America Adams Second Twenty Years of Hull House Addams Old Massa and His People Armstrong Symbolism for Artists Bailey Trans, of Aeneid of Virgil Ballard One Hundred Best Poems Barrows (Ed.) Wolsey Belloc Barretts of Winysole Street Besier Real Romanovs Botkin Quick and the Dead Bradford 93

Letters of Robert and Elizabeth Browning 2 vols. orowning ythd.) Soviet Kussia cnamoeriain ijOSt continent oi iviu CI1UI tllVVal U vûotaoie it oerns 1^1 iviy r atner, iviarK i wain demens/"IYY1 one* j^ngidnci, int? uiiKiiuwii ibitJ CUIltJIl-ir UI LIlclIIl ivir. vôuriei dnu ivn. ives fincient Americans Davis canpn oi i5agaaci û. nenry; Davis vagaDonci irouper ue iingeiis coioniai vv oiiien 01 Allans I/CA LCI ijiving Aiitnors "Fillipuniy Tonfo"lante iviy Hiigniy i ears uoie Man s uwn onow, civilization uorsey TviVi nvi f onPQ lilllci 1 LdllLc UL lIln.Wcttt;I

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Ohio, the Beautiful and Historic Hopkins Forty-Niners Hulbert Modern Biographies Hyde New Russia's Primer Ilin Big Enough James Book of American Negro Poetry Johnson (Eel.) Theatre Street Karsavina Silver Seas and Golden Cities Keyes Dangerous Life Lindsay Best Plays of 1930-1931 Mantle Education of a Princess Marie of Russia Our American Humorists Masson Spoon River Anthology Masters How to Spend Your Money McCullough Garden Flowers Worth Knowing McCurdy Forsaking All Others Miller Jungles Preferred Miller Magnificent Comedy Minnegerode Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in Civil War. 2 vols. Mourning Becomes Electra O'Neill Roads of Adventure Paine Questioning Child Patri My Experiences' in the World War Pershing Psychology of Achievement Pitkin Around the World in 8 Days Post and Gatty Personality of a House Post Massachusetts in the World War Putnam (Ed.) Mere Marie of the Ursuline Repplier Stepping Westward Richards My Story Rinehart Believe It or Not Ripley Knute Rockne Rockne (Ed.) Games We Like Best Rohrbough Plays for Our American Holidays Schauffler Christmas Everywhere Sechrist (Ed.) 95

Rediscovery of Jones Strunsky India, Land of the Black Pagoda Thomas Lauterback of the China Seas Thomas Rolling Stone Thomas Rock Garden Primer Thornton Puritan's Progress Train George Washington, Son of His Country Van Dyke Jenny Lind Wagenknecht These Russians White Passionate Pilgrim (Besant) Williams Squads Write Winterick 92 Adult non-fiction. Total Adult books 363. TRUSTEES

Edith F. Howard Term expires 1932 Daniel J. Lothrop Term expires 1932 Ada M. Wood Term expires 1933 Basil M. Soule Term expires 1933 Martha B. Mason Term expires 1934 Louis P. Hayden Term expires 1934

ORGANIZATION

Chairman Daniel J. Lothrop Secretary Edith F. Howard Treasurer Martha B. Mason

BOOK COMMITTEE Edith M. Howard Ada M. Wood Martha B. Mason Daniel J. Lothrop

EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Daniel J. Lothrop :

Report of

Sealer of Weights and Measures

To the Honorable Board of Selectmen Gentlemen

In compliance with the requirements of the law. I here-

with submit my annual report of this office. I have visited all the places of business where it was known weighing and measuring devices are used and have tested and sealed or condemned the same. Below is a list of the work done:

Adjusted Sealed Condemned Platform Scales 2 39

Beam Scales 8 1

Spring Scales 1 31 1 Counter Scales 2 19

Avoirdupois Weights 1 133 I Liquid Measure 53 4

Gasoline Pumps 1 30 Gasoline Meters 13 Oil Pumps 11 Vehicle Tanks 1 Dry Measures 1

Totals 7 339 7 Sealing Fees Received $64.00 Pedler's License Fees $30.00 CHRISTOPHER READ, Sealer of Weights and Measures. :

Report of Gypsy Moth Superintendent

To the Honorable Board of Selectmen Gentlemen:

I herewith submit my annual report for the year 1931. The condition of the gypsy moth infection in the town shows an increase over last year. In scouting for egg clusters, we have found them more abundant than a year ago, due, no doubt, to the very favorable weather conditions. We have sprayed all the trees on the roadside and creosoted all the egg clusters we have found. There are a number of inquiries and some complaints because we do not destroy the fall web worm. The reason we don't do this is because we have no funds for that purpose. The best method known to destroy them is to cut them off and burn them. Expenditure

Labor $1,785.73 Teams 254.50 Gas and Oil 72.80 Repairs 83.52 Unemployment Labor 287.40 Supplies and Incidentals 115.45 Total $2,590.40

CHRISTOPHER READ, Local Superintendent. Report of Tree Warden

The past year was very favorable to the shade trees and they are in a very healthy condition. Fortunately the year has been free from damaging storms.

I have trimmed dead limbs off trees all over town, also cut limbs that were too low. A large number of our trees are old and required more attention than young ones. A great amount of damage is being done to the trees by careless motorists.

Expenditures: Labor $467.00 Gas, Oil and Tools 16.28 Total $483.28 Receipts $51.50

CHRISTOPHER READ, Tree Warden. :

Report of Inspector of Animals

There have been inspected during the past year 75 stables and 703 cattle. Of these 3 were quarantined and killed and found tubercular There were 20 hogs, 3 goats and 3 sheep inspected.

Animals slaughtered Calves 620 Hogs 251 Beef 6 Sheep 4

Total 881 Animals Condemned Calves 6 Hogs 2

Total 8

DAVID DAILY, Inspector. : :

Report of Chief of Police

To the Honorable Board of Selectmen Gentlemen

I herewith submit my annual report of the West Bridgewater Police Department for the year ending De- cember 31, 1931.

Appropriation $2,800.00 Taken from appropriation for police car 105.00

Actual working Appropriation $2,695.00

Unexpended Balance 8.73 Fines returned to Town 521.16 Re-imbursement from dances 444.00 Net cost of Police Department to Town 1,721.11 Stolen Property recovered, value 2,942.00 Complaints Investigated 335 Number of Arrests Males 198 Females 2 200

CAUSES OF ARRESTS

Operating without license 5 Driving under the influence of liquor 7 102

Driving without registration 3 Failing to slow at an intersection 8 Allowing vehicle to remain in restricted space 8 Operating faster than reasonable and proper 1 Speeding 10 Operating auto after license has been revoked 3 Uninsured and unregistered cars 4 Driving to endanger 4 Failing to keep to right of center of road when view is obstructed 72 Misappropriation of auto 1 Impeding the proper operation 1 Drunk 17 Assault and Battery 2 Robbery while armed 3 Attempt robbery while armed 2 Assault with intent to kill 1 Conspiracy to attempt to extortion 2 Bastardy 1 Robbery 4 Larceny 7 Attempt to Rape 1 Assault 7 Not paying weekly wage 2 Unlawful flying 1 Stubborn Child 1 Deliquent child 1 Breaking and entering in the night time 2 Insane 4 Disturbance 8 Non-support of wife 2 Non-support of minor children 2 Desertion of wife 1 Violation of probation 1 Process for possesion of land and house 1 103 MISCELLANEOUS

Automobile accidents 33 Accidents where persons were injured 15 Accidents where persons were taken to doctor 8 Accidents where persons were taken to hospital 7 Automobiles recovered for other departments 3 Automobile transfer papers made out 108 Horses shot 3 Dogs shot 2 Business places found unlocked 2

The Police car has traveled 11,580 miles and the motorcycle 542 miles in the performance of duty. The department has placed road signs at all dangerous corners, crossings, intersecting streets and at all school houses; maintaining also two silent police signals, one at Central square and one at Elm square. Again I wish to impress upon the parents the need of instilling into the children the danger of accidents which may be avoided by exercising caution and care by themselves.

I wish to thank the School Traffic Officers and this department is very proud of the way the officers have handled the work and the interest they have taken. I also wish to thank the teachers for their hearty co-operation in this work.

CRIME

The increase in arrests and crime is due to more vio- lations of the motor vehicle and the large amount of automobile traffic through the Town which is estimated by the State as 90,000 cars a week. I realize that what ever measure of success we have achieved in maintaining law and order is owed to the co-operation of the Court and 104

Town Officials and to the fact that the greater part of our people are orderly and law abiding. In closing I wish to thank the Selectmen and all others who have in any way helped the department. To the officers I extend my hearty thanks for their co-operation.

Respectively submitted,

WARREN P. LAUGHTON, Chief of Police. :

Report of Fire Department

To the Honorable Board of Selectmen Gentlemen

I herewith submit the annual report of the West Bridgewater Fire Department for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1931.

CALL FORCE

The call force consists of twenty men, one chief, one assistant chief, three captains and five fire wardens.

APPARATUS

The apparatus consists of one Maxim 500 gallon triple combination pump and hose truck, one Federal combination chemical and hose truck stationed at the center, one "Reo combination chemical and hose truck stationed at Cochesett, and one single drawn hose wagon at Jerusalem.

WIRE DEPARTMENT

There has been 500 feet of insulated copper wire strung and two new tapper bells installed. The fire alarm is tested every night except Sunday. 106

VALUE, LOSSES AND INSURANCE PAID

Estimated value of property where fires have occurred including buildings and contents $22,400.00 Insurance carried on same 35,500.00 Insurance loss paid 8,985.32

FIRES AS THEY OCCURRED

Jan. 8 E. B. Wilbur, Est., East Centre St., meadow. 15 Alfred Lawson, Pleasant St., chimney. 15 Alfred Lawson, Pleasant St., chimney. 24 Fred Pillsbury, South Main St., chimney. 24 Erland Porter, West St., chimney. 27 Emil Kyhn, Matfield St., brush. 28 Hewett, Spring St., house. 30 Robert Goodwin, Progressive Ave., chimney. Feb. 6 A. F. Barker, Copeland St., old boards burning. 12 Willard Crosby, North Main St., chimney. 18 N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., R. R. Station, chimney. 22 Lester Charnock, South St., chimney. Mar. 8 Charles Kinney, West St., chimney. 14 Herbert Clark, off West St., woods. 21 William Ryder, Est., East St., chimney. 22 Margaret Cross, South St., chimney. 22 Carl Erickson, Ash St., house. 20 Howard L. Hunter, Matfield St., grass. 24 Thomas Churchill, East St., woods and grass. 27 John Souza, Columbus Ave., house. 28 Raymond Porter, Richards Corner, grass. 26 Joseph Bragga, North Elm St., cement garage. 30 William Mienue, North Elm St., automobile. Apr. 4 H. O. Davenport, Progressive Ave., woods. 8 Margaret Cotter, Aldrich Rd., woods. 10 Chenney, Belmont St., woods. 11 Abner Ellis, South Main St., woods. 107

14 H. 0. Davenport & 0. Kinney, East side of Pro- gressive Ave., wood. 14 H. O. Davenport & 0. Kinney, Progressive Ave., woods. 15 Lytus Burba, Spring St., house. 16 Hemenway & Keith, Matfield St., woods. 20 Columbus Ave., woods. 21 Corner of Crescent and North Elm St., woods. 21 Richard Broton, off Plain St., woods. 22 Town of West Bridgewater, dump. 23 Town of West Bridgewater, dump. 25 Fred Dexter, West St., garage. 25 H. F. Barker, Copeland St., grass. May 1 N. Ensher, Lincoln St., woods. 1 South Main St., building. 8 William Fitzpatric, Forest St., grass. 10 Elm Square, electric car. 15 Herbert Alger, North Elm, apple orchard. 27 Margaret Sullivan, Central Sq., auto. 29 Vandyke, Matfield St., woods. 29 Vandyke, Matfield St., woods. June 19 James Keith, South Main St., woods. July 3 N. Y., N. H. & Hartford, railroad sleepers. 5 Old Plank House, Arch St. Oct. 14 Frank Redman, Matfield St., woods. 20 Mrs. Sumner Ames, South St., house. 23 James Belas, Ash St., house. 24 Turskey, West St., meadow. 29 Martha Simmons, Crescent St., house. 31 Trustees Howard Seminary, Drury Lane, hedge. 31 Howard St., wagon. Nov. 24 Gustaf Peterson, East Centre St., building. 26 Harry Pomeroy, East St., house. Dec. 9 Looking for lost children at Jerusalem lost in West Meadow. 108

13 Trustees of Howard Seminary, Robinson's house. 17 Helen Curtis, Howard St., house. 27 Charles Johnson, North Elm St., grass. 27 Redman Est., Matfleld St., woods. 26 William Ryder Est., East Centre St., chimney. 29 Anthony Turski, meadow. 29 Sunset Ave. Church Yard, grass. In performing this service the apparatus has traveled 215 miles, laid 8,100 feet of 2% hose, 1,750 feet chemical hose, 200 feet of % inch hose; raised 780 feet of ladder and used 146 gallons of chemicals. In closing I wish to thank the Selectmen and all others who have in any way helped the department. To the officers and members of the department I extend my hearty thanks for their co-operation.

Respectively submitted,

WARREN P. LAUGHTON, Chief of Fire Department. Report of Plymouth County Aid to Agriculture

Through local and county-wicle meetings of farmers and homemakers, through timely circular letters, through the 4-H clubs organized for the boys and girls of the county, and by means of personal correspondence, individual service to farmers and members of their families, and by assisting in the orderly marketing of agricultural products, the Plymouth County Extension Service, during 1931, co- operated with every town in the county in bringing to its citizens information regarding agriculture and homemak- ing. Very nearly six thousand families in the county have received assistance, information, or advice from the extension Service this past year. Attendance at agricultural meetings increased from 4,000 to over 6,300. Office calls have doubled and telephoned requests for information increased by 50%. There was a 50% increase in homemakers attending extension groups and the number attending single meetings was doubled. Membership in 4-H clubs has continued its steady growth with an increase of 50% in visits to club members. Many farmers in West Bridgewater were regular at- tendants at the meetings and tours. Eighty-eight men received regularly circulars and letters on questions of poultry management, pastures, dairy feeding, and other agricultural topics. Twenty-seven personal visits were paid by the county agent to farmers to give them advice on their 110

individual problems. A demonstration of methods of corn borer control was held at the farm of Earl Gummow, and was attended by dairymen and market gardeners from neighboring towns as well as West Bridgewater. During the rat control campaign, 85 packages of especially prepared bait were supplied citizens of the town at cost. Of the home projects, West Bridgewater has partic- ipated especially in Child Development and Clothing pro- grams. Large numbers of homemakers enrolled for the nutrition, gardening, and canning letters, and many registered for the mothers' service series. Eighty-two club members were enrolled in the following clubs: canning, clothing, garden, handicraft, home decoration and poultry. The organized clubs met regularly with a local leader. George Perry, a garden club member for three years, was selected as the Plymouth County garden delegate to the state 4-H club camp. Esther Peterson won third place in one class of the dress contest. Garden club members raised products valued at approximately $450.00. To present the annual report of the Plymouth County Extension Service, is always a pleasure. I wish to thank all those persons who have given assistance for their enthusiasm and their faithful work.

CORELLI C. ALGER, Town Director, (Per O. S. B.) :

Report of Water Commissioners

To the Honorable Board of Selectmen

At the end of the year 1931 the Town has on hand in cash from water receipts, $16,109.18 and $3,307.89 in uncollected water rates. It seemed to the majority of the Water Commissioners that with this sum available for appropriations it would be a fitting time to reduce the water rates so commencing on April 1, 1932, the new rates of $18.00 per year for 48,000 gal. and $13.00 per year for 36,000 gal. will be in effect. This lowering of water rates will decrease the income of the water department approximately $2,500.00, so that commitments for the year 1932 should total in the vicinity of $18,000.00 against appropriations requested for maintenance, bonds and interest, total- ing $15,005.09. If the total of uncollected water rates re- mains approximately the same as it has for the past two years, collections for 1932 should just about take care of expenditures. As regards the cash surplus of $16,109.18 the majority of the Water Commissioners do not favor appropriating any of this money this year for new or replacement construction. They feel that the Town if they wish this money used in Water Construction, should allow the Water De- partment the opportunity of presenting a comprehensive plan for rehabilitation of the Water Works to be done over a period of years systematically. With the present Bond issues maturing nearly in full within the next ten years, 112 additional Bond issues could cover part of the cost of re- construction with no increase in Water Rates. Maintenance expense for the year 1931 decreased over the previous year $442.00. City of Brockton water bills which were $332.48 less than the year previous accounts for the major part of the decrease. Commitments for the year after abatements of $176.46, total $20,689.67 of which $2,357.98 was committed for excess water and $130.00 committed for repairs and construction. During the year there has been installed six new services, and twr elve new meters. Three 4" hydrants have been moved, 24 curb boxes, and 10 gate boxes raised for road and sidewalk construction.

STOCK USED

10 Corporation cocks 24 Leaks in mains and ser- 17 Curb cocks vices 7 Lead bends 16 Leaks in meters 21 Curb boxes 8 New Gates 4" and 2" 9 Gate boxes 300 Feet 1" Pipe 18 1" Stopping waste 250 Feet 2" Pipe 24 Meters repaired 130 Feet Brass Pipe. 1" 19 Meters cleaned 10 1" Slip fittings 6 Services cleaned 7 2" Slip fittings 3 Services renewed 12 Hydrants repaired

FAELTON PERKINS, HERVEY DUNHAM, WARREN P. LAUGHTON, Water Commissioners. Report of Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare

The Selectmen would call to the attention of the voters of the Town the increase in the calls on the Public Welfare Department. The Town paid for the Public Welfare in 1929 about $4,000; in 1930, about $6,000; increasing in 1931 to about $9,000. The Old Age Assistance is another added expense to the Town, the amount now being about $130.00 per week. For permanent roads we finished the West End of East St., to Matfield St., a distance of 1,918 feet, at a cost of $6,129.00, the State paying one half, the County one-quarter and the Town one-quarter. The Selectmen worked with the Planning Board chosen by the Town as follows:

On Spring St., a Tarvia top road 4,300 ft. ; on Howard

St., Tarvia top, 2,640 ft. ; on Crescent St., Tarvia top, 2,600 ft. ; on Matfield St., Tarvia top, 900 ft. The Selectmen recommend that more Tarvia top roads be built on certain streets where the travel is light.

MORTON A. SIMMONS, JAMES A. HEMENWAY, WALTER C. WHITING. :

Report of Highway Department

To the Honorable Board of Selectmen Gentlemen

I herewith submit to you the annual report of the Superintendent of Streets. The work on highways started the first of January and continued through to December 31. From January 1 to March 15 the most of our work was gravelling some of our poorest streets and the removal of snow. A great amount of this work was done in order that we might provide some work for the unemployed citizens of the town. Our scraping and dragging started April 1 and continued at intervals through the summer and fall. I believe that more new road was made the past year than ever before. The Street Railway tracks were removed from Matfield Street and a fine piece of tarvia top road 900 feet long and 24 feet wide was built there. Howard street was torn up and regravelled and a Tarvia surface placed thereon for a distance of about 2,200 feet. About half mile of tarvia top was laid on Spring street, from Howard street to the residence of Josiah Tuck. Another piece was built from No. Elm street to Progressive avenue. Half mile of this type of road was built on Crescent street from North Elm street to the residence of John Peterson. The expense of the steam roller for this work was six hundred seventy-five dollars. Manley street, Walnut street, South Elm, and East street, were given a surface treatment 115 of asphalt and sand. South and Union streets were treated with Tarvia Re-Tread. Thirty tons of calcium-chloride was distributed on the dirt and gravel roads. Twelve inch concrete pipe culverts were placed in Walnut and Manley streets. The corner at West Centre and Main streets has been widened and a black top sidewalk built from that point to Howard street. The black top walk on North Elm street was continued from Sunset avenue to Crescent street. During the past year we have gravelled the following streets. Man- ley street, 1,200 feet; Pleasant street, 1,000 feet; Forest street, 1,000 feet; Samuel avenue, 400 feet; Progressive avenue, 800 feet, Bedford street, 2,000 feet; Ash street, 500 feet; Walnut street, 1,800 feet; Bryant street, 1,500 feet ; Commonwealth avenue, 700 feet. Several new street signs were put up and some of the old ones replaced. A large amount of railing has been built. There is still a lot of this work to be done for the safety of the public. A great deal of patching, both gravel and tar, has been clone under Chapter 81 work. In conclusion I wish to thank the Selectmen for their courteous treatment, also all others for their co-operation during the year.

Respectfully submitted,

DANIEL A. PENPRAESE, Superintendent of Streets. Report of Treasurer

Cash Balance January 1, 1931 $40,913.08 Receipts for 1931 235,024.65 $275,937.73

Payments 1931 $237,782.66 Cash Balance, Dec. 31, 1931 38,155.07 $275,937.73

For details of receipts and expenditures see Town Ac- countant's report.

CATHERINE M. HOWARD, Treasurer. Report of Collector of Taxes

TAXES OF 1927

Outstanding January 1, 1931 $448.00 Payments to Treasurer $93.22 Abatements 24.53 Audit adjustments 3.59 Outstanding December 31, 1931 326.66 $448.00

TAXES OF 1928

Outstanding January 1, 1931 $1,887.01 Overpayments to Treasurer 12.56

$1,899.57 Payments to Treasurer $1,481.76 Abatements 27.49 Outstanding December 31, 1931 390.32 $1,899.57

TAXES OF 1929

Outstanding January 1, 1931 $12,804.46 Audit Adjustment .72

$12,805.18 Payments to Treasurer $10,614.43 Abatements 100.00 Outstanding December 31, 1931 2,090.75 $12,805.18 118

TAXES OF 1930

Outstanding January 1, 1931 $33,313.46

Payments to Treasurer $18,296.63 Abatements 192.50 Audit Adjustment 8.90 Outstanding December 31, 1931 14,815.43 $33,313.46

TAXES OF 1931

Commitments $96,068.43 Refunds 22.00

$96,090.43

Payments to Treasurer $57,271.21 Abatements 221.70 Audit Adjustment 8.45 Outstanding December 31, 1931 38,589.07 $96,090.43

OLD AGE ASSISTANCE TAX 1931

Commitment $997.00 Added commitment 5.00

$1,002.00

Payments to Treasurer $806.00 1.00 195.00 $1,002.00 119

MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAX 1929

Outstanding January 1, 1931 $1,495.86

Payments to Treasurer $725.82 Abatements 11.27 Outstanding December 31, 1931 758.77 $1,495.86

MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAX 1930

Outstanding January 1, 1931 $2,819.75

Payments to Treasurer $814.62 Abatements 13.83 Audit Adjustment 5.57 Outstanding December 31, 1931 1,985.73 $2,819.75

MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAX 1931

Commitments $7,006.91

Payments to Treasurer $4,129.12 Abatements 181.32 Outstanding December 31, 1931 2,696.47 $7,006.91

CATHERINE M. HOWARD, Collector. Report of the Collector of Water Rates

WATER RATES—1928

Outstanding January 1, 1931 $47.50

Payments to Treasurer $10.50 Abatements 21.00 Outstanding December 31, 1931 16.00 $47.50

WATER RATES—1929

Outstanding January 1, 1931 $237.47

Payments to Treasurer $161.36 Abatements 55.86 Outstanding December 31, 1931 20.25 $237.47

WATER RATES—1930

Outstanding January 1, 1931 $3,197.79

Payments to Treasurer $3,014,06 Abatements 166.63 Audit Adjustment .30 Outstanding December 31, 1931 16.80 $3,197.79

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WATER RATES—1931

Commitments $20,886.63

Payments to Treasurer $17,455.33 Abatements 176.46 Outstanding December 31, 1931 $3,254.84 $20,886.63

CATHERINE M. HOWARD, Collector. : :

Report of Town Accountant

RECEIPTS GENERAL REVENUE

Current year:

Property and Polls $45,215.09 Excise Tax 4,129.12 Old Age Assistance 806.00

Previous years

Property and Polls $30,463.48 Excise Tax 1,482.57

From State: Income Tax $7,960.05 Income Tax, Schools 6,910.00 Corporations 2,197.14 National Bank 133.74 Veterans' Exemption 26.60 Street Railway 290.24 Trust Co., Tax 7.51 $99,621.

Licenses and Permits 2nd Hand Motor $20.00 Pasteurizing 50.00 Pedlers ? 30.00 Sunday 32.00 123

Victuallers' 20.00 Revolver Permits 7.00 Dance 5.00 Slaughtering 5.00 Music 2.00 Alcohol 6.00 $177.00

FINES AND FORFEITS

Collectors' receipts $84.07 Fines—Court $544.16

GRANTS AND GIFTS

From State: Schools—Superintendents' Salary $1,288.89 Massachusetts School Fund 4,870.32 Aid to Schools 346.89 $6,506.10 Highways, Gas Tax $975.00 From County—Dog Tax $706.25

GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Town Hall—Rent $935.00 Town Hall—Pasture $30.00

PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY

Police—No trespass signs $1.80 Reimbursement from dances 456.00 $457.80 Sealer of Weights and Measures $63.90 : : :

124

Gypsy Moth Reimbursement from State $40.20 Reimbursement from Individuals 15.00 Lead 95.04 $150.24

Tree Warden, Planting and Trimming Trees $51.50

HIGHWAYS

From State Construction East St. $2,809.37 Construction, East St. 732.39 $3,541.76

Maintenance—Chapter 81 $2,117.91 Maintenance—Chapter 81 1,603.38 $3,721.29 County of Plymouth East St. $1,996.74 Manley St. 477.66

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE Reimbursement—Temporary Aid Cities and Towns $548.04 Individuals 409.00 State 22.05 $979.09

SOLDIERS' BENEFITS

From State : State Aid $210.00 Military Aid 150.00 $360.00 125

SCHOOLS Reimbursement: Other Cities and Towns $373.05 From State 427.55 From Individuals 50.00 $850.60

SALE OF LAND AND SCHOOLHOUSES

Land and Schoolhouse, So. Main St. $381.00 Land and Schoolhouse, East St. 400.00 $781.00

LIBRARY

Fines, etc. $44.60

PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISES Water Department: Sale of water, rates $20,455.01 Construction 185,40 $20,640.41

INTEREST

On Taxes $2,151.78 On Deposits 326.65 $2,478.43

MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS

Revenue Loans $75,000.00 : :

126

AGENCY AND TRUST Agency State Tax $3,450.00 Special State Tax 990.00 County Tax 7,616.12 $12,056.12

Trust Income, Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds $481.70 Income, Library Funds $1,244.32

REFUNDS

Water $48.65 Schools 3.91 Parks 5.28 Highways 7.05 Moth 3.00 Collector and Treasurer .48 $68.37

$235,024.65

Cash Balances, January 1, 1931 40,913.08

$275,937.73 :

127 PAYMENTS DEPARTMENTAL—GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Selectmen: Salaries $448.00 Clerk 15.00 Stationery and Postage 6.00 Printing and Advertising 39.25 Surveys 65.00 Posting Warrants 3.75 Auctioneer 10.00 $587.00

FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Town Accountant Salary $650.00 Administering Oaths 6.00 Stationery and Postage 3.83 Printing 31.85 Telephone 30.15 $721.83 Auditing Municipal Accounts $256.58 Collector and Treasurer: Salary $1,000.00 Bonds and Insurance 320.30 Travelling Expenses 46.49 Stationery and Postage 129.88 Printing and Advertising 112.88 Telephone 59.79 Safe Deposit Box 3.00 Safe Guard Check Writer 57.50 Check-book 6.50 Transfers and Registering 3.66 $1,740.00 :

128

Assessors Salaries $1,214.46 Clerks 117.00 Auto-hire 49.00 Stationery .85 Printing and Advertising 34.63 Office Equipment 43.25 Plans 126.45 Mounting and Binding 2 Vols. 150.00 Express .72 $1,736.36

Town Clerk: Salary $540.00 Typewriter 50.00 Printing 6.00 Administering Oaths 12.00 Travelling Expenses 10.00 Posting Notices 1.25 Stamps 3.50 Bond 5.00 $627.75

Other Financial Officers and Accounts: Certification of notes $3.00 Law: List of Jurors $5.00 Printing list of jurors 3.95 $8.95

TOWN COMMITTEES

Printing By-laws $72.00 :

129 FINANCE COMMITTEE

Printing $8.75

Election and Registration: Registrars $19.50 Election officers 78.75 Stationery and Postage 2.00 Printing 32.94 Meals 18.17 Posting Notices 1.25 $152.61

MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS

Town Hall and Offices: Janitor $975.00 Telephone 131.87 Fuel 612.80 Light 186.27 Janitor's supplies 2.45 Repairs 223.04 Water 21.00 Repairing Typewriter 5.50 Record ink & express 3.19 — $2,161.12 Unemployed, Labor 255.20 Flush closet 134.00 Total $2,550.32

PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY

Police Chief $1,173.43 Policemen 657.19 Special Police 86.50 1

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VJlOacCIO Clanrl1 1 \A OilV_/ 1 106 07 Electric Liffht 13.79 Repairs—Motorcycle & Auto 70.49 Insurance 116.90 Legal Service 25.00 Printing and Postage 17.94 Paint, Painting, Lumber & Hardware 101.07 New Auto 505.00 Brockton Police Association 18.00 Matron 14.00 Express 1.11 $3,191.27 Dog Officer $36.26 Fire Department: Wages, Fires $595.42 Station Duty 276.10 Alarm System & Wiring 67.80 Inspection 25.00 Telephone 301.10 Insurance 21.50 Repairs 352.44 Equipment & Supplies 335.61 Bonus 210.00 Rent 144.00 Gas and Oil 23.97 Electric Current 78.00 Fuel 47.75 Express .40 $2,479.09 Water for Hydrants $2,500.00 131 FORESTRY EXTERMINATION Superintendent $708.13 Labor 1,077.60 Teams 254.50 Insecticides 17.75 Printing 1.10 Tools 5.80 Telephone 31.56 Gas and Oil 72.80 Repairs, Truck 83.52 Storing Sprayer 15.00 Insurance 37.00 Water 5.20 Express 2.04 Unemployed, Labor 287.40 $2,599.40 Tree Warden: Warden $232.50 Labor 234.50 Tools 3.25 Gas and Oil 13.03 $483.28 INSPECTION—SEALER OF WEIGHTS & MEASURES Wages $75.00 Equipment 15.98 Insurance, State Scales 16.32 Advertising 3.92 Repairs 11.00 $122.22 HEALTH AND SANITATION Board of Health, Quarantine, Vital Statistics and Other Expenses: Salaries $43.25 Printing and Advertising 12.75 Guarding Dump 163.20 : :

132

Cleaning & Fencing Dump 74.35 Cards 62.50 Quarantine 68.53 Vital Statistics 91.75 Fumigation 113.88 Examinations 11.00 Plymouth Co. Hospital 317.20 Hospitals 208.50 $1,168.91

Plymouth County Hospital Maintenance $1,043.26

Visiting Nurse Association $300.00

INSPECTION—ANIMALS AND SLAUGHTERING Animals Salary $100.00

Slaughtering: Salary $268.28 Telephone 34.19 $302.47

HIGHWAYS Maintenance Superintendent $427.50 Labor 5,360.60 Truck Hire 1,684.35 Calcium Chloride 987.14 Gas and Oil 321.62 Insurance 144.80 Police 23.73 Steel 56.19 Tank 40.00 Roller 246.00 133

Bricks and Rope 10.65 Registration 4.00 Advertising 4.42 Sand 839.45 Repairing Trucks 601.86 Tools 181.32 Rent 180.00 Supplies 98.33

TTnprrmlnvprlllClllJJlUj' CU) JJtlUUlT,ahnr 960 60 Oil and Tarvia 2 882.65

$15,098.46

Maintenance, Chapter 81: Superintendent $845.00 Labor 5,510.85 Gas and Oil 290.63 Truck & Team Hire 1,273.96 Stone 420.40 Repairing Trucks 127.10 Equipment & Supplies 85.45 Steam Roller 74.00 Repairing Scraper 7.80 Weighing 7.20 Tile 6.58 Line Posts and Signs 69.60 Telephone 6.00 Express 10.25 Cement, Oil and Asphalt 1,011.46 $9,746.28

East St., 1930: Construction $888.58 Freight 2.95 $891.53 :

134

East St., 1931: Construction $7,018.92 Weighing 37.25 Advertising 27.35 $7,083.52

Manley St: Construction $1,737.87

Street Signs and Bridges: Labor $604.20 Signs and Signboards 24.79 Lumber, Paint and Hardware 326.38 Tools 3.63 Advertising 3.93 $962.92

North Elm St., Sidewalk Superintendent $40.00 Labor 552.90 Trucks 195.00 Survey 20.50 Gas and Oil 18.11 Weighing 7.80 Asphalt Mix 611.80 Gravel 29.40 Moving Hydrant 17.90 $1,493.41

West Centre St., Sidewalk: Superintendent $16.25 Labor 164.40 Trucks 18.00 Survey 14.50 Asphalt mix 473.80 135

Lumber, Cement and Gravel 40.56 Weighing 7.20 Gas and Oil 11.60 $746.31

Sidewalks: Superintendent $15.00 Labor 204.00 Trucks 24.00 $243.00 Snow: Superintendent $64.38 Labor 417.20 Sidewalk Plows 114.00 Truck-hire 176.00 Repairing Plows 12.01 Tools 6.00 Gas and Oil 26.73 Repairing Trucks 19.15 Blade 12.00 Express .40 $847.87 Total for Highways $38,851.17

STREET LIGHTS

Edison Electric 111. Co. $3,726.00

Edison Electric 111. Co. New 88.53 $3,814.53

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE

Salaries $30.00 Printing and Stationery .67 136

Groceries and provisions 1,371.57 Clothes 20.00 Medicine and Medical Attendance 253.50 Fuel 52.51 Cash 1,764.50 Other Cities and Towns 1,387.09 State Institutions 1,321.00 Rent 288.30 Burial 80.00 $6,569.32

OLD AGE ASSISTANCE

Cash $1,813.00 Blanks 7.20 $1,820.20

SOLDIERS' BENEFITS

State Aid $188.00 Soldiers' relief 493.50 $681.50

EDUCATION

Bills of 1930: School Physician $300.00 Tuition 12.80 $312.80

Bills of 1931: Superintendent's Salary $2,533.20 Clerk 548.00 137

School Physician 150.00 Attendance Officer 100.00 Printing, Stationery and Postage 42.62 Telephones 286.30 Traveling expenses: Superintendent 351.20 Teachers 86.59 School Census 45.00 School Nurse, Salary 744.20 School Nurse, traveling expenses 195.68 Teachers' Bonus 200.00 Teachers' Salaries, High 11,756.50 Teachers' Salaries, Elementary 19,424.18 Text and reference books, High 310.44 Text and reference books, Elementary 311.72 Equipment & supplies High 908.44 Equipment & supplies Elementary 987.68 Freight & express 55.32 Other tuition 868.56 Transportation, Elementary 3,402.50 Transportation, Insurance 264.00 Janitors, Elementary 2,404.00 Janitors' supplies, Elementary 114.58 Fuel, Elementary 1,917.57 138

Gas, High 29.79 Electric current, Elementary 135.29 Tuning pianos 14.50 Diplomas & graduat- ing exercises 54.95 Maintenance, Build- ings & Grounds: Repairs, Elementary 1,327.22 Cleaning, Elementary 39.60 Water, Elementary 147.00 Water, High 29.82 $49,786.45 Total for Schools $50,099.25

LIBRARY

Librarian, Salary $325.00 Assistants, Salaries 335.88 Books and Periodicals 1,012.59 Fuel 39.00 Janitor 100.00 Light 14.08 Supplies 29.00 Printing 12.50 Cleaning 11.95 Equipment 20.25 Repairs 193.75 $2,094.00

RECREATION

Memorial Day $100.00 Care of Monument Grounds $51.00 :

139 PARKS

Putting out Flag, Central Sq. $7.00 Care of Elm Sq. 10.60 Christmas Tree 11.18 $79.78

UNCLASSIFIED

Printing and distributing Town Reports $543.00 Fire Insurance $535.21 Liability Insurance $522.46 Plymouth Co. Aid to Agriculture $100.00

WATER DEPARTMENT Maintenance Commissioners' Salaries $150.00 Clerks 254.05 Office Equipment 72.55 City of Brockton, Water 5,499.93 Express & Freight 4.17 Registration 2.00 Stationery and Postage 64.00 Printing and Advertising 43.00 Telephone 35.89 Labor 2,261.00 Pipes and fittings 348.32 Repairing and testing meters 83.55 Gas and Oil 58.77 :

140

Insurance 84.40 Repairing Truck 101.48 Tools & Supplies 29.10 Repairing Hydrant 6.00 $9,098.21 Bonds and Interest: Bonds $4,535.00 Interest 1,753.59 $6,288.59 Total for Water $15,386.80

CEMETERIES

Care of Cemeteries $229.15

INTEREST

On temporary loans $1,022.71

MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS

Temporary loans $80,000.00 Taxes State Tax $3,450.00 Special State Tax 990.00 County Tax 7,616.12 Division of Parks 59.16 Trust Co. Tax .37 $12,115.65

TRUSTS

Cemetery Perpetual care Funds $310.00 :

141 REFUNDS

Taxes $117.63

$237,782.66 Cash balances, Dec. 31, 1931: General $38,155.07

$275,937.75

Unpaid bills of 1930: Highways $95.20

Unpaid bills of 1931 Selectmen 91.60 Health, Inspection 10.72 Highways 3.57 Public Welfare 909.82 Public Welfare 8.65 Schools 717.48

TRANSFERS FROM RESERVE FUND

Old Age Assistance $850.00 Police 200.00 Collector and Treasurer 40.00 Dog Officer 10.00 Health, Inspection 40.00 Assessors 200.00 Public Welfare 25,00 $1,365.00 i

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CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS

Savings bank deposits Total On hand at beginning of year $3,978.87 $3,978.87 On hand at end of year 4,328.34 4,328.87

Receipts Payments Income $187.07 Added to Savings Bequests 310.00 deposit Transferred to Town

$497.07 Q A 0*7 AT

Name of Fund Jan. 1, 1931 Receipts Withdrawn J an. 1, 1932 Alfred E. Alger $211.37 $10.14 $5.00 William Burke 167.73 8.03 5.00 "1 TA H (X Davis Copelancl 209.78 10.07 9.00 Z1U.OOOl A QPJ Mrs. Henry Copeland 104.90 4.75 6.00 1lUo.boAO CC Lyman and Nathan Copeland 673.31 32.36 48.60 657.07 Samuel G. Copelancl 212.55 9.65 9.00 213.20 Martha K. Crosby 102.86 4.66 6.00 101.52 Mary A. Dewyer 141.19 6.41 8.00 139.60 The Hartwell Fund 307.18 14.75 8.00 313.93 Julia M. Hooper 128.40 6.15 134.55 Tsabelle Howard 103.74 4.71 6.00 102.45 Samuel H. Howard 103.31 4.94 3.00 105.25 S. Nelson Howard 101.10 4.85 4.00 101.95 Hattie M. Jennings 107.46 6.86 3.00 109.32 Warren C. Kinney 200.00 9.61 7.00 202.61 Henry J. Lelacheur 102.95 4.66 6.00 101.61 Fred A. Perkins 103.04 4.94 3.00 104.98 Rosa R. Shaw 318.36 14.47 3.00 329.83 147

Orrin Smith 153.69 6.97 8.00 152.66 So. St. Cemetery 223.94 10.15 24.10 209 99 Charles C. Thayer 202.01 9.19 211.20 *Sanford Alger 50.00 .75 50.75 *Sumner D. Keith 100.00 100.00 * Frank P. Hatch 160.00 160.00

$4,288.87 $187.07 $171.70 $4,304.24 Bequest

LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS

Securities Deposits Total On hand beginning of year $500.00 $19,950.89 $20,450.89 On hand at end of year 500.00 19,643.51 20,143.51

Receipts Payments Withdrawn from Transfer to Town $1,244.32 Savings deposits $307.38 Income 936.94

$1,244.32 $1,244.32

Name of Fund Jan. 1, 1931 Receipts Withdrawn Jan. 1, 1932 Cornelia Alger $524.82 $25.18 $550.00 Nathan Copeland 577.24 27.73 $21.48 583.49 M. N. K. Edgerly 553.36 25.19 10.63 567.92 Francis E. Howard 535.03 23.58 10.62 547.99 Mary L. Perkins 1,001.53 48.12 35.59 1,014.26 Mary P. Whitman 17,258.91 787.14 1,166.20 16,879.85

$20,450.89 $936.94 $1,244.32 $20,143.51

ARTHUR C. PECKHAM, Town Accountant. State Auditor's Report

To the Board of Selectmen, Mr. Morton A. Simmons, Chairman, West Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Gentlemen:

I submit herewith my report of an audit of the accounts of the town of West Bridgewater for the year ending De- cember 31, 1931, made in accordance with the provision of Chapter 44 of the General Laws. This report is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. Edward H. Fenton, Chief Ac- countant of this Division.

Very truly yours,

THEODORE N. WADDELL, Director of Accounts.

REPORT

Mr. Theodore N. Waddell, Director of Accounts, Department of Corporations and Taxation, State House, Boston.

Sir:

In accordance with your instructions I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of West Bridge- 149

water for the year ending December 31, 1931, and submit the following report thereon. The financial transactions of the town, as recorded on the books of the several departments receiving or disbursing money for the town, were examined and reconciled with the books and records in the accountant's office. The books and records of the town accountant were examined and checked. The recorded receipts were checked with the reports from the several departments making payments to the town treasurer and with the treasurer's cash book. The ledger was analyzed, the necessary adjustments were made, a trial balance was taken off, and a balance sheet, which is appended to this report, was prepared showing the financial condition of the town as of December 31, 1931. In checking the appropriations as recorded in the town accountant's ledger with the town clerk's records of the town meetings, it was noticed that at the adjourned town meeting held March 9, 1931, an appropriation of $347.80 for unpaid bills of 1930 was voted to be taken from surplus revenue, and that at a special town meeting held January 18, 1932, an appropriation of $1,767.82, representing unpaid bills of 1931, was voted from surplus funds in the treasury. In this connection attention is called to Section 23, Chap- ter 59, General Laws, as amended by Chapter 428, Acts of 1931, which requires that the assessors raise all sums appropriated by the town since the last preceding annual tax assessment, and which also provides that deductions on account of appropriations voted from available funds in the treasury may be made by the assessors only upon the approval of the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation. All appropriations voted by the town, whether they are to be raised by taxation or to be provided for by transfer from available funds in the treasury should be certified by the town clerk 150 to the assessors, in accordance with the requirements of Section 15-A, Chapter 41, General Laws. The recorded transfers from the reserve fund were compared with the authorizations for transfers by the finance committee. The books and accounts of the treasurer and collector, as treasurer, were examined and checked, the recorded receipts being compared with the records in the several departments collecting money for the town, with the other sources from which money was paid into the town treasury, and with the records in the town accountant's office. The payments were checked with the warrants authorizing the treasurer to disburse town funds and with the accountant's ledger accounts. The payments on account of debt and interest were checked with the amounts falling due. All the cancelled securities were not available for examination, and it is again recommended that they be properly filed when received. The treasurer's cash on hand was verified by an actual count and the bank balance was reconciled with a statement furnished by the Home National Bank of Brockton as of January 18, 1932. The saving bank books and securities, representing the investments of the various trust funds in the custody of the town treasurer, were examined and listed, the income being proved and the withdrawals checked and reconciled. It is again recommended that the overdraft of $50 in 1930 in the account designated "Library-Books", be provided for by transfer from library trust fund income. The books and accounts of the treasurer and collector, as tax collector, were examined and checked. The commitments of taxes were verified, the recorded receipts were compared with the payments to the treasurer, the abatements were listed and checked to the assessor's records of abatements granted, and the outstanding accounts were 151

listed and proved. A further verification of the outstanding accounts was secured by mailing notices to a number of persons whose names appeared on the books as owing money to the town, and from the replies received it appears that the accounts, as listed, are correct. It is recommended that determined action be taken at once to secure settlement of the outstanding taxes for the levies of 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930, in order that the collector may perform her duties faithfully in accordance with the terms of her surety bond. The books and accounts of the treasurer and collector, as water collector, were examined and checked. The recorded abatements were checked with the water commissioners' records of abatements granted ,and the outstanding accounts were listed and proved with the accountant's ledger. The records of the town clerk for dog and sporting licenses were examined and checked, and the payments to the County and State, respectively, were verified with the receipts on file. The receipts from rental of the town hall and from licenses granted by the selectmen did not lend themselves to proper audit, due to the inadequate records kept. It is again recommended that complete records be kept in order that income from these sources may be properly audited. In addition to the departments mentioned, the books and accounts of the sealer of weights and measures, the tree warden, the school, public welfare, and library departments were examined, and the payments to the treasurer were verified. The surety bonds of the treasurer and collector and of the town clerk were examined and found to be in proper form. Appended to this report, in addition to the balance sheet, are tables showing a reconciliation of the treasurer's 152

cash summaries of the tax and water accounts, together with tables relative to the trust fund transactions. While engaged in making the audit I received the co-operation of the several town officials, and on behalf of my assistants and for myself, I wish to express appreciation. Respectfully submitted, EDWARD H. FENTON, Chief Accountant.

The figures and tables referred to by the Chief exam- iner are a repetition of those contained in the town accountant's and town collectors report of 1931. ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE

AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

OF THE TOWN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER

FOE THE YEAR 1931 MEMBERS AND ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Harold Lyon Term expires 1932 Mrs. Edith Alger Term expires 1932 Mr. Edwin H. Thayer Term expires 1933 Frank G. Chadwick Term expires 1933 Mrs. Corelli Alger, Secretary Term expires 1934 Dr. W. C. Whiting Term expires 1934

Regular meetings of the School Committee are held in Room 4, Town Offices, on the second Monday of each month, July and August excepted, at 7 :45 P. M.

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Ernest W. Robinson

Office, Howard High School Telephone Brockton 5094 Residence, 40 Ash Street, West Bridgewater Telephone Brockton 5976-R

SCHOOL PHYSICIANS

Dr. Ellis LeLacheur Dr. Walter Whiting

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE OFFICER

Irving W. Lothrop :

Report of School Committee

To the Citizens of West Bridgewater

The successful operation of the public schools of the town for the past year has presented problems of administration that have not been easy to solve. The chief diffic- ulty of course has been financial, which is undoubtedly true of a great many communities, large and small in the state. One item of expense in our entire amount of expenditure which largely exceeded our estimate was that of tuition for students in the vocational schools, of Bristol and Nor- folk County. Over this outlay the School Board has no control, as any student over fourteen years of age may elect this type of education, the tuition for which is $200 per year per pupil. In 1930-31 there were only four pupils attending these schools, while at present writing we are paying for the education of eleven boys at the above mentioned vocational institutions. The fact that we receive from the State one half of the total amount we pay for this class of tuition makes it possible for the town to carry this expensive educational burden. The School Board however, is compelled to ask for the entire amount of such tuition in its annual budget estimate, a condition that makes the budget assume larger propor- tions, than the net expense to the town substantiates. Such repairs as seemed necessary for the maintenance of our school buildings in good condition were carried out :

156 last year, and we feel that we can carry on for the current fiscal year with a comparatively small outlay for this department of school operation. In the reports of the Superintendent of Schools, and the various supervisors will be found brief but excellent summaries of conditions and needs as the various officials see them. These will repay careful reading by all interested citizens. But few changes have occurred in the teaching staff of the system, a condition that in the main works for the benefit of education as continuity of service has several important advantages to any community. Under the energetic and capable leadership of Super- intendent Robinson, progress has been steady and sure. Modern methods of teaching and supervising are effectively employed, and the spirit throughout the system is one of very helpful co-operation in all departments of activity. We have asked in our budget estimate for 1932 for less than we expended in 1931 with the purpose of aiding the general financial situation as far as we can by exercising the most rigid economy that is consistent with good service from teachers, and adequate education for the boys and girls of our town. Our budget estimate for 1932 is as follows

General Control $4,350.00 Teachers' Salaries 31,500.00 Books and Supplies 2,200.00 Janitors' Service 2,400.00 Fuel and Light 2,100.00 Maintenance and Repairs 700.00 Transportation 3,700.00 Tuition 2,500.00 School Nurse 950.00 Miscellaneous 100.00

Total $50,500.00 Report of Superintendent of Schools

To the School Committee:

I herewith submit my third annual report in which the needs and activities of the various departments are briefly set forth. The changes in teaching personnel were fewer than in the preceding school year, numbering three replace- ments and two additional assistant teachers for the current school year 1931-1932. In the Howard High School, Miss Beatrice Copeland of the history department was replaced by Miss Emily Rutter, a graduate of Wheaton College, with an A. M. degree from Clark University. Miss Madeline Rice of the language department was succeeded by Miss Edna Currier a graduate of the University of New Hamp- shire. Both of these teachers are doing excellent work in their respective departments. At the Cochesett School Miss Priscilla Smith was appointed to the primary grades, to succeed Miss Grace Dash- off who was transferred to the fifth and sixth grades of the Sunset Avenue School formerly taught by Miss Dorothea Murphy who resigned to take up work at East Haven, Con- necticut. The membership of Miss Mildred MaeDonald's third and fourth grade room has been in excess of fifty pupils from the beginning of the school year. We have been able to secure the voluntary services of Miss Nellie Turski, a graduate of the Castine, Maine State Normal School, who 158 has been doing excellent work assisting Miss MacDonald, for the purpose of gaining teaching experience for herself. A similar congested condition has existed at the Center School where Miss Riley's seventh grade membership has numbered over fifty since the opening of the school year in September. Here again we have been fortunate in securing the services of Miss Alice Guinea, a four year graduate of Bridgewater Normal School, who has also done excellent work in both 7th and 8th grades, thereby reliev- ing the teaching burden of Principal Rose MacDonald and Miss Margarette Riley. Throughout the school system there is ample evidence of fine spirit, good discipline, and productive teaching methods on the part of all our teachers, and I take this opportunity of expressing my own appreciation of this valuable and important element in the success of our local school administration. The achievement tests given in May from the fourth to eighth grades inclusive revealed a very satisfactory standard of accomplishment for the school year. Since these tests are primarily designed for straight grades, it is grati- fying to have pupils of double graded rooms attain a scholastic level that easily bears comparison with those school systems in which each room has but one grade and one teacher to that grade. The interest and energy displayed by all the teachers in giving these tests, tabulating them and interpreting the results, must of necessity help to raise our scholastic standards, and work toward the attainment of a certain degree of uniformity in our educational results. Worn out and antiquated text books have been replaced as rapidly as possible by judicious selection from the great amount of high class modern texts that are now available in the school book publishing world. Many of these texts are most skilfully designed for clarity of teaching, and simplicity of understanding on the part of the pupils, to 159

whom a great variety of factual knowledge is presented in an attractive and scientific manner. The annual reports of the various supervisors are presented at this time and are worthy of very careful reading. They give a sharp, distinct picture in every instance of the aims of each department, the problems that arise from time to time which present difficulties and the conditions that hamper successful operation. These reports have been well thought-out and effectively presented. In conclusion I wish to acknowledge the constant support and sympathetic guidance of the School Board, whose spirit has been always progressive, and expressed in reasonable and workable methods of school administration.

Respectfully Submitted,

ERNEST W. ROBINSON, Superintendent of Schools.

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL

Mr. Ernest W. Robinson, Superintendent of Schools, West Bridgewater, Mass.

Dear Sir:

I herewith submit my fifth annual report as Principal of the Howard High School. On November 1 the school's enrollment was at its max- imum, 150, distributed as follows: 33 Seniors, 31 Juniors, 30 Sophomores, and 47 Freshmen. This membership which is four less than the largest number, 154, reached in 1925, represents an increase of 11 over last year's figures. Begin- ning with 1923 the totals up to the present year are: 137, 160

137, 154, 142, 135, 129, 138, 130, and 139. The average enrollment for the five year period starting with 1922 ex- ceeds by 4 that for the last five year period. During the past four years the school has graduated 88 students, of whom 22 matriculated in college, and 19 entered business schools of high standing. Considered as one group these students reflect credit upon the school from ". which they graduated. Such unsolicited statements as, . . Miss Blank is doing decidedly excellent work, reflecting great credit not only upon herself but upon the training which she received in your school. . . .," and "especially good work in accounting and typewriting," give an excellent idea of the character of work done by our commercial graduates. The first semester results of the college group viewed in connection with the method by which they were admitted to their respective institutions are tabulated below.

College Normal Schools Total c E D C E D Students 10 2 4 3 0 3 22 Subjects 73 14 34 32 0 30 183 Subjects Failed 3 1 6 0 0 0 10 % of Failures 4 7 17 0 0 0 5

C, entered by certificate E, entered by examination D, entered by diploma

As noted above 183 courses were completed with only 10 failures, for 7 of which the school assumes no direct re- sponsibility. The school, however, is particularly concerned with the percentage of failures in certified subjects which have been taken in High School and continued in college. Although small these failures cannot be neglected. The High Schools' course becomes clear when further study dis- closes the fact that these failures were the outcomes of the policy of admitting students into college on certificates when the grades in these subjects placed them barely with- 161 in the certificate class. Furthermore, frequent failures in college of our certified students inevitably means the loss of serving better both the school and its pupils, and without upsetting the present system of marking and promotion, the grade necessary for certification to college has been raised from 80 to 85%. Through the generosity of the Class of 1931, the school has acquired a radio-victrola combination. By reason of its wide range of usefulness, this instrument gives promise of becoming a powerful factor in furthering school interests and objectives. In addition to making available many of the educational features of the air, through the medium of the radio, selections of our own choice may be presented at a time convenient to the particular group interested. Plans are now in preparation for a music memory contest the aim of which will be to foster and develop greater knowledge, enjoyment, and appreciation of worthwhile musical selections. In this educational program the victrola will be in- dispensible. The extra-curricular policy of limiting the number of activities of the school has functioned faultlessly. Conflicts have been eliminated, the outside-of-class burden of the students has been lightened, and indications point toward better academic achievement. Greater concentration of effort upon fewer activities results in turning out finer products. This increased interest and productivity manifests itself especially in the school's magazine, "The Climber," and in the orchestra, as well as in interclass activities. From the standpoint of the number of students participat- ing, the fine sportmanship displayed, and the splendid spir- ited enthusiasm of pure enjoyment in this type of physical work, the interclass basketball series this year was more successful than ever. Placed upon a purely voluntary basis over one half of the students took part. This year the long list of worthy improvements in the 162 school plant was lengthened by the painting of the gym- nasium walls, the addition of needed desks, tables, and chairs, and the installation of other radiators in the office and Room 9. In conclusion, I wish to thank the Trustees of the Howard Funds for their generosity and interest in better- ing the physical equipment of the school, and you, the Teachers, School Committee, and other friends of the school for your loyal support of my efforts to maintain and en- rich the school's activities on a high educational level.

Respectfully submitted,

NILS G. LINDELL, Principal.

REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC

Mr. Ernest W. Robinson, Supt. of Schools, West Bridgewater, Mass.

Dear Sir:

I take pleasure in submitting my annual report as Su- pervisor of Music in the public schools of West Bridgewater. In the high school the chorus numbers one-hundred and thirteen students. An effort is being made to develop and foster group singing among the boys and girls respectively, Instead of confining the work exclusively to mixed chorus singing as heretofore a three and four part male chorus and a three part female chorus have been tried. Using the regular music period for this work necessarily means a large part of the students sitting unoccupied while the other group is busy. For this reason I most strongly urge that the School Board consider the value of boy's and girl's glee 163

clubs which would furnish added advantages for the more musically inclined. Each year our high school chorus grows and the proper seating of this group at graduation will soon become a problem. It has seemed desirable to the State Department of Education to have a course in music in the high schools that would serve as the best preparation for admission to the State Normal Schools. This course would also be of value to other students interested in music. The suggested outline which includes theory, sight-singing, and elementary harmony, would require two periods a week. Such a course has long been followed in many high schools and the supervisor has felt its need in our own program. In the elementary schools doing away with the ninth grade and combining the seventh and eighth grades much of the technical work ceases with the sixth year, which means that certain musical problems are never learned. The uniting of the seventh and eighth grades at the Center, which group is steadily growing in numbers, forbids class work in theory. The room is too crowded. There is no opportunity for seat work or individual help. The needs at the Sunset Avenue School are very appar- ent. While it is evident that the general atmosphere of the building has improved, the classes in music have lost. This is largely due to the fact that the personnel of the teaching force has been changing often for several years and in some cases the teachers were not strong in music. This condition has left its mark on the quality and quantity of work done and the classes are retarded in some cases a year or two. This school receives a visit from the supervisor once in two weeks and if a holiday occurs on that day it means a period of three weeks. If these grades were musically strong more frequent supervision would not be necessary. In the third and fourth grades the room is so crowded that practically all the work is rote. This will reveal itself 164

most discouragingly later on when older pupils will be required to do lower grade work in music. Such conditions leave their scars. The Music Hour series which has been introduced into one or two of the grades is most attractive, appealing and instructive in content. The children enjoy these illustrated songs. In the lower grades the singing of some of the songs has been accompanied by the rhythm band much to the delight of the children. In the Matfield School a class in piano playing was organized in the spring. These little pioneers in piano-class instruction were Audrey Sturgiss, Eleanor Sturgiss, Myrtle Lee, Virginia Barclay, Arlene Porter, and Jesse Morse. The interest was enthusiastic, the progress marked and the co- operation of Miss Kett and Miss Ward most helpful. In September the supervisor made an effort, through the teachers, to organize more of these classes. There was not a sufficient response to make the project worthwhile. I should like to say a word about these classes with the hope that something may be clone when financial conditions warrant. Throughout the country, in almost every State in the Union, classes in instrumental music have been organized in the schools and chief among these is the class in piano instruction. A course in piano is the best foundation for learning to play all other instruments. It is the one instrument most usually found in the home. These piano classes afford exceptional opportunity for the development of hid- den musical talent, and, because of the very small expense, give to a greater number of children the advantages of musical training. The cost of equipment—including book, rack, pianoforte keyboard, key finder and chord finder—and ten lessons of one hour each, for a class of twelve or fifteen, is five dollars per person. For several years in her report the supervisor has ad- vocated a course in music appreciation. In the newer music books such a course is taken for granted and an outline of 165 work indicated. In West Bridgewater no time in the sched- ule has been allotted for such a course. What little is done along this line is very desultory yet it has met with a re- sponsive interest on the part of the children. With the radio making its appearance in nearly every home and with the field it opens up to every listener I most strongly urge that some decided step be taken for educating and training the young ears to recognize, understand and appreciate the best in music. George Bernard Shaw says, "If young men had Music—to interest them, to engage them and satisfy many of their impulses, they would not go to the low plea- sures of the streets : they would be too fastidious to do so, for they would have an alternative." Our children know little nr nothing about the great masters in Music. Tney know Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Charles Lindberg, valuable men who have made their contribution to our material comforts; but Beethoven, Ed- ward MacDowell, Stephen Foster, Fritz Kreisler, men who have contributed to the cultural and aesthetic sides of life are not even known by name. The radio brings two kinds of music:—1, that which needs no conscious understanding because its message is instinctively barbaric and physical ; and 2, the kind that appeals to intelligence and requires training and nourishing. The popular music with its varied syncopation and prim- itive rhythm appeals to the physical sense. We begin to tap, swing and sway all unconsciously. But the music that reaches the heights and depths, the head and the heart; that stirs the emotions and inspires braver and loftier thoughts; this is the music that gives birth to courageous deeds and holy ideals ; this is the kind for which we should cultivate a taste. The supervisor would recommend that this course be taken under serious consideration for another year and if possible be given a place in the school curriculum. A lim- :

166 ited number of records could be procured and a first course in "Learning to Listen" be introduced, ending with a public music memory contest for the recognition of selection, corn- poser and instrument playing. In closing may I express my thanks to you for your helpful suggestions.

Yours respectfully,

LOIS J. SNOW, Supervisor of Music.

REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE

To the Superintendent of Schools and School Committee

In accordance with the usual procedure, the School Physician, Dr. Ellis LeLacheur, made his annual routine examination in September. Beginning at the High School notices were sent to parents of cases of defective tonsils and adenoids in their children. Two were found to have defective thyroid glands. Ten were advised not to partici- pate in athletic games without first consulting their family physician. Many were advised about certain health mat- ters requiring attention. Dr. LeLacheur continued examining pupils of the grade schools and forty two parents were advised to have their children's tonsils and adenoids removed. Other diseases found were impetigo, enlarged glands, scabies, cavious teeth, poison and minor ailments. All children entering school were duly vaccinated. The dental clinic has not been operating since Septem- ber because there were not enough requests to cover expenses since our clinic is self supporting. Only a few chil- 167

dren in the lower grades receive dental care either privately or in the clinic. This is the important time to receive such dental care. First aid material was distributed to each school. There were two mild cases of Infantile Paralysis in pre-school children. Thirty nine children were found to be 10% or more un- derweight. Measles were prevalent throughout the year. There were numerous cases of chicken pox and twelve cases of scarlet fever. The hearing tests have not been completed with the audiometer. This year grades three, seven and nine are the only ones to be examined by this method. So far there are no children with defective hearing at the Center School and only one at the High School. Two children from Co- chesett with hearing loss were examined at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, although there is a defective hearing loss, it is not permanent. Four children obtained glasses. Fifteen children had tonsils and adenoids removed: Two Hundred Ten home calls were made. Two boys attended Summer Health Camp, each were gland cases and the parents assumed part of the expenses, the remainder being paid out of the seal sale fund. Dr. Paul Wakefield visited the Howard High School and talked with the students and teachers in separate groups about the coming Chadwick Clinic, December 10, 1931, and subsequently came and did the tubercular skin test on 476 children. In four days these tests were read; 121 were positive reactors. December 17, 1931 these positive cases were X-Rayed by a staff having a portable equipment. January 6, 1932, 21 of those that were X-Rayed were given further examinations by a physician from the State Department of Public Health. Final results are not yet at hand, but it is expected that about a third of those examined will be recommended for further treatment. 168

To the hearty co-operation of teachers, parents and interested citizens of West Bridgewater I attribute the success of the Chadwick Clinic and I herewith acknowledge my indebtedness to them for the helpful spirit they have constantly shown in all movements making for the protection and improvement of community health.

Respectfully submitted,

LILLIAN M. HEWITT, School Nurse. 169

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES HOWARD HIGH SCHOOL

Class of 1931 HOWARD HALL

June seventeenth, at eight o'clock

Motto: The elevator to success is not running; use the stairs

CLASS OFFICERS *

President, William J. MacLean, Jr. Vice President, Priscilla J. Washburn. Secretary, Barbara S. Washburn. Treasurer, Gertrude M. Roscoe.

Class Colors—Green and White Class Flower—Sweet Pea

PROGRAM — 1. March "Trisgian" F. H. Losey Howard High School Orchestra 2. Prayer Rev. Gordan C. Capen 3. Music—"Nightfall (Liebestraum) " Franz Liszt High School Orchestra 4. Address Professor David D. Vaughn, Boston University 5. Presentation of Class Gift William J, MacLean, Jr. President Class of 1931 6. Acceptance for School Everett Bisbee President Class of 1932 170

7. Scholarship and Honor Awards Wednesday Night Club Scholarship Parent Teacher's Association Scholarship Matfield Woman's Club Scholarship Washington and Franklin Medal Principal Nils G. Lindell 8. Music—"Remembrances of WaldteufeP' Seredy-Tocaben High School Orchestra 9. Presentation of Diplomas Superintendent of Schools Ernest W. Robinson 10. Class Ode Written by Gertrude Roscoe Senior Class 11. Benediction Rev. Gordan C. Capen

CLASS ODE Written by Gertrude Roscoe Tune: "In the Gloaming"

High school days which Time has lent us Fade away in future's stead, Hearts o'erflowed with grief and sadness Briefly scan the path weVe led. Recollections, sweet and tender, Ne'er shall be from us aside, Golden stars shine bright before us As we leave these portals wide.

How we love our Alma Mater, Hail to her with worthy praise! Up the path with labors greater Our due thanks we'll ever raise. She has fashioned life's foundation, She our stumbling feet will guide. On this day of graduation Love and honor both abide. ;;

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Thus 'tis with a thrill of sadness That we end our High School days Farewell teachers, friends, and comrades, May Fate favor you always. We depart with pleasant mem'ries Of the days we've spent with you And the bonds of faithful friendship Shall endure our whole life through.

Farewell, dear old Howard High, May the world your name enshrine.

GRADUATES

College Course Roger Wendell Anderson Theodora Hardenbrook John G. Barros Marietta Elva Lothrop Elna L. Bernsten William James MacLean, Jr. Barbara E. Chadwick Gertrude M. Roscoe Wilmar C. Harlow Barbara S. Washburn

Commercial Course

Clifford Earl Broman Matthew F. Mazza Howard F. Brooks Evelyn R. Tillgren Mary Theresa Guinea Priscilla J. Washburn

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TEACHING FORCE 1931-32

Howard High School Nils G. Lindell Principal Arthur Frellick Science Margaret Hayes Commercial Naomi White Commercial Edna Currier Languages Miriam May English Emily Rutter History Center School Rose L. MacDonald—Principal Grade 8 Margaret Riley Grade 7 Elinore Spencer Grades 5 and Elizabeth Eastman Grades 4 and Miriam Hall Grades 2 and Gertrude Pillsbury Grades 1 and

Sunset Avenue School Theresa Miller—Principal Grades 7 and 8 Grace Dashoff Grades 5 and 6 Mildred MacDonald Grades 3 and 4 Elizabeth Worthing Grades 1 and 2

Matfield School Ellen Kett—Principal Grades 4, 5, 6

Gertrude Ward Grades 1, 2, 3

Cochesett School

Margaret Toomey—Principal Grades 4, 5, 6 Priscilla Smith Grades 1, 2, 3

Jerusalem School

Winifred Darling Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Supervisors

Lois J. Snow, Music Dorothy Griffin, Drawing 174 SCHOOL CALENDAR

1931-32

First term—15 weeks, opens September 14, closes De- cember 23, 1931. Second term—7 weeks, opens January 4, closes Feb- ruary 19, 1932. Third term—8 weeks, opens February 29, closes April 22, 1932. Fourth term—8 weeks, opens May 2, closes June 24, 1932. 1932-33 First term—15 weeks, opens September 12, closes De- cember 23, 1932. Second term—7 weeks, opens January 3, closes Feb- ruary 17, 1933. Third term—8 weeks, opens February 27, closes April 21, 1933. Fourth term—8 weeks, opens May 1, closes June 23, 1933. HOLIDAYS

Columbus Day, October 12, 1932. Armistice Day, November 11, 1932. Patriots' Day, April 19, 1933. Memorial Day, May 30, 1933.

VACATIONS Thanksgiving recess begins November 23 at noon, closes November 28, 1932. Christmas recess begins December 23, closes January

3, 1933 February recess, begins February 17, closes February 27, 1933.

Spring recess, begins April 21, closes May 1, 1933.

Report of the Finance Committee

In our recommendations for the new year, we have endeavored to keep in mind the existing economic conditions and at the same time, the necessity of appropriating sufficient funds to properly carry on the vital work of the Town. In instances where we have recommended a different sum than that asked for by the department heads, this was done with confidence that the department could operate with reasonable efficiency on the lower amount which seemed jus- tified by the financial conditions existing at the present time. The total of the appropriations recommended by the Committee (including those called for in Articles of the War- rant of the Town Meeting as well as those shown in the "Table of Comparison ") is approximately $7000.00 less than the total amount appropriated last year. If the voters of the Town desire to accept these recommendations this should mean a reduced tax rate this year. The appropriations recommended for Public Welfare and Old Age Assistance are considerably larger than ever before. These, however, are items which existing conditions have brought about, and which are largely beyond the control of the Committee or the voters. In our report last year we suggested the value to the Town of having a road program planned for the construction of black topped roads covering a period of years. We believe the results of the past year justify the action of the voters in appointing such a committee. We strongly indorse the continuation of the policy of appropriating a blanket amount for all road construction other than special State and County 2 aided roads, and that this appropriation be spent in accordance with the judgment of the Selectmen with the advice of the Road Committee. Although the Committee realize the need of more and better sidewalks in some sections of the Town, we feel that present financial conditions do not warrant this expenditure this year. We do not recommend additional street lights this year for the same reason. In the past the Town has paid for several telephones in private homes. We believe this is one place where a saving, even though small, should be made at this time. Therefore, we recommend that the Town pay for no telephones in private homes except in the case of the Chief of Police, Chief of Fire Department and one telephone in Cochesett to cover the Tapper System of the Fire Department located there. Once again, we call the attention of the voters to the serious situation in the matter of tax collections. The amount of uncollected taxes at the end of each year has steadily been increasing for several years until the total amount of uncollected taxes on January 1, 1932, amounted to over $56,000.00, which is equal to approximately 60% of the entire commitment of the Town based on 1931 figures. This Committee and the State Auditor in their reports of the year 1929 recommended a determined effort on the part of the Collector to effect a settlement of the overdue accounts of 1927 and 1928. However, there were outstanding on

January 1, 1932, over $300.00 on each of the years 1927 and 1928, over $2,000.00 for the year 1929, and over $14,000.00 for the year 1930. The statute law requires the collection of real estate taxes in one year from October 1st of the year of assessment, and of other taxes within two years from such date. Thus all taxes for 1927, 1928, and 1929, and all real estate taxes for the year 1930 are now long overdue. This large amount of uncollected taxes seriously affects the possibility of using any of the Surplus Revenue in the 3

Treasury of the Town for the purpose of lowering the tax rate of the new year. It also has a considerable bearing on the borrowing capacity of the Town. The Committee feels something must be done to remedy the situation. We thank the Town Officers for their co-operation in our efforts to keep the recommendations as low as possible consistent with efficient service. A table of estimates by department heads and amounts recommended by this Committee, also a report of our recommendations on the articles in the Town Warrant appear on the following pages.

B. L. CARTER, Chairman, A. E. RYDER, Secretary, M. W. ALGER, G. N. DAVIS, R. S. FRELLICK, B. F. HANSCOM, K. L. HARDENBROOK, J. OLSON, 0. B. PEARSON, G. A. PETERSON, E. C. PORTER, J. M. RICHARDS, G. W. SMITH, C. THAYER, A. T. WELLS. li

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Article 1. To elect the following Town Officers by Official Ballot: One Town Clerk for one year, one Moderator for one year, one Assessor for three years, one Selectman for three years, one member of the Board of Public Welfare for three years, one Treasurer for one year, one Tax Collector for one year, one Water Commissioner for three years, two School Committee for three years, two Trustees of Public Library for three years, one Tree Warden for one year, two Constables for one year. Polls will be open at 9 o'clock in the forenoon of March

7, 1932, and will be closed at 8 o'clock p. m.

Article 2. To choose Town Officers for the ensuing year not elected on the Official Ballot.

Article 3. To hear the reports of all Town Officers and Committees and act thereon.

Article 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current year. ARTICLE 4—The Finance Committee recommends such authorization.

Article 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropriation for the same. ARTICLE 5—The recommendations of the Finance Commit- tee for each Department appear in the tables included in their report. 8

Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to build a Tarvia Top Road on East Street from East Center Street south and appropriate money for the same. ARTICLE 6—The Finance Committee recommends that this be referred to the Selectmen and Road Committee and if any sum is so expended it be taken from the general High- way appropriation.

Article 7. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate $2250.00 for a Tarvia Top on Copeland Street providing the State will pay $4500.00 and the County $2250.00. ARTICLE 7—The Finance Committee recommends the appropriation of this sum.

Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1500.00 to widen Plain Street providing the State will pay $3000.00 and the County $1500.00 for construction of same. ARTICLE 8—The Finance Committee recommends the appropriation of this sum.

Article 9. To see what action the Town will take in regard to a hot mix top on North Elm Street sidewalk from Mr. Gambao's to Brooks Place and appropriate money for the same. ARTICLE 9—The Finance Committee does not recommend the construction of this sidewalk this year.

Article 10. To see if the Town will vote that repairs to South Street (gravel and tarvia) be continued as far as Aldrich Road and appropriate money for the same. ARTICLE 10—The Finance Committee recommends that this be referred to the Selectmen and Road Committee and if any sum is so expended it be taken from the general Highway appropriation. 9

Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to construct a bituminous concrete sidewalk on Matfield Street and appropriate money for the same. ARTICLE 11—The Finance Committee does not recommend the construction of this sidewalk this year.

Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to install one street light on Grant Street east of Pine Grove. ARTICLE 12—The Finance Committee does not recommend the installation of this light this year.

Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to install two street lights on Brooks Place from the last light west to Progressive Avenue. ARTICLE 13—The Finance Committee does not recommend the installation of these lights this year.

Article 14. To see what action the Town will take in regard to installing a light in front of the Town Hall and appropriate money for the same. ARTICLE 14—The Finance Committee recommends that this be referred to the Selectmen and any money so used be taken from the Town Hall appropriation.

Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to install a 6- ineh water pipe on Copeland Street and appropriate money from Water Revenue for same. ARTICLE 15—The Finance Committee does not recommend this installation at this time.

Article 16. To see what action the Town will take in regard to a sliding scale of wages for Town labor. ARTICLE 16—Referred to the voters at Town Meeting.

Article 17. To see what action the Town will take in regard to paying for telephones for Town Officers. ARTICLE 17—The Finance Committee recommends that the Town pay for NO telephones in private homes except those 10

of the Chief of Police, Chief of Fire Department and one telephone in Cochesett to cover the Tapper system of the Fire Department located there.

Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sin- nott Street as laid out by the Selectmen. ARTICLE 18—The Finance Committee recommends that this be referred to the Selectmen as action on this proposi- tion was taken at the Town Meeting last year.

Article 19. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for the maintenance of Visiting Nurse service in West Bridgewater. ARTICLE 19—The Finance Committee recommends favorable action.

Article 20. To see what action the Town will take in regard to rearranging the Town Offices and appropriate money for the same. ARTICLE 20—The Finance Committee does not recommend the appropriation of any money for this purpose at this time.

Article 21. To see what action the Town will take in regard to printing a list of tax payers in the Town Report every year. ARTICLE 21—The Finance Committee recommends that this list be omitted in the Town Report.

Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $6281.00 from Water Revenue to pay bonds and interest of the Water Loans. ARTICLE 22—The Finance Committee recommends the appropriation of $6105.09 for this purpose.

Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $9050.00 from Water Revenue for maintenance of the Water Department. ARTICLE 23—The Finance Committee recommends the appropriation of $9000.00 for this purpose. 11

Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $95.20 from the Reserve Surplus to pay a bill of the Highways of 1930. ARTICLE 24—The Finance Committee recommends favorable action.

Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the Surplus Reserve $8.65 to pay overdraft of the Public Welfare. ARTICLE 25—The Finance Committee recommends favorable action.

Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell the Schoolhouse on North Elm Street at Public Auction. ARTICLE 26—The Finance Committee recommends favorable action.

Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2000.00 to build a sidewalk on West Center Street beginning at Elm Square and going westerly as far the appropriation will go. By petition. ARTICLE 27—The Finance Committee does not recommend the construction of this sidewalk this year.

Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for the use of the Plymouth County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture and choose a Town Director as provided in Sections 41 and 45 of Revised Chapter 128 of the General Laws and act thereon. ARTICLE 28—The Finance Committee recommends the appropriation of $100.00 for this purpose.

Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1258.36 for maintenance of Plymouth County Hospital. ARTICLE 29—The Finance Committee recommends favorable action. 12

Article 30. To if the Town will vote to appropriate from Overlay Surplus the sum of $310.50 for overdraft on East Street, 1930, as ordered by the State Auditor. ARTICLE 30—The Finance Committee recommends favorable action.

Article 31. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.