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STEVENS BORN OCTOBER 26, 1863 DIED SEPTEMBER 30, 1940 Town Accountant 1910 - 1940 Sealer Weights and Measures 1910, 1911, 1912 Auditor 1911 ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE Town of Cohasset AND THE Report of Other Town Officers For the Year Ending December 31, 1940 Sanderson Brothers North AbIngton, Massachusetts INDEX Assessors, Board of 132 Cohasset Free Public Library 136 Collector of Taxes 117 Fire Department 125 Forest Warden 124 Harbor Master 142 Health Department 130 Highway Surveyor 129 Jury List 118 Moth Superintendent 123 Old Age Assistance, Bureau of 140 Paul Pratt Memorial Library 137 Planning Board 143 Police Department 120 Public Welfare, Board of 135 Registrars, Board of 47 School Department 165 Sealer of Weights and Meiasures 122 Selective Service Registration 122 Selectmen, Board of 135 State Audit of Accounts 144 Balance Sheet, Dec. 31, 1940 161 Town Accountant: Receipts 48 Expenditures 52 Town Clerk: Town Officers and Committees 3 Annual Town Meeting, March 2, 1940 9 Election of Officers, March 9, 1940 17 Vital Statistics 33 Town Treasurer 115 Tree Warden 123 W. P. A 131 Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1940 TOWN OFFICERS, 1940-1941 TOWN RECORDS Elected by Ballot Moderator ROBERT B. JAMES Town Clerk WILLIAM H. MORRIS Term expires March, 1941 Selectmen, Assessors and Board of Public Welfare EVERETT W. WHEELWRIGHT Term expires March, 1943 KENDALL T. BATES Term expires March, 1942 DARIUS W. GILBERT, V.S Term expires March, 1941 Treasurer MARY P. TOWER Collector of Taxes ELEANOR T. DOWNS Constables JOHN T. KEATING HAROLD F. GOODWIN ROYAL A. BATES STEPHEN H. ROONEY WILLIAM E. TILDEN Highway Surveyor Tree Warden WILLIAM T. BARNES ROSCOE G. PRATT School Committee ARTHUR CLARK Term expires March, 1943 *ELLERY H. CLARK, JR Term expires March, 1943 WALTER C. WHEELWRIGHT Term expires March, 1942 JOHN L. EMERY Term expires March, 1942 MALCOLM H. STEVENS Term expires March, 1941 LOIS C. WHEELWRIGHT Term expires March, 1941 Board of Health ABRAHAM J. ANTOINE, JR Term expires March, 1943 NATHANIEL HURWITZ Term expires March, 1942 EDWARD E. TOWER Term expires March, 1941 Resigned, to take effect March 8, 1941. ANNUAL Report, Town of Cohasset, 1940 Trustees Cohasset Free Public Library HENRY F. HOWE Term expires March, 1943 KENNETH D. KETCHEM Term expires March, 1943 REV. CHARLES C. WILSON Term expires March, 1943 *GENEVIEVE W. RILEY Term expires March, 1942 BURGESS C. TOWER Term expires March, 1942 FLORENCE E. BRISTOL Term expires March, 1942 OLIVER H. HOWE Term expires March, 1941 SUSAN E. ARTHUR Term expires March, 1941 EMILY B. GLEASON Term expires March, 1941 Resigned. Planning Board LANGFORD WARREN Term expires March, 1945 RUSSELL DEAN Term expires March, 1944 HUGH F. STRAIN Term expires March, 1943 FRANK J. SALVADOR Term expires March, 1942 BURT M. BRISTOL Term expires March, 1941 Town Officers Appointed by Selectmen Town Accountant EDWARD L. STEVENS Term expires March, 1941 Died September 30, 1940 JOSEPH A. DION, JR. ...Appointed Temporary Town Accountant September 27, 1940 MALCOLM H. STEVENS Appointed Town Accountant October 17, 1940, for unexpired term to March, 1941, to start November 15, 1940. Started December 1, 1940 Registrars of Voters IRA N. PRATT Term expires March, 1943 HENRY E. SWEENEY Term expires March, 1942 NORMAN CARD Term expires March, 1941 WILLIAM H. MORRIS, ex-officio Clerk of Board Finance Committee HARRY H. REED Term expires March, 1943 JOSEPH J. CURLEY Term expires March, 1943 GEORGE W. BENEDICT, JR Term expires March, 1943 ROGER B. COULTER Term expires March, 1942 PAUL T. LITCHFIELD Term expires March, 1942 IRA B. P. STOUGHTON Term expires March, 1942 HAROLD F. BARNES Term expires March, 1941 CHARLES E. HOWE Term expires March, 1941 ARTHUR 0. WOOD Term expires March, 1941 Chief of Police under Civil Service HECTOR J. PELLETIER Sergeant under Civil Service EARL R. McARTHUR Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1940 Police Officers under Civil Service BENJAMIN F. CURLEY JAMES J. SULLIVAN, JR. JOHN J. ROONEY *EARL R. McARTHUR JOHN H. WINTERS, JR. THOMAS B. KANE *Appointed Sergeant August 8, 1940 Special Police Officers under Civil Service JOHN T. KEATING SPENCER H. STOUGHTON HENRY B. KENNEDY Special Police Officers Assigned to Police Department FRANK E. JASON JOHN J. FERREIRA JOSEPH A. DION, JR. RALPH S. ENOS PAUL W. PRATT CHARLES E. BUTMAN JOSEPH M. JASON LOT E. BATES, JR. EDWARD B. MATHEWSON LOUIS J. SIMEONE CHARLES T. HAVEN, Instructor in Fire Arms WILLIAM J. E. EDWARDS, Radio Division Special Police Officers EVERETT W. WHEELWRIGHT GILBERT S. TOWER Private Fire Chief AUGUST F. PETERSEN JOSEPH L. OLIVER Private Deputy Fire Chief CARLOS A. TANGER CLARENCE S. REDDY Private Deputy Fire Chief RICHARDSON WHITE ARTHUR CLARK Private Deputy Forest Warden STEPHEN H. ROONEY IRA B. STOUGHTON Private Deputy Forest Warden THOMAS J. AYERS WILLIAM T. BARNES Private Highway Surveyor HERBERT WILLIAMS, JR. RALPH C. BURRELL Whitney Woods Reservation Harbor Master MINOT A. BROWNE BERNARD J. SALVADOR Janitor, Town Hall Asst. Harbor Master CHARLES W. VICKERY HERBERT WILLIAMS Cohasset Golf Club Wire Inspector EDWARD R. JASON Private Sealer of Weights and Measures LOT E. BATES Town Engineer LEWIS W. PERKINS Inspector of Wires HERBERT WILLIAMS Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1940 Public Weighers and Weighers of Coal EVERETT W. WHEELWRIGHT DOROTHY C. WOOD WALTER C. WHEELWRIGHT JOSEPH L. OLIVER Auctioneers WILLIAM H. MORRIS LLOYD C. TROTT AUGUST F. B. PETERSEN AUGUST F. PETERSEN ALBERT M. HUNT HOWARD BATES Measurers of Wood and Bark LOUIS B. C. BAILEY HOWARD BATES IRA N. PRATT Workmen's Compensation Agent WILLIAM H. TAFT Surveyors of Lumber JOSEPH A. VALINE WILLIAM H. ELLSWORTH Harbor Master Town Counsel RALPH C. BURRELL FREDERICK A. THAYER Assistant Harbor Master Inspector of Animals BERNARD J. SALVADOR DARIUS W. GILBERT, V.S. Burial Agent Chief of Fire Department EDWARD R. JASON GILBERT S. TOWER Pound Keeper Forest Warden WILLIAM H. JASON GILBERT* S. TOWER Superintendent of Moth Work ROSCOE G. PRATT Dog Officers HECTOR J. PELLETIER BENJAMIN F. CURLEY EARL R. McARTHUR JOHN H. WINTERS, JR. JAMES J. SULLIVAN, JR. JOHN J. ROONEY T. BURKE KANE Organization Board of Selectmen KENDALL T. BATES, Chairman DARIUS W. GILBERT, V.S. EVERETT W. WHEELWRIGHT EDWARD L. STEVENS, Clerk Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1940 Organization Board of Assessors DARIUS W. GILBERT, V.S., Chairman KENDALL T. BATES EVERETT W. WHEELWRIGHT * EDWARD L. STEVENS, Clerk Organization Board of Public Welfare EVERETT W. WHEELWRIGHT, Chairman KENDALL T. BATES DARIUS W. GILBERT, V.S. EDWARD L. STEVENS, Clerk MARY E. OLIVIER, Agent Organization Bureau of Old Age Assistance EVERETT W. WHEELWRIGHT, Chairman KENDALL T. BATES DARIUS W. GILBERT, V.S. * EDWARD L. STEVENS, Clerk MARY E. OLIVER, Agent *Died September 30, 1940 Organization and Appointments by Board of Health NATHANIEL HURWITZ, Chairman ABRAHAM J. ANTOINE, JR., Secretary EDWARD E. TOWER Inspector of Milk and Vinegar THOMAS L. GRASSIE Inspector of Meat and Provisions, Slaughtering DARIUS W. GILBERT, V.S. Appointments by Chief of Fire Department JOSEPH L. OLIVER, First Deputy CLARENCE S. REDDY, Second Deputy COMMITTEES Under Article 33, March Meeting 1937 Voted that the Selectmen, hereby, be instructed to appoint a committee to investigate the advisability of disposing of any of the real estate belonging to the Town, said Committee to submit its recommendations thereon at the next Annual Town Meeting. This committee continued by vote under Article 5, March Meeting 1938 as follows: VOTED: Unanimously by a voice vote that the report of the committee appointed under Article 33 of the Town Meeting held March 6, 1937 be noted as printed in the Annual Report for the year 1937, and that said committee be continued and unfinished business be recommitted to them for further report at the next Annual To-^vn Meeting. Report at 1939 meeting was one of progress. Report at 1940 meeting was one of progress. Under Article 24, March Meeting 1940 VOTED: Unanimously, by a voice vote that a committee of eleven (11) be named to consist of the three (3) Selectmen of Cohasset and eight (8) other citizens of the Town to be appointed by the Moderator to deter- mine the disposition of the following real property owned by the Town: Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1940 1. The Bates Building property, so-called situated on Elm Street opposite the Osgood School. 2. The Town Home property situated on Pond Street. This committee to have the power to prepare a plan for the disposal of the properties in any suitable manner and report thereon to the Annual or a Special Town Meeting; in the interim the committee to have the power to dispose of any of the houses or buildings erected ,on the properties by sale or otherwise. The eight citizens appointed by the Moderator are as follows: Mr. William H. McGaw, South Main Street Mr. Georg T. Vedeler, Pond Street Mr. Charles E. Howe, Spring Street Mr. Thomas L. Grassie, Elm Court Mr. Henry E. Sweeney, Bow Street Mr. Ralph E. Scripture, Elm Street Mr. HoUis T. Gleason, Atlantic Avenue Mr. Everett W. Gammons, Highland Avenue Attest: WILLIAM H. MORRIS, Town Clerk. Annual Report, Town of Cohasset, 1940 TOWN CLERK'S REPORT Town of Cohasset REPORT OF THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Held March 1, 1940 At the Annual Business Meeting held at the Ripley Road School Audi- torium at 2 o'clock P. M., the following Articles were contained in the Warrant and acted upon as recorded: Checkers previously appointed for entrance by the Selectmen and sworn by Town Clerk William H. Morris at 1:30 o'clock P. M., were Law- rence F. Lincoln, Isabel Grassie, Mary E.