Cohasset Town (part 1 of 2)

Cohasset Town

faithfulness to it before the two new parishes were split off had been hard enough to endure, but when a considerable number from the most devout members of the first parish transferred their allegiance to the new ones, the loss was irreparable.

Moreover, the State laws passed at various times had removed the church taxes so that those who preferred to support no church, as well as those who preferred a different church, were free to neglect the old one. Those who remained loyal had to increase their voluntary contributions to make up for these losses.

The number admitted into full communion during the nine years 1825-34 was thirty-five, nearly equal to the number during the preceding period of nine years. When to this thirty-five we add the seventy-three members which were admitted into full communion in the new Congregational Church during the same nine years 1825- 34, it becomes evident that the religious interest of the town was much increased by the rupture in the old parish.*

Measuring also by the standard of money contributed, the religious efforts of the town were much increased ; for while the salary of the old parish was not diminished but rather increased, that of the new one upon the plain soon grew to be six hundred dollars a year in addition. This, moreover, leaves out of the count the financial sup- port of the Methodist Church at Jerusalem which came partly from Cohasset. The population and wealth of the town was not increasing half as rapidly as its religious efforts during the twenty-five years following the divorce.

The services of the Sabbath were morning and afternoon, with an intermission of one or two hours, while the Second Church * held a Sabbath-school and a prayer-meeting in addition. A wood-burning stove had been placed in the old meeting-house for the first time in 1822, February 3,f and the new church from its beginning possessed this modern convenience.

Foot stoves also were needed to soften the temperature where the feeble stove could not penetrate. The instrumental music afforded was made upon bass viols and violins until after 1850, when pipe organs were installed, first in the old church, then, 1857, in the new one.

The general requirements of the service for public worship increased as culture and "creature comforts '' became better regarded. One of the phenomena of this development was the growing unwillingness to travel far in order to attend service. The dwellers in Beechwood, three miles away, sent only a handful of attendants to the two churches upon the plain, while some others were cultivating Sunday habits of a sort that injures any community. As early as the year 1859 several persons commenced

Those families which had been in the habit of walking six miles each Sabbath in order to attend church could be relied upon to form the nucleus of an organization within their own neighborhood.

Religious services had been held occasionally in the schoolhouse, with preaching by Rev. Joseph Osgood, Rev. Frederick A. Reed, and Rev. Stephen Puffer, of the Cohas-

Beechwood Congregational Church

Rev. Cyrus Stone, a retired foreign missionary, held preaching services there in the year 1862, and within eighteen months there were twelve persons who formed themselves into the Evangelical Union Church.

Deacon Damon and Mrs. Samuel Litchfield and others of Scituate aided in the matter, regardless of both town and denominational boundaries. The Pratt brothers, John and Aaron, gave the land to hold the proposed meetinghouse.

Citizens in the central village were appealed to, and a fair which had been held in Beechwood was repeated in the town hall to raise money for building. It received a liberal patronage from all the inhabitants of the town.

In the year 1866, after our soldiers had returned from the Civil War, the building of the Beechwood Congregational Church was undertaken, and it was finished at a cost of over five thousand dollars, about half of it being paid by citizens of our town. As a moral and social factor in the community where it has been placed, this meeting-house with its devoted attendants has been for thirty-two years an important institution.

The fifth religious organization to claim the support of our people and to call forth their spiritual energies was the Roman Catholic Church. The building called 'St. Anthony's Church," which now stands upon the old Jacob's Meadow, South Main Street, was begun in the year 1875. But for about thirteen years before this building was undertaken, services of the Roman Catholic faith were held in the Brennock home at the Cove and at other "stations." The need of this additional institution of worship has been already intimated, for the coming of a score or more of Portuguese to engage in our

Rev. Hugh P. Smith,* of Roxbury, who then had the oversight of these Roman Catholic newcomers in Weymouth, Hingham, Cohasset, and Scituate, soon saw the necessity of a building for public worship, and with characteristic energy he set about it. From the time of its completion in 1876, St. Anthony's Church has called an increasing number of worshipers, until now there are as high as five hundred at some services. During the summer months especially, when the visitors from city homes bring more than a hundred domestic servants to our town,

The last Christian denomination to get established within our borders is the Protestant Episcopal Church. Many of the summer residents in Cohasset, being Episcopalians, had been compelled to drive to the Hingham Episcopal Church or to attend the churches of other denominations here, or else to attend no service.

Chapel services were instituted as early as 1894 in the little Grand Army Hall upon the ledge near the center of the village. Two years later, 1896, June 8, at a meeting of twenty-one members, a parish was organized with Rev. js, Whomas-as rector, called the St: Stephen's' Parish: No building has yet been erected for the use of this church, and we see the organization in those same early stages of development which have been successively outgrown by the Unitarian, the Methodist, the Congregational, the Beechwood, and the Catholic churches.

With six churches established in a town of only twentyfour hundred persons, one might question whether we are not over-established. But they are all self-supporting with the exception of the Beechwood church, and that is in a community so distant from other places of worship that to aid in its support is a necessary benevolence of the denomination to which it belongs. It is true that this self-support of the other five churches depends to a considerable extent upon the summer residents; but many of these are legal citizens of the town and others live here so large a part of the year as to make these churches almost their own church homes.

There is a third Congregational Church which is supported partially by residents of this town, called the Bethany Church, of Nantasket. This church was organized in 1891, and meets in a hall that stands upon the Hingham side of Hull Street. It cannot be claimed therefore as belonging to our town, though much of its support comes from our citizens.

One sometimes hears it said that our forefathers were more faithful to the church than we of an irreverent age; but these more than six churches for a population of twenty-four hundred have some things to say in refutation of that charge. So far as money can measure devotion the present expenditure of more than seven thousand dollars a year for our churches refutes that charge, for it is more than ten times what was paid a century and a half ago, while our population is not three times greater than it was then. Moreover, while the cost of manual labor has multiplied only three times, the salary of a minister has multiplied four times.

The attendance upon meetings for public worship shows a similar gain. The whole number of worshipers in the town who gathered in their church each Sabbath in the year 1747 when it was built upon the Common failed to fill it by a large lack. A number of extra pews have been put in since then; indeed, the church was built much too large, for the people looked for an increase in population, and it was to be used also for town meetings and for exceptionally large gatherings.

There is every reason to believe that less than two hundred people constituted a large congregation in those days. That would be crediting them with about twice the present day attendance in that same meeting-house; but when we count the whole church attendance upon the main Sabbath service in our town to-day, we find that it amounts to eight hundred.* The population is only three times what it was a hundred and fifty years ago, while church attendance is four times what it then was. Moreover, this gain is still further to be estimated, for we have nowadays several additional services, such as Sundayschools, young people's meetings, prayer-meetings, women's meetings, and others, in all of the six churches,

But none of these gains in religious life have been made by the town acting as a municipality; they have been secured through the efforts of private individuals and groups of individuals.

We quitted the narrative of our schools at the year 1840, when they had got established firmly in the three divisions of primary, grammar, and high. For ten years the high school was fostered only during the four winter months; but in 1851 it began its career for the full school session of a year. After the removal of the old academy®* in 1857, in which the feeble infancy of the high school was spent, the present town hall was built the same year, with rooms for the high school in the lower story. Here it flourished for thirty-four years, when in 1891 it was transferred into the new Osgood School. |

Of primary schools there were five in the town by the year 1880, and there were four grammar schools with two mixed and one intermediate. These were all conducted in the old methods intimated in a_ previous chapter, but the time for a great change came about ten years ago.

As early as 1885 the old system of pulverized school administration was condemned by some of the more progressive citizens who desired to see instruction bettered by bringing a large number of pupils into one building where a half-dozen teachers might be used with greater efficiency. There were eight schools then kept in five different houses in the central village of the town. The buildings were crude things, in great need of repairs, with no ventilation but their drafty windows and doors, no

The whole number of pupils in attendance at these eight schools was two hundred and forty during the year 1885 ; and these two hundred and forty were fairly well graded for the first time in the history of our schools. Rev. Joseph Osgood, chairman of the committee, had been trying to bring this to pass during a half-century of service in connection with the schools, but for a hundred and fifty years, scholars had been allowed to enter wherever a guess at their ability * might assign them. They had hopped over classes or had plodded through them according to no fixed standard. Now in 1885 a four years' course was required of primary pupils, three years for the grammar school course, and four years for the high school.

For the first time 'winter scholars"' were debarred from the high school. Four of these boys, such as always spent only the few winter months in haphazard studies, applied for admission ; but they were not fitted for any one of the classes, and the old custom of teaching "anybody at anything" wasdead. But it was difficult to keep the four primary and the three grammar schools uniform in their studies, for the graded system was new, and teachers needed grading as well as pupils. One of the difficulties was in the matter of discipline. All teachers about the center of the town, except the principal of the high school, were women at that time, and when a refractory pupil needed a man's muscle to bring him into decent behavior, there was none to be had in these separated schools.

The idea of having the schools brought into one properly constructed building, well heated, ventilated, plumbed, and all under the control of one man, was cherished for several years. Finally, in 1887, a majority of the school committee urged upon the town the need of a large central building and the abandonment of the old ones. _Edward F. Ripley, E. Pomeroy Collier, Joseph S. Bigelow, Grenville D. Braman, and Herbert O. Beale of the committee signed the report, which contained the following paragraphs : -

We would this year call the attention of our townspeople to the advantages of a large central school building, containing the North Grammar and Primary, Center Grammar and Primary, South Grammar and Primary, and the Harbor and Elm Street schools. Provision must be made before another year for our high school, which will have more pupils in 1889 than it can possibly accommodate. 'The Center, Elm Street, Harbor, and North primary schools barely accommodate this year's pupils. In some instances, in years past, we are told that owing to the crowded condition of certain primary schools some of the pupils had to be advanced to the grammar schools one year before they were qualified to enter, thus completely disarranging our whole plan for grading the schools.

Now we claim that our North, South, Center, and Harbor school property could be disposed of for a good round sum, especially the North, which is a valuable piece of property for building, being situated at the junction of the Jerusalem Road, and that a building of ten rooms could be built, designed according to the latest and best ideas in schoolhouse construction, with perfect ventilation, comfortably and economically heated by furnace or steam heat, an ornament to the town, and, best of all, a school where scholars could be perfectly graded, and where all the teachers and scholars would be under the direct supervision of one man.

But an enterprise so big had never yet been undertaken by the town. All sorts of objections were raised ; children would have to be conveyed in barges, costing more money. Large and small children gathered in such a crowd on one playground seemed perilous to some parents. The call for ventilation and other modern sanitary improvements seemed to some conservative citizens absurd, since the town had thrived with very good health in the old primitive schoolhouses for many generations.

Furthermore, the expense of the new proposal was a big item. The advocates tried to whittle down this fact by promising a less expense for running the central building. Only one janitor and one fire would be required, and the committee promised various other trifling advantages which proved afterwards to be false anticipations. The advocates also urged the gain of money by selling the old properties, so that the net cost of the new building they said would be but eight thousand dollars. They traveled to Beechwood and to Jerusalem, and held mass meetings whenever they could, trying to gain votes by every argument, sound or otherwise.

At last the town voted at its March meeting in 1890 to buy asuitable lot of land and to build a central schoolhouse costing twenty thousand dollars, according to the plans drawn by Edward Nichols, who had been formerly a Cohasset schoolboy. Instead of eight thousand dollars as first represented, a debt of twenty thousand was thus required.

To impart to a new generation the flavor of the bitter opposition endured by the committee who advocated this new and costly enterprise would be impossible. Folly was the least of the charges hufled at them. Many parents threatened to boycott the new building by keeping their children at home, or at least in the little old schoolhouses. The prophecy was freely made that the building would be empty in a short time and thus its uselessness would be proved. To aggravate the case, when the cellar had been dug, the estimates for the building were so much larger than anticipated that twelve thousand dollars more were called for. The request was refused at a special town meeting August 1, 1890, but the committee proceeded with the work, and the money had to be voted.

Therefore, at the next March meeting, nine thousand of the twelve were doled out. The other three thousand and more had to come later to pay the last bills, so that the total amount spent by the town was more than thirty-two thousand dollars.

To this cost the value of the land upon which the building stands should be added, though this was a gift from some friends* of Rev. Joseph Osgood, made upon condition that the school be named after him, in recognition

Thirty-two thousand dollars seemed a large expense for a public schoolhouse ; and then it was discovered, of course, that the cost of running it was more instead of less than that of the old system. The indignation of conservative citizens was frequently exhibited when they would point out the beautiful building to strangers as '' Town's Folly" ; but its success has been so much more than its friends anticipated that instead of being empty, it is so crowded that an enlargement of it or an additional building upon the same lot must be undertaken.

The children who grow up under its advantages need no words of apology to justify to their minds the existence of the Osgood School. People who look upon the event from the outside wonder why so much opposition should have come from men whose taxes are so insignificant and whose children receive so many obvious advantages from the school. The trouble was mainly that it was a step so far in advance of the times; but now that several more towns of the State have adopted the same system its value seems more readily confessed. The expense of conveying pupils is large; but some conveying to the high school had been done before the Osgood School was established, so that the principle of the work had only to be extended.

Provincialism is now being abolished by bringing all sections of the town together under a variety of instruction, so that it is no longer possible to tell in what part of the town any children live by the peculiarity of their speech. The advantages of this sort, which really vindicate the town's expenditure, would not have been a potent argument in appealing at first for a school; but steadily the work of improved instruction is being wrought into the fiber of the community, and the day will come when those who labored under great abuse without compensation to advance our public schools shall receive their welldeserved praise.

This institution had for its forerunner two semi-public libraries, the Social Library and the Washington Library. The Washington Library was legally organized in the year

1832, but probably existed for two years before that. The trustees in 1832 were five women,* who hoped to increase the amount of good reading in the town. Seventeen dollars' worth of books were purchased and loaned out under a set of library rules, one of which declared that "any proprietor suffering a book to be carried to any school shall forfeit the value of his or her share."

Only the proprietors could draw books. In 1834 the purchasing committee consisted of Thomas Tower, Levi N. Bates, and W. E. Doane, and the number of books at that time was somewhat over a hundred. As more books were needed, assessments of twelve and one half cents or twenty-five cents per member were levied.

In about twelve years from its founding, this Washington Library gave up its life to be merged into its rival the Social Library. The record of this fact reads as follows : -

Agreeably to previous notice the proprietors of the Washington Library met at the store of L. N. Bates. The meeting being called to order, George W. Stoddard was chosen moderator. It was then voted that the Library with all its rights and titles be transferred to the members of the old Social Library, on condition that each member of the Washington Library be entitled to as many shares in said Social Library as he or she held in the

One of the prejudices which these early organizations suffered was that against novel reading. There were many conservative persons who hated fiction very cordially, because, in the first place, a narrative which was false in the facts narrated seemed to insult one's whole capacity for truth; and in the second place, it was an unwarrantable indulgence of idle fancies to read for the pleasure of it. Better be doing housework or fishing or farming. They could not appreciate the culture of mind that comes from following the dramas of life which a novelist may depict for brains not so active as his own.

The discussion of the value or harm of novel reading was rife for many years, and the Social Debating Society had the question up for ventilation.

This debating society, by the way, was a feature of town life for at least ten or twelve years. It was made up of about twenty-five active participants, though from its beginning in 1828 it had at one time and another as many as one hundred and five members.*

Their debates covered themes of religion, natural science, politics, literature, matrimony, and town affairs. In fact, nothing was too sacred or too difficult for them. Another debating society was thriving in Beechwood and two or more in Scituate during those days of Daniel Webster oratory.

The debating society in Beechwood was formed in January, 1840, under the inspiration of William Mayo, a public school teacher, with about forty } members from the men and boys of that neighborhood. They called themselves the Beechwood Album Society and debated such questions as the following : - t The first ten names on the list of thirty-eight are as follows : - William Mayo. Thomas Whitcomb. Minot Pratt. Alvah Richardson. Timothy W. Brown. Warren Bates.

It was not possible in those days for men to buy daily papers for a penny or two, in which an army of news gatherers presented the world's affairs and sufficient discussions upon them; therefore this custom of a town debating society, which is now almost obsolete in our nation, was a necessity.

But to return to the library. The day came when the town itself, instead of a private club, was persuaded to furnish a treasury of reading matter for its inhabitants. For about thirty years the old Social Library had fallen into disuse, when in the year 1878 the superintendent of schools, Rev. Joseph Osgood, incorporated in his annual report a strong plea for a town library. The State Legislature had already passed acts authorizing towns to undertake this public function, and our town meeting appointed the following five men to canvas the matter: Rev. Joseph Osgood, Edward E. Tower, Levi N. Bates, Philander Bates, and John Warren Bates.

It was clear that not over one tenth of the people in town would avail themselves of the reading matter in a public library, and it seemed necessary to rely therefore partly upon private enthusiasm for the support of such an institution. The next year three hundred dollars were appropriated on condition that an equal sum be raised by private subscription. Nine trustees* were appointed to administer the affairs of the Cohasset Free Public Library.

* FOR ONE YEAR. FOR TWO YEARS, FOR THREE YEARS, Rev. Joseph Osgood. Rev. Granville Yager. E. Pomeroy Collier. John Warren Bates. Lot Webster Bates. Mrs. Fannie H. Tower.

the part now used for the library anteroom; but the trustees hoped that some day benevolent persons might provide a suitable building which would be a monument for the town.

That hope* still lures on the friends of the library, and in the mean time the town has enlarged the library to take the place of the school which moved out of that part of the town hall in 1801.

The regular appropriations at first were $200 or $300 each year to pay the salary of the librarian and to add new books. In three years from its beginning there were 772 who had come to borrow books from the three thousand volumes to which the library had grown by purchase and by private donation.

Since that time the sober progress of an established institution has characterized the library. A few bequests + of public-spirited individuals have added to the stock of books, but the future is still to reveal some one who will secure for the town a more appropriate building for this necessary adjunct of public education.

Passing from the consideration of these fountains of learning to other fountains of a less metaphorical meaning, some account must be given of the town's water supply.

Several natural springs have always slaked the thirst of sojourners in Cohasset, the most famous of which are probably the two Cold Springs, one on Jerusalem Road next to the sea, near the Kendall estate, where the old Cold Spring House was built, the other at the edge of Jacob's Meadow, west of Spring Lane, near the railroad.

*The wills of the late Harriot E. Pratt and of her sister, Sarah S, Pratt, recently probated, provide a legacy of sufficient amount to erecta suitable building for a library in honor of their father, Paul Pratt.

+On January 1, 1898, a legacy of three hundred dollars from Miss Marion Cheever, who perished in the surf on Sandy Beach, was given to the library.

that the great glacier left a coating of clay and gravel upon our granite just sufficient to hold the rains that soak in, and not deep enough to drop the water below the reach of apump. The glacial deposits in some places of North America were so deep that the water may seep through for several hundred feet before reaching bed rock. The writer has seen a well in the city of Seattle, on Puget Sound, dug for more than two hundred feet through sand and clay deposited by the glacier, and even at that depth the bottom would not hold water.

The old-fashioned well sweep has always been able to reach the water in Cohasset wells, and pumps have never found a case where the water has been beyond their reach of thirty feet.

The old pump, which stands at the junction of Elm and Main Streets in the center of the town, is one of many that have kept man and beast supplied. Generations of neighbors have used it, fishing schooners of bygone days had their casks of fresh water filled from its depths, and school children have squeaked more than one pump handle to death above it. Speaking of school children reminds us that the schoolhouses of old were usually placed upon some rocky ledge which could be used for nothing else, and consequently no wells could be furnished the thirsty children except some kindly neighbor's or some street pump like the one mentioned.

But the time of modern convenience in water works came to us after nearly two centuries of primitive wells. It was brought about chiefly by Charles S. Bates, whose great-grandfather, Samuel Bates, in the same spirit of solid enterprise, established the first wharf at our harbor. The enterprise of a public water system in Cohasset could not promise any financial gain to the projectors, and Mr. Bates, in his appeal to private citizens to undertake it, placed the whole matter upon the high plane of public benefaction and town improvement.

A plant costing sixty thousand dollars was necessary, so that there was plenty of room for the investments of public-spirited men. At last, on April 26, 1886, the first meeting of the Cohasset Water Company was held.*

These men were convinced that by driving a series of tube wells in the meadow called the Picle, a sufficient supply of water could be pumped by an engine into a reservoir upon the top of Bear Hill, whence it could be conducted in pipes to about nine tenths of the homes of the town.

Furthermore, the force of this water at any of the lower parts of the town would be so great that a stream could be thrown upon the roof of any house, and thus a fire protection of incalculable value would be afforded. The old fire engine had many times been called to extinguish burnings, where the water of mud puddles and wells and brooks, so soon exhausted, left its pump a helpless thing in the hands of disappointed firemen.t The old bucket

* The following were present at the first meeting of the Cohasset Water Company : - Chas. A. Welch. Z. TY. Hollingsworth. Chas. S. Bates. B.C. Clark: Waldo Higginson. J. S. Bigelow. Jas. H. Bouvé. A. H. Tower. Chas. F. Tilden. W. C. Burrage. Chas. A. Gross. Geo. K. Nickerson. Ezekiel B. Studley. W. G. Cutter.

+ The origin of the first fire engine company may be seen by the following petition, April 30, 1807, which was discovered some years ago by W. J. Brennock in the attic of the town hall,and is now framed as a precious document in possession of the Zaccheus Rich Hose Company, Number One.

The front wheels of the old engine and two of the buckets are also owned by the Hose Company. The method of working the old pump was by filling its huge tub with the buckets of water carried from the nearest supply, and then pumping from the tub a heavy stream upon the fire. Members of the engine company were exempted from militia service and from the payment of poll taxes.

APRIL 30th 1807. To the Selectmen of the Town of Cohasset. Gentlemen, - You are requested to insert the following article in the warrant for May meeting, vzz. - - To see if the Town will Accept of a Fire Engine, with Bucketts &c Compleat According to Law, to be procured and paid for, by Mr Elisha Doane jr, Mr Nichols Tower, Mr John Nichols, Mr Joseph Lincoln, Mr Wm Whittington, and such brigade, which for many generations had lined up between a burning building and a well to pass the water to the flames, was promised an everlasting rest wherever the water pipes might furnish a hydrant in the streets for the hose that would send a drenching stream.

All these and many other promises of convenience have been realized. The Cohasset Water Company, with a capital stock of $100,000, half issued, has undertaken and has succeeded in supplying some of the best drinking water of the State. The wells driven into the meadow are iron tubes two and a half inches in diameter, with the lower end pointed and perforated with enough holes to allow the water to flow in rapidly. Fifty-four of these pipes were all connected at the top with mains that run to the center and thence to the pump, as the accompanying diagram will show. The steam pump sucks up the water from all and forces it into a large main that runs up to the top of Bear Hill, where a reservoir seventeen feet deep, holding one and a half million gallons, has been dug in the top of that hard clay drumlin. This large main is tapped at a place before it reaches the reservoir by the mains that lead through all our streets and supply our homes.* It thus happens that the water flows up and down through the same pipe, and when there is scarcely enough to fill the service pipes and to pass on up into the reservoir, as others as may Joyn them, to the number the Law allowes and to be Compleated aggreeable to Law in the Course of Nine Months; with this proviso, that if the selectmen should at any time hereafter appoint Engine men, to the exclusion of the present applicants, or any of their Associates or Assigns then the 'Town shall reimburse to those who they may exclude, all expences they may have been at. THADDEUS LAWRENCE JAMES STODDARD

* The number of services furnished by the Cohasset Water Company is 307. Some of these being stables, the whole number of homes supplied is about 280. There are also forty hydrants at convenient intervals upon our streets, as a fire protection, paid for by the town. The care of the whole system has been from the beginning in the hands of Daniel N. Tower.

The kind of water thus obtained stands a very high test under the State Board of Health. The monthly analysis is fairly represented by the following for April, 1896: Distinct turbidity, slight sediment, color .10 (about one tenth that of Boston water for six years' average), odor none (either cold or hot), residue on evaporation 74$8o, free ammonia none, albuminoid z$id§>, chlorine <dsso0) nitroen 7430, oxygen consumed +9333,, hardness 8.7, iron 100000

In this analysis the presence of chlorine indicates that a little salt from our sea air has got deposited in our hillsides and meadows where the water that soaks into the ground carries it along into our wells. However, the amount is hardly worth speaking of, for according to this analysis it takes more than three tons of our water to furnish less than two ounces of chlorine. The unusual amount of iron held in solution adds to the hardness of the water, but this is unavoidable where the granite rock and clay furnish so much of this metal.

An inspection of the names of those who attended the first meeting of the Cohasset Water Company shows several of the summer residents whose interest in the town has grown out of its attractiveness to them as a summer resort. Moreover, this public convenience has made it possible for a number of summer homes to be built upon the ledges along our shore where no wells could be dug, except by a rock boring such as G. T. W. Braman's upon Jerusalem Road, and thus still more summer residences have been made available.

Many persons who have built along our shore in these later years were first drawn here by the pleasures of a summer visit. For more than seventy-five years this custom of summering at Cohasset has been developing. Boarding places like the Black Rock, Kimball's Hotel, the Warren Bates House, the Lothrop House, and others have been filled for many years by visitors.

Perhaps the most distinguished was Daniel Webster, who used to enjoy cooting and fishing off the Cohasset rocks. A memorial of him has been carved by nature in one of the granite rocks of our shore in easy view of which he often must have passed, without realizing the remarkable resemblance between the outline of the rock and the profile of his own face.

Profile Of Daniel Webster In Granite, Next To The Sea

Among the recent persons of renown who have become Cohasset resorters are the late Lawrence Barrett and several living actors and playwrights, who have taken a genuine interest in the town. From the first occasional outings many men of means have come to establish permanent summer homes where the sea cools our shore.

The influence of this part of our town's populace has been shown in many instances where expensive improvements have been encouraged and patronized by them. For example, the electric lighting system is another town improvement which has been made feasible by means of the large addition to our taxes paid by the summer residents and by means of the patronage they furnish in lighting their own homes with electricity.

When the old cattle herders from Hingham village used to spend their summers here as early as 1640, their light in the evenings was the same as the Quonahassit Indians had used - camp fires. When settlers came, forty years after, such as Daniel Lincoln, Ibrook Tower, and others, tallow candles, both molded ones and "dips," were indulged in. During a century of the feeble flare of tallow. and bayberry wax, the use of sperm oil lamps for polite occasions crept gradually into Cohasset homes. Indeed, for nearly two centuries the little rod of tallow with its wick of linen was scepter of the night. Its sway was narrow, for none of the streets could be lighted except as

About the year 1850 a peculiar oil called burning fluid began to be used in lamps without a chimney. This mixture of camphine and alcohol or of naphtha would readily creep up on wicks through two little tubes, and would blaze away with two modest little flames. it made so small an amount of heat that you could touch the burning wick with your finger, and then could carry on the tip of the finger a film of blazing oil to light another lamp. When the wick burned low it was pricked up by the end of a knitting needle.

But petroleum or kerosene by the year 1850 had been manufactured for lamps in England, and nine years later the wonderful petroleum well at Oil Creek, Pa., made kerosene a universal household convenience. For many years petroleum had been sold as a liniment, but from the year 1860 it took its place as a general luminant. Kerosene lamps were soon introduced into the churches and the town hall, with an occasional one out of doors in public places.

In the homes of the town kerosene is still the main reliance ; but for public places like streets, town buildings, churches, etc., the modern miracle electricity has been introduced. A company of men was formed July 28, 1890,* for the purpose of furnishing electric lighting for the towns of Cohasset and Scituate. It was a business enterprise in which a number of our summer residents took almost the entire stock.

The enterprise was a feasible one only upon condition that the town would establish street lamps upon the principal thoroughfares of the town. By giving this large patronage the Cohasset Electric Company was guaranteed at least a safe, if not profitable investment. It was voted at the town meeting of 1890 "that the streets of the town, as far as practicable, be lighted as recommended in the committee's report by not less than one hundred and fifty lights." A contract was made with the Electric Company and the lights were turned on in our streets September 14, 1890.

Whether seen from the water or from some high point of land, these strings of brilliant beads hanging upon hillsides and in valleys vindicate their place by their beauty as well as by their usefulness. The muffled throbbing of the engine which runs the dynamo may be heard in the quiet evenings as we sit at home under the glow of the incandescent loops, thinking, perhaps, of the lives and homes of long ago.

But the lamps which illumine our highways were much more pitifully needed in the years of our ancestors than now, for of all our improvements perhaps none is more marked than the smoothness of our highways. Originally rough beyond any description, they have been _ blasted and dug and built up by incessant care for two centuries. They will probably never be straight, and indeed the curves of them contribute an element of beauty; but the many thousand dollars expended upon them have been well spent. And herein the character of the town as a summer resort again is manifest, for those who have found their pleasure in driving upon our highways have required that the thousands of dollars in taxes which they have paid be applied in a fair measure to street improvements.

A passion for new roads was shown during the ten years from 1876 to 1886. Doane Street, Forest Avenue, Atlantic Avenue (from Beach Street to the Cove), and Nichols Avenue were all undertaken.

Forest Avenue was a bigger undertaking, designed to open for summer residences a large area of land between Straits Pond and North Main Street where King Street enters. The original lay-out of Joshua Fisher in 1671 provided fora straight highway to Breadencheese Tree towards the other end of Straits Pond ; but this new road was laid out farther to the east, straight over hills and valleys from the end of King Street to Jerusalem Road at the east end of Straits Pond. The distance was a little over a mile, but such a rough one, with so many ledges to blast and so many hollows to fill, that it cost $16,580.

The expectation of residences being located upon this road has not been fulfilled in these twenty years; nevertheless, the highway is abundantly used and has proved its necessity.

Another road, built for the purpose of opening unused acres for summer residences, as Forest Avenue was built, is Nichols Avenue. This crooked highway across Cat Dam over one of the Beach Islands to the western end of Sandy Beach was finished in 1882 at a cost of about two thousand five hundred dollars, the five hundred being paid by several private citizens. For ten years this enterprise proved a disappointment, as Forest Avenue had done; but the beautiful summer homes that have been perched upon the rocky knolls in that vicinity during the last few years have redeemed all the promises which induced the building of the road.

Each added expenditure for the convenience of summer sojourners has increased the income by taxes thus brought into the town. The last and most expensive driveway undertaken for the pleasure of these adopted citizens is a beautiful stretch of macadam running along Beach Island between Little Harbor and the ocean.

Oreo Rdamee The Cohasset Savings Bank

The Cohasset Savings Bank was established February 28, 1845, when Paul Pratt, Henry J. Turner, and John Bates, with their associates, were incorporated under the State law.

The bank was kept by Levi N. Bates thirty-seven years in an upper room of his own home, above his apothecary store, until his successor, the present treasurer, Caleb Lothrop, was chosen; then it was moved downstairs, where it remained until the new bank building was completed in 1898.

It was called Jerusalem Road Extension when it was finished in 1891, but it has been legally named Atlantic Avenue because it lies next to the Atlantic Ocean, and because it is practically a lengthening of Atlantic Avenue which had already been built from the Cove to Little Harbor.

Some sort of a cartway had been in use over Beach Islands since the beginning of Cohasset haying. In later years when Cuba Dam was built, a narrow way stretched along the top of the dam across the guzzle. A respectable wooden bridge was thrown across this channel after the dam was cut away in 1851; but now when the new BeachIslandroad was made, a new iron "bride, called Cunningham Bridge, was built at a cost of about eight thousand dollars, half of the vetoed being spent upon of the road was over seventeen thousand dollars, but there is not another mile of driveway to be found in Massachusetts to compare with it for beauty and variety of scenery.

A change in the care of our streets was made in the year 1890, when the old system of electing three or four surveyors for different parts of the town to make and to keep the highways was abandoned. Since then one superintendent of streets for the whole town has been elected and a more uniform method of providing good highways has been followed. Neighborhood jealousies and jobberies have been diminished and the whole responsibility for good roads rests upon one man, towards whom the town never has been niggardly in 'its appropriations for highways.

The recent State enterprise in appointing a State Highway Commission has touched the Cohasset streets in only one place. A stretch of a half mile of macadam leading through the Great Swamp on the way to Hingham has been built during the past year under the direction of the commission, by our superintendent of streets. Thus the impassable swamp* which had compelled Cohasset carts in early days to make the detour of Cedar Street among rocky ledges became at last the most perfect highway in the town.

Among the many items which could be noted to reveal our character as a summer resort is the post office. Our mails are more than doubled by the people who have made this their summer home. The postal service at the beginning of our national life has been indicated already in the chapter upon " Stagecoach, Packet, and Railway," but the small days were continued with only slight growth until about fifteen years ago.f The abode of the office in Joel Willcutt's time, 1806, was a cobbler shop ¢ on Elm Street near the Cove.

In Zenas Stoddard's term of twenty-four years its home was in a general country store on Main Street, now the dwelling of Charles H. Willard. The little case of post-

* See a subscription paper in the town's historical collection, written by Elisha Doane about the year 1815, upon which thirty-four names were signed pledging different amounts of labor to open the new road through the swamp.

office boxes, eighteen, used by Zenas Stoddard at about 1840, has for its successor at present a case of five hundred boxes. Letters in those days, before 1845, cost five cents each, and no adhesive stamp was used until after 1847. In fact, no envelope was used, but the letter was so folded and sealed as to be its own envelope.

In the days when postal cards first were in vogue (1873) the reading them by curious keepers of the office must have been irresistible, and even the letters when they were so few must have been targets for Yankee guessers who could peek at the addresses.

As late as twenty years ago the letters were kept in an ingenious device which tempted many loungers to examine private correspondence. This device was a long cylinder, or rather a prism with ten or twelve sides, resting upon one end on a store counter. The letters were slipped into little racks upon the flat sides of the prism with the addresses turned out plainly to view. The case could be wheeled around by the lower edge which was exposed so that any one who came might turn it, and looking at all of the letters, he might at last find his own. A board was placed in front of this case so that no one could take a letter; buta long pane of glass allowed the eye to see all the letters as they came successively to the pane of glass.

What an interesting toy for idlers! And what gossip could be expected to suppress a shrewd guess about a suspicious handwriting in aletter addressed toa neighbor? Many were guilty of looking for letters when there was not the least hope of a letter; for the letters of some neighbors were more than interesting, just to look at. Complaints were made not only in Cohasset, but in other towns where the same apparatus was in vogue, and the old " wheel" was abolished by order of the government.

The office now has reached the dignity of the Third Class, issuing money orders, and has a building constructed for its own use. The stamps that are sold each

The names, moreover, which are written nowadays upon letters passing through this office are many of them different from those which formerly flourished here, though the family names Bates, Pratt, Tower, Lincoln, Nichols, and a few others still keep their heritage. The Portuguese names, Grassie, Jason, Silvia, and others, with various names of an Irish origin, have obtained a large place.

The variety of people now comprised within the limits of the town is quite remarkable for so small a population. In the beginning all were poor and all were filled with substantially the same experiences and the same ambitions ; but this homogeneous condition has passed away, and we now have the rich with the poor, the cultured with the unlearned, the cosmopolitan with the provincial, in a greater variety, perhaps, than any town of the same size in the Commonwealth. All these kinds of human life

No strikes affect us because no manufacturing industry has ever engaged a large proportion of our town. Even the shoe business has never been established as a town industry, though some twenty-five years ago a number of small shops in different parts of the town furnished "job work" for a great many upon shoes manufactured in neighboring towns. Also "slop work," or the making of cheap garments, was carried on by many needlewomen in their own homes, after the fishing business had failed. But no large factory since our fish packing, ever has been established here; neither is there much likelihood that one ever will be established.

The character of this town as a suburb and summer resort, to the exclusion of industries, has become fixed. A fair estimate of the future for at least a century must predict for Cohasset a suburban retirement. Many more homes of a comfortable and expensive sort may be expected to nestle among our ledges and hills. To Nantasket upon one side and to North Scituate upon the other must be given the popularity that brings swarms of humanity to the beaches in summer; but to Cohasset, which has no long beach and whose shore line has been preémpted already by quiet-loving people, there must remain a long era of immunity from crowds.

People of large means have laid out generous areas for their "grounds," and no one can see any near prospect of many of these beautiful estates being parceled out to small holders. As rapid transit to Boston is developed, in years to come our hills remote from the shore will offer homes of a less expensive sort to a large number of workaday people.

Even under our very eyes these things are now being done, and no one could bid them stop; but these lines have been written and the pages of this book have been filled with a record of events which have transpired here for the purpose of furnishing all who come with some

Bodlany-Of Coe Asset

The following list, contributed by Miss Priscilla L. Collier, contains most of the commoner plants to be found in Cohasset. It is not by any means complete, but represents what Miss Collier has been able to collect in her leisure time during the past three seasons.

"MALVACE. - Mallow Family. MALVA ROTUNDIFOLIA, Z. Common Mallow. a SYLVESTRIS, Z. High Mallow. a MOSCHATA. Musk Mallow fescaped). ie ALCEA, L.

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is AGRARIUM, Yellow or Hop Clover. MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS, Wid/d. Yellow Melilot. MEDICAGO LUPULINA, Z. Black Medick, Nonesuch. ROBINIA PSEUDACACIA, Z. Common Locust or False Acacia. DESMODIUM NUDIFLORUM, D C. LESPEDEZA VIOLACEA, fers. Bush Clover.

2. BASIDROMYCETES - continued. (4) CLAVARIEA, Coral Mushrooms. Sparassis crispa. Clavaria amethystina. fusiformis. » pistillaris. (5) HYDNEA. Spine Mushrooms. Hydnum imbricatum. i repandum. Hedgehog Mushroom, (6) POLYPOREA. Pore Mushrooms, Deedalea unicolor. Polyporus betulini. Curtisii. is sulphureus. Sulphury Polyporus. Boletus edulis. Zdidle Boletus. felleus. Aitter Boletus. a scaber. Rough-stem Boletus. ornatipes. Si DLeVIpes: » granulus. Granulated Boletus. » Punctipes. Pe pictus. = alveolatus. Boletinus porosus. Strobilomyces strobilaceus. (7) AGARICINEA, Avgarics. Melanosporze. (Spores black or dark gray.) Coprinus comatus. Shaggy Coprinus. - atramentarius. /nzky Coprinus. x micaceous. Glistening Coprinus. r ovatus. Porphyrosporee. (Spores purple-black.) Hypoloma sublateritius. Agaricus campester. Common Mushroom. v3 arvensis. Horse Mushroom. Ochrosporee. (Spores bright brown or bright rust color.) Cortinarius cinnamomeus, Cinnamon Cortinarius. - var. semisangumeus. violaceus. Il2olet Cortinarius. alboviolaceus, - czerulescens. Entoloma sereceum. Leucospore. (Spores whitish or pale yellow.) Hygrophorus mimatus. Vermilion Mushroom, = niveus. A conicus, Red Fuice Mushroom. Lactarius chrysorrheus. * piperatus. /ery Milk Mushroom. = vellerius. 7 volemus. Clitocybe laccata. Waxy Clitocybe. Russula heterophylla. is furcata. foetens. a emetica. metic Mushroom. a lepida. Collybia radicata. Rooting Mushroom. Marasmius oreades. Fairy Ring Mushroom. 3 urens. 5 peronatus. . naucoria. Tricholoma columbetta. Armillaria mellea, Honey-colored Mushroom. Lepiota procera. Parasol Mushroom.

2. BASIDROMYCETES - continued. (7) AGARICINE&. Avarics - continued. Leucosporee. (Spores whitish or pale yellow.) Lepiota Badhami. naucinoides. Smooth Mushroom, ii cepeestipes. i metuleespora. ik cristata. Amanitopsis vaginata. Amanita phalloides. Death Cup. * mappa. 7 muscaria. fly Agaric.

Measurements Of Trees

The elm which formerly stood close to South Main Street, near the Scituate line, in front of the Bates Estate (formerly the estate of Cummings Lincoln), was felled October 7, 1892, as it was somewhat decayed and unsafe. It was probably the largest tree in town. A currant bush grew in a crotch of the tree about ten feet above the ground and ripened its currants yearly for more than thirty years, Circumference of tree, 189 inches.

Nettle tree, Jerusalem Road, in grounds of Ellis Motte, 79 inches. This tree (Celtis occidentalis, L.) is somewhat rare, but grows abundantly and in thickets overspreading the rocky lands near Pleasant Beach.

Cedar, Jerusalem Road, near the Tolman cottages, 78 inches. This old cedar is quite a landmark in the locality and is interesting because it shows by its leaning position the effect of the severe winds which prevail on our coast in winter.

Index Of Persons

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Source changes here: from New Topographical Atlas of Surveys : Plymouth County, Together with Town of Cohasset, Norfolk County, Massachusetts . . ., by Judson, J. C, published 1903; 6,858 words in this source stream.

Ray T. Ames

Rexharne- Beautiful Shore Lots Fronting the Ocean in the Town of Marshfield. Fine Beach, Good Bathing and Unsurpassed Ocean View. For Lots, address,

E. A. M. Sumner, Proprietor, Brant Rock, Mass. Accommodates 80 guests, locate*) on a point of land, within 20 feet of high water, directly on the ocean. First-class Bathing, and all summer Amusements. Open from May 15th, to November 15th. Marshfield Station. South Shore Division, N. Y., N. H. and H. R. R.

Abington, Town Of

Hingham. Chairman Selectmen. Has been 011 Board of Selectmen thirty-two years and recently re-elected for three years more ; Assessor for same time ; Overseer of Poor twenty-one years : Highway Surveyor seventeen years ; Represented Hingham iu Legislature 1866-7. Born in Cohassett, 1827, and removed to Hingham in 1851. Farmer, in connection with son, Herbert O. Bates. Another son, Wm. C. Bates, is Superintendent of Schools in Fall River. Descended from Clement Bates, who came from England to Hingham in 1635. Taught school twenty years in Hingham, Cohasset and Braintree.

Atlantic House

Nantasket Beach. Accommodates 350 guests. J. Linfield Damon, Manager. The policy of the management is to make this house especially attractive to the best class of people. Twenty miles from Boston and reached by SouLh Shore Branch N. Y. , N. H. & H. R. R , or by steamers from Rowe's Wharf in one hour. Long distance telephone and telegraph in hotel. Recent improvements have been made, adding to attractiveness of house. Sea bathing is absolutely safe, water temperate and beach unsurpassed.

North Scituate. Real Estate, Conveyancing, Insurance, Auctioneer, Justice of the Peace. Residence, Main Street, North Scituate, Opposite Hatherly School. Telephone to Lincoln Mills.

Atsatt Brothers J. Williams Beal

L. VERNON BRIGGS, M. Boston and Hanover. Physician and Surgeon. Offices, 82 Devonshire Street, Room 21 ; 208 Beacon Street, Boston, and at Hanover.

Capt. Geo. D. Allen

Marion. Auctioneer and Appraiser, and Dealer in Real Estate. Building Lots 011 Front Street, Near the Steam and Electric Railroad Stations. Sizes to Suit. Also Larger Plots, with or without Shore Privileges. Residence, Corner Front and Wareham Streets.

George H. Allen

Hanover. Born November 22d, 1832, in Fitchburg, Mass. Educated Boston Public Schools. Worked at paper hanging until 1858. Appointed Secretary Board of Engineers, Boston Fire De- partment. Held position until 1867. Also Clerk of Lamp Department during same years. Iu 1867 appointed Superintendent of Lamps by Mayor Otis Norcross, and held office until 1883, subsequently, filled same position two years under Mayor T. N. Hart. Making total of 27 years City work.

Rockland. Residence, 17 Highland Avenue. Road Commissioner. Grocer. Teaming and jobbing. Concreting, roofing, excavating, etc. Street sprinkling by the season.

F. O. Baker

Successor to Torrey & Baker, Men's, Boys' and Children's Fine Clothing. Gents' Furnishings, Hats and Caps. Trunks, Bags, Extension Cases, etc. Webster Building, Rockland, Mass.

Thos. Bradford Blackman

Blackmail Park Lots. Shore Lots at Brant Rock for Sale. Delightful View of the Ocean. Notary Public and Justice of the Peace, Telephone Connection. Residence, Brant Rock, Mass.

Brockton Water Commissioners Alles & Fisher

Boston. Manufacturers, of Fine Cigars and Jobbers in Plug Tobacco, Etc. 34 an<l 36 Cambridge Street. Established 1863. Manufacturers of following Fine Urands of Cigars : A. & F. Bouquet, Reina Victoria, J. A. {Hand made), A. & F. Gem, A. & F. Special, Our 1880, King Philip. A. & F. " 6* " Alles & Fisher's Ponies, Rose Bud, Etc. John Alles, Wm. N. Fisher.

Otis Barker

Scituate. On the beach at Scituate may be seen the wreck of the Pilot Boat Columbia, thrown there by the great storm of November 27, 1898, It has been transformed by Mr. Otis Barker into a counterpart of the "The Ark" on Yarmouth Sands, known to us all as the home of " Peggotty " and " Little Kmily." It contains four rooms (the furniture being made mainly from the fittings of the boat), including "Little Davie's room," that completest and must desirable little bedroom ever seen, in the stern of the vessel. A huge beach stone fireplace with andirons of old anchors, and before it a chair made from Webster's yacht '" Lapwing." Throughout the rooms may be seen many curios and relics almost without number.

Boston Plate & Window Glass Co

Window and Plate Class, Mirror Plates, &c. 261 to 2S7 A Street, South Boston. 70-22 Canal Street, Boston. W. B. Lambert. President ; F. A.Turner, Vice-President ; T. Sherburne, Treasurer.

John S. Brooks

North Hanover. Groceries, Flour, Grain, Hay, Dry Goods, Crockerv, Hardware, &c. Established 1854. P. O. Established, 1888, and Mr. Brooks has been Postmaster ever since.

Geo. W. Brown

Scituate, Mass. Livery ami Boarding Stable. Coaches at Depot for all Trains. Piano and Furniture Moving. Teaming;. Building Lots and Cottages lor Sale ami to Let. Agent for tile New York and Boston Dispatch Express Co. Telephone Connection.

"Greenwood Dairy Farm.1' Farmer, Greenwood St., Rockland, \}i miles from Town Hall. Farm contains 50 acres, devoted to dairying and vegetable raising. Twelve cows, mostly Jersey. Market about 125 quarts of milk per day, to families in Roekland. Has modern appliances for cooling, &c. Also raises Vegetables which fiud a ready market. Abundance of pure Spring Water for all purposes. Four barns used for Hay, and other products. Also markets fresh Eggs the year round. Owns Real Folate in various parts of town. Horn in Rockland, 1S54. Sou of Edmund and Bridget (Landers) Burke, both now deceased. David, his eldest brother, was born in Wareham, 1852 Their sister Hannah is wife of M. A. Murphy, and both brothers reside with her.

Attorney anil Counsellor-at-Law. Corner Leyden and Market Streets, Drew Block, Plymouth, Mass. Cipher Telegraphic Codes used at this Office : Wilber, Martimlale, the Associated Attorneys, U. S- Fidelity and Guarantee Co. Tel. No. 225-6.

The Elm Farm. Located at Canedy Corners, Town of LakeviUe. P. O., Myricks, Mass. Devoted to general farm products. Dealer in anything to make a dollar.

A. C Chandler & Son

Livery and Sale Stables, Middle Street and Park Avenue, Plymouth, Mass Carriages of all descriptions, with or without drivers, always iti readiness. Particular Attention to Parties Visiting Plymouth. Horses, Carriages and Harnesses for Sale.

Henry W Chandler Chapin'S Farm Agency

Geo. F. Keith, Manager. 257 Washington St., Hoston. Faims throughout Plymouth County shown free of expense. Publisher of "New England Illustrated." Copies mailed free on amplication. Branch OfiVe, Bridgewater.

E. H. CLAPP RUBBER COMPANY, 35 Federal Street. Eugene II. Clapp, President; Arthur W. Clapp. Treasurer. Factory, Hanover, Mass. Address all Communications to Boston

Clark And Cole

Manufacturers of Boot, Shoe and Packing Boxes. Printed and Lock Corner Boxes a Specialty. Middleboro. G. S. Clark. E. B. Cole. Telephone Connection.

Cyrus T. Clark Company Richard W. Clark

Lumber. Buyer atid Dealer in Lumber of all kinds and thickness. Wood Lots purchased, Wood sawed to order and delivered. Farm of ';oo acres on east side of Snipituet Pond, Rochester, for Salt. Fine residence and bain, artesian well. Cranberry Bog of 3 acres, can be increased to 50 acres. For information address, Riehaid \V. Clark. Marion. Telephone connection.

Lemuel F. Clark

Rockland. Horn 1S34 in Penobscot Co. , Maine. Educated in Public Schools and Bradford Academy, Maine. Came to East Abiug'.on (now Rockland) 1K56, and learued the carpenter trade. After three years worked in shoe shop. Enlisted in 1S64 in Co. A, oodi Massachusetts Infantry, and saw service with regiment. Being a good carpenter, was detailed building barracks, etc. Returning home, engaged again wilh Jenkins. Lane & Sons., then the largest factory in town or county, remaining till 1871. Two vears in ice business with H. A. Baker. Returned to shoe business, foreman si itching room, Tower & Gurney five years. Charge of fitting room Whitman & Tucker. 1S85 iu ice business again and still in it, cutting ice on Thompson's Pond ; houses 2,000 tons capacity ; market, North Abington and Rockland. Though 69 years old. Mr. Clark is capable of a good day's work. Married Sarah A. Trufant, daughter of Amos and Ann (Terrill) Trufant,of Boston. Children, William A., in dry goods business, Rocklaud, since his seventeenth year ; now, at 42, owns Rockland Dry Goods Store. Recently opened branch iu Concord, N. H., as Clark Bros. Another sou, A. Seymour, connected with Win. A. and Albert Linwood, just out of school. Edith Clark, daughter, has charge of millinery department Rocklaud Dry Goods Store.

James B. Collingwood & Sons

JAMES B. COLLINGWOOD & SONS, Plymouth. Dealers in Furniture, Carpets and Curtains. Upholstering and Repairing. 53 Main Street. Jas. B. Collingwood, J. T. Collingwood, Jas. A. Collingwood.

Carpenter and Builder. Estimates furnished for Job Work, Paper Hanging and Carriage Work. P. O., Pleasant Street, South Hanson, Mass. Telephone connection.

Horace S. Crowell

Dealer, Broker and Agent .Sea Shore Estates. Development, Improvement and Care of Estates a Specialty. 216 Washington Street, comer of State Street, Boston.

Albert Culver & Co

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Grain, Flour, Hay and Straw, Lumber, Lime, Cement, Etc. Established 187 1. Telephone connection. Rockland, Mass.

Elmer L. Curtis John Daley & Son

Hingham, Mass. Masons and Contractors. Dealers in Loam, Sods, .Sand, Stone, Beach Gravel, Wood and Coal. Jobbing of all kinds done to order. Thaxter Street.

Daniel E. Damon G. D. W. Damon

Contractor and Builder. Plans and Estimates Furnished for all Descriptions of Construction and Repair Work, Painting and Mason Work included Residence, Oak and Highland Streets, Marshfield. P 0 Marshfield Hills, Mass. Telephone connection.

Hingham. Postmaster, appointed first by President Cleveland, reappointed by President Harrison, again by President Cleveland, and again by President McKinley. Chief of Hingham Fire Department. Prominent and well-known among Fire Departments all over the country. Proprietor of well-known Cusbing House, opposite Hingham Station, long and favorably known as one of the best hotels in Massachusetts, for its many comforts, fine equipment and excellent table. Also first-class livery stable iu connection therewith. Geo. C. Clary, who has been with Mr. Cushing as clerk for many years, is well known and deservedly popular for universal courtesy and polite attention to gues'.s of the house.

Alonzo Cushing

South Hingham Born at South Hingham, 1827. Education obtained in district schools until 16, working in summer on farm with father. At 16 left home and learned carpenter trade in Boston until 21. Worked two months in Boston after he was free. Then returned home and first work was helping father build home on South Pleasant street, which still stands. Next built house in which he now resides, occupying it January 15, 1851. Followed carpentering till i860. Went into the grocery business, converting his carpenter shop into grocery store, which he conducted 29 years. While conducting grocery business built a number of houses, among the best being Rev. Joseph Jacobs' and the Pridee House. Forty-sight yeats ago built Win. C. Wilder's house. Since giving up grocery business has lived retired. Director for 25 years Hingham M. F. Insurance Co., Director Hingham Institute for Savings. A member of Second Unitarian Chruch for 50 years.

SETH L. DEXTER, Locust Dairy Farm. Dealer in Pure Milk. Located on Rochester Road, Marion. P. O., Marion. Milk delivered in bottles, cans or measure, twice each day.

Edwin B. Dorrance

Residence, 143 South Main Street, Middleboro, Mass. Building Lots on Main Street, accessible by Electric Railway from all parts of the country. Within a short distance of Postoffice.

Thomas Drew & Co

South Hanover. Dealers in Groceries and General Merchandise. Mr. Drew was born in Falmouth, Mass. Is a veteran of the late Civil War, enlisting in Co. C, 4th Mass. Cavalry in 1863, and served until mustered out in 1865, having been in all the engagements in which the regiment participated in Virginia and the Carolinas. He is a member of Hanson Post 127, G. A. R. and has served two terms as Commander. Mr. Drew was commissioned Postmaster October 14, 1S97, by President McKinley. The first Postmaster was J. G. Stetson, deceased, commissioned by Abraham Lincoln, February 15, 1864. Business established 1881 as successor of E. Y. Perry.

Driscol, Church & Hall Charles F. Dudley

Nantasket. Atlantic Pavilion, Nantasket Beach. One of the Finest Beer Gardens on the Beach. Music and Singing Afternoon and evening. Atlantic Bottling Works, Nantasket Beach, Tonic Beers, Ale, Lager, etc. Family Trade Supplied and Delivered Free. Sole Agent for Massachusetts Breweries Co. Mr. Durgin has had twenty-eight years experience as a bottler and has been established in business eighteen years, beginning in Boston in 1885. Located in Hull, 1893, on Nantasket Avenue, opposite D. O. Wade's Ocean House. Iu Spring of 1903 he erected his present up-to-date plant, which is one of the best in Massachusetts, located on Nantasket Avenue, near Surfside. Goods have an established reputation for excellence of quality and sold entirely iu this town and contiguous territory.

Richard A. Everson

Manufacturer of Cape Cod Champion Cranberry Pickers. Cranberry Bog Builder. Buyinff and Selling Bog Land a Specialty. Dealer in Wood and Lumber. Wood Sawed at your borne. House Lots forsale at South Hanson Station. Address, South Hanson.

Conveyancer, Greeubush, Mass. Chairman of Selectmen, Town of Soituate. Justice of the Peace and Chief of the Fire Department. Telephone connection.

( Iwner Pine Bluff. Shore Lots on Assawompsett Pond, on long kasc. Most pleasant and attractive bluff on the Pond. P. ( )., Harrison Square, Boston. Electric cars pass the bluff. Pure Spring Water pumped to each house.

Columbian Bog. Residence, Mattakeesett St., Town of Pembroke. P, 1 >., Bryantville, Mass. Telephone connection. Grower of the best varieties ol Cranberries.

Whitman. Manufacturer "Goulding Spring " Tonics, all leading flavors. Family Flavoring Extracts of best quality. Also proprietor of famous " Colliding Spring Water." Telephone. Corthell Avenue, off Temple Street.

C. N. Grant

Nantasket Point. Has been identified with Hull for over [5 years. Genera] .Manager Hull and Boston Steamboat Co. General Office Atlantic Avenue, Boston. Proprietor of Roller Coaster and other Amusements at Nantasket Point. Also handles Plying Horsis and Roller Coasters on the Reservation.

Chas. P. Holden F. D. Graves

Boarding and Livery Stable, North Sciluate Beach, Mass Hack and Carriage Service of all kinds. Winter Board for Horses. New York and Boston Dispatch Express. Cottages and Cottage Lots for Sale. Telephone connection.

Building Lois for Sale at Fairview. High land, natural drainage, connected with the Public Water Supply. Address 18 Center Street, Middleboro.

Alfred E. Green Edwin K. Greer

Dealer in Eastern, Southern and Western Lumber. Hardware, Mouldings, Gutters, Doors, Windows, Blinds, Paints, Oil's and Varnishes. Wareham, Mass. Telephone connection.

Judah Hathaway A. B. Hayward

Expert on Seashore and Summer Resort property. Ocean front Cottage and Land for Sale in Hull. Nantasket, Cohasset. also on the North Shore. I have made a specialty of Seashore Real Estate for over sixteen vears and if mv experience can be auv advantage to you, please call at mv office. 315 John Hancock Building. Boston. Established I SS7. Telephone 4657-2 Main.

John B. Guelpa Geo. L. Hayward

House Lots at Oakland Beach. Located at Monponsett Lake, Town of Hanson. P. O, South Hanson, Mass. Residence, 129 Pleasant Street. Telephone connection.

Geo. B. Holmes

Carpenter and Builder. Estimates furnished for all kinds of buildings and repair work. Residence, Main Street, corner Landing Road, Kingston, Mass. Telephone.

Horace Holmes Oscar L. Gurney

Insurance and Real Estate. Fire, Life, Accident, Plate Glass, Tornado, Fidelity and Title Insurance. Residence, Indian Head Street, near Indian Head Pond, Town of Hanson. South Hanson P. O. Justice of the Peace.

Norwell. Successor of Joseph H. Hackett, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Wood and Lumber. Box Boards a specialty. Cedar Posts, Etc. Beechwood. Born 1868, son of Joseph H. and Sarah (Totman) Hackett. Educated in Hingham Public Schools. Owing to illness he was obliged to abandon his studies in 1 5th year and went to work for his father, whose health was impaired. At this early age he assumed responsibility of tae business, keeping books and looking after all details. In 1891 he took charge and became successor of his father. The mill, located near highway, is equipped with latest improved machinery, Capacity 6,000 feet per day. Employs eight or nine men on an average. Also does teaming, keeping eight horses and two drivers. Father established business in 1880, in a mill known as the Stockbridge Mill, which had been in use one hundred years, now totally demolished. New mill all modern. Married Ada Pearl Bryant, daughter of Oscar and Clara (Dustill) Bryant, of Taunton, formerly of New Hampshire. Two children, son and daughter.

Ira G. Hersey Hooper, Lewis & Co

Stationers, blank Hook Manufacturers. Wholesale and Retail. 105 and 107 Federal Street, Boston. S. Henry Hooper, President; Chailes K. Cherrington, Manager ; E. Pelhara Dood, Treasurer. Established 1797. Incorporated 1900.

I iverv Boarding and Sale Stable. Horses Boarded, Coaches to all Trains Baggage called for and delivered. Hard and Soft Coal, Lumber of all kinds, Builders Supplies, Paints, Lime and Cement, Marion, Mass. Telephone.

Sumner P. Hinckley

Real Estate, Mortgages and Investments. Agent for New Hampshire Fi're Ins. Co. Room 50 Devonshire Building, No. 16 State St., Boston. Office hours: 10 to 12. Telephone 1421 Main and 349 Brookline.

THE JAMES LIBRARY. Nbrwell. Founded and endowed by Josiah L. James of Chica ;o, a native oi Norwell. The Library is the possession and under the general control of the First Parish of Norwell. Committee of Management, Rev. H. H. Keens, Chairman ; J. C. Otis, J. F, Merritt, Librarian; Mrs. Helen L. Fogg, Treasurer; Mrs. Emma H. Bates, Secretary. Building dedicated May ist, 1S74. Librarycontains about 4600 books. A fund of about |to,ooo, contributed by the founder and other townspeople and former residents, provides funds for the purchase of books and other expenses. A fund of $ 1,000 also provides for care of building.

George Jeffrey James Jeffrey

Xautasket. Hull and Hingham Fire Insurance. Western Assurance Co . of Toronto ; Westchester Insurance Co., of New York : Fireman's Insurance Co., of Newark. N. I. Telephone, 512 Hingham. P. O Address, Surfside, Mass.

Hingham. Mass. Successor to Wilder & Kimball. Lumber. Builders' Hardware, Masons' Materials, Drain Pipe Wharf on Summer Street Telephone connection. Residence. School Street. Hingham Center.

Kingston, Town Of Charles H. Killam

Assinippi. Dealer in Wood, Box Boards. Slabs, Etc. Agent for Swift's Lowell Fertilizer. Born in Hanover seventy years ago. For forty years, up to 1S97, a Boot and Shoe Manufacturer. Since then manufacturing Box Hoards, Etc. Member of Legislature 1874. Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of Poor nine years, being Chairman of Boards the whole time. Also Town Constable. Mr. Killam is widely known and highly esteemed.

Duxbury, Mass. Powder Point Hall and other buildings of Powder Point School open for Boarders through July and August. Lots for sale. Cottages for sale and to let. Telephone.

E. G. Knight

Hull. Carpenter and Builder. Born in Troy, N. H., 1840. Learned carpenter business without serving an apprenticeship, and began business at 22 years of age. Has carried on the business over forty years, and his work in Hull and elsewhere shows the excellency of its quality. Has erected some of the finest houses in Hull, including those for the late John Boyle O'Reilly and Alfred Douglas, of N. Y. Has also built many sail boats. In 1901 he built a sailing yacht for F. L. Keys, of Newton. Has been Town Treasurer twenty-four years and was Selectman ami Overseer of Poor for nineteen years, 1S6S to iSST, except three years as Collector of Taxes.

Lakeside House

Walter B. Parkhurst, Proprietor. Located on Bedford Street, Town of Lakeville, facing Assawompsett Pond. P. O , Lakeville, Mass. Telephone connection. Taunton Pumping Station. Good Boating and Fishing.

Lakeville, Town Of Geo. F. Lane

Dealer in General Merchandise, Coal, Grain and Farming Tools. Pos-.office and store, Silver Lake, Plymouth Co., Mass. Silver Lake Trout Farm. Grower and Shipper of Brook Trout of all ages. Guaranteed safe arrival. Also grower of cranberries. Telephone connection.

Manufacturer of and Dealer in all kinds of Oak, Pine and Cedar Lumber, Telephone Poles, Spiles, Shingles and Wood. All kinds of Lumber sawed to order. Dealer in Ice. Middleboro.

Real Estate and Insurance Broker. Agent of the Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance Co. for Boston and vicinity. 742 Exchange Building, 53 State Street, Boston. Residence, Hingham.

Lincoln Mill Grain & Feed Co

Jere. R. Ainslie, President ; 0. L- Johnson, Treasurer. Millers and Dealers in Hay, Grain and Mill Feed. North Scituate, Mass. Telephone connection.

M. Herman Kent

Marshfield, Mass. Justice of the Peace, Conveyancer and Real Estate Agent. Farm, Residence and Seashore Property for Sale and for Rent. Special attention given to business connected with the settlement of estates.

The Bay Farm. Residence Border Street, (Pilgrim Boulevard), Island Creek, Town of Duxbury. P. ()., Island Creek, Mass. Telephone connection.

Job O. Loring

Then started for himself and erected a large stable, still standing, lo Rockland when twenty-four, where and iii adjoining towns he has erected over one hundred buildings. Iii 1890 bought a factory corner Webster and Liberty, which lie operated lor five years, manufacturing building materials, etc. Moved to Norlh Abington ami bought K. 1'. Reed mill, which lie disposed of after one year. Since then has handled real estate and attending to his own property and occasionally taking a building contract, Mr. Loring, being a student and lover of books, has since his sixteenth year accumulated one of the finest private libraries in town

Loring Reading Room

LORING READING ROOM, Under the supervision of the Plymouth Cordage Company, North Plymouth, for the use of the employees of that Company. Librarian, Miss Sarah C. Vande Carr, Asst. Librarian, Miss M. A. Everson.

Benjamin Loring

and is chairman of the School Committee of the town of Norwell. The Loring Dairy Farm, one of the best in the town of Norwell. The distribution of the product from the herd of line milch cows kept on this farm is effected through the firm of Loring Brothers, composed of Mr. Loring and his brother, A. Loring. Havealarge shore trade in the season, supplying many of th,- leading hotels and families, with a depot at Nantasket Point.

Manufacturer of all kinds of Tacks and Cut Nails. Machine Tacks a Specialty. Silver Lake, Plymouth Co., Mass. Extensive grower of Cranberries. Bogs located throughout Plymouth County. Telephone connection.

Geo. E. Mansfield & Co George E. Mansfield

Rockland. Agent for Glens' Falls Insurance Company - also represents German, of Freeport; Traders of Chicago, Citizens of St. Louis and The Hampshire, Quincy. Berkshire and Middlesex Mutual Companies. Also represenls The Mutual Life, Home Life and Fidelity and Casualty Companies of N. Y., and Security Mutual Life Increase Company of Binghampton.

Maquan Sanitorium

F. S. Thomas, M. D., LL D., Physician, Hanson, Mass. In 1S94 Dr. Thomas opened a Sanitarium for the treatmentof chronic diseases. Special preparations have been made to successfully treat Nervous Prostration and Diseases of Women. The Sanitorium is healthfully and beautifully located on Maquan Street, near Maquan Pond, a short distance from Gordon Rest, the Sanitarium of the King's Daughters of Massachusetts. Dr. Thomas is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, and for many years has been physician to Gordon Rest

Planing and Moulding Mill. Complete Stock of Mouldings, Door and Window Frames, Columns, Stair Work a Specialty. Cambridge Street, Middleboro, Mass. Telephone connection.

Clarence W. Maxim

CLARENCE W. MAXIM, Ridge Hill Farm. Located 'at Bisbee's Corner Rochester. P. (.)., North Rochester. Devoted to laisiug Fruit, Truck and Cranberries. " Chancit Peaches " a Specialty.

General Store, Real Estate and Insurance. Summer Cottages for Sale and to Let. Postmaster, Green Harbor, Marshfield, Mass. Telephone Station.

Contractors. Heavy and light teaming of all kinds. Estimates given on Stone and Brickwork. Kxcavatiug. Sand, Gravel, Loam » lit.,1" Quantuies. Residence, Office and Stables, Plymouth St Bridgewater, Mass. Robert J. McNeeland < reorge S. McNeeland.

George N. Merrill & Co

Contractor and Builder, North Scituate, Mass. Residence, Main Street, near Hatherly School. Plans and estimates' furnished for Wood Work, Lath and Plastering, Brick Work, Rustic Stone Work, Painting, etc. Telephone connection.

Middleboro Insurance Agency

T. C. Collins & Son, Insurance and Real Estate Agent for Steamship Lines. Special Commissioner, Notary Public. No. 8, Wareham St., Middleboro.

The Middleborough National Bank

Middleboro, Mass. Capital $50,000. Surplus and Profits $22,000. G. E- Tillson, President ; Geo. E. Doane, Vice-President ; A. A. Thomas, Cashier.

Middleboro Savings Bank

Middleboro, Mass. Jas. H. Harlow, President; A. M. Wood, Treasurer ; T. N. Wood, Assistant Treasurer. Banking Hours: 9 to 12 A.M.; 2 to 4 P. M.; 7 to 8 Saturday P. M.

JOHN L. MITCHELL, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Coal and Wood, Hay, Grain and Straw. Office and Wharf at Waveland, Hull. Residence, Hull. 1'- <>. Address, Allerton Telephone, Hingham.

Dr. Amos B. Paun

These lots are located directly oil the line of BrocktOt] & New Bedlord Street Railway. Forty-three Acres, adapted to House Lois, including the above lots, offered for sale. Address Dr. Amos 1!. Paun, Middleboro,

Rockland. Coach Line, Teaming, Jobbing, &c. Also dealer in Wood. Established 20 years. Horn 1 S ) < > in North Scituate. Lived in Rockland 43 years. Road Commissioner.

Peace Haven Hotel

Brant Rock, Mass. Season June 23th to September 15th. All Modern Improvements, Perfect Drainage, Superior Cuisine, Mineral Spring Water. Surf Bathing, Boating, Fishing, Cycling, Golf, Tennis, Croquet, Billiards, Pool, Ping Pong, Whist Parties, Circulating Library, Dancing and Ladies' Orchestra. Telephone, Telegraph, Money Order Post Office, Physician in attendance. Seven hundred feet of Broad Piazzas. Special Rates to Clubs. Marshfield Station, Plymouth Division, N. Y., N. 11. & 11. R. R. Address F. Earle, M. D , or S. M. Plimpton, Brant Rock, Mass.

Arthur H. Moorehead

The Maples Residence, Parsonage St., south of Marshfield Station, Marshfield. Raiting and Hoarding Stable. Barge Service at Humarock Beach. By A. H. Moorehead & W. H. Morey. Marshfield.

Col. H. A. Oakman Jas. P. Peirce

JAS. P. PEIRCE, Peirce Homestead, Located on Peirce Avenue, Lakeville. P. O., Myricks, Mass. Appraiser and Dealer in Real Estate, Wood and Lumber.

Rockland. Registered Pharmacist. Savings Bank Block. Agent for New York and Boston Despatch Express Co. Sale and Livery Stable. Freight forwarder, and general contractor.

Arthur Lindorf Power

Norwell. Farmer, owner of the " Norwell Stock Farm " of 40 acres, purchased 1S91. A two-story mansion with ell, containing 12 rooms, situated on a southerly slope, contains wainscoting in

The Nason Stables

Kimball & Shattuck, Proprietors. Hack, Livery and Boarding Stables. Dealers in Horses, Carriages, Harness, Robes and Horse Clothing. Telephone connection.

Old Colony Club The Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company

some rooms, 24 inches wide and 15 feet long in single pieces. The old doors with wide panels and quaint latches, retained in dining room. Fine old elms and ash trees ornament the grounds, dating Lack to iSoo. Elms planted 1840 by Rev. S. J. May. A spring on a side hill furnishes water, forced into a tall tower built of stones on high ground and forming one of the distinctive features. Products are chiefly milk and hay. Boston business mm find this an ideal place to send horses at all seasons of vear. Part of farm originally occupied by Wm. Blackmore, killed by Indians April 20, 1676, while defending his family. Wife and children escaped to " Block House " near by. See Deane's history of Scituate, p. 125. Present house built 1790 by Capt. Elijah Curtis. Subsequently place known as Jonathan Stetson's place. Home of Rev. Sam'l J. May of Anti-Slavery fame, later the home of Rev. Wm. H. Fish. Mr. Power was bom in Boston August 15, 1S159, and educated in public schools ; married August 15, 1SS2, Mary L. F. Nash, of So. Scituate.

New England Telephone And Telegraph Co Old Colony National Bank

Main Street, Plymouth, Mass. Chartered as a State Bank 1832. Organized as a National Bank 1865. Chas. G. Hathaway, President ; Jas. D. Thurber, Vice-President ; Geo. L. Gooding, Cashier.

Plymouth Park Lots. Located on shore of Buzzard's Bav, containing fifty acres. Large lots to suit purchasers. High Ground, Splendid Boating and Bathing, Delightful View. 101 Murray Street, New York, or Buzzard's Bay.

Real Estate. Cottage Lots at Newmarket Park, on Buzzard's Bay. Most Desirable Location. Full View of Buzzard's and Monument Bays. Fine Boating, Fishing and Bathing. Address Jos. Pratt, Brockton, Mass.

Sidney T. Nelson

Nelson Homestead. Settled in 1714. Comprising 150 acres. Located on Bedford Street, Lakeville. Fronting on Assawoinpsett and Long Ponds. P. 0., Lakeville, Mass.

James E. Otis

North Scituate Lunch House. Lunch and Rooms for the Travelling Public. Bowling Alley, Pool Rooms and Shooting Gallery Attached. And accommodation for Horses. Located on Gannett Street, North Scituate, near the Railroad Station.

Nemasket House

Middleboro, Mass. Thos. G. Sisson, Proprietor. Superior accommodation, Low Rates. and all conveniences. First-class Livery ttached to the Hotel. Special attention to Travelling men.

Alpheus Packard

West Hanover. Florist. Coal Dealer. Born, 1842, in East Bridgewater. Educated in public schools and East Bridgewater Academy. Came to Hanover 1S72; was eighteen years in L. Phillips mill, ten years in grocery business in West Hanover and since 1897 in coal business. Modern equipped green houses. Was Selectman three years, Constable ten years, Trustee Library Association and President several years. Served 1S61-4 in Co. C, 29th Mass. Infantry, partly with regiment and partly on detached duty. Member Hanover G. A. R. Post.

Amos A. Phelps

Rockland. Insurance aud Real Estate. Notary Public. Telephone. Represents the following Mutual Companies: Berkshire, Cambridge, Citizens, Dedham, Fitchburg, Hingham, Holyoke,' Lowell, Merrimac, Merchants & Farmers, Norfolk, Traders & Mechanics, also Stock Companies, Agricultural, of Watertown, N. Y. ; New Hampshire, of Manchester, N. H. ; National Union, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Phcenix, of Hartford, Conn.; Phoenix, of London, Eng. ; Royal Exchange, of Loudon, Eng. ; Sun, of London, Eng. Also the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, of Newark, N. J.

Nanumett Heights. Situated on Onset Bay. Cottage Lots on Nanumett Heights, overlooking Onset Bav and Buzzard's Bay, for Sale. Address W. C. Ramsdell. P. O. Box 191, Onset, Mass. Within five minutes of Onset Junction, on Buzzard's Bay, by Trolley.

Edward Nichols Chas. H. Rand & Co

Growers of Cranberries. Bogs located on South River Road, near Marshfield Station,N.Y., N. H. & H. R. R., South Shore Division. Town of Marshfield. P. O, Marshfield, Mass.

Established 1850. E. Y. Perry & Co. , 1850. E. Phillips & Sons 1874. Manufacturers of Tacks and Shoe Nails, Hardware Upholstery and Saddlery Tacks, Miners' Tacks, Hungarian and Hob Nails, Machine Nails and Lasting Machine Tacks, Sheet Lead and Zinc Plates. Boston Office, 107 Sumner Street. P. 0. Address and Works, South Hanover, Mass.

A. J. Randall Norris Hotel

"Clean and Quiet." "The Norn's Suites," European Plan. Cafe. 130 Rooms. Running water and steam heat in each room. Free baths. Opp. R. R. Station. Telephone 33-612. Geo. E. Norris, Mgr. Brockton, Mass.

S. E. Packard & Son Phillips, Bates & Co

Grain, Lumber and Coal, Hay and Straw, Masons' Supplies. P. O., Address, Hanover. Stores at Hanover, West Hanover, Greenbush, Marshfield. Telephone in all the stores.

Benjamin F. Paige

Willett's Hill Farm. Market Gardener. All kinds of Vegetables, Fruit and Choice Poultry. Whitman Street, Hanson. P. 0., East Whitman, Mass., or Hanson, Mass.

Lot Phillips & Co

Manufacturers of Boot, Shoe and Packing Boxes. Printing on Wood a Specialty. Established 1868. West Hanover, Mass. Lot Phillips, Josiah W. Hinckley, Estate E. Y. Perry.

Real Estate Exchange And Auction Board

Builder. General Repairing, Care of Shore property a Specialty. Residence, Washington Street, corner Holmes Avenue, Duxbury, Mass. Telephone connection.

5 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Plymouth. Carpenter and Builder. Real Estate Dealer. Houses and Lots for sale on Sandwich, Whiting, Lewis, Mt. Pleasant, South and Stafford Streets. Houses for Sale and to Rent. Teaming and Contracting Plans Made and Estimates Furnished.

Contractor and Builder. Residence, Staples' Corners, Lakeville. P. <).. Lakeville, Mass. Cottages to let and lots to lease at Joe Hooker Beach, Assawompsett Pond.

Formerly of Hyde & Sherry, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, 15 Court Square, Boston, Mass. Resi deuce, 71 Kenwood Street, Dorchester. Telephone, 807 Main.

A. Wilbert Starratt & Co

F. M. REYNOLDS, Surfside, Nantasket. Postmaster. Member Hoard of Assessors. All kinds fine Interior and Exterior House Painting. Prompt and efficient service.

Rhodes & Ripley Clothing Co

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Mens', Youths' and Boys' Clothing, Lincoln Building, 72 Lincoln Street, Boston. Telephone: Oxford 485.

Real Estate, Mortgages, Fire, Life, Health and Accident Insurance. Positively no misrepresentation. Cottages cared for while vacated. Allerton, Mass. Telephone connection.

Rockland. August, iS62,aged 20, enlisted as a private in Tenth Vermont Vol. Infantry. Appointed corporal and detailed as one of color guard. In July, 1S63, was on recruiting service in Ver mont. While there ordered before Examining Board, Major-Gen. Casey, President, for examination for a commission in colored troops, and received commission as captain October 27, 1863, and

Samoset House

Plymouth. Clark and Green, Proprietor. If you are in search of rest, comfort and pure Ocean air, this is the place to come to. Open all the year. Near all points of historic interest. Five acres of grounds. Golf links within 5 minutes ride. Send for Booklet.

E. 6Now, Jr

Real Estate and Mortgages. Cohasset, Scituate and South Shore Property a Specialty. Room 79 Equitable Building, 150 Devonshire Street, Boston. Telephone connection.

Stone & Webster

assigned to Seventh Regt. U. S. Colored Troops. Remained at Camp Stanton, Maryland, until March, 1S64. when the brigade, of which the Seventh Regiment was part, went to Florida. _ Later the Seventh returned to Virginia, and in October Captain Rice was appointed Acting Assistant Inspector General of 1st Brigade, 2d Division, 25th Army Corps. Participated in engagements in fall of '64 and spring of '65 about Richmond and Petersburg. Was in the last engagement and at Appomattox at the surrender of Lee. Shortly after this Col. Rice was brevetted Major and Lieutenant-

Isaac Sampson

Sampson Homestead. Residence, Main Street and Crooked Lane, Lakeville, Mass. Owner of Oak Bluffs, at Assawompsett Pond. P. 0., Lakeville, Mass.

W. N. Snow Stone & Webster

General Managers, Brockton & Plymouth Street Railway Co., Plymouth, Mass. J. D. Tlmrber, President : Charles I. Litchfield, Vice-President; H. B. Sawyer, Treasurer ; A.J. Betuis, Manager. Address all letters to the Company.

Colonel for "gallant and meritorious services." With the 25th Army Corps went to Texas. Captain Rice, soon after landing at Indianola, received appointment of A. A. Inspector-General of District of Victoria. A few months later same appointment for Central District of Texas, headquarters at San Antonio. The last six months of his stay in Texas was on the staff of Maj.-Gen. I Ieint/elman. October, 1866, command was mustered out of United States service at Baltimore, Md.

P. Frank Sampson Geo. D. Soule

GEO. D. SOULE, Whitman. Whitman Insurance Agency. Established 1S83. General Fire, Life and Accident Insurance. Real Estate Bought and Sold. Tenements cared for. Justice of the Peace. Tieasurer Co-Operative Bank. Offices Co-operative Bank Building. Whitman and at East Whitman P. O.

Allerton. Physician and Surgeon. Born and educated in Public Schools of Vermont, High School St. Albans, University of Vermont and Baltimore Medical College. Located in Allerton since 1895. Student with the well-known Dr. M. II. Powers, Fairfax, Vt.

Contractor and Builder. Houses for sale and to let. Care of property a specialty. Residence, Brook Street. Scituate Harbor, Mass. Telephone connection.

C. L. Rice & Son

Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Carpeting, Crocker}-, Cutlery, Curtains, Wall Papers, etc. Upholstering and Furniture Repairing. Furnishing Undertakers. Established 1866 as a Dry Goods Store. Furniture added 1876. Rockland, Mass.

Civil Engineer and Surveyor. Proprietor of Bay Side Trout Farm. Eggs, Fry and Yearling. Residence, Great Neck Road, Town of Warehain. R. R. Station Onset Junction. P. O., East Warehain.

South River Company

North Duxbury, Mass. Growers of Cranberries. Nearest Railroad Station, Marshfield. Buyers of Fruit always welcome at our bog. W. E. Damon, President ; Horace B. Maglathlin, General Manager; Edwin A. Stevens, Treasurer.

South Hanover. Farmer and owner of "The Elms" farm of about 75 acres since 1876, situated on Elm Street near Curtis Crossing. Name derived from beautiful trees surrounding house, one especially large shading driveway. A brook crosses the land. Spring furnishes water for house. Good supply of timber. A large dwelling house faces south-east. To south-west is the Old Curtis Anchor Forge, where the anchors were made for the old frigate "Constitution." Buildings now used as a rubber mill. Grass is chief product. The land suited for n\\ kinds of crops. Mr. Sweeny was born in Plattsburg, X. V., 1834. Married 1875 at Clintonville, N. Y., to Lucy Margaret Thaxter. Member Plymouth County Agricultural Society and Marshfield Agricultural Society.

Freeman L. Robbins

Dealers in all kinds of Lumher. Gutters, Mouldings, Doors, Windows, Screen Doors, Window Screens, Hardware, Drain Pipe, Paints, Oils, &c Opposite R. R. Station, Middleboro, Mass. Yards at Middleboro and Hyannis. Telephone connection.

Undertakers and Embalmers, Norwell, Mass. Telephone connection. Established 1S55 by Charles W. Sparrell. E. H. Sparrell associated with father. Prompt personal attention night and day.

George A. Robbins

Carpenter and Builder. Jobbing and Repairing promptly attended to. Plans and Specifications furnished on application. Shop on Wood Street. Residence, 108 Warehain St., Middleboro, Mass.

The Variety Store. Successors to Seaverns & Spear, North Scituate, Mass. Telephone connection. Groceries, Butter, Flour, Dry Goods, Hay, Grain, Furniture, Bedding, Stoves, Crockery, Trunks, Tinware and Wood. Mount Blue Mineral Spring Water. Teas and Coffees, Kennedy's Crackers and Biscuit, Lowney's Bon Bous, Medicines, Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Mens' Underwear, Refrigera'ors, Lamps, Oil Heaters, Quaker Ranges, Horse Blankets, Robes and Whips, Garden Tools, Seeds, Paints, Wall Paper, Straw Matting, Oilcloth, Hammocks, Lawn Mowers, Window Screens, Fishing Outfits, Stationery. Agents for Buttericks Patterns, Delineator and Glass of Fashion. General Merchandise.

John R. Spearwater

Waveland. Complete outfit Boats and Fishing Tackle. Smelt fishing is great sport. Fishing grounds are best on coast. Patronized by many leading business men of Boston and elsewhere, who enjoy fishing.

Fred'K H. Sylvester

Dealer in Long and Short Lumber Doors, Sashes, Blinds, Clapboards, Shingles, Laths and Hemlock Lumber, Southern Pine, &c. Yard and Office at the shore. Off Court Street. Plymouth, Mass.

William Spellman Sylvester & Cooper

Masons, Contractors and Builders. Office 101 Tremont Street, Boston. Office hours from 12 to 2. Telephone connection. Residence of H. II. Sylvester at North Scituate, near Railroad Station. H. H. Sylvester, I. C. Cooper.

Lone Star Poultry and Pigeon Ranch. Located on Mountain Ave., Pembroke. Plymouth County Squab Breeders. Eggs and Stock at all times. P.O., Pembroke, Mass. Telephone 3-4.

Hanover. Owner of the well-known " Elm wood Farm " on Washington Street, containing 150 acres of tillage and woodland. This farm has been in possession of the family since his grandfather Michael's time. Then to Robert, then to present owner. The specialty is dairying with thorough modern equipment. About twenty head of graded Jersey cows. Delivers about 4,400 quarts of milk a day, his market being amongst the best people of Rockland.

Sylvester House

Allerton. W. H. Sylvester, Proprietor. Up to-date House of twenty-five rooms. Electric Lights. Hot and Cold Baths. Sanitary Plumbing. Telephone connection. Mr. Sylvester has been Postmaster at Allerton since 1S97.

Classified Directory Herbert A. Thayer

Rockland. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Ice, Office 104 Market Street, Cutsaboul 4,500 tons of ice annually on Studley and Caching Ponds*, where spacious li uses arc located. Analysis of water show high degree of purity. Established 1896. Prompt

Tispaquin Farm, Wareham and Tispaquin Streets, Middleboro, Mass. Farm of 1 -'-1 acres, besutlfnlly located on Tispaquin Pond, near trolley cars and State Road, three miles from Middleboro Center. Splendid location for Residence or Building Lots. A living spring on farm, extra quality water.

Florist. Hingham. Mais. Cut Flowers or pot plants not in shirk furnished at short notice. Cut flowers, pot plants, de decorations, bedding plants. New England grown nursery Stock. Ship alt over the country. Established seven years. 60 South Street. Telephone connection.

Estate Of Henry Wadsworth Albert J. West

Boston. Real Fstate Agent. Manager Park- Island, contaiuingabout t! acres of elevated land and same amount of beaches, divided into 46 lots. No lots sold for investment or speculation. Lots only sold to those who will erect good houses and occupy them. Office, 1001 Barrister's Hall, 11, 15, 25 Pemberton Square.

Eli W. Williams

Highland Farm. Located on Highland Road, Lakeville, Mass. Grower of Potatoes, Corn and general farm products. Farm of 60 acres, between Assawompsett and Long Ponds, near Highland Station. Electric Railway.

Rockland. Soap Manufacturer and Renderer of Soap Grease and Tallow. Ground Beef Scraps and Bone for Fowl a Specialty. Market Street. Business established by J. Torrey in 1848. Father of J. A. Torrey. Present factory located in old School House, where J. A. Torrey attended school.

Eben C. Waterman

Successor to Joseph White. Established 1833. Dealer in Fine Carriages, Horses, Wagons, Harnesses, etc. North Hanson, Mass. Telephone connections.

Daniel P. Wise Daniel N. Tower

Cohasset. Surveyor. Established in Cohasset since 1870. Superintendent Cohasset Water Works. President Cohasset Electric Co. Commodore Cohasset Yacht Club. Residence N. Main St., opp. The Common.

R. C. Waterman Mrs. Sarah C. Whiting

Hanover. Born 1852, daughter of Hiram and Lucinda (Bailey) Whiting, of Hanover. Educated in Hanover Schools and Bridgewater Normal. Began teaching at 16, and has followed this since, mostly in Hanover. Now Principal in West Hanover Grammar School. Married to Lucius A. Whiting, of Hanover, who died in 1894. Four of his brothers served in the Union Army. All deceased save one. Mrs. Whiting has erected a new home and other buildings, just off Circuit Street, where she has a warm welcome for her many friends.

D. Herbert Wood

General Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Architectural Draughting. Estimates Furnished. Sawing, Planing. Moulding and Turning. Jobbing a Specialty. Wall Papers and Room Moulding. Mill and Office, Margin Street, Cohasset. Residence, North Scituate, Mass. Agent for Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Telephone connection.

Arthur R. Train Waveland Hotel

Waveland Hull. About five minutes walk front Waveland Station, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Contains about 100 well furnished and comfortable single and double rooms. Telephone and Telegraph service. Delightfully located on and fronting Hull Bay. Good table and service. Seventh season under the management of Mrs. Jennie R. Spearwater. P. 0. Address Allerton, Mass. Baiting and Boating safe for children.

Rockland- Summer Residence, Quittacus Lake, Lakeville. Owner of Quittacus Cranberry Bojj. situated about $% miles from Lakeville Station. Containing about 13 acres. Raises a very superior quality of berries picked entirety by residents of neighborhood. Entire crop is taken by one New York dealer.

George F. Welch

Scituate. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Lumber. Hardware, Agricultural Supplies and Furniture, Coal, Wood, Hay and Straw. Masons' and Painters' Materials, Harrison's " Town and Country" Ready Mixed Paints, Fishermen's Goods, Harnesses, Horse Goods, and Stable Fittings, House Furnishing Stoves and Tin Ware, Seeds and Fertilizers.

South Hanover. Farmer. Has owned about 43 acres on Rroadway, Winter, etc., streets, since 18S5. Plenty of water from brook and well. Three acres of timber on Silver Street Farm buildings and good 2^-story house and ell and large barn with good accommodations for stock keeping. There are two cranberry bogs, containing about 7j^ acres, producing about 500 barrels of berries annually. Raises hay fir own use, and various fruits, apples, etc. Mr. Tyndale was born in Clintonville, Clinton County, N. Y., 1847. Educated in public schools. Came to Hanover 1871. Married 1S76, Flora Augusta Bryant, of West Pembroke, Mass. One son, Edward Henry, at present a student of the Royal Academy at Munich, Bavaria.

Willard Welsh

Real Estate, Mortgages, and Insurance. 1 5 Exchange Street, Boston, Mass. Factory Land with Wharf and Railroad Facilities, a Specialty. Telephone 1 196 Main.