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1858. William H. Temple, representative.
Union Base Ball Club wins championship of the state from Massapoag Club of Sharon.
1859. Union Ball Club plays a two days' game of 211 innings at Ashland, with the Excelsior Club of Upton on July 28th and 29th, winning the championship and a purse of $100 00 by a score of 100 to 78.
Present Methodist church built on Cottage street.
Milton M. Fisher elected State Senator; also re- elected in 1860.
Another famous game of Base Ball played at Worcester, Oct. 11th and 12th, between the Unions of Medway and the Excelsiors of Upton.
James Coombs commenced business in West Med- way and has continued in the same store for 54 years.
Net profit to town from the liquor agency, $3.17 for the year.
1860. Monument to Rev. David Sanford dedicated Oct. 2nd at Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway; Rev. Jacob Ide orator.
Present Grammar school building erected on High street ; cost $6,963.61.
Population 3195.
Town's net loss by liquor agency, $8.27 for the year.
On April 16th, Isaac Foster drops dead in town meeting, which is immediately adjourned.
First campaign flag ever floated in town at Med- way, in honor of Lincoln and Hamlin.
Lincoln electors receive 329 votes to 104 for Dem - ocratic candidates.
Dean Libriry incorporated and receives a gitt from Dr. Oliver Dean.
William N. Cary, Sr., representative. Also '61.
1861. Nov. 13. First train enters Medway on the Air Line Railroad. (Now N. Y., N. H. & H) Terminal at Broad street for some months.
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1861. Milton H. Sanford presents Village church with organ.
April 29. First town meeting in support of war. Committee of nine chosen to encourage enlistments.
May 11. Fifty -four Medway volunteers enlist in Co. E, Second Mass. Regiment.
May 11. Two thousand people cheer the Med way company who left for Camp Andrew on the old branch railroad.
Military expenses, $744.87.
1862.
Five thousand two hundred seventy-seven dollars thirty-seven cents paid by town during the year to families of volunteers.
Jan. 1 to June 1. Thirty additional enlistments.
Aug. 9. George H. Ide and Herman S. Sparrow killed at Cedar Mountains.
Nov. 24. Alexander M. Cushing dies in hospital at Sharpsburg, Md.
Coin goes out of circulation, postage stamps and scrip used instead.
Frederick Swarman loses leg by a cannon ball at Antietam, Sept. 17.
Three soldiers killed at Antietam on Sept. 17th : Charles E. Cary, Benjamin F. Remmick] and John S. Treen.
Robert T. Morse dies in the service.
Town votes, Jan. 3rd, to keep a complete record of all the volunteers in the Civil War. This antedates action by the state by over a year.
Military expense, $11,120.15.
Catholic Society organized at Medway by Rev. Patrick Cuddihy of Milford. Previous to this time all Medway Catholics worshipped at Milford.
Rev. Asa Hixon died, aged 62.
1863. Hon. M. M. Fisher elected County Commissioner. Serves for nine years.
Air Line Railroad completed to Woonsocket.
Harding and Bassett commence manufacture of straw goods.
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1863. Charles H. Cummings died in hospital at Washing- ton, D. C., Jan. 19.
First draft ordered and held July 15th.
Medway Catholic Society purchases the old school house on Village street.
Newell Barber died in the service at Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 14th.
David F. Covill, a soldier, died at Bayou Gentilly, La., April 22nd.
William Daniels, representative. Also '64.
John Nolan died in the service at New Orleans, La., Aug. 7th.
May 3. Albert C. Houghton killed at Chancellors- ville.
May 3. Peter Mawn loses a leg at Battle of Chancellorsville.
1864.
On June 11, thirty-two members of the 2nd Mass. Regiment return to Medway, after three years' hard service, and are welcomed at the Air Line Depot by a large assemblage with a band of music.
David A. Clark taken prisoner at Opequan, Sept. 19; confined in Libby and Belle Isle.
George A. Fuller died in Andersonville Prison in August.
George M. Hardy killed at the Battle of the Wil- derness.
Edwin A. Grant died, Sept. 11th, at Alexandria, Va.
Henry R. Dain died at Berryville, Va, hospital.
George H. Allen died, Aug. 11th, in Andersonville Prison.
Medway Branch R. R. discontinued after 11 years' service.
Henry E. Mason, postmaster at Medway.
George W. Mahr, a prisoner at Andersonville until April, 1865.
James McGowan died of yellow fever at Beaufort, S. C.
George V. Partridge died of wounds at Beaufort, S. C.
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SECOND MEETING HOUSE, 1749 TO 1816. THIRD, 1816 TO 1850.
FOURTH, PRESENT MILLIS CHURCH.
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1864. Albert W. Barton captured by the Confederates at Battle of Cold Harbor and confined at Andersonville for ten months.
Lieut. William C. Hawes killed at Alexandria, Va., May 29th.
Local mill men pay $1.37 per pound for raw cotton on Nov. 22nd.
Dr. Jacob Ide celebrated the 50th anniversary of his installation as pastor over the Second Church.
1865. Patrick Gallagher died at camp near Richmond, Va., May 24th.
Charles G. Kingsbury died May 29th at hospital in Washington, D. C.
Oakland Cemetery dedicated at Medway.
Medway furnished 377 men and spent $35,000 as a town in prosecuting the War of the Rebellion.
Fifty-two soldiers died away from home out of a population of 3600.
Mrs. Mary Darling died, at 103 years of age, and was the first person buried in Oakland Cemetery.
Gilbert McCallum, a prisoner at Andersonville, for a year, died at Washington after being exchanged.
Expense of Fire Department for the year, $181.39.
St. Clement's P. E. church organized at East Med- way. Rev. B. F. Cooley, Rector.
Dr. and Mrs. Jacob Ide celebrate their golden wed- ding, April 14.
Albert D. Richardson publishes "Field, Dungeon and Escape."
Joseph A. Clifford detailed to guard the body of Abraham Lincoln before the funeral services.
Orion Mason died, aged 66.
1866. George P. Metcalf builds large straw factory in Med- way.
Anson Daniels, representative.
1867.
Streets in town officially named and entered on town records.
Leander S. Daniels, representative.
VIEW FROM STONE MILL BRIDGE, WEST MEDWAY.
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1867. Big freshet on Charles River; upper dam at white mill swept away and flat inundated.
1868. Medway Cornet Band organized by George H. Barton, who was first leader.
Town Clerk's office burned and some records and the town library destroyed. Many valuable papers and the original books of records saved in the safe.
Clark Partridge, state senator.
Alfred Daniels, a prominent manufacturer, died, aged 65 years.
Town votes at its April meeting to erect a soldiers' monument. (But never did so.)
A written transcript made of the first book of town records.
On May 18th the first record of a No. License vote in Medway.
1869. Fifty-one new buildings in town this year.
Dr. James H. Sargent, a veteran surgeon of the Regular Army, under Scott, died at the age of 88.
James H. Ellis, representative.
Three divisions of Sons of Temperance and two lodges of Good Templars in town with a membership of over three hundred.
Two lodges of Knights of St. Crispin in town.
Wilder Dwight Post, G. A. R., organized ; David A. Partridge, first Commander.
Albert D. Richardson assassinated by Daniel Mc. Farland in office of New York Tribune.
Rapid Engine Company's house built on Peach street. Cost met by town and subscriptions.
Awl and needle shop built at West Med way.
John W. Hodges and brother start the canning industry in Medway.
1870.
Catholic society detached from Milford and annexed to Holliston; Rev. Father Quinlan pastor.
Ninety-three births, 32 marriages, 52 deaths.
Eight new streets laid out on old Hunt farm in West Medway, on old training field, by W. L. C. Hunt.
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1870. Fifty four buildings enlarged and erected this year.
Town owns one cannon this year. (Query :-
Where did it go?)
Two new fire engines bought: The "Torrent" and the "Rapid." Cost $2780.00.
Rev. Seth J. Axtell, pastor of Baptist church.
The old "Convent" straw shop burned.
Charles River Lodge of Masons organized at West Medway.
Vital statistics printed for the first time in the town records.
1871. Rev. E. O. Jameson, pastor of First church.
Medway Savings Bank incorporated : M. M. Fish. er, President ; Orion A. Mason, Treasurer.
Thomas Campbell died, aged 62.
Milton H. and Edward S. Sanford give $7500 and citizens subscribe $8315 towards building a public hall.
RESIDENCE OF REV. DAVID SANFORD.
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1871. Dr. Oliver Dean died in Franklin, leaving a bequest of 25 shares of B. & A. R. R. stock to Dean Library.
Three members of School Committee die in office this year : John S. Walker, Marcellus Woodward and Lyman Adams, Jr.
David A. Partridge elected moderator of the annual town meeting for the first time. He afterward served over 60 times in this capacity.
1872. Rev Edwin A. Adams sent as missionary to Austria. Henry A. Bullard publishes the "Medway Journal at West Medway."
Rev. Alexis W. Ide, representative.
"Big Shop" built at West Medway for Fogg, Houghton and Coolidge.
Thirteen boot shops in operation in town.
From 1852 to 1872, one hundred and fifteen build- ings erected on the Joel Hunt farm in West Medway.
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1872. Small-pox in town, brought by a tramp. Six deaths. Cost to town, $1854.05.
Rev. Rufus K. Harlow of Middleboro installed as pastor of Village church. Rev. David Sanford, Pastor Emeritus.
Sanford Hall dedicated Dec. 31st. Dr. Theodore Fisher delivered historical address.
1873. March meeting held in Sanford Hall for the first time. "Milford Journal" publishes the first Medway edition.
Oct. 30th. First "Old Folks Concert" held in Med- way.
In July, 5040 cases of boots and shoes shipped from West Medway station.
Interior of Village Church remodelled.
Rev. A. W. Segar, pastor of Second Church.
Franklin Journal purchases the Medway Journal and publ ishes a Medway edition.
Medway Lodge, No. 163, I. O. O. F., organized.
Division No. 7, A. O. H., organized at Medway.
1874. Willard Daniels, pioneer boot manufacturer, died ; aged 70.
Rev. Alexis W. Ide, chaplain of State Senate.
Charles B. Whitney, prominent boot manufacturer, died.
Town opposes the taking of Charles River by the City of Boston as a source of water supply.
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church built at Med- way.
1875. Sunday Newspapers first sold in Medway.
Deacon Paul Daniel died at East Medway, aged 86.
Captain Warren Doliff, an old sea captain and Cal- ifornia miner, starts gold excitement by prospecting on Pauls Hill, Medway.
Home National Bank of Milford starts operations and draws many depositors from Medway.
Rev. David Sanford dies, Oct. 17, aged 74.
Forty-one new buildings this year.
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1875. Whitney boot factory on Broad street burned.
William Parsons killed by a runaway horse, Feb. 13th.
Population 4242. High water mark.
Col. George H. Holbrook died, aged 77.
Artemus Richardson died, aged 95 years and 6 months.
Ninetieth birthday of Dr. Jacob Ide celebrated at Second Church, March 29th.
Dean Walker died, aged 82.
High school building enlarged.
1876. St. Joseph's Church started and partially completed.
David A. Partridge, representative.
Partridge Hall built in East Medway.
East Medway Dramatic Club flourished about this time. "Solon Shingle," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "The Ostoroon" and other high class dramas given by them. Catholic Total Abstinence Society formed.
Norfolk Tannery burned at Medway. Loss $20,000.
Warren Lovering, Esq., aged 80, a former state senator and member of the governor's council, died in East Medway almshouse.
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1876. Rev. James M. Bell, pastor of Second Church.
St. Joseph's Cemetery consecrated on Oakland street, Medway.
Eddie B. Robinson drowned in Populatic Pond, Dec. 31.
On Jan. 3rd, Patrick Costello plowed over an acre of land on Bent street, Med way.
Mrs. Edna Holbrook Sanford died, aged 90.
Olney Corey died, aged 70.
Quinobequin Hotel partially burned July 5th.
Calvin Follansbee burned to death in his barn at East Medway.
Captain George Paul died, aged 70.
May 31. Firemen's muster at East Medway.
1877. Rockville Chapel built and dedicated. N. B. The . services made a sticking impression on those present, as the varnish on the seats was extremely new.
First service held in St. Joseph's Church.
Norfolk Lodge, Knights of Honor, instituted May 31st.
Eureka Council, No. 5, Royal Arcanum, organized July 11.
Rapid Engine Co. disbands and keeps up an inde- pendent organization for one year.
1878. Elijah B. Daniels, representative.
Rev. R. K. Harlow spends five month in Europe.
Rev. John E. Burr, pastor of Baptist Church.
George W. Ray died, aged 71.
Zenas Brigham died, aged 92.
"Aunt Thusa Ellis" died, aged 95.
Seventeen persons die this year, seventy years of age and upwards.
Druggists' licenses granted this year in town for the first time.
1879. Milk wholesales for 15c an 8 qt. can.
Rev. Caleb Kimball, the blind preacher, died, aged 81. He was blind for 50 years.
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1879. Hon. Luther Metcalf died, aged 91.
Eaton & Wilson's upper mill burned. Bernard Hart, first assistant engineer of Rapid Engine Company, killed at mill fire.
Captain David Daniels married for the second time at 80 years of age.
Otis Metcalf died, aged 94.
78 births, 27 marriages, 87 deaths.
Dr. Alexander LeB. Monroe died, aged 71.
Canners of vegetables hit hard by "swell heads." One packer lost over 200,000 cans of corn.
Town Auditor Frederick L. Fisher has accident that causes amputation of leg.
1880. George E. Partridge of East Medway murdered at North Bellingham.
A Garfield and Arthur Torchlight Battalion organ- ized in each of the three villages.
Hon. Joseph Lovell Richardson died at East Med- way, aged 93.
Water mains laid from Eaton & Wilson's mills along Village street to grounds of the Village Church, for fire protection, by generosity of Milton H. Sanford.
Rev. Jacob Ide, D. D., died, aged 94.
Mrs. Mary Emmons Ide died, aged 89.
Marcus Richardson, of Bangor, Me., spends his 100th birthday with his brother, Deacon Silas Richard- son, of East Medway, aged 90.
Joseph Warren Thompson, representative.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Veteran Association succeeds Wilder Dwight post, G. A. R., at West Medway.
1881.
First graduation from Medway High School.
Abraham Charak becomes the first Hebrew resi- dent of Medway, living on Ellis street, having fled from persecution in Russia.
Sept. 8th. Famous Yellow Day.
70th birthday of Hon. M. M. Fisher celebrated in Sanford Hall.
Old White mill demolished.
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1881. Sixty thousand dollars subscribed to build Sanford Mills on site of Old White Mill.
April 4th. Town votes to compile and publish a History of Medway.
First service ever held in Christ Church on Christ- mas Day.
Marcus Richardson of Bangor, Maine, a native of East Medway, and a member of Montgomery Lodge of Masons, in 1803, died, aged 100 years.
Memorial services for President Garfield held in Sanford Hall, Sept 26.
Miss Mary A. Jenckes, first Medway graduate from Wellesley College.
Eighteen persons over 80 years of age died this year ; thirty persons over 70.
Mrs. Olive Adams died; aged 98 years, 7 months. School Committee censured by town in respect to High School matters.
Two selectmen die in office within six months ; William Everett, Oct. 31st, 1882, and George B. Thrash- er, March 5th, 1883.
Benjamin F. Butler carries Medway for Governor by 49 votes.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lectures in Sanford Hall.
Curfew rung at 9 o'clock at Sanford Mills from this date.
Medway Lodge No. 42, A. O. U. W., organized.
Sanford Mills completed and leased to Samuel Hodgson of Wales, Mass.
Abram S. Harding, a prominent straw manufac- turer, dies, aged 64.
Cephas Thayer died April 16th, aged 93.
James H. Sargent Post, G. A. R., organized.
Deputy Sheriff Valentine Coombs died, aged 81.
1883. Sewell J. Clark, representative.
Worst railroad accident ever known in town. In July, the first morning train leaves track below "New
1882.
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City" and rolls down embankment, and fourteen per- sons are more or less injured.
East Medway Grange, No. 112, P. of H., organized. Milton H. Sanford died, aged 70. He was Med- way's most generous benefactor.
Edward Eaton, manufacturer, died, aged 60.
Town received a gift of $800 from an anonymous donor, whose identity has never been revealed. It has popularly been supposed to be conscience money.
1884. Charles P. Spencer, first Medway graduate from Tufts. College.
Miss Katherine S. Jameson, first Medway graduate from Smith College.
E. S. Fuller and 234 other voters petition the Gen- eral Court for the separation of East Medway and its incorporation into a separate township.
Registrars of voters appointed in town for the first time.
Four liquor licenses granted.
Deacon Anson Daniels, a portrait painter of more than local reputation, died, aged 71.
Rockville Mills burn.
M. M. Fisher and 256 others petition the General Court that if the town of Medway be divided at all, it be made into three distinct townships.
Publication of the West Medway Gazette commenced by G. M. Billings in connection with the Gazette at Milford. Elmer E. Holbrook was the local manager up to the time of his last illness in 1905, and almost from the beginning the Medway Village column has been and still is in charge of Orion T. Mason.
1885.
Most of the Old Grant, or East Medway, set apart by the legislature and incorporated into the town of Millis. Its territory extending as far west as a line drawn on Farm street, and named "Millis" in honor of Lansing Millis, a wealthy resident.
Division of town property gives Millis the alms- house, the engine house, and three school houses, the
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new town paying $4500 towards the town indebted- ness.
Ten persons over 80 die this year.
At first town meeting in Millis, 65 no- license votes; none for license.
Henry L. Millis, representative to General Court from Millis.
Miles Gormley, the oldest man that ever lived in Medway, died, at the age of 105 years.
St. Joseph's Society made into a separate parish. Rev. Matthew T. Boylan, first pastor.
Louis LaCroix, first town clerk of Millis, a position he still adorns.
Population of Medway, 2777 ; Millis, 683.
On Feb. 26th, a grand celebration of the incorpora- tion of the town of Millis held in the old First Church.
Captain Clark Partridge died, aged 82.
Joseph L. Richardson died, aged 89.
Lansing Millis died April 6th, aged 61.
Depot boot factory built at Medway Village, by citizens, for Seavey Bros.
Mrs. Pamelia Thompson died, aged 89.
Small pox scare in town.
First board of Millis selectmen : Lansing Millis, John S. Folsom, Willard P. Clark.
1886.
New stone railway station built at Millis, with town offices in upper story, the gift of the heirs of Lansing Millis.
First Cattle Show and Fair of East Medway Grange.
Law and Order League formed in town.
Messrs. Hirsh & Park of New York City buy the Harding Straw Factory, and commence the manufac- ture of straw and felt hats.
Medway Town History published; Rev. E. O. Jameson, Editor.
Third Congregational Church organized at West Medway by ex-communicated and disaffected members of the Second Church.
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BOSTON
MILLIS MEMORIAL DEPOT.
1886. The Austin Farm on Village street bought for an almshouse.
Freshet on Charles River, Feb. 11th; boats used on streets on the "Flats."
1887. Wellington L. C. Hunt died, aged 72. A most active and stirring son of old Medway ; from 1869 to 1874 he built, directly or indirectly, over 100 buildings in West Med way.
Rev. James Conery, the first Medway boy ordained to the priesthood.
1888. Charles W. Seavey, representative.
Semi-centennial anniversary of the Village Church, held Sept. 7th.
Chase, Merritt & Co. remove their boot business from Milford to the Seavey shop at Medway.
Rev. Thomas B. Lowney, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
Mrs. Sally D. Ware celebrates her 100th birthday at her home on Village street.
Prohibition party vote 50; high water mark in Medway.
Town Treasurer Orion A. Mason died April 6th, aged 63 years and 1 day.
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1888. Granville McCallom died, aged 82. At his request he was given a Masonic funeral with a band of music.
Old Holbrook bell foundry, the oldest in the state, torn down at Millis.
In August, 1733 cases of boots and shoes were shipped from the Medway station.
Dr. E. A. Daniels and family go to Europe and spend two years in Vienna.
On Christmas Day thermometer registers 61 above. No ice cut in town this winter until March.
1889.
First Church in Millis celebrates its 175th birth- day.
Joseph Bullard died, aged 72.
Addison T. Thayer died, aged 75.
William Wallace drowned in Charles River.
George Newell died, aged 86.
Mrs. Sally D. Ware died, aged 100 years, 6 months.
Fifteen persons died in town this year, over 70 years of age.
Mechanics Hall Block in West Medway burned.
St. Joseph's Church clears over $4000 on a two weeks' fair.
St. Joseph's Cemetery consecrated by Archbishop Williams.
Town of Millis elects Park Commissioner and ap- propriates $10,000 for the Steel Edge Works Park.
Steel Edge Manufacturing Company removes its business from Chelsea to Millis and erects large build- ings of stone at East Millis.
Deacon Silas Richardson died in Millis, aged 96 years, 11 months, 12 days.
East Millis built up by Henry L. Millis and others, and many new streets laid out.
1890.
Ninety Medway citizens visit Congers, N. Y., on an excursion gotten up by John McGinnis.
Moses C. Adams of Millis, representative to Gen- eral Court.
Thorne Bros. of Vermont City, S. D., move to Millis.
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1890. Town of Millis starts Water Works in a small way.
Medway votes not to consider a system of Water Works.
Jan. 29th. Timothy Mawn, aged 7, drowned in Charles River.
New bells from the McShane Foundry, Baltimore, hung in the towers of Village and St. Joseph's Churches.
Rev. John C. Smith died in West Medway, aged 63.
P. A. Woodward, J. S. Pearson and E. S. Thomp. son visit Europe.
Rufus G. Fairbanks, Esq., appointed Trial Justice.
Deacon John Smith, a pioneer boot manufacturer of West Medway, died, aged 81.
Public reception tendered John McGinnis, the founder of Congers, N. Y., in Sanford Hall.
Mrs. Tamar W. Mason, the oldest member of the Village Church, died, aged 93.
First flag raised over schoolhouse.
Tower built on St. Joseph's Church.
Daniel S. Woodman, representative.
1891. First concrete sidewalks laid in town.
School District formed with Millis and Holliston, and Superintendent Fred C. Tenney employed.
Second and Third Congregational Churches unite at West Medway.
Bald-headed American Eagle caught in a muskrat trap at Rockville.
Three selectmen elected this year from West Med- way.
J. W. Thompson & Co. remove their Shoe Manu- facturing business from Medway to a modern, one-story factory built for them in East Millis.
Famous Pratt tar and feather case this year.
Firemen's pay raised from $7.00 to $15.00 yearly.
"Quinobequin" Hotel changed to "The Gladstone." S. G. Clark's box mills burned.
Free Public Library started at West Medway.
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1891. Horatio Kingsbury farm at River End sold this year ; the first deed given since 1781. For 112 years, it had been in the possession of one family.
1892.
Principal E. D. Daniels, of the Medway High School spends the summer in Europe.
Medway Water Company chartered by the state : E. V. Mitchell, president; F. L. Fisher, clerk.
Millis Savings Bank incorporated : Henry L. Millis, president ; O T. Dean, treasurer.
The Millis News published weekly.
Richard J. Reardon loses an arm in a railroad acci- dent.
Timothy Ide and wife, of West Medway, celebrate their golden wedding.
Australian Ballot system used in Medway for the the first time.
Free Public Library opened in West Medway, June 18th, with a nucleus of 567 books, through the efforts of Elmer E. Holbrook.
New school building built at Medway for the lower grades.
Steam heat and ventilating stacks put in both Medway school buildings.
1893.
Mr. and Mrs. Asa Williams celebrate their 57th mar- riage anniversary.
Clarke P. Harding, representative. Also '94.
St. Anthony court, M. C. O. F., organized at Med- way.
Dog Tax money given to Free Public Library. Previous to this given to schools.
James A. Snow appointed postmaster at Medway.
Medway Savings Bank removes to its present quarters in Sanford Hall Block.
Aug. 17. Safes in Medway Savings Bank blown by burgiars. No loss.
1894.
Famous hot day, 107 in the shade.
Famous Noyes- Harding campaign for selectman.
Henry L. Millis leaves Millis.
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1894. W. W. Clough starts the Norfolk County Poultry Show at Medway.
First annual ball of Hirsh & Park's employes in Sanford Hall.
William Page, a local bridge builder of note, dies, aged 95.
Muster of fire engine companies at Medway.
1896.
Asa Robinson drowns at Lilly Pond.
St. Brendan's Church in North Bellingham built by efforts of Rev. Thomas B. Lowney.
John W. Hodges, while protecting his property, shoots Richard Howley, a burglar, July 6th.
Rising Sun Lodge, I. O. O. F., celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Moses Richardson of Millis died, aged 76.
Millis Savings Bank closes up its affairs and ceases business.
First Medway patient operated on for appendicitis.
Cole, Senior & Co. operate Sanford Mills.
John L. Capron drowned in Charles River, Feb. 6. Soldiers' Monument erected and dedicated in Ever- green cemetery by James H. Sargent Post, G. A. R.
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