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Boston .
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Dec. 8 | Lester A. Newcomb
Dedham
37
1st
Rev. J. B. Seabury
Amabel Hibbard .
Boston
38
" 23 Austin Madden
24
Ist
Henry White, J. of P.
Annie Kelle v
Malden Brookline
25
1st .6
Rev. Allen C. Prescott
12| Michael J. Brooks.
Hyde Park Dedham
28
2d
20
Dedham
27
25
Brockton
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1st
9 Samuel J. Nickerson Charlotte Louner
24| Elmer E. Smith. Florence T. LeGallee
Boston .
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The following are the names of the persons whose deaths are registered in Dedham during the year 1892 :
AGES.
Date.
NAMES.
Cause of Death.
Y.
Į D.
M.
Jan. 1
Charles Kelly
72
: ..
Old age.
2
Charles Marden
70
10
1
Broncho pneumonia.
4 Humphrey Smith
86
4
26 La grippe and pneumonia.
6 Edward O'Neil
9
5
22 Typhoid fever.
6 Albert F. Choate
50
25
Phthisis.
7
Catherine Dooley
80
..
..
Old age.
7 Benjamin J. Babcock
66
2
9 Pneumonia.
8 George C. Garland
65
3
9 La grippe.
11 Horace F. Holman
43
4
27 Bright's dis. and pneumonia.
16 Ellen F. Smith
53
3 26 Heart disease.
18 Stephen H. Tarbell
69
..
25
Pericarditis and dyspepsia.
19 Harriet L. Cox .
55
11
28
Broncho pneumonia.
19 Nathaniel H. Lord
62
5
6
La grippe and pneumonia.
23 Christian Herbst
72
..
..
23 Annie Shortman
30 1 10
Consumption.
-
24 John Dervan ..
. .
2
Heart disease.
28 Elizabeth M. Kingsbury
75
2
1
La grippe and bronchitis.
30
Annie A. Crowley
17
5
17 Tubercular meningitis.
31
Charles Ciriack
31 11 28 Consumption.
Feb. 2
James Kilpatrick ,
85
..
Cancer.
4 Charles A. Tingley ..
4 Internal hemorrhage.
Celinda Dresser 5
81
13 Apoplexy.
[sions.
8 Ruth E. Clapp.
10
5
Whooping cough and convul-
8
La grippe and exhaustion. [of heart.
11 Carrie L. Staples
13
10
6 Hypertrophy and rheumatism
11 Lawrence T. Hanlon
9
26
Retropharyngeal abscess.
16 Tabitha Galucia
86
8
5 Old age.
20 Ann Deneef
62
.. Apoplexy.
24 William H. Doggett.
22
..
20
Consumption.
26 Giuseppe Idoni
53
5
Pneumonia. 6
27 Thomas F. Shine
..
5
13 Pneumonla.
Mch. 1 James Hayes
9
4
1 Tubercular meningitis.
..
9 David Murray
72
10
..
:
.
Fatty degeneration of heart.
277
AGES.
Date.
NAMES.
Cause of Death.
خـ
| D.
Mch. 5
Robert M. Bailey
69
9
Heart disease.
6
Bernetta Hickie
12
9
12
Phthisis.
[sis.
6
Harriet J. Onion
75
3
22 Cerebral softening and paraly-
8 Thomas Ralph, Jr
4
8
7 Acnte Phthisis.
8 Margaret Canny
17
4
Phthisis. 5
9
James Freeman
3
5
15
Disease of brain.
. 12 Thomas Smith
32
..
..
Heart disease.
12 Jane Small
83
2 13 Heart failure.
15 William A. Ratchford.
33
1
9 Consumption.
25 Richard Foreman
25
Congestion of lungs.
27 Gottlieb Kupfer.
65
..
..
Paralytic insanity.
28
Bridget E. Noonan
28
2
..
Consumption.
31 Michael Ansbro
22
..
..
April 6 Cordelia Colburn
67
11
9
Pneumonia.
25
- Stimson
..
..
..
Stillborn.
30 Charlotte E. Cook.
2
8 20
Meningitis.
May 2 Mary E. Fisher
48
..
..
Chronic mania.
2
Almira Ellis.
90 11 9 Old age.
4 -- Hodgson
..
..
1
Premature birth.
10 Harriet Eaton
78
7
3
Paralysis of brain.
16 Annie B. Fessenden,
55 10
13 Consumption.
31
Franklin Kimball .
63
7
24
Apoplexy.
June 10
Harriet Crocker .
92
1
11 Cerebral atrophy.
14 Clarence W. Pelton.
26
7
22
Consumption.
21
Nora A. Drake
22
20 Pulmonary consumption.
25 Harry E. Drayton.
40
4 20
Consumption.
26 Myra H. Gill
59 11
15
Heart disease.
July 2 Daniel Morrissey
72
.
Railroad accident.
9
Joseph F. York
46
1
10 Bright's disease.
11 Mary Burke
31
..
..
Consumption.
13 Frederic P. Snow
53
..
Apoplexy.
19 Frederick G. Kiessling
71
9 20
Gangrene.
19 Louis Burkhardt
38
..
..
Heart disease.
21 Catherine C. Jacobs.
68
10
.. Diabetes millitus.
.
..
..
Drowning.
278
Date.
NAMES.
Cause of Death.
Y.
| M.
.] |D.
July 21
Jesse C. Davenport.
8
8
Rheumatic fever.
22
Anna M. Smith
67
4
G
Apoplexy.
26
Francis E. Barrett.
2 2
17
Meningitis.
27
George C. Paynter
1
S
15
Ulcer of bowels.
28
Helen Carlile
78
4
5
Exhaustion and apoplexy.
Aug. 5 Ellen Devlin
10
2
Cholera infantum.
7
Andrew J. Rowe
61
..
..
7 Minnie B. Ahlberg .
..
11
20 Cholera infantum.
7 Thomas Cary
80
·
..
Old age.
7 Annie A. Connor
30
4
19 Heart disease.
8
John McManus
..
1 Difficult labor.
9 Nathaniel J. Carpenter.
6
30
Cholera infantum.
10 Mary A. Clarke
84
7
8 Old age.
11 Herbert O. Bestwick
. .
6
16 Cerebral anaemia.
11 Mary Connelly .
70
. .
..
Dysentery and heat.
18 Ebenezer P. Crane
81
9
9 Abscess
19 Charles A. McQuesten
55
. .
..
Apoplexy.
25
Julia O'Sullivan. 82
..
Apoplexy.
26 William O'Hara.
56
.. . .
Fracture of skull.
27 Ansel Johnson ..
10
10
Pneumonia.
29 Eliza A. Murdock
82
3
19 Concussion of brain.
30 Percy T. Morse
32
7
Spinal meningitis.
30 Joseph R. Weld
82
6
8 Heart disease.
Sept. 2
Eliza A. Cleveland
85
5
13 Paralysis.
2 Walter Colburn 82
10
Paralysis.
3 Moses Kingsbury, 2d .
81
3
1
Pneumonia.
5 Mary A. Nichols .
84 1 18 Old age.
10 Peter Fullo
. .
1 15
Premature birth.
13 Elizabeth D. Clapp
81
2 11 Apoplexy.
14 James H. Drayton
78
1
14 Apoplexy.
25 Bertha A. Kreis.
44 6
25 Diabetes millitus.
26 Flossie V. Morrison.
..
..
28 Heart disease.
28
- - Dana
..
1
Imperfect heart.
28 William Lyons
..
..
14
Meningitis.
..
Heart disease.
. .
..
AGES.
279
AGES.
Date.
NAMES.
Cause of Death.
Y.
| M.
Oct. 1 Elizabeth R. Ellis
2
23
Meningitis.
3
Edward D. Farmer
..
2
4 Cholera infantum.
5 Samuel F. Allen.
16 Heart disease and paralysis.
5| Marianna Cheney
38
10
22
Failure of vitality.
6 Maria E. Conlan
52
6
14
Brain disease.
7 John Ferguson
65
9
7
Bright's disease of kidneys.
7 Abbie Goodwin
56
12 Consumption.
7 ·Krech
..
Stillborn.
8
John H. Harrington
68
. .
..
Exhaustion.
29
Sebina Mahern
5
4
5 Septica emia.
29
Mary Phalen
91
11
28 Apoplexy.
Nov. 1 Ann Carlon
75
..
Cancer.
9
Hulda Heincke.
53
10
9
Phthisis pulmonalis.
9 Franklin Copeland
66
3
29
Cancer of liver.
18 Gertrude Murphy
5
14
Diphtheria.
19 F ancis S. Dyer
66
8
6
Cancer of stomach.
19 Betsey Fo
55
Pneum onia. ..
23 Blanche P Saunders
12
10
8
Typhoid fever.
27 Chloe B. Creho
87
1
9
Apoplexy.
27 William J. Hayes
33
5
8 Consumption.
29 James P. Spillane
1
3
25
Consumption.
29
William Ames.
85
3
23
Pneumonia.
Dec. 3
Condon
. .
..
.. Stillborn.
7 Elizabeth Murphy
3
1
..
Diphtheria.
Lewis H. Kingsbury 9
78 2 11 Congestion of brain.
11
Margaret E. Waldron. ..
Stillborn.
[tion.
13 Lucinda Young
62
5
23 Heart disease and consump-
26 Edwin Whitefield
76
3
.. Heart disease.
30 Ruth Welch
..
5
3 Hydrocephalus.
31 Charles M. Rogers
50 6
7 Apoplexy.
John Kennedy
70
6
7 Tuberculosis.
·
..
-
10 5
RECORD OF
TOWN MEETINGS
OF THE
TOWN OF DEDHAM FOR THE YEAR 1893.
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RECORD OF TOWN MEETINGS.
1893.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
[Town Seal.]
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Ded- ham, in said County, Greeting.
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town of Dedham, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at Memo- rial Hall, in said town, on the first Monday in March, (being the sixth day of said month), A. D. 1893, at seven o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :-
Article One-To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article Two-To choose all necessary Town Officers. The following are to be chosen by ballot, under the provisions of Chapter 386 of the Acts of 1890, and acts and amendments thereto, viz :- One Town Clerk, one Town Treasurer, one Col- lector of Taxes, five Selectmen, three Assessors, three Overseers of the Poor, three members of Board of Health, three Auditors, nine Constables, all for one year ; two School Committee, for three years ; three Trustees of the Public Library, for three years. And, also, upon the same ballot, to vote upon the question : "Shall licenses be granted for sale of intoxicating liquors in the Town ?" All Town Officers, except as above named, are to be chosen for one year.
Article Three-To hear and act on the report of the Audi- tors of the Treasurer's and Collector's accounts.
Article Four-To see if the Town will accept the list of Jurors, as prepared by the Selectmen, and posted according to aw.
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Article Five-To hear and act on the report of the Com -- mittee on the distribution of the interest of the Damon and Draper donations, and choose a committee to distribute the. interest the ensuing year.
Article Six-To see if the Town will authorize the Collector of Taxes to use the same means as Town Treasurer may use when acting as collector.
Article Seven-To see what sums of money the Town will raise to defray the incidental and other necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the Town for the ensuing year.
Article Eight-To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the decoration of soldiers' graves.
Article Nine-To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the Dedham Public Library.
Article Ten-To see if the Town will raise and appropriate- money to keep the cemeteries in Dedham Village and West Dedham in repair.
Article Eleven-To see what rate of interest the Town will" authorize the Collector to charge on all taxes not paid November- 1, 1893.
Article Twelve-To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the support of Public Schools, and the payment of the salary of the Superintendent of Schools for the ensuing year ; and, also, to see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for instruction in the elementary use of hand tools, and in sewing in the public Schools.
Article Thirteen-To see if the Town will appropriate the amount received from other towns for scholars attending the Public Schools in Dedham for contingent expenses of the Public- Schools.
Article Fourteen-To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate money to improve the sanitary condition of the school- houses and the out-buildings belonging thereto.
Article Fifteen-To see if the Town will vote to discontinue the Fisher School.
Article Sixteen - To see if the Town will authorize the- School Committee to sell the Fisher School buildings, and the interest of the Town, if any, in the lot of land on which said buildings stand.
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Article Seventeen-To see if the Town will vote to discon- tinue the Union School.
Article Eighteen- To see if the Town will authorize the School Committee to sell the Union school-buildings, and the interest of the Town in the lot of land on which said buildings stand.
Article Nineteen-To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate money for the support of a Kindergarten or Sub-Primary School.
Article Twenty-To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for repairs of highways, sidewalks, and lumber for bridges and railings, and for removing snow.
· Article Twenty-one-To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate to rebuild the bridges, -one on Mill Lane and one on Needham street.
· Article Twenty-two-To see if the Town will vote to drain that part of Whiting avenue between Goding Brothers' mill and the Old Colony freight house, and raise the grade of the same ; :also, to see if the Town will vote to construct a sidewalk on said Whiting avenue, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Article Twenty-three- To see what action the Town will take with reference to draining Village avenue and Court street, through Highland street, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Twenty-four-To see if the Town will vote to build a reservoir for the protection of property in the vicinity of the West Dedham Baptist Church, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Twenty-five-To see if the Town will vote to pur- -chase horses and harnesses for the steamer and hose carriage. located at the steamer house, and build such addition to said steamer house as may be necessary to accommodate the same, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Twenty-six-To see if the Town will vote to purchase 1000 feet of hose for the use of the Fire Department, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Twenty-seven- To hear and act on the report of the Committee appointed by the Town in relation to building a Town Almshouse and other necessary buildings, and to buy land
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or take any other action the Town may see fit in relation to an almshouse, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Twenty-eight-To see if the Town will authorize and direct the Selectmen of Dedham, or a committee appointed for the purpose, to sell at public or private sale. on terms advan- tageous to the Town, all the real estate situated at West Dedham, and known as the Town Farm.
Article Twenty-nine-To see if the Town will adopt a prop- osition of the Dedham Electric Company, to locate an arc light on the pole at the corner of High street and Church street, near the Historical Building, and an arc light on High street near the front of the house of Mr. Chaplin; and to transfer the incandescent light now near the house of the late William Ames, on High street, to Highland street, on the south side, between the houses of Mr. Ivers and Miss Carpenter, and the incandes- cent light now on High street, between River place and Maple place, to the centre of Pearl street, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Thirty-To see if the Town will vote to locate and maintain an arc light at the corner of High street and Eastern avenue, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Thirty-one-To see if the Town will place an electric light on Lowder street, near its junction with Highland street, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Thirty-two-To see if the Town will light East street, from Endicott street to its junction with Canton street, and Can- ton street to the house of the late John Eaton, with electricity, the lights to be not over 300 feet apart, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Thirty-three-To see if the electric light system, now in operation from Dedham to the Baptist Church, West Dedham, be extended from said Baptist Church, along High street, to the Dedham and Walpole line, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Thirty-four-To see if the Town will appropriate money to reimburse Officer William F. Drugan for costs and ex- penses of the action of John Caffrey against said Drugan.
Article Thirty-five-To see what action the Town will take on a system of sewerage or disposal of sewerage.
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Article Thirty-six-To see what action the Town will take to select, purchase and maintain public play-grounds, parks, etc., etc., and appropriate money for the same, within its limits.
Article Thirty-seven-To see if the Town will pass a by-law prohibiting or restricting within the limits of the Town, or in any particular locality thereof, the exercise of any offensive trade or employment, or the maintenance of a slaughter-house, piggery or other structure, which is dangerous to the public health of the inhabitants, or injurious to their comfort or the enjoyment of their estates.
Article Thirty-eight-To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate money to be expended under the direction of the Se- lectmen, for permanent improvement of sidewalks.
Article Thirty-nine-To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars, to be expended for out-door band concerts during the summer months of 1893.
Article Forty-To see what action the Town will take with reference to the compensation of the Collector of Taxes, as pro- vided in Section 6, Article 3, of the Town By-Laws.
Article Forty-one-To hear and act on the report of the Committee appointed by the Town on drainage of High and Common streets.
Article Forty-two-To hear and act upon the report and · recommendations of the Town Clerk.
Article Forty-three-To see what action the Town will take in regard to purchasing a piano for use in Memorial Hall, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Selectmen, on or before said day and time.
Given under our hands, and the seal of said Town, at Ded- ham, aforesaid, this twenty-third day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
HENRY SMITH, THOMAS P. MURRAY, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, JOSEPH A. LAFORME, HENRY E. FRENCH, 7
Selectmen of Dedham.
288
Norfolk, ss.
Dedham, March 6, 1893.
By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Dedham, aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes specified in said warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in each of the post offices in said town, and in twenty other public places in said town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing a copy thereof to be published twice before the time of said meeting, in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said town of Dedham.
JOHN DEAN, Constable of Dedham.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in town affairs, held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, at Memorial Hall, in said town, on the first Monday of March ( being the sixth day of said month), A. D. 1893.
The meeting was called to order at the time and place named in said warrant, by the Town Clerk, who presided at the choice of Moderator.
Edward L. Burdakin was appointed and sworn by the Town Clerk, a teller, to aid the Town Clerk in receiving and counting votes cast for Moderator.
Alonzo B. Wentworth was chosen Moderator by written ballot, in receiving which the check list was used.
Article Two-Before the opening of the polls, the Selectmen appointed as Ballot Clerks, Henry D. Humphrey and Aaron W. Baker, and they were sworn into said office by the Town Clerk before the ballots were delivered to them, and after said polls were opened, the Moderator also appointed John B. Fisher as an additional ballot officer, and he was sworn by the Moderator. After the Moderator had been chosen as aforesaid, and before the opening of the polls, the Town Clerk delivered to said Ballot Clerks the bundle packed by him and sealed as required by law, containing 2400 official ballots and 150 special official ballots
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for women, together with the specimen ballots and cards of instruction, and the Town Clerk caused the cards of instruction to be posted in each of the twenty voting compartments provided by the town and guarded as required by law, and the Town Clerk also caused three such cards and five specimen ballots to be posted about the polling room outside the guard rails, and a receipt for said ballots was given by the Ballot Clerks to the Town Clerk.
Upon the delivery of the Ballots to the voters by the Ballot Clerks, the check list was used, and the name of each voter receiving a ballot was announced and checked thereon. The ballot, as delivered to each voter, was by such voter marked in the voting compartments, and deposited by the voter in the ballot boxes, called the Standard, furnished and certified to by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the ballots cast by the women being deposited in a separate box from those deposited by the men, and the name of each voter depositing a ballot in said boxes was announced in a loud and distinct tone of voice, and checked upon the voting list by the election officers in charge at said boxes and list.
The following persons were appointed and sworn by the Moderator as Tellers to aid him in receiving, sorting and count- ing the ballots cast at said meeting, viz : Joseph A. Laforme, Fred E. Smith, Willie W. Baker, Neal E. McPeck, Adolph F. A. Schulz, Thomas H. Wakefield, Chester A. Reed, Charles W. Wolcott, Charles E. Russell, John P. Cutter, Frank W. Power, F. Alaric Pelton, Robert H. O. Schulz, William C. Williams.
All the ballots deposited in said boxes were sorted, counted, and declaration thereof made by the Moderator as follows, viz :
Whole number of ballots cast by the men voters was 1078; whole number of ballots cast by the women voters was 32. The two check lists used for the men voters each showed 1078 names checked thereon, and the two check lists used for women voters each showed 32 names checked thereon. The number of ballots left at the close of the polls, deducted from the whole amount receipted for by the Ballot Clerks, showed 1078 delivered to the . men and 32 to the women.
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For Town Clerk :
Don Gleason Hill, Willow street, had · 863 Four persons had one each. And said Hill was declared elected, and sworn into said offce by the Moderator in open town meeting.
For Town Treasurer :
Edwin A. Brooks, Willow street, had 779
P. O'Sullivan had 2 Four persons had one each. ·
And said Brooks was declared elected.
For Collector of Taxes :
Thomas J. Baker, off Court street, had 861 Five persons had one each.
And said Baker was declared elected.
For Selectmen :
James T. Clark, Oakdale avenue, had 210
John Crowley, off Mt. Vernon street, had 521
Ferdinand F. Favor, High street, had 599
Henry E. French, High street, had .
587
Thomas Murphy, Myrtle street, had ·
302
Thomas P. Murray, High street, had 552 .
Henry Smith, High street, had 412
J. Everett Smith, Washington street, had 630
George W. Weatherbee, East street, had 580
Charles E. Ziegler, Belknap street, had
181
Fifteen persons had one each.
And said Favor, French, Murray, J. E. Smith and Weather- bee were declared elected.
For Overseers of the Poor :
Howard Colburn, High street, had .
710
Thomas P. Murray, High street, had
437
.
Henry Smith, High street, had 496
George W. Weatherbee, East street, had
620
Charles E. Ziegler, Bussey street, had · 221
Four persons had one each.
And said Colburn, Smith and Weatherbee were declared. elected.
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For Assessors :
Henry E. French, High street, had 655
William S. Macomber, Myrtle street, had 352
Hugh H. McQuillen, Village avenue, had . 338
Thomas Murphy, Myrtle street, had . .
276
Thomas P. Murray, High street, had ·
392
Horatio G. Turner. Dale street, had
.
478
Eight persons had one each.
And said French, Murray and Turner were declared elected ....
For School Committee for 3 years :
Frederick D. Ely, Washington street, had . 734
Mabel S. C. Pelton, East street, had .
585
Charles H. Shriver, Highland street, had .
420
Three persons had one each.
And said Ely and Pelton were declared elected.
For Board of Health :
Francis L. Babcock, Walnut street, had 667
John W. Chase, Church street, had 600
Creighton Colburn, High street, had 235
Edward W. Finn, High street, had 399
Harry K. Shatswell, Harvard street, had 143
Erastus Worthington, Jr., High street, had
443
John F. Reynolds had 1
And said Babcock, Chase and Worthington [were declared elected.
For Auditors :
Frank M. Bailey, Milton street, had . 740
Daniel A. Lynch, Needham street, had
755
Edward C. Paul, Worthington street, had . 746
John F. Reynolds had
2
Seven persons had one each.
And said Bailey, Lynch and Paul were declared elected.
For Trustees of the Public Library for three years :
James M. Ellis, Nahatan street, had . 517 Elisha Greenhood, High street, had 294
Charles J. Hurley, Border street, had .
310
Henry P. Quincy, High street, had · 525
Frederick J. Stimson, High street, had
532
292
Three persons had one each.
And said Ellis, Quincy and Stimson were declared elected.
For Constables ;
Martin J. Barrett, Belknap street, had ·
757
John Bell, Barrows street, had 405 .
Seth W. Cobbett, Whiting avenue, had 470 ·
John Dean, High street, had 579
Irving Donley, Winthrop street, had 581
William F. Drugan, Elm View Place, had 684
James R. Finn, Mt. Hope street, had 440
James J. Gaffney, Curve street, had .
468
Otis S. Guild, East street, had 387
Charles O. Haynes, Off Westfield street, had 490
Frederick J. Hogan, Washington street, had 322
George E. Morse, Willow street, had 499
James V. Tracy had .
2
James Tracy, Colburn street, had 4
Twenty-seven persons had one each.
And said Barrett, Cobbett, Dean, Donley, Drugan, James "R. Finn; James J. Gaffney, Haynes and Morse were declared -elected.
In answer to the question, Shall licenses be granted for the . sale of intoxicating liquor in this town, the town voted :
Yes,
520
No,
468
By reason of some unknown defect in the ballot boxes in which the ballots were cast, said boxes did not correctly register the number cast, but all said ballots were cast into said boxes and were duly cancelled thereby.
The polls were closed, on motion, at 4.40 o'clock p. m., after which the Moderator appointed as the Committee under the By-Laws, to whom were referred the remaining articles of the warrant, the following persons : Francis L. Babcock, Moses G. Boyd, Edward F. Dowd, Elisha Greenhood, Don Gleason Hill, Andrew J. Norris, Nathaniel Smith, Benjamin Weatherbee. Aaron W. Baker, John Dean, Henry B. Endicott, Simon W. Hatheway, Daniel A. Lynch, Robert H. O. Schulz, Thomas H. Wakefield, Benjamin F. White, who with Henry Smith, chairman of the Selectmen ; Howard, Colburn, chairman of
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the Overseers of the Poor ; Alonzo B. Wentworth, chairman of the Assessors ; Frederick D. Ely, chairman of the School Com- mittee, and Henry W. Weeks, Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart- ment, members ex-officiis, make the full committee of twenty-one.
Voted that all the remaining officers not voted for by ballot be appointed by the Selectmen. Voted that when this meeting adjourns it be to the first Monday of April next, at this place, at . 7 o'clock p. m.
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