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JAN. 23. Still alarm. Dwelling on Cherry street, owned by E. Rawson, and occupied by Thomas Mee. No damage. No in- surance. Cause, foul chimney.
JAN. 27. Still alarm. Dwelling on Orchard street, owned by W. H. Hooker, and occupied by C. W. Dodge and W. H. Britton. Estimated damage to building, $75. Insurance, $2000. Estimated damage to contents, $75. Insurance, $1500. Cause, spark from pipe in pocket of coat owned by C. W. Dodge.
SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY.
Milford Steam Fire Engine No. 1, in good condition. Aaron Claflin Steamer No. 2, in good condition. Washington Hose Carriage No. 2, in good condition. Wm. C. Gillman Hose Carriage No. 4, in good condition. Excelsior Hook and Ladder No. 1, in good condition. Wide Awake Hose Wagon No. 1, (new) in good condition. Hose in good condition-5000 feet.
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Hose 4 is provided with a pung to be used when it is good sleighing, instead of hose carriage.
Hose 1 and H. & L. truck have been provided with hub run- ners.
There are four buildings owned and occupied by the depart- ment : One on South Main street, occupied by Steamers 1 and 2 and department headquarters, in fair condition ; one on Spruce street, occupied by Hose 1 and 2, in good condition ; one on Cen- tral street, occupied by Hose 4, in good condition ; one corner Spruce and Main streets, in poor condition.
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RESERVOIRS.
There are seventeen reservoirs, situated as follows: One each on Grove, Fruit, Exchange, Jefferson, North Bow, Walnut, Lawrence, West, Hayward and Congress streets ; one on the Plains ; one at the junction of Pearl and School streets; one in Lincoln Square ; one in the rear of the Foster place, Main street ; one on Parish common ; one near Hancock house on Purchase street ; one near the old engine house at North Purchase.
LOCATION OF FIRE ALARM BOXES.
Box 14. Central street, opposite Baker's Slip.
Box 15. Corner Central and Depot streets.
Box 16. Depot street, near Clapp, Huckins & Temple's factory.
Box 17. Coburn and Fuller factory.
Box 24. Town House.
Box 25. Lincoln Square.
Box 26. Main street, near the Basin.
Box 27. Corner Main and Cedar streets.
Box 35. Corner West and Cherry streets.
Box 43. Corner School and Walnut streets.
Box 46. Corner Fountain and Purchase streets.
Box 47. Purchase street, opposite Mr. Kibby's.
Box 52. Main, opposite Water street.
Box 54. Corner Main and Fruit streets.
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Box 65 Corner Grove and Forest streets.
Box 73. Corner Spruce and Congress streets.
Box 142. Private, inside Milford Shoe Company's Factory.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
Pay of members $6,100 00
Incidentals 1,500 00
Repairs 300 00
Fall parade. 100 00
$8,000 00
The Board also recommends the alteration of hose carriage No. 2 into a wagon, and that the sum of $450 be appropriated for the same.
The Board further recommends the building of a central sta- tion, in some central location, suitable for the accommodation of hose companies 1 and 2, steamers 1 and 2, and the ladder truck No. 1.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
J. H. SCOTT, Chief, JOHN T. KELLEY, JOHN T. BERRILL, PHILIP P. O'DONNELL,
W. J. PYNE, Clerk and Treas.
Engineers Milford Fire Department.
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REPORT OF THE
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
EXPENSE AT THE FARM.
Grain
$776 04
Salary of Superintendent. 650 00
Labor
540 70
Meat and salt pork.
348 29
Flour, bread and crackers
258 74
Clothing
241 96
Butter and cheese
242 46
Dry goods.
184 62
Boots and shoes
147 25
Coal
129 95
Oxen
100 00
Sugar
93 12
Hardware, plumbing and farming tools ...
92 57
Medicine
88 28
Fresh fish .
80 00
Tea and coffee
73 51
Cows
72 00
Tobacco and snuff
66 30
Lumber
63 83
Small groceries and spices.
59 11
Salt fish
53 60
Medical attendance
50 00
Small bills paid during the year by G. D. Rhodes.
46 50
Horse and ox shoeing and jobbing 38 87
Carpenter work 38 41
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Phosphate and plaster. $32 90
Oil .. .
25 92
Soft soap. . 22 00
Burials 31 00
Garden and grass seeds.
20 49
Horse equipments and repairing harnesses.
20 45
Bull
20 00
Road cart.
20 00
Potatoes .
15 95
Crockery and tin ware.
15 58
One-horse tipcart
15 00
Hard soap.
15 75
Molasses
14 06
Pasturing heifers
14 00
Painters' supplies
13 58
Beans
12 25
Apples
12 35
Lard
10 09
Painting wagon
10 00
Spectacles and repairing clock.
10 00
Salt
6 77
Seed peas and oats.
7 32
Mats.
6 00
Seed barley
5 85
Daily News, 1893-4.
5 50
Taxes on Upton wood lot.
5 60
Hats and bonnets
4 80
Cattle food.
4 00
Use of tipcart
ยท
4 00
Brooms .
4 10
Stationery
3 88
Onions
3 75
Butchering 3 50 .
Making cider, 1893-4 6 68
Filing saws. 2 95
Baskets.
2 30
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Tubs $ 1 30
Squash 1 25
Ground bone
1 00
4,968 03
INCOME AT THE FARM.
Milk
1,271 81
Pension, Catherine Hannon 142 00
Apples
129 51
Donation
125 00
Oxen
125 00
Pigs
78 50
Mary Brown, board.
72 00
Patrick Casey, board
60 00
Margaret Casey, board.
40 00
Cows.
40 00
Use of bull
10 50
Calves
7 25
Potatoes.
6 00
Beef hides
3 37
Patrick Tracey, board.
3 00
Pie plant
6 00
Plowing
2 00
Use of boar
1 00
Cider
60
2,123 54
INMATES AT THE FARM DURING THE YEAR.
Age Weeks
Age Wecks
Lydia A. Parkhurst,
55 52
Patrick Ward,
81 52
John Cook,
56 52
Catherine Hannon,
76
52
Ellen Middleton,
55 52
Frank Sireack,
18 52
Dennis Pyne,
55
52
William O'Rourke,
55 52
Johanna McCarty, 77
52
John Flynn,
41
52
Mary Flagg,
72
52
Michael H. Hughes,
67
52
Thomas Hughes,
72
52
Elizabeth Gabry,
33
52
Bridget McGovern,
77 52
William Green,
76
52
64
Age Weeks
Age Weeks
James Finnegan,
83
52
Margaret Bradley,
39
17
Anna Greigg,
70
52
John Walker,
24
16
Walter Gabry,
1 52
Margaret Casey,
67
16
Martin Coppinger,
66
52
George C. Warren,
51 15
Joseph Sireack,
10
52
Prudence S. Burrell,
83
13
John Manion,
41
48
William Conley,
42
13
Fred Tillottson,
16
48
Harriet Smith,
71
13
Daniel Curran,
57
47
Michael King,
45
13
Edward Sireack,
57
44
Mary Fitzgerald,
82
12
Kate Quirk,
75
40
Loring Adams,
74
11
Ellen Magee,
68
38
William Gabry,
17
9
Mary Brown,
88
37
Thomas Curley,
60
9
Edward Donovon,
69
36
Andrew Fuller,
47
8
Lorinda Blake,
77
36
John Smith,
70
7
James Degan,
60
33
Bridget Riley,
72
3
Celia Conlin,
60
31
William H. Hayes,
24 3
William Mulcahey,
45
25
Mary A. Blake,
47
2
Patrick Casey,
68
24
Dexter Johnson,
59
2
Bridget Shaw,
54
22
Edward Gahagan,
41
2
Michael Dunn,
74
22
Orra W. Cheney,
34
2
Michael Dunn, Jr.,
36
22
Linda Sireack,
27
2
Peter Quirk,
31
21
Patrick Tracey,
70
1
Frank Surgerson,
83
20
Charles E. Gay,
49
1
Net expense at the farm
$2,844 49
Appraisal of Town Farm and wood lot, $5900; interest.
354 00
Appraisal of personal property, $3,260.55 ; interest.
195 63
$3,394 12
Whole number of inmates
62
Average number
36-13
Average weekly cost of each person. $1.81-3
There were four deaths at the farm during the year, as fol- lows :- 1894, May 1, Prudence S. Burrill, apoplexy, age 83.
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1894 June 25, Frank Surgerson, old age, age 83. Nov. 8, Kate Quirk, apoplexy, age 76. Feb. 13, Mary A. Blake, pneumonia, age 47.
PERSONS RECEIVING AID IN MILFORD AWAY FROM THE FARM.
Mrs. Eliot Bowker, $ 39 61
Miss Ellen A. Guild, $ 78 00
Mrs. Patrick Burns, 53 85
Edward Gagahan, 16 50
Mrs. James Boland, 24 30
Alexander Greigg, 1893, 1 00
Michael Hageney, 49 30
John Bird and Cooper children, 138 05
Mrs. Maria A. Hadlock,
Geo. E. Brown, 64 67
1893 & 1894, 111 87
Mrs. James Clancy, Sr. 26 76
Miss Lucretia Hayward, 86 19
Mrs. John Condon,
92 68
Thomas Hughes, 1 54
Mrs. Peter Collins, 54 50
Mrs. Patrick Lundy, 86 00
Mrs. George Kimm, 13 52
Mrs. Michael Callanan, 191 66
Edward McKenna, 103 65
John H. Coyne, 36 22
John F. Moore, 78 35
Mrs. Hannah Cooney, 64 51
Mrs. Thomas R. May, 126 59
Mrs. John Carroll, 52 00
Mrs. Catherine Mullen, 51 85
George Crofton, 7 00
Owen McGurren, 64 80
Benjamin Cottrell,
25 95
Daniel McCarty, 81 25
John Connell,
1 50
Edward Nelligan, 55 00
Mrs. John Conlin,
14 35
Mrs. John Nugent, 49 00
Martin Coppinger,
4 50
Mrs. Patrick Nugent, 5 60
Daniel Curran,
1 77
Mrs. Martin O'Melia,
115 89
Mrs. Ann Cahill,
22 66
Mary O'Connell,
2 50
Michael Dunn,
108 19
Mrs. Thomas F. Powers, 120 15
John Doherty,
149 06
Mrs. Geo. Platt, 9 08
Mrs. David Doyle,
108 83
Patrick McQuaid, 77 50
John Dillon children,
46 50
Mrs. James Regan, 55 00
David A. Fiske,
60 00
Alton Hanley, 30 78
Andrew Fuller, 1 31
Kate McDermott, 79 05
Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald,
3 22
William Fitzgerald,
20 40
Patrick Fahey,
3 13
Alfred Remick, 75
Orrin G. Goodwin,
92 00
John Smith, Short St., 84 46
John Collins, 35 00
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Michael Shockrow, $ 20 05
Mrs. Laura Tucker, $113 86
Edward Sweeney, 1 50
To be paid back, 1895, 19 35
Moses Smith,
9 00
Medical attendance for above 100 00
Fred Tillottson, 1 54
Mrs. Wm. Tracey,
106 50
Mrs. Jerry Tynan,
101 06
$3,752 32
PERSONS BELONGING TO MILFORD AIDED IN OTHER
TOWNS.
Mrs. Lorinda Blake, Reading. $ 12 00
William Barrett, Boston City Hospital 22 00
Charles E. Belcher, Boston City Hospital. 11 00
Anna E. Brigham, Boston 47 50
John Baxter, New Bedford 46 25
Alvin Collins, Holliston. 74 00
Andrew Doyle, Leicester 8 92
John T. Fields, Tewksbury
8 25
William P. Fiske, Natick
8 00
Leslie Fiske, Medway.
24 70
Patrick Gilbride, Worcester
1 50
Toby Hart, Spencer.
5 25
Daniel Hayes, Tewksbury
18 43
William Hayes, Tewksbury .
20 43
James Murphy children, Marlboro
144 00
Mahan children, Boston.
92 50
Laura McGowen, Boston 25 69
John C. Nelson, Millbury
3 00
Mrs. Lawrence O'Hare, Salem
2 00
Bernard Riley, Boston City Hospital 40 00
Mrs. Edgar P. Smith, Hanover 20 75
Mrs. Johanna Slattery, Hopkinton 92 00
- $728 17
Mrs. James A, Turner, 100 11
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PERSONS BELONGING TO OTHER TOWNS AIDED IN MILFORD.
Mrs. James E. Butler, Upton . $112 75
Frank N. Cox, Uxbridge. 10 38
John Clancy children, Upton. 78 00
Mrs. Arthur J. Donovan, Boston
13 75
Mrs. Jerry Daley, Northbridge.
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Mrs. Geo. D. Edmands, Hopedale
96 00
Phelix Goodnow, Grafton .. 12 70
Mrs. Robert McAuliffe, Randolph.
39 15
Florence and Geo. Nichols, Brockton
34 00
Charles B. Newton, Shrewsbury
15 73
Benjamin Newton, Shrewsbury. 29 35
8 63
Mrs. Michael Savage, Franklin
35
Patrick Tracey, Fall River
7 00
Mrs. Isaac E. Welch, Holliston
50 00
Soldiers' Relief, Uxbridge
96 80
$605 37
INSANE.
Albert J. Brigham,
$ 44 11
Abbott L, Perry,
$169 46
Margaret Bradley,
93 54
Kate Geary, 169 46
Henry Cain,
126 94
Effie M. Russell,
110 96
Mary Connell,
54 61
Bridget Riley,
29 08
Caroline Coughlin, 146 00
Maria Ripley, 169 47
Charles H. Dunham,
169 46
Mrs. Edward Sweeney, 41 29
John Droney,
175 03
Margaret Smith, 27 86
Hannah W. Kennedy,
169 46
Charles H. White,
169 46
Maurice Murphy,
56 04
Cora E. Weatherhead,
169 46
John F. Nugent,
13 00
Elden W. Gould,
145 32
$2,250 01
William Papineau, Marlboro
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STATE POOR.
Mrs. Daniel Brassell, $ 59 88
Mrs. Ann James,
$24 00
John Buckley,
7 20
William Layton, 30 22
Mrs. Michael Black,
5 00
Phillip McManus,
36
Ercole Catilla,
19 35
Gaetani Mancuso,
17 35
Giovanni Carini 2 00
Celeste Magnoni,
31 66
Mrs. Nicola De Minico, 28 00
Lewis Miller,
16 60
Michell De Gregorio,
3 00
Edward McAvoy,
2 50
Charles H. Gillis,
28 75
Giusippe Ramelli,
32 55
Patrick Gallagher,
77
Walter L. Teed,
12 87
Patrick Hadlock,
20 50
John Ward,
27 25
William Harty,
46 65
Mrs. Bernard Halbeig,
64 50
$480 96
1440 tramps. $47 90
INCIDENTALS.
Four children taken to Catholic Home,
Harrison Ave., Boston.
$25 00
Expenses looking up unsettled cases ..... 11 00
Postage stamps and cards, stamped en- velopes, etc.
6 27
Printing bill heads.
4 50
Printing orders
3 50
Books and stationery .
1 75
History blanks
1 00
$53 02
Orders given insane, poor people, etc., Town reimbursed. $1080 26
RECEIPTS.
Full amount of orders drawn on Clifford A. Cook, treasurer.
$13,966 04
Money received from the following sources and turned over to the treasurer :- Income at the farm $2,123 54
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State treasurer to town treasurer $170 56
Upton poor department. 123 05
Uxbridge soldiers' relief.
115 10
Upton
78 00
Hopedale
76 00
Holliston.
.
50 00
Shrewsbury
34 75
Brockton
34 00
Randolph
30 00
Insane money returned, 1893
22 61
Fall River.
7 00
John McKenna, money paid back.
7 00
Natick. 5 92
Medway
2 15
Money paid back on 1893 book. ...
6 50
Money reimbursed the town from dif- ferent persons
$1,080 26
3,966 44
Full amount taken from the treasury .
.....
$9,999 60
RECAPITULATION.
Expense at the farm 4,968 03
Persons aided outside the farm.
3,752 32
Persons aided in other towns.
728 17
Persons aided belonging to other towns ... 605 37
Insane
2,250 01
State poor.
480 96
Incidentals
53 02
Tramps.
47 90
Orders given town reimbursed.
1,080 26
13,966 04
Appropriation for poor .
10,000 00
Amount expended. . 9,999 60 -
Unexpended
40
70
BILLS DUE MILFORD FROM OTHER TOWNS AND THE STATE.
Holliston
4 00
Upton
16 75
Franklin
35
Shrewsbury
10 33
Boston
15 75
Uxbridge
10 38
Marlboro
1 00
State
456 00
514 56
NUMBER OF PERSONS AIDED DURING THE YEAR.
At the farm
62
Insane hospitals 22
Persons belonging to other towns 51
State
57
All other persons.
207
399
The superintendent and matron are paid to March 1, 1895 ; salary, $650. The town physician is paid to Dec. 1, 1894 ; sal- ary, $150. The hired help are paid to January 1, 1895. All of which is respectfully submitted.
CHESTER L. CLARK,
JOHN SMITH, JAMES W. BURKE,
Overseers of the Poor.
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN LIBRARY.
NATHAN W. HEATH, S. F. BLODGETT,
Term expires 1895 - 98
CHARLES A. DEWEY, BENJAMIN ADAMS,
1896
NATHANIEL F. BLAKE,
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THOMAS F. MANNING was chosen to fill a vacancy till March, 1895 CHARLES A. DEWEY, Chairman. S. F. BLODGETT, Secretary. NATHANIEL F. BLAKE, Librarian.
Nothing of special interest has occurred with regard to the affairs of the town library during the past year. Everything has gone on about as usual. The ordinary running expenses have been met, popular books worn out in the service have been re- bound or replaced, and there has been little money left for the purchase of new books. Many works have been published within a year, which certainly ought to be on the shelves of our library, but we have not had the means to procure them. It is the same old story. For many years the town of Milford has not been willing to make so large an appropriation for the support of its public library as most other towns of the state, of like population and wealth. Indeed, we have not done so well in this respect as formerly, and consequently we are falling behind in the race. Our voters do not seem to fully realize the great importance of this library as a means of education for our young people, as well as the fact that it is a continual source of pleasure and profit to a large number of our fellow citizens of all ages.
It is earnestly hoped that at the next town meeting, it will be voted to assign the whole amount of the dog tax to the town library, instead of dividing it as hitherto between the library and
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the schools, and also that the usual appropriation will be made for the support of the town library the ensuing year.
CHARLES A. DEWEY,
Chairman.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN LIBRARY,
GENTLEMEN :- I hereby submit my report for the year ending Jan. 31, 1895.
Number of days open, 305. Circulation for the year, 27,807 volumes. Circulation previous year, 24,900 volumes ; a gain of 2907 volumes.
Largest daily circulation, Feb. 17, 1894, 358 volumes. Smallest daily circulation, Nov. 8, 1894, 8 volumes. Average daily circulation, 9152 305 volumes. Number of books covered, 2048. Number of notices sent delinquents, 37. Amount received for fines, $59.39. Amount received for catalogues, $9.25.
CIRCULATION.
A
B C D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
Total
February,
1894
96
74
4
96
42
1382
98
11
23
881
3
2710
March,
66
82
74
7
80
49
1540
91
10
27
978
1 2939
April,
61
59
2
60
43
1259
73
8
10
762
2337
May,
63
74
6
68
33
1219
82
13
20
634
2212
June,
66
46
62
5
51
34
1247
79
9
9
729
1
2272
July,
31
49
1
32
30
1139
49
6
19
588
1944
August,
34
48
1
43
29
1239
55
4
14
598
2065
September,
66
34
62
69
23
1202
50
6
7
617
1
2071
October,
66
54
50
4
73
13
1066
52
9
21
665
2
2009
November,
66
69
69
4
74
35
1122
64
12
24
751
2224
December,
66
64
73
4
59
37
1234
58
16
27
849
2421
January,
1895
68
89
4
51
40
1314
74
11
35
919
2605
702
783
42
756
408
14961
825 115 236
8971
00
27807
The library contains, as per last report, 8958 volumes. Ad- ded during the year by purchase, 176 volumes ; by donations, 73 volumes ; making the whole number of volumes, as per catalogue, 9207 volumes.
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The donors were : Gen. Wm. F. Draper, M. C., 42 volumes ; State of Massachusetts, 24 volumes ; Smithsonian Institution, 3 vol- umes ; Civil Service Commission, 2 volumes ; State Board of Agriculture, 1 volume ; Unknown, 1 volume.
During the year 183 volumes have been purchased to supply the place of books worn out and destroyed.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
N. F. BLAKE, Librarian.
REPORT OF SECRETARY.
TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE MILFORD TOWN LIBRARY.
Receipts :--
Appropriation
$600 00
One half of the dog tax
306 52
Fines and catalogues.
79 11
985 63
Expenditures :-
Librarian's salary, 13 months 390 00
Books
336 34
Supplies
30 55
P. O. box
2 00
Light
159 12
.Covering books
11 86
Binding books
50 11
Express ..
5 45
Unexpended
20
985 63
By referring to the report for 1894, it will be seen that $51.41 of the expenditures was for unpaid bills of last year.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
S. F. BLODGETT,
Secretary.
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Report of the Trustees of Vernon Grove Cemetery,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JAN. 31, 1895.
DR.
To cash received of Mrs. L. B. Hart for care of lot ...... $ 1 00
Wood & Nye, digging graves, '93 .. 100 00
66
66 to
Jan. 15, '94 39 75
To cash received of C. A. Cook, town appropriation. 100 00
25 00
....
$265 75
CR.
By paying balance due last year
$3 63
66
G. H. Whittemore, supplies
25
John M. Wood, labor and supplies.
25 00
H. C. Skinner, 66
15 00
66
J. E. Macuen,
33 20
66
W. C. Morrison,
48 87
66 Henry Hancock,
138 50
Cash on hand
1 30
- $265 75 HENRY C. SKINNER, Treasurer.
There have been fifty interments in Vernon Grove Cemetery during the past year, seven more than last year.
The terms of the Committee expire as follows: Henry C. Skinner and John M. Wood in 1895; George L. Maynard and Henry Hancock in 1896; Henry A. Pond and Thomas Lilley in 1897.
HENRY C. SKINNER,
Secretary.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Milford Board of Health report that the health of the town has been good, and the death rate low for 1894-5.
The cases of contagious diseases, which have been altogether spora- dic in their characters, have at no time assumed an epidemic character, and is evidence of the Board's success in keeping scarlet fever and diph- theria in their original bounds. Twenty-five cases of scarlet fever and seven of diphtheria.
This year the attention of the Board has been called more espe- cially to the want of care paid house sewerage. In a number of cases we have been unable to reduce nuisances without appealing to the laws governing such cases, even with which help, we have found ourselves decidedly handicapped.
The Board recommends that some specific rules be adopted by the town which shall give the Board more power in dealing with the sewer- age, and thereby decreasing the death rate.
Under the Plumbers' Act of 1894 the Board have appointed two in- spectors of plumbing and have licensed ten journeymen plumbers.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JNO. M. EATON, WM. J. CLARKE, R. H. COCHRAN, Board of Health.
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REPORT OF POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Whole number of arrests from May 1, 1894, to February 1, 1895, was : Males, 311; females, 11. The offences were as follows : Drunkenness
249
Disturbing the peace
30
Lewdness
1
Defrauding innkeeper
1
Defrauding boarding house keeper
1
Fast driving
1
Insane persons
6
Non-support of wife
1
Threatening personal injury.
1
Vagrant
3
Larceny
3
Burglary
1
Attempt to break and enter
1
Stubborn child
1
Receiving stolen property.
1
Truants
1
Assault on officer
1
Illegal keeping liquor
9
Assault with dangerous weapon.
1
Assault
9
Obtaining money under false pretence
1
Attempt to commit larceny
1
Liquor nuisance.
2
Keeping milk below standard
2
Number found guilty
318
Number found not guilty
4
Number put on probation
113
Number committed
71
Number cases placed on file
9
Number discharged.
4
Number cases appealed to Superior court.
4
Amount of fines imposed
$1,572 00
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Amount of fines paid. $1,002 00 Amount of fines not paid .. $570 00
Amount of fines paid into the Superior court. $160 00
Amount of all the officers fees and costs from May 1, 1894, to February 1, 1895 $1,176 90
Three officers perform patrol duty on the street to the amount of twenty-three hours each week. One officer performs duty thirteen hours each week. One officer performs duty fifty-three hours each week. One officer performs duty fifteen hours each week.
Buildings found open and secured 150
Estray teams put up and cared for.
10
Liquor seizures made 13
Search warrants served for liquors, none found ....: 2
Lost and stolen property recovered and restored to owners to the amount of $575.
Myself, the patrolmen and night watchmen have worked together harmoniously and well, and I do think we have been as free, or freer, from high crimes as any year in the past.
Respectfully submitted,
H. C. SNELL, Chief of Police.
Milford, Feb. 1, 1895.
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AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I have examined the accounts of the Treasurer and Tax Collectors, and find them to be correct, and I have also examined the books of the various departments and find that the vouchers correspond with the orders drawn on and paid by the Treasurer, and that the accounts as presented are correct.
Respectfully submitted,
HORACE A. BROWN, Auditor.
Milford, Mass., Feb. 12, 1895.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
TOWN OF MILFORD,
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 1894-95.
MILFORD, MASS .: COOK & SONS, PRINTERS. 1895.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE 1894-95.
GEORGE L. COOKE,
Term expires 1895 1895
GEORGE E. STACY,
JOHN T. McLOUGHLIN, 1 896
HEBER D. BOWKER,
66 1896
J. J. DUGGAN, CHARLES MACKIN,
1897
1897
ORGANIZATION.
GEORGE L. COOKE, Chairman,
S. F. BLODGETT, Secretary.
SUB-COMMITTEES. Rules and Regulations.
J. T. McLOUGHLIN, H. D. BOWKER, THE SUPERINTENDENT. Repairs.
GEO. E. STACY, GEO. L. COOKE, THE SUPERINTENDENT. Teachers and Examinations.
H. D. BOWKER, J. J. DUGGAN,
THE SUPERINTENDENT. Books and Supplies.
CHARLES MACKIN, J. T. McLOUGHLIN, THE SUPERINTENDENT.
Fuel.
J. J. DUGGAN, GEORGE E. STACY,
SUPERINTENDENT, S. F. BLOGETT.
Office at Memorial Hall. Office hours, 8 to 9 A. M., daily, when schools are in session.
Regular meetings of the Committee are held on the second Monday of each month, at 8 P. M.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Another year with its opportunities has passed, and your committee feel assured that much good work and improvement has been the result of faithful superintendence and earnest, wil- ling endeavors on the part of our teachers.
Children should be well grounded in the fundamental prin- ciples and most needed essentials of our common school educa- tion, and the early training is of vast importance to lead to that well developed condition which, in after years, will be a pride to the individual, and reflect credit upon the town for the oppor- tunities it gave to its children.
Milford is not a wealthy town, yet remember that we can- not afford to let those on whom our pride and hope centres, be robbed of that which is "of more value than much fine gold." The town has only to be informed of its necessities, to respond in a manner worthy of its name ..
Through the liberality of the town, as evinced at its meeting last November, a new four-room, brick building is being erected on Spruce street, for the accommodation of the primary grade. The building will be somewhat of a departure from the old methods of construction. It is contrived upon the most ap- proved methods of lighting, heating, ventilation, and sanitary appointments, and the committee are under much obligation to the school officers of the town of Leominster, for their attention and information in regard to the building which our sub-commit- tee examined in their town, and which was taken as a model, in the main, for ours. When finished and occupied, it will relieve a long felt necessity.
During the past year, teachers have received their compen- sation in accordance with the plan and scale adopted last year, experienced teachers receiving more per week than those new at the work, and all, in accordance to their experience, until the limit is reached. This plan was deemed just, and readily met
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the approval of the committee. It increased the sum required for salaries somewhat, and although we are not able to compete with many towns, it helps to retain the services of those of more experience than formerly. We believe in preparation and suc- cessful service for the position of a teacher, and Normal school training is fast becoming a requirement in order to obtain an ap- pointment to instruct our youth. Quality always regulates the price.
For the detailed matters relating to our schools see the su- perintendent's report, which is hereunto appended and approved.
We recommend the following appropriations for the ensu-
ing year :
Salaries of teachers.
$17,250 00
Salaries of janitors.
1,150 00
Expense of evening school
300 00
Fuel 1,400 00
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