Town Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Milford, Massachusetts 1895-1898, Part 26

Author: Milford (Mass.)
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 552


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Delia A. Higgiston,


Milford,


25|1st


Nov. 4


Edward D. Hayes,


Milford,


24|1st


Rev. Jas. T. Canavan.


Delia F. Moore,


Milford,


23 1st


9


Edward Peterson,


Milford,


25 1st


Rev. C. F. Johansson.


Anna L Johnson,


Dorchester,


26 1st


10


Frederick W. Tingley, Effie L. Small,


Milford,


21 1st


Rev. W. Woodbury,


10


Michael J. Higgiston,


Milford,


28 1st


Rev. Jas. T. Canavan.


17


Chas. P. Mason,


Milford,


27 1st


Mary A. Shepard,


Milford,


24 st


22


Wm. H. Smith,


N. Smithfield, R.I., 26 1st Uxbridge, 20 1st


Milford,


27 1st


Rev. Frank Burr.


Lucy K'. Lombard,


Holliston,


23 1st


24


Peter E. Moore,


Milford,


29 1st


Rev. Wm. T. Briggs.


Milford,


30 21


24


Lizzie Fahey, John Ray,


Milford,


32|1st


Rev. E. W. Whitney.


25


Walter J. Davis,


Woonsocket, R. I., 34 1st


Rev. D. T. Mag'll.


Lilian Smith,


Milford,


35 1st


25


Luke Morey,


Milford,


26 1st


Rev. E. W. Whitney.


Ethel M. warren,


Milford,


18 1st


Mary F. Farrell,


Providence, R. I.,


30|1st


Edith M. Stowe,


Caryville,


24 1st


Josephine Cunningham,


Milford,


24 1st


Grace L. Emerson,


Milford,


19|1st


Gertrude M. Whitten,


Lebanon, Me.,


16 1st


23 1st


Rev. E. W. Whitney.


Nellie L. Jackson,


Milford,


31|1st


Rev. Jas. T. Canavan.


Milford,


26|1st


Rev. Gerald Fagan.


So. Framingham,


19 |1st


Delia T. Garrity.


Hopedale,


30|1st


Rev. Wm. Read.


Rev. W. Woodbury.


Ethel A. Metcalf,


24


Herbert F. Hamilton,


Mary B. Gould,


Milford, 21 18₺


Catherine McCarron,


Milford,


34 1st


25 1st


22


Roland K. Robinson,


44


MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF MILFORD, 1897 .- CONTINUED.


DATE.


NAMES.


RESIDENCE.


AGE.


MARRIAGE.


BY WHOM MARRIED.


DEC.


12


Antonio Marinori,


Newton,


37|1st


Rev. Jas. T. Canavan.


()libia Iarosi,


Milford,


33 2d


25


John C. Cook,


Milford,


19 1st


Rev. E. W. Whitney.


Clara M. Davis,


Hopedale,


18 1st


30


James H. Quinn,


Milford,


38 1st


Rev. Jas. T. Canavan.


Sarah A. Daley,


Milford,


22 1st


45


DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF MILFORD, 1897.


DATE


DEATH.


AGE.


DISEASE OR CAUSE OF DEATH.


PLACE OF BIRTH.


JAN.


1


Bridget Maguire, Laura D. Graves,


51 45 6


7 25 Cancer of Uterus,


1


Gladys M. Tilden,


5 25 Croup Diphtheretic,


2


John O'Brien,


61


Heart Disease and Rheu- matism,


2 2


Louise Giancola,


3 Inanition,


4


Frank J. Rorkwood,


35 10 16 Consumption of Bowels, Milford.


4


Cecile L. Sprague,


5 10 Pneumonia, 29. Brights Disease,


Milford.


7


Fred F. Chase,


8


Isaac Cox,


74


1 14 Catarrh of Stomach,


8 11 ,


Ella M. Eveleth,


49


5 6 Pul. Tuberculosis, Heart Disease,


Ireland. Scotland, Ct.


13


John R. Morrison,


43 9


2 Sarcomia,


Cambridge,NY


18 18


Mary Brown,


88


Old Age,


Milford. Ireland.


19 21 22


Patrick McQuaid,


74


Heart Disease,


Ireland.


Mary A. Wolahan,


40


Pneumonia,


Mendon.


29|11


Phthisis,


Milford.


59


2 18 Apoplexy,


60


Chronic Neuritis,


27


Bridget C. Smith, Michael Ryan,


59


Interstitial Nephritis, Still Born,


Milford.


30 FEB. 1 3


Cyrus Noyes,


6|11


La Grippe,


Tunbridge, Vt. Ireland.


6


James J. O'Brien,


15 Pneumonia,


Milford.


8 11 13


John E. Gould,


1/11 20 Pneumonia,


Mendon.


17 19 26 26


Arthur E. Sumner,


51


29 Heart Disease,


MIlford. [H.


John M. Wood,


65


Westminster.


26


Fred E. Pettengill,


45 2


5 Apoplexy,


Worcester.


MAR. 2 3


Elizabeth Nason,


36 66


2.18 Acute Tuberculosis, Pneumonia,


Great Falls, N. Ireland. [H.


7


Theresa Mitchell, Bertha Reeves,


29


7


7 Acute Tuberculosis, La Grippe, Pneumonia, Old Age,


Ireland. [I.


13


72


Ireland.


13


Bridget Murray, Lillian Murray, Nellie T. Murray, James Nolan,


1 20 6 18


Phthisis Pul.,


Milford.


|10


Scarlatina,


Milford.


23


Maria L. Ball,


76


7 Pneumonia,


Westboro.


23


Leon Murray, - Caldwell, Margaret Reynolds, Arnold H. Sheldon, Benjamin Broderick, James B. Leonard,


60 67 79


Ireland, Smithfield, RI


30


30


56 7 6 Brights Disease,


Middleboro.


APR. 1 5


5


75


8 La Grippe,


Milford.


7


7 10


10


Grinfill B. Knight, Martin J. Kelly,


75


33


3 20 Phthisis, Phthisis,


Stowe, Me. Milford.


OF


NAME OF DECEASED.


Y MD


1 Apoplexy,


Ireland. W. Medway. Milford.


.John H. Gaskin,


53|10


Acute Phthisis,


Ireland. N. B. Milford.


Chas. Beatty,


76


4 18 Old Age,


No. Uxbridge.


13


Catherine Fitzsimmons, Luther Robinson,


. 85 7


8 Apoplexy,


Lassina Cenedella,


7


Pneumonia,


Phillip Callery,


67


Bronchitis,


Ireland.


22 24 26


Henry E. Fales,


Walpole. Ireland.


Ireland.


Jeremiah Downing,


Old Age,


12 11 24 Congestion of Lungs,


Mendon.


Winifred Bouley,


6 Pneumonia,


Milford. Milford.


Alexis A. Yeaton,


46


7


20 Suicide,


Newcastle, N.


Worcester.


slatersville, R.


11


Margaret Hannon, Mary Doyle, Samuel H. Gardner,


73 80


30 Brights Disease, Old Age, Marasmus,


Nantucket.


16


Ireland.


17


Hopedale.


18 21


17 1


1|14 Inanition, Still Born, Pneumonia,


Hopedale. Milford.


24 25 28


Ralph J. Cooper, Charlotte Bohman, Samuel Rockwood, Fisher W. Adams, Willis D. Perham,


66 52


2 Acute Tuberculosis,


Milford.


7 1 Con umption of Brain,


Milford.


5 28 Catarrhal Pneumonia,


Newark, N. J.


16 10


3 14 Cholera Infantum, Acute Peritonitis,


Milford. Sweden.


Mary Clark,


10


5 65


3 5 Cardiac Disease,


1 Premature Birth,


Tucker,


76 86 9


Ada A. Gould,


62


13


Frank JJ. Nealon,


- Day,


Newark, N.º J. Sumner, Me. Ireland.


1


4 24 Chronic Nephritis,


46


DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF MILFORD, 1897 .- CONTINUED.


DATE


DEATH.


NAME OF DECEASED.


AGE.


DISEASE OR CAUSE OF DEATH.


PLACE OF BIRTH.


APR.


Jeremiah Davoren,


57


Cardiac Asthma,


11 13


Mary Butler,


80


Apoplexy,


15


Walter E. Bradbury,


32


4 20 Pul. Consumption,


18


Margaret Black,


75


Paralysis,


19


Henry Walpole,


60


Pul. Hemorrhage,


Delia McCarty,


23 11


Peritonitis,


-


7 Convulsions,


Chas. L. Withercll,


45 7 8


15 Phthi-is Pul.,


Chas. E. Rogers,


56


9 Cerebral Meningitis, 10 24 Enteritis,


21


Lyman R. Belknap,


1 1 General Disability,


Milford.


25


Everett L. Adams,


3|10| Stomatitis,


Milford.


25


Dennis Shea,


102


9


Old Age,


Ireland.


29


Thomas Finn,


23 4


Leukaemia,


Milford.


3


6


Meningitis,


Patrick Burns,


Old Age,


Laura M. Temple,


Thos. A. Gaskiu,


21 1 1 Consumption,


20 Gastritis,


Milford.


17


Arthur H. Dudley,


3


21 Entero Colites, Abdominal Cancer,


Italy. Milford.


20


Catherine McEnelly,


23


2 Phthisis Pul.,


Upton.


26


Timothy N. Ide,


64


1 26 Heart Disease and Brights Disease,


Temple, N. H.


JUNE 1


Elizabeth E. Tutton,


8 13


Tuberculosis of Lymph Gland,


2


Bridget Kearnan,


Apoplexy,


3


Ann Baxter,


5 Terrance Rogers,


Paralysis,


Ireland.


60


5


18 Heart Disease,


79


Old Age,


Orange. Ireland. Tiverton, R. I.


14


Thomas Mullen,


18 11


1 Phthisis Pul.,


Milford.


Sarah A. Cushing,


71 10


5 Cancer of Stomach,


Salem. Milford.


68


15 Dilatation of Heart, Still Born,


Upton. Milford.


Chas. Schiebal,


36


2


9 Chronic Brights Disease,


Canton. England.


Johanna Genaro, Asa S. Cox,


Fannie'S. Keene,


50 9


7|Locomotor Ataxia,


74 10


22 Dilatation of Heart,


Troy, N. H. Milford. Italy.


71 71


25 Senile Inanition, 2 1 20 Typhoid Malarial Fever, Cholera Infantum,


Ireland.


26 26


George Beattey, Catherine Casey,


28


Mary Brown,


Ellen Handmore,


Lulia Ferguson,


1


Joshua S. Waldron,


63


Heart and Liver Disease, Milford.


MAY 4 6 9 11 11 13


Martha F. Hayward,


81 10


16 Senility,


Hubbardston.


9 3


15 Endocarditis,


Northboro.


18 19 19


Giovanni St. Angelo,


40


33


1|10 Consumption,


Troy, N. H. Ireland. Ireland.


5 5 13 13


Felix Gallagher, Jane E. Hussey, Mary Ryan,


69


6 24 Angina Pectoris, Diabetes Mellitus,


Irelanr. Milford.


15 15 15 21


Margaret G. Nugent,


1 11


Annie M. Prouty,


Maroney,


37 4 Arsenical Poisoning,


Austria.


Edward J. Kendricks, Mary Gilmore,


53 11 25 Uterine Carcinoma,


Italy.


29 6 66 7 24 Rheumatism and Heart Disease,


Malden. Seward, N. J.


George Whittemore, Raymond Binney, Benigno Colanti, Maud Morey,


51


8 Heart Disease, Heart Disease,


8 Cholera Infantum,


Milford. N. Bellingham.


59 17 4 21 Typhoid Malarial Fever,


Milford. Canada. Milford.


2 Infantile Debility,


Milford.


29 AUG. 1


25 25 27 30 30 JULY 1 2 4 5 9 21 22 24 Mary E. Dewing,


Henry S. Putnam,


5|14 Paralysis,


New York.


John Underwood,


51 20 8


8 Phthisis Pul.,


Catherine Cloonan,


71 65 61 72


27 Septicaemia,


Ireland. Ireland. So. Thomaston Ireland, [Me. Ireland. Ireland. Milford. Milfora. Milford. Ireland.


20 21 21 24


Norah L. McCarthy,


24


Michael Higgiston,


Walter Garbrey,


86 40 5 1 Acute Uraemia,


Milford. Ireland. Knoxville, Canada. [Ten.


Pietro Consoletta,


Lillian V. Chandler,


Dorchester.


Nellie Mase,


15 Infantile Eclampsia, 7


Pneumonia,


10 28 Heart Disease,


OF


Y MD


47


DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF MILFORD, 1897 .- CONTINUED.


DATE


DEATH.


NAME OF DECEASED.


AGE.


DISEASE OR CAUSE OF DEATH.


PLACE OF BIRTH.


AUG. 3 4 9 10 10


Emma F. Nash,


42 5 23 Spasmodica Epiglottis,


23 11


9


Acute Tuberculosis, Malarial Dysentery, Hepatitis,


Johanna Costello,


63


73


Heart Disease,


Ireland.


Dulcena Adams.


65


2|26


Chronic Melancholia and Exhaustion,


Norah Kennedy,


47 47


20 Appendicitis,


Thomas Jordan,


86


Valvular Dis. of Heart, Old Age,


John S. Chapin,


67


3 28


Dysentery,


Upton.


22


24


SEPT. 5 6 6 10 10 19 19 27 30 30


ост. 2 3 3 6 14 14 15 16 20 23 25 26 27 28 29 29 29 30 NOV. 3 5 ? 19


21 DEC. 3 19 21


Fred N. Abbott,


32 2 22


Typhoid Fever,


Robert Smart,


34 7 1


28 Cardiac Asthma,


44


8| Apoplexy,


23


Philip H. Slattery,


25


Cerebral Rheumatism,


68 11 [21


Rheumatism and General Disability,


24 25 27


Anastasia Dalton,


75


Thomas Quirk,


65


Chronic Nephritis, Catarrhal Pneumonia,


Ireland. Ireland.


N. Y.City. Medway. Ireland. Ireland.


13 16 17 19 22 22


Levi A. Cook,


66 8 1 Angina Pectoris,


Mary E. Macy,


11 17 Phthisis,


Patrick Murphy,


90


1 22 Cerebral Thombosis,


New Sharon,


David A. Fisk,


80|11 |25. Brights Disease, 45 Cirrhosis of Liver,


31


Valvular Dis. of Heart, Pneumonia,


1


7|17|Cerebral Abscesses,


Milford. Milford.


10


15 Tuberculosis,


Lucy Gennarl, Cheney,


Still Born, Phthisis,


Pamelia Flynn, Margaret Roche, James Deagan,


63 60 81


Apoplexy,


Ireland.


4 18 Apoplexy,


Bellingham.


28


Accident-Fall,


70


8 11 Pneumonia,


77


Diarrhoea,


60 6


Diabetes Mellitus,


58 60


Thoracic Aneurism,


Ireland. Ireland. Ireland.


61


Broncho Pneumonia, Heart Disease,


Ireland.


53 79


Old Age,


18


? 9 13 Nephritis,


Ireland. Upton. Milford. Milford.


Angelia R. Wright,


60|10|11| Heart Disease, 75


Mendon. Ireland.


Bridget Reagan, John Casey, Rosa R. Ward, Maggie M. Sullivan,


20


Old Age, Failure of Heart,


Ireland.


Milford.


24


Pulmonary Tuberculosis,


Monson.


Margaret Casey, John Murphy, Elizabeth McKenna, B. Franklin Lackey, Isora A. Worth, Frank D. Howard,


65


Heart Disease, Diarrhoea,


Upton, [Me. Italy. Milford. Nantucket.


Alfred B. Coffin,


69 11 25


1 13 Entero Colitis Marasmus,


84


Congestion of Lungs,


Milford. Ireland.


62 68 Railroad Accident,


W. Wrentham. Grafton, Vt. Ireland.


Hannah Kempton,


Pe'er Tonol'i,


Catherine McDonough,


Mary B. Weaver, Helen M. Davis,


Congenital Disease, 7


Milford. Milford. Canada. Ireland.


John S. Scammell, Albert Cook, Stephen J. Onion, Bridget McGovern, Bridget Waters, Hannah Murphy, Catherine Cahill,


19


Gastritis,


Lowell. Ireland. Ireland.


Hanora Lyons,


70


Dorothy H. Church, Catherine Hannon,


Malarial Fever,


Oxford. Milford.


James E. Wallace,


Sarah E. Geleney, Johannah Lyons,


51


Mary Powers,


Y M D


Wakefield. Scotland. Montpelier, Vt. Milford.


Emma A. Mann,


Maria L. Buxton,


Heart Disease,


84


53 11 5 Consumption,


Mendon. Bellingham. Ireland. Ireland.


HO


TOWN WARRANT.


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.


WORCESTER, SS.


To Either Constable of the Town of Milford, in said County, Greeting :


In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, you are hereby re- quired to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town, qualified by law to vote in Elections and in Town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Town, on Monday, the Seventh day of March, A. D., 1898, punc- tually at 8 o'clock in the forenoon, to act upon the following articles,. namely :--


[The Polls may be closed at four o'clock in the afternoon on said day of meeting.]


ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.


ARTICLE 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the year ensuing. A Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Tax Collector, Auditor, Three Selectmen, Three Assessors, Three Overseers of the Poor, Two Members of the School Committee, Two Trustees of Public Library, One Member of the Board of Health, (3yrs.,) Two Trustees of Vernon Grove Cemetery, and Fifteen Constables ; to be voted on ballots pre- pared and furnished in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 417 of the Acts of 1893 and amendments thereto ; also upon said ballots the voters will give in their votes "Yes" or "No" in answer to the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town !"


ARTICLE 3. To hear and act upon the reports of the Selectmen, School Committee, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Engineers of Fire Department, Tax Collector, Trustees of Public Library, Trustees of Vernon Grove Cemetery, and any other Officers and Committees of said Town.


ARTICLE 4. To raise and appropriate such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town expenses for the year ensuing.


ARTICLE 5. To see what action the Town will take in regard to lighting its streets, and appropriate money for the same.


50


ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer to borrow money in anticipation of the Taxes of the current year.


ARTICLE 7. To determine when all Taxes shall be collected and paid into the Treasury the year ensuing, and to fix the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for collecting the same.


ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate one hundred and fifty dollars towards defraying the expenses of Memorial Day.


ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to take charge of all legal proceedings for or against the Town.


ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to enforce the payment of all taxes due to the Town prior to 1893 or take any action in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to pave a portion of Main Street, raise and appropriate any money there- for, or take any action in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to increase the pay of the Assessors to $3.50 per day for each Assessor.


ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will authorize the Assessors to publish a report of valuation and taxes, other than polls, of the Town of Milford for the year 1898, appropriate any money therefor or take any action in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to locate a hydrant on Fruit Street Extension, and appropriate money therefor or take any action in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to reduce the number of Constables to be elected at the annual meeting from 15 to 3, or take any action in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will authorize its Treasurer to execute and deliver in its name and behalf, a deed releasing and quit-claiming to Alonzo E. Rhodes, the mortgagee of said premises on payment by him of the amount due said Town and interest, whatever interest it may have acquired under and by virtue of a tax deed from Monroe A. Goldsmith, etc., to said Town, dated October 31, 1896, and recorded with Worcester District Deeds, book 1520, page 639.


ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will authorize the Overseers of the Poor to shingle buildings at the Poor Farm, appropriate any money therefor, or take any action in relation to the same.


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ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Select- men to locate an electric light at some suitable point on North Bow Street and appropriate money for the same.


ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will appropriate $300 to repair Beaver Street from the Norcross Bros. sheds on East Main Street to the Medway road, or take any action in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to build a concrete sidewalk on the easterly side of Sumner Street, appropriate $500 therefor, or take any action in relation thereto.


ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote that all public work in the town be done by the day and that none but citizens be employed.


And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at each of the Public Meeting Houses and at the Post-Office in said town ; also cause an attested copy to be published in The Milford Daily Journal, Milford Daily News, Milford Gazette, and Milford Times, newspapers printed in said Town, Two Sabbaths at least before the Time set for said meeting.


Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Clerk of said Town, at the time of meeting afore- said.


Given under our hands at Milford, this Twenty-third day of Feb- ruary, A. D., 1898.


GEO. S. WHITNEY, B. T. CLANCY, LEWIS HAYDEN,


Selectmen of Milford.


A true Copy. Attest :


OLIVER D. HOLMES,


Constable of Milford.


INDEX.


Appropriations 7


Assessors' Report 53 Auditor's Report. 88


Board of Health, Report of 87 Collectors' Reports 49 57


Fire Department, Report of


Overseers of Poor, Report of. 70 Selectmen's Report. 11 9


Summary of Expenses


Town Clerk's Report 55


Town Officers 3


Town Park Commissioners, Report of 56


Treasurer's Report. 37


Trustees of Town Library, Report of . 82


Trustees of Vernon Grove Cemetery, Report of 85


SECOND SECTION.


School Committee


2


Superintendent's Report


10


THIRD SECTION.


Town Records


1-48


Town Warrant


50


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