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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 fac- tory.
Box 17. Colburn & Fuller factory.
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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 street, opposite Water street.
Box 54. Corner Main and Fruit streets.
Box 65. Corner Grove and Forest streets.
Box 73. Corner Spruce and Congress streets.
Box 142. Private, inside Milford Shoe Company's factory.
ROSTER OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
BOARD OF ENGINEERS :-
J. H. SCOTT,
Chief Engineer
JOHN T. KELLY,
First Assistant Engineer
P. P. O'DONNELL,
Assistant Engineer
CHARLES H. COOK,
Assistant Engineer Clerk and Treasurer
L. E. BELKNAP,
HOSE Co. No. 1. Captain, H. I. Binney ; Lieutenant, F. G. Clark; Clerk and Treasurer, C. E. Dewing; Driver and Steward, J. J. Hennessey ; E. G. Hubbard, H. L. Willard, G. E. Fletcher, A. J. Whitcomb, H. E. Warren, L. R. Joy, F. A. Hoyt, W. J. Rose, Austin Bagley, G. E. McCormic, W. J. White.
HOSE Co. No. 2. Captain, T. F. Martin; Lieutenant, Em- mons Fletcher; Clerk and Treasurer, C. E. Blaisdell; Steward, W. H. Quinn ; P. J. Connors, John J. King, jr., John Mathews, T. F. Callahan, E. M. Temple, Ed. B. Quinn, J. J. Hynes, Fred Gaskill, Frank L. Kimball, L. F. Gillon, William P. Dacey.
HOSE Co. No. 4. Captain, W. H. Curtin; Lieutenant, Dennis O'Connor; Clerk and Treasurer, A. O. Hersey; Stew- ard, Richard Hoey ; George Julian, C. A. Cheney, Thomas M. Shea, J. E. Fitzsimmons, William F. Sheehan, John Kirby, J. J. Hurlihy, John Keelon, C. H. Voyer, Timothy Hannagan, Henry Marchessault.
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ENGINE Co. No. 2. Captain, N. E. Gaskill; Lieutenant, F. M. Walker; Clerk, H. B. Cheney; Treasurer, W. A. Fair- banks; Engineman, N. B. Fairbanks; F. N. Abbott, O. F. El- dredge, George S. Dudley, J. C. Trask, Alderman White, I. E. Trask, Geo. A. Wilcox, J. B. King, W. J. Struthers, H. A. Bag- ley.
LADDER Co. No. 1. Captain, J. T. Baxter; Lieutenant; John Keefe; Clerk, T. F. Connors; Treasurer, M. H. Sullivan ; T. F. Waters, Stephen Quirk, Frank Quirk, J. A. Boyce, J. J. Nelligan, Ed. Rielly, D. P. Flynn, P. J. Slattery, Wm. Cratty, Daniel Chaisson, John Lally, Thomas Lally, M. H. Burke, A. O'Keefe, William Place, L. V. Corbett.
ENGINE Co. No. 1. In reserve. Engineman, H. E. Rock- wood.
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RECOMMENDATIONS.
We would recommend the following appropriations :- For pay of members, incidental repairs, etc. $8,000 00
For unpaid bills 250 00
$8,250 00
We would also recommend the alteration of Hose Carriage No. 4 into a wagon, and that the sum of $350 be appropriated for the same.
Also that a barn be built on to the rear of the Spruce Street Hose house, for the accommodation of the horses used on the hose wagon.
We find that considerable valuable time is lost by the horses being kept in the Town barn, that might be saved in having the horses back of the apparatus where they belong.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
J. H. SCOTT, Chief,
J. T. KELLY, First Assistant,
P. P. O'DONNELL,
C. H. COOK, L. E. BELKNAP, Clerk and Treas.,
Engineers Milford Fire Dept.
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
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EXPENSE AT THE FARM.
Grain
·
$802 94
Salary of superintendent .
600 00
Labor
508 65
Meat
361 51. ·
Flour, bread, and crackers
349 15
Cows
249 00 ·
Butter
229 62
Medicine
216 86
Dry goods .
159 42
Coal
141 38
Hardware, farming tools, and seeds
136 01
Clothing
118 55
Sugar
.
110 20
Horse
100 00
Boots and shoes
88 35
Fresh fish .
80 39
Tobacco and snuff
72 04
Hogs, pigs, and shoats
69 50
Double harness and repairs
57 83
Potatoes
54 00
Medical attendance
·
50 00
Tea
49 68
Sınall groceries and spices
·
46 44
Wheelwrighting and jobbing
45 07
Land, plaster, and fertilizer
45 00
Horse shoeing and jobbing
39 93
Salt fish
36 11
Soft soap
32 50
Coffee
31 80
Crockery, furniture, etc.
30 56
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64
Salt pork .
$28 25
Whitewashing and painters' supplies 28 19
Lard and cotosuet
27 90
Bull
27 50
Oil .
.
.
27 05
Carpet
.
.
26 86
Hard soap .
22 44
Molasses and syrup
14 15
Small bills paid by M. C. Harvey
12 50
Meadow hay
12 00
Painting wagon
12 00
Plow
.
12 00
Beans
11 70
Sawing lumber
11 34
Onions
9 60
Salt
8 67
Sawdust
8 52
Use of wagon and team work
8 30
Tax on Upton wood lot
5 60
Oil tank
.
5 50
Lumber
5 07
Daily Journal, 2 years to Jan. 1, 1896
5 00
Veterinary surgeon
4 75
Stationery . 4 16 .
Piping
4 00
Spectacles and repairing same
3 85
Milford Gazette, 3 years to Jan. 1, 1896
3 75
Cheese
3 51
Door
3 25
Brooms
2 85
Pails
2 51
Making cider
2 36
Rye
2 00
Hulled corn
1 96
Apples
1 50
Dress-making
50
.
$5,283 58
.
.
.
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.
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INCOME AT THE FARM.
Milk
. $1,146 67
Patrick Casey and wife, board
· 208 00
1
Catherine Hannon, pension
142 00
Curtis Claflin, board
.
117 00 .
Cows
.
107 00 .
Mary Fitzgerald, pension
.
90 59
Mary Brown, board
80 58
John Larkin, board
40 00
Sarah McGrath, board
24 00
Calves
15 75
Service of bull
10 00
Pigs
12 00
Isaac Claflin, board
12 00
Eggs
9 29
Rhubarb
7 85
Tomatoes
2 90
Plowing
80
Ice .
$2,026 53
INMATES AT THE FARM DURING THE YEAR.
Age. Wks.
Age. Wks.
Lydia A. Parkhurst,
55
52
John Manion,
42
49
John Cook,
57 8
Daniel Curran,
58
11
Ellen Middleton,
55
52
Michael Hughes,
68
52
Dennis Pyne,
56
52
Lizzie Gabry, 34 52
Johannah McCarty,
78
52
Nellie Gabry, 12 wks. 12
Fred Tillottson,
17
7
William Green,
77
35
Mary Flagg,
73
52
Anna Greigg,
71
52
Thomas Hughes,
73
52
William Conley,
43
10
Bridget McGovern,
78
8
Andrew Fuller,
48
21
Patrick Ward,
82
52
Walter Gabry,
2
52
Catherine Hannon,
77
52
Loring Adams,
75
44
Martin Coppinger, Frank Sireack,
19
44
Mary Brown,
89
52
Edward Dcnovon,
70
52
John Walker,
25
39
William O'Rourke,
56
52
James Degan,
61
52
John Flynn,
42
52
Celia Conlan,
61
42
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·
.
·
10
67
52
Ellen Magee,
69.
52
·
66
Age. Wks.
Age. Wks.
William Mulcahy,
46 14
Mary Sireack,
52
31
Patrick Casey,
69 52
Edward Sireack,
58
14
Michael Dunn, sr.,
75 52
Moses Smith,
72
24
Michael Dunn, jr.,
37
37
John Larkin,
67
16
Margaret Casey,
68
52
Mary A. Johnson,
43
25
Harriet Smith,
72
52
Edward Welch,
32
2
Michael King,
46
29
Bridget Shaw,
55
10
Mary Fitzgerald,
83
19
Jennie E. Stewart,
21
21
Thomas Curley,
61
11
Isaac Claflin,
87
4
William Hayes,
25
10
George C. Warren,
52
3
Edward Gahagan,
42
14
Michael Hinds,
62
15
Orra Cheney,
35
17
Sarah McGrath,
80
17
Linda Sireack,
28
39
Alice Cisco,
26
10
Winnefred Burke,
96
52
Ethel Cisco,
16 wks. 10
Daniel Bergin,
61
49
James McCormick, 29 2
Curtis L. Claflin,
71
46
Bridget Regan,
76
2
Net expenses at the Farm . $3,257 05
Appraisal of Town Farm and wood lot, $6,400 ; interest
384 00
Appraisal of personal property, $3,430 ; interest
205 80
$3,846 85
Whole number of inmates during the
year. .
64
Average number .
.
40
Average weekly cost
$1 85
There were five deaths at the Farm during the year as lows :-
John Cook, died March 29, 1895, age 57, Paralysis. Mary Fitzgerald, died June 14, 1895, age 83, Paralysis. William Green, died Oct. 22, 1895, age 77, Paralysis. Isaac Claflin, died Oct. 31, 1895, age 87, Old Age. John Walker, died Nov. 13, 1895, Age 25, Consumption. January 25, 1896, the Overseers of the Poor appraised the following property at the Town Farm :- 22 cows $660 00 .
1 bull
·
.
25 00
3 horses
.
.
.
300 00 ·
1
67
English hay
. $300 00
Meadow hay
·
80 00
Harnesses .
·
·
62 00
Shorts or Acme feed
60 00
Robes, horse cover, and blankets .
14 00
Meal and oats
·
5 00
Ice .
25 00
Mowing machine .
20 00
Horse rake
15 00
1 2-horse wagon
30 00
2 1-horse carts
20 00
1 2-horse cart
50 00
1 1-horse farm wagon
20 00
Horse sleds
8 00
1 pung
10 00
1 express wagon .
50 00
1 road cart
15 00
1 Democrat wagon
17 50
Farming tools of different kinds .
71 35
60 cords wood, some sawed and split
180 00
Field corn .
36 00
Sweet and pop corn
5 10
Beans
3 00
190 empty flour barrels
19 00
Coal .
6 00
264 bushels potatoes
132 00
9 shoats
35 00
6 hogs
90 00
Vegetables
4 00
Onions
5 00
Hams
50 00
Salt pork
42 00
Lard
4 00
Salt
90
Flour
15 00
Oil tank
5 00
Soft soap
2 50
Crackers
1 00
Coffee
·
3 00
·
.
.
.
·
·
.
68
Butter
$ 8 00
Sugar
·
10 00
Molasses
5 00
Cider
10 00
Vinegar
2 50
1 cupboard
5 00
50 hens
25 00
Beds and bedding .
258 00
40 iron beds with springs
200 00
Furniture .
158 15
Cook-stoves
50 00
· · Medicine chest and contents
15 00
Refrigerator
15 00
Sewing machine
.
25 00
Carpets
30 00
Crockery, etc.
23 00
Tinware, etc.
20 00
Worcester fire pails
4 00
2 Babcock pony extinguishers
70 00
$3,430 00
PERSONS RECEIVING AID IN MILFORD AWAY FROM THE FARM.
Mrs. Eliot Bowker, $ 17 73
John Collins,
$15 55
Mrs. Patrick Burns,
54 10
John Callanan, 34 51
Mrs. James Boland, 13 23
Thomas Crowley, chil- dren, 29 93
children,
134 23
William Coy,
6 75
Daniel Bergin,
2 00
Celia Conlin,
7 85
Mrs. Ann Cahill,
108 28
John Doherty,
110 19
John H. Coyne,
26 16
Mrs. David Doyle,
113 19
Callanan children, 157 00
Ellis Daniels, 14 50
Mrs. Peter Collins,
57 25
James Degan,
1 54
Mrs. John Carroll,
46 00
David A. Fiske,
65 00
Mrs. John Condon,
5 50
William Fitzgerald,
3 85
Benjamin Cottrell, 110 07
Thomas R. Gay,
32 88
Hannah Cooney, 19 50
John Griffin, 30 75
Mrs. Melzia W. Carver, 11 05
Edward Gahagan, 2 50
.
.
·
·
John Bird and Cooper
.
69
Ellen A. Guild, $77 00
George E. Gay,
16 05
Mrs. John Nugent, 57 80
William Green,
22 00
Edward Nelligan, 57.50
Mrs. Michael Hageney, 56 35
Mrs. Martin O'Melia, 77 22
Alton Handley, 9 23
Lucretia Hayward,
70 24
William Hayes,
4 78
Mrs. George Platt, 22:18
George Hannigan,
1 25
Mrs. James Regan, 52.00
John Hayes, 2 00
1 54
Mrs. George Kimm,
17 39
Patrick Lundy, child-
ren, 24 55
Joseph L. Littlefield,
137 44
Catherine Mullen,
38 60
John F. Moore,
51 00
Laura Tucker, 112 39
Fred Tillotson, 3 08
Mrs. Thomas R. May, 112 08
Mrs. Julia Masterson, 3 30
To be paid back, 1896, 15 76
Edward McKenna, 77 21
Medical attendance for the above, 100 00
Patrick McQuaid, 76 50
Owen McGurren, 92 35
Daniel McCarty,
23 00
$3,823 85
PERSONS BELONGING TO MILFORD AIDED IN OTHER TOWNS.
Mrs. Lorinda A. Blake, Malden $ 52 00
John A. Boyd, Worcester .
70 88
Walter Butler, Worcester City Hospital .
34 40
Anna E. Brigham, Boston
17 75
John Baxter, New Bedford
24 25
Alice Cisco, Worcester
1 58
Alvin Collins, Holliston
78 00
Hannah Connors, Tewksbury
48 28
Mary Clancy, Ashland
21 50
Ulysses Fiske, Tewksbury
7 71
William P. Fiske, Natick
13 25
Charles E. Gay, Northampton
.
11 32
Charles Moore, Worcester
2 00
Frank H. Scanlon, 89 13
Michael Hughes,
Mrs. Kate McDermott, 89 60
Mrs. Margaret Shea, 41 00
Mrs. James A. Turner, 94 13 Mrs. William Tracey, 123 00 Mrs. Jerry Tynan and children, 87 46
Mary O'Connell, 3. 75
Mrs.Thomas F.Powers, 111 40
Frank McCool, $ 1:50
.
·
70
George H. Moore, Marlborough . $ 21 40
James Murphy, children, Marlborough 145 83
Mrs. Lawrence O'Hare, Salem Mahann children, Boston .
2 00
John Ruddy, Winchendon
4 00
Sarah Tiernan, Worcester
65
Joanna Slattery, Hopkinton
96 00
John Walker, Worcester .
65
Frank Ward, Tewksbury .
5 71
$757 41
PERSONS BELONGING TO OTHER TOWNS AIDED IN MILFORD.
Mrs. James E. Butler, Upton $101 40
Mrs. Joseph Brodeur, Gloucester .
58 23
Frank N. Cox, Uxbridge .
16 26
Charles Deeds, Holliston, .
2 00
Mrs. George D. Edmands, Hopedale 117 00
William Fleming, Rockland
2 75
Felix Goodnow, Grafton
36 50
Mrs. Robert McAuliffe, Randolph
227 73 .
Patrick McKenna, Medway
12 88
William Layton, Sutton .
32 38
Charles E. Newton, Shrewsbury ·
10 65
Benjamin Newton, 75 37
Francis X. Progin, Worcester
11 20
William Papineau, Marlborough .
77 03
Mrs. Herbert Parker, Nantucket .
36 00
Napoleon Guertin, Spencer .
11 90
Martin V. Tingley, Bellingham
146 70
Mrs. Michael Savage, Franklin
21 14
Mrs. Isaac E. Welch, Holliston
54 00
James P. Rowe, Ashland .
5 00
Soldiers' Relief, Uxbridge
·
48 58
Soldiers' Relief, Upton
.
85 50
·
98 25
.
$1,190 20
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INSANE.
Caroline Coughlin, Tewksbury
$146 00
John Droney, Worcester Insane .
169 48
Thomas Fahey, Lunatic 25 54
Munroe A. Goldsmith, Worcester Lunatic
169 46
Kate Geary, Worcester Lunatic
169 46
Charles H. Dunham, Worcester Insane
169 45
Harriet M. Harding, 66 Lunatic .
87 75
Joseph P. Kelley, Worcester Lunatic
97 04
Hannah W. Kennedy, Worcester Lunatic
169 46
Anna A. Murphy, Worcester Lunatic
32 96
Maria Ripley, Westboro Insane .
169 48
Effie M. Russell, Worcester Lunatic
169 46
Abbott L. Perry, 66
66
169 46
Lucy M. Wilber,
169 46
Charles H. White, 66
66
169 46
Cora E. Weatherhead, Worcester Lunatic
30 18
George C. Warren, Worcester Lunatic
19 61
To be paid back 1896, Danvers «
127 67
$2,261 38
STATE POOR.
Mrs. Daniel Brassell $ 60 90
James McNamara 70 48
Mrs. William Bruce 7 15
Elizabeth Otis 67 20
Giovanni Carini
20 00
Cornelius O'Brien 16 70
Charles M. Emery 28 35
Leonardo Rachieoto . 15 15
John Buckley ·
12 00
Walter L. Teed 34 55
Peter Gagnoin 27 78
Edward Welch
12.50
Patrick Gallagher 1 .25
Patrick Hadlock
·
105 70
$481 71
Joseph E. Hurt
2 00
1343 tramps
$32 00
INCIDENTALS.
Expenses looking up unsettled cases $33 35
2 order books
15 50
.
1 book, ledger
·
7 50
.
-
.
.
72
1 letter book
$3 50
Postage stamps and postal cards .
4 40
Stationery, etc.
3 06
Printing orders .
3 00
Stamped envelopes
.
2 75
Envelopes .
1 75
$74 81
RECEIPTS.
Full amount of orders drawn on C. A. Cook, Treasurer
$14,150 96
Money received from the following sources and turned over to the Treasurer :-
Income at the Farm
. $2,026 53
State Treasurer to Town Treasurer
370 57
Randolph
221 28
Bellingham
131 95
Hopedale
129 00
Upton Poor Department
116 90
Shrewsbury
91 35
Upton Soldiers' Relief
78 00
Holliston
52 00
Uxbridge Soldiers' Relief
48 58
Uxbridge Poor Department
26 64
Grafton .
25 20
Boston .
.
15 75
Spencer .
11 90
Aid given, 1894 .
10 00
Marlborough
7 63
Newton .
6 00
Patrick Fahey, aid 1894
3 13
Rockland ·
2 75
Cambridge
.
·
2 00
Northbridge
78
Money reimbursed the Town from dif- ferent persons
786 02
4,163 96
Full amount taken from the Treasury . ·
$9,987 00
.
.
.
.
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RECAPITULATION.
Expense at the farm . $5,283 58
Persons aided outside the farm . 3,283 85
Persons aided in other Towns
757 41
Persons aided belonging to other Towns. 1,190 20
Insane . 2,261 38
State Poor . .
481 71
Tramps .
.
.
32 00 ·
Incidentals .
74 81
Orders given, Town reimbursed
$14,150 96
Appropriation for the Poor
$10,000 00
Amount expended .
9,987 00
Unexpended
$13 00 Special appropriation for land on both sides of
Asylum street, 24 acres more or less, bought of Mr. J. A. Taft
$500 00
The deed was recorded and placed in hands of Town Clerk D. J. Lang.
BILLS DUE MILFORD FROM OTHER TOWNS AND THE STATE.
$398 46
Sutton
62 60
Gloucester .
·
.
·
58 23
Nantucket .
36 00 ·
Grafton
24 00
Franklin
21 14
Randolph
15 60
Bellingham
14 75
Medway
12 88
Upton
8 75
Worcester .
11 20
Marlborough
8 00
Holliston
8 00
Hopedale .
8 00
Shrewsbury
.
5 00
Ashland
.
5 00
$697 61
State
.
·
.
.
.
·
786 02
.
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NUMBER OF PERSONS AIDED DURING THE YEAR.
At the farm
64
Insane hospitals .
20
Persons belonging to other Towns
.
74
State
34
All other persons ·
. 196
388
The superintendent and matron are paid to March 1, 1896, salary $600. The Town physician is paid to Dec. 1, 1895, salary. $150. The hired help are paid to Jan. 1, 1896.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
CHESTER L. CLARK, JOHN SMITH, JAMES W. BURKE, Overseers of the Poor.
REPORT OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN LIBRARY.
CHARLES A. DEWEY, BENJAMIN ADAMS, Term expires 1896. NATHANIEL F. BLAKE, THOMAS F. MANNING, 1897.
NATHAN W. HEATH, S. F. BLODGETT, 1898.
CHARLES A. DEWEY, Chairman.
S. F. BLODGETT, Secretary. NATHANIEL F. BLAKE, Librarian.
At a meeting of the Trustees held on the fourth day of February, 1896, it was voted to recommend an appropriation of six hundred dollars for the benefit of the Town Library during 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 end- ing Jan. 31, 1896.
Number of days open, 305. Circulation for the year, 28,756 volumes. Circulation the previous year, 27,807 vol- umes, a gain of 949 volumes.
Largest daily circulation March 19, 1895, 350 volumes. Smallest daily circulation Jan. 24, 1896, 14 volumes. Average daily circulation, 94 38%% volumes. Number of notices sent delinquents, 50. Amount received for fines, $49.58. Amount received for catalogues, $4.50. Number of volumes covered during the year, 1806.
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CIRCULATION.
ABCDE
F
G
H
IJ
K Total.
Feb.,
1895
79
83
4
68
21
1392
71
7
36
877
2638
March,
95
70
77
22
1711
81
6
40
951
3053
April,
66
63
62
65
28
1390
97
3
39
689
1
2427
May,
66
40
37
27
16
1242
72
7
25
608
2074
June,
34
42
43
18
1320
68
6
16
692
2239
July,
34
35
1
37
31
1323
63
11
17
575
1
2127
Áug.,
36
38
30
32
1406
66
5
12
517
2
2143
Sept.,
66
47
34
2
59
25
1414
53
11
14
407
2068
Oct.,
66
72
53
3
73
27
1269
73
17
19
631
2237
Nov.,
66
73
54
3
78
38
1535
77
12
37
830
2737
Dec.,
54
43
2
73
42
1293
94
10
33
705
1
2350
Jan.,
1896
61
44
2
80
41
1481
94
12
50
788
2653
688 595 17 710 341 16776 909 107 338 8270
5 28756
The Library contains, as per last report, 9207 volumes. Added during the year by purchase, 482 volumes; by dona- tion, 46 volumes; by binding patent office reports, 37 volumes ; making the whole number of volumes as per catalogue, 9772.
The donors were: State of Massachusetts, 23 volumes ; Gen. Wm. F. Draper, M. C., 10 volumes; U. S. Bureau of Edu- cation, 3 volumes; U. S. Treasury department, 2 volumes; by exchange of Ballou's History of Milford, 2 volumes; U. S. Interstate Commerce Commission, 1 volume; Mass. G. A. R., 1 volume; U. S. Civil Service Commission, 1 volume; H. D. Kendall, 1 volume; family of Roland G. Usher, 1 volume; Smithsonian Institution, 1 volume.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
N. F. BLAKE,
Librarian.
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SECRETARY'S REPORT.
Receipts :-
Appropriation
$600 00
Dog tax .
637 01
Fines
49 58
Catalogues
4 50
Expenditures :-
Librarian
$360 00
Light
104 92
Covering books .
17 34
Post-office box
2 00
Supplies
31 13
Binding
76 79
Books
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692 41
Express
6 50
$1,291 09
S. F. BLODGETT,
Secretary.
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$1,291 09
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF VERNON GROVE CEMETERY, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31, 1896.
DR.
May 18. To cash on hand.
$ 1 30
July 16. of J. M. Wood for lots
sold in 1893 . 26 00
July 16. To cash of J. M. Wood for lots sold in 1894 78 92
July 31. To cash of C. A. Cook, Town appropriation 150 00
Nov. 22. To cash of J. M. Wood for digging graves in 1894
28 00
Nov. 22. To cash of J. M. Wood for digging graves in 1895 54 67
Dec. 9. To cash of Henry Hancock for care of lots
15 00
$353 89
CR.
By paying W. C. Morrison for labor $ 31 50
66 Henry Hancock 66
151 75
J. E. Macuen 66
9 38
D. B. Rockwood
.
2 00
66 C. L. Clark
66
4 00
J. M. Wood
66
16 10
66 H. C. Skinner
66
18 00
Clark Ellis & Sons for sup-
1 89
plies .
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By paying Milford Water Co. for sup- plies . 30
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79
By paying William Johnson for sup- plies . $15 40
By paying F. R. Adams, labor and sup- plies . 13 23
By paying J. M. Wood, labor and sup- plies . 6 25
By paying W. C. Morrison, labor and supplies 39 75
By paying Clark Ellis & Sons, labor and supplies 19 10
By paying W. H. Britton, labor and sup- plies .
-3 49
Cash on hand
21 75
$353 89
HENRY C. SKINNER,
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Treasurer.
There have been 46 interments during the past year ; four less than last year. The terms of the committee expire as fol- lows: George L. Maynard and Henry Hancock in 1896; Henry A. Pond and Thomas Lilley in 1897, and Henry C. Skinner and John M. Wood in 1898.
HENRY C. SKINNER,
.
Secretary.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Milford Board of Health respectfully present this re- port as the result of their work for 1895 and '96.
The health of the Town compares well with former years. Of contagious diseases, there have been nineteen of diphtheria and twenty-eight of scarlet fever. Deaths of the former, three; of the latter, none.
Most of the cases have been of a sporadic character, pre- senting but little evidence of contagion. Without exception, the cases have been reported early by the physicians in attend- ance, and immediate isolation has followed. This care on the part of physicians gives the Board reason to believe that the prosecution of a physician for either neglect of making an early report, or an error of diagnosis, has had good results. In this connection it is well to suggest to the voters of Milford that nothing is more demanded, or that could be of more bene- fit to the health of Milford, than a small hospital for contagious diseases, that the cases may be well isolated, which is not pos- sible at their homes, and that the other members of the family may pursue their usual daily avocations.
The need of a general system of sewerage increases as the years roll by, and is of the greatest importance. An accurate survey now rests in the archives of the Town ready for ap- proval. Why not now act on this great want, and place Mil- ford where it belongs, on an equality with all other towns and cities of like population. At the present time it is a continual "up hill" fight for the Board of Health to see that the cess- pools are to any degree kept in the condition they demand. In the immediate future we shall ask the Town to render legal by their vote certain rules making it imperative to keep in good condition a cesspool uniform and thoroughly answering the indications which such receptacles demand.
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An improvement of the Pond street sewer is recommend- ed. That it is in a certain degree a nuisance there is no doubt. The State Board of Health have the case under advisement and will undoubtedly make a report soon. The Town should take action on the matter at an early date.
JNO. M. EATON, M. D., Chairman, W. J. CLARKE, M. D., DR. R. H. COCHRAN, Secretary, Milford Board of Health.
PROPERTY IN HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
INVENTORY MARCH 14, 1895.
6 horses,
3 sets double harnesses,
8 snow plows, 4 dump carts,
1 old dump cart,
3 sleds,
1 road scraper,
1 scoop 1 dead axle wagon,
1 drag,
1 stone roller,
3 ladders,
25 feet hose,
20 lanterns,
5 hoes,
4 iron rakes,
3 snow shovels, 2 chains,
10 long handled shovels, 14 picks,
6 mattocks, 6 iron bars,
16 square-pointed shovels, 14 round-pointed shovels, 8 striking hammers, 6 sledge hammers,
2 paving hammers, 2 axes, 4 scythes, 1 hand saw, Lot drills and stone kit,
2 hydrant wrenches,
1 vise,
1 trowel,
2 pulley wheels,
6 earth tamps,
3 tamp bars,
1 jack screw,
1 tool brand,
1 square,
Lot small chains,
1 wagon jack,
3 wood wheel-barrows,
2 iron wheel-barrows,
1 screen,
7 inlet grates, Small lot tile,
2 trace chains,
1 set tackle-blocks,
1 pair shears, Small lot brick,
1 tool box,
1 wood saw, . 3000 lbs. hay, 60 bushels oats,
1 oil barrel,
8 pails, 1 stove,
7 brooms,
3 hay forks,
3 barrels carrots,
3 surcingles,
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4 horse blankets, 1000 lbs. coal, Axle grease, Soap,
Harness oil, 1 stone crusher, 2 gravel pits.
INVENTORY FEB. 1, 1896.
6 horses,
3 double harnesses, 4 dump carts, 1 dead axle wagon,
1 dray,
1 road scraper, 1 sweeper, 1 scoop scraper,
1 gin,
5 snow plows,
1 drag,
3 sleds,
1 large stone roller, 1 small stone roller,
1 street plow,
1 swivel plow,
12 horse blankets, 4 horse brushes, 4 surcingles,
6 brooms, 6 halters, 4 qts. harness oil, 4 sponges,
Harness soap, Horse medicine, 4 horse bandages, 2 wagon jacks, Lot wheel grease, 20 bushels oats, 1200 lbs. hay, 500 lbs. straw, 1500 feet 3-inch plank, 500 feet 2-inch plank,
1000 feet 4x4 plank, 25 feet hose, 1000 lbs. coal,
1000 lbs. carrots,
Half barrel cement,
1 barrel K. Oil,
1 oil barrel, 2 iron wheel-barrows, 2 wooden 66
1 screen,
1 set tackle-blocks, 2 pulley wheels,
2 ropes, 3 chains,
4 striking hammers,
2 saws, 1 square, 1 level,
3 slide wrenches,
1 tool chest,
1 jack screw, 27 long-handled shovels, 35 short-handled « 3 axes, 30 long drills, 6 earth tamps, 37 hand drills,
8 lantern rods, 10 iron bars, 25 picks, 8 mattocks, 5 sledge hammers, 6 ice scrapers,
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1 iron vise, 4 snow shovels, 3 scythes, 7 iron rakes,
7 hoes,
3 hand hammers,
15 breaking hammers,
4 grass hooks,
3 spreaders,
1 trowel,
2 mason's hammers,
2 hay forks,
2 town brands,
2 hydrant wrenches,
1 screw driver,
2 files,
2 drill spoons,
1 pair shears,
1 oil can,
3 ladders,
12 lanterns, 12 pails,
4 water cans, 17 inlet grates, ¿ roll ribbon wire,
34 feet tile pipe,
2 stoves,
1 clock,
1 lamp,
1 settee, 4 chairs,
3 dippers,
2 mirrors,
2 rubber coats,
2 pairs rubber boots,
1 drinking fountain,
1 stone crusher,
3 gravel pits.
GEORGE D. RHODES,
Superintendent of Streets.
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I have examined the accounts of the Treasurer and Tax Collector, and find them to be correct, and I have also exam- ined 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. 15, 1896.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
TOWN OF MILFORD,
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 1895-96.
MILFORD, MASS .: G. M. BILLINGS, PRINTER, GAZETTE OFFICE. 1896.
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