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78 Congress St.,
342 1897
Braggville,
Miss S. M. Gorman,
10 Huntoon St.,
396 1895
Deer Brook,
Miss M. E. Mullane,
132 Spruce St.,
324 1898
Music Teacher,
16 Church St.,
300|1891
Drawing Teacher,
Mrs. S. E. Whitney, Miss A. L. Hastings,
Claflin St.,
500 1896
$18,898
graded. 4
Church St.,
324 1899
Bear Hill,
Un-
Miss N. M. Conely, Miss Julia Boyle,
25 Taylor St.,
396 1888
11 Claflin St.,
342 1897
Miss M. H. McDermott, 13 Spruce St.,
378 1893
27 Court St ..
342
1897
Spruce Street Gram. & Prim.,
High,
Park Grammar,
South Grammar,
Plains Grammar and Primary,
SCHOOL CALENDAR.
WINTER TERM .- High School :- Began Jan. 2, 1899. Closes March 24, 1899. Vacation, one week.
Other Schools :- Began Jan. 9. Close March 17.
Vacation, two weeks.
SPRING TERM .- High School :- Begins April 3. Closes June 23.
Vacation, ten weeks. Other schools :- Begin April 3. Close June 9. Vacation, twelve weeks.
FALL TERM .- All Schools :- Begin Sept. 5. Close Dec. 22. Vacation-High School, one week. Other Schools, two weeks.
WINTER TERM .- High School :- Begins Jan. 1, 1900. Other Schools :- Begin Jan. 8, 1900.
GRADUATION EXERCISES CLASS OF '98, MILFORD HIGH SCHOOL, MUSIC HALL, MILFORD,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23 AT 8 O'CLOCK.
Motto :- "After strife, victory."
Flower- White rose. Colors-Purple and white.
PROGRAMME.
Selection . High School Orchestra
Chorus-"The Chase" School
Salutatory, "Humanitarianism" . -
Mary E. Libby
Singing-"'Tis Morn" . Semi-chorus
Address, . George C. Chase, D. D., LL. D.
High School Orchestra Selection
"After Strife, Victory,"-Valedictory . Genevieve M. Toohey
Chorus-"Hark, they come," Presentation of diplomas.
School
Singing class ode.
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CLASS OF '98.
Genevieve Madeline Toohey,
Mary Ethel Libby,
Nina Eva Johnston,
Lilian Parkhurst Swasey,
Mary Alice Tucker,
Leroy Tucker,
Nellie Florence Birch,
Belva Kate Kibby,
Lelia Amy Walker,
Blanche May Gardner,
Michael Francis Reynolds,
Ethel Maud Bartlett,
Joseph Fred McDonough,
George Washington Gillon,
Sarah Gertrude Burns,
Mary Frances McNary,
Blanche Adelaide Goldsmith, Patrick Joseph Burke,
Charles Edward Whitney, jr., Lillian May Sherman,
Lloyd Francis Roberts.
Partial Course.
Georgianna Jeanne Spaulding, Alzie Rachel Staples, Bessie Jane Blood, Mary Corinne Prentice, Pearle Parker Buxton.
STATISTICS.
According to the usual custom, we give the statistics of the class of '98 as compared with those of '97 :---
1898.
1897.
Oldest . . 20 years.
19 years, 11 months.
Youngest . 17 66 11 months 16 66 10 66
Average . 18 . 10
18 8 66
Tallest . 5 feet, 10% inches.
5 feet, 11 inches.
Shortest . ·
5 feet.
5 feet, 1 inch. 5 feet, 42 inches.
Average .
5 feet, 4 inches. ·
Heaviest . 169 pounds.
153 pounds. 99 66
Lightest . 91 66
Average .
·
123.77 pounds.
123.18 pounds.
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
The following regulations were adopted by the Committee January 9, 1899 :-
Teachers are expected to be in their rooms at least fifteen minutes before the opening of each session.
Schools shall open promptly at 9 A. M. and at 1.30 P. M.
The principal shall give, or cause to be given, signals for the opening and closing of schools in the building.
Under the supervision of the principal of the building, teachers are to give their attention to supervision of discipline in and about the school building from 8.45 A. M. to 9 A. M., and from 1.15 p. M. to 1.30 P. M.
The principal shall have authority to establish rules regu- lating the conduct of pupils in the school yard, and while pass- ing in and out of the school building, said rules to be subject to the approval of the superintendent.
It shall be the duty of each teacher to report to the prin- cipal such violation of the rules as shall come under her obser- vation.
Teachers are expected to personally look after their pupils while filing in and out of the building.
Pupils should not be allowed to enter the school yard be- fore 8.45 A. M. and 1.15 P. M., neither should they be allowed to loiter in the yard after the close of any session.
Pupils should not be allowed to leave the school yard at recess without permission of the principal.
Pupils, in whatever grade, are expected to be respectful and obedient to any teacher in the building.
When pupils leave the building at the close of each ses- sion they shall be required, at the discretion of the principal,
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to walk in file, and no pupil shall be allowed to leave his posi- tion in the file before reaching the street.
At the signal for entering school the pupils shall, in mild and pleasant weather, at the discretion of the principal, form in lines at the entrance to the building, and shall proceed in an orderly manner to their rooms.
It shall be the duty of the principal to enforce these regu- lations, and to report to the superintendent any cases of non- compliance.
EXTRACTS FROM SCHOOL LAWS,
APPROVED BY THE LAST SESSION OF LEGISLATURE.
CHAPTER 394.
SECTION 49 .- No person shall employ or exhibit for the purpose of employing or exhibiting, a child under fifteen years of age, in dancing on the stage, playing on musical instru- ments, singing, or performing as a gymnast, in any theatrical exhibition, or in any public place whatsoever, or cause, procure or encourage any such child to engage therein : provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the educa- tion of children in vocal and instrumental music or dancing, or their employment as musicians in any church, chapel or school, or school exhibition, or to prevent their taking part in any festival, concert or musical exhibition on the special writ- ten permission of the selectmen of the town.
CHAPTER 494.
SECTION 1 .- No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed, in any work performed for wages or other compen- sation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of the town or city in which he resides are in session, nor be employed at any work before the hour of six o'clock in the morning or after the hour of seven o'clock in the evening.
SECTION 2 .- No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establish- ment unless the person or corporation employing him procures and keeps on file and accessible to the truant officers of the town or city, and to the district police and inspectors of facto- ries, an age and schooling certificate and keeps two complete lists of all such children employed therein, one on file and one conspicuously posted near the principal entrance of the build-
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ing in which such children are employed, and also keeps on file a complete list and sends to the superintendent of schools, the names of all minors employed therein who cannot read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English lan- guage.
SECTION 5 .- The age and schooling certificate of a child under sixteen years of age shall not be approved and signed until he presents to the person authorized to approve and sign the same, an employment ticket duly filled out and signed by the intending employer.
SECTION 6 .- Whoever employs a child under sixteen years of age, and whoever having under his control a child under such age permits such child to be employed, in violation of section one or two of this act, shall for such offence be fined not more than fifty dollars.
CHAPTER 496.
SECTION 11 .- No child who has not been duly vaccinated shall be admitted to a public school except upon presenta- tion of a certificate signed by a regular practising physician that such child is an unfit subject for vaccination. No child who is a member of a household in which a person is sick with smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or measles, shall attend any public school during such sickness or until the teacher of the school has been furnished with a certificate from the board of health of the town or city, or from the attending physician of such sick person, stating in a case of smallpox, diphtheria or scarlet fever, that a period of at least two weeks, and in a case of measles a period of at least three days, has elapsed since the recovery, removal or death of such person, and that danger of the conveying of such disease by such child has passed.
SECTION 12 .- All children between the ages of 7 and 14, unless sick, feeble-minded, at an approved private school, or otherwise instructed, must attend the public day school in the town or city in which he resides during the entire time the public day schools are in session, provided, that the superin- tendent of schools or teachers acting under his authority may excuse cases of necessary absence.
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SECTION 24 .- Any child convicted of being an habitual truant may be committed to an institution provided therefor.
SECTION 31 .- Any person having under his control a child between seven and fourteen years of age who fails to comply with section twelve of this act, or any person who induces or attempts to induce any child to absent himself unlawfully from school, or employs or harbors the same unlawfully while school is in session, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Names of pupils neither absent nor tardy :- HIGH SCHOOL.
FOUR YEARS. Louise Carbary.
Eva Gaskill,
THREE YEARS. Ethelyn Harding, Mary DeLaskey.
TWO YEARS.
Beatrice Bourne,
Grace Perkins, Ed. Mead, William Roche, Bertha Snare,
Stuart Godfrey, Frank Fales, Nellie Brosnahan, Florence Berrill, Annie Tracey, Willie Moore,
Carrie Walker, Etta Kirby, Harry Whitney, Frank Jappel, Michael Larkin,
ONE YEAR.
Maud Perkins, Beth Swasey, Charles Burbank, Harry Whitney, Ralph Woodward.
PARK SCHOOL. FOR THE YEAR. Charles Moriarty, Percy Walker, Thomas Donavon, Allan Cooke, Clara Hersey, Guenn Cooke,
TWO TERMS.
Clara Brayne, Willie Moran, Eddie Dempsey, Claude Slocum, Daniel Broderick,
Maud Snare.
Helen Pond, Edward Murray, Herbert McKenna, Marcia Dennison,
Leon Bullard, Beth Watkins, Irwin Ward, Edward Kendrick,
Charles Laviolette, Vivian Fairbanks.
Grace Keane, Willie Clarke, Melvin Connor, May O'Neil, Barclay Wheaton.
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Leslie Whittemore, Dannie Clancy, Jennie Hartwell, Leroy Closson, Lizzie Haskell, Edwin Gaskill, Louis Fairbanks, Eddie McDermott,
Harry Gilfoyle, Evelyn Libby, Ashley Cook, Alfred Dowdell, Gertrude Welch, Grace Cronan, John Mathews, Leon Smith, Lizzie Hodge.
Elmer Thomas, Louise Swasey, Willie O'Neil, Oliver Whittemore, William Bishop, Fred Bane, James Mee, Frank Droney,
· ONE TERM.
Dannie Minton,
Bennie Clancy,
Albert Thompson, Grace Brown,
Allen Dudley, Lena Julian,
Michael Carey,
Thomas Kelley,
Nellie Clancy,
George Daffon, Lillian Bates,
Kathleen Clancy, Marjory Sprague, Mary Knapp,
Nina Ingalls,
Lucy Jillson,
Harry Sprague, Eddie Murphy, Beatrice Reynolds,
John Chapin, Cora Davis, Joseph Clements, John Hayes, John McAvoy,
Leroy Brown, Mabel Whittemore, Isadore Burbank, Ora McDonald,
Bella Kynoch, Lizzie Rogers.
SOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
FOR THE YEAR. -
Mary Coppinger, Alvira White, Essie Nolan, Isabel McKenna,
Walter Chapin, Jeremiah Sweet, Joseph Lebossire, Percy Crawford, Charles Ryan,
Lizzie Hayes,
Willard Swan,
Florence Rockwood, Eunice Hussey,
Etta McKenna,
Archie Barry.
TWO TERMS.
Eugene Ferguson, Stanley Wires, Clyde Johnson, Edward Fitzpatrick, Edward Kaveny, Fred White,
Herbert McKenna, Robert Kinney, Martin Coppinger,
Andrew Fitzgerald,
Charlie Burbank, George Cummings,
Millie Gaskill, Eddie Broderick,
Ezra Pearson, Joseph O'Connor, Frank Bates,
Frank Minton,
Mary Damerell, George Papineau, Helen Ballou,
Nellie McKenna, Roy Kerr,
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William Murray, Mary DeLaskey, Eva Lanigan, Ray Dwyer, Mollie Logee, Bertha Tompkins, Mabel Kerr,
John Clement, Marcia Dennison, Hannah Callanan, Lizzie Lannigan, Nina Dennison, Katie Burk,
Harry Johnson, Martha Moore, Lena Hayes, Ida Tatro, Florence Sweet, Marion Ryan,
Marguerite Glennen, Wendell Phillips.
ONE TERM.
James Clancy,
Everett Coleman,
George Galvin,
Howard Tompkins, Fred Luby, Arthur Wood, Fred Chapin,
Oscar Withington,
James Luby,
John Fitzgerald,
Eddie Dolliff,
Willie O'Connell, Fred Webster,
Chester Tompkins,
Lillian Callanan,
Anna Martin, Grace Bushee, Lois Ames, Ida Martin, Alice Boyce,
Gertrude Savage, Alfred Hixon,
PLAINS SCHOOL.
FOR THE YEAR.
Fred Frascotti, TWO TERMS. Marie Cenedella, Nellie Jackman, Joseph Bennett, Thomas Fullam,
Toni Monti.
Daniel Murphy, Angelo Rertt, Maggie Riva, Luigi Montani.
ONE TERM.
James Saclimento, Earl McIntosh, James Luchini,
Frank Rogers, Jerry Mahoney, Wm: F. Collins,
Thomas Glennen, Clyde Cheney, William Galvin,
Thomas Kavanagh, Ernest Hixon, Frank Sweeney, Michael Curley,
William Birmingham,Eddie Dalton,
Ana White, Fannie Marden,
Helen Mead, Mollie Whalen, Annie Carey, Mary Glennen, Earl Johnson,
James McCarthy,
Hubert Holland, Maria Luchini, Martin Holland, Peter Frascotti,
Charles Montani, Harry McAvoy, Oliver Trombly,
Onnie Dolan, Florence Aldrich, Clara Hersey, Lena Jackman,
Myrtle Collins,
Marie Lynch, Ray Wilkinson, Willie Hayes.
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Frank Quinlan, Emma Trombly, Jimmie Luchini, Peter Givani, Pasquale Luchini, Marie Casali,
Peter Revolti, Percy Luchini, Alfred Cenedella,
Charlie Callanan, George Bruce, Annie Hook,
Alphonso Saclimento, Willie Fullam, Marco Toglione.
Frank Battles,
John Ruzzamanti, James Saclimento, Peter Saclimento, Alice Jackman, Loretta Dolan, Charlie Solari,
SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL.
FOR THE YEAR.
Mildred Cooke, Edith Johnston, Marjorie Pond,
Laura Johnston,
Bertha Simonds, Hazel Leland, Annie McKenna, Marion McDermott, Catherine McClure, Aaron Hobart, John Papineau, Raymond Hunter,
James Carr, Philip Callery, Anna O'Brien, Nellie Ward, Clifton Kimball, Annie Burns, Gladys Goulding, Charles Gould, Lottie Hooker, Claire Kendrick, Mary Kelly,
Mary Kimball, Margaret Kane, Evelyn Curran, TWO TERMS.
Lillian Ryan, Emma Kane, Myra Leahy, Jessie Hodge, Ethel Gould, Frank Donohoe, Charles Donohoe, James Gordon, Fred Farrington, Charles Reynolds.
ONE TERM.
Ada Melvin, Nellie Maroney, Martin Casey, Ray Ford, Annie Wells, Walter Rose, Vida Leland, Charles Burns, Marion Gilmore, George Tully, Arthur Coates,
Lucy Mee, Eddie Kane, Elwood Ward.
Beatrice Berrill, Minnie Closson, John Doherty, John Callery, Blaine Libbey, Harry Webber, Maurice Foley, Eddie Roche, Ida Cronan,
Charles Smith, Willie Hughes, Raymond McCobb, Lena Hodge, Harry Finn, Luigi Pasquale, Irene Berrill, Lillian Moriarty, John Smart, Fred Walker, Maude Hersey,
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Anna Shurtlieff,
Willie Gilmore,
Cora Bishop,
Louisa Macuen,
Willie Brady,
Eugenie Kirby,
George Lally,
Timothy Casey,
James McNeil, Patrick Nealon,
James Connors,
Mildred Whittemore,
Linnea Hammerquist.
CLAFLIN SCHOOL.
FOR THE YEAR.,
Albina Goodnow,
Edgar Callahan, Arthur Ewing.
TWO TERMS.
Samuel Bassett,
James Bell,
Sadie Cleary,
George Cook,
James Foley,
Kitty Flynn,
Florena Goodnow,
Robert Lamb,
Lester Smith,
Augustus Trask,
George Kelley, Ray Ward,
ONE TERM. William Ahern, Gertrude Bagley,
Frank Coyne, James Edwards, James Gray, Clarence Hatten, Ernest Keene, Edward Mills, Harry Merrill, Charles O'Reilly,
Eleanor Broughey, Frank Caldicutt, Lulu Cooper, Nellie Fales,
Norene Gallagher,
James Hogan, Andrew Larson, John Moore, William Maloney,
Emma Phipps, John Shea,
Esther Ryan, Clifford Sunderland, Wilton Trickey, John Walpole, Henry Iacovelli, Kitty Clancy, John Walsh, Clarence Sunderland.
William Walpole, Benjamin Merrill, Charles Reynolds, Robert Johnson,
Florence Coyne, James Foley
Harold Abbott, Lila Boyle, William Curtin, James Gallagher, Anna Kaveney, William Mills, James Tracey, Eva Goodnow,
Leon Abbott, Edna Boone, John Cleary, Martinia Donahue, Lena Flynn, Fred Gaskill, Beatrice Johnson,
Raphael Marino, William Ollis, Philip O'Donnell, Francis Ryan, Frank Shea, Michael Tynan, Morton Yates, Lillian McMahon, William O'Donnell,
Eva Walpole, Ella Ward, Thomas Smith.
Helen Higgins, John McGrath,
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CHAPIN STREET SCHOOL.
FOR THE YEAR.
Charles Martin,
Fred Chapdelaine,
TWO TERMS. John Gilmore,
Frank Dwyer,
Vivian Macuen, Harold Jackman.
ONE TERM.
Lily Kynoch,
Alfred Lynch,
Alice Ryan,
David Bushee,
Frank Coppinger,
Edith Dennison,
Irene Hogan,
Frederick Burns,
Frank Dalton,
Jackie Moore,
Marion Webster,
Joseph Chapdelaine,
Majorique Clement.
WEST STREET SCHOOL.
FOR THE YEAR.
Christina Kelley, John Sweeney,
Anna Clancey.
TWO TERMS.
Raymond Dunphy,
Francis Bird,
Florence Whittemore, Wm. Dunphy, Harry Scanlon, James Mone, James Morey, Raymond Clancey,
Francis Maroney,
Leo Clancey, Francis Wolahan, Mary Curley, Katherine Manion, Anna Mee.
May Birmingham, Katie Lally, John Coughlin, Patrick Quirk, Mary Kelley, William Quirk, Charles Matthews,
ONE TERM. Harry Kennedy, Hannah Casey, Frederick Reehan, Patrick Sweeney, Anastasia McCann,
Mary Birmingham, Bernard Manion, Bernard Doherty, Katherine Clancey, William Morey, Katherine Fitzgerald,May Sullivan, Stephen Logee, John Best.
Thomas Moore,
Harry Dwyer, Laura Gilmore, Charles Shay,
Eva Burns.
Chester Gray, Levi Lachapelle, Helen Dalton,
Francis Gahagan, Harry Hixon, Mary Hagerty, John O'Byrne,
Willie Carey, Arthur Curley, Grace Lebbossire, Tillie Palmer,
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FOUNTAIN STREET SCHOOL.
FOR THE YEAR.
Charles Saunders, Linnea Hammerquist, Guy Steele. TWO TERMS. Harold S. Albee, Leon E. Albee, Clifton S. Albee, Harry Saunders. ONE TERM. Edith L. Clark, Florence A. Droney, Clarence Cheney,
George S. Edmands, Charles Y. McDonald.
PURCHASE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
FOR THE YEAR. Ella Clark. TWO TERMS. -
Belle Edmunds,
Evelyn Hilton.
ONE TERM.
Ethel Albee, Claude Franklin, Winfred Goldsmith,
Lottie Albee, Charles Saunders.
Arthur Hilton,
Susie Casey, Katherine Cashman, Charles Hilton, Carrie Daniels.
BEAR HILL SCHOOL.
ONE TERM. Amie Burlingame, Julia Burlingame.
May Burlingame,
HOBOKEN SCHOOL.
William Trask, Edward Paradise,
George McQuaid, Mary McNamara,
FOR THE YEAR. Henry Julian. TWO TERMS. James Small, Agnes Collins,
Adelaide Julian, Kittie Julian.
ONE TERM. Kittie Kelley, Gertrude Merrill,
Alice Hogan, Helen Gallagher.
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BRAGGVILLE SCHOOL TWO TERMS. Chester Sherman. ONE TERM.
Alice Bragg,
Louise Bragg.
PURCHASE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
FOR THE YEAR. George H. Clark. TWO TERMS.
William H. Cahill, . Fred Casey, Francis J. Mee, Thomas Mee, Charles Carley.
ONE TERM. Etta Martell.
DEER BROOK SCHOOL.
Daniel Lynch,
ONE TERM. Jennie Ostrand, Teddy Lynch.
TOWN RECORDS.
1898=99.
TOWN RECORDS, 1898-99.
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 7, 1898.
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 required 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, punctually 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 meet- ing.
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, (3 years,) Two Trustees of Vernon Grove Cemetery, and Fifteen Constables; to be voted on ballots prepared and furnished in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 417 of the Acts of 1893 and amendments thereto; also upon said bal- lots the voters will give in their votes "Yes" or "No" in an- swer to the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"'
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Article 3. To hear and act upon the reports of the Se- lectmen, School Committee, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Engineers of Fire Department, Tax Collector, Trustees of Pub- lic 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 re- gard to lighting its streets, and appropriate money for the same.
Article 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasur- er to borrow money in anticipation of the taxes of the current year.
Article 7. To determine when all taxes shall be collect- ed 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 Select- men to take charge of all legal proceedings for or against the Town.
Article 10. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men 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 Select- men to pave a portion of Main street, raise and appropriate any money therefor, 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 Assess- ors 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.
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Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to locate a hy- drant on Fruit street extension, and appropriate money there- for 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 Treas- urer to execute and deliver in its name and behalf, a deed re- leasing and quitclaiming 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 Over- seers of the Poor to shingle buildings at the Poor Farm, ap- propriate any money therefor, or take any action in relation to the same.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen 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 rela- tion thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to build a con- crete sidewalk on the easterly side of Sumner street, appro- priate $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 citi- zens be employed.
And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at each of the Public Meet- ing-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,
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newspapers printed in said Town, two Sabbaths at least be- fore 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 aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Milford, this twenty-third day of February, A. D., 1898.
GEO. S. WHITNEY, B. T. CLANCY, LEWIS HAYDEN,
Selectmen of Milford.
A true copy. Attest :
OLIVER D. HOLMES, Constable of Milford.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Worcester, ss.
Milford, March 7, 1898.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the in- habitants of the Town of Milford herein described to meet at the time and place and for the purpose within mentioned by posting up attested copies of this warrant at each of the Pub- lic Meeting-houses, and at the Post-Office in said Town ; and I have likewise caused an attested copy of this warrant to be published in the Milford Daily News, Milford Daily Journal, Milford Gazette, and Milford Times, newspapers printed in said Town, two Sabbaths before the time set for said meeting.
Attest :
OLIVER D. HOLMES, Constable of Milford.
A true copy of the warrant and the return thereon. Attest :
DOMNICK J. LANG,
Town Clerk.
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 7, 1898.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Worcester, ss.
Milford, March 7, 1898.
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Mil- ford, qualified by law to vote in elections and in town affairs, holden this seventh day of March, A. D., 1898, at eight o'clock in the forenoon, the said inhabitants proceeded as follows :-
The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant and the officer's return thereon.
Article 1. Balloting, the meeting made choice of Lowell E. Fales as moderator, the voting list being used.
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