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Nova Scotia Ireland
8
Annie Brackett (Day)
Kay 45 2 1| Cerebral meningitis
12 Henry H. Joslin
82
9.23
Angina pectoris Chronie nephritis
13 13
Thomas Callery
56 . 76|10 28|
Bronchial asthma
Ireland
13 Nello Savelli
3| 9| Convulsions
Milford
14 Alice C. Stanhope
1|14| Broncho pneumonia
Milford
15 16
Rosa (Russo) Seracino
71
Angina pectoris Hypostatic pneumonia
Italy
16
Hannah Eliza ( Craige) Johnston George E. Christian, Jr ..
Dilitation of heart
Mendon Milford
16 16 19 20 20 21
Tomaso Guerra
31
16|
Lobar pneumonia
Italy
Kathleen McElroy
1
Imperfect heart
Milford
John W. Kay
5
Melena neonatorum
Milford
Charlotte Culligan
4
1|16| Acute endocarditis
Fall River
21
Nora Quinn
61 11|27| Cerebral apoplexy
Ireland
21 26 28
McGann
73
Cerebral apoplexy
Ireland
Catherine Connaughton
37 6| 5! Pul. tuberculosis
Milford
William Ford
56
Angina pectoris .
Ireland
30
Antonio Figureith
32
Acute lobar pneumonia
Portugal
Apr. 1 1
Amanda C. Scammell
75|10 29
Gastric ulcer
5
Patrick J. Kennedy
46
Cardiac vascular Renal disease
| Palmer
2 8
Maurice Gagnon
8
Raffaele Shubar
6
6
Membranous croup
Fitzgerald 66
Acute lobar pneumonia
Ireland
David Swett
4
Infantile debility
Milford
Mary Baxter
53
Diabetes millitus
Milford
James T. Morley
76 71 6 Cystitis
Boston
St'll-born
Milford
William E. Remick
61
1
Chronic nephritis
Bellingham
John F. Foster
451 8'24| Cerebral apoplexy
Franklin
Maria C. Axbloom
175
81. . | Carcinoma of uterus
, Sweden
17
Scilvano Britto
381. .1.
Caminoma of Oesopha- gus
17
|Catherine (Davis) Carroll|90| .. 16 Chronic nephritis
Henry W. Leland
65|10
1| Prl. tuberculosis
Frank Stewart Eager
53 11
5' Carcinoma of poroled gland it Il-born
Newburg, N. Y. Milford
Carlo Caldarara
|48: 6'20' Pul. tuberculosis
Mary Ann (Lackey) Beall80' 8'11' Arrtic stenoris
| 6|11|12| Convulsions
Milford
26 27
Michael S. Burns
|66 !..... ' Phthisis
Ireland
iTomaso Rizzi 151| 8|12| Pul. tuberculosis
Italy
27 Edgar L. Carruth
53| 4|17 Double lobar pneumonia Barre
28
Katherine L. (Gorman) |
O'Brien|30| 6|20| Puerperal septicaemia
Chicago, Ill.
1
Catherine (Gorman)
9 10 10 10 10 11 15 16
George E. Wood
54
Re-current multiple carcinoma
Vermont Milford
Elizabeth Stevens
781
Acute brain lesion from arterio sclerosis 1|11| Acute lobar pneumonia
Ph ~~~ Island
Milford Milford
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| Portugal Ireland Milford
18 20 22 23 Lurinda L. (Potter)
24 24 26 Esther Guidale
Coffee (72 11'16' Sclerosis of arteries
New York Italy Hopkinton
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Charles P. Turner
66 2 13
Maine
68 110 11| 1| Premature birth Still-born
Milford
Margaret (Connolly)
Gloucester Sharon, Vt. Milford
James W. Burke
YMD
86
DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF MILFORD, 1916
Date of Death
Name of Deceased
Age
Disease or Cause of Death
Place of Birth
May
1
Dennis McCarthy
57
..
Pul. tuberculosis
Ireland
2
John Gustav Modig
10|
2| ..
Automobile accident, fracture of skull
3
Clayton R. Schofield
4 25| Dysentery
3
Margaret Jane (Jones)
Young
177 6 23!
Acute indigestion
Bristol, Me.
7
Blanche A. (Goldsmith)
Wallace 36
6
4 Pluro pneumonia Ileo colitis
Milford Milford
7 9
Nellie Bennett
48
9|27
Cardiac asthma
Boston
12
Horace A. Tillotson
12
Curtis R. Joy
61
23
Broncho pneumonia Pul. tuberculosis
Milford
22
Filomena Savino
1 29
Acute indigestion
Milford
24
James E. Tiernan
25
6 Pul. tuberculosis
Hopedale
25
Stasia Carlson
2
3 13 Convulsions
| Milford
26
Dina Guidali
6
Tuberculosis, meningitis! Milford
27
Lydia Ann (Legge)
Staples 85
6 23
Senility
Smithfield, R. I.
28
Rose (McFarland)
MacGanigle 51
Diabetic gangrene
Ireland
June 1 Bridget (O'Connell)
Davoren
167|. . 21
Shock following opera- tion
I Ireland
4
Rebecca A. (Howard)
Hill 190 10 25
Intestinal carcinoma
Princeton
15 Mary E. (Dudley)
Greenleaf 71 4 22
15 20
John B. Hicks
46| 6 13
Tubercular meningitis
20
Mary (Quinlan)
McKenna 74
Cerebral softening, ar- terio sclerosis
| Ireland
26
Delia McCarthy
51
Recurrent carcinoma of lung
| Boston
Frances Harriet (Burgevine) Rogers
24|11|11: . . 2
Infantile debility
Andrew Franklin
87| 4|21.
Suicide, drowning Chronic nephritis
24
Frank A. McAvoy
39 4|16| Phthisis pulmonalis
28
Elizabeth (Black)
Scully 154
Carcinoma of breast
Scotland
William Heffernan
52
Asthma, acute bronchial ' New York
F.
Fuller 179| 5 10
Cerebral apoplexy
| New York
2 Charles A. Callanan 6 |Clotilda Mainini
|. . | 1|12| Broncho pneumonia
Milford
7 Carlo Bianchi
180|. . 1. . | Cerebral hemorrhage Acute nephritis
| Milford
8 Francis J. Dwyer
10 Angela Bianchi
10 Edgar E. Slocumh
156' 9'14| Angina pectoris
18 Patrick F. Murphy
24
26 Robert Porter
7 Tetany
: Framingham Milford ! Milford
.
Stanley A. Wallace
66 2
4 3 Broncho pneumonia
Milford
11
Lester Raymond Hunter .. 25 11 24 7 127
10 9 Accidental strangulation Septicaemia
Milford Hopedale Gouldsboro, Me ..
17 18 George A. Martin
180 48
3|18
Operation for gallstones
Maine
Kezia (Hall) Nash
..
Epilepsy Sclerosis of Arteries
John F. Corbett
45 .
Mendon Milford | England
26 26 27 27
Fred Henry Moss
Joseph Sanclemente
49|11|27|
Oklahoma Milford | Connecticut | Italy Milford
28 30 Joanna A. (Milan) July 1 Alba Maria Pannichelli
1. 5|15| Dysentery
| Milford | Milford
26|11|291 Pul. tuberculosis
1251. . 1 61 [801. .. . | Cerebral hemorrhage
| Milford Italy Whitinsville
30| 6| 3| Lobar pneumonia | +ill-born
7
Ellen Flynn
YMD
Woonsocket, R. I. Milford
·
Pul. tuberculosis
8 7
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DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF MILFORD, 1916
{
1
Date of Death
Name of Deceased
Age
Disease or Cause of Death
D. th
1
July 28 Timothy Cronin
40
1.
! Pellagra
Milford Milford
28
Joseph Glennon
5! Broncho pneumonia
29
William Charles
Tewksbury
56|
9|11| Chronic Int. Nephritis Still-born
| Amesbury Milford
31 Aug.
3
Rosa (Montagui) Pacioli |36
Acute nephritis
8
Brenton Barton Co.k
75 5|26
Arterio sclerosis
8
Marcario Macchi 25
Asphyxia, accidental drowning
Italy
10
Philip Harry Clarke 37!
9:21
Accidental, automobile struck by train
Woonsocket. R. I.
10
Forrest Wilbur Nichols
40
4 21| Asphyxia, accidental drowning
14 15
John Moore Patrick McCarthy
1781.
Arterio sclerosis Still-born
Milford
23 25
John Carini Mary (Torosian )
'32
Chronis parenchymatous
Armenia Milford
31
Domenico Tessicini
5|14| Pneumonia
31
James Gordon
65
1|25| Operation for appendi- citis
Medway
Sept. 1
Charles P. Corbett Mary A. ( Cunniff)
86
5130 Accidental, gored by cow Milford
2 1 Mary Rocheau
Maher
45 .. 11
Angina pectoris
Milford Milford
5
Daniel Jordan
59 ... 1
Heart disease
Milford
5
Roland S. Hobbs
1 .9 ...
Dysentery
Hopkinton
8 Harry W. Butler
30| 1|
1| Homicide, shooting
Upton
9
Francis Clare Hearnan | 4| 2| 21 Acute indigestion
Milford
18
Arshag B. Ter sign 1251
Fracture of base of skull automobile accident
Turkey
21 Jessie M. Fisher
160 .
Cerebral hemorrhage
| Slaters ville, 2. L.
24 Daniel C. Sullivan
53| 2 21 Cerebral apoplexy
Franklin
23 Olaf Johnorn 52| 8| 5. Chronic Pul. tuberculosis
Norway Ireland
28 |Johanna (M )ney) Cleary |54|. 28 Michacl Coll.cry 189
Diabetes mellitus Enteritis
In land
Oct. 2 3 John Conway
85| 5|. . | Sonile dementia
4
Delorata Carlini
351 6: 4 Prerpural relampsia
9
Mary (Downing)
Sullivan |72'.
Carcinoma of intestines : )rcler l ~t'il-born
Mary Macini Sarah F. (McKennelly)
7, Convulsions
Milford
15 16 17
Mary Dasti
22! 2 & Pal. tuberculosis
Quincy
17 Florence V. (Clark) Lilley
47| 5|13: Cerebral apoplexy
Milford
21 Susan Frances Amelia ( Sawtelle) Jefferds 79 4 20' Arterio sclerosis
27 John Hubon 166| .. 1
1 Carcinoma of intestines
Sidney Me. Bright .n Plymouth
28 |Patrick Francis Minton '31 .. | ! Acute nophritis
31 Julia Margaret 'la- 1
herty) Fitzgerald |43| .. | .| Carcinoma of rectum
Sc. Coventry. conn.
1
Wilbraham Ireland 4 Johns, N.F.
15 17 Ella (O'Connor) Buckley 69:
Cancer of rectum
-t.Il-born 5: Cancer of stomach
Ireland M Iford Italy
611 31
27
Noorianian
73 7 19:
Anterio sclerosis
1' Injury at birth
Still-born
Miller 1 Treland Italy .... ... n
9 Ella J. (Morse) Ba ley
65| 5 21 Septicaemia
9
Smith 150 !. .. . ' Burned by fire
Honkintoon
Place
YMD
Portugal Woonsocket, R. I.
88
DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF MILFORD, 1916
FC
Date of Death
Name of Deceased
Age
Disease or Cause of Death
Place of Birth
|YMD
Nov. [
2 Clarence H. Tellier
15
Suppurative parotitis
Milford
3 Margaret (Canning)
Corcoran |39
Valvular heart disease Dysentery
6 ¡Francesco Paolo Bruno 6 Will'am Jones
71
7| Chronic cystitis
7 Ann ( Markham)
Flanigan 73
Dysentery
Ireland
9 Charlotte Howe
( Monroe) Cass
7G1 1|
7! Arterio sclerosis
10
William H. Barlow
46 21 6
Cerebral apoplexy
11
Martha Lucinda Anthony
18' Gastro enteritis
Milford
14 Franklin W. Mann
Norfolk
14 John J. Barry
50
| Milford
19 Daniel LaPoint
59
Arterio sclerosis
Canada
21
19 Eliza M. (Mann) Brooks [76 ¡Gulio Lancisi
501 8| ..
Sclerosis of liver
Italy
22 22
Joseph Dycr
25
Jane (Forrest)
Glennon|661.
25
Harry Leroy Willard
9|. . 13 Accidental, run over by team, chest and neck crushed
Milford
26
Bartolo Grillo
381
Echinococcus cyst of
liver
Italy
1
Dec. 1
1 Bridget A. (Gannon) Ruhan
Cancer of liver
Ireland
2 4
.Tames P. O'Meally
1541
Cerebral apoplexy
Annie (O'Brien) Jackson'48| 7| 4 |Cirrhosis of liver
Milford
7
|Mary ( McNamara)
Renda |24| 2| 1|Brain tumor
|Maurice E Nelligan
162' 71. . | Chronic Bright's disease
1|
Imperfect heart develop- ment still-born
Milford Milford
Still-born
Milford
18
Alba Sacro [. . 1. . 119| Catarrhal bronchitis
19
Chester G. Carter
hanging, as-
24
ICatherine Flanigan
1
26 [Robert Jones
[421. . 123| Lobar pneumonia
26
|Edoardo Catella |Angelina (Besci) 1 1
Cenedella |39|11/ 4| Convulsions
| Italy | Milford
26
Linda ( Syr'ac) Jeffers I
50 .. 461. .
Pernicious anaemia Railroad injuries, broken neck, back, and leg
Milford
1
Ralph Everett Harmon
57 12: 9'28: Peritonitis, following ap- pendicitis
Milford Milford
1
Still-born
Milford
13 13 11 15
17 17 Emma G. (Hardy)
Wenzell |42| 4|13| Peritonitis
| Howard Milford | Wentworth, N. H.
27|10|21 Suicide. 1 phyxia 3| Senticaemia, due to ab- scess
[39|11| 5| Lobar pneumonia
Milford Milford | Italy 1
27 30
~till-born
31 Beniamino Oro
Italy
Howard, Mass.
Catherine (Devine)
Pul. tuberculosis
King 145 83! 8 . .
Acute lobar pneumonia Cerebral apoplexy
I Newfoundland | New York Ireland
Stillborn
Milford
Worcester Milford
Carlo Fantini
Boston Ireland Marlboro Ireland
5 Honora (Slattery) Dillon 73
1 4|22 | Gastro enteritis
Springfield, Ill. Milford
60 3|21| Cerebral apoplexy Uremia
7 28| Carcinoma of liver
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 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 fifth day of March, A. D. 1917, punctually at 5.45 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, a town clerk, town treasurer, tax collector, auditor, three selectmen, a highway surveyor (for one year), one assessor, (three years) three overseers of the poor, (one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year), one sewer commissioner, (three years), two members of the school committee, (three years), one member of the board of health, (three years), two trustees of public library, (three years), two trustees of Vernon Grove cemetery, (three years), one park commissioner, (three years), and five constables, (one year), to be voted for on ballots pre- pared and furnished in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 835, Acts of 1913, and Acts in amendment thereto.
Also upon said ballots the voters shall give in their votes "Yes" or "No" in answer to the following question :
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating li- quors in this town?"
Article 3. To hear and act upon the reports of the select-
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men, treasurer, collector, assessors, overseers of the poor, sewer commissioners, auditor, town clerk, school committee, trustees of public library, trustees of Vernon Grove cemetery, park commissioners, chief of police, engineers of the fire de- partment, board of health, town solicitor, inspector of ani- mals, inspector of wires, sealer of weights and measures, and any o her officers or 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. financial year ending December 31, 1917.
Article 5. To determine when all taxes for the year 1917 shall be due and payable, the time from which interest on un- paid taxes of said year shall be charged, and the compensation of the collector of taxes for the year ensuing.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of One Hundred and Sixty-five Dollars ($165.00) towards defraying the expenses of Memorial Day.
Article 7. To see if the town will vote to authorize the selectmen to take charge of all legal proceedings for or against the town.
Article 8. To see if the town will vote to authorize the treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, to borrow money on and after January 1, 1918, in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1918.
Article 9. To see what action the town will take to de- termine the salary of the highway surveyor.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap propriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,(00.00) for the. purpose of draining the north end of Emmons Street, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500 00) for the purpose of completing the tool house at Vernon Grove Ceme- tery, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to accept and allow the report of the selectmen on the laying out of Grant
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Street Extension, raise and appropriate the sum of One Thou" sand Dollars ($1,000.00) to construct said street, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to purchase motor apparatus for the fire department, raise and appropriate money therefor or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to reconsider its former vote establishing the salaries of its board of overseers of the poor, and substitute therefor a new salary.
Article 15. To see if the town will vote to authorize its board of overseers of the poor to purchase about 75 acres of land adjoining the Milford Town Farm, appropriate money therefor, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 16. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the purpose of providing markers for the graves of Revolutionary soldiers, in the various cemeteries of the town, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 17. To see if the town will vote to accept the provisions of Section 37 of Chapter 19 of the Revised Laws, vote to restrict the application of the provisions of said Chap- ter and the amendments thereto to the police force, pass any vote or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the town will vote to accept Chap- ter 468 of the Acts of the year 1911, entitled "Au Act to ex- tend the provisions of the Civil Service Act to Chiefs of Police of Certain Cities and Towns."
Article 19. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of Two Hundred and Forty Dollars ($240.00) for the purpose of extending the street lights from the residence of the D E. Mowry Company on Congress street to the Barton Cook farm, (so-called), owned by Joseph Kur- . lansky, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 20. To see if the town will vote to appoint a
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committee to investigate the matter of readjusting the sala- ries of all municipal officers of the town of Milford, and report their findings to the town, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to accept and al- low the report of the selectmen on the laying out of West Brook Street Extension, and raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars, ($1,000 60) to construct said street, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to accept and al- low the report of the selectmen on the laying out of Metcalf Avenue Extension, and raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars, ($2,000.00), for said street, or take any ac- tion in relation thereto.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to locate a fire alarm box at or near the residence of Patrick H. Gillon, on Congress street, and raise and appropriate the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars, ($125 00), for said purpose.
Article 24 To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum not exceeding Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($' 5,000 01), or will authorize the town treasurer to issue notes or bonds to an amount not exceeding Fifteen Thousand Dollars, ($15,000.00) at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent per annum, payable semi annually for the purpose of extending its system of sewerage, with particular reference to the installation of siphons
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 at- tested copies to be published in the Milford Daily News, Mil- ford Daily Journal and Milford Gazette, newspapers published in said town, two Sabbaths at least before the time set for said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant
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with your doings thereon to the clerk of said town, at the- time of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Milford, this 16th day of Febru- ary, A. D. 1917.
THOMAS J. NUGENT, CHARLES V. WAITT, JAMES J. CONNORS, Selectmen of Milford. A true copy. Attest :
JEREMIAH T. MURPHY,
Constable of Milford.
INDEX.
FIRST SECTION.
Page.
Appropriations
10
Assessors' Report
88
Auditor's Report
160
Board of Health, Report of
119
Chief of Police, Report of
153
Collector's Report .
84
Fire Department, Report of .
126
Inspector of Animals, Report of
123
Inspector of Wires, Report of
124
Overseers of Poor, Report of
93
Park Commissioners, Report of
91
Resolutions on Maurice E. Nelligan
60
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of
157
Selectmen's Report
16
Sewerage Commission, Report of
134
Summary of Expenses
13
Town Officers
3
Town Solicitor, Report of
159
Treasurer's Report .
62
Trustees of Town Library, Report of
113
Trustees of Vernon Grove Cemetery, Report of
112
SECOND SECTION.
Page.
School Calendar
2
School Committee-Personnel, Organization, etc. . 3-4
Reports :- .
Report of the Committee
5
Secretary's Report
6-11
Summary of Statistics .
.
.
12
.
95
Reports :- Page
Superintendent of Schools
13-33
Principal of the High School
34-37
Evening School .
38-39
School Physicians
41-43
Eye and Ear Tests
40
Reports :-
Attendance Officer
44
Stamp Savings . ·
45-46
Co-operative Activities
47
Tables :-
List of Teachers, January 1, 1917
48-49
Statistics for the School Year 1915-1916
50-52
Ages of Pupils, September 1, 1916 Roll of Honor
53-55
.
56-60
Grammar School Graduates, June 1916
61-63
High School Graduation, 1916
65-69
THIRD SECTION.
Page
Jury List
39
Town Clerk, Report of
63
Town Records
1
Town Warrant
89
Vital Statistics
. .
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65
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