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ART. 14. To vote by ballot, "Yes" or "No" in answer to to the question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of in- toxicating liquors in this town ?"
ART. 15. To see if the town will authorize their treasurer, under the direction of the selectmen, to borrow money in an- ticipation of taxes.
ART. 16. To see what action the town will take relative to a police force.
ART. 17. To hear the reports of committees appointed at prior town meetings.
ART. 18. To see if the town will instruct the selectmen to suppress the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin for the year ensuing.
ART. 19. To see in what way and manner the town will vote to light its streets the year ensuing.
ART. 20. To see if the town will grant the use of the Town Hall each Thursday evening for the current year to the Sons of Temperance.
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ART. 21. To see what action the town will take to supply needed accommodation for the High School, either by building a new school house or otherwise.
ART. 22. To see what action the town will take to build a fence in whole or in part around the Arlington street school- house.
ART. 23. To see if the town will vote to print the valua- tion list for the year 1889.
ART. 24. To see if the town will vote to adopt chapters 50 and 51 of the Public Statutes and all acts amendatory there to, the same being known as the betterment law.
ART. 25. To see if the town will adopt a system of sewer- age, or take any action in relation thereto.
ART. 26. To see if the town will vote to take as a place for the erection of a town hall, a piece of land in said town, situated at the corner of Main and School streets belonging to Joseph H. Daniels and Emory Pond, and bounded by said streets, land of F. Leslie Metcalf, J. P. & J. G. Ray and Davis Thayer, Jr., or take any other action in relation to procuring said land for said purpose.
ART. 27. To see if the town will instruct the selectmen to appoint a board of health.
ART. 28. To hear a report of the selectmen laying out a town way from Union street to Fisher street, and act thereon.
ART. 29. To see if the town will vote to repair and paint the buildings on the poor farm.
ART. 30. To see if the town will instruct the selectmen to establish the lines of all town ways in Franklin, or take any action in reference thereto.
ART. 31. To see if the town will take any and what action to amend its By-Laws.
ART. 32. To raise and appropriate sucli sums of money as may be necessary for all or any of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles, or as may be required to defray the expenses of the town for the ensuing year : and especially to
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act upon all the appropriations recommended by the selectmen, or by any town officers or committees. .
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the town clerk on or before the hour of said meeting.
Given under our hands this twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
HENRY R. JENKS. WILLIAM ROCKWOOD, ASA A. FLETCHER, Selectmen of Franklin.
A true copy. Attest :
LEWIS R. WHITAKER,
Constable of Franklin.
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
TO PARENTS AND HOUSEHOLDERS.
TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE,
FRANKLIN, February, 1889.
The attention of parents and householders is hereby called to the provisions of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts, with reference to the duty of their making returns of births and deaths which occur in their families.
"Parents shall give notice to the Clerk of their city or town, of the births and deaths of their children. Every householder shall give like notice of every birth or death happening in his house. The eldest person next of kin shall give such notice of the death of his kindred.
"Whoever neglects to give such notice for the space of six months after a birth or death shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five dollars."-Public Statutes of Massachusetts, Chapter 32, Section 2.
These returns should be made as promptly as possible, and in all cases on or before the first day of January of each year. The proper blanks for the purpose may be had free at the Clerk's office.
CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN, Town Clerk.
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VITAL STATISTICS.
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN FRANKLIN DURING 1888.
DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
Jan. 5 Blanche Caroline Carron .. 8 George Gay
10 Bertha Elizabeth Bragg
20 Bernard Stowell Cleveland
Feb. 2 Lucy Hunter
2 Arthur Henry Barrett
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2 Hazel Blanche Furgeson
3 Wendell Phillips Lloyd
4 Robena Morrell
5 Darling
10 George Arthur Fulton
10 Harold Reed Metcalf
66 11 Charles Daniel McKennon
18 -- Norton
23 Margaret Kerr Furgeson 24 Frank Ford
March 1 Clara Belle Dalton
29 Ethel Emma Wales
April 8 Alice Marion Cox
11 Frederic Snow Spurr
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12 Beatrice Florence Roger
6. 15 Elizabeth Eleanor Power
66 19 Mabel Louise Snow
22 Thomas Morris-ey
66 22 - -Eastman
May 3 May Gertrude Pedon 5 James McGroary
66 5 (Still born) Connor
6 Harriet Mabel Webber
66 9 Flora May Leland
10 Harry Grafton Hutchinson
17 Urban Chester Holmes
18 Grace Carpenter Waterman
June 5 William Elmer Harrison 5 Anna Bourasse
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7 Edbury Raymond Enegren
66 12 Eva Snow
14 Emily Irene Griffin
66 17 Alice Victoria Merrill
66 21 Frederic Bishop Weeks
22 Irene Ladd Slosson
66 24 Bertha Jane Palmer
July 6 Elizabeth May Bonsall
66 8 William Henry Spence
12 Leo McCarty
06 15 William Youso
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Thomas W. and Cora
David A. and Mary L.
Charles B. and Chloe
George L. and Ella F. Martin and Mary A.
Henry D. and Winona E. William G. and Blanche Joseph and Kate
Raymond G. and Victoria Albert A. and Martha A.
Alfred and Catherine E.
Nahum F. and Eva F.
James B. and Maggie Edson H. and Nellie A.
James and May James and Mary
Benjamin W. and Allie A.
Adelbert and Lizzie
Harry T. and Mary
William S. and Nellie S.
William C. and Ella C.
Morris W. and Bridget M.
Walter H. and Melvina
Lawrence E. and Hannah George W. and Annie John and Elizabeth Cornelius and Bridget Anthony and Sarah J. John and Anna M. John and Clea Robert and Emma Urban and May E.
John A. and Grace
William H. and Hattie J.
Lewis and Anna
William L. and Sadie E. Frank and Eliza Clarence E. and Addie A. Charles S. and Emma J. Leander E. and Sarah J. Myron H. and Catherine John G. and Abbie E. William H. and Eliza A. Harry and Sarah Jeremiah and Jennie J. Thomas and Rosie
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DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
July 19 Lillian Belle Coleman
21 Adelia Clark Osgood
Frank M. and Emma
Daniel and Margaret
Aug. 6 (Stillborn) Cook
66 6 Ethel Marian Smith
James A. and Minnie P.
66 S Mary Ann Lundy
James and Ella.
George M. and Blanche L.
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12 Marion Whitney Cleveland
Frank E. and Ella A.
.. 14 Albert Howard Razee
Arthur and Addie
6. 19 Eleanor Webster Greene
Henry W. and Mattie
66 20 David Chester Malloy
John and Annie
Sept.
66 25 Carrie Seed Vanarsdalen 8 John Francis McCarty 9 Walter Olney Chilson
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13 Mary Etta Conrov
Matthew and Mary E.
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18 Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur
Clarence A. and Mary C.
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23 Edward Russell
Christopher R. and Maria L.
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23 Winslow Everett Stowers 5 Rosa Laport
William and Cadie
6.
10 Bertha Louise Grant
George H. and Margaret F.
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11 Frank Herbert Ledbury
John and Maria A. Harry and Bridget
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21 Albert Dunn
James and Margaret
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30 John James Brogan
James and Bridget
Nov. 2 -- Greenup
John and Mary
66 3 Etta Frances Cody
William H. and Catherine
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7 May Veronica Cody
William G. and Nora M.
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20 Charles Edward Feeley
Timothy E. and Lena
Dec. 1 Louis Govan
Lewis and Selina
4 Margery Louise Selleck
Willard C. and Mary L.
7 Willard Parker Cook
Bliss and Eliza A.
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7 (Stillborn) Cook
Bliss and Eliza
9 Elizabeth Bruiso
Lewis and Lizzie
10 -- Hollis
M. W. and Ella R.
60 17 Michael Joseph McCue
Patrick and Bridget
66 19 George Bouchee
Augustus and Selina
66 30 Herbert T. Blake
Lewis A. and Eliza L.
66 31 Edna May Jewett
Kerwin R. and Ella
1886. July 4 Eva Maud Palmer
John G. and Abbie E.
1887.
Aug. 11 Adelia Brown
John and Kate
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James O. and Melansa G. M.
Herbert M. and Elizabeth E.
Oct.
15 Maud Lillian Granger
20 Eunice Cutler Kimball
Henry B. and Minnie A.
21 Myrtie Maud McFaden
Melvin W. and Nettie J.
28 Stanley Hildreth Fernald
Robert P. and Jennie F.
Males, 40 ; females, 49 ; total number, 89.
George B. and Maria
31 Daniel Joseph Buckley
Nahum H. and E. R.
11 Nelson Ephraim Power
Charles D. and Nellie S.
Michael and Sarah J.
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN FRANKLIN DURING 1888.
DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
| AGE.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Jan.
3 Wm. N. R. McDougall Mary Julia Albertin
20 21 Charles and Julia A. Ernest T. and Ann
48 Goldsbury and Julia A. 25 Isaac W. and Jane
32 Levi and Margaret John F. and Adelia
25 1 29 32
Lyman and Sarah E. Lyman and Catherine
26 22 John and Sarah Patrick and Hannah
32 Patrick and Hannah
28 Patrick and Belle Murray
26 22 Patrick and Belle Dennis and Mary
66 21 George H. Freeman Ruth A. Allen
35 34
Francis and Phebe Joshua and Nancy Burgess
28 George H. Allen Jennie L. Pond
25 George and Maria 23 Albert and Hattie
April 5|Percy G. Holmes Mima E. Allen
24
30 Peter and Perphtue 27 Felix and Mary
14 Rufus F. White Abbie L. McGoty
40 Lysander and Susan 40 Patrick and Mary
May 22 Albert J. McWilliams Nellie Connolly
27 28
John and Sarah Patrick and Mary
June 10 Joshua P. Howard Lizzie A. Dudley
49 Joshua and Lydia B.
29 Edward W. and Hannah Morse
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16|Arthur G. Hopkins Sarah E. Hill
24 Jesse B. and Ellen F. 21 Joshua P. and Caroline
66 21 Abbott Davis Whiting Nellie S. Dascomb
27 Daniel P. and Lydia A. 28 Moody K. and Martha R.
66 24 Peter James McMahon Mary Bouchee
21 18
Peter and Margaret Augustus and Mary
66 27 Edwin L. Wolley Mary S. Stevens
39 21 Edwin A. and Mary H. Nathaniel and Mary J.
July 4 Edward E. King Jennie I. Davis
20 20
Warren N. and Julia Theodore and Bertha
66 4 Edwin J. Pond Mahala E. Greenup
66 18 Kerwin R. Jewett Ellen Adeliza Lesure
66 26 Wallace Spencer Adams Mary Helen Moran
Feb. 13 John H. Gormely Mary Feeley
66 13 John F. Healy Maggie Brogan
.6 13 James Murray Rosie Ward
24 Charles F. and Julia H. Thomas B. and Martha M.
7 Victor Bellan Emma Beileville
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DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
July 11 Thomas A. Clark E. Annie Chapman
21
William H. and Prudence Frank W. and F. M.
25 Patrick and Kate
15 Everett J. and Isabella L.
25 21 William A. and Frances A. Julien and Laura
45 29
Thomas and Eliza James and Sarah Ann
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17 Handley S. Christopher Mary K. Josselyn
22 Zenas and Martha 22 Francis and Roxanna
66 17 Victor Bellon Emma Bellville
30 Peter and Perphtue 27 Felix and Mary
29 Stillman and Sarah M.
24 George B. and Sarah C.
'Sept. 11 Paul H. Papineau Celia Darwin
22
Louis and Addie
66 11 Bartholomew E.Murphy Maria Cleary
18 28 28
Michael and Hannah Michael and Mary
66 22 Charles Holstrom Laura Wecktorine
27
Alfred and Eusephina John and Hannah
25 Fred A. Cotton Abbie A. Douglass
26 30
Charles E. and Emma T. Henry H. and Josephine
66 25 Henry A. Talbot Sarah F. Hancock
22
29 Warren A. and Laura A. Frank E. and Hannah M.
66 30 Daniel A. Darling Susie J. Mann
23 19 Milton A. and Phebe A. Elijah J. and Jane
25 20
Richmond and Caroline Joseph and Mary A.
28 William H. and Prudence Harrison P. and Ruth E.
6. 23 William A. Cotton Ella M. Hamilton
66 28 John McDonnough Lizzie H. Cahill
40 Martin and Penelope 42 James and Susanna Henry
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28 Michael and Elizabeth Timothy and Ann.
Nov.
3 Louis Paruiso Elizabeth Barro
25 18
Michael and Eliza Edward and Margaret
20 | AGE.
" 28 Martin Ryan Ellen Louise Power
Aug. 8 William E. Coman Kate A. Curtis
11 Thomas Hallam Mary Jane Jones
54 22 H. Arthur Sanderson A. Daisy Dorr
Xavier and Ermine
27
Oct. 10 Albert Hosmer Carrie Eva Hills
18 Brenton W. Clark Carrie A. Taber
22 29 25 Daniel C. and Abbie John and Esther
66 29 James H. Carney Lizzie V. Callahan
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DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
NaMES OF PARENTS.
40 Alfred and Polly W.
43 Isaac and Eliza Roberts
25 Matthew and Margaret
26 Michael and Johanna
27 Daniel and Margaret A.
20 William D. and Annie N.
32 John and Elizabeth
34 William C. and Eliza Johnson
21 Lewis and Eliza G.
22 Ezekiel P. and Hannah J.
26 Ezekiel P. and Hannah J. Herman S. and Lucina B.
66 25 Timothy E. Kane Mary J. Sweeney
26 Edgar L. Smith Mabel S. Haywood
26 Frederic E. Mann. Jennie Blanche Haslam
ㅎ | AGE.
Nov. 5 Alfred Clark Julia A. Reed
6 Archibald R. Carley Mary Ann Quinn
27 John F. Coughlin Mary A. Chisholm
Dec. 8|Elisha B. Smith Flora Peary
24 Lewis A. Arnold Flora Arletta Brown
24 Ambrose E. Brown Martha Etta Greenwood
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23 Timothy and Catherine
20 John and Mary
21 Ruel W. and Jennie L. 17 William P. and Mary M.
22 Francis V. and Louisa L. 19 Wesley W. and Hattie B.
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DEATHS RECORDED IN FRANKLIN DURING 1888.
DATE.
NAMES OF PERSONS.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Y. M. D.
January
1 |Nancy C. Whiting.
Old age ...
87
3
7
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5 Ella Jenks ...
Enteralgia.
41
-
5
66
18 Alice Curtis Walker
End-carditis
11
11
66
22 Henry Laport . ..
Bronchitis
1
-
18
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23 Walter A. Blake
Marasmus
5
17
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26 William Kane .
Suicide
27
8
-
February 4 Caroline Ballou.
Congestion of lungs
86
11
4
Acute meningitis
9
Pneumonia .
75
11
2
Heart disease.
67
-
-
March
6 Edith Straffin
Consumption
30
1
11
Phthisi
23
9
6
16
10 Diadema Chilson
Paralysis
79
10
5
Cardiac dropsy
73
11
30
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26 Charles W. Hurd.
Scarlatinal dropsy
11
10
12
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28 Sarah B. Akerman
Pneumonia
76
-
April
14 Benjamin D. Pond.
Pneumonia .
83
5
24
-
17 Hannah D. Pond.
Heart disease
70
Cephelltis
2.2
11
16
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23 Katie M. Kane
Asthma
25
4
-
May 66
2 Jotham D. Williams.
Heart disease
45
4
7
4 Joseph Williams
Pneumonia
69
9
8
66
5 James Donovan
Pericardetis
52
66
7 John Doyle .
Cancer
54
4
16
66
12 James McGroary
Convulsions
7
66
24 Myrtie C. Demerritt
Scrofula.
1
11
June
9 Mary A. Hunter.
Consumption
28
9
4
July 66
3 Lyman P White
Cancer of stomach.
82
4
13
66
4 Lizzie M. King.
Gastritis
20
6 16
66
12 Elbridge M. Phipps
Cancer of rectum.
54
-
66
16 John Connor.
Cystitis
6
12
66
26 Michael J. Maroney
Railroad accident.
5
8
16
66
27| Anna Bourasse
Marasmus
1
22
66
29 Ogeleon M. Rivers.
Diarrhon
1
66
5 Edmond C. Linton
Cholera infantum.
9
66
15 Lucy Hunter .
Marasmus.
6
11
66
16 Hugh McParland.
Entro-colitis
66
30
66
27 Emily B. Stetson.
Phthisis pulmonalis
48
15
Septem.
15 George McManus
Consumption
21
-
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16 Catherine F. Bullard
Cancer
58
5
27
66
23 Michael Gilleney
Unknown
24
4
9
Unknown
49
-
87
1
10
66
27 Edwin A. Lewis.
Heart disease ..
49
4 17
60
8
3
Chronic diarrhea
1
1
6
Bronchial catarrh.
1
11
Phthisis.
71
6
-
Novemb'r25 Louis E. Nourse.
Peritonitis.
20
6
13
Gastric ulcer
20
4
28
December 6 John Long.
Apoplexy
71
-
66
17 William Hutchinson
Consumption
28
10
-
66
17 J. Walter Fuller
Phthisis.
34
4
22
22 Francis W. Smith
Pneumonia.
48
11
4
66
25 William E. Keefe.
Accident
19
11
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Number of males, 39 ; females, 26; total, 65. Average duration of life, 39 years, 7 months, 3 days.
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19 Louise A. Chilson
Cerebritis
46
6
August
1 Henry R. Woolford
Meningitis
1
1
-
October 5 Ruth H. Smith. 66 6 George E. Barro.
29 Gustavus A. Eken=teen
Consumption
23
4
22
3 Sylvia Hawes.
Cancer
81
25 James H. Byrnes
Peritonitis
21
Heart disease .
24
27 Willard Miller.
57
5
27
26 Robert P. Phinney
Paralysis of heart.
44
1
9
26 Matthias Weeks.
Old age.
90
11 Cora Avery .
11 |Lydia B. Whiting
17 E. Darwin Cook .
12 James Donovan.
25 Lavina F. Cross
21 Delia M. Bailey
19 Frederick T. Holmes
Consumption
23 Ann Gilleney.
27 Shadrach Atwood
Old age-heart failure.
General debility
20 Walter O. Chilson
27 Louise C. Williams.
66 27 Mary A. Walker
AGE.
9 James Lennon
FRANKLIN TOWN RECORDS
FOR THE YEAR 1888.
WARRANT FOR
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 5, 1888.
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Franklin, in said County. Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the qualified voters of said Town of Frank- lin to assemble in their Town Hall, on Monday, the fifth day of March next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the fol- lowing articles, viz :
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear a report of the settlement with the Treasurer, and act thereon.
ART. 3. To hear a report of the collector of taxes, and act thereon.
ART. 4. To see if the town will vote to increase the number of the School Committee to six.
ART. 5. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the year ensuing.
ART. 6. To see what sums of money the Town will grant the cur- rent year for the Support of Schools, for Repairs of Schoolhouses, for Miscellaneous School Expenses, for the Purchase of School Books and School Supplies, for the Support of the Poor, for Repairs of Roads, Bridges and Sidewalks, for Support of Fire Department, for the Pur- chase of Hose, for Water Supply of Hydrants, for Payment of Town Officers, for Payment of Interest Account, for Abatement and Collec- tion of Taxes, for Lighting Streets, for Defraying the Expenses of the Franklin Library Association, for Printing and Stationery, for Miscel- laneous Expenses.
ART. 7. To see in what way and manner the Town will collect its taxes for the current year.
ART. 8. To see in what way and manner the Town will repair its Roads, Bridges and Sidewalks the current year.
ART. 9. To see what action the Town will take relative to a Pound.
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ART. 10. To hear a report from the Selectmen respecting Guide Boards.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will grant any and what sum of money to Franklin Post No. 60, G. A. R., for decorating soldiers' graves on Memorial Day.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will restrain Neat Cattle, Horses, Mules and Swine from running at large the year ensuing.
ART. 13. To see what compensation the Town will pay the En- gineers of the Fire Department and Members of the Fire, Hose and Hook and Ladder Companies the current year.
ART. 14. To hear the report of the Engineers of the Fire Depart- ment and act thereon.
ART. 15. To vote the names of a suitable number of persons into the jury box for the current year.
ART. 16. To vote by ballot, "Yes," or "No," in answer to the ques- tion : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquor in this Town?"
ART. 17. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes.
ART. 18. To see what action the Town will take relative to a Police Force, and grant a sufficient sum of money to pay the same.
ART. 19. To see ir the Town will vote to authorize the School Com- mittee to employ a Superintendent of Schools or to join with some other town in the employment of a Superintendent of Schools, or to take any action in relation thereto that may be deemed proper and to make the necessary appropriation therefor.
ART. 20. To hear a report of the Selectmen laying out a Town Way from Union Street to Fisher Street, and act thereon.
ART. 21. To hear the reports of Committees appointed at prior town meetings, and act thereon.
ART. 22. To see what sum of money, if any, the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to expend, in such way and manner as they may deem judicious for the suppression of the illegal sale of intoxicat- ing liquors in Franklin for the year ensuing.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to locate additional hydrants on Summer Street in said Franklin.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will take any, and what, action rela- tive to locating and constructing a sewer from Main Street, in the vi- cinity of the Postoffice, easterly.
ART. 25. To see in what way and manner the Town will light its streets the current year.
ART. 26. To see whether this Town will require the County Com- missioners of the County of Norfolk to establish a Truant School, or Truant Schools, in this County, or to unite in establishing a Truant
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School in this County, or in some other County contiguous to this County, in accordance with the provisions contained in Section 14, Chapter 48, of the Public Statutes, and the act amendatory thereof.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to repeal its By-Laws on Truancy so far as relates to the Almshouse as the place of commitment for Truants. Said repeal not to take effect till the County Commis- sioners or other authorities shall have provided a more suitable place.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will grant the use of the Town Hall each Thursday evening for the current year to the Sons of Temper- ance.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hun- dred dollars for the improvement of the South Park, so called, the money to be expended under the supervision of the Franklin Improve- ment Society.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate one hundred dollars for tree planting the current year.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant, with your do- ings thereon, to the Town Clerk on or before the hour of said meeting.
Given under our hands this eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
DANIEL C. COTTON, HENRY R. JENKS, WILLIAM ROCKWOOD,
Selectmen of Franklin.
NORFOLK, SS.
Feb. 23rd, 1888. By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the inhabitants of the Town of Franklin herein described to assemble in their Town Hall, on Monday, the fifth day of March. A. D. 1888, for the purposes within mentioned, by posting attested copies of the with - in warrant in each of the Postoffices of the Town, and in ten other public places, seven days before the day of meeting, in compliance with Sect. Two of Article One of the By-Laws of the Town of Franklin.
LEWIS R. WHITAKER, Constable of Franklin.
A true copy of the warrant and return thereon. Attest : CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN, Town Clerk.
PROCEEDINGS OF ANNUAL MARCH MEETING.
MARCH 5, 1888.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the legal voters of the town of Franklin met in their Town Hall, on the fifth day of
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March, A. D. 1888, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and pro- ceeded as follows :
The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk. Prayer was then offered by Rev. Erwin Dennett.
The warrant was then read by the Town Clerk.
MODERATOR.
ARTICLE 1. The meeting then made choice, by ballot, the check list being used, of William F. Ray for Moderator, and he was sworn by the Town Clerk.
REPORT OF TREASURER.
ART. 2. Voted, that the report of the Treasurer, as set forth in the published town report for the current year, be ac- cepted.
REPORT OF COLLECTOR.
ART. 3. Voted, to accept the report of the Collector as embodied in the town report for the year past.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
ART. 4. Voted, to increase the number of the School Committee to six.
Voted, to elect three constables.
Voted, to take up Article 16 and vote and act upon it at the same time with Article 5.
Voted, that the polls be kept open till two o'clock P. M.
TOWN OFFICERS.
ART. 5. The meeting then made choice, by ballot, of the following named Town Officers, the check list being used. The polls were opened at 10.15 A. M.
Selectmen : Henry R. Jenks, William Rockwood, Asa A. Fletcher ; and they were sworn by the Town Clerk.
Town Clerk : Clarence E. Griffin ; and he was sworn by William Rockwood, Justice of the Peace.
Treasurer : Henry R. Jenks ; and he was sworn by the Town Clerk.
Auditor : George W. Wiggin.
Assessors : William Rockwood, Asa A. Fletcher. Sabin Hubbard,
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Overseers of the Poor: George E. Emerson, Warren H. Bright, Cyrus M. Allen.
Collector : William E. Nason.
School Committee : William F. Ray, for three years ; Miss Lydia P. Ray, for three years ; Mrs. Mary A. Wiggin, for two years ; Mrs. Rebecca Farnum, for one year.
Constables : Lewis R. Whitaker, William E. Nason, Tim- othy Packard ; and they were sworn by the Town Clerk.
Fence Viewers : Bradley M. Rockwood, Alexander F. Mc- Lean, William Mann; and they were sworn by the Town Clerk.
LICENSE.
ART. 16. Upon the question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquor in this town?" the vote be- ing taken by ballot, the ballots being deposited in a cancelling ballot box according to law, the keys of which had been deliv- ered to Constable William E. Nason, and the check list being used, two hundred and forty-five (245) persons voted "No," and five (5) persons voted "Yes."
The following officers were then elected by open vote :
Field Drivers : Bradley M. Rockwood, William E. Crown- ingshield, John M. Dow ; and they were sworn by the Town Clerk.
Pound Keeper : George B. Peck.
Voted, that the remaining town officers be appointed by the Selectmen.
Voted to take up Article 19.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
ART. 19. Voted to dismiss this article.
Voted to take up Article 11.
G. A. R. POST, NO. 60.
ART. 11. Voted, to appropriate one hundred dollars to Franklin Post No. 60, G. A. R., for decorating soldiers' graves on Memorial Day, any portion unexpended to be turned into the Charity Fund of said Post.
Voted that this meeting stand adjourned for one week from
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to-day (Monday, March 12, 1888), at one o'clock in the after- noon.
A true record. Attest :
CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN, Town Clerk.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MARCH MEETING, MARCH 12, 1888.
Meeting called to order at one o'clock P. M., by the Moder- ator, William F. Ray.
ART. 6. Voted, to lay Article 6 on the table.
LIGHTING STREETS.
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