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$1,000 00
728 75
Unexpended,
$271 25
Printing and stationery :
$500 00
Appropriated, Expended,
437 13
Unexpended,
$62 87
Interest :
Appropriated,
$800 00
Expended,
682 34
Unexpended,
$117 66
Military and State aid :
Appropriated,
$500 00
Received from the State,
852 00
$1,352 00
Expended,
1,632 00
Overdrawn,
$280 00
Purchase of hose :
Appropriated,
$300 00
Expended,
307 50
Overdrawn,
$7 50
Public Library : Appropriated, Expended,
$350 00
350 00
9a
66
Repairs at almshouse : Appropriated, Expended,
$500 00
509 81
Overdrawn, $9 81
Abatement and collection of taxes :
Appropriated,
$800 00
Expended,
1,288 40
Overdrawn,
$488 40
G. A. R. Post 60 :
Appropriated,
$100 00
Expended,
100 00
Suppression of illegal liquor traffic :
Appropriated,
$800 00
Expended,
754 61
Unexpended, $45 39
Miscellaneous town expenses :
Appropriated,
$1,500 00
Expended,
1,247 49
Unexpended, $252 51
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AUDITOR'S REPORT.
In accordance with the statutes I hereby report that I have examined the books, accounts and vouchers of the various officers of the town and find them correct according to the foregoing detailed statement. The variation in the report of the Overseers of the Poor and the Almshouse account with the town is caused by the interest on the town farm and the difference in the personal property as appraised in 1889 and 1890.
NELSON E. NEWELL,
Auditor.
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Warrant for Annual Town Meeting.
MARCH 3, 1890.
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Franklin in said County,
GREETING :
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the qualified voters of said town of Franklin to assemble in their Town Hall, on Monday, the third day of March, next, at eight o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE 1. To choose, by ballot, a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
ART. 2. To vote by ballot, " Yes" or " No," in answer to the question, " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of in- toxicating liquors in this town?"
ART. 3. To choose by ballot the following named town officers for the year ensuing, viz: Selectmen, Town Treas- urer, Town Clerk, Auditor, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Collector of Taxes, Constables, Fence Viewers, Board of Health, also two School Committee for three years, and choose all other necessary town officers for the year ensuing.
ART. 4. To see in what way and manner the town will collect its taxes the current year.
ART. 5. To hear a report of the Selectmen, and other town officers, and act thereon.
ART. 6. To hear a report of the Engineers of the Fire Department and act thereon, and determine the compensation of the members thereof.
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ART. 7. To hear and act upon the report of the committee appointed to see what changes are necessary in our By-Laws.
ART. 8. To see what action the town will take relative to a pound.
ART. 9. To vote the names of a suitable number of per- . sons into the jury box for the current year.
ART. 10. To see if the town will authorize their Treas- urer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes.
ART. 11. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to suppress the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin for the year ensuing.
ART. 12. 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.
ART. 13. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to purchase of Daniel C. Cotton a piece of land situated at the end of Cotton's Block, so called, or act or do anything relating thereto.
ART. 14. To see if the town will vote to authorize the School Committee to employ a Superintendent of Schools or to unite with some other town in the employment of a Super- intendent of Schools, according to Chapter 431, Acts and Re- solves of 1888, or act or do anything relating thereto.
ART. 15. To see what action the town will take to supply needed accommodation for the High School, either by build- ing a new school-house or otherwise, or act or do anything relating thereto.
ART. 16. To see if the town will vote to name the street running from Central street past the residence of H. M. Bul- lock, Ruggles street.
ART. 17. To see if the town will grant a sum of money for the use of the Franklin Improvement Society.
ART. 18. To see what action the town will take relative to a lock-up, and raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor.
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ART. 19. To see what sums of money the town will raise and appropriate for the repairs of roads, bridges and sidewalks ; support of schools ; repairs of school buildings ; school books and school supplies ; miscellaneous school expenses ; support of poor ; fire department ; water supply ; payment of town offi- cers ; payment of interest ; abatement and collection of taxes ; maintaining street lights ; printing and stationery ; suppression of illegal liquor traffic and payment of police ; state and mili- tary aid ; support of library of Franklin Library Association ; decoration of soldiers' graves ; miscellaneous town expenses ; for reconstructing Cross street, Union street and Pleasant street as ordered by the County Commissioners.
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 nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
HENRY R. JENKS, GEORGE W. WIGGIN, EDGAR K. RAY, JEREMIAH J. MCCARTHY, BRADLEY M. ROCKWOOD, 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, 1890.
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 and 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 1889.
DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Jan. 1 Edwin Metcalf Pond
66
5 Rachel Sumsky
Henry and Rosa
Adam and Nora
George A. and Alice P.
Fiora and Lucia
-Jennie Hurd
John and Mary
Charles and Estelle
Alexandre F. and Katie S.
John H. and Charlotte F.
Wm. P. and Grace E.
Charles E. and Clara A.
66 9 ---- Piero
66 10 John Francis Sullivan
19 Marion Elizabeth G. Wright
66 22 George W. Labadie
66 23 Herbert McCarthy
66 25 John Edward Connors
March 6 Emma Caroline Woolford
7 Ada Eva Bassett
66 8 Emma Bertram
30 Walter Arthur Snow
George A. and Matilda
Peter J. and Mary B.
Martin and Susan
66
3 Grant
11 John Jerome Desmond
60 19 - Kenney
19 Jennie McGroary
Cornelius and Bridget
66 20 James Fitzgerald
Cornelius and Mary
66 24 Mary Lillian Sullivan
66 25 Minnie Demeritt
66 25 James Patrick Murray
66 30 Florence May Thayer
May 2 - - Joice
3 Walter Hamilton Heaton 6 Fred Morrell
66 S Agnes Kelley
66 17 Ernest Andrew Abbott
66 18 Lillian May Parren
66 20 Ann Elizabeth Savage
27 -- Whitaker
27 Ruth Endicott Whitaker 28 Lewis Henry Marsh
Lewis R. and Eilen S. Lewis H. and Frances E.
66 June 7 Franklin Alexandre Furgeson James and Mary
66 17 Daniel Joseph Gilligan
Daniel J. and Jane S.
Charles W. and Lucy E.
66
11 Cataldo
.. 11 Herbert Ambrose Hurd
12 Charles Henry O'Donnell
19 Natalie Stewart
23 Hazel Truell McLean
Feb. 5 James Joseph Tobin
66 6 Walter Henry Hutchinson
66 7 Alice Jennette Woodward
Luigi and - John C. and Kate V.
Walter S. and L. Winifred George A. and Mary E.
John B. and Mary
Jeremiah and Hannah
Frank and Agnes
John and Ellen Reinbold and Mary
April 2 Peter James McMann
4 - Crane
Luther and Ada James W. and Flora A. James and Bessie
Stephen H. and Mary
Henry and Kate
James and Rose Elmer J. and Rosanna James A. and Mary E.
Charles H. and Sylvia
Raymond J. and Victoria
Lawrence J. and Annie M.
Edward C. and Alice M. --- Alice Jane Parren
Michael and Mary James and Matilda
.6 18 Mabel Butman
Edwin J. and Ella M.
5 Frank Albert Laundre
6 Doris May Avery
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DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
June 20 William Joseph Coughlan
6. 22 Mary Joseph Bennett
Frank H. and Minnie E.
23 Joseph Henry Bernard
Alfred and Jane E.
28 Charles Albertin McDougall
Wm. N. R. and Mary J.
29 Emeline Bellan
Victor and Emma
Daniel H. and Ella M.
July 3 Georgie Olive Batchelder 66 5 Fred Roberts 10 - Shalgian
Joseph and Mary
John and
16 Artunia Rivers
Louis and Julia
6. 25 Henry White
Lewis E. and Lillie
31 Raymond Hanson
Isaac F. and Clara B.
Aug. 4 Florence Lillian Sherman
66 4 Effie Medora Webber
John and Anna
7 Clarence Linwood Dean
66
9 Anna Lavalle
Paul and Agnes
13 -- Barker
James H. and Laura L.
66 15 Ada Cox
Harry and Mary
66 23 Warren Lewis
Edward and Annie
6.
25 Royer
Fred L. and Sarah
66 29 Catherine Lacey
Michael and Annie R.
Sept. 1 Valois
:6 7 Russell Edward Cole
Edward and Alice
66
8 Hallice
Michael and Mary E.
66
11 Cora Evelyn Clark
Thomas A. and E. Annie
‹ ‹ 23 Dalton
Benj. W. and Alice A.
66 24 Mary Philomen George
Tuffield and Ada
66 26 --- Curran
James and
Edward E. and Jennie I.
Oct.
66 27 Edward Nickerson King 12 William Henry Baker
Willie H. S. and Mary C. B.
18 Florence Minerva Quilter
Clarence E. and Jennie
66 19 M. Albena Burnadette Potvin
66
19 Mary Razena 66
66
19 Mary Delema 66
.6
66 21 May Adele Gammage
Edwin C. and Cora M.
23 Adelaide Hall
Walter S. and
66 24 Agnes Frances Conroy
Matthew F. and Mary E.
66 27 Mabel Melvina Stanton
Walter W. and Melvina
29 Harold Young
Edward A. and Rose
29 Eva Frances Prime
Frank O. and Maria F.
Nov. 1 William Everett Hutchinson
John D. and Jennie E. Wm. H. and Eliza A.
66 2 William Henry Bonsall
66 5 Joseph Alfred Valley
Joseph and Josephine
66 7 Charlotte Jane Waterman
John A. and Grace G. Edward and Josie Wesley and Catherine Alden A. and
6. 24 -- Robinson
24 Nellie Kane
Timothy E. and Mary J.
25 --- Kendrick
Frank and Ada
30 Olive Maria Coleman
George B. and Maria
10a
-
Pierre and Julienne
66 14 Gertrude Josephine Rivers
66 20 Emma Snyder
E. Bertram and Eva M.
Edgar C. and Carrie M.
Wm. C. and Ella C.
Louis and Mary
66 27 -- Akley
Dennis and Mary J.
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DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Dec. 4 Souther
James and Lizzie
66
15 John Everett Cunningham
John G. and Nellie E.
15 Hazel Blanche Cook
Charles S. and Elizabeth E.
18 Flora Angelia Whiting
Alfred D. and Flora
66
19 Dana Aubrey Searle
Frank D. and Annie L.
66 21 Effie Josephine Hurd
John A. and Nellie J.
22 Edward Youso
Thomas and Rose
27| --- Harrison
Wm. H. and Hattie
66
29 Mary Ellen Shea
John G. and Mary
Males. 50; Females, 55; Total, 105.
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN FRANKLIN DURING 1889.
DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
| AGE.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Jan.
1 George W. Miller Mary E. Mitchell
27
27 John and Mary Roger and Winnie
28 John and Elizabeth
24 Richard and Nellie
66
5 Eddie L. Macy Nellie Morse
20 Alanson C. and Mary E. 18 Edward A. and Frances G.
66 S Nathan Metcalf Hepsie N. Tilton
52
89 Nathan and Pattie Wm. H. and Mary C. Davis
66 20 Alphonse Lawrence Delvena George
19 Peter and Mary
.. 28 George Larock Jennie Gilleney
24
23 John and Susan John and Mary
66 28 Antony Michelini Annie Fiorani
30 22 Dominico and Assunta Raphael and Santina
26 William and Eliza
22 Albert O. and Sarah A.
69 Aaron and Harriet
29 Henry M. and Ann Eliza
27 William and Kate
March 3 William F. Welch Lizzie Jenness
66 4 Paul Berube Selina Hool
26 Louis and Delia
19 Absham and Mary J.
66 27 Edgar Young Rose M. Blake
66 28 John Lundborn Clara A. Giddings
37 Frederic W. and Paulina G. 21 Edward and Mary
22 Robert and Sarah
25 Thomas and Margaret
21 Jessie and Mary 19 Patrick and Hannah
19 Ellis A. and Susan M.
16 Lorenzo H. and Carrie E.
27 Felix Trembly Xenia Sauer
24 Joseph and Josephine 20 Adolphus and Lumæ
30 Walter E. Daniels Annie M. Rockwood
19
26 Mancy M. and Harriet M. Edmund J. and Abbie
Feb. 10 John W. Smith Minnie L. Ashley
66 28 Aaron H. Morse La Vancha M. White
24 Edward and Delia
21
21 William and Emily A. Alfred and Hattie
April 15 James McFaden Jennie Pearson
28 James Darling Margaret Feeley
May 25 James T. Darling Annie C. Hall
66 2 John Dolan Nellie Grace
22 Godfred and Camile B.
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DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
| AGE.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
April 29 Edward F. Harttmann
Rosa Schulz
38 35
Frederic and Lena Fred B. and Clara Teuthorn
May 28 Uriah McWilliams 25 John and Sarah Edward and Mary
June
5 Ernest C. Andrews Harriet M. Pierce
31 27
Otis W. and Augustus D. Henry O. and Martha E.
66
5 Hartford S. Babcock Irene W. Pike
29
67 Daniel and Minda Alonzo G. and Martha G.
66 19 John A. Hurd Nellie J. Nourse
27 38
Charles and Emeline Seth and Mary J. Blake
66
23 William H. Spear Annie E. Holt
60 39
John A. and Sarah Jeremiah and Catherine
July
1 Will S. Johnson Leta T. Reed
21 21 Hiram M. and Mary A. Rosalvo A. and Julia A.
66
2 Henry E. McDowell Mary L. Warren
23
26 Edward E. and Ellen E. Emerson F. and Luthera S.
66
7 Fred A. Fownes Ada M. Brown
25 22 30 20
Alexander G. and Mary F. Isaiah and Caroline
66
20 William W. Pearson Hattie McC. Marsh
Thomas and Margaret John S. and Hattie E.
66
28 Charles E. Berry Lillie S. McIntosh
20
19 John and Abbie George and Abbie
Aug.
4 David F. Fenton Theresa Gormley
23 28 25
Cornelius and Jane James and Margaret
17 Daniel C. Lincoln Martha R. Bartlett
22 Caleb W. and Rhoda J. G. W. and Susan S.
66
24 Robert Graves Etta M. Mowry
20 28 20
Joseph and Ellen Charles M. and Avis M.
Sept.
4 John W. Hinkley Mabel E. Howard
27 23 Willard H. and Rebecca B. Apollos E. and Caroline W.
7 James A. Humes Annie Wilson
39 32
Alpheus and Lucretia John and Annie White;
66
9 Bernard W. McCabe Cora L. Sullivan
25 20
John and Bridget Michael and Margaret
66
6 Cornelius McGroary Mary Brogan
28 Bartholomew and Catherine John and Margaret
Ellen T. O'Donnell
21
77
DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
| AGE.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Sept. 10 James W. Miller Nellie A. Houlihan
34 29
John and Mary John and Margaret
66 12 Oliver Felt Carrie B. Owen
66 15 Patrick H. O'Donnell Mary J. Healy
27 23 21
John and Rosanna Timothy and Catherine
55 Michael and Bridget
33 Michael K. and Mary
26 William F. and Catherine Horace and Electa Darling
66 23 Nathan H. Kingsley Mary McLane
66 21 William H. Boocock Lydia Berridge
32 34
Joseph and Ann Henry and Elizabeth
66
28 Thomas Jones Ellen M. Benner
33 Thomas and Sarah 27 Solomon and Dean
Oct. 2 William H. Smith Margaret A. Connolly
30 25
Richard E. and Bridget A. Patrick and Mary
23 23
Patrick and Mary John and Lizzie
66
20 William George Xaverina Bernard
21 32 26
Thomas and Catherine James and Alice.
Nov.
2 Frank E. Chaffin Alice S. Ryan
30 24
Orin P. and Mary G. George W. and Eliza R.
66
4 Fred W. Gardner Etta K. Owen
27 30 42 41
William M. and Lydia David and Betsey
6.
24 Alfred A. Cernisien Lucie Morin
26 27
Auguste and Rieux Olivier and Lucy L.
.
66 24 Alfred H. Nash Minnie E. Mayshaw
22
Alfred and Jane E. Henry N. and Ellen B.
66
25 Philip P. Dougherty Margaret A. Kelly
23 22
William and Bridget Martin and Sarah
1
37 Edmund J. and Adeliza T. John P. and Hannah B.
61 17 Martin Fay Annie F. Cleary
18 Willard L. Whiting Nettie Blanchard
26 50 35
Nathan P. and Julia A. John and Mary
66
27 Dennis F. Mahoney Mary E. Healy
25 Peter and Margaret Joseph and Estere
Lucius and Lydia John G. and Kate B.
$6
21 Edward S. Whitaker Mary E. Ware
26
7 Hugh B. Reynolds Mary E. Keefe
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DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
AGE.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
24
26 Warren N. and Julia A. Leonard H. and Lucy B.
25 Vincent and Mary
24 Raphael and Santina
22 Charles W. and Sarah O.
18 Thaddeus H. and Annie E.
66 28 William M. Cleveland Frances C. Sargeant
34 Lowe'l B. and Melinda S.
33 Albert W. and Caroline E.
28 Albertus E. Heath Mary E. Hamm
27
25 George and Clarissa E. Joseph and Mary
66 28 Alden T. Mann Elsie M. Smith
28 William and Sarah B.
22 William F. and Mary W.
Dec.
18 Arthur S. Clark Jennie M. Couthill
26 23
William and Prudence George and Sarah.
Nov. 2
Walter B. King Kate P. Wheeler
66 26 Charles P. Caruso Terusa M. Fiorani
27 Walter B. Bragg Hattie E. Shepardson
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DEATHS RECORDED IN FRANKLIN DURING 1889.
DATE.
NAMES OF PERSONS.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Y. M. D.
January 7
66
9
Mary Curley .
Injury by fall ..
70
-
Internal Hemorrhage
61 5
66
21 Evelyn E. Bourne ...
Apoplexy
45
4
Feburary 8
William Callahan
(?) ....
25
66
13 Catherine Mahoney,
Pneumonia
54
66
15 Herbert T. Blake
Inenition
72
66
28 George W. Labadie
66
28 Francis Ford.
(?) .. .
2
8
March
3 Julia A. Pond
Pneumoni:is.
87
Senile debility
90
-
66
23 Edward C. Newcomb
66
9
16
66
24 George Gay
Acute hydrocephalus
1
16
Marasmus
2
13
66
28
Frank Reid.
April
4 - Grant .
Premature birth
Peritonitis.
44
-
16
Eugene McCarthy
Hepatitis
66
8
-
66
18 Eliab P. Ballou ...
43
2
13
18
Sebastian Blackington
Cancer
36 6 22
27 Evelyn Corbin .
Inflamation of bowels
23
10
-
66
3 George Nelson Ingalls
6
7
2
66
4 Walter H. Hutchinson
Marasmus.
66
29 Alfred E. Morrill.
Cyanosis
Heart disease
17
6
66
11
Sarah E. Whitaker
Spina bifida
66
13 Ebenezer Proctor
Cystitis
74
3
66
5
Edward H. Field. Honora Ford
Diarrhea
70
6
66
12
Mabel Butinan
Congestion of lungs
23
16
25
Mary E. Sloan ..
Heart disease
60
3
11 -
August 66
13
Olivier E. Potvin
Brain fever
4 70
4
10
Old age.
89
11
5
66
20
Hiram H. Bailey.
58
10
11
General debility
71
-
-
66
24
Etta F. Cody
Cholera infantum
1
-
-
66
4 Susan M. Thomas.
Brain disease.
59
7
4
66
23 Aber Gucilbeau
Diarrhea.
10 -
-
66
14 Robert Young ..
Railroad accident.
48
66
24 Rosanna M. Morrill
Membranous croup.
5
-
24
66
29
Ella N. Fiske
Congestion of lungs
34
11 29
November 9
Henry A. Johnson
Cerebral congestion
2
15
66
21
Mary Ford
Plithisis .
42
1
29
Robert Hood
Pernicious Anemia
63
8
26
66
9
Elmore Labadie
Suicide ..
48
-
October
30
Harold Young.
Premature birth
-
1
November 4
Nancy Blake
Old age
80
December 8
Mary D. B. Potvin.
Inenition
1 13
19
Thomas H. Coville.
Heart disease
55
- 20
21
Hazel B. Cook.
Premature birth
-
- 6
26
Martha L. Heywood.
Consumption
30
- 13
-
66
31
Alonzo Jipson
Accident
45
-
2
14
14
Hannah P. Rice.
Heart disease
Meningitis
-
10
-
66
September 3
Bridget McCue ...
Senile dementia
70
18 Nehemiah Louger ..
Cancer
76 2
18
October 8 William Hurd.
Abcess of kidney.
58
Cerebral meningitis
3
7 18 7
98
Myrtie M. McFaden.
Convulsions
1
-
14 0
(?).
57
-
July
S
12 Hannah Morse
Old age.
94
3 - 28
June
11 Herbert McCarthy
Convulsions.
-
1119110 6 1 6
21
66
21 Mark Hutchinson
Angina Pectoris.
Inenition
6
19 Margaret Morrison
Old age
86
Phthisis
Leucemia
1
66
4 Isadora S. Ellis
1 Michael J. Murphy .
Consumption .
28
8
May
30 Daniel O'Connell.
3 2 ||3402
Cholera infantum.
8
16 Pliny Cook .
18 Mary E. Conroy.
Gastric Cancer
31 Mary A. Lundy.
Diarrhea ..
-
25
- Kendrick
Still born.
Males, 38; females, 29; total, 67. Average duration of life, 35 yrs., 7 mos., 1 day.
48
11
Charles B. Lowell
Valvular Disease of heart ..
18 Harriet M. Shepherd.
19 Nathan Metcalf.
24 Herbert Ambrose Hurd
Consumption
Accidental drowning
AGE.
Charles E. Feeley
21 Joseph Day ...
28 Annie L. Taft .
FRANKLIN TOWN RECORDS
FOR THE YEAR 1889.
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING,
MARCH 4, 1889.
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Franklin.
GREETING :
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Mas- sachusetts to notify and warn the qualified voters of said town of Franklin to assemble in their Town Hall, on Monday, the fourth day of March, next, at eight o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following 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 choose all necessary town officers for the year ensuing.
ART. 5. To see in what way and manner the town will collect its taxes for the current year.
ART. 6. To see in what way and manner the town will repair its roads, bridges and sidewalks the current year.
ART. 7. To see what action the town will take relative to a pound.
ART. 8. To hear a report from the selectmen respecting guide boards.
ART. 9. To see of the town will grant a sum of money to Franklin Post 60, G. A. R., for decorating soldiers' graves Memorial Day.
ART. 10. To see if the town will restrain neat cattle, horses, mules and swine from running at large the year ensuing.
ART. 11. To see what compensation the town will pay the engin- eers of the fire department, and members of the fire, hose, hook and ladder companies the current year.
ART. 12. To hear a report of the engineers of the fire department and act thereon.
ART. 13. To vote the names of a suitable number of persons into the jury box for the current year.
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ART. 14. To vote by ballot, " Yes," or "No," in answer to the question : "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating 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 anticipation 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 Temper- ance.
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 schoolhouse.
ART. 23. To see if the town will vote to print the valuation 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 thereto, the same being known as the betterment law.
ART. 25. To see if the town will adopt a system of sewerage, or take any action in relation thereto.
ART. 26. To see if the town will vote to take as a place for the erec- tion 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. and 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 build- ings 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.
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ART. 31. To see if the town will take any and what action to amend its By-Laws.
ART. 32. To raise and appropriate such 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 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 do- ings 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.
NORFOLK, SS.
February 22, A. D., 1889.
By virtue of the within warrant I have this day notified the inhabi- tants of the town of Franklin herein described to assemble in their Town Hall, on Monday, the fourth day of March, A. D. 1889, for the purposes within mentioned, by posting up attested copies of the within 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 Section 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 officer's return thereon. Attest : CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN, Town Clerk.
PROCEEDINGS OF ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 4, 1889.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the legal voters of the town of Franklin met in their Town Hall, on Monday, the fourth day of March, A. D., 1889, at eight o'clock in the forenoon, and proceeded as follows :
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