Does Mort look like he could have been “…the meanest town clerk in Massachusetts?” Click on the picture to see what that was about. See clipping in red border.
March News
1881 – Milford Water Co. organized with Moses Joy, jr., president.
1883 – George Draper leased the Hopkinton railroad until the auction sale to be held
1885 – Milford selectmen elected at town meeting include J. B. Bancroft.
1886 – The House ordered the Hopedale separation bill to a third reading, 118 to 92 and then engrossed it 116 to 78. Fully 300 from Milford were at the State House when the voting took place. On April 3 the Senate enacted the bill, 18 to 16. When the separation became complete the Milford school committee decided to charge the Hopedale pupils in the Milford High School $1 per week for tuition.
1894 – Milford granite cutters, after a prolonged strike, reached agreement for a sliding scale of 27 to 34 cents an hour.
In 1925, two groups of men claimed to have won the election for selectmen in Milford. Each group appointed a police chief. Fights broke out at the town meeting that followed the resulting controversy. State police were called to restore order. Click above to read the story about it, originally published in American Heritage magazine.
March 4 was a nice warm day, although I didn’t use the air conditioner that you can see at the bottom of the picture.
When wounded in the Wilderness, I fell unconscious. A blow as though I were struck with a club on the left breast, a feeling of surprise that I was hit at all, (I had begun to believe in my star), and the certainty, from the location of the blow, that I was killed, was all that I felt. If consciousness had not returned it would have been death, and my mental sensations would have been no different. Neither my sins nor my friends – what I was to leave here or hoped for hereafter – even flashed through my mind. I simply realized that I was shot and thoroughly believed my name would be among those of the killed in the next morning’s report. The bullet struck me where the neck joins the left shoulder, and, passing through the body, was arrested by one of the spinal vertebrae, which it shivered more or less, as it did another bone or two in its passage.
When I recovered consciousness two men were carrying me back in a blanket, we being between the rebel line, which we had taken and lost, and our re-formed line, perhaps twenty rods back. Bullets were flying in both directions, and I had a new fear which had not troubled me before, — namely, that one of them would hit me. Gen. William F. Draper, Recollections of a Varied Career. Click here to read more of General Draper’s wartime memories.
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