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and the money too, they continued to be lodged at the almshouse, and the town paid Battery C $100 for a salute on the Fourth of July, $8.90 for cleaning guns, and $15 to Uncle David Simpson for meals for the battery men. And now appears a citizen,, and of the property in its possession including cartridges for a salute. The selectmen voted that a salute be fired on July 4, using half the cartridges in the morning and the rest at night, the ex-members of the battery to do the firing. Next, t Meanwhile the people were becoming tired of noise, and when (after the disbandment) some one petitioned for a salute on July 4, the selectmen voted to do so if some responsible person furnish the powder. Just before this they had voted to allow us (Tope) Johnson making an oaken carriage, such as it formerly had. It was heard often in the ante-bellum days on Fourth of July, election times, and during war time in Medford. Special mention is made of the racket made one Sunday forenoon, on