First town report - no mention of police in it.

    This 1893 report was the first one where I found anything about police. It
    continued for some years with no indication that there was a department -
    just a payment for a few men for special duties - especially July 4, but also
    band concerts, and after they began in 1901, field days.Here's a sample of
    some of them below.

    The report above for 1903 was the first one where a police
    department was shown. If there was a chief, they were
    keeping it a secret. The first mention of a fire chief (chief of
    fire engineers as it was called then) was in 1897. Kellogg
    became fire chief in 1907.

    This list from 1914 is the first mention of a police chief that I've found. Kellogg's name
    first shows up on the police list in 1906. Several years prior to 1914 he was at the top of
    the first column. Maybe that's where they put the chief until 1914. We may never know. I'll
    be on the lookout for mentions of the police in the newspapers from that time. Might get
    lucky. I suspect the reason that the chief's name first shows up in 1914 may have
    something to do with the strike at Drapers in 1913. That was a really big deal and they
    may have decided that it was time to pay more attention to the police department. There
    was what I'd call a huge auxiliary force for such a small town at least into the 1960s, and
    probably beyond that. I think that must have been in case there was another big strike.

    Below - The Police Department report from 1959. That was the first year that I found one
    in the town reports.

    Here's some stuff you may have seen, but in case you
    haven't, you might find some of this interesting.

    Sam Kellogg   

    Tom Malloy - I have several pages about Tom, but this
    one about him in World War I is particularly interesting.

    Chet Sanborn - YouTube - going to Memorial School to
    tap the maple trees.