The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-13
MILFORD NEWS

| sound View Hotel The dinner was ] excellent and the post-prandial exer- | cises chiefly consisting of remines-. | cences were very interesting. The | gathering seemed about ready to ad-
 journ when James Rice insisted. with much vehemence, upon a definite de- | cision as to recommendations for ! nominations and urged the endorse | ent of the present Republican town | clerk, William Rose.
 When the meeting adjourned in the
 wee hours MT. Rose had won his | points and the endorsement had been | recommended.
 The unanimous choice for first se- | lectman was Capt. Edwin s. Munsen,
 who. however, felt unable 10 accept The ticket finally recommended is: 1 First selectman, w. r. Remand; sec ! ond selectman, r. T. Munson; treas- | urer, II. Peterson; assessors, F. B. | Brotherton; board of relief, F. w | Evans; recommendations for the | other offices will doubtless be made | this evening by the town committee 1 The caucus is scheduled for Saturday | evening.
 The Republican caucus is to be : held this evening.
 The temperance people are mildly | astonished at the appearance of a petition for a license vote at this | stage of the game, but will accept | the issue and get to work to bring | out the mo" vote once more. ! The county commissioners give the | information that pro rata licenses will 1 be issued by the state where a town | so votes, but that they can only run where the national law does not in | tervene.
 l The last official voting list carries | 2,33S names, making 234 petitioners ! necessary; about 26O, largely from ! the beaches. were filed. Devon is very i slightly represented, and very few 1 standard names appear from any sec | ton of the town.
 ! It IS said Eugene Coe will not run { for his present position as first as 1 sessOr.
 l The registrars put in a strenuous l day yesterday with the to-be-made l list. It was estimated early in the | evening that the grand total of the | list would be $50. This would indi- 1 cate that about 200 new voters will | be made on the 2Oth.
 Mir. McGee is building a dwelling | house on the New Haven turnpike near the Comstock place. It is al- ready framed up.
 | There was a break at the Wood mont passenger station yesterday | shortly afternoon. Entrance was Ob- i tained by forcing a window. Several i New York tickets were taken and a | couple of silk shirts, that being the ! extent of the loot so far as learned. { The robber displayed some knowledge ! of the ticket business. and went to the trouble of abstra Cting those at 1 the back of the case in such a way as to escape detection under ordinary ! conditions
 The police were on the watch for | a colored man, height about feet | inches: dressed in dark suit with | dark cap. and troIleys and other out i lets were being carefully scTutnzed- Mrs. Harry Hungerford and daugh- | ter Charlotte. and MT. and Mrs. Roy den have returned from Maine ! Arthur Law ana ldIlllly VI IDI AN5S Dort have moved into the sherman ! Baldwin place in the west part Of | the town.
 Walter M. Irving has transferred | eight acres on the Plains road from ! Harry E. Clark to Adina Isabelle 1 Groh of Brooklyn.
 c-b.r1as saeIev of NIeriden has moved into the house on New Haven avenue that has been occupied for i several years by Gustave Langner- The Joseph Ruper farm on the Or ange road has been sold by Walter
 Irving to Joseph AckIey of Stratford. NTanlev J. Cheney was nominated for first selectman at Q caucus Of the i Republican party held last night al | thet own hall There were 22O votes l cast Judge Omar W. Platt presided. Other candidates nominated were: l First assessor, Robert A Syrett ana ! Walter L. Merwin; board of relief, ! Herbert L. Platt and Harry NJ Mer- win; second seIectman, c. V. SewaH' town clerk. William A. Rose; town i treasurer. Sanford Hadkins; auditor, i Herbert c. Clemens; tax collector, ! Moves R. Bailey; cOnstables, George A. Mallory, William L. Merwin, Flu ] gene Merritt and Robert M Treat; ] registrars of voters, First district, J. 1 Fred Van Syckle; Second district | William O. Matthew's Third district, | David s. Hall; town school commit | tee for year 1919, George J. Smith l and Judge J. D. Brown, Jr.; for 192o, l Judge Platt and Fred M. Smith. i The case against Richard Davis IS, the colored boy charged with i breaking and entering the WOOdmont
 railroad station Friday afternoon. was continued by Judge Brown for one week Being unable 10 obtain bonds. ] ~ --.-..--.- =. rr-a talrnr, e Now