The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-31
LUCIuS HUDSON DIES IN HIS
 SETH YEAR
Stratford's Memorial Day Celebration @ Notable
 Occasion
Especial to The Times.)

| StratfOrd, May 31.---StratfOrdS eel
 ebration of Memorial Day, yesterday,
 was very creditable and as the first 1 independent celebration of the town made such an impression it can be ex- pected that every year in the future | there will be a parade and exercises l at the Soldiers monument. There was ! a large number of the citizens of the ] town who took part in the parade and hundreds of others were present at Academy Hill and listened to the ex-
 cellent address by the Rev. A. r. Chamberlain who spoke on the mean | ing of the day and some of the lessons [ That had been given by the devotion
 shown by those brave men who fought ! that the nation might remain whole. i In addition to the speaking of MT. Chamberlain there was playing of the
 national anthems by the Locomobile
 band, taps by bugler, the placing of
 a wreath the monument and an in
 vocation by Captain c. c. Kennedy,
 who was chaplain during the World War. Captain Kennedy is rector of
 Christ church of this town.
 1 The parade, which formed at Par ! adise Green, was of some length and
 made pretty sight as it proceeded down Main street, to Stratford ave
 nue, to Elm street. to Academy Hill,
 to the monument where the exercises |
 march the people were to be seen on
 the lawns and from almost every | house Old Glory waved. The parade
 was reviewed by the town officials from the large platform in front of l the Lowell hardware store at the cen- ter.
 The following was the lineup of the l parade:
 | Police escort; marshal, William H. | Hart chief of staff in Ia A Burnes; aides, Burton c. Warner
 Thomas c. Coughlin, Charles Aber-
 crombie, Frederick s. Beardsley, Charles Silliman, David L. Rhoades
 Walter Goddard, Harold c. Lowell,
 James Lally, Elliott W. Peck and
 George A. Fairchild; band; Major | Louis J. Hermann, commanding;
 First Lieutenant Edward c. Spal, ad- l jutant; Company L, 4th Infantry. Con. necticut State Guard, First Lieutenant George W. Spall, commanding; War Veterans, 1917 and 1918, Captain Rex l'DCLacour, comma nding; Spanish War Veterans, Sons of Veterans, Charles Stephens, commanding; Okenucl1 l Tribe, Imp. o. R. M, William Fryer, | commanding; Citizens Corps, George
 Bateman, commanding; Civil War
 Veterans in automobiles; Troop I,
 Stratford Boy Scouts of America, As sistant Scout Master Walter Oddly commanding; Supt. of Schools, 1 c. c. Thompson; Drum Corps; public
 schools; Stratford Fire Department. Services will be as usual in Bethany church on Sunday. In the morning a
 10:20 the pastor, Rev. William H.
 Nichon, will preach, and a t the close | of the sermon the communion will be | administered. The session of the Sun
 day school will be held at the close of | the morning service. The Young Peo- ple's meeting will be held at 6:45, fol- lowed with the regular evening ser
 vice, which will consist of a short ser | mon by the pastor, and plenty of good
 singing. All are cordially invited to
 attend these services.
 l Stratford M. E. church, Rev A. F. | Chamberlain, pastor. Sunday, June d.
 morning worship at 10:3O Finding
 God" Evening worship at 7:3o "A
 Victorious Spirit" Sunday school at
 church. All men are cordially invited ! to attend. Epworth League vesper ! service at 645. A homelike and
 friendly church. All seats free Well come.
 Every boy and young man of | Stratford interested in baseball is in- | Nlled 10 attend a meeting on M MOndaY | evening at Packard hall, at which l time plans for the organization of | two leagues of four teams each will 1 be started. George Ash, one of the ! most prominent organizers of athletic organizations in this section of Con- | necticut has agreed to organize two | baseball leagues of four teams each l the games to be played on Saturday afternoons. One league will be com | posed of players under IT years, of age and the other of players over IT. Cups for the winning team of each | league will be given and individual | prizes for the most number of hits | in each league and other plays will | be donated by the merchants of the | town who have agreed to support MT Ash in his movement to provide the | boys of the town with some health l full sport evary Saturday afternoon. | Two ball fields are being considered | each of them near the center and l they will be decided upon at the i meeting Mon aay night.
 The news that there were to be | two baseball leagues in Stratford l composed of players of the town, has | been received by the boys with en- | thusiasm and many of the older peo- | pie have expressed themselves as | glad they can have an opportunity | of seeing some good base ball this summer.
 In order to make these leagues | successful the important thing at | present is to have large attendance at the meeting at Packard hall on | Monday evening.
 | The oldest resident of Stratford who would be 96 years old in June l Lucius Judson. died at his home on | Main street on Friday morning after an illness of only a short time. Death was caused by old age. The dead | man, who was known to everyone in | town and who up to the past few years was a frequent visitor at the center, was a native of Stratford. He always took an active interest in the affairs of the town and discussed the various subjects of the day with his | friends and acquaintances at every opportunity. He had been employed at the old Wheeler & Wilson shop in Bridgeport for 50 years, retiring when he was 80 years old. He as a young man had learned the shoe making