The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-23
MEMORIAL DAY
 IN STAMFORD
Exercises Are to Be Held on
 Academy Hill.
Especial to The Times.)

stratford. May 23-Memorial Day :s to be observed in Stratford this year with exercises at Academy Hill to be participated in by members of the Grand Army, veterans of the Spanish War. Sons of Veterans and veterans of the World War. There will be a speaker of prominence who will be heard during the exercises at the monument.
 The exercises at Academy Hill will be preceded by a parade from the center in which all the veterans will be asked to take part and they will be escorted by the Boy Scouts. The exercices are to begin at s:3o and will probably last not more than one hour.
 On Sunday, May 25, the graves of the departed soldiers in the various cemeteries of the town will be dee orated and a committee was appoint ed at the meeting Tuesday night of the Veterans association to take care of that work.
 Tho first annual dance of Okenuck tribe of Red Men last evening was at tended by a large number of the young people of this town notwith- standing the indictment weather. As the dance was an invitation affair the crowd that is to be found at some of the dances was not present. There was an orchestra of six pieces which furnished the music for the evening and all the latest airs were played The hall was prettily' decorated for the event and it was pleasing sight during the evening to see the finely dressed girls dancing with the young men who were dressed in their best in the pretty hall.
 The committee in charge of this dance were Karl F. Berger, George w. Fairchild, Howard Dillon, Asa L.. Parketon. George Spall, Fred Nettle- ton, Harry Griffin, Herbert w. Doo- little, Evert Beardsley, Harry Bald win. Louis Rhinehart, W. s. Hart, k. H. Coe, Louis Todd, J. H. Spears, Wesley Warehouse and H. Wilcoxson.
 Accidentally tipping over the high .hair in which he was sitting, Paul 5losier. the 1T months old son of Mir. and Mrs. Paul Slosier of Victory street, fell to the kitchen floor of their home about four o'clock yesterday af- .ernoon and suffered a broken neck, dying a short time after. The baby. who is youngest of six children. had been placed in it's chair by its mother while she was doing some work about the house and as he was strong and able to stand he stood up in the chair and before he could be caught tipped over and fell with a crash to the floor Doctors were immediately ralled and the police notified, but all efforts to save the life of the young ster were uanvailing.
 Six men from Stratford represented Oronoque lodge of odd Fellows at the annual session of the grand lodge held at New Haven Wednesday. The Stratford delegates were George Hale, Cha rles F. Curtis Eli Beach, Charles Mills, Herbert Platt and Ivan l.. Morehouse.
 -t A radical change in the prices of post office boxes is to be made when the Strafford office moves to its new location, August 1. The old style cau boxas. the boxes in which mail was placed and handed out through the window will be no more and the only boxes will be those of which the owner has the key. These boxes win be of three styles and be the same as in the parent ofice 1T Bridgcport There will also be ths largo drawers for those having con 61dsrabls mail The prices of fh< M -" t