Republican farmer., 1919-09-19
MILFORD NEWS

MILFORD NEWS
 Milford, Sept 1S-( Especial to The
 Times) Miss Sadie Farley, of Wood [ mont, chief clerk in the Milford post office, was operated upon for appen- dicitis at St. RachaeTs hospital, New Haven, Sunday by Drs. Crowe of New Haven and Hcady of Milford She 1 was stricken Saturday morning while | on her way from the Milford Trust Co. to the post office and her condi- 1 ton became so acute that at o'clock 1 she called pr. Heady. The operation was successful.
 The town board of Finance met Tuesday evening at o'clock and re nained in session until ! o'clock in the morning, pouring over the mum erous requests made for town expen- ditures during the coming year. The rapid growth of the town demands many public improvements. And this, with the ordinary running expenses, ' makes a large budget which the F'i- nance board is trying to whittIe down. The board will complete it's
 work Saturday.
 Elaborate preparations have been completed by the members of Lucia chapter, o. E. S, for the reception
 of the state officers including Grand WCrih hy Matron Mrs. Ada Pagan, of DanDury, and her staff who will be
 the guests of the local chapter on
 Thursday evening on the occasion of
 their annual visit to the Milford
 chapter. A pleasing program has been arranged and the guests and
 members of the chapter will be
 served a supper by the members of the Plymouth circle in the parlors
 of the Plymouth church at 6:30
 o'clock, after which the reception
 and business session will be held at Masonic hall.
 J. Clarence Mclean, Democrat. nominated for tax collector; as man ager of the newspaper and periodical business at the corner of River and Daniel streets, Mir. Mclean, with little assistance, kept the wheels of his par ticular industry moving and, by the closest of application and the hardest kind of work conducted both the commercial and the accounting ends of his establishment in a way to si- lence criticism and win admiration.
 Miss Margaret Humphrey returned esterday to her school duties in New Jersey after passing the summer va cation with her parents in Milford.
 There is a probability that the man agement of the Rosenbaum School will build a second dormitory, per haps in the spring The need is great; under present conditions the overflow of students is distributed about the reighborhood until nearly every fam ily in the immediate vicinity of the school is furnishing lodgings for one or more.
 There has been recently quite a lot of small thievery affecting gardens 1 on New Haven and Gulf street, the loss being severe in some cases.
 Mrs. Laura J. Smith of Bethel, Me. i mother of Mrs. Lyon of the Sea Lion 1 Inn. Myrtle Beach, died at the Inn yesterday at the age of 89 years.
 The funeral will be held al the l house on Thursday at 2:30 and the internent made in Milford.
 
 Capt. Tooker has finished his en- crossing work on the honor certfi- 1 cates and they are now ready for the penmanship of the selectmen.
 A Derby man, name not available, ' has leased the Langner store on Broad street and will occupy it about | Oct 1st, conducting hardware and | furniture business there. He is at present employed as assistant man ager at Kresge's store in Derby.
 At meeting of the executive off | cers of the Welfare League, which is practically the No Licene League Of two years ago, which meeting was held Monday evening, 1t was deter mined to make an energetic cam paign, although a short one to get out the temperance vote. It was thought that, inasmuch as the town had made the fine record of two l years ago, pulling itself out of the mud without national aid or the inn i petus of the war; it would be a pity i to close the record with a ''yes" vote | even though the period of selling would be ridiculously brief.
 As one member expressed it, the | argument is over, no one needs to be