Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
MILFORD NEWS


 | snowstorm of Tuesday evening dis outraged some, there was still 8 good audience to hear the Welch Concert company. The soloists were excellent and the pianist, Miss Andrews, an ar
 tist almost without comparison, so far
 as Milford records go, her numbers being given with astonishing ability. l MT. Williams, story of the Lusitania disaster was that of one who had been through a terrible experience and has l lived to tell about it, and also one able to tell it in a manner to leave vivid impression on the minds of his hearers, although he softened the tale to prevent it's being too gruesome.
 He was in the dining hall three sto- rtes below the main deck with 3ON others when the blow came. Every face turned white, and there was rush for the stairs, blocking them. A lurch of the ship threw the people to the floor, clearing the stairway, and MT. Williams reached the main deck
 to find all lost. He returned to his
 stateroom, four stories down, for four life preservers one for himself and
 the others immediately snapped up, and a few minutes later took what he intended to be a regulation header into the sea. He turned som ersault
 striking feet first; returning to the
 surface he swam away from the ship
 and as he looked over his shoulder
 saw the rear of the Lusitania with
 600 people grouped there. rise 300
 feet in the air, human beings still
 dropping that fearful distance to the
 sea; and then, as the ship sank, he was drawn with her until 1t seemed
 to him that he must have gone to the
 bottom of the ocean.
 On fighting his way to the air again he reached an overturned life boat aft 1i1lya ed lin hI the Empress of India. The singing of Abide With Me" by survivors : floating about and of '"Tinperary' by a party of young fellows in half
 sunken boat, one of them holding 8 , womans face above water by the hail of her head, were incidents related. , Clifford Gardner has been promoted , to associate cashier of the City Ma , tional bank of Bridgeport.
 The following church officials were chosen at the parish meeting of St g Peters, held Monday evening: seniol ) warden, Frederick Cornwall; juniol ! warden and treasurer, H. c. Peck 8 clerk and vestryman, 1T. c. c. Miles. l The price of sugar has been wob a bling from medium low at 12 cents ! pound to fairly high at 20 cents ant
 ithe general tendency is upward, lans = there is also a tendency to put thu It sugar bowl away in the closet. The finance board has invited tn y members of the board of education t o attend their meeting on Monday even d ing next and discuss with them tn = question of increased salaries fo 1 teachers. Competition from nearb. s points, especially from Bridgeport an' 7, New Haven, is said to be mainly tn 5 reason why the school board reporte' = favorably in the matter. It is sai'
 that Bridgeport is particularly dis = tressed for teachers of the hfghe : grade. and that the school men ther - are thinking of doubling up to som y 1 extent.
 e Contracts do not protect in all cases = and cities and towns are not alway scrupulous when necessary to fill va
 cancies; so that Milford teachers ar g tempted to break faith and leave, al S though of course, it is rare that on Is does so. This consideration, 1t is pre- h stunned, actuated the board In recon n menlding the bonus for those wh 8. serve through the year.
 Il The Rev. George w. Peterson, who's r. illness at the Bridgeport hospital ha o- been spoken of, is worse and there al er grave fears as to the result.
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 le President storrs of the Connectict
 company appeared before the bushes l. men on Tuesday evening and took th d Milford case as presented by Juds a. Brown and others under advisement- Xt A boost for the Visiting Nurse a! ly sociation to the extent of $50 WE 1e another item of business.
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