The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-09
MILFORD NEWS

At a meeting of the Methodist Ofh- cial Board held Monday evening it was voted to consolidate the Er worth League evening meeting and the 7:30 preaching service for the summer months. This VII become effective on the last Sunday in June and the hour of the joint service Will proba- bly, be o'clock. The order of exer- cises has not yet been fully deter mined, but it is presumed that there will be brief sermon and that the singing of gospel hymns will be fea- ture.
 Mrs. Carleson. mother of Rev. Frank carIeson, returned to her home in Kansas Monday, after a few weeks passed with her son here
 The class night exercises of the graduates of 1920. M. H. S., will be held on Friday evening of this week at Assembly hall and the usual care has been taken to make the event an interesting one. The members of the junior class will attend. according tc custom
 Farmers report potatoes looking well, and good prospect for q stand ard hay crop. Shortage of help con- tinues to be a great drawback, and everything in the way of growing veg etables, etc, is 50 late that it will need liberal fall to prevent damage by frost
 VIII Abbots is conva1escing rapidly. It was found that some of his muscles were wrenched and torn, so that a little extra precaution and quiet are necessary in his case
 Business is dull at the town court of late Two minor automobile cases of no local significance was the total of Mondays proceedings.
 Although the adopted son of MT. and Mrs Budgen is improving. great vigilance is still necessary in his case. and two trained nurses are constantly about him.
 Francis Sullivan, who has been un- der treatmen at Darien for a num- Der of months, is showing some inn provenent, but is not making the progress toward complete recovery that his friends wish for
 The Alpha and Omega club an nounces its first annual dance at the town hall on Tuesday evening" the 22nd- There will be an elimination prize
 Tn homas W. Stowe, one of Milford's s well known residents, died at his home on Greene street Monday, aged 77 years. He had been seriously i'll for some time and the end was not un- expected A widow and five brothers, an over 70 years of age, survive The brothers are: Asfman, Nathan and Nelson of Milford, Edward at the Sol- diers' home in Noroton, and Benjamin of Newark N. J. The deceased, who was a prominent decorator here, be- longed to the Masonic order, and was always a very active member of the Milford Wheel club. The funeral was held from the late home this afternoon at e:3o, interment being in the Milford cemetery. Rev G. ". Sim onson had -. .eksfge of the services
 The Milford Cemetery association at its annual meeting held Monday night after hearing reports of the year s business, elected officers as follows: President, Captain E. L. Ford; vice president E. W. Baldwin of New Ha- ven; treasurer, Henry c. Peck, and secretary, D. L. Nettleton-
 Miss Hazel Griswold, daughter of Mrs Minnie Griswold of Fort Trum- bull Beach, and Leigh J. Pulver were married at the home of the bride on Saturday evening by the Rev. Edgar Fuller of Brooklyn. N r., in the pres- ence of immediate relatives and a few