The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-15
MILFORD NEWS

Although the clustering but brief snowstorm of Tuesday evening dis couraged some, there was still a 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.
 MT. Williams story of the Lusitania disaster was that of one who had been through 9 terrible experience and has lived to tell about it, and also one able to tell it in a manner to leave a vivid impression on the minds of hia hearers, although he softenedi the tale to prevent it's being too gruesome.
 He was in the dining hall three sto. ries below the main deck with 3Oe others when the blow came. Every face turned white, and there was a 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 stateroonn. four stories down, for four life preservers, one for himself and the others immediately snapped up, and 8 few minutes later took what he intended to be a regulation header
 
 striking feet first; returning to the surface he swan away from the ship and as he looked over his shoulder saw the rear. of the Lusitania with 1000 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 it 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 overturr cd life boat and after five hours was picked up by the Empress of India. The singing of Abide With Me" by survivors floating about and of ''Tinperary" by 8 party of young fellows in half sunken boat, one of them holding woman's face above water by the hair 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 Peters, held Monday evening: Senior warden, Frederick Cornwall; junior warden and treasurer, H. c. Peck; clerk and.vestryn1an, 1T. c. c. Miles.
 The price of sugar has been wob- bling from medium low at F cents pound to fairly high at 20 cents and the general tendency is upward, and there is also a tendency to put the sugar bowl away in the closet.
 The finance board has invited the members of the board of education to attend their meeting on Monday even- ing next and discuss with them the question of increased salaries for teachers. Competition from nearby points, especially from Bridgeport and New Haven, is said to be mainly a he reason why the school board reported favorably in the matter. It is said that Bridgeport is particularly dis tressed for teachers of the higher grade, and that the school men there are thinking of doubling up to some extent.
 Contracts do not protect in all cases and cities and towns are not always scrupulous when necessary to fill va- caneies; so that Milford teachers arc tempted to break faith and leave, al- though of course, it is rare that one does s,o This consideration, it is pre- stunned, actuated the board in recom- merkdGng the bonus for those who serve through the year.
 The Rev. George w. Peterson, whose illness at the Bridgeport hospital has been spoken of, is worse and there are grave fears as to the result.
 President Storrs Of the Connecticut company appeared before the business men on Tuesday evening and took the Milford case as presented by Judge Brown and others under advisement.
 A boost for the Visiting Nurse as- sociation to the extent of $50 was another item of business.