Milford chronicle., 1931-10-02
GLENDALE
Omr Return

where the news pertaining to Ellen
dale can be gathered with more
ease.
While we were sojOurning at
Slaughter Beach it took at least one
trip a week to our home town and
the help of friends to gather the
few items which were printed in
the Chronicle.
Our summer which was spent in
our little summer home at Slaugh-
ter Beach was one which was thor
oughly enjoyed by the writer and
his family.
We have spent twenty-One years
at this old summer resort. We have
watched it grow from only nine cot
tages situated on the bay front to
an incorporated town of seventy
summer homes.
1t has made a wonderful growth
in the last few years and now has
a Board of Commissioners, a mayor,
police officer, electric lights and
water, most everything that goes to
make a once sleepy village into an
up-to-date thriving town.
AS / am an old fashioned fellow
I preferred the beach when there
was only few comers and goers.
and it seemed in the old days we
breathed more freely, went and
came at will, and were not bothered
by some to tell you what to do and
what not to do.
We enjoyed the free open life
which the old timers had at Slaugh-
ter Beach We fished, grabbed,
caught clans and oysters whenever
it suited our convenience, and when
ever we had a surplus we gladly di-
vided with our neighbOrs without
one cent of charge and only too glad
to do, it.
Such was the old life at Slaughter
Beach, but now they say this is a |
progressive age and to keep up with
the times we must have all those
things which makes a town progress
.site. May be so.
A progressive town generally
draws to it's confines a class of un-
desirable citizens which under the
old regime they did not think 1t
worth while to bother.
Nevertheless we have had a Won
y
at the old resort. While we find we
are too slow to keep pace with the
progressive ones, yet they will find
that we are trying to follow the pro-
cession. We may lag but we will
reach the goal after while.
We have found that a summer
spent at the old beach seems a PAN
acea for all diseases the human sys-
TEN is heir to. How could it be
breathing the life giving
air and eating the fresh sea food;
seems to give strength to the worn
out and tired systems of those who
are sick.
Is it any wonder that we should
hate to leave a place frOught with
so many health giving facilities, to
come back to our winter home only
to face a winter of snow and cold
arctic winds from the North.
Yet in a measure we are glad to
get back to see our old friends of
many years standing, to shake their
hands and meet them in church
these are some of the things which
soften the return to our winter
home, but there still will be a long
ing for the winter to pass by and
when the bluebirds sing in the
spring we may get ready to pack
up and wend our way back to the
old cottage at the shore to enjoy {
another summer of rest and recrea-
ton.
Funeral Of Samuel Harrington '
Fisher
The funeral of Samuel H. Fisher
which was held at his late home
here on Thursday afternoon of last i
week was the largest seen for many
years in this vicinity. Automobiles {
were parked in all vacant places
near the home of the deceased.
Women and men from all walks {
of life were in attendance, which !
showed the love and respect they il
had for him who when alive was
their friend, and they had come to S
pay the last respects to one who had I
been so popular through life. t
The flowers sent by the orders to h
which he belonged and relatives and b
friends were large and were very s
beautiful.
The singing during the services by G
a. trio of ladies from Lincoln, Mrs. i
Frank POstles, Mrs. Dallas Kibler t
and Mrs. Harvey Swain, was finely il
rendered. "
Rev. James M. Faulkner of the NJ.
E. Church, Glendale, preached
sermon of great power in which he V
held up before those present the fine1
life which the deceased had lived.
The Rev. Conrad Hamer of the NJ. Y
2. Church Of Kenton, a friend and
former pastor, who was present, as
5isting, spoke in an eloquent way of a
the fine qualities of the deceased, t.
and how he had always been drawn Il
to his dead friend by the lovely
character which he manifested at g
all times. g
Interment was made in the Odd p
Fellows cemetery at Milford.
Fall al
Leaves have begun to fall which e'
Is a indication that the sap is leav-
ing the trees and soon the earth al
will be covered with millions of sc
hose pretty things which we so ad-
nired when green, making the trees ID
If both forest and homes something CO
% be admired and enjoyed. oi
The trees will soon shed their VI
summer coat of leaves leaving them tn
laTe and looking desolatc.. w
The flowers that have been so G.
pretty blooming along the wayside