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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1919
Page
12
In a talking animal tale Péter meets Redwing the Blackbird at Smiling Pool. Redwing reveals he and Mrs Redwing have already built a nest with four eggs, while his friends comment on the plain Mrs Redwing and Peters curiosity about the nest and secret.
Devon June 8 Special Milford veterans amounting to over 200 are being mailed notices after a recent general reception committee meeting. The group plans a joint Welcome Home event for Milford’s 280th anniversary on August 24. Veterans are urged to attend a Wednesday evening meeting at the Municipal building to help shape plans, including entertainment and dancing on Milford Green after the parade.
Walnut Beach paving work is set to start soon on Broadway as part of broad highway improvements. An appropriation of 4000 dollars, approved two years ago, funds the project to match pavement on Naugatuck Avenue and Devon with an Amicite base and eight and a half inches total thickness. The street has been widened four and a half feet, trolley tracks relocated, and utility poles moved to the duct line, improving driveways and traffic flow to the beaten area.
Milford observes Children Day with baptisms at First Plymouth and Methodist churches and evening exercises with music recitations and flowers. Marriage announced: Horatio T. Allen and Mrs. Ellie R. Tartty formerly of Milford to wed on June 6 in Newtown. Chautauqua representative Miss Maxwell from Philadelphia visits Milford ahead of a New England event at Plymouth Green. Suffrage drive planned. Milford raising funds to support citizenship education and woman suffrage efforts. Major L. Ford to report to American Expeditionary Forces in France. Mrs. Noildermeier visits Milford. Mrs. Vose returns from Boston. Frederick Gagne dies in an accidental on Fairfield Avenue at General Motors garage.
Members of the Devon Hose company led by the Devon Bars Fire and corps attended a memorial service in Milford under Arctic Engine company auspices this afternoon. All local companions were represented and the funeral cortege of deceased members arrived at Milford and Mary's cemetery where the graves were decorated per annual custom.
Mishawaka Indiana woman describes severe female weakness that doctors could not relieve. After three months she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and was cured. The ad urges other women to seek relief and offers the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. for consultations.
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