Milford High Boy Wins Wesleyan Scholarship
Orville Bescher, a Milford High School graduate, has been awarded a $100 Wesleyan scholarship for the fall first semester. He is an all around athlete and popular class member.
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1926
Page
11
Orville Bescher, a Milford High School graduate, has been awarded a $100 Wesleyan scholarship for the fall first semester. He is an all around athlete and popular class member.
A Milford notes roundup lists prizes as silver bar pins for a local contest with ten Milford entrants. It mentions Mr and Mrs G W Samson entertaining visitors at Star cottage Fort Trum null Beach frontage, and various social engagements including a surprise shower for Miss Rebecca Segal amid wedding plans with Samuel Morison. Also referenced are upcoming Guard Club initiation, Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, Women’s Relief Corps sewing, Episcopal church gatherings, and Knights of Columbus hall events.
Easton May 24 Special report on the play A Poor Married Man at the fire house Friday night. A free act comedy directed by Thad deus Adams of Stratfield featured Cyril Kendall Lorintha Hull Fred Marsh Helen Groschel Miriam Hitchcock Ralph Marsh Walter Jennings and Gladys Bush Verne Lopez Calvon Crown with Boy Scout orchestra and singers Jack Delter Natalie and Barbara Marsh. Ice cream and cake raised about $100 for the Ladies Aid Society.
Danbury marked Memorial Day as six cemeteries received flag placements by a Sons of Veterans committee aided by flag-bearing automobiles from the State Armory. Also noted is Rev Joseph O Brien taking up duties at St Mary s Danbury, succeeding the late Rev William J Dullard. Mrs Clarissa Nevins of New Fairfield clarifies a state park plan delay tied to Barces pond land for storage reservoir and possible shifts as CT power company negotiates land options.
In Trumbull on Thursday evening a Congregational church social featured piano solos by Mrs Webster Shephard and Vivian Ratchford, a choir welcome, readings by Mrs Margaret Lemonde and Merle Shephard, and a sketch titled The Hitler Makes a Call. Nearby, Mrs Kascak hosted her father Mr Winfield of Ansonia, and Mr Frank Fernald entertained Fev and Mrs L Long of Bridgeport. The Volunteer Firemen slated a special program at the Town Hall, with refreshments to follow, as donations and weekend visits among locals were noted.
At the Monroe Wire Company special meeting held Tuesday evening the carnival dates were set for August 12 13 and 14 and a general carnival committee led by Wilbird Stanley Rev Henry Habershim and Hau Dr egon was formed with sub committees to be named.
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