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Show VOTE HEAVIEST IN HISTORY OF MILFORD TOWN Unprecedented Interest Is Aroused Locally Both Parties Work Hard To Land Their Favorites Jond Feeling j I'revails. ' Results showed that but 1 1 very little scratching was - jdone by the Democrats, but the Republicans scratched " j freely on their ballots. . The initial sorting of the ballots showed 63 straight Republican votes, 163 voted straight on the Democratic ticket, 333 scratched ballots and 14 miscellaneous ballots. bal-lots. What is probally the heaviest vote polled in the. history of Milford marked the culmination of one of the I most hotly-contested political con-! con-! teses in many years, " 1 0 votes being polled as against 4 0!) east in the wet-dry wet-dry election. I'p to 4 p. m. 4 011 votes had been east and from noon to that tour the election board handled an average of one vote a minute, j Automobiles b'-aripg the banners of the various candidates rushed hither i ml thith'T all day long, bring-ins bring-ins voters to the polls. Entire good nature prevailed. Voters of opposite parties "joshed" ' and joked one another while no hint ! of disorder or rowdyism was in evidence. |