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Show GREAT WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY TURN OUT OF TWO HUNDRED MEN ON MILFORD "GRAVEL DAY" V Results of this year's Gravel Day, sponsored by the Milford Volunteer Fire Department, was most gratifying. It was a big day in Milford. Stores closed and business men and clerks joined the farmers and citizens of the town in putting over the biggest "Gravel Day" in the history of the town. The amount of good work accomplished by this hoard of busy workmen in a few hours is remarkable, and Milford again demonstrated that when it undertakes undertak-es anything it put it across in a big way. Two hundred men, twenty-eight teams and thirty trucks moved and spread over a thousand yards of gravel during the day. Low places on all side streets were leveled and all the bad places left by the heavy winter snows were repaired. There was a continual stream of trucks and wagons from the gravel pit to the town. And while they worked hard, it was a jolly bunch and everyone had a good time. In appreciation of the hard work and civic pride displayed by the workers, the town furnished a banquet ban-quet at the I. O. O. F. hall at the close of the day's work. The meal was prepared by the members of the Rebekah lodge and the tired and hungry hun-gry gravel-shovelers did ample justice jus-tice to the feed. From the attendance at the dance following the banquet one would scarcely believe that a hard day's work had been accomplished by the participants. It was one of the largest larg-est and best dances held in Milford for many days. j The M. V. F. D.'s, who deserve unlimited un-limited credit for the success of the undertaking, wishes to thank everyone every-one who so willingly and cheerfully turned out and assisted them in making mak-ing the biggest and best gravel day Milford ever witnessed. Many borrowed shovels were in use, and the boys requests that anyone any-one having one of these shovels, and not knowing the owner, to leave same at the P. P. O. O. Garage. |