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Show Independence Day. I Observation Is , Commendable One I Milford's Independence day celebration cele-bration Monday, sponsored by Es-calanto Es-calanto post, Veterans of Foreign i Wars and the Auxiliary of that ! organization, was a most creditable one despite some unforeseen obstacles. ob-stacles. With the larger towns of , the state doing little or nothing to celebrate the nation's birthday, the (efforts of Commander Keough and , his able assistants to give Milford ; stay-at-homers a worthwhile celebration cele-bration is all the more commend-: commend-: abU and the business men of the jcommunit, virtually all of whom contributed generously in a financial finan-cial way, owe these organizations i a vote of appreciation. I The day's doings started off ! with the customary sunrise salute, 'followed up (ami preceded) by plenty of emulation on the part of ' the younger generation, j Surprisingly soon after 10 o'clock a short but interesting parade formed near the L. n. S. nhapel marched forward and back on Main j street and disbanded at the start-i start-i ing point. This feature was fol-j fol-j lowed by brief but interest-hold-j ing patriotic services at the chapel, j The early part of the afternoon I was devoted to a water carnival at 'the swimming pool, supervised by ; Kenneth Rus.-ey, and this in turn , was followed by kids races which I were run off as light intermittent showers permitted. The rain pre-, pre-, vented the staging of the scheduled schedul-ed ball game between Milford and Mip.ersvil'.e. and this or something else also accounted for not having ; the pony races scheduled at 5 o'clock. One of the finest features of the day was the elaborate fireworks display set off beginning at about ; 9 o'clock on the high school hill. From past experience this feature j is looked forward to annually as one of the most colorful of the ' year anil parking space in the vicinity vi-cinity of the hill was at a premium. While the rainy weather more or I less disrupted some of the activities activi-ties of the day with consequent oss of income to the organiza-! organiza-! tions Commander Keough's greatest great-est dissapointment came, he says, from a musical standpoint. This was especially deplorable, he says, in connection with the fireworks showing, where two or three numbers num-bers by the band would have added immeasurably to the impressive-ness impressive-ness of the occasion and enjoyment "of the large crowd . No dance was possible in town that night also be-possible be-possible in town that night, also ibecause of a lack of music, he says. n |