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Show . HURRAH! HURRAH! 1 What's the matter with Milford? 1 fancy I can hear a thousand echos saying, "She's all right. A week or so previous- to our glorious glor-ious fourth, everybody was glum, pessimistic and fearful of results, but Our Editor, Mr. Carlton, forged ahead, worked up the commercial club luncheons, put vim audi energy into the movement and then put it up to them to have a celebration. Well the crowd of big-hearted, enterprising en-terprising business men presen voted a celebration. Oh, I thought, what madness, what follv. Then I began to see big red. white and blue posters flying around, and being displayed. Then there was a contest for the Goddess of Liberty; Lib-erty; then the musicians of our city got busy and held band practices ev-pi-v niht: then they gave band con certs in the evening. The scales b-e gan to fall. I could see our city a lively, live-ly, bristling place, with energetic people here, with good will in their hearts and an eagerness to respond In liven tin and give our town prominence. prom-inence. Say. how much did it cost In put up those posters and send them away? None of your business. T guess, hut I want to tell you that this advertising did our city hundreds hun-dreds of dollars worth of good. People landed in Milford to celebrate, cele-brate, after thev had read those bills, and thev stayed here two and three days. I don't aim to give advise, but I surely am convinced that it surely pays to advertise. Now that parade was a wonder. The boys on horse-back, and the way John McKeon handled them showed he was a master hand in that work. The Service Star and our beautiful Coddess just astonished everybody. The band was showered with laurels laur-els all dnv long. Xnw what is the moral to this. "Wake ui. Don't listen to disconrnre nient. Our o:ty will be just what Cms celebration was. a big. glorious and wonderful success, if we all work ami null together in the right way. with the right thoughts ami snend a little more nionev to tell the world lust who and what we are and can do. Marie Maple. |