The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 22, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 May 1986 — Page 18

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., May 28, ISM

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Milford's Main street

ANTHONY BEER, wn of Mr and Mre Lrn J Beer of Milford, will present a piano recital m the Wawasee High School auditorium at7p m on Friday, May 3ft _z M Anthony, a I9WI graduate of WHM, will be attending Gmhen College in the fail and will major in mWC H« piano teacher » Dnwglaa Bomherg of Goohen Cot

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Does anyone remember 'rhe Aerial Stones? The photolpn the left shows the Fothergill Sisters, tight wire artists. On the left t.i» Goldie < Fothergill > Stone On the right is her sistei*Eiizabeth Fothergill. The Christmas card on the right was sent to Myrble of Nappanee from Goldie Stone in December of 1914 from Ohio It shows Goldie and her husband. The*act was billed as America's Premier Novelty Gymnasts and Tight Wire Artists The permanent address for the group was P. O. Box 277, Milford. The postcard are the property of Mrs Lawrence (Ruby) Sawyer. Mrs. Saw ver did not know the name of Goldie's husband. We don't either, however.

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IT WAS good to see Michael Pershing and his wife Beverly back in Milford for the Memorial Day Parade Pershing is a state policeman and at one time be and his family resided in the Milford community Speaking of the parade. Wasn't Hgreat' DURING THESE final pre

Sesquicentennial Memories

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sesquicentennial days in Milford, home owners and others are to be genmndy ommeaded far their efforts to dean op and fix up around their properties and business houses. The list is long. Special notice steonid go to Town Marshal Dadd Hobbs for noing a week of Ms vacation time to paint tbe carb Hues and crossings a bright yeßew. Tins is specialty welcomed in tight of war

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Milford's high flying act

we did find information on the Fothergills, a tight wire trapeze act with circuses wintering in Milford. The Fothergills would return for the Milford Days reunion each year and perform their act, gratis, on a tight wire stretched from the top of Sparklin’s Store to the roof across the street. One of the members of the troop was King Fothergill. We know little more about him or the two women we would guess to be his sisters except for the fact that in 1905 he was a first grade student in the class of Molly Pinkerton Persons who have photos of Milford to contribute to this column should include as much information as possible with the photo. Special steps are being taken to insure safe return of all photos.

shortage of personnel in the town's street department. RAYMOND PINKERTON is notifying anyone interested that there will be no blood pressure testing at the Milford Community Building on Saturday, June 7, due to tbe Kiwanis pancake breakfast at that time. The town's senior citizens hold the blood pressure testing the first Saturday morn-

ing of each month and can rely on frmnSb to 75 regulars cacti time. There is uo charge far Ms service, bat voluntary proceeds are divided between the town's EMS building. A NUMBER of Milford ymmg folks, students at Wawasee High School, were among those participating in Hands Across

America Sunday afternoen at Denver, just north of Pern. Those from Milford participating were: Becky Flannery, Kristina Lange and Kelly Brooks. Their participation was put together by WHS American history teacher Vernon Zurcher as a “history in tbe making” project. He told his students this event would be written up in history textbooks sometime in tbe future and they could be proud to have participated. Tbe WHS students “really bad a lot of fun together.” to bear Zur cber explain it, enlivening the experience with a tail gate party. They paid 510 each, and five of them paid gS, money that would go toward feeding hungry America. Znrcher said entertainer Kenny Rogers commented on Denver, Ind., in his Fort Wayne appearance eartier, and that brought in all sorts of print and electronic media coverage. With Zurcher and the students/ were Mrs. Zurcher, daughter Melinie and her husband/ William Brian. HARVEY HOLLAR of r 2 (Hastings) Milford, thinks he might be the oldest reader of The Mail-Journal. He states his father and mother, the late James Erasmus and Arvilla Hollar of the Hastings community, received a free year's subscription to The Milford Mail, predecessor of The Mail-Journal, when he was born. August 3, 1906. The paper continued to go with them when they moved to Athens, Mich., in the faß of 1913. At that time The Milford Mail sold for $1.50 per year, and was published by the late William E. Groves, a well known country newspaper editor of that period, and the late Anthony (“Jack”) Forbing. Forbing came to Milford as an itinerant printer, eventually married the former Florence VanAuken of Milford

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GRAND OPENING — Jerry and Georgia Bray announce the grand opening of Jerry’s Carpet & Furniture, Inc.. SR 15S, Milford, on May 30 and 31. Known for carpet. Bray now carries name brand furniture such as Flexsteel, Tell City, Bassett, Colonial Square and Broyhill. He also carries lamps and dinette sets. Hours are Monday through Thursday 94i. Friday 9-8, and Saturday 9-5. (Photo by Dale Tobias)

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and became a partner in the Hoßar states hm perents “continued to take the paper m Michigan until they didn’t know anyone m the MBford community any more.” Hollar moved back to the Hastings community when he married the former Freda Tusing in 1929 and continued as a subscriber to the paper. Harvey will be 80 years of age August 3, 1966. PAUL KIZER, former Milford Postmaster helped fill our reporters in on the history of the post office for the special edition that is in the paper. At the close of the letter Kizer writes, “It was very gratifying being fortunate enough to serve the people of the community. They are the finest you can find. Hope to see you the first week of June.” THE FOLLOWING poem was given to us by Leatrice Rapp, ' who had cut it out of The MJ a number of years ago and thought it a fitting piece for the sesquicentennial . It was written hy Debbie Perry when she was in the sixth grade. Debbie is the daughter of Lorin Perry and is thought to reside in the Fort Wayne area. I Gave It Up Milford is so beautiful. Guess where she got her name; From pioneers fording cross the mill. Where Indians hunted game. In spring she wears fragrance in her air; A nest of robins in her hair; Bees upon her flowered skirt; Vegetable seeds in her dirt. On lazy summer afternoons: She whistles softly, lazy tunes. Her lake is quiet and quite warm and still, through the most violent storms.

Her autumns and winters are fair; Her terrible moments are rare. And. oh. what a terrible pity, to think I gave it up for the city' VERA SCHELL called the office on Tuesday to inform ns that many people thought the Lakeland Loving Care Center had given under $29 to her campaign for mayor. She has been worried about that and wants ns to inform our .readers that she received a large dheck from the Lakeland Center for her campaigx- The smaller sum was from " the residents of the home, many of whom have little or no mcome. Vera has been laid up since the mayor’s banquet with a leg injury suffered while playing the organ NANCY AND John Replogle were in Washington. D.C.. over the Memorial Day holiday to vis* with their daughter Becky, who is with the State Department, soon to leave for Suramine. Dutch Guiana. South America, on her first overseas assignment. The Replogles and their daughter attended the Memorial Day services at Arlington National Cemetery where President Reagan placed a large wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier and spoke, paying special tribute to veterans of the Vietnam War. Ist in 10 years BALI. INDONESIA - The first visit to Southeast Asia by a U.S. president in more than 10 years comes at a time when the Soviet Union is mounting fresh efforts to win friends and influence in the region. Use a flower If you discover a small rip or tear in solid color bed linens, patch it with a flower or some other blending design cut from scraps of cloth.