Milford chronicle., 1889-10-25
MILTON.

Bennett had been elected by the Town
Council, to fill the ofnces made vacan,
by the resignation of Mr.. Walls, viz
Collector Of town taxes, overseer Of the
streets. town bailiff and lamp lighter.
Mr. Bennett refused to bond for the
books, alleging-and we presume rightly
that Mr.. Walls had collected the best
of the taxes, or a majority of them, and
that only small minority Of the taxes
now on the books are collectable. Sub
sequently the Town Council again met,
and made other disposition of the books,
abolished for the present the Office OF
Town Bailiff, and again appointed Mr..
Bennett as lamp lighter and overseer
of the streets, to work agreeable to the
orders of two committees, who are ap-
pointed by, and from, the Town Coun-
Gil; one of the said committees to have
jurisdiction over North Milton, and the
other, of the said committees to have jur-
isdiction over South Milton. How well
this arrangement is going to work, was
apparent on Saturday evening" have
been told by a gentleman, that the crowd
on the corner where it usually congre-
gates, was so dense, that only by elbow
ing his way through, could he pass; and
for ladies, it was utterly impossible.
The land of the late John A. Hazard,
deceased, situated in North Milton, and
contiguous thereto, is now being sur
veyed by Mr.. John c. Hazard, and that
portion lying along Milton Lane is being
laid off into building lots. Two avenues
are also surveyed starting from Milton
Lane, one of them intersecting with the
road leading to the Drawbridge, near the
A. NJ. E. Church, and the other tapping
the same road near the late residence of
Robert Belts, deceased. Other streets
will be laid off parallel with Milton
Lane The lands of Mr.. Hazard, de-
ceased, that are cut up, intersected and
divided by these avenues aud roads, will
be surveyed into lots of three, five, ten and
twenty acres each, and the whole offered
at public sale singly, in a very short
time. This looks like move in the right
direction, if buyers can be found with cap
ital to purchase and aferward to build
upon the land.
On Saturday evening Golden Rule
Lodge, I. o. o. F., No. II of this town,
was visited by the Degree Staff of Fidel- |
ity Lodge, No. rs of Frankford, and also
by number of the same order from
Georgetown. The members of Fidelity |
Lodge stopped over night at the Ponder
House, and left for their homes on Sun
day morning. On the occasion of this
visit six new members we're initiated at
Golden Rule Lodge, and the applications
Of eight others are pending for member
ship on next Saturday evening.
Mr.. Fred Dahllop,of Sweden, and Miss
Annie Jensen we're married on Sunday
afternoon at o'clock at the residence of
he brides father, Mr. Christian Jensen
lear town, by the Rev. F. H. Mullineaux.
A large supper was given in honor ofthe
went to the many invited guests, who
enjoyed themselves finely.
On the same evening Mr.. Harry Reed
md Miss Viola Coulter, were Joined in Z
yedlock at the NJ. P. parsonage in this
own. The marriage was a quiet gather
ng of select few; the Rey. f. H. Null
ineaux performing the ceremony.
Mr.. J. w. Fox, of Baltimore, returned
o his home on Saturday.
Ex-Governor Ponder is building a two {
tory tenant house in town.
On Monday Mr. Peter Shockley, form
rly proprietor of the Merchants Hotel =
t Salisbury, Md. purchased of Mr.. VIM.
!. Lofiand the goodwill and fixtures of
lie Ponder House in this town. The pur- ;,
base includes the livery, and all the ap- 7
urtenances pertaining thereto. Mr.. Il
hockley has already taken possession. b
Joshua Bailey is still pegging away at n
is old stand on Union street. Josh is a -
Ood-natured man, and the butt of many
joke by nischievous young men. 1t is
D uncommon thing for him to leave his
Top for awhile, and when he returns to 8,
ork sit down on the point of a pegging R
Vi that some frolicsome boy has inserted la
rough his seat. Josh generally comes Is
, faster than he went down, flies in Ii
lssion for a minute, and then is as good ol
'tured as ever Go it, Josh you have o'
we'd many soul" aud the prospect is pc
III will save many more, at least, for a II
ne. d. A. c. y