Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20
MILTON.

All things in honorable old age SHOULD
command respect, and with feelings o
kindness for a servant of man that ha.
discharged all of its obligations well, W,
note that ''Old Fannie, the thirty-year
old mare, owned by Samuel Wilson
which he has had boarding at a good
farm home, was last Friday led into hel
stall, and will never again do any mort
work. Fannie weighs only $50 pounds
against $50 pounds of other years. AbOu
twentY.three years ago when Fannie was
in her prime, Mr. Geo H. Hall, now Of
Milford, and the writer, held watches while
Samuel ] Wilson drove her in less than
three minutes on country road Rest and
peace to her old bones.
Two beef shambles supply this town
with meat, but they find beef wagons from
Georgetown serious competitors for BUSH
ness The competition don't make the
beef any more tender.
Our Board of Health, or Town Council,
should take active measures to prevent any
more contagious Observation-Disclosures
have had sufficient in our recent diphtheria
experience. They should see that no Stops
any character is thrown on the streets,
az IN PLACES where disease will breed. All
househald waste should be removed at once
and buried in the dark laboratory of old
mother earth, where nosome and noxlous
germs are made pure. Permit no pals to
stand with reeklng garbage to draw flies
and endanger public health
A young man remarked, that he must
hunt up wife who could cook now this
subject should have two sides to It'll
the young ladies should require the young
man to be able to furnish something to
cook
At the last Quarterly Conference held in
the N p Church. February 10Th, the en-.
Velnpes were opened and 1t was found the
three appointments joined and all voted for
one man. VIM. V. Collins, but he not
knowing his name had been used for del.
egate, positively declined; then the new
law says the conference must elect, so Jas
K. Polk Jefferson, of Reynolds, was the
winning man, as the appointment under
the new law mas the chance to spring the
trap on US every time. The Conference
meets at Almet Memorial Church in Bal
timOre Wednesday, April Ist At this con-
ference James A Belts and Alfred Wilson
were made assistant stewards to John H.
B. Mustard The pastors return for the
second year was asked for and the dele
gate instructed to ask for an assistant
preacher as the work has grown to be too
much for one preacher to attend satisfac.
torily
Business at Douglass & Whites shirt
factory increases every week. Owing to
orders the shirt manufacturers
have just added to their plant sixteen new
which gives them a capacity Of !
SOP dozen shirts per week, Oh, what a |
boom to poor old Milton that's always
oeen a hundred years behind; but at last
she Is coming to the front
The official layman, Prof J. B. WEIGH,
rom the NJ. E. Church, left for Dover this
week as delegate with his beloved pastor,
Rev. W. 7. YalIenI, to attend the annual
session of the Wilmington Conference.
Unto Mr. Charles 6. and Mrs. Maggie
Naples was born a IA pound daughter
asst Sunday evening.
The town council met Monday evening
o receive bids for bailiff, street overseer
nd lamp lighter, and Edward Calhoun
vas the lucky fellow. Charles H. Atkins,
he merchant, furnishes the electricity
Or the twenty.eight lamps.
We always regret seeing spring come,
pr then we have to part with so many of
ur fellow townsmen that are compelled to
eek employment elsewhere Among those
nat have taken their departure during the
asst week are, Capt James N. Darby
,haFlIe Darby, his son; Yarke Pen1ewil,
Charles Lofland, James Martin. Isaiah
Joshua Gray, Dora Conner,
ohm Fisher, Jr., Alfred White
Joseph V. Prettyman, who for many
lonths has been suffering from cOnsump.
on, is in a precarious condition and very
tile hopes are entertained for his recovery,
CounseIman q Fisher ara now contract,
IL for tomatoes at their Office over Star
ey's drug store.
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