Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-17
MILTON,

MILTON,
Over two hundred people of Milton, FL
lendale and Georgetown and the surround
ing country met in Assembly Hall here last
Thursday afternoon to discuss the best
route to run the proposed new Queen Annes
Railroad from Denton to Lewes, either
through Greenwood and Glendale to Mil
ton or through BrldgevilIe Georgetown and
Milton, the former route being the most
preferable, except with the Georgetown
delegation. Messrs. Fisher and Ellegood,
and in fact all Glendale and Greenwood
were enthused over their route as we'll as
the Georgetowners were enthusiastic over
theirs. Several glowing speeches were de
livered in favor OF each route; but that was
about all that was done, The committee
on right of way appointed at this mass
meeting was E L Collins, John Ponder,
Joshua Ellegood, Chas. G. NAPLES and
Samuel E Reed; and on stock, James A
Hopkins, Thomas A Douglass and John
T. Fisher. Wilmer Emory, Esq, was in
attendance.
The fine dwelling built last year on the
lot where the puqlic school building burned,
by ex-senator John B Dorman, and occu-
pied by Mrs Fred White, was entirely de
stroysd by fire last Monday at II 80 a m
The origin of the fire is not known. Mrs
White was awakened by the smoke com.
ing in her bed room where she and her
three children were sleeping Some of her
best furniture was saved. She had S32 90
under her pillow that was burned. The
fire is supposed to have originated in or
about the kitchen as there is where It was
FIRST seen. Mrs. Whlte and her three little
ones were turned out in the cold in their
night clothes.
The newspapers of a town are its look
ing glasses. 1t is here you see yourselves
as others see you. You smile on them and
they smile back on YOU you frown on
them and you are repaid in kind. They
are the reflex of a town If the town is
doing business the newspaper will show it
in its advertising columns. If the mer-
chants are spiritless, shiftless fellows, whose
stores are jumbles of junk and jam, the
newspapers will show it by the lack of
space they take. If you want the world to
know that you have alive town, you can
only let it be known through newspapers.
So you must advertise
The "angel of death" has again visited
our midst and claimed for its reward one of
our bright and intelligent little boys Martin
Carey, the eldest child of Charles and Ellie
Carey, of North Milton, after short i'll;
ness, but intense suffering, he passed from
earth to heaven The funeral cortege con-
sisted of only evolving to the loathsome
disease from which he died His dear little
body was inferred in the M E Cemetery
Saturday at 10 80, Rev. viii Valiant off.
eating Since writing the above Martins
little sister Willie has passed away land was
inferred beside Martin on Tuesday at 3 p
m d, and the mother, Mrs Ellie Carey, is
quite i'll.
Revival services that usually begin with
New Years night in both the M E. and
NJ. P. Churches has not yet begun owing
to the epidemic we have of dlphtherla. Both
the Sunday schools and day schools, white
and colored, are closed and the town is
alarmed. All precautions possible are be.
ing taken against the spread of the disease
Disinfectants are being put out but there
are many careless ones, both colored and
white, that spread the disease and cur
Board of Health says not a word Isaiah
Young, colored, said to me, 'give me
something to eat and I'll stay at home"
On last Saturday E. 3. Frazer, President
State Board Of Health, was notified TO take
our town in hand Up to date there has
been about fifteen cases and eight deaths
Ought we not to be alarmed, especially we
that have little onesl
The Counselman Canning Co. of our
town has just received a large car load of
very extra fine seed peas from Canada
which are of extra quality The firm is
now contracting with our farmers for 1896
crop They have already contracted for
over 100 acres. They intend to contract
for 900 acres
Milton is less than a thousand years old
and the dwelling burned Sunday night is
the first dwelling house ever burned down
in town. Quite able, is it not?
1t would be well Johnny to examine your
pockets before giving your wife your coat
to mend next time. Some think there's no
use tor women knowing so much, and that
100 much knowledge ulsettles them some.
lines and gives the gentleman a heap Of
rouble
Saving the ice on our lake, housing it
md building and repairing the places to re-
Give II and the hauling, gave work to a
arge number of people. The ice stored is
i've inches thick or more and about ten
louses are filled with the frozen water.
It's puzzle to small boy in town to t
,now why woman make their dresses four J
lches too short and then hold them up.
Little Wilbur Veasey,a son of Mrs. Cord Y
died Tuesday morning with g
iphtheria, and was inferred at Beaver I
Jam Wednesday at n m. Il
VIM Bozman and daughter, Mrs Dome a
on, Of Cedar Neck, visited relatives here p
le first of this week. Charlie LoAand =
aving gained his health again has come b
ON his Philadelphia home to visit his il
arents here, Mr., and Mrs. Elias Lohond. b
-Yorke Penniwill and Charles Darby, two =
gboat men of Philadelphia, who were Ii
Urn and raised in Milton, and two Of its Ell
sllant young gents, home visiting their
rents and making a boom among the :,
,ung folks, which was at avery low ebb u,
It'll their arrival but now the ball viii +,
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