Milford chronicle., 1901-02-01
MILTON NEWS.

Webster for definition of the latter
term; for don't think you will find it in
his vocabulary. However,it is pertinent,
and as ''Fannie Fern" used to lay claim .
to originality in her beautiful writings
may we not do the same About their /
appointments there will be some disap- /,
pointments, and the best thing a candi- |
dale for Office can do, is to be prepared
to stand from under; for something will
fall somewhere. 1t has already fallen in
Milton, and agreeable to the ''eternal
fitness of things, it must do it again.
We have candidates galore, from Milton
for office, and we might safely say that
/ Governor HUM and President Mckinley
might find enough to fill the curriculum,
both State and National, from our town.
Mr.. E, NJ Lynch advertises the good
will and fixtures of the Hart House at
private sale. Mr.. Lynch's attention has
been called in another direction, and
hence his wish to close his business III
Milton. See advertisement in another
column.
Considerable quantities Of hickory
butts are being shipped from the Milton
Station; and B. Frank Gray has shipped
, several hundred cords of pine wood to
parties in Philadelphia. The latter ship.
) ment was an Innovation, as the wood was
hauled from the Milton dock after it had
been corded there for shipment
Mr.. William Conwell left town on
Thursday for Greenwood, where he will
assist as caterer at the Greenwood hos
: telry.
Mr.. W. 7. Starkey appears to be a
r home in his new drug store in the Bur
s ton Block. The room is nicely fitted up
and the proprietor looks to be of tn,
$ "manOr born"
t Mrs. Sallie Ponder and Captain JOSEPH
It Warrington, have purchased Of Captain
y George and Theodore Mcgee, schoone
|. Ella Call. Captain Warrington will com
mand the vessel.
Mr.. Stanton D. Draper, of Dakota, sol
of the late Henry C. Draper, is visiting
y his mother Mrs. Maggie Draper, il
nj Prime Hook Neck.
lr Mr.. Roland Lynch, or Philadelphia,
IL visiting his parents at the Hart House.
AZ Mr.. Isaac Nailor made business tri
~ to Philadelphia this week.
as The trustees of the NJ P. Church me
ill last evening to devise a means whereof
nc Kew windows of the Gothic style, wit
ev Cathedral glass shall be placed in tn
Id church The result of their deliber
or tons is not known at present.
Owing to sickness, the extra meeting
at both the NJ. p. and NJ. f. Churche
are closed for the present. They will /
c resumed at a more propitious season.
ID There arc a few cases of measles
1T town Children are the victims.
L. R. c. Beardsley is shipping the o
1e iron of his boiler, smoke stack, ETC.,
is the city. Mr.. Beardsley is a mechaui
to and to notice how nicely the rivets har
i'll been gotten out of these hulks, eve
IL without tearing the iron, shows skill al
nicely of work.
d, Married, at p m, at the home of IL
Id brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. w.
v kins, on Monday, Miss Estella Hulin
Atkins, to Captain Charles E, Darby. II
lg ceremony that made the couple man al
wife, was performed by the Rev. H.
rs Nelson, of the NJ, P. Church. Miss I
pit tella was one of the society ladies of NJ
We ton and daughter of g. w. Atkins, p
entee for the new carriage top and CO
D. respondent for several papers. The b
ut dial party was driven to the depot by sc
I'd eral teams, chief among which was &c
M. +. Vickers, of Lewes, who carried t
he contracting parties. At the corner
ale Union and Federal streets, the party '
m met by crowd who. wished them G,
speed amid a shower Of rice There W.
tut 200 announcements of the marriage ma
W. outside of Milton. No invitations W.
ca given-as the family is numerous 2
eat the friends many, no line could be ORA,
The wedned pair left on the Isl train
1r- Baltimore, Washington, and other poll
ms Mendelssohn's wedding march was be
cry tifully rendered by Mrs. Ada Mason.
ars The Fourth Quarterly Conference
the NJ. F. Church viii, he held on Fri
las evening. A full attendance is reoues
ties as this is the business meeting of the yt
90 And just at this point we are obliI
to stop for want 0f more items. We
Tue on our rubbers4 raw on our overcolt
IN sally forth to see what cold fro
Ill morning and SHOW covered gro,
raj may give to us. Snow covered, - di
say :? eyes; snow. covered in the co
M. try aud through tile wood. Well, I
Sc not know it was so cold, Or'I would h
T. stayed in town. But having started
motto is go through" Going up
railroad track west, the wind was pierci
u ,.o ol but as mariner often thinks, when
ugh hauis up around Barnegat he will h
used the wind more favorable. So thoug
past when 1 round up around I.avinias w
, IeeH I will have nice and beautiful walk
tnIn My anticipations were destined to II
am a sad reversal. Truly the calmness
orld- quietude of that lee shore was Apr
siip ated. But there was no thaw, and the
became even more excessive. Whe
reached the upper point of Lake Fans
:. zyki, the ice was forming fast. Tho
~ cold, couad not resist the temptat
the to stand in the lee of some brush
ION view the ice forming. There was a g
On breeze of wind going, but the way
pun ice formed was something ASTONISHING
MY had seen it form on the Delaware ri
ISIS but never SO fast anywhere as in
upper part of Lake Fanganzyki, on NJ
'ell day morning, January %, 1901.
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