Milford chronicle., 1904-10-14
Short Items of Interest.

White pants and straw hats are be.
ing called in.
I The tramps we had this summer
have all ieft town.
Excursions to Cedar and Slaughter
Beach have closed.
School children are now very busy
collecting hickory nuts for winter use.
Some few blossoms have appeared
ON cherry trees around here this week
Frost was visible last week again in
some of the most exposed parts of the
town.
Quite number of our inhabitants
are laying in their coal and wood for
winter.
There are several weddings booked
for Milford and vicinity this fall and
winter.
Our market at this time Is we'll sup
piled with fish such as perch. fatback
and rock.
The ladies Of our town are complain
ing of men splitting tobacco juice on
the side walks.
Some campaign literature is being
distributed on our streets; also cam
paign buttons.
Report says there are in Milford and
vicinity twenty-five cases Of typhoid
fever and dyptheria.
There are several parties Of this town
intend to erect oyster stands along the
streets on election day.
there are no divorce cases reported
50 far from Milford at the coming term
Of Kent County Court.
The town has been invaded with
fees for month past, driving the peO
pie to almost distraction.
Muskrats are reported to be nu-
merous. The trappers say the outlook
is fine for a good season.
The engravings shown in this edition
were from photographs taken by w.
w. Daugherty, of Milford.
Hook and line fishing at the oyster
rocks in our creek are said to be fine
perch and rock principally.
John NJ. Truitt, an egg dealer Of Mil
ford, collected from the falmers in this
vicinity 1900 dozen eggs a week.
The farmers in this vicinity are wor-
rying over their late potato crop. The
crop is less than half of last season.
In a crap game on Saturday night
Geo. Thorn, colOred, cut VIM. Allen,
colOred. in three places with a knife.
There is quite a demand from city
sTortsmen for hunting dogs. Two sales
have been made this week at good fig.
uIes.
There are horses being driven in this
town every day with sore shoulders
and lameness. Such persons should be
fined.
Some few mananoes and soft shell
crabs have been caught and sold in our
market this week for fifteen cents a
dozen.
Hirsch & Draper, packers of canned
goods Of this town, have put up this
season over one hundred barrels of
catsup.
E. Lowery and friend from Phila
caught this week with hook and line
2OS pickeral and black bass in five
hours fishing.
Chicken thieves have been at work
this week. John Davis lost twenty
head one night, and other farmers from
ten to twenty.
The sweet potato crop is said by
knowing ones to be very large. The
buyers haven't commenced purchasing
up to this date.
Hardshell crabs are being caught by
the bushels at Cedar Beach by the fish
erman who sell them in the market at
ten cents dozen.
Milford is said to be a crap shooting
town-eleven games were running on
Sunday. One of the shooters winning
twenty-One dollars.
The pond terrapin catchers have be-
gun operations and some large catches
are being made. Prices at this time
is 80 cents a dozen.
Joseph Lynch. one of our rural de-
Iiverymen has covered this season on
his wheel two thousand miles. This
was done to save horse flesh.
The young ladies of Milford who SO
successfully carried on their Entire
No,,s CIuh lost winter have decided TO