Milford chronicle., 1904-09-30
Short Items of News.
snipe are plentiful on the meade

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order. The crop is a good one this
year.
Old corn retails at rs cents per bush.
el. New corn is worth 50 cents per
bushel.
Wheat is worth 81 O5 per bushelst stand
those have it do not care to part with
it at that price.
The regular meeting of the Milford
Grange will be held in its hall over
the POstoffice at 2.9O p. m.
Keiffer pears have been sold at S and
10 cents per five eighth bushel basket
at the Milford depot this month.
The Stork that came to the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Grier last week
left fine ten pound boy; the second.
4 Glenworth, the home Of the late Rev
J. S, Willis, has been rented to J.
Phalzgraf, who will take possession
January l. 1905.
a good carriage curtain was lost by
some person last week, and it was
found by Nr. Vince Harrington of the
Central Hotel. 1t is almost new.
The 46th anniversary of the Chapel
will be held on Thursday night, Oct.
18th, 1904. The full program will be
given in next weeks CHRONICLE.
Next Sunday after noon Prof. LaRue
will give the general lesson at the
Chapel. Services will commence at
> p. nj. Song service fifteen minutes
before.
The colored public schools have petit
toned to have a street opened by their
new school house, and Council will ap-
point the commission to do the work
at once.
The primary election for the first dis
trict in Sussex County was held last
Saturday. 1t was the first time that all
the Republicans of the district have
participated in primaries.
The shipments of phosphate this fall
are very heavy, and the two large fac
tories here find 1t difficult to keep up
with their orders, as the acreage in
wheat will be greatly enlarged.
1t is illegal to take out of the Mispil-
lion more than twelve bushels of Oys
ters by one party at one time; bat
there is not one oysterman in the busi-
ness but what violates the law daily.
Yet they complain about violations OF
,, the law.
2 This Friday evening the teachers will
meet at the home of the superintendent
of the Chapel for the study of next
= Sundays lesson and to complete the
| arrangements for the coming anniver-
sary, Rev. G. P. Jones will conduct
the study.
Cards announcing the wedding OF
s Miss Elizaheth l.. Gibb, of East Dead
S ham, Massachusetts, and Mr.. Roswell
l Foulk Phelps, at that place on Oc'obeI
I 5, 1904, have been sent TO the relatives
5 and friends. They will make theiI
/ home in that city.
Cards of invitation to the wedding
of Miss Anna F. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Tuthill, of Washington,
D. c., to DIR. Edgar P. COPELAND, have
been sent out. The ceremony will take
place on October Is, 1904 in the Metro
politan Presbyterian Church, Of that
city.
Mr.. Geo. E. WrOten formerly Of Mil
ford, and a graduate of the public
schools here, recently secured through
Hapgoods of the Pennsylvania Build
ing of Philadelphia, very good posi-
tion with L. Dannenbaum & Sons Co.,
a well known millinery concern, of
New York.
1t will be seven weeks before the
law permitting the killing of rabbits
goes out, but reports are occasionally
made that persons are guilty Of shoot
ing them now. If this can be ascer-
tanned and proof made, they should be
prosecuted and the most severe penalty
of the law imposed.
H. G. Peterman, formerly Of Milford
has been appointed by the United Ci
gar Stores Co.. of New York, to new
position, that has for its duties the su-
pervision of the window displays Of all
the stores of that Company. His job
is no sinecure as the Company has ov-
er I2O Cigar stores in New York alone.
Leonard Abbott the son of Geo. g.
Abbott the popular millwright Of this
town is assisting Sprout Waldron, Of
Muney, Penna. to install new 100
barrel wheat mill and 70 barrel buck
wheat mill for Mr.. George Fenneer, Of
Somerset, Penna. and from there they
will go to Pittsburg, Penna., to build
700 barrel flour mill.