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Milford chronicle., 1904-11-11
CALHOUNS' DISTRICT.

Miss Nav Prettyman was the guest of
Mary Carpenter W dnesday
Curtis Carey. wife ana daughter, Edith,were
he guests Of VIM. Truitt and wife.
Miss Lizzie Dor ovau was the guest of Miss
lima Warren. Of Glendale, sunday.
t1eorge W. Hatfield was the guest OF Roy
Truitt.
Miss Julia B. Warrington spent Sunday
with Miss Inez Fitzgerald.
James Sharp, OF Milford Neck, and MISS
CARPENTER spent sunday with Willoughby
Beideman and family
David Lohand and wife we've the guests Of
Mrs Susan Kirby sunday.
Misses Ida K Warrin kton and Emma Mae
Carpenter, were the guests of Miss Della Mil
man.
Mrs David Milman and daughter, Jose
phine, we're the guests of Mrs. VIM. Truitt.
VIOLET.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-11
Short Items of News.

Inc teachers VIII De Win uH tue laEt
of this month.
All the sailing vessels are making
quick trips.
What has become of the Temper
ance League of Milford?
Milfold boasts that not one "speak-
cay" exists in her limits.
Stock raisers report that cattle are in
prime condition this fall
1t is said there are a few people in
Milford dealing in lottery.
The merchants have commenced re-
ceiving their Christmas goods.
Some very large catches of perch and
other fish have been made this week.
Hickory nuts and walnuts have been
plentiful this fall, and many have been
stored.
1.-THE phosphate trade in Milford has
been larger this season than for several
seasons past.
Several farmers from the vicinity of
Milford will move to town after the
first of the year.
White heron are numerous along the
Mispillion, and gunners are making
them good targets
Wood and coal thieves have COM
menced operations, and the wharves
are being robbed.
The w. G. t. U. meets with Mrs. NJ.
H. Davis, North Walnut st. next Tues
day evening at 7.30.
Reports are that there are more
young oysters on the oyster beds than
ever before noticed.
Sweet potato dealers have finished
storing the crop, and the price closed at
20 cents per basket.
The merchants say they can locate
few shop.lifters in Milford, and will
prosecute the next case.
Crap shooters are getting more bolda
and another raid will put gOOdly sum
into the town treasury.
Catfish have paid well those who
have shipped them this season; they
have sold as high as - cents per
pound.
Hog butchering has commenced, but
the number to he killed that were
raised in the town limits will not reach
over $50, against 800 usually.
The law against killing rabbits will
not expire until the 10th; but some
people are taking long chances on be-
ing arrested for shooting them now.
Buyers of old furniture have pur
chased some old pieces about here al
fancy prices this fall. Lavinus Austin
sold an ancient piece for fancy price
The sturgeon boats of this port have
all been hauled out and painted, anC
the seines stored for next season. ThI
quantity of fish caught and cavier pu
up was very small last year.
Very little salt hay from the marshe
has been shipped from this part 0
Delaware to the city markets; the storm
tide of month ago having turned i
dark and thereby lnj ured its sale.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-11
Contents of the November Number Of
the American Boy.

Thirty-two large pages. Eighty-three Illus.
trations. Ten stories, entitled "Stratagem of
Ramus'' "Jimmyboy's Commissions" "How
Ned Earned His Thanksgiving Dinner;" "Old
Toby's Thanksgiving 1.-The First Grenadier
of France" "Reverie OF Bad Sick Boy;
"Sinpson's Rest" "My -Four Years at West
Point;" THE Hero OF the Football Game; :"
"Phe Obedience Of Danny Dale" Thirteen
leading articles entitled as follows "When
'Old Glory is Lowered Boys Of Naples
sThe Largest Vessel Ever Built" Russell
sage's Advice to Young Men," message Of
Governor VanSant, Of Minnesota, to Asleri-
can Boys;'' "South African BOer War Exhibit
ted at st. Louis;' "The Boy as an Invest
ment;" The Blue Jay"-the irst of series
OF articles entitled "AmOng the Birds" "Boys
in the Revenue Gu ter Service "a Jap Cadet
Corps Under the American Flag "a Unique
Pet" "St. Bernard Dogs;n "Playing Indian
Z nder the general heading OF "How To Do
Things" the following How TO Have an
Ant Colony of Your own" and the third OF
a series ofarticles on whiting. In addition
full pages are devoted to the following de-
partments: Boys as Money Makersr the order
of the American Boy; Amateur Journalism;
Stamps Coins aud Curios; The Boy Photog-
rapher and Puzzles; then there are numerous
small items OF interest TO boys generally
slOO year.-TheStragu Publish hing Co., De
trOit, Mich.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-11
WHERE YOUR
FRIENDS ARE.

Captain F. c. Wiswell has returned
from Oceau Grove, N. j. for the win
ter season.
B B. Topping is in New York and
Philadelphia this week buying his
Christmas goods.
Edward Davis has been home this
week visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Davis, of South Milford.
James o. Chamberlain is in Virginia
on the Rappahannock river, shooting
ducks. He is accompanied by Howard
Anderson, of the Queen Anne railroad,
and will be absent for two weeks.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-11

by both vessels, with the result that the men.
haden steamers came 10 p stop.
They were rounded up IN a space covering
several acres, and men from the cpfterS
boarded them. For over an hour the fishing
steamers were compelled to lay to and snk
nit to the inspection OF the revenue Officers
whom 1t is believed examined the FISH in fhe
holds OF each steamer in order to ascertain
to what extent the food fish had suffered in
the hauling of the great purse nets. Just he
fore dark the fleet was allowed to continue
toward the Breakwater. The government
Vesseis steamed toward the north, about two
miles OF shore probably on the lookout for
other steamers Of the menhaden fishing fleet
Nearly every day for more than two weeks
large h9et of the menhaden ipiratesn has
appeared off the Cape May cosst Il came al
daylight, and in few hours fl hing the YES
sells were loaded TO the decks A few morn
ings ago thirteen ofthe steamers were nam.
ing their huge nets off Sea Isle Citv,les than
mile from the beach. The law compelling
them to keep three miles from shore has been
almost dead letter with the menhaden fish
ermen,
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-11
Oakley Church.

There will be an entertainment given
in the Church at Oakley Nov. 26, 1904,
beginning at Z o'clock. Admission fOI
adults 10 cents; children cents.
Proceeds for the benefit of the Church
come and kelp US. We will try tC
entertain you.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-11

pers. No lazy man is needed about
a newspaper Office, and it requires
constant working of both brain and
muscle to make a successful paper,
which would, if applied in some
other lines of business, yield large
financial returns.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-11
Rev. Robert A. EIwOOd.

Every friend of the Ushers' Union
will attend the lecture, 'Seein' Things
in Armory Hall tonight. Seats on
Sale at DIR. Pratt's drug store. Twen-
tv-five cents admission Don't miss it.
Milford chronicle., 1904-11-11

Delaware an idea that the publi-
cation of a newspaper in this State
is attended with great profit, and
many have had their financial
wings singed because of confidence
in this opinion, For ten years and
more politicians have found some
printer anxious to get into the
ranks of those who publish or edit
a newspaper, and forthwith mush-
room publicationlsprings into ex-
istence to cause the poor devil that
was possibly working for fair wages,
previous to that time, to work hard
without receiving the recompense
of which his toll is worthy. This
losing operation usually continues
until the fortunes of the politician
wanes, and then the paper passes
and the sheriff or constable does
the rest. Such was the fate of the
Smyrna Call" which has Just
been sold out by the constable for
rent due. and the sponsors, Willard
and William Salisbury, were COM
PEELED to purchase the corpse to
save the money they had advanced
to keep it going. There are several
more papers of the same character
in both, or in all of the counties of
Delaware. They are not paying
the cost of operating, and the work
men employed in getting them out,
are the only benefciaries. These
papers receive advertising for rates
below where a profit can be had
from that line of the business, and
bid on job printing at ruinously
low figures to keep their employees
at work. This deprives the pub
Usher of any profit and prevents
the legitimate print shop from get
ting the business at prices that
would pay a small profit. If al
the job printing of this peninsula
were to be placed in one frst-clas:
job printing establishment, the bus
iness would only keep that one place
properly employed. The CHRoN
IcLE has no desire to belittle the
business, but it is telling hard facts
and there are n hundred printers o
this State who know it to be ct
many to their sorrow. In towns
like Smyrna, Middletown, Milford
Laurel and all others where county
or State printing forms no facto'
in the business, but one printery il
needed, and only one frst-class pa
per will be properly supported
When the editor is compelled to d.
the local reporting, write editorials
produce advertisements and solici
for job work, keep the books anC
do the collecting, then it would b.
as well to expect an up-to- dat
newspaper from bootblack as from
an Office run under those condi
tions. The receipts from a print
ing Office must be sufficient to pay
for producing the various work
men necessary to get the news AM
then. properly set it before the peo
pie; and, unless this is done, tn
people will have none of it, and j
will be a failure. Weed out tn
mushrooms in the newspapers G
Delaware, and let's have better pa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20

A German process is claimed to give remarkable hardness to copper and It's alloys without affecting the ducility. A charcoal fire at the temperature Of melting tin is preferable for use. and on this the object Is heated for suit~ able time-perhaps three minutes. The metal and the surrounding blocks Of charcoal are sprinkled with powdered sulphur until covered, the sulphur va DOT being thus brought into direct con- tast with the metal. On being taken from the fire.the metal is plunged still hot into a solution of copper sulphate. and is allowed to remain short time. It is finally relocated. and cooled with-s out a cooling mixture.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20
MoNi0o VERY. ALA.
EPISCOPAL coMMIrrEE.
Alabama Diocese Consents to Coat
 crstion of BisAsps.

Alabama Diocese Consents to Conse-
 crntion of BisAeps.
 Pursuant to a call made by Rev Stewart McQueen there was a meeting 2 fin Mon tgomery at 13 o'clock yesterday of the standing committee of the Epis- copaI Church. Diocese of Alabama.
 Five of the six members of the Com mittee were present, Rev. Stewart Mo- Queen of Montgomery, Rev. Matthew Brewster of Mobile and Messrs. R. H. Pearson Of Birmingham. A. H. Shep- Montgomery. Rev. Dr. T. J. Beard of Birmingham was unavoidably absent on account of sickness.
 Canonical consent was given by the Committee to the conservation of Rev. Dr. Woodcock to be Bishop of Ken lucky. He is at present in charge of a church in Detroit, Mich, and will succeed the late Bishop Dudley who died about a year ago.
 Consent was also given to the con- secration of Rev. W. T. Manning. now rector of St. Agnes Church, New York City, to be Bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg. Pa. This is a new dio- cese authorized by the General Con- ventfon recently in session in Boston |. While 1t has been published that Dr :. Manning had declined the position the Committee yesterday decided to be op the safe side and, gave consent.
 Dr. Manning is one of the best known ministers of the Church and has recently been elected assistant to Rev. Dr. Dix. rector of Trinity Church New York, which is virtually an as- surance of being Dr. Dix's successor. The newspapers have announced pr. Mannings acceptance to the call Of Trinity Church.
 The visiting members of the Com mittee returned to their homes last night.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20
ALEXANDER
 IN THE TOLLS Proprietor of Merchants
 Hotel Arrested. |HE PERMITTED GAMING All Cases Continued by City
 Until Wednesday. By Direction sf Acting Mayor McIn- tyre, City Attorney Rushton Takes
 Charge of Prosscution-- Business Men Aroused.

Under Section 4s0f of the Criminal Code of Alabama. prohibiting person to knowingly suffer gaming table to be kept or exhibited" in q house Robert L. Alexander, proprietor of the Merchants Hotel, was arrested by Po- lice Captain W. H. Taylor and Special Officer E. W. Graham In the Recorders Court room at 3:s0 o'clock yesterday afternoon. His bond was fixed at $500 and he quickly made it.
 testimony of the witnesses of the police raid made by the police on the gamb- ling rooms of the Merchants Hotel Sunday night. when eight men were arrested. Their cases were continued until Wednesday.
 The warrant sworn out against Alex ander, 1t Is thought. will hold the pro- prietor of the hotel and fasten the strongest blame on him for the ex- istence of the gambling hell.
 The penalty for permitting gaming on ones premises, charged against Alex ander, is a fine of not less than s10o nor more than $500. and Imprisonment for six months in the county jail or at hard labor. The warrant against Alexander was sworn out by Police Chief A. s. Gerald.
 Continued Until Wednesday.
 The cases against the eight men ar- rested in the gambling rooms Sunday night were on motion of the City Att torney continued until tomorrow after noon. All of the men were represented by counsel and the appeal bond blanks in each case have been secured by the prisoners for immediate use If the court should find them guilty.
 J. A. Fully, Tom Naftel, Ike Abra- ham and Joe Perry. arrested by the raiding party, will be prosecuted for Keeping gaming tables, felony under the State law. The other four men Cecil DeBardeleben, J. Engler. Fletcher to the place, are held for gaming which is a rnisdemeanor
 The raid on the Merchants Hotel and the wide publicity given the incident by The Advertiser attracted much at- tention and caused warm commenda- tion Business men visited police head quarters to congratulate Chief Gerald and assure him of their moral support Many persons also volunteered congrat- ulations to The Advertiser for it's wig orous and emphatic uttersnces on the evil conditions in the community. and its demand for action on the part of the police.
 several business men seen at random by representatives of The Advertiser talked without reserve on the situation and expressed their desire to go to any length to prosecute Alexander and his employees or any one else who was cor, E ductine a gambling establishment in Montgomery.
 Activity of City Attorney.
 City Attorney Ray Rushton gave as-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20
DARDEN HELD UP.
Member of Newspaper stan Had Five
 Gents.

 Gents. Tuscaloosa, Dec. 19.-(SpeciaL)-- While on his way home late Saturday afternoon Loster Darden, of The Times
 Gazette force was held up by two white men. He was on his wheel in Q
 deserted part of the city, when the two men called to him to halt. When they approached him they asked him
 if he had a knife. When he replied that
 he had not, one of them grabbed him around the neck and walked some dis tance with him. Before they let him go, however, they enquired as to now much money he had in his pocket, he
 replied that he had only five cents.
 This they took and departed, doing him no bodily harm. They were evidently
 after money only, as they did not dis turb his watch. Darden says that one 0 fthe men was drunk.
 The Rev. John Van Lear. pastor of the Presbyterian church here. has re- turned from Litte Rock. Ark, where he
 was called to the pastorate of one of it's churches. He went to preach one sermon but after thoughtful considera- tion has decided to remain at his charge, His decision was learned with
 much pleasure by his flock. as he Is exceedingly popular not only with them but all others as well.
 News has been received here from Nashville, Tenn, announcing the death of s. Galley, the father of Mrs. Charles R. Turner of this city.
 The steamer Alert, which was sold at a public sale, was purchased by a syndicate composed of F. c. Blair, w. c. Christian, George A. Searcy, k. B. Nuzum, Perry Grocery Company, Allen and Jemison, Maxwell Bros, F. H. Walter It is understood that the AL ert will be put back on the Warrior in active operation.
 Rev. A. Y. Napier. who recently re- signed his pastorate at the Southsids $ Baptist church at Montgomery, and who is to sail from America on January 10, as a missionary to Central China preached two sermons at the First
 Baptist church here yesterday and ad-
 dressed the Krishna Pal Missionary at the Central College in the afternoon. He was greeted bl large congregations at both services and many were im- pressed by his earnest words.
 George A. Searcy has purchased from
 Mrs. George D. Johnson the lot on
 Ninth street and Greensboro. just op-
 posite heY<own It Is understood that
 he Is to soon erect on 1t a residence,
 which is to be occupied by his fami- ly.
 The Rev. W. F. Andrews, who has been lately transferred from Alabama
 to the pastorate of the First Methodist church at Little Rock, Ark, filled the pulpit at both morning and evening services at the Methodist church here yesterday. During his stay in the city he was the guest of his sister, Mrs. william W. Brandon.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Holt. have issued invitations for a whist party on the evening of December twenty-ninth in honor of Mrs. William Lodge. of South Pitsburg, Tenn.
 Eugene Beatty. lineman employed by the southefh Bell Telephone Com panv. came near meeting with fatal accident Saturday afternoon. He was at the top of a thirty-five foot p"le. when his spur slipped. He clutrhed the pole with his arms and thus suc- ceedAd in making his fall lighter. His shirt was torn from his bod" and several large splinters were buried in his chest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20

l were not inspired with hopes of fur nishing any supplies to the petitioner. q believe that this matter should be carefully considered" said Mir. Sulli- can. T do not know of citisen in Montgomery who deserves e faireF deal from this Council than MT. West. He has put into the city treasury last year total of a, ,254, and more in taxes and licenses. He has gone and purchased this lot without having any doubt but that the permit would be Issued to him to erect the plant"
 Alderman Sullivan concluded by say ing that he hoped the Aldermen pres ent would think as he did in the mat ter, for 1t was. perhaps, as a sacrifice in his business that he supported the petition.
 The renewed petition of MT. West and the unanimous protests of property owners adjoining the proposed site of the plants were read at length. Then a vote was taken on the motion of AL derman Teague that the minority re- port be tabled.
 The former question was put on the motion to adopt the majority report. The petition was defeated by vote of 10 to (.
 After the meeting a close friend of Mir. west said that he would go ahead with the construction of the plant and let the matter run Its course in the courts,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20
PETITION IS DENIED
COUNCIL wITHH0LDs PERMISSION
 FOR ICE PLANT.
ID. F. West Cannot Build at Corner of
 Bibb and Moulton-He May
 Make City the Ag- Rrcaaor.

After dwelling for several weeks in the hands of the joint Fire and Streets Committee of the City Council, the pe- tition of D. P. West, the promoter of a proposed ice factory and electric plant at the corner of Bibb and Moul- ton Streets, was formally denied at the regular meeting of the Council last night.
 The action was in the form of adopt ing the report of the majority of the joint committee which recommended the denial. These majority members of the committee were Aldermen Teague. Roemer and Grifith.
 The decision was not without stormy debate, and the petition was denied by a vote of 10 to f. Eloquent pleas were made on behalf of the petition by AL dermen Sullivan and Forbes. They both based their support of the peti- tion on the claim that the growth of manufacturing Montgomery will sooner O. later extend to the section of tine city in question.
 It was also argued that instead of depreciating the value of property in the vicinity of the proposed plant. the ice and electric plants would enhance values of surrounding real estate and other property.
 Alderman Sullivan presented the re- Eort of the minority on the petition. consisting of himself and President Mo- Intyre of the Council. It recommended lat the petition be referred for final recommendation to the Judiciary Com mittee as 1t could not be so well deter mir ed otherwise whether the Council has the power to withhold a permit from petitioner unless the alleged nuisances incident to the manufacture n Q nj nts arn nr 1Ved
 'Moat of the opposition to this peti- ticn comes from lot of old fogies with al. due respect to the majority mem- bers of this committee" declared AL derman Sullivan after voicing reasons of fairness for the petition to be al- lowed 'I have written to electric companies of national repute for an opinion of the amount of nuisance which these plants would create. The replies which I have received say that the noise of tho electric plant could not disturb public worship six feet away"
 The speaker then unfolded and read the letters from general electric com ranies which he assured the Council
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20
BIJOU FAMILY THEATRE. Three Nights,


 Hurd The Great Magician and Company.
 Since the death of Alexander Her mann. Hurd has been the only Magician to interest the public, For the past five years, he has been drawing crowd ed houses in New England and the West. and on this tour South, he has played to wonderful business for a new attraction. While not an imitator Of Hermann, his work is on similar lines. As an added feature. his management carry high-class vaudeville, and among the acts are the musical Demorests, one of the best comedy musical teams in this country. This novel company will open an engagement of four perform ances at the Bijou Thursday night.
 The prices will be IS. 25, S5 and 50 cents. aoV.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-20

surance that Alexander and the attach es of his place would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. It is not the duty of the City Attor- ney to appear In the Recorders Court unless he is directed in writing by the Mayor to do 60. In the absence from the city of Mayor Thomas H.
 yesterday evening wrote a letter to City Attorney Rushton requesting him to assume charge of the prosecu-
 ton of cases against the gamblers in
 behalf of the city.
 Upon receipt. of the communication
 from the Acting Mayor. City Attor-
 ney Rushton visited the once of Pe- lice Chief Gerald. and . lengthy con-
 ference was held. It was then deter
 mined to swear out a warrant for AL
 exander. It was decided to hold Alex
 ander under section 4so1 of the State Code. a misdemeanor, so that his con- viction under tins section would not
 bar an indictment by the February grand jury for the higher offens~
 which is punishable by a term in the penitentiary.
 The cases against Alexander and the eight men arrested, were continued
 by the City Attorney until "Wednesday to enable him to prepare nj seases for presentation to the Recorder Gamh1inG Laws All RlHht. Montgomery" said MT. Rushton
 has as prohibitive gambling laws as any city in the South. There is nc sense in. the idea that seems to have gone abroad which makes 1t appear tf1st we cannot cope with gamblers
 The Legislature in our charter ex-
 pressly delegated to our Council tho authority to have the police break in- to places, believed to be used as gam, ing houses and the Council authorized the police to do so by passing the or- dinance under winch Mir. Hardie swore out the warrant against the Merchants Hotel"
 Chief Gerald seemed we'll pleased with the raid of his men Sunday night. He said In reference to the raid that the police would ahve raided the Mer- chants Hotel Saturday night a week ago. had not The Advertiser printed the first story Of the gambling house Saturday morning. He said he want cd to catch the game in full operation, and therefore he thought 1t best to de- lay the arrests until the matter quiet- ed dowp . bit