Milford chronicle., 1906-01-19
Here and There.

The worst piece of road ia Sussel
equity is at Dublin Hill.
Rev. J. F. Anderson at Houston i
well liked bv his congregation and il
asked to return.
The farmers living near Dublin Hill
are passing the long hours away play
ing erockonole aud comparing notes.
The mill.dam and bridge, one and
one half miles moth Of Bridgevllle, is
in a very bad condition. 1t is a dis.
grace to the county.
Charles r. Lewis, an aged and we'll.
known farmer living between Bridge
vile and Seaford, will discontinue farm
ing and move to Bridgeville.
CT. Caninoh, ofsweedesboro, N. J
has moved to his farm near Smithville,
Nd, and will engage in sweet potato
growing on an extensive scale.
Mrs Sarah Wiley, wife of Isaac Will
ley, oied with pneumonia last Friday.
a week near Bridgeville. Her remains
were laid at restin St Johns Cemetery,
Sunday, January 9TH.
c. II. Kitchens, living near Adams.
vile, started in the poultry business
with I25 hens Of mixed breeds. He sold
in 1905 SIG. AZ worth Of eggs and raised
seventy.tive pullets. He sold SIS worth
of roOsters.
A hound dog owned by man near
Budgeville swallowed a piece Of meat
last Friday afternoon attached to pike
hook. The hook had to be cut out Of
his throat and he is now suffering with
a sore throat.
Rufus Twigg, farmer living near
Greenwood, says he knows of a sure
cure for all kinds of cancers without
the use of q knife. He has cured three
very bad cases. One was a rose cancer,
which is the most fatal.
A gentleman by the name of Ridgely I
Of Dover owns farm six miles north.
west of Bridgeville. He has twenty-five
acres set in catalps trees. They are
planted about eight feet apart. He is
growing them for railroad ties.
The proprietor of the Eagle Grist
Mills in fredericksburg, Nd, has novel
way of letting people know in that
place and surrounding country of the
changes in the weather by blowing
whistle in his mill Three blasts are
or rain; four for snow, one for fair
md two for coolOr.
Do not fail TO vote for "a representative
lext fall that will fight for eompul-
ory education law in Delaware. The
writer counted this week twenty.th three
,oys and girls in rural districts in Sus-
ex county that cannot read or write.
he most Of them were over twelve
ears old. This is a serious thing to
hink Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Seppa Passwaters, liv- ]
lg at HOrsey's Cross Roads, agree with /
resident Roosevelt that race suicide is
-rong. They are always proud TO tell
geryone that they have fourteen chill
rem living. The ages of the children d
re as follows: %, y, 20, is, l6, IA, u, +
|, 8, twins Z, 6, and one months old. Z
he father is fifty years old and mother 7
,rty. They have been married twenty /
lur years. o
Reuben Allen, well-known farmer L
wing near Cannons, Sussex county, 8
itertained last Thursday a number Of o
lends and relatives. The supper table a
,oaued under the weight of the good v
iings that tempted the appetites Of
lose present, who were as follows
ev. J. L. johnson and wife of Seaford,
H. johnson and wife, Miss Elizabeth "
,hnson, Miss Ray Allen, Bat Allen, n
,seph Lewis and wife, j NJ. Allen ii
I'd wife, Miss Mildred Allen, Miss Ii
eva Allen, Mrs Annie Allen, and .
over. AT late hour they bid their n
,st and hustess good night, wishing fl
em happy and prospectus new year 81