Milford chronicle., 1906-03-30
UrIah Skinner.
MR. Ep1roR.

pertnear ten year, / can tell ye that l
has got lots of them citified idears in me
head, so / jest got to write er bust Mary
Jane says, to me, NOW Uraih, we sart-
ainly must go to Milford for have read
and hearn about them ottermobiles, lec-
ter lights, trolley cars, waterworks, the
new college, and all the new mills that
the Board Of truck has got there, the
crete roads and plastered sidewalks, the
! new town Jail, the new chronicle office,
and all the lawyers and doctors shops
and the clubs, ontill " jest got to see
the place, so I says to Mary Jane by
gosh, we'll go and we started and lest
atore we got into town, old forrie, that's
the critter, began to stick up her years
and snort and blow, as told as somethin
was comm, so looks down the road and ,
rite near me was somethin that looked :
like dearborn with no horse to it, and
1t snorted and blowed so that forrie took "
fright and came near tiltin us both out +
and coming in town by herself we was u
Doth scared so bad that we come. close 10
sqneeelin, but we held in, later learned -
it was one of them pesky ottermobies -
belongin to DR.. Stanton, which was bein p
run by Jake Wilson's son, you know ~
jake is going to the Delaware Congress TO
vote fer Addicks, so his son was running ~ I0
the concern and trying to tend to lot OF r-'
them blamed perty girls that Milford is 'i'
noted for, and lie got the machine and nI ,V'
he girls so mixed up that afore he saw ~. ~!
Is old tiorrie came near havin fit and ~ - =
lashin us 10th clean and clear out. Ou'
After we got in Milford, i hardly moved =
hat it was the same place that was "a -
ookin fer, till 1 drove up to Henry p, y 7.
-bbott's then bgosh, I sed were sartain =,
ght now, we hadn't been there long :"
fore we heard as how Henry had been a 9o,i,
reat poitisin and how he was once cleo ~
d Coroner of Kent County. After one '3''i -,
them good dinners fer which Henry a
ways gives, Mary Jane and myself -'C, -.
,wod II ,po mn, ,,I,,.,,h 80 '''oie line
seph, we used to deal with him years
o, and he had leather bag in his hand
l says to Gard where are you going
th all that baggage and he up and tells A
as how he has been collector and ice
asurer of the town for vaars ,yoll h., toms
lnder who ever heard Of a Collooto, of Il
vim to carry a satcbel n boId d. an in
ney, says by gum you must be a .Wh
nd good one and the town nus+ bono Carp'
nty of money. I allso hoard a. hon, dress
is town judge and how the colored er.
pie is ateared to come up afore him lul SO
n as soon as this, and says to myself Inc
{ bet he is clean ahovo toori, 49,. rende
store no more We vvant dou,r 49, in WI
ct to Apels Building and l SAYS to Marcl
y Jane less go in and speak TO John lnlssio
golddern if we dint run plum in to Mfs
inamans yasbshop and as ,ve could TORY
talk to him much wa soo,, oo,,,a o,,+ Wiz
started TO finish our io,,rnoT, 49, is visi
mt gone more than 20 yards when we Cha
there where Andrew Cooper used to many
, store there we saw what | Thought since
one of them car conductors, and get Orai
little nearer to him coon cod r. Mrs. I
as Charlie Macklin and I sed TO stella,
lie how long you been on the trollys their L
he sed why am the Chief of Police. hoe =, l.,
/ jest stopped and looked at him and the Co
who ever heard of police wearing
uctors clothes,I I thought as how Mil
was regular city. Going down a .
further to where Bob Watson used
ep Post Office seed another feller
blue coat and was sure as it was
ight house keeper and 1 asked as
things were going on down there
e said why man I am not at the ~
house am Sergeant Police. I then
D Mary Jane, Id like to know whose
min this town, as they have mighty
idears as to dressin their officers
On little further stopped in front
n Latchums, and talked with Jim
earned as how he had bought the
'ty where Pullen used to live and
ne has been perty successful in taEfaafigHs
IS and as how his son, had been e.
a politician and as how he was on -
'mocrat ticket last fall year, and W
l was talkin with him I saw
r one of those fellers in blue coat
sed by John Rogers know you, 1 TIM
u sell Bromo Selcer and by gosh L HIN
yhed and sed why am the night
What want to know is how in by
vel is feller goin to know who is
and how is strangers goin to re- ORIG
the town when the peace officers c
essed so that you cant tell them and Tar
'me conductor or band feller, why
en- in towns no larger than this
you could tell policeman from
IS but here by gosh, in Milford it