Milford chronicle., 1907-03-22
SHORT LOCAL BREYlTIES.
Items Of Interest in Paragraphs About
Milford and Vicinity.

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All the Milford steamboats, have re-
sumed their sailings. See time cards
On March 18th the yellow crocus
flowers were blooming in Milford yards.
What has become of that Milford
Board of Trade? Don't all speak at
once
Herring, the first fresh fish Of the
spring season, were caught in the Mis-
pillion last week.
What is the matter with our new
post office? Has the public lost inter
est in the matter?
The State Board of Education will
hold a meeting in the State House at
Dover on Friday, March 29th.
The w. G. r. U. meets with Mrs. L.
B. Graves on North Front street next
Tuesday evening at 80 O'Clock.
Henry Muller, of Philadelphia, has
leased the Hotel Bilderback at Bowers
and will open a first class hotel there.
The 9th annual encampment of the
Department of Delaware, G. A. r will
be held at Dover on Thursday, May I'd
Farmers are trimming orchards and
burning rubbish over the farm. Plow-
ing will start on the high grounds next
week.
Some of the side streets in Milford
are in almost as bad condition as the
streets of Dover or Harrington. They
surely are bad.
Charles Windsor has been appointed
as agent and receiver Of freight for the
steamer City of Milford, at the Milford
end of the line.
The wheat has stood the winter very
well and the prospect now is that this
crop will start in the spring up to the
average condition.
Harriet Robinson, colOred, aged so
years, died at the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. James Bradley, in Milford Neck,
last Monday night of general debility
The State Board of Pharmacy will
meet in quarterly session at the Clayton
House, Wilmington, on Friday, April
9Th, when applicants for certificate will
be examined.
The National Guard will probably go
to Jamestown, Va, and eucamp with
the regular army at that point in Octo-
ber next; somewhere about the first
week in that month.
The new order Of the Postoflice De
partment, relative to post cards, is now
in effect. 1t bars from the mails all
cards bearing tinsel or like substances,
unless sent in sealed envelopes.
March 2lst was the first day Of spring
when the days and nights are of equal
length, after which the days will
Iepgthen until we have the longest day
at the summer solstice on June 2lst.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Kent county will hold an in
stitute in the NJ. f. Church of Dover
on Monday, April 1st. Arrangements
have been made with Miss Beele Kear-
ney, national w. c. II. U organizer, to
be present.
A new swindler is on his rounds. He
sells barbed wire fence stretchers leav-
ing the machines and forty rods Of good
fence for trial. He requires the farmer
to sign for the return of the fence. The
farmer signs for 50, which turns out to
be S3OO.-Ex.
At the recent session of the New Jer-
sew M, E. Conference Rev. William P.
Davis, D. D, for several years presiding
elder of Trenton District, was trans
ferred to First NJ E. Church, Red Bank.
DR.. Davis is a son of the late Thomas
]. Davis Of Milford.
Owing to the fact that John Barr Of
GEORGETOWN, who was awarded the con-
tract to construct Delaware's building
at the jamestown Exposition, failed to
bond the contract has been awarded
bv the commissioners to w. Il. Iorbert |
of Laurel, whose bid was approx
mately $1,000.
senator.elect Harry A. Richardson /
has been chosen a director Of the Bell
Telephone Company, taking the place
of Edward P. Meany Of New York.
For many years he has been identified |
with telephone interests. He founded |
the Diamond State Telephone Com
pany, the control Of which has been
ACQUIRED by the Bell Company.
A horse owned by Willard F. Deputy /
gave him lively shak.up last Sunday
morning. He had just hitched the ami
NAL to a new carriage at his residence
and was getting in, when the horse
started and got away with him before |