Milford chronicle., 1907-04-05
GREENWOOD.

l Business is getting more lively in thi
$ place; all the mills are operating on full
time, and the merchants report thei
trade on the increase.
e Mr.. Harrington, a music teacher, wa
| here all last week, aud gave lessons t.
5 some of the young ladies and gentlemen
and, on Saturday last the class with thei
teacher gave an entertainment for bis
benefit, which many people enjoyed A
silver offering was taken at the door
which brought in about $40.
Well Easter was surely stormy day
here and the ladies did not get to show
their handsome new gowns, but the
churches were pretty we'll filled for that.
Rev. Q. L. Dryden went to conference
last Tuesday. The sessions are being
held at Washington this year, and our
people hope to have him returned here,
as he is good citizen and a fine preacher.
I. M. Todd is home from Westminster
College for a short visit with friends here.
There were many men drunk here last
Saturday night, but no public disturbance
happened all tue damage done, was to
the self respect of the men themselves.
Steel rails are being unloaded at the
edge Of town, which are to be used to
double track the road; so we are informed.
Easter services in the NJ. P. Church
last Sunday evening, but because of the
rain, part of the program was omitted, as
many of the children were not present. 4
Jabez I. Wiley, one of our well-known
has lot of chickens worth talk
ing about. He gathered 2,641 eggs in
the month Of March, and set 35 hens in
That's getting eggs some.
Many carloads of pine piling and oak
lumber and ties, haye been shipped from
This place this winter, and the work of
cutting and hauling has kept many fami- {
les in the necessities. When our timber
upply will give out, is only short time /
n the future.
Base ball has succeeded checker play t
ng, and the boys are practicing daily. s
Rev. Williams has stopped active work t
n the pulpit for year, so as to recuper- a
te his health. He will build a home t
ere in Greenwood near the M. P. Par u
onage.
Shad are in our market now daily. f
Greenwood should be frst.class chris Il
an town, as we now have three preach n
RS, and the fourth will soon move here.
IL reside east of the railroad. O.
The worst April fool prank played here Z
as that playedIby the weather, when it
st Monday night sent the mercury down is
% degrees above zero. 1t is the opin- NJ
N of the fruit growers here, that the
each crop is ruined Its too bad, but la
ope springs perennial in the breast of de
'ery farmer, and he will probably try al
recoup out of some other crop.
G. F. Warrington has between four and nc
re hundred young chicks which he has he
ltched out in incubators the cold
Gather of this week has made them at
ep under the brOoder. K,
A. M. Jones is offering his house for tb
o. ye
A three.months old baby has been
opted by Mrs. Bert Holt; the child's
her was killed in Philadelphia by an
plosion.
GEORGE Wiley, of Clayton, has been
iting his parents here. get
)scar Herring and wife passed Easter WI
re with Mrs. Alfred Salisbury. ele
'lrs c. E. Dryden is visiting her sister thi
lie her husband is attending confer inn
e. the
lrs Robert Day and family, of Clay pili
, are visiting her father, l. J. Long. Wa
rank Houseman, of Philadelphia, and A
IS Wix, of Harrington, were Easter Hal
SITS of Postmaster Houseman. will
MAY FLOWER.