Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-12-25
SHORT LOCAL BREYlTIES.
items Of Interest Condensed News Of
a Local Nature.
A white Christmas.

New moon Wednesday night.
We wish you all Merry Christmas.
The cunning season will close with
Thursday, December 3lst.
The Sunshine Circle will meet wi h
Mrs. A. W. Powell on Wednesday af
ternoon, December 8Oth.
4 Leroy Tingle, colored, age 4 years,
died on Monday last of pneumoni. fol-
LOWING 81" apiug cough.
20 "a Louis A Drexlef Of Sus
sex CU,... is rented a house in Dover
and will move his family there Tor the
legislative session.
State Senators Alvan B. Conner Of
EeIton and Remsen G. Barnard Of Cam.
den are candidates for president pro
tempOre Of the Senate.
= FranHF Davis has been appointed
postmaster at Laurel to fill the vacancy
caused by the retirement ofD 0 Moore,
who has been elected State Treasurer.
All subscribers, whose pOstoffice
addresses will be changed by the first
Of the year, will please notify US, giving
the present as well as the prospective
address. -
Theodore A. Veasey has sold the Viz
den House at Lewes to the United States
Government. The site will be used for
the erection of a handsome post office
and custom house.
&he postmaster at SeafOrd, whose term
will expire next month, has informed
the Senators from Delaware that he
does not desire reappOintment. What
an extraordinary condition Of affairs.
In addition to being the official be-
ginning of winter, Tuesday, Decent Der
22nd, was the shortest day in the whole
year. The sun rose that morning at p
o'clock and set in the afternoon at 4.35.
The term Of Thomas w. Wilson, the
present State Librarian, will expire in
February next. Mr.. Wilson is a csndt
date for reappointmsut. II Bidgeiy
Harrington of Dover is also an sppli
can't fer the position.
! On Thursday evening, Deeember3lst
3m sfgnt o'clock, the alumni Of the Mi
rd High school will hold a reception
u the New Century Club Rooms The
ogram will consist of music and
az taken from the Dolly Dialogues
Charles Cambridge Shockley, colored,
age IL years, and son of Charles r and
Susan Shockley, died suddenly at his
home in North Milford, Delaware, Oh
Friday, December 18th, 1908, oftyphoid
fever. He had undergone an operation
fol appendicitis in September and con
tracted typhoid in his convai essence.
A Milford lady recently went to
nearby town and bough hit the remainder
Of a bolt Of dry goods. She was told
that she would be given special price
on account Of being from Milford. Upon
Examining the goods at her home she
found the price tag attached and sadly |
learned that she paid five cents a yard |
more than had been paid by former
customers. Hereafter she will probably .
purchase her goods at home.
The homecoming of the Atlantic
feet will bring to at least one member Of
the battIeship Connecticut sad tidings.
Charles R. Shockley, a respectable col
Ared man OF Milford, who enlisted as
scook In the navy, left his family in July
to eHcircle the globe with the feet. His
Oldest boy, Cambridge, died on the 18th
OF December of typhoid fever and the
father, still with the ship, will not be able
10 hear ofthe occurrence till the longest
lap OF the voyage begun at Formosa,
Ceylon, Saturday, ends at Port Said,
On the Suez Canal, several weeks hence.