Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-08-28
SHORT LOCAL BREYITIES.
Items Of Interest in Paragraphs About
Milford and Vicinity.

the colored people at Cedar and Slaugh-
ter beaches.
Fires and overcoats have been very
comfortable this last week Of summer
in Delaware.
The w. c. r. U. will meet with
Mrs. Kern, Causey Avenue, Tuesday
evening Of next week at : 80 o'clock
A meeting OF the Democratic Club
will be held this Friday evening in
Reedy's Hall. All Democrats should
attend.
The fourth annual session OF the State
Camp Of Delaware, Patriotic Order Sons
OF America, was held at Port Penn last
Tuesday.
This week is fodder saving season in
this part OF Delaware, and before the
end ofnext week the crop will generally
be all saved.
A hundred or more Italians at Hous
ton, employed by the canning factories
there, went on a strike Wednesday for
higher wages.
William Pierce, an employee Of the
Milford Basket Factory, last week cut
the end Of one Of his fingers of while
handling some logs.
DR.. Nickerson Of Magnolia has pur-
chased the drug store Of W. B. Mock,
at Camden, and will shortly move there
and practice medicine.
The real estate Of the late George :.
Grier will be sold this Saturday after
noon in front Of the National Hotel by
the trustees to close the estate.
The Milford Chemical Company of
Milford, Delaware. to manufacture
chemicals, &c; capital stock $4,000,
has been incorporated at Dover
Tomatoes are sold at the Milford de-
pot exactly as peaches are disposed of
the buyers bid for them, and the prices
from 20 to 45 cents per
basket this week.
Frank LOtlee, cOlOred man living
in Slaughter Neck is suffering from /
blood poisoning the result of a neglec |
ted scratch received while crawling
through a bsrbed wire fence.
The peach season for 1908 in Milford
is thing Of the past. While growers
did not get the large crop anticipated,
yet they received fine prices, and they
are satisfied, with the returns.
Ernest A. Truitt Of Wilmington, son
Of Esquire w. A. Truitt OF Milford,
passed a successful examination before
The State Board Of Pharmacy Of New
Jersey at Collingswood al its meeting
IN July.
The report Of the U. S. Commissioner
If Internal Revenue shows that 55 ,402..
1876 4l3 cigarettes were consumed in the
United States last year, an average of
,,216 for each smoker. The number Of
cigars consumed was 1905, ,l79.
G. T. Stevenson, Of Wilmington, has
)een spending the week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Cross at Slaughter Beach.
Ir. Stevenson has recentlyIbeen retired
IN q pension from the Pennsylvania
Railroad after As years service as an
ngineer.
Mrs. Emeline Gray observed her 93rd
birthday anniversary on Wednesday,, {
august 18th. She is active and as
heerful as a cricket. In the past five
ears she has made and given away
hirty bed quilts. II is past time for I
Ter to sew. @
The City Of Milford has been carry.
az extra large freights and the receipts \
ave been above the normal for two
ionths past, The passenger lists have
anged from fifty to 125 exclusive of the
clip brought to work in the canneries
q each trip. ?
The property owners along Railroad !
venue, South Milford, are going to
ut down concrete pavements, and :,
ave demanded Of Town Council that =
lie grade be established and a curbing !
It. The survey was made Last week, I
nd the work will be done as soon as =
Dssible. =
The Board Of Health has been active :
lie week after the cleansing Of pig :
Ems and tht disposal Of disease breed
g RUBBISH and filth. Frequent re-
'ections Of the town have been made
I'd a warning to all is given to keep
g pens, stables, pounds etc., in q good al
a
The Lyman H. HOwes Moving Pic sc
re Company will appear in Annoy T
all, September 10Th. They are the J,
ost realistic productions before the b
merican public. They are alternat- al
gly thrilling, mirth. provoking, tear o.
,tting and educational Young and NJ
d enjoy them. Seats on sale at the NJ
ed Star Drug Store. ld'