Milford chronicle., 1908-05-15
MILTON NEWS.


We nave no wedding obituary to give the
reader this week. The matrimonial fever
is over, and. alas we are done eating wedding
cake for the present. Well, we have had our
share OF it. Those who have entered the mat
rimonisl state, we now relegate to the pleasures
OF married life until another episode shall
occur TO disturb our equilibrium.
That the Chronicle has been in demand for
the last two weeks is a noteworthy fact. II
has been borrowed, or taken from places OF
business, without lief just to see the news or
10 send 10 friends. The Chronicle can be had
for one dollar a year. payable Ia advance by
sending to the Office at Milford or ID. A. G. will
take your order for it. In it you will get the
Milton news suceinctly and truthfully, and
not pack OF lies that the Philadelphia papers
are in the habit OF giving from this town. and
from Sussex county.
A business man, who has as much right to
he on the street as anyone else, tells us that 10
passing the business place Of one OF cur FASH
touable milliners, the other evening, he saw
that parsonage escort lady out into the porch
and bring out a merry widOw"h hat TO try on.
In caniing the hat to get It through the door
, way, he got glimpse Of the lady's face, or, he
said. ne should not have known her.
There has been a great deal Of needed work
uOlE on AAldullG hLieGt lAGhA a. hSlo
This is generally a bad piece OF road and needs
considerable work to keep it in repair
Robert Walls removed, last week, from
p stevensonville to the property of John Wilson
.,0n Mil street.
The Bishop Of the Diocese Of Harrisburg will
visit Milton on the 18th OF this month and will
bold Confirmation Services at 7:i5 p. M.
Goodwin Brothers & Conwell shipped canned
tomatoes again last week.
A young man ofMlton, a theological student
at Dover Conference Academy, came home on
Friday evening and was baptized by INNER
sion, on Saturday, In the water OF the Broad
kiln, tbOat cap zed.) Whether his friends will
consider that he has apostatized the faith of
the NJ. E. Church Opponent sayeth not.
It may not be generally known by the
peorle throughout the State that part Of the
stree1s Of Milton are macademized and our
people are Justly proud Of their neat and clean
appearance. Last week, someone we do not
know whom, was hauling substance he called
manure. but which was, really, nothing but
partly decomposed corn stalks, besmeared
with sdure' The wagon was overloaded and
a part Of the prettiest street in town, (FederaD
was strewn with this material that jostled
from the wagon. Such work as this is
nuisance and a misdemeanor and the perpi-
traitors should be attended TO by the town
authorities
The property of the late Joseph E. Lank
was sold by his son, J. NJ. Lank, on Saturday
afternoon in front OF the y. T. f. & d. CO..
Bank. The house and lot on Atlantic street
was bid of to Captain G. b. Hunter for $1,000.
A lot containing on-hslf acre was bought by
5. ]. Wilson for s126.25.
We see it stated there will be no keiffer pears
IN many localities. The trees in the orchard
Of W. H. Chandler have plenty on them now.
An electric wire by being chafed by the
limb Of a tree on Chestnut street, set fire to
the tree early on Thursday evening but was
soon extinguished. The fuses were burned out
and for over an hour the town was unlighted.
Charles H. Atkins, Jr., aHd friend from
the Dover Conference Academy, both theolog-
leal students came to town the latter part OF
last week and on Sunday morning assisted the
Rev. McGllton In the services at the NJ. f.
Church. In the afternoon the young men con
Quoted the services at Zion, while the Rev
McGnton oficiated at a funeral in town. They
returned TO Dover Oh Monday.
Rev A. C. McGilton is In attendance this
week at the Methodist General Conference In
Baltimore.
Prof. Brooks held an examination for teach
ers in the Public School Building on Saturday,
At which there were seventeen candidates.
Mrs, Joseph Walls aud Mrs. Fred Jensen are
both sick with the measles. There are, also,
one or two children affected.
the Milton colored school closed on Friday. |
A petition is in circulation to present to one
n the senators, to lay before Congress, pre-
sumably with many others, asking that body |
"a enact a law prohibiting the shipment OF
iauor from wet" districts into dry" ones.
steamer Marie Thomas is about completed
me boat is well lifted FOR the transportation Of
,sssepeers and freight and will be great con-
,enience to Milton. There is no running
cbedule vet. It is understood however, that
he viii load with pine wood this week for
philadelphia. Thomas Chase will be her
antaip. oliver Hazard her engineer and the
smaisder OF the crew will also be nom
Hilton.
portia E. JEFFERSON, daughter OF Nathaniei
emerson. died at the residence OF her sister
~ Joseph Birmingham, near tswn' on
uesday morning of gangrene, aged II years.
months and days. Funeral services were
M Al the N. P. Churchin Milton on Thurs
~ by the Rev. @. R. McCready and inter-