Milford chronicle., 1909-05-21
SHORT LOCAL BREYITIES.
Paragraphs Of Condensed News Items
Of a Local Nature.

The marble for the new post office
Is expected TO arrive here next week.
e A picnic was held last Saturday at
=. Piney Grove School in Milford neck.
II The pea crop will be coming to the
Y eannerles by the middle of next week.
). The Slaughter Neck w. c. T. U.
I VIII meet at the church, Thursday.
e May 9th, at p. m.
g The State Federation of Women,s
: Clubs will convene in Smyrna Tues
day and Wednesday, May 25th and
26th
The tuberculosis Commission will
hold its next session in Milford. tbe /
latter part Of this month or the first of
June.
The Georgetown High School base
Dali club united Milford last Saturday
ana was defeated by a local team. the
score being Is to 5.
Analarm Of fire at noon last Satur.
DAY was csussd by a blaze on the roof
OF an old colored church building at
the corner of Fourth and West Streets
Chancellor Nicholson will announce
the Dover church decision this FRIDAY =
morning at 10 o'clock, in the court q
room Of the Kent County Court House, n
and will be open at all.
The strawberry season opened here h
this week, and there is a fine crop to
go to market. If average prices are a
realized, the growers Will make money q,
but no phenominal sums. 4,
W. Scott Way, OF Glenore, Califor. a,
MIA, a former well known Delaware p
journalist, has purchased a farm in si
Talbot County, Nd, and Will take M Or
ais residence there in July.
John Johnson, cOlOred, OF Houston an
'fter spending some time visiting with St
leighOors, last Sunday morning, was di,
ound dead in the field near his home. tio
Death evidently being the result of cb
eart disease
John P. Holland of Milford Will de.
yer the address to the graduates of the =
now Hill, Maryland, High School at y,
ne commencement exercises 10 be held r..
Assembly Hall on "wednesday even. -. 49,
Ig, May 10Th.
a very pleasant dance wac given by 30,
le young people Of Milford last Friday o..
ght IN the New Century Club Rooms 49,.
'verai visitors from neighboring towns ~.
ere present. Excellent music was fur. 49,
shed by the Breme Brothers. A.,
The Mothers aud White Ribbon re. 49,
llts Will meet in the Avenue NJ E. VA
lurch' Friday, May 28th at three NJ,
ock, p. N. An interesting program : - -
II he prepared, after which refresh. u u = :
.nts will be served. All are invited 49,.
attend. ,I'iA
scarlet clover hay has been generally
rvested IN the vicinity of Nilford
week, and it was never or more ,a-. t-"u
life. The farmer receives So per - -
Tor the hay as it is hauled from the ,s,
d-equivelent to Sl2 per ton when 20,
rough dried out. io1,
Stanley ShOIt and family expect di9as ,ia's
move for the summer into the hotel - -
peTty at Slaughter Beach this week. "a
nublio xyisit,,,r, 80 l, 81. celFe
,ont tho ,tal,,,- ,ne o'@ol | wiz oe 1881
Iations ~ bo,oI thia .e a00OIi' oI receiN
IT intends to make no provision for iAeu' .
I entertainment. at ae'
le annual epcampment OF the or
zed Militia Of Delaware will be
in the month NJ Julv at tbe f.rno Mill
'hieh is the State Rife Range. The It's FIN
erty is owned by the United States > w.
and uverooks the Della. Friday
River, just one mile below New Chr
e. The grounds are biob aud mornil
drained. vice at
~ ating