Milford chronicle., 1910-12-02
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS
Condensed News Paragraphs
of a Local Nature
HoIIy buyers are gettlng busy

Holly buyers are getting busy
There are thirteen prisoners confined
in the Sussex County Jail.
The trapping season for muck rats be-
gan yesterday, December let.
Word comes from Wilmington that
Father Waldron is seriously i'll with
nervous trouble
Get your tickets for "DTiVen From
Home" at the Express Office. Don't
put it of, go now.
A. Donnell Marshall has resigned the
position Of deputy insurance commits
sioner Of Delaware. Z
The new steel cages for the county
iail have arrived at Georgetown and
are being placed in position.
The inspection Of Company B will
fake place in the Armory at Sis O'Clock
this Friday evening, December 2nd.
The managers of the Palmer Home
for Old Folkes, at Dover, are planning
to install laundry at the home very
soon.
Slaughter Neck w. &. T. U. will meet
at the home Of Eliza c. Bennett on De-
cember 8th, at $50 p. m. Text word
Work.
A business meeting Of the Ladies Aid
Society Of the Avenue M. E. Church
will be held on Wednesday, December
7tb. at the home Of Miss A. J. Davis.
The local w. q. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Matte Watson, lO4 Montgomery
Street. on Tuesday evening, December
9Th, at Z 30 o'clock. Text word, "COn'
fees"
The seth annual session Of the Della
ware State Grange, Pstrons Of Hus.
r bandry, will be held in the Century
Club Building at Dover on December
, 18th, l4th and 18th.
5 As December 25th, Christmas Day,
; comes on Sunday this year, it Will be
celebrated on Monday. The same Is
? true of Monday, January 2ud, as New
. YEARS. Day also falls on Sunday.
= "Driven From Home" at Armory
Hall next Tuesday evening Every
body go. II you don't care to go, buy
ticket. Home talent, and for the
benefit of the Town Clock Fund.
There will be q bazaar and oyster
supper held at Reese's Opera House,
Harrington, this Friday and Saturday
evenings. Proceeds for the benefit OF
e M. P. Church. All are cordially in'
I vited
s Alta meeting OF the directors Of the
e Delaware Railroad Company, held No
g vember 2Ist, Daniel Mifliin Wilson Of
e Dover was elected SECRETARY and treas
o urer Of the com pany, to fill the vacancy
70 caused by the death Of Manlove Hayes
Do your Christmas shopping as early
Is as posslble. DON'T wait till every thing
4 has been picked over. A great deal oi
! annoyance, both to Oureelfand others
= will he prevented II you attend to this
q matter instead Of waiting till the las'
moment.
William Davis johnson, aged year.
. and 2 month, son of r. Irving Johnson
\ formerly Of Milford, died at the home O.
= his parents in Philadelphia on Thurs
dsv. November 18th, from membranou'
\ Group, and was buried in that city OF
a the following Saturday.
re An adjourned meeting Of the stat'
< BOARD Of Education will be held in th'
As office OF the State Auditor at Dover OF
Friday, December 2nd. The purpose o
the meeting is to discuss the necessary
changes in the school laws, and to form
Mate an amendment to be presented
1s TO the General Assembly for action
- Holly is said to be very scarce I'M
: wear and the dealers are already havinl
trouble to fill orders. Fruiting trees
= savs one dealer, become less and les
!, each year from the fact that fruitlnl
! tree once trimmed rarely affords an
- other crop, and the cutting Of tim0e
's too much exposes the holly trees, eau'
20 ing the leaf to yellow.
=, =, GOOD CROP RESULTS.