Milford chronicle., 1910-04-01
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS
Condensed News Paragraphs
OF a Local Nature
April LIST.
All Fools Day.
Arbor and Bird Day.
Arbulus is now in bloom.

Court will convene at Georgetown on
Monday, April 4th.
The season for catching oysters in the
Mispillion River closed with yesterday.
1t is unla Rful to catch turtle snap
pers) in Sussex County from March LIST
to July LIST.
The Guild will meet with Mrs. Will
liam 7. Watson on Wednesday, April
9Th, at 80 p. m.
The colored band has arrived home
from Palm Beach, Florida, where they
filled winters engagement.
The annual spring inspection of Com
pany B will take place at the Armory
on Friday evening, April 18th.
supts. Spaid and Carroll have decided
to hold a joint teachers institute in
Dover during Thanksgiving week.
The State Board Of Pharmacy will
hold its quarterly meeting In the Clay
ton House, Wilmington, on April 4th
Rev. R. L Hallett Of Odessa, who
accepted a call from a Presbyterian
Church at Altoona, Pa, removed to
that city last week.
Wednesday, April 9Th. will be dOna
tiou day at the Palmer Home at Dover
Anyone wishing to contribute can no.
~ aF..-
The next session Of the Maryland
Annual Conference the NJ. P Church
will be held in Broadway Church, Bal
tlmore, April 9Th to 18th.
Catherine Pritchett, a five-ysars-Old
colored child, was accidentally killed
last Friday afternoon under the motor
car of Robert d. Grier in Salisbury, Md.
Elias Fountain, colored, aged 81 ears,
died at his home in Milford last Satur.
day morning OF general debility aud
was buried at Levi Cemetery Monday
Committees from all Oranges will
hold a meeting with the Kent County
Levy Court IN Dover on Tuesday, April
5th, to discuss the coed roads problem.
Edward G. Morris, a former Milford
boy, has succeeded L D. Shank as sup
erinteudent OF the Georgetown Light
Heat and Power Company and the Nil
ton Electric Light Company.
The regular business meeting If the
Ladies Aid of the Avenue NJ. h Church
will be held at the. residence Of Mrs.
Paris T. Carlisle on Wednesday after
noon, April 9Th, at three o'clock.
Sheriff Maloney Of Kent County has
seized the old Bethel A. NJ. f. Church
on Church Street, Milford, on an un
satisfied judgment ofS3l5. and will sell
the same on Saturday, April 2nd.
Rev. J. Leighton McKim Of Milford
on Wednesday conducted services at
the funeral Of Mrs Sarah E Kirk,
sged 81 years and widow Of James Kirk,
she having died at her home in Dover
Monday afternoon.
Halley's Comet, which is estimated
TO be about 17O, 900 miles of, is due in
this part Of the world on or about May
1sth.a according to Professor Ames, dl.
rector Of the physical laboratory at
Johns Hopkins University.
The States educators. in session at
Dover. have decided TO issue pay to
teachers Of the State and county while
attending Teachers Institutes, either
the general institutes or the local insti'
tutes held within the districts.
The colored base ball club went to
Dover last Monday and played game
with the State College team. The Van
boys threw the ball away with three
college batsmen on the bases and hence
lost the game by a score Of : to 5.
This Friday evening, April lst, re
eeption will be given in the lecture room
Of the Avenue NJ. E. Church In honor
Of the return Of the pastor, Rev. How.
ard t. Quigg. All members and friends
are invited. Mics McClOskey will sing.
A beautiful and memorable Easter
was enjoyed in Milford, and while it
seemed from q glimpse inside that
everybody went to church. yet there
were hundreds spinning about in the
ideal spring sunshine behind fast horses
or in auto cars.
Easter Sunday was q gala day IN the
churches Of Milford. The attendance
was unusually large and the services
were inspiring. The musical program
in the Presbyterian Church was especl-
ally fine, the regular choir being as
sisted by Seward B Lisk, Of Palmyra,
N. J. The Easter SOng-Story, Love
Triumphant" was rendered in the
evening. It was sung with fine spirit
to q very apprsciative audience.