Milford chronicle., 1911-11-24
MILTON NEWS.

The scarcity of houses in town, and
the exOrbitant prices charged for these
that are for rent, have caused many men
of moderate means to look about themsel-
YES, and inquire whether they had not
better try to own a little shack of their
own, and be it lever so humble" it
would be home; and relieve them of
the task of every year, looking about for
a home, and also of the fear of, every
year, receiving moving orders " Act
ing upon a thought of this kind some
have purchased lot of ground, and are
building, or going to build, for themsel-
YES homes. They have, also, had an eye
to taxation, and have secured their land
outside of the town limits. The late fires
in Milton did great deal of injury, not
only to the town, but individually, and
Town Council has intensified that injury
and discouraged improvement and driven
people from the town by its actions.
Early on last Wedneday morning the
bang bang =" of the breech loader be-
gan to be heard in the land. But there
are not so many gunners here as of yore
1t is understood the owners of land, i'll
many instances, have put their veto on
foreign gunners trespassing on them;
and we believe this to be right And
there is not SO much game being killed
as in former years, at least not yet. 1t
is noticeable that our small men who are
gunners, are not vet out, and we under
stand it is because there are some Jersey
men over here cunning. 1t will be re
membered men have been shot over in
Jersey for deer, and our small men are
afraid these Jersey men may shoot them
fe,er IL -ft,1 -,t. hot
these men should be deprived of all the
pleasure of cunning for fear of being
shot?
One of our smokers was out on one of
the windy days, and after smoking put
his pipe i'll the breast pocket of his coat.
When he got home, he smelled some
thing burning, and was like chicken
with its head cut off" flying around until
he found it was himself on fire. His
coat was burned considerably, and the
man thought he came near being burnt
to death. But Gaby would You believe
it, he still smokes
We clip the following from our Wash
ington News: Postmaster General Hit
chcock declares that he has never we'd
ed, he has no desire to wed and further
more he is not going to resign. Postmas-
ter-General Hitchcock says he has out
lined winter program of some excep-
tiOnal measure, which he hopes to get
thru for the Postal Service, and is 50
interested in it that resignation is out of
the question. He furthermore said that
he is not going to be chairman of the Re
publican National Committee, nor will
he manage any campaign He saws he
thinks this settles up all his denial cases
for the current week
]. Leon Black was in Philadelphia last
week.
Z. A. Nirden has inclosed his coal and
wood yard with wire fence.
Miss Clara Vaughan has returned from
a visit to Middletown and Wilmington
Schooner Annie Russell loaded piling
last week for W. W. Conwell to go To
Cape May
John Megee's new building on Lavania
street is plastered, and ready for occu-
pancy.
The sidewalk on South Union street.
between Carey d Darby's store and the
bridge, has been raised six inches with
the dirt taken from the bottom of the
river blythe dredges
A boat from the U. S. Engineer De
partment was at the dock for a short
time on Friday.
The large pile of sand that has been
taken from the river and thrown on the
north side, will be used to I'LL up the
lagoon i'll that quarter.
a few people killed their hogs last
week, and many more are killing this
week.
Another clothing store has been open
ed in the old storehouse belonging to c. |
II. Atkins, corner Chestnut and Front
street The parties are a man and wo-
nan, and they purpose on living in the |
upper room of the building.
The pocketbook that was lost by Viii |
liam Clements, containing S22 90, was
found by Somerset Reed and returned to |
the owner,
There is a bad washout in the sidewalk |
on Lavania street, and this should be |
attended to. It is dangerous to pedes- |
TRANS of a night
On Thanksgiving morning there will /
be services held in the Methodist Protest /
ant church. The Rev Hurst, pastor of
the NJ. K. Church, will preach the ser
mon. During the afternoon and even
ing the ladies of the NJ. +. Church will |
give a supper in the lower room of the
Masonic Temple, to be paid for Also,
in the evening an entertainment in MINI
icry, will be given in School Hail. this,
to be paid for, if you get there.