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Milford chronicle., 1911-05-12
ANNUAL Inspection OF
KENT SCHOOL BUILDINGS
IcoNrNUED FROM LAST WEEK. ]

Postles, No. 81. Miss Taylor is the
ieacher and the school is very clean and
satisfactory. It was we'll repaired two
years ago but a vestibule should be built
10 the front, so as to prevent the cold
CAST winds of winter, and the storms
beating into the door It would afford
place for wraps and lunch baskets as
well.
Oak Grove, No. 81. in Milford Neck, is
taught by Mrs. Jester and it is clean,
attractive and in good condition A new
Sag pole has been erected during the
rear just passed.
Bennetts Gates, No. rs. has been taken
through course of thorough repairs,
and large an attractive front built to the
Building, which has two porches, with
substantial steps leading into them
Paint has been used to good effort OF the
entire outside of the building, and it is
the purpose of the school committee to
paint the INSIDE this summer Miss Evans
is the teacher. and the children look clean
bright and proud of their almost new
school house. Well done
Sour Apple Tree, No. 90 is in Milford
Week, and this school has for years been
yell to the front for cleanliness and for
Is good state of repair but. this year it
aas fallen back There were several
window panes broken out, the floor about
DIE stove needs repairing, the room was
not remarkable for its cleanliness while
4he door yard was Uttered with banana
skins and refuse. The condition sat the
Sour Apple Tree school were considerably
behind what they have been, or what
shey should be. The children seemed to
not have the usual high interest in the
school property. Some thing needs to be
lone quickly at this school
Pine Grove, No. "A. under the care Of
Miss Taylor, the teacher, has excellent
sanitary conditions, and the school looks
veil kept A new cover should be put
about the driven pump.
Milford. The large schools at this place
xere given only a very superficial look
lver, as they are the model schools of
lower Delaware, so far as buildings and
equipments go The colored schools
we're in good order also but they need
painting
Church Hill, No. 4O1-2. hasa new vesti-
iale and the interior is clean and very
attractive. Miss Efiie Townsend is the
eeacher. They expect to paint the build
ing this summer.
Williamsville, No. Al. is a very largely
attended school, and there should be two
teachers there for the greater part of the
year. Miss Slaughter is the teacher,
md the school was keep in very nice
md clean condition The colored school
4 this place was also in good condition.
Pennington. The conditions at Farm
ngton are 50 very bad that the inspectors
aiOught It was a waste Of time to visit
The schools. There appears to be neither
public interest in educating the children
8f Pennington under even comfortable
conditions, and it was the opinion of the
Rounty School Commission that the
only way to bring the people Of Farming
Ion TO a realization Of what they must do
sor their school before the state money
.an be used, is to stop its payment BY the
state Treasures, until they have made
he schools comfortable and decent for
Milford chronicle., 1911-05-12

use. The State furnishes two dollars for
each single dollar that the town Of Farm
ington raises for the education Of their
children. and it should make the people
there do their part. if they desire to get
the State aid for public school education.
This will bring them up with a round
turn. and further action from Farming
ton will probably be from the people Of
that place in the near future. 1t would
be well for them TO attend the school
elections this year, and vote to raise
money to rebuild their present school
buildings it needs it, or they may have
to run it without State aid.
Powels school was closed, an unusual
thing for this district to close this early
in the season.
Little Mastens, No. IS, is a very salts
factory school and it was under the care
of Miss Baynard this year.
Reeves Crossing, a colored school, was
the only public school in the county
where domestic science was being taught.
Miss Guy, the teacher. had the boys and
girls working with their sewing after the
close of the classes for the day had been
completed. It is unnecessary to say,
that the conditions at this school were
,tf tt,,f could he exnectad
Riees, No. 12O, is taught BY Miss Dunn.
1t needs more desks and seats for the
children, and three are compelled to sit
on one seat sometimes It needs a new
floor also. The parents should look after
this over crowded school, and see that
new furniture is bought this summer and
that the school committee looks after its
needs.
FELTON,. It is hoped that the school con-
mittee of FELTON, were aroused to the in-
terests and needs of their school when
they made some much needed improve
ments two years ago; but, it was only a
spasm, the result Of the prodding given
them bv the County School Commission
ers, and they seem to have relapsed into
the old ruts. They have excellent teach
ers, teachers above the average as to abil-
ity and willingness to do their part but
they cannot do all. A janitor is Necessary
to sweep the rooms, dust the rooms and
air the rooms each day when school is
held in them please remember this par
ticular point. The janitor they have now
is not doing this work, and now the
point has come when it must be done.
Sixty dollars per wear for making the
fires. sweeping the four school rooms and
three Railways, and looking after the
cleanliness of the closets is not enough
money to pay any human being tor that
amount of work, and the entire fault lies
with the members of the school commit
tee of FELTON, The people of the town of
FELTON, should attend the school elections,
and see that men who Will do all that is
required of them, are placed on the
board if this is not done, then the mat
ter will have TO be taken IN hand by the
State Board of Education
The weather has been so bad, that it
was deemed best to discontinue further
inspection of the schools of the county.
until the fall sessions open, and here the
work closes for the spring of 1911.
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TERMS OF sale.

paid
o instruments
1912 M 1913 January lst 1914 The said residue
1912 The purchaser will be allowed in
said 81 O000O cash payment date of January ls 1912
with deferred
cash. the option of the purchaser either the day OF sale January ls
will be 1872 purchaser having the fall Of
1911 all the rights of
telegraph telephone T. Alan Godshorough Denton
Nd, further details
T. ALAN G0LDSB0R0UGH
F. COvEY, Attorney fact
&N B. Practically which purchaser might
de secured by applying Alan Godsboough Denton Nd
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lNpiA Z PlfikhNlA lllb tAptIltuCc WIFI
an organism untitled for the trial of
strength, and when the strain is over
her system has received shock from
which it is hard to recover. Follow
ing right upon this comes the nervous
strain of caring for the child, and
distinct change in the mother results.
There is nothing more charming than
a happy and healthy mother of chill
dren, and indeed childbirth under right
conditions need be no hazard to health
OF beauty. The mexplainable thing is
shat, with all the evidence of shattered
nerves and broken health resulting
from an unprepared condition, women
will persist in going blindly to the trial.
1t isn't as though the experience
came upon them unaWares. They have
ample time in which to prepare, but
they, for the most part, trust to chance
and pay the penalty.
In many homes once childless there
are now children because of the fact
5hat Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound makes women normal,
healthy, and strong.
ANY woman who would like
special advice in regard to this
matter is cordially invited to
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass. Her letter will be held in
strict confidence.
Milford chronicle., 1911-05-12

We want to state just here, that the
work of inspecting the school properties
is duty imposed by the laws Of the State
on the County School Commissions Of
each Of the counties, and for this ser
vice the State pays for each annual in
spection, the sum of TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS to each Of the three members
of the commission They have to
hire the automobile they use at an ex-
pense of about ten dollars each day. for
six days, and pay their own and the
drivers board in addition. The public
will readily see that their work is largely
a labor of love, and feeling of duty for
the bettermeut of the public school
system of the State It is easy for the
local school commissioner TO correct all
the short comings of their own school
property, and requires but little of his
time but for the member of the County
School Commission must give his time
and perform a duty which at time dis
arranges his own affairs, so that the
people who have the schools in charge
as school commissioners, may be kept up
to the full dicharge of their duty. We
want cooperation for this end, and |
shall appreciate its being cheerfully
given but, unless the schools are kept
to the standard desired it will be the
County School Commissioners to enforce
of their suggestions for the
of the schools, by applying
the laws which enables them to enforce |
their mandates. We have called attention |
to what would be Of benefit to the schools |
and it is expected that all school COM
mittees will have the good of the schools I
at heart, and adopt if not these sugges-
tions. then others of better purport.
HERMAN P. HAZEL,
JOHN CARROW, Members
THEO. TOWNSEND,
Kent County School Commission
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TWO HUNDRED ACRES

land all which high and arabic 100 cleared and in excen
pear the
purchaser spend place
everything including buildings in excellent repair
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BUILDINGS.

There TENROOM DWELLING
aped with dairy and build
in oubulding which
Pound Pumps rougs Sheds Stables Machine Houses Chicken
Houses, Hay Lofts, etc
Milford chronicle., 1911-05-12

one Woman IN a mum
'dred is prepared or
understands how to
properly care former
self. OF course near
ly every woman now
adays has me dical
'trea t m IN t at the
time of childbirth,
but many approach
tho awOaripn0a Wifh
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lnextbe will be sold whichever
realized
the valuable in Kent County Delaware
miles from Greensboro Maryland OF the chief shipping points
the Peninsula
Milford chronicle., 1911-05-12
Facts
About
Motherhood

The experience of Motherhood is a
trying one to most women and marks
distinctly an epoch in their lives. Not
Milford chronicle., 1911-05-12
1e. 90 ACRES OF LAND.

high arabic About FIFTEEN
of YOUNG TIMBER principally
3 the plat
public and the opportunity for desr-
a small erect his buildings
LOT o. marked Parcel No the above plot
Harrington binding Of Andrew Dill and Thomas
Well auico
Milford chronicle., 1911-05-12
HaaRwSDVU

THAT FARM rand
aware County Maryland line owned by David Marine
and the above plat aud bounds courses and distances
will be offered IL ~
of marked No the above plat
said Greensboro roa to Bur
% the lands Richard Warren and Albert Harrington and containing
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
Damask For Shawl searfs.

Silk damasks are used in the fash
ionlng of the broad shawl scarfs that
are fashionable. They have the air
of having once covered sofas and
chairs of the grand monarch period.
are soft and pliable and especially
woven for the dressmakers use.
These scarfs are so ample that when
wound about the figure they are as
warm as a coat. The colors are ex-
quisite. blurred design in japanese
red, which has all the romance Of the
east In II. is most effective. A mellow
thistle blue shade and a peculiar green
that is named after the Nile. yet which
makes the old fashioned nile green
seem insipid, is used with excellent
effect.
These are often bordered with mara
bou and are thrown over the shoulders
with the defiant abandon Of the Span
iard's cloak.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
An Artists Ioke.

Holman Hunt, who began life as II
clerk to an auctioneer and estate
agent. was constantly drawing por-
traits when he should have been draw
ing up leases, and in his chosen pro
fcssion he was never slow to seize the
flying moment. The windows In his
room were made of ground glass, and
as he had little TO do he spent much
of his time In drawing flies upon its
roughened surface. blot of ink suf
feed for the body and some delicate
pencil strokes for the wings, and at Il
distance the deception was perfect.
Day by day the number increased. and
one morning his employer came in.
stopped before the window and ex.
claimed: II can't make out how II is
Every day that come into this room
there seem to be more and more flies >"
And, taking out his handkerchief. he
attempted to brush them away
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
WAISTS OF 1911
MOST ATTRACTIVE.
NmonO Sleeves the Most Strik-
Ing Feature Of New Modes.

Long ago. when you were really
young, the first showing of spring
shirt waists In the windows in the
middle of winter actually set your
heart all In a fiutter. They were so
enticing, and you wished you had
about twice as many as you could af-
ford, and you made up your mind to
copy some of those that looked so sim.
pie and cost so much.
But now that you are a thousand
years old and have seen the new shirt
waists in the windows many. many
times you have even been known to
walk right by "A window fun of them
without looking in, which is a great
mistake.
: It's mistake because it's trucking
to old age, and It's a great mistake,
too, because the new blouses are un-
deniably pretty, and this year there
are many new points about them.
Perhaps the most striking character
istic OF the new blouses is the preva-
lence OF the kimono sleeve. Almost
half the soft waists seem to be made
with this new seamless shoulder. II
Is the logical outcome of the winters
modes. The suit blouses OF chiffon
and silk were almost all made with
half or three-quarter length kimono
sleeves. and no objections were offered,
30 1t was the logical thing to repeat
this popular style In the summer
blouses.
Another distinguishing feature Of
the new waists Is the use of dne
French volle or marquisette The volle
Is to be preferred to the marqulsette,
however, as 1t is a little firmer.
The rage for beads, so marked in
the winter styles, also has its echo In
the waists for 1911. Some wash
blouses are seen dellcately embroider-
ed In porcelain beads of black, white
or color. But since the laundering bf
these beaded patterns is rather diffi-
cult the designers have cleverly made
use of new kind of embroidery
which Initiates the little porcelain
beaded effect to perfection. 1t resem-
bles series OF French dots, each dot
being about the size and shape of a
white porcelain bead. Dainty patterns
are worked in this beaded effect on
marquisette and voile.
On other waists small coral beads
are used, and the coral touch is accen-
tuated by narrow folds of coral voile
at the neck and sleeves.
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The Sedan Chair.

The sedan chair is named after Sc
dan, the town where 1t was first used.
The earliest mention of 1t in England
occurs in 1881. Early In the following
century the Duke of Buckingham
caused much Indignation by its use In
London. People were eXasperated at
that nobleman employing his fellow
men to take the place of horses to car
ry him. Prince Charles brought from
Spain in 1923 three curiously wrought
sedans, two of which he gave to the
Duke OF Buckingham. A few weeks
after their introduction Massinger pro-
duced his play. THE Bondman," and
in il he thus adverts to the ladies':
For their pomp and care being borne
In triumph on mems shoulders.
The reference is doubtless to Buck
inghams sedan, which was borne like
a palanquin.-"Bygone England"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
The Magnetic Poles.

The magnetic poles are not station
airy. The northern one is slowly NOV
ing westward along the SEVENTEEN
parallel and in the course of three or
four hundred years will probably have
encircled the geographic north pole
and returned to about its present loca-
ton. OF course the southern magnetic
pole follows corresponding course
about the geographic south pole. In
such cities in the United States as
Omaha, Sioux City, Topeka, Galveston,
ETC., the compass needle would point
about in the direction of the north
star and the north pole that Com
mander Peary reached. This geo.
graphic pole Is about 1.500 miles north
Of the magnetic pole, toward which
the needles Of all compasses point
st. Nicholas.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
SELECTING A BOAR
TO HEAD The HERD.
A Sire Of Pure Breeding Es-
SentidI to Good Results.

Select the boar for the work he has
to do in your herd. If the sows are
of the fine boned type the boar should
be more rangy and Of larger bone not
only to Increase the size of the pigs,
but to prevent actual deterioration.
II the sows are big and rangy the
boar may be more compact. AS the
boar gives half the blood TO every lit
ter and the SOW can only influence her
own brood, 1t is vltally important that
the boar be good individual and able
TO reproduce his kind.
Many herd boars are bought while
young, as the shipping charges are
heavy. When this is done the pig
should be selected for his vitality. his
masculine character. his heart glrth
and his breadth between the eyes.
Moreover he must be pure bred, no
matter what the quality of the sows.
A grade boar may sire good pigs. but
these pigs will have inherited his taint
of blood, and deterioration and not i'm
provement is sure to result. Not all
registered boarS are good animals or
good sires, and no breeder should sell
an inferior animal even If he is eligl-
BILE to record Pure bred animals, II
of good quality. are the only ones to
use for profitable results, as they sup
ply the only means OF Improvement
In breeding operations Feeding has
much to do with getting results but
there must be something to feed, and
this can only come through good blood
Generally speaking young boar mat.
ed with an aged SOW will produce ear
lier maturing pigs than will an aged
boar mated with a young SOW and in
this may be found the best argument
for keeping a SOW ms long as she will
breed satisfactorily
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
Patchwork,

The idea that patchwork had lts
origin in America is not founded on
fact. A thousand years before the
Christian era a queen OF Egypt went
down the Nile to her last resting place
under wonderful canopy of skins
that were dyed and pieced together in
a mosaic pattern. Years before this
work had reached perfection and ac-
quired definite place among the arts.
Then, too, patchwork quilts were made
In England In the eighteenth century
as witness the lines written by Cow
per to a Mrs. King upon receipt of "a
kind present Of patchwork quilt OF
her own making. Womans Home
Companion.
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TIMELY HINTS
FOR farmers
Value of SkimmiIk.

The popular impression is that skim.
milk is of little value. This is great
mistake. The butter fat taken out by
the separator has much less food val.
ne than the skimmilk The latter is
what builds up bone and muscle. II
Is almost a perfectly balanced food
while the fat serves only to make heat
and other fat in the animal consuming
It, In 100 pounds of skimmilk there
are eighty-seven pounds of water. four
pounds of fat. five pounds Of milk sug
ar, three and three-tentb pounds of
casein and albumen and sevcn-tenths
of pound Of mineral matter of salts
This makes thirteen pounds of solids
to every 100 pounds of milk. and they
are of the greatest nutrit!ve vulue
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
A LIBERTY WITH TIME.
Castelar's Interrupted Lecture In the
University Of Madrid.

Csstelar's Interrupted Lecture In the
University Of Madrid.
In "Home Life In Spain" is fine
story of the University of Madrid
which once had among its professors
that Senor CASTELAR, who was for a
time president of the short lived Span
lsh republic. But when Alfonso XII.
was brought to Madrid after the fall
Of the republic CASTELAR,, with his com
panlons. was eXlled.
Some years afterward an amnesty
was proclaimed. and Castelar, returned
in triumph TO Madrid TO resume his
Office in the university. \ vast gather
ing attended to hear his first lecture.
and the greatest orator in all Spain
mounted the rostrum. looked lmper-
turbably at the sea of eager faces sur
rounding him and began. "As | was
saying yesterday" Como decia aver.
Between that yesterday and this
day he had fought the battle of the
fallen republic and had known the bit
terness of years in exile All memory
Of this. however poignant in the heart
OF Castelar,. had passed from the pro-
fessor of Madrd's university. and he
continued his lecture at the very point
at which II had been broken off.
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THRASHING SERVANTS.
Domestic Life In England In the Time
Of Henry VIII.

Of Henry VII.
In that remarkably minute chronicle
of domestic life In England I'm the
time of Henry Will. Tusser's give
Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.' Sc
the learned and pious author seems
TO take 1t for granted that the only
way OF dealing with maidservants Is
10 thrash them numerically.
He tells us in his inimtable doggerel
that ~ maid must be forced to b.
cleanly" or she is to be made to crv
creak." MiStresses are advised "to 60
about with holly wand in their hand
although they may not always have
occasion 10 use IL. and To pay home
when they fght"-that is to say.
thraSh-"but not to he always chid
ing" As regards the laundry. the
domestic serfS are warned to take
heed when they wash or run I'm the
lash and to wash well, wiring well and
beat we'll So that If any lack beat
ing 1t will he themselves"
As for the unhappy Cicely. the dairy
maid. she is to cry "creak"-that Is to
say to be thrashcd-if her cheese H.
"hoven" or puffcd up, and If the
cheese be tough Cicely Is to have ~
crash" II the cheese he spotted
Cicely is TO be amended by the baycs
and II It be too full of whey the
wretched dairymad Is to have "a
dressing" Finally. II any maggots are
found in the cheese. mistress is to bc
Cicely by and by"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
Earliest Use Of Mineral Ink.

In ancient times india Ink. made
from lampblack and glue, was used
for writing on papyri, but inspection
OF the earliest vellum or parchment
MSS shows that iron gall inks were
introduced not later than the ninth
century. The reason for the change
was that, although carbon ink is
more permanent, 1t has no penetrating
power and can be sponged from the
vellum, whereas the iron ink bites In
to the fibers and resists the destruc-
tive action OF both air and light.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
Caring For Mill.

Placing milk in unclean vessels is
one great source of infection, Bits OF
old spoiled milk left In seams and
cracks OF cans carry bacteria enough
to soon spoil the whole contents. To
leave the can open or exposed to the
air Is another common way of intro
ducing bacteria or germs. Bacteria
also multiply rapidly in warm milk;
hence the necessity Of low temper
ature. The cooler milk is kept the
longer 1t stays sweet. 1t should be
kept cool up to the time of using.