Milford chronicle., 1912-02-02
ITEMS Of INTEREST
THROUGHOUT STATE
LEWEs FARMERS GET $40 A TON
Loses Eye As Result Of Football Injury.
Negroes Issue Newspaper at Dover.
Lewes To Have Gas Plant.


plant in I4ewes. A charter has beer
granted to the Lewes Gas Company
and a franchise embodying very fav
Orable conditions has been granted
to the company by the commission
ers of the town to lay pipes through
the streets. Stock books are now
open and the company expects tC
have the plant in operation by the
beginning of the summer months.
Lewes Gamers are making con-
tracts for next years acreage. En-
deavOrs were made to get the farm
ers to sign contracts to grow tomatoes
at SIS ton. which price, while an
increase over last year Of 81 a ton,
was not sufficient inducement to get
the farmers names to contracts. The
Gamers had to raise the price to 50.
Even at this price the growers, being
alert to the fact that the prices on
can goods have increased out Of pro-
portion to the amount offered, are
reluctant to sign up and at this time
few contracts have been made
Captain Joseph T.. Bonsall 50
years old, seafaring man and for
forty-two years commander of his
own vessels, died last Sunday night
at his Dover home. Prominent in
Masonry, the Workmen and Mogul-
lians, he was for years a regular
figure in funeral and other process
sions there bearing the Bible. He
lost his finest ship in South Aneri-
can hurrican. The funeral Of Cap
tain Bonsall was held Tuesday after
noon at O'Clock from his late resi-
dence on Queen Street. 1t was
fraternal order funeral and his body
was taken to odd Fellows Cemetery
Camden, for interment.
As the result of a kick received
while playing football on Thanksgiy-
ing Day. John L. Collins, aged Is
years, of Wilmington, has lost the
sight Of his right eye. Collins, an
all-around athlete, was "A member Of
the du POnt football team and was
playing low 10 block a rush, when
he was knockeddown and trampled.
Some other player kicked him in the
eye, but he did not pay much atten-
ton to the wound until week ago.
When he suffered from pains in the
head. Prof. c. p. White of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania pronounced
the ailiction an acute Inflammation
and stated that he COULD do nothing
TO save the sight as the case had
gone too far
The first general newspaper ven
ture undertaken by the negroes Of .
this State was issued Saturday in
Dover from new printing office,
owned and operated by prominent
negroes. Albert Byrd Ruflin appears
as the editor and William H. Lee
and Rev j. W. jefferson as contrib
uting editors Lorenzo w. Butcher
is business manager. Among other
editorial matter is one on saving, in
which the wonders that can be work
ed with five cents a day, saved for
number of years, is shown In its
news columns the paper shows that
there are in Dover the following trades
and professions filled by black men
One medical doctor, one undertaken,
four teachers, four preachers, one
policeman, one uphOlsterer, one fur
niture dealer, three BARRIERS one in
surance manager, four junk dealers, 3
three dressmakerS, one pool room j
proprietor one coal retailer, one {
hrst-class tailor, two carpenters, one
painter, one drayman with own :
teams, one plasterer and one brick q
mason. The paper is a weekly and
is called The Enterprise.
The blizzard which set in Satur-
day morning drove the ice from The c
Lewes River into the Delaware Bay, .
where it jammed and froze to such a
depth that four three mast schooners Il
and t0e sail pllotboat Henry Ed- f
munds were unable to move. Sew a
eral men walked from the shore to G
the Edmunds on the ice. Two men +,
from one Of the schooners were res II
cueo by the Lewes Lifesaving Station b
men, when they attempted to return ,
to the schooner in a small boat, and n
being caught in the ice foes were h
unable to either reach the vessel or Ct
.eturn to land The little boat was VI
200 feet from shore. When the life ~
inc was shot, it reached the men b,
ust in time to save them from death. OF
The men were drawn ashore and oC
ared for at the station. They suf- f.
cred much from frost bites. All of an
sunday the walk between the town wi
nd the beach was black with sight m
eers on their way to view the won e
erfully beautiful sight Of the ice
ED. As far as the vision reached :.