Milford chronicle., 1912-04-26

close about June 10th. The graduatin
class this year is composed of Mise
Mary Houston, daughter of Col Rober
G. Houston, Hazel Green, HannaI
Green, Georgia Williams, Basil Blacl;
stone, son of State Senator w. F. Blacl;
stone, Frank Rupert and Benjamin Able
man.
Receptacles have been placed on SOM
of the leading steeets of the town of Mil
ton by the ladies' New Century Club, il
which to deposit scraps of waste pape
and garbage.
Married at Selbyville recently, Mis-!
Bessie Coulbourn and Oliver Collins, o
St Martins, Md
Justice-of- the-Peace Peulrose S vii
gus, of ROxana has issued marriage IL
censes to George w. Cooper, OF Bethany
Beach, and Missouri Hudson, OF Bishop,
vile, and to Myrtle Magee of Frank ford
and John J. Godfrey, also of Frankford.
The Public School Library, for which
the pupils i'll all grades of the school
| have been working for untiringly.i is soon
to be opened with about two hundred
volumes of books of classic. literature, etc, ,
useful in connection with the several
courses of study in the schools. As soon
as more money is raised other books will
be purchased and installed
While at work in the mill of William
J. Thoroughbred, of this town, John FL
lingsworth an employe, stuck a stick or
large splinter through his thumb. The
injury is causing him much trouble, and
he has been forced to abandon work for
a time.
The State Council of the Senior o. L.
A. NJ, met at Millsboro Wednesday.
William Green, who for the past few
months has been residing with Mrs. !
Emma Green, at the corner of King and
Market streets, this town, has moved to
a farm in Indian River hundred.
For the past few days trout have been
plentiful in the local markets, and there
has also been a good supply of shad and
founders, all OF which seem to have had
ready sale.
Colonel Enoch Moore, of Wilmington
Grand Master of the Grand Dodge of
Delaware, A. F, and A. M, paid Frank
in Lodge No. II, of this town his annual
'isit Tuesday night, accompanied by
Grand Secretary V. V. Harrison, also of
After a lengthy talk by
he Grand Master and some of the visit s
Ig members of the fraternity, refresh
nents consisting of ice cream, cake and
igars were served.
Union Lodge, No. 3, I. o. o. F., of '
his town, will attend divine services at 7
Wesley NJ. f. Church next Sunday, 1
here they will listen to a specially pre-
ared sermon by the pastor, the Rev. q
lmes w. Colona. |
Oscar Talley, white, who was paroled 2
the last term of court to William q
rumbley, residing near town, and who Is
broke his parole and was n
rought here and lodged in Jail, together a
ith John Hall, white, and George Hud- G.
IN, colored, an account of whose depra- II
atoms of wholesale robbery is found Z
sewhere in this letter, made their es- II
Ipe from the Sussex county Jail about
go o clock " Wednesday morning, and tt
lthing has been heard from them at in
lis writing, Thursday morning. They g
complished their motive by burning M
)le in the floor of their cell by means pl
pokers placed in a coal fire which was
the cell and to which they had access fe
cause of the steel cell gate not being fc
Osed. After burning several holes i'll m
e floor they succeeded i'll kicking the %,
ling off the kitchen. and by means of m
blanket fastened to the cell in the upper to
ON descended into the kitchen, thence nj
rough the kitchen and main door to
e building which had been left open. -,
king blanket with them they climbed 3.
the window of one of the cells and u
lde it fast and scaled it, thereby getting
on the top of the high brick enclosure ia
d walking around until the woman eN
Il was reached, when they descended II
e steps and leaped over the lot fence pr
d took to their heels. IN
There was one other prisoner in the al
Il at the time, Fred Owens Jester, of nj
urel, who was iucarcerated for bigamy Ell
d only has few months to serve. He
d knowledge of what was going on and da
d the three that 1T would not be =
althy for them if they escaped and were al
light, and if he were them he would CO
t do it o." But, according to his story, tn
ay informed him that he had nothing
do with it and that unless he kept his nh
,uth shut they would hurt him. Jester pa
ted that the three began to make a
lie in the floor about o clock and made tU
,ir escape about 2 o'clock. As soon as M
" had left the building lie called to
eriff Buell., but the custodian could not iii
II him. The sheriff was not aware of
delivery until about six 0 clock. when
went to the prison cells and found pc
at had taken place. He Immediately IN
,cured his horse and drove to Seaford
h the hopes that young Talley, whose he,
ne is in that town, had weuded his ,
y there. He found that Tale, was not
re and returned to this town. Officers /"
oughout the county, and several Mary
officials, were notified of the escape.