Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29
GEORGETOWN MAY
HAVE NEW HOTEL
New One May Be Built In Near Future.
Church Reduces Its Debt. Much
Work For Next Court.

Miss Ella Mae Holden, having relii
g quished her position as saleslady in tt
r store of G. Fred Rust here, left Monda
@ for Philadelphia, where she has accepte
like position in one of the large store.
l Miss Lizzie Vandaman has taken Mis-
1 Holden place in Mr.. Rust's store.
} William wilkins and Thomas Little
, ton have accepted positions on the raj
road and went to Clayton Monday fo
examination.
The last quarterly conference of FRS
NJ. P. Church was held Monday evening
at which all the officials gave their re
port of the financial standing of tn
church. The pastor, the Rev. J. McI.ail
Brown, was much gratifed at the repor
of the monies being received by the it'll
banks recently put out. The churcl
property is valued at SIS 900, and de
spite the fact that the church has only
been built few months there is only al
Indebtedness of a little more than 81, 00C
hanging over it. Jealous labor on the
part of the members and by means of the
two hundred or more banks now scatter
ed about the town, the debt can be eli.
minated within two years.
1t is rumored that another hotel is to
be built here within the next few months.
At the present time Georgetown has only
one hotel open to the public, the old
Eagle Hotel, which for years has served
the public, having been closed recently
and converted into law Offices. Just who
the party or parties concerned in the pro-
ject are, or where the hotel will be con-
structed, is not known.
Charged with the larceny of shoes from
Frank Hodnek, of Seaford, Earl Records,
lad of that town, was committed to the
Sussex county Jail by Justice of the Peace
George E. NJ. Stengle for court in de-
fault of $780,
Alleging that her husband. Fred Owens
Jester, deserted her on or about the 9TH
of April eight years ago and left her with
two children in almost destitute circum-
stances, and since that time has married
another woman, Mrs. Lizzie V. lester,
of Laurel, went before Justice of the
Peace James Z. Tull, of that town, and
swore out a warrant for her husband
arrest whereupOu he was taken into Gus
tody upon his return to tie town of
Laurel and aTaigned. aud in default of
S5U0 bail committed to the Sussex jail
for court.
Shad have made their appearance in
the local market and are selling for rs
cents a piece. So far only a few have
been brought here and were easily dis
posed OF at this price
Dairynlan {. E. Marsh of this town,
is said to be in possession of a heifer,
which never had any offspring and is
giving a half gallon of milk morning and
night. An noticeable increase in the
size Of the udder gave rise to the suspi-
ciOn that the young COW would give milk, \
and the attendants of MI Marsh's herd
began to milk her when it was found that
she would give two quarts of milk. Old
est residents here say they never heard
of such a remarkable thing, and cannot
account for it.
George Mills, residing near, is said to
be out for the nomination of Representa-
tive on the Democratic ticket for this
district at the coming county convention.
RehOboth Beach residents are said to
be back of a move to hold a SMALL fair
this year. A race course is already under
way, and it is believed that should it be
decided to give a celebration that it will
take place on the lot where the race track
is being made, adjoining the site usually
occupied by the State Militia.
A report has been circulating around
town for the past few days to the effect
that the Rev. J. McLain Brown who re-
Gently accepted q call from Union Bridge,
Md, to become pastor of First NJ. 2.
Church of this town, has been given an
other call and was seriously considering
whether or not to leave here In talk
ing to the Chronicles correspondent,
Rev Brown stated that there was no foun-
dation for this report, and that he was
satisfied with his present charge.
The regular term of Superior Court
and Court of General Sessions for Sussex
County will open here next Monday,
April 1st. The trial list for Superior
Court consists Of % cases for trial and
argument, while the criminal docket is
made up of large list. The case of Fred
Owens Jester, of Laurel, who was lodged
in Jail last Saturday charged with deser-
tion and bigamy will no doubt prove an
interesting one The usual large amount
of whisky cases from Seaford are expect
ed to come up for trial.
Fruit brokers of this town are seriously
the idea of compelling the
farmers in this section of the county to
stamp their names on fruit packages sold
at the station here. For several seasons !
past commission merchants of the cities
have been complaining to the brokers
about the poor packing done by farmers
in this section and openly state that this |
is the reason why Georgetown produce |
does not bring better prices in the city
markets. It is argued by the local buyers |
that if the farmers were forced to stamp |
their names on the packages, whether or |
not they were consigned or bought at the |
station, that better results would be OBJ /
Eained and that these kicks" would not |
be coming from the city merchants.
Joseph Walls has purchased the prop
erty Of John Knowles, of Wilmington,
located on East Market street, the con-
iideration being $1,000.
Thomas Jones, of near Shortly, had his
aw-bone broken on Wednesday morning
lear this town by a frightened mule,
which threw him from his wagon and
topped on him. Il