Milford chronicle., 1912-04-12
COURT IN SESSION
AT GEORGETOWN.
Damage Case To Come Up Next Tues
day. Other Cases. Sussex County
Farmers Are Prosperous. Short May
Seek Nomination.

Sussex County, who Thursday of last
week was admitted to the Sussex County
Bar, will shortly open an Office in the
building now occupied BY County En-
gineer William ] Mustard Mr. Cooke
Who is the son of Passenger Agent and
Mrs. John R. Cooke, of Seaford, is
graduate of the Dickinson Law School
but for two years has been familiarizing
himself with the practice in this State at
the suits of law offices of Colonel Robert
G.. Houston, under whom he registered
as a student
A successful operation for appendicitis
vas performed on the small daughter of
DR. and Mrs G. Frank Jones at the Uni
Yersity of Maryland, at Baltimore Tues !
day, and it IS said the child is getting
along as well as could be expected
John P. Salmons, who for a number of
years has been running from this town
10 Franklin City, Va. as a freight con-
ductor, has been transferred to CLAYTON /
and will run from that place to Oxford, |
Md.
In order to defray the expenses for the
establishment of sports for the young
people of the town a rare musical treat
was given in odd Fellows Hall Tuesday
night by DR.. Whtlaw of the BROOKLYN
Conservatory, under the auspices of St
PauPs Church. The young people of
lhe town, regardless of church affiliation
can become members of the sporting as
sociation.
Former Sheriff Charles T. Purnell,
Who for the past three weeks has been
confined to his home because of illness,
IS slowly improving and is expected to
be able to get out in a short time
Prothonotary n. Wallace White has
drawn the following special jury to serve 7
in the case of George s. Mattinglv. of I
Wilmington, vs. P. B. &, w. R R Com d
pany, which is to come to trial next
Tuesday: Joseph G. Davis, Robert c. I
Hall, John W. Bennett, Milford; W. =
Todd, Greenwood; Thomas B. Giles, Lo- Il
renzO B. Cannon; Seaford; Peter Messick,
Hiram B. Hitch, Harvey B. Rodney, Vic
tor {. Kitchens, George w. Stradley, y
William J. West, Laurel; Henry B. Nit u
ehell, Theodore w. Burton Millsboro; q
William Anderson, Delmar; John A. =
1indall, Nathaniel H. Wilson, Thomas "
B. Pritchett, Georgetown; VIM. H. Book III
hammer, VIM. J. Thompson, Lewes; c.
E. Lacey, George c. NAPLES, George B. VI
Hunter, Milton Mattingly, who resides IL 10
in Wilmington and is a general nursery y
agent, was injured at Lincoln CITY, this ~
couuty, on August a. 1910, at or near
The passenger station, and it is said, suf-
Tered broken hip. He has retained as
lOunsels former attorney-G General Robert
9. White and his law partner, James NJ. he
runnell to fight the case for the plain
itf Mattingly is sueing the railroad de
,onl pany for $50 600. Attorney Tohn Bipgs pa
Df Wilmington, and Whitley Il Jones, of
his town, will act as counsels for the rail- fro
-oai company. The suit is to be one tai
# the biggest that has ever come to trial sti
u Sussex County Court for several
'ears. ma
according to a statement of one of the Pc
eallng lawyers OF this town, who, by at
Oh ,tautly searching the records at the
.ourt House, IS in a position to know, Ph
esS than seven per cent of the properties sol
et yeen this town and Selbvvi1le have
and liens hanging over them. SD,
uch being tine case 1t can readily be emf
cen that Sussex IS in a fairly thriving the
OH Elton and that the farmers are i'll as
De portable circumstances as in most anv spe
,her section on the peninsula 1t is al
IT her asserted that every farmer be- VIII
vt IN the town of Selbyville and Mills has
ol9 deals with the banks 7
Y hat in Georgetown is known as the Da
CT Ter ordinance recently enacted bv eve
it, Courcil pre- hibiting the saleof cider Th
ld other irtoXicauts of that nature bv der
le imposition of fine of $40, and cost the
u each glass sOld, mas Deen pr Seuted to yer
le City Council OF Laurel and will be wit
used by them. the
Fornler SneriH Robert Snort, OF this ing
VII, according to the report of some Of
S friends, will endeavor to the uo1 iua-
III for State Treasurer at the next con
ntiOn. Joseph CoulbOurn, of Seaflrd c
ndred, who has served i'll the capacity 49,,
Justice of the Peace and Constable, is si;,,
t for the nomination of Sheriff of this 49,,
unity on the Republican ticket at the W. W.
invention. - -
The case of Geo. S. 0Iattingly, gen Ci.o EEo
81 nursery agent of Wilmington, who is -
ing the P. b. & W. R. R. Company IT IT =
r $50, 900 dan ages because of an alleged -
81 eat which happened on Au- ust 4th, seSs,o
10 at IdnCo'n City. this county, which ~
irlt in the breaking of his hip. has TT m
en- postponed until Tuesday Of next 1t;e,
ek. y lis' y,
In Superior Court on Tuesday in an SoiI SoIi'
ion OF assu npsit brought BY David C. II
llte, p. b. a., vs. Edward Cray, d. b. = 6
to recover the sum of SIS, with inter g.
from anu ,rv, 1908, Ii z d to heve ~,
IN due under a contract pned bv Mr. ~ ~
ay for a share of a horse which was be = -
sold to the farmers of Baltimore hun 10,
I'd, the jury returned a verdict in favor II II
the plaintiff for the amount and inter - ~ =
It appears that several shares in the - AZ
lion was sold to the farmers in that I,'a I1liS
ton, and that Gray, who is a rather
IT, i ars,,lJ ~ eiie a. Sgctlo OF tne held
y. 80 W. i " az ." Ils uallle and
er to induce the other farmers in pur- II.
sing shares According to GRAY, he II 10
ned his name i'll a vest-pocket note w VIZ
*, which proved to be a contract Sa,S SeiS
ding him to pay for one share It was ~orie "a,
eed, according to his story, that his ~ .
ne should be cancelled from the book 'A1ri "
ny time he notified the owner of the -" -
lion that he desired, but when he l...e. Pllis
ed that his name be stricken from the i.aeo
of subscribers the owner held him
er the contract which he signed un- -
res Dom
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