Milford chronicle., 1912-07-05

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Her Second Bank for Business. Sea
Picked Up Here and There.
. Fire destroyed Sylvester Smith shir
factory at Laurel, Wednesday nigh
June 26th. The loss is SO, 600 and in
surance, 81, 900. Scores are thrown on
of employment.
? With a capital stock of S25. 900 and ;
/ surplus fund of $4,000, the First Nationa
Bank of fredericksburg opened its doori
= this week for business. This makes the
second bank established in that town.
The annual school election to elect
two commissioners to serve for three
years, was held at the Seaford Public
School building last Saturday, and re-
suited in the election of William T. Lank
and John j. Perry.
The Rev. Joseph Brown Turner, OF
Dover, sailed June 27, on the White Star
Liner Adriatic, for a summer of histori-
cal research abroad. He will return on
the Olympic next autumn. Mrs. Turner
will spend the summer in Goshen, Mass.
Augustus Scout, of Smyrna, who was
recently appointed cadet at the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Md, on recommendation of Senator H.
A. dupont, has passed the physical and
educational examinations with a high
percentage.
Work is progressing on the new State
Armory back of the State House at
Dover. Contractor Frank P. Collins is
pushing the work as fast as possible,
with the hopes of having it completed
| by early Fall. The concrete foundations
are now being laid.
The UnlUed States Senate approved
the bills of Senator John Walter Smith
for postOfice building at Salisbury,
Md, at a cost of $50, 900, and an appro-
priation of $50, 600 for a modern govern
ment building at Crisfeld. Senator
Smith expects both bills to pass the
the House.
Business men Of Cambridge have or
ganized a company to operate a passen- !
ger and freight service between that
place and points in lower Dorchester
County, the terminus in the lower part !
of the county being CrOcheron. The |
company expects to start its service in |
the next ten days.
Concord camp meeting 7 miles from
Denton, Md, will begin August 2 and |
last 10 days. This is one of the Oldest
Methodist camps on the peninsula and
always attracts crowds although it is
isolated from the railroad. Rev. C. H.
Arpe, a Philadelphia evangelist, will
have charge Of some Of the meetings.
Dover Board of Education has elected
Miss Maud Lodge a teacher in the High
School at a salary of $3.50 per annum.
Miss Lodge was formerly a teacher in
the Dover High School but left a year
ago to take a course in the Chicago Uni
versity, from which she has lust re-
turned. The board also reelected Wat
son Broadway as collector of school
taxes for the year 1912.
Joseph T. Hoffecker, one of Dover's
most active citizens, celebrated the 72nd
of his birth on Saturday
asst. He takes part in public affairs, J
conducts a mercantile business, collects
and handles thousands of dollars annually Z
IS Financier of Diamond Lodge, A. o.
j. w, and treasurer of Wesley NJ. E. \
jhurch, and frequently settles estates
u deceased persons. Mr.. Hoffecker
oOk few days off this week and has :
'een visiting relatives at Lewes.
The Seaford Town Council and the
Board of Health are determined that all 4
uisances throughout the town that are Il
menace to the public health have to
e abated at once, and both are working
4 conjunction toward bringing it about Il
n case of further violations of hygienic Z
AVIS, the State Board of Health will be 4
otitied at once. The local Board of Il
lealth believes in the "ounce of pre-
entiOH y remedy and proposes to make d
n example if necessary, for the benefit 4
f the public health. (
Millbourne Goodwin, son of James God Y
in, of Dover, aged about IS years, had Z
is right hand caught in the cogs of a =
redge machine on a boat in the Della
are bay Tuesday, and before it could N
e extracted the first and third fingers NJ
ere torn off at the second joint, the tn
iddle finger smashed to a pulp, neces- ca
tating the ampUtation of the three ar
1gers. The nail of the little finger was ia
torn off. He was hurriedly
ought to shore and to Dover, where fa
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Frederick Harris, claiming Detroit, Ia
ichigan, as his home, was arrested on 1C
Onday evening of last week at Wyom- th
g and given a hearing at Dover on
lesday morning before Magistrate E.
Wood, charged with the theft of a ln
rise, carriage and harness, the prop po
ty of j. B. Bryan, a liveryman at Fed sd
Md, at Bridgeville on Sunday
ening last. William M. Fleetwood, a IN
ung man of fredericksburg, hired the ar
am from Bryan for the purpose of
living to Bridgeville, and during the DI
ening the team was stolen. Monday ga
stranger with a strange team appeared sa;
Camden and Wyoming and made an MI
tempt to dispose of it. His arrest fol-
we'd. Harris, at the hearing, admitted 20
e theft and was held in $500 bail for co
e Sussex County Court.
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