Milford chronicle., 1913-03-28
MILTON NEWS.

when Spring comes how busy the
birds are in building their nests and in
taking care of their young ones Some
build iu shrubbery, some in trees, some
on the ground and some don't build at
ALL " Such is the form of composition
we were required to write weekly, in our
school boy days The curriculum is now
changed It is no longer composition,
but a thesis. If anything the birds are
so scarce, they are no longer an object
lesson, and the shrubbery and trees near
town, are almost non est the land re-
mlineth. A few robins have made their
appearance, and the omni-present Eng
lish Sparrow is-well, as we have just
intimated-ever with us. But spring is
coming on apace; the weather is becom-
ing balmy as the rear guard of winter is
disappearing over the northern hills and
the sweet scented breezes from the south
land are bringing the organic matter of
earth from its coy hiding places among
the leaves and rubbish, and transfusiug
it again with its serifying panacea which
bringeth forth anew that pent up life, so
long hidden beneath the frOsts and frozen
earth of the winter season. Thus we see
the budding afresh of the flower of the
fields: 'Tis ALREADY commenced; and,
in the town, it is more noticeable in the
maple and poplar, and the flowers that
viii adorn the gardens and Farteres of
the many handsome residences herea-
bouts The gardeners are getting ready
for the years work, and the farmers are
preparing to renew the same old sched-
ule that has been their lot since youth
Sow and reap, SOW and reap; but this
sow and reap" always brings its re-
ward in a harvest of good things which
make life worth living and without
which we could not live. And amid the
mutation of events, and the succession (
of the seasons we are ushered into the
springtime again, with natures paeaus
inviting US. Yea commanding US, IN .
the diapason that only nature can use, (
to prepare for the coming season, and do (
our duty by the season, and to each +
other as the season passes. Shall we do (
it? We shall see.
When doctors disagree, etc. We /
had thought the scarlet fever scare
was over in Milton Last week. how
ever Dr. Orr, of Lewes, a member of .
the State Board of Health, visited Milton
by invitation, some say-and some sick
people in town and suburbs. Whatever
he visited mattereth not to relate here.
On Thursday evening Town Council met
and passed an ordinance prohibiting per
sons under Is years of age from being on
the streets, either in the day time or at
night. The penalty for violation of this
ordinance, being one dollar for the first
offence, and $500 for each subsequent
offence. The Board of Health, on the
same evening, again ordered the schools
closed, and at all suspicious cases of sick
ness in town the hospital flag to be dis
played; and the churches also closed.
On Friday morning Bailiff Dickerson
placed the yellow flag on three residences
where, supposed, scarlet fever had been,
albeit, the patients in these cases well,
one of them being on the street on that ;
qlay, and another where the work of
iumigation was over, and the attending +,
physician had ordered grub in place of
medicine. The pastors of all the churches {
We're also served with notices to discon- {
unue public worship indefinitely. The {
schools, in consequence of the order, did
not open on Friday morning and have
oeen closed since. The scarcity of boys
on the streets since Friday shows that {
lne ordinance, in that particular, IS being ]
ooeyed. The churches on Sunday were ]
al closed, and this being Easter, made ]
me day exceedingly dull. The women Z
sld not get to show their new hats, if /
peradventure, they had new one; and /
we surmise they all had, especially those Y
u the suffragette pursuasion, for is it not I
written: The devil seldom fingers long G
around woman who goes to church on
ts.asler Sunday in last years hat, merely S
ioT the sake of worshipping. T"
In conversation with a medical author c
ny ", anent the disease that has been in n
;sllton. He said, in substance, the ma t
tiau3 has been of such nature that it
las been hard to diagnose. It is mix
.lIei and while there has been no gen
slne cases of scarlet fever in town; there [
y ~ several virulent cases in the country. c
!. +. lhere are no new cases developed, the t
l'sease will v nish with the present week. &
y. y Cases peach orchard is now in c
''OOm. Last Saturday night vas quite, t