Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-07-31
GEORGETOWN.

ANLAAAAALA 4 ~ W ANe
Hurled from the tower of the Court
House during an electric storm Friday
by a bolt of lightning. Beniah Warren
would have fallen to the ground 50 feet
below had he not been caught by his
helper, William Ross. The two men
We're putting copper plate on the tower
when a bolt of lightning struck the cop
per and glancing stunned Warren, caus-
ing him to fall to the small platform
below, where he was held by Ross
After a few moments Warren was able
to crawl down with the help of Ross
/ He was not seriously injured by the
lightning,
The long drought which has prevailed
/ for several weeks and has been running
the crops of the farmers, was broken
by a terrific storm which took place
about six o'clock Tuesday morning. In
/ the section around Shortley the hail
broke the corn down and tore the fodder
/ into tatters and hundreds Of dollars We're
! lost, one man alone losing about five
hundred dollars. Lightning struck iu
several places. 1t tore one switchboard
out at the telephone exchange and stun
ned the operator, Mrs. Belle Wagamon,
and was so dangerous that the opera
/ tors would not work for about an hour.
/ thus the telephone service being out of
commission. Wilfred White, a p-omi-
nent young merchant here. was also
4 stunned while standing on a piece of
/ iron in his repair shop when the light
ming struck nearby. In the country the
! lightning struck Peppers Church and
tore out one of the windows. While the
lightning did considerable damage, the
rain will bring tomatoes and truck into
the markets, and enable the farmers to
plOw for COW peas and scarlet clover.
The Republican County Committee
following the get together meeting
held here on Tuesday of last week, has
forwarded the following reply to the
proposition of the Progressive County
Committee, as presented by DR.. Caleb
R. Layton Whereas, The executive
committee of the Progressive Party Of
Sussex County and the State of Della
ware this day submitted to the Repub-
lican Sussex County Committee the fol-
lowing proposition that if the Repub-
lican Sussex County Committee would.
by formal resolution declare, as follows
First. in favor of initiative and referen-
dun and recall Of Judicial decisions ; ~
in favor of equalization of taxes ~ in
favor Of graduated direct Inheritance
tax (4) in favor of drainage 90 in
favor of good roads and would in addi-
ton thereto indorse the nominees Of the
Progressive Party for legislative Offices
in Sussex County, then the Progressive
Party would support the nominees of
the Republican Party for county Offices
therefore be it Resolved, That the
proposition submitted to the executive
committee Of the Progressive Party be.
in its entirety, refused that 10 is the
function of the people to choose candi-
dates for office and that no committee
of a political organization should AFRO
gate to itself this duty and privilege I
that it is the sense of the individuals
composing this committee that we favor
the initiative and referendum. under GER I
tain well-detined limitations; equaIiza-
ton of taxes graduated direct Inherit
ance drainage and good roads. bat that
we are irreconciiably opposed 70 the re- .
call Of judicial decisions.
Otis Warrington, a graduate Of the
Georgetown High School and the Dicken- (
son Law School, was stricken down in
the midst of his campaign for district
attorney last week when he came in
contact with a live electric wire. A
few years ago Mr.. Warrington went to
Oklahoma and he was so successful in /
his law business that he was nut on the |
ticket for district attorney. He stepp- |
ed on a live wire and was instantly xiii /
ed. His sister Fannie and his little |
brother Thadeus were visiting at his |
home when he was killed. He was /
married nine months ago. His body 1
was brought to Georgetown Wednesday /
where he was buried.
George Culver, the Singer Sewing /
Machine agent at Georgetown. has been .
transferred to Bridgeton, New Jersey.
as manager of a district of eight towns. I
1t was proven that it does not take a .
course in an automobile garage to know .
how to run an automobile, when the two I
sons of Frank Millman, the Oldest age
twelve, took the automobile of Jehu L. I
Hudson and ran it about miles through I
a cut Oft woods when neither of them
had ever been in a machine before in 1
their lives. Mr.. Hudson is q rural mail +
carrier and looks after a wood ward. /
He had gone to the woods to see his 1
wood cutters in his machine and had Z
considerable trouble steering around .
the stumps in the road When he re-
turned the machine was gone. AftRr
tracking it a couple of miles he found if
on the main road where the bows bad
stopped it and were putting Jacks under
it. The brake had been on whep-tbev !
started and as they did not know that
was holding the machinery, they lack I
ed the end of it W to investigate. |
Neither the auto. MI the bows were in /
jured.
County RTothonotary William WEIGH
of Milton made his friends in Milton and
Georgetown proud last week wien he
woEl public debate against Postmaster /
Edward Reynolds Of Dagsboro. The
debate was the question (which is the
< -eater detriment to a community, a
Il, Ter or spendthrift? 2" Mr.. WEIGH had
me pegative side and brought out many
ev. Frating points. The judges were
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