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POPULATION HAS INCREASED.

The United States is now a country
of 100 600. 900 people, according to the
SulIetin containing the estimates OF
nonulation for the years subsequent to
tbe 18th. census, soon to be published
nv Director William J. Harris of the
bureau of the Census, Department of
Commerence. 1t was prepared under
tbe supervision of c. S. Sloane, geo
o 5r.s The estimated population OF
Delaware for July LIST, 1914, is given at
20e 817. while the census of April l2tn'
I9I0 estimated the population at 2OZ'
325 which shows a gain of Z, 495.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-01
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETING.

An Alumni Meeting Of much interest !,
70 the members will be held in the Hl a
School when the ballots already ca5I t Sa
officers for the ensuing year wlll G =;
counted. It is the wish OF those IL
charge that a large number pc presesnn en-
in order that they may Witness 'ue
counting of the ballots.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-01
MARRIED.
POOR HARLOW.

On April 22nd, 1914. Noble Poor, Jr.,
and Miss Lille May Harlow, both of
Milford, were united in marriage at the
Baptist Parsonage, by Rev. Thomas G.
Davis. They will reside in Milford.
sHARP-MILLs.
William G. Sharp, of Lincoln City,
Del. and Miss Ella c. Mills, of near
Milford. Del, were married at the Meth
odist Episcopal Parsonage in Milford. on
Wednesday, April 10Th, 1914. by Rev.
William r. Mowbray.
BENNETT-HATFIEL
Walter B. Bennett. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. B. Bennett, of Slaughter Neck,
and Miss Alice Hatfield, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Hatfield, of Camden,
New Jersey. but formerly of Lincoln,
Delaware, were married on Tuesday
evening, April 14th, 1914, at the home
of the brides parents, by DR.. John
R. Mason. Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett VIII
reside at $40 York Street, Camden, N. j.
Among those from Delaware who at
tended the wedding were Mrs. S. B.
Riggs and Mrs. Elmer Steen.
GLIDER JENKINS.
InChrist Protestant Episcopal Church,
Easton, Md, at z. 30 O. clock on Wednes-
day evening, April 18th, 1914, Miss
Elizabeth Causey Jenkins. daughter of
Mrs. Thomas H. jenkins of that town,
and Leonard Fargo Glider. formerly of
New Jersey, but who now resides at his
summer residence on the Cloras Point
Farm, near Trappe, Md, were marrieT
bv Rev. Henry Davies. Misses M
Dav Rouse and Frances ShannahaP
flower girls. Miss Frances Hur
kins. sister of the bride, we
honor. William Davis, of
j., was best man. The
Aubrey Christopher, o.
Arthur Glass, of New
Eaton Baltzell, Jr.
DR.. Samel NJ. d.
Del. The bride
this town and
Mr. and Mrs
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-01
REAL ESTATE SALES.

pe .ne house and lot located at corner of
MiI NM, Aslley and Second Street in South
was a,iO sois next to the Milford Post Office,
ow gD sOiu Ia last week by the agent for the
TTs,r 3 thomas Wilson, to the Milford
NOT ot1 1s' company at a figure which was
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-01
PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION.

The Milford Parent Teacher Associa-
ton will hold their last meeting this sea
son on. Friday afternoon at O'Clock IN
the auditorium of the High School. An
election of officers for next year will be
held. Good music, and refreshments,
will be served by the association. We
hone for a large attendance Of every one
who is Interested in the school and the
children.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-01
CHURCH NEWS.

This paper POSITIVELY WILL NOT receive
notices for this column after Wednesday noon Of
each week If you cannot get them to us before
that date do not bring send them later. If they
are sent they will be destroyed and not used. Ihis
notice is FINAL. and applies 70 everybody.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-01
OBITUARY..
ABBOTT.

Miss Angie Abbott, daughter of the
late William S. and Charlotte Abbott.
and a former resident of Milford, died
in Philadelphia on Wednesday evening,
Aoril 22nd, 1914. of tuberculosis, aged
% wears. She leaves three sisters. one
brother and a large circle of relatives
and friends who mourn her loss. The
remains were inferred in the cemetery
at Sand Hill Church, near Georgetown,
Delaware. Saturday afternoon.
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MORRIS.

Joseph H. Morris, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George A. Morris, formerly Of
Milford, but now Of Kensington. Pa,
died at the Episcopal Hospital in Phila.
delphia, on Saturday afternoon. April
18th, 1914, after a weeks illness of in
festival trouble, in the 18th year of his
age. Young Morris was well known in
Milford and leaves a large number OF
relatives and friends here who are sorry
to learn of his death. Interment was
made at North Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-01
IMPROVING BASEBALL GROUNDS.

The manager of the Milford Lumber
Company baseball team, which has
leased the baseball grounds for the
coming season has been putting the
grounds in shape this week. The field
has been plo---
and 9TH
a goo'
int
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Tuesdays Elections.

Chicago.-Judge Owens asked that
all policemen be shifted in conse.
quence of charges Of Miss Drake, who
is a candidate against "Bathhouse"
John Coughlan for alderman. Eight
women candidates for City Council;
217,614 women eligible to vote.
Kansas City-Five tickets battle for
municipal Offices. Democrats, Repub-
licans and progressives in coalition to
fight for commission form OF govern
ment.
Wisconsin Emil Seidel fights for
election against Mayor Gerhard A. Ba-
ding. mo license" question at stake
In dozen towns.
st. Louis.-Local issues other than
saloon question at stake at polls in
small towns Of Missouri.
Nebraska. - Municipal elections in
towns throughout state. Saloon ques-
tion chief issue.
New Jersey.-Voters of Seventh
New Jersey district select successor
to Congressman Bremner.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
SPORT.

A scrub baseball league, composed
OF fourteen teams. has been organized
among the students OF the university
at Boulder. Colo.
George Edward Waddell, the famous
"Rube," as he was known wherever
baseball was played, died at sani-
tarium at Galveston, Tex, a victim Of
tuberculosis.
N. l.. O'Neill, president of the West
ern League, issued call for his um-
pires to gather at Des Moines, Iowa,
April 1G, to receive final instructions
for the season.
Emile Van Beyer, former University
of Wisconsin football star and now a
Chicago lawyer, was married at Chi
cago without announcing the cere-
mony to his friends ar relatives. His
bride was Miss Rose L. Bush of San
Francisco.
Douglas promoters who proposed to
tEot thC hsohliHE law ny
staging middleweight contest at
Douglas April II, have abandoned the
idea. They were notified that under
no circumstances would the contest
be permitted.
Lieutenant Lankmeyer. German
army aviator. was killed and Lieuten-
ant Ruchti, whom he carried as a pas
senger, was seriously injured in an
aeroplane accident at Munich, Ba-
varia. Their propeller broke while
they were flying at low altitude over
the aerodrome
TEX" Wetzel and Barney Schroeder
twirled well-nigh alright baseball Sat
urday In Denver, the rest of the Bears
backed them up with some of the
same in field and at bat, and the
Bears won the first game of the series
with the Chicago White Sox, 5 to /.
In the game Sunday. the score was 6
to In favor Of the White Sox.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Cuthbert Host for Peace Board.

Denver--The newly chosen men,
bers of the peace commission we're the
guests of Lucius M. Cuthbert, vice
president and chairman OF the refer
endum committee at luncheon at the
University Club. Normal Angel, not
ed English editor and peace advocate.
who was visiting IN Denver, was the
guest Of honor Tile members Of the
peace commission are Wardner Will
liams. Lawrence C. Phipps, Platt
Rogers, Andrew c. Carson, T. A. Pc
ters, +. W. Sanborn. Armour c. Ander.
son, Wr. James H. Baker, Rabbi W. S.
Friedman, Z. B. Hendrie, the Rev. ].
II, Houghton, Irving Howbert, Judge
]. r. King Frank Mclaughlin, Werner
T. Reed, William +. Slocum, Judge
Harrison White and E. J. Yetter. "rhe
women of the country are best fitted
to take up the problems of interna-
tional interest," said Norman Angel,
international peace advocate, at
meeting Of the Woman's Peace organ
ization. "Women's minds are not en-
tirely taken up with money matters,
and ii is their duty to make interna-
tional topics course OF study among
the school children and in colleges" :"
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
INCREASE IN SALARIES
COUNTRY SCHOOL TEACHERS TO
DEMAND MORE PAY.
Letters to Be Sent Boards of Educa.
tion All Over State Urging High
er Wages for Capable instructors.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Due to the appeal of Miss
Charlotte Abernathy, teacher of
Arapahoe. Mrs. Mary c. c. Bradford,
state superintendent of public instruc-
tion. will send out letters to the vari-
Gus school boards of the state urging
an increase in the salaries Of first
grade teachers In the rural districts
of Colorado as the first move in a
campaign towards that end to be
waged for the next school election in
May.
In letter to Mrs. Bradford, Miss
Abernathy says that eighth-grade
graduates. given third-grade teachers
certificates in the teachers examina.
tions, teach in the rural district at
the same salaries received by first
grade teachers with normal training,
and from six to twenty years expert
ence. and that as a result, first-class
teachers are leaving the rural schools
and their positions are filled by mex
perienced young girls.
In the country districts, she writes,
the services of experienced and come
tent instructors are more badly need
ed than In any other sections of the
state.
The iirst-grade teachers in rural
districts. Miss Alternately states, are
so underpaid that they become dis
conraged and leave The third grade
teachers salaries were raised; why,
she argues, cannot justice be done to
the first.grade teachers
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
GEN ERAL.

The Maine Central railroad at Bos-
ton discontinued the sale of 1O0O-mile
mileage books at 2 cents mile.
A pension plan for retired ministers
was adopted by the New Hampshire
conference OF the Methodist Episcopal
church.
The total value of the gems import.
ed at the New York port for March
was $2,995.996, according to the an.
nouncement of w. T. TreadwelI, jew.
elry examiner at the appraisers
stores.
Babies, according to the orders is.
sued at the st. Paul, Mimi, postoffice,
are livestock, and not produce to be
mailed around the country with but.
ter. eggs and other parcel post bust.
ness.
A verdict awarding $4,000 to Matt
Kurkonis, for the loss of both his eyes,
was returned In the United States
District Court in Brooklyn, N. Y.
against the Delaware. Lackawanna &
Western railroad.
Joseph G. Cannon. formerly speaker
Of the House of Representatives.
sailed from New York for Bermuda.
He went. he said. to see whether Ber-
muda was as much like heaven as
Mark Twain said 1t was.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
WASHINGTON.

Warren Robbins Of the Paris en-
bassy will be transferred to Mexico
City to assist O'Shaughnessy, on ac-
count of the latter's Ill health.
Telephone companies rights to cut
off service to an individual because
OF failure to pay bill for past service
may be passed upon by the Supreme
Court.
The War Department has named
army officers to leave for France next
July to study the methods Of military
science while detailed with French
regiments.
Testimony of the eastern railroads
in support of their application for a
5 per cent increase in freight rates
virtually was concluded before the In.
terstate Commerce Commission by
President Samuel Rea OF the Penn
sylvania system.
Souvenirs are to be sent by the gov
ernment to George Washington's heirs
as the only compensation for land that
once, belonged to the first Presidents
estate in Ohio. The souvenirs consist
of copies Of hearings before the House
public lands committee on the claims
of Washingtons heirs for the land.
Confirmation Of Winthrop NJ. Dan.
iels OF New Jersey as a, member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission. aft
er the notable three days Senate fight,
was followed by the revelation, that
Daniels asked President Wilson to
withdraw his name and thus stop the
contest, which he believed to be en-
barrasslng to the President, and that
Wilson refused.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
ROCKEFELLER TEST|F|ES
Oil Kings Son Is Firm in Stand In
Mine Fight.

Washington.-John d. Rockefeller,
Jr., son of the worlds richest man,
testified before the House mines com
mittee about the question of his moral
responsibility for the industrial strife
which has kept the coal fields OF
southern Colorado in turmoil FOR six
months.
After more than four hours OF cross
examination Rockefeller had told the
committee:
That he and three other directors
represented his fathers interest OF
about 40 per cent In the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company, the central figure
In the big coal strike.
That as director he had fulfilled
all his interest and responsibility in
the company when he placed the Of
ficers, competent and trusted men,
in charge OF the company's affairs.
That he knew nothing Of conditions
in the strike district except from re-
ports Of the officers Of the company,
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, ooiNas. ACHIEVE
MENTs. suFFERINcs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Gas is to be piped from the great
gas fields at Mexia, Tex, to Dallas
and North Texas.
April 2I Las been tentatively select
ed as the date for the Mother Jones
labor demonstration planned for Wich-
ita Falls, Tex.
John Flanagan, his wife and 2-year-
old child lost their lives in the col
lapse of a dugout on the Flanagan
claim, near Alvah, Okla.
Though past 113 years old, Aunt
Elmira Wagner, who lives a few
miles south of Protein. Mo-. is prepar-
ing to put in her spring garden.
A dispatch from Cody, Neb., says
vollney Hyde. business man of Lin
coin. and his wife were found dead,
pinned under their automobile, eight
cen miles from that. place.
Bull frogs are in great demand on
the farms OF Kansas. according to l..
l.. Dyche, state fish and game warden,
who is distributing fish from the state
hatcheries. He says many farmers
asked for frogs.
Gold coin amounting to $SS,6Si,'
1926 is piled up in the San Francisco
subtreasury. and William J. McGee,
assistant treasurer, said that before
long the accumulation would reach
$100,00o.o00
10 Miller, a farmer weighing 1856
pounds eloped from West End, Ia,
with Miss Sophia Won Lob, weighing
334 pounds. The. couple were mar
ried at Morris, Minn. Sophia is the
champion fat girl of Iowa.
An innocent invitation from min.
ister's wife to attend missionary tea.
which Jeu Hon Yee refused to let his
wife. Ngo Quong Ho, read, so aroused
her that she hacked him to death with
a hatchet at their home in st. Louis.
John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. has been
summoned before the subcommittee of
the House mines committee In Wash
lngton 10 tell what he knows OF the
Colorado coal strike and just what
interest he has In the Colorado Fuel
ard Iron Company.
Suit for s250,0O0 damages was filed
in the Circuit Court at st. Louis
against the Livestock Exchange of
East ST. Louis. the National Stock
yards, two packing companies and
twenty individual dealers. charging a
monopoly fer dealing in livestock.
Gov. J. F. A. Strong of Alaska ar
rived at Seattle from Juneau by
steamer. From Seattle Governor
Strong went to Tacoma to take part
in an Alaska railroad celebration.
Then he went to Denver to attend the
conference OF Western governors. and
finally to Washington to confer with
President Wilson.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
SHEAR 100000 SHEEP
WOOL BUYERS GATHER IN WEST
ERN COLORADO.
The Wool Crop This Year Promises
=. to Be Larger and Better
Than Ever Before.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Mack. Colo.-The annual sheep
shearing bee for western Colorado
started last week, and before the sea
son ends 10000 sheep will be shorn
in this vicinity, while at Cisco 100000
additional sheep will 60 through sim
liar experience.
The wool crop this year promises to
be larger and better than ever. The
past winter has been unusually severe
and as a result the sheep have a
heavier coat Of wool than ordinarily.
Most Of this years crop Of wool has
ben sold at prices ranging from l to
2 cents per pound higher than year
ago, and previous years. About 100
men are employed in the sheep camps
and the shearing will continue for two
or three weeks. Large numbers Of
Boston wool buyers are gathered here
and are bidding for the surplus wool.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
FOREIGN.

Lord Roberts was elected president
Of the League of British Covenanters.
General Francisco Villa ordered that
the 600 Spaniards of Torreon be de-
ported.
Susanna Ibsen, widow of Henrik Ib-
son. the Norwegian dramatic poet,
died at Christiana, Norway.
Thirty-five thousand miners working
in the Yorkshire coal pits struck to
enforce the demand for minimum
wage.
The widow Of Thomas Henry Hux-
ley. the celebrated English biologist.
died at Eastbourne, Eng. Thomas
Huxley died in 1895.
When General Villa took Torreon he
took only thirty prisoners alive and
unwounded, according to information
received at Chihuahua.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt announced
in Paris that she intended to make a
tour Of the United States, Australia.
Russia and England. She will open in
New York in October.
There were rumors at Willemstad,
Curacao. that revolution broke out
in the interior Of Venezuela. 1t is
stated that the movement started in
the state of Falcon.
The steamer Bellayenture arrived at
st. Johns, N. F.. bearing sixty-nine Of
the dead and fifty of the crippled sur
vivors Of the disaster that overlook
the hunters Of the steamer Newfound-
land on the ice floes near Belle Isle
straits.
President Yuan Shi Kai gave an au-
dience to Prof Henry Carter Adams
and Thomas G. Stallsmith, commits
sioners of the Panama Pacific Exposi.
ton at San Francisco. He said $780,
900 would be devoted to the Chinese
exhibit.
The deposition of Raimond Poin-
care, President OF France, was taken
by M. Forichon. president of the Court
of Appeals. in connection with the in,
quiry into the killing of CASTOR Cal
mette, editor of the Figaro, by Nine.
Caillaux.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Colorado Gets Better Show site.

Denyer.-A much better site for
Colorado at the Panama-Pacific expo
sition has been obtained. according to
a letter received by the Chamber OF
Commerce from Commissioner OF Con-
cessions Burt. The new site is on the
bay and at the junction OF two main
arteries. It was held by the Hawaiian
islands, but the islands were induced
to change to a position farther back.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Ore Shipment Valued at ss,ooo.

Cripple Creek.--One of the richest
shipments of recent months was load
ed out from the Lee shaft on Bull hill,
owned by the Isabella Mines Company.
Twenty-Five tons OF the ore shipped,
screenings, are estimated at ten
ounces gold. or 5000 to the ton. and
thirty-five sacks Of sorted quartz,
weighing slightly In excess Of one
ton. are estimated at between forty
and fifty ounces gold, or from $500 to
81 900 to the ton. The gross bullion
value of the carload shipment is con
fidently expected to reach $4,000
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
UNDERWOOD
BEATS HOBSON
HAS LEAD OF 10000 IN EARLY
COUNT OF ALABAMA SEN
AToRlAL CONTEST.
IRISH HOME RULE BILL
MEASURE PASSED ON SECOND
READING BY VOTE OF
356 TO 276.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Birmingham, Ala, April 7.-Scatter-
ing returns from forty out of sixty.
seven counties show that Congress-
man Oscar Underwood is leading Con-
gresham Richmond Pearson Hobson
by substantial vote in the race for
the United States Senatorship.
At 1890 o'clock Underwood's cam,
paign leaders claimed victory by 30.-
900 votes. No statement was made at
that time by Hobson's campaign man
ayers.
Early returns indicated that the
three-cornered contest for the Ala
bama short term in the United States
Senate would rest between Ray Rush
ton Of Montgomery and Frank s.
White of Birmingham.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Horseman Drops 70 Feet to Snow.

Victor.-Five feet of snow in the
bottom of shaft seventy feet deep
saved the life of Frank Allen and Of
the horse he was riding. The top OF
the shaft was covered with snow and
Allen rode into it unconscious Of the
danger he was encountering. The
horse dropped to the bottom. Allen
remained In the saddle. The deep,
soft snow at the bottom prevented ac'
cident to either horse or rider. Allen
and his mount were rescued five hours
later by means of a pulley.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Planning State Study Course.

Denver.-Mrs. Mary G. c. Bradford,
state superintendent OF public instruc-
tlon, is preparing a course OF study for
all high schools in Colorado not in
class A districts which will include
most OF the country and town high
schools. II will be published some
time this summer and will be put in
use at the beginning of the fall term
OF school The course will not be com
pulsory. but 1t is expected that it will
be generally carried out over the state.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Fire Destroys Three Buildings.

Olney Sprines.-Fire, which threat
ened to wire out the entire business
section of this town, broke out and be-
fore the flames were subdued three
buildings were destroyed and the
city's official records burned. The
fire gutted the drug store of Dr. R. W..
Johnson, town treasurer. destroying
his books, then spread to and wrecked
a restaurant and saloon.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Eaton Baby Weighs Thirteen Pounds

Eaton.-Old Doc Stork Is just able
to flap his wings, as he carried a
heavy burden to the home OF H. G.
Laird here in the shape of boy who
tipped the beam at exactly thirteen
pounds. Doctors say that babies OF
that weight are rare and that four
teen-pound infants are extraordinary
In one or two instances children have
weighed fifteen pounds at birth, Weld
records for the past decade are shat
tered by the event at the Laird home.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Reformatory For Girls Urged

Denver.-The lack OF a reformato-y
for girls In the state OF Colorado was
deplored by Judge Butler in the West
Side Court when he came to sentence
Mrs. Alberta .Reyell. twenty ye1rs
old, for forgery. The absence OF sucn
an institution forced him. he said, to
sentence the young woman to serve a
term of from one year to one and one
half years In the penitentlary a,
Canon City.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Girl of 18 Shoots Self.

Glenwood Springs While handling
a .3S-caliber automatic, Mrs. Grace
Glasscock, eighteen-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Burnett, acei-
dentally discharged the gun and sent
a bullet through her right breast. The
bullet ranged downward, passing
through both lungs, the liver and es-
capped through the lower portion OF
the left side of the back
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09
Cripple Railroad Must Operate Line.

Denver.-Probably the most import
ant and far-reachiug decision ever
made by the state railroad commission
was rendered when it ruled that rail,
road company had no right to diseon-
tinue operating the whole or any part
Of its line within the state without the
commissions permit The decision
was made upon the petition OF Canon
City to compel the Florence & Cripple
Creek Railroad Company to rebuio a
four-mile strip of its line between Ora
Junta and Wilbur which was washed
out in July, 1912. Since that time the
railroad company has refused to carry
freight and passengers between Canon
City and Cripple Creek.