Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
MILTON NEWS.


ID vinia woods, and the acorns are fallin
a in the forest of Harley. Aud what dot
:, this all mean That another season
- nearly spent another cycle has nearl
IL completed its revolution.
Dt The fair weather of the past-excep
ing dry-has belated frost, and kept u
in a kind of Indian Summer until ha
- of autumn is gone. All of this beaut
full season of October, and delightful wea
ther, has its effect upon the exuberanc
of man and we often see II in his moods
whether of dependency or elation, aC
: cording to the way the wind blows.
- And poor human nature ought not T.
grumble, although it will find fault witt
( this present autumn; has it not had abuu
dant weather in which to store its crop
G of all kinds and if it has not done il j
= is his own fault
A splendid rain on last Friday. con
9 tinuing mildly all of the day, broke the
. drouth that had continued for severa
, weeks; and this has enabled the farmer.
to resume turning fallow, job they had
temporarily abandoned, on account OF
the dry weather. More rain is needed
yet we will be content with what we have,
so long as the atmosphere continues
balmy, and the mellow rays of the sun
tints the dying foliage with its pristine
splendor.
Yes leaves have their time to fall, %
wrote Mrs Felicia Hemans, yeaIs ago
and the housewives of town think the
times are many, or, at least the leaves,
when started continue to fall This is
true for many days, at this season. Let
us bear with the nuisance. We have en-
! joyed their cooling shade during the sum-
mer months and now in their decline,
let us give them a decent burial, when
| they cannot h-ip themselves They will
soon be off the trees, and what is left of
them in the hooks and by-ways, will be
whirled by the hyper borean blasts of
| the days to come, and be left in little
eddies by the wayside.
DR. YOkum was in town last week dis
cussing the European war. The doctor S
preference appears to be for the descend
ant of the Iron Cross of Charlemagne.
Hiram Outten has succeeded William
Derrickson in the livery business.
Mrs. Alberline Bremen. of Baltimore,
who has been the guest of her sister. Mrs.
c. +. Bacon, returned to the city on
Thursday.
Albert Reynolds, who was operated on
for appendicitis short time ago, IS fast
conyalescing. The sick people of town
are all improving; and the three crippled
ladies'. whom we hope are not on their
last legs, are getting along very nicely
on their present ones. Natu. c will heal
in time.
1t is not often, in this locality that fod
der saving is SO late. There are two far |
mers who commenced to top and strip
their fields this week.
The concrete fever is raging in Milton I.
and is epidemic on all the streets. y. |
T Veasey is the latest who is having this /.
quality OF work done around his prem. /
ises.
Tomatoes continue to come to one Of |
the canneries. The Royal packing com
pany had several DAYS run last week /
and the tomatoes are of a better quality |
than a few weeks ago. Should the wea-
ther continue favorable, there may prob |
ably be several days run this week
Atlantic street has had a layer of gravel /
put on, as have also several of the lateral /
streets been patched up.
The first political meeting OF the cam |
paign was held on Saturday evening on |
the corner of Front and Federal streets /
under the auspices of Captain Go'ge."
1t prOfessed to be progressive in charac- |
lGA anu Mh hnNAEa5En " AdDldlu ". T. ]
Mcgee, J. Hall Anderson, Progressive |
candidate for Representative r in Congress, |
and r. G. Houston, of Georgetown. |
There was quite a crowd on and around |
the corner, and perhaps Captain Go'ge" |
is not far out of the way i'll estimating |
500 being present.
Professor Williams, Principal of the |
Milton Public Schools, and Professor |
Ware, of Philadelphia, went fishing on |
Lake Fanganzyki on Saturday morning. |
Had their success been greater, this para
graph might have been longer. However.
they caught eight bass, which is good |
luck considering
The hog cholera is epidemic in some
parts of South Milton. James Martin
lost a 800 pound one on Saturday. There
are several others that are sick, one of
which, it is supposed, will die.
Last Saturday completed the registra-
ton for this district. There were II
placed on the list on that day, which
makes III qualified voters in the First
Election District OF the Tenth Represen-
tative District. The registration this
year is larger than ever before.
On Lavinia street there is a potato
patch tIrish) now in blossom, and with
vines perfectly green. Two hundred
yards farther toward Lavinia wood, at
about the same elevation is a patch, the
vines of which are black; they being
killed by the frost. What shall we call
this, phenomenon, or a freak of nature
Fred Argos new building on North
Union street is inclosed, and being plas-
tered this week
John Walker is getting lumber on the
ground to build a dwelling on Lavinia
street.
The shirt and overall factory resumed
business on Monday, after closure of !
.hree weeks.
At the cannery of Winters & Prophet,
hey are now labelling their pack and $
to ship it.
Clarence Welch, of Philadelphia, spent {
Sunday with his mother, who is conva-
escing from an attack of diabetes. I
Frank Carey is having some alteration &
made around his property on Federal c
street.
Welden NAPLES has had brick pave
nent laid in front of that much of his I
as borders on Church street. q
If we are now, truly, ushered into the
Dawn of the Millennium, we have moth
ng but congratulations for this Morn q