Milford chronicle., 1914-09-11
MILTON NEWS.

To consider the activity that has beer
! demonstrated in Milton for the past .r
days, one would conclude the town to be
E busy one. Well, it is now, and has
been, for the time mentioned. and will
5 conclude to be as long as the tomato sea
s son lasts. The peach season is over. and
the tomato season is on in coed earnest.
The peach seS.on did not create much
hustle in town. Mr.. Chandler EMPLOYED
many hands in picking. packing and
shipping his fruit; but this work was. in
the main, confined to the orchards and
not to the town. The tomato industry is
directly identified with the town. and
also bilugs foreigners TO the town. This
foreign help is. however, but little ad-
vantage to the town, as it is said, thev
live on tomatoes, muchrcoms and few
/ wild grasses that spring up spontane-
| ously along the sidewalks and in the
woods and the vacant fields near town.
This additional population is no adyan-
tage, peCuniarily, but they are needed at
this season to help put up the country's
overflow of tomatoes. These whom we
have in Milton are an orderly set. polite |
and well bred; and, it is true, we could |
M.
Many thousands Of baskets are coming
to the factories daily; and if the rush
continues and no accident happens. the
PACK this year promises to be large And
the canneries are the important factors
that make Milton busy town at the pres
ent time.
The swallows have commenced to hold
their primaries on the vane of the NJ. E.
& NnnTCn CfPer,1a Tr1ol ar,.c T.
their migration south.
Captain George A. Goodwin and fam
lily left town on Tuesday. Captain Coed
win will visit his mother at Lubic Maine. 8
and Mrs. Goodwin, with two children. 7
will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. Susie
B. Davidson, 6O49 Greenway Avenue. {
George Collins and family of Philadel-
ohia, are being entertained bv his mar 7
,nts, Justice-of-the-Peace and Mrs. Eli
Z. Collins. h
Earl Johnson and wife, of PHILADELPHIA Y
re visiting their parents in and near
own. Il
Early on Wednesday evening a motor n
nan in turning his car from Federal a,
reet into Poplar street, had occasion to "
ct 60 of his wheel for a moment. when
he car veered to the left and fetched nm
Fred Peppers butter bean patch. No
amage was done.
Captain George Hunter has bought an
ltomobile of the Overland variety and W
.illiam Derrickson has purchased one al
the Ford pattern.
Joseph Walls is putting down a con VI
'ete pavement in front of his home ON to
orth Union street
captain George +. Mcgee has sold to Nj
fired Carey two building lots at the wi
uth entrance to Milton Terrace. and two arr
hers at the north, adjoining Bav Av
iue. -'' tin
The mayors Office and lookup have
en- repalnted by J. A. Belts. las
Robert Hazard and wife, of Whining dis
H. are being entertained by Mrs. Emma era
azzard. TIL
another small fire occurred at Lavinia pla
ar the railroad, last week-at the same lor
/ place ''~ SAINT tn
william Bailey, after an absence of Is Jul
ars, visited Milton recently. OF
lo1n l. crouch, Jr., of PHILADELPHIA. the
Deen visiting his parents, Mr.. and min
s. ) Crouch, on North Union street. boy
-aptain Charles Cannon, of the Ameri- in
Dredging Machine Company. sDert are
nday with Milton friends. n
william McIlvane and wife. of Cam and
D. n. j., after spending a delightful and
le IN Milton, returned 10 their home
Saturday.
~ nele was no preaching service at the
- Shnrch on Sunday. Rev. Frank y
llahd was called 10 Cannon s on Sun-
70 olhciate at the funeral of the Rev ueI
w. w, Saunderson. The body was taler u
"lImington on Monday where another lars
iSlse was held before iuteruleut gun
a .9oor Day was observed by the CLOSING Jo
tn tne bank and the postofice: excenf uay;
the time Of the delivery and the dis. II
CD Of the mails. N'' som
rank Outten is having a corcrat. ~
ement put in front of his residerce tend
N0Ith Union street; as also Thomas INA
'stSsS' IN front of his property in ten Al
OF John /. Crouch on the same street MS
en- these two jobs shall have has,, cent
Pleteo' the right hand side of North MI
On street will have concrete vii. Is u
the bridge to Broad street Delo
lne democrat primary held on Sat M
y AFTERNOON, but one ticket wac i, Ter
lnauon, and it was elected. viz A ren /
on James Pettyiohn and vii MI
D. Wagamon, Mrs. H. 7. Wapauor Fr'
DeI'na Wagamon, Master LeRoi IT were
son D. A. Conner, and F. B. Carev wife
VIE were Milton visitors at the 1S4tI MI
Versary Of the building and forma- both
as cemetery, Barratt Chapel And evenl
was the largest congregation of neo- ret
We nave ever met at this ancient numn
= mere were numerous auton,o- eVeni en-
, ana carriages galore; people Of ali Mr.:
ana classes; the poor, the manned ,iilngl M