Milford chronicle., 1914-09-25

terry, will henceforth be published al
Georgetown with NJ. T. Gum. of Frank
ford business manager. The paper
formerly has been published at Nortt
East, Nd.
{ Walter Lewis has purchased the farm
Of former Sheriff, J. B. West. at Gum
boro.
Announcement has been made by
Victor A. Moore. a candidate on the
/ Democratic ticket for the Levy Court
from Blades. that he will contribute his
salary of $500 yearly, toward good roads.
If elected.
Considerable damage is being done in
! Sussex County corn fields. because black
birds are protected by Federal law.
An appeal has been to Prof. Hardestv.
by Mrs Fannie Lee Culver, wife of vii
liam Culver Of Flowers district. because
the new law says that a school teacher
must take an examination every year.
/ before being entitled to teach. Mrs
/ Culver was a well known school teacher
| before her marriage and holds "a certifi-
/ cate emitting her to teach in the public
/ schools Of Sussex. Prof Hardestry re-
fuses to recognize the mistakes of his
I predecessors and will not allow Mrs.
Culver to teach until she qualities.
( The most spectacular campaign that
/ Sussex County has seen for many years.
[ closed Saturday, when the first common
primary was tried out for the first time
among the Republicans 1t was a close
struggle between the candidates.
Attempting to apply recall. before it
has been fully acknowledged in Della
ware prominent citizens of Laurel will
make the first attempt of its kind ever
known in Delaware. in endeavoring to
remove William +. Vallient. the mayor
of Laurel, from Office because Of vari-
Gus alleged indescretions and abuse of
power The recall will be attempted
by securing the signature of a majority
Of the voters to petitions asking for the
mayors removal. Should he refuse to
resign, the test case of the matter will
be made Prominent citizens headed by
Col. Sirman d. Marvel. of Laurel. were
in Georgetown and secured legal advice
and then proceeded to have five petitions
drawn up. These petitions We're at once
started out around Laurel and will be
presented to Council asking that they
remove William Nallient from office.
because of mismanagemento of his duties
and because Of alleged squandering of
town money.
The Court Of Chancery decided an APP
peal case of l. d. Short against f. Geb-
hart of Milford on Monday last by max
ing an award of amount of the claim,
about 500 with interest to l. d. Short
1t was caused by a dispute of bin for
lumber contracted for
Amos Roberts jumped from a second I
story window with his baby in his arms
and his family barely escaped being
burned to death when they awoke just
as the flames which had enveloped their !
home began to burn the beds on which .
they We're sleeping. The house caught /
fire sometime early in the morning and |
is supposed to have been set on fire as |
no fire had been in the stove for several /
days The flames appeared from under
the stairway and before the family had .
awakened had gotten up in the bedroom
and had caught fire to the beds. Rob
erts, his wife and sister, with their baby
were trapped in the upper room. Swing
ing the women out of the window first,
Roberts dropped to the ground with the
baby in his arms, both of them landing
lninjured. All of the household goods .
we're burned and the house was damaged /
so badly that it is a total loss.