Milford chronicle., 1915-09-24
D. A. c. AT FREDERICK.

We are again at Frederica. go t.
! that place pretty often, some one says.
Well. perhaps! However, we are here.
We left Milton last week to escape the
torrid heat, and arrived here to find the
mercury registering in the nineties.
The readers of the local papers have
been surfeited with the many allusions
to the anniversary exercises at Barratt' s
Chapel in recent issues, and we will
spare their nerves from any further ref
erence to that notable event; but possi-
bly, our remarks will rack them more or
less in less interesting detail.
The population of Barratt's Chapel is
! increasing, and ever will increase as
| long as its yard is used or exists as
a cemetery; and it can never be any
! thing else except a Resurrection Park
| in the finale of humanity, and to this
end let there be tombs and MausOleums
of the most magnificent styles erected
| to greet these sleepers when they shall
arise on that eventful morning, and gaze
around to witness what manner of sur
roundings they have been associated
with, and the care which their living
friends had bestowed upon their remains. |
Then shall they know whether the for |
tunes they had passed through the |
grooves they had devised. or had been |
diverted into other channels, and squan-
dered contrary to their bequests. Super
scriptions upon many of the uombs at
tract the eye of the visitor, and doubt
less appear to the thoughtless as insig-
nificant and useless but who can know |
the feeling of the hearts that prompted
their chiseling? One small tomb with the
Our Baby" upon it, spoke
a volume to me, as it must have spoken
volumes and is yet speaking them to the
hearts of the bereaved parents. With
such sadness we are surrounded, as we
walk through this cemetery, reading the
names of those we have known in life
engraved upon the many forms of re-
membrance set to mark their last rest
ing place. Yet there is a melancholy
pleasure in the sadness.
Last week we received a letter from
a lady residing in Massachusetts, who
was once resident of Delaware and
school teacher in Frederica, and who is -.
a subscriber to the Milford Chronicle.
The letter contained an item which is
pertinent to the subject, and we think
that we violate no confidence when we
publish it. The item follows:
BY the way, speaking of deaths. it
seems an odd custom in printing death
notices they nearly always name the
undertaken. Why should they have free
Advertising, any more than the shop
keeper who furnishes the mourning, or
he florist the howers?"
Why indeed? We have often thought
# this matter, and in my writing have
lecided to quit it. The custom came
lbout in lower Delaware several years
lgo, when a gentleman was a cores
,ondent for the Chronicle for a short
lme, and in order to puff a relative in
he undertaking business, he began this
ystem of writing death notices, and it
las gradually grown and worked its way
1to the writings Of others. Let us all
top it.
We note some improvements being
lade in Frederick. The water works
ives employment to many women and
len, particularly in the morning, when
he air IS cool and the streets are dusty
then 1t is that the streets are sprinkled.
here is not much financial gain in this.
ut 1t gives employment and exercise.
nd that IS what most of US need.
The ice plant is much appreciated and
lother modern improvement for Fred
'lca, and it saves the cost of hauling and
aste of ice in bringing it from Milford.
A good rain on Sunday morning miti-
ited the heat and laid the dust, which
ade our visit to Bowers Beach that
ternoon pleasant one. The summer
sltors were gone and but little was
ing. A few automobiles from the
arby country were the most noticeable I
ID the people around the motor boats -
ID up over Sunday was all to be seen.
hlle there middle aged lady asked if
NEW W. S. Dickerson, of Ellendale -
d we admit. I'd of his acquaintance n
t knew him letter as paul Prv'' of
e Milford Chronicle. She next asked
to his financial standing, and we as
red her that twas all right We do !.
t know if she entered the list of those
'king for his hand and fortune or not.