Milford chronicle., 1915-10-22
GREENWOOD.

The farmers in the vicinity of Green
wood are now busily engaged in seeding
their wheat and saving their sweet po
tato crop.
Stephen Wroten has gathered 130C
baskets of fine sweet potatoes from foul
acres of land. This is an exceptionally
fine yield. Many persons have about
completed their work of saving the po-
tato crop.
The Silver Canning Company has been
working up the smaller sweet potatoes
and has about completed a fine pack.
These will be shipped to the northern
markets for pie making.
Roy Owens, of near Greenwood, has
been on the sick list for the past week
with high fever.
Many of our people attended the
Chautauqua at Bridgeville this week.
John Lloyd, an elderly gentleman,
who for the past two years has resided
at Harrington, died at the home of his
daughter last Sunday evening. Funeral
services were held at Todd's Chapel and
interment made in the adjoining ceme-
terry. A wife and two children survive
him.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Owens have re-
turned from their honeymoon trip and
will make their home in Greenwood.
Mrs. c. B. Porter and children and
Sarah Stevens, of Delmar, are visiting
relatives at New Haven. Connecticut.
Mrs. James Henry Davis has been
quite i'll for the past three weeks.
J. Frank Porter has purchased an au-
tomobile.
Mrs. John Clifton visited Mrs. Fred
Masten at Harrington last week.
A number of persons from this town
went to Philadelphia on the special train
last Sunday. They all report fine trip.
Mrs. Lizzie Porter is in Middletown
visiting her daughter Laura for few
weeks.
A number of people from Greenwood
are attending court this week.
Charles Mar has purchased piece of
land, known as the Grove, from Mr..
Tolbot and will erect home thereon.
Mrs. Lizzie Morris and Mrs. Minnie
Cahall have returned from the Salisbury
Hospital where they have been under
going treatment. They are much inn
proved.
John Cade and mother, Mrs. David
Lloyd, have returned to their respective
homes after few weeks visit with rel
atives.
Greenwood has suffered two great ca
lamities. One, an explosion that hap
pened twelve years ago, almost COM
pletely destroying the entire town, cost
ing several thousand dollars to replace
the damaged buildings. However, not |
ell were rebuilt. A great many prop |
erty owners were compelled to erect en- |
tirely new buildings. Happily, most of |
the damage was made good by the rail |
road company, and building after build |
ing went up until about twenty in all |
were built. Such a change was wrought |
that comments were made in some of
the large daily newspapers. Persons
that had not the opportunity of visiting
our town for year after the sad affair
expressed great surprise that the town
had made such wonderful changes and II
that Greenwood was now 4
more than period on geOgraphy's map.
Our next calamity happened on the 23rd
)f July one year ago a fire that burned
the entire business portion of the west
side of the town together with several
dwellings,, storage houses, barns, &C.,
a loss of about $50, ,000 But
he sore spot was quickly healed. In
itead of wooden stores, we now have
Prick ones that replace them, standing
,ut as monuments to the ashes of wooden
buildings. Miles of cement pavements
lave been put down. Our streets are in
condition. One new building
lfter another has been put up, and yet
With all the new ones that have been
,uilt there is an ever increasing demand
or houses, homes that will rent for S.,
6 and IS per month. A large brick
Ugh school building was erected last
ear, and the old one was sold at public
ale to the highest bidder.