Milford chronicle., 1915-02-12
ROBBERS WORK AT GREENWOOD.
Governor PennewilPs Barn Broken Into
And Corn Stolen.
GYPSY CAMPS ARE A NUISANCE
Snyder Catsup Factory Wants Tomatoes
Grown For Its Use In 1915.

Snyder Catsup Factory Wants Tomatoe
Grown For Its Use In 1915.
For the first time IN the lifetime O
Governor Pennewill thieves have re
Gently visited his farm and carried away
property. Last week the housekeepel
Informed the ex-governor on his arriva
home from Bridgevile that two men haC
been prowling about the house and out.
Buildings all that evening, and she was
Just in the act of calling for help over
the telephone when he arrived home.
The party at the barn had some kind of
dim light or lantern POSSIBLY an elec-
tric torch, but the other man seemed
to be watching the house while the part
ner worked at the barn. An investiga-
ton was made by the governor but the
thieves had escaped. He found the barn
door pried open and the lock broken,
but the only thing he could miss was a
quantity of shelled corn. Evidently the
thieves had a team at the rear of the
building and escaped by a rear entrance
to the farm. In the many years when
Governor Pennewill's father occupied
the farm and up the present date rob
bers have never before piled their trade
on that premises.
a case is under investigation by the
State detectives, which if it is as cur
rently reported, will prove to be one of
the most dastardly crimes ever perpe-
trated in this section of Delaware, and
in southern state would certainly re-
suit in a lynching. A white man of mid
die age is accused of enticing twelve
year old girl into a woods and shame
fully mistreating her. After her escape
to her people posse of men attempted
to capture him in a woods, but with a
revolver he bluffed them off and made
his escape. The young man is married,
bet has a reputation for lawlessness,
and if the reports are found to be facts,
the feeling in and about Greenwood will
possibly lead to attempt a lynching
The detectives have not been able to
get the case in shape to make any arrests. |
One of the largest tomato catsup fac
tories in the United States is located at
Greenwood and it is owned by the Snyder
Catsup Company of New York. Two |
years ago they built the Fl st factory
and operated it; and last year they |
doubled the size of the factory. but the |
work was completed too late for them
to operate. This year they expect to |
start the plant at its full capacity, and
viii contract with some of the largest |
and most reliable farmers to grow to- /
matoes for their use. The factory when
in operation does not require more than
half of the number of people to operate
it as does a cannery most of the work
is done by machinery. The bottling ma
chine is almost automatic from begin
ming to finish of the work. The labelling
and packing requires considerable labor
IN that department.
Gypsies have become an intolerable !
to many of the farmers in this /
part of Sussex County. On a part of
the land owned by Ex-Governor Penne-
will tenant house was recently erected
n the edge of a woods where bands of
yypsies have been coming, and this l
winter one of the bands arrived in the
morning. while the tenant was away at
work, and when he arrived home at the
Inner hour he found his yard and ground S
lbout his house, covered with tents, {
wagons and horses, with a score cf men, S
women and children, not to mention S
logs and other animals. They refused J
o move and the tenant has been afraid S
o make an attempt to get clear of the
motley crew of worthless rowing people F
Who claim to be gypsies, but are mostly |
made up of people who live off the com +
nunity in which they stop. The State '
+ Delaware should find some means to r
reyent this class of undesirable people ]
rom coming into the various counties. G
The new school house is yet unfinished N
nd it now looks as if the cost of the J
uilding will exceed the amount voted +
Y the people by thousand dollars or j
lore. The building committee has n
sarned something, but their information d.
as been CLEANED at the cost of the tax c
ayers. They accepted an inferior plan NJ
J the first place, and then made the ia
under of attempting to have the work b'
one under their own supervision, and m
le result has been that the materials M
sed have not been according to the at
lecifications in several instances. When M
oyernor Pennewill gave the five acres
iand on which the building was placed,
was understood that the building was
face upon the 100 foot avenue opened
across his land insteaditis faced on a do
de street. Then when the excavations
ere made for the foundations the earth OF,
moved was piled at the rear of the
Hiding because the building committee ,f,
lied to notify the man employed to O.
cavate with horse and scoop where to
e it,, instead of carrying it a few a.,
rds to the rear and grade up the low -,
0nnds which are to be the play grounds ~,
+ the school, and for the athle tic field ~
well. This dirt has to be again moved ,ve
an additional expense to the tax pay
5, and will be used to grade as needed. Of
IT'D Greenwood rebuilding so hand a.
nely, and with the prospect for do,
sat future for the place. it is disap 80 80
Inting to part of the people that the ~, a.
" school building will not be one of
Structures with which Greenwood
its friends in Sussex County would
nj with pride, as their model educa-
ional institution. 1t will be a great ]
over anything Greenwood the
X had, but what might have been a eve
sndid advertisement for the town, is cak
(. Pro
feenwood Grange will meet at 2 CHI
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