Milford chronicle., 1916-09-22
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The rain helped the roads.

The rain helped the roads.
Late white potatoes look fine.
Sowing wheat will commence next
week.
Fresh pork sells for s11 per humid
red.
Sausage and hot cakes for breakfast
now.
A good show in Armory Hall this
week.
Milford has a new policeman this
week.
Cool fall weather the early part Of
this week.
Butter, the best creamery. 40 cents
per pound, in Milford.
The oyster season in the Mispillion
river opens October 1st.
There will be no services at Mill
wood Church on Sunday, September
oath.
Republican primary elections will
be held tomorrow, Saturday after
noon.
The Dover carnival was a great
success. 1t was largely attended on
Saturday night.
u Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Denney, of
Wilmington, have been guests Of their
monther, Mrs. William Buell..
There are many new automobiles |
this fall, and farmers are purchasers |
generally. It has come to stay.
The Delaware soldiers in New Mex
leo are having fine time; they gave
a ball in honor of the citizens of Dem
ing last Monday.
In the absence of Rev. l.. A Ben
nett, Rev. Fred M. Kline, secretary of
the Board of Foreign Missions, will
preach in the NJ. P. Church next Sun
day
There will be Sunday School and
preaching, September oath, at Will
Evansville and Milford Neck at the ap-
pointed hours. District Superintend-
ent Mowbray is to preach at Milford
Neck.
Mrs. T. A. Davis is visiting in
Washington, d. c., and Mrs. Lottie
Deal and little daughter, Frances,
who have been spending several
months with Rev. and Mrs. Davis,
have returned to their home in Deep
Creek. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Cogill, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilmer Knox, Franklin Knox,
and Mrs. NJ. H. Knox motored from
Woodbury. New Jersey, on Sunday
and visited friends in Milford, Sea-
ford, Bridgeville and Harrington, re-
turning to their home on Tuesday. !,
The County Engineers for Kent and !
Sussex counties are getting the plans
and specifications for rebuilding the
bridge over the Mispillion River at a
he Draper & Hirsch factory, ready
'or advertising for bids, which will in t
Ill probability appear next week. S
The President of Town Council who :
vas elected last week has resigned :
his week. Why not get Alex Rich
lrds of jamestown District to fill out g
he balance of the year 1916? Alex :
would help to peace-out the time, and r
le knows the police side Of the ques- !,
ion thoroughly.
Thomas Davis, who has been en- o
,loyed in the pressroom of the Chron-
Gle Office for some time past, left j
saturday evening accompanied by his t
,rother, John, for Chincoteague, Va, Il
where they will visit relatives for l.
week before leaving for Chesterton, b
Id, where they will attend college Il
he coming term.
Mrs. r. R. Rust and sons Willie -
nd Lloyd, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Rust, II
lr. and Mrs. Harry Hudson and son h,
.ichard, Mr.. and Mrs. William Green,
liss Sockrider, Mr. Sockrider, Miss n
ara McIlvaine of HarbesOn, Miss I,
.icketts of Lewes, and Carl Blizzard y
f Philadelphia, motored to Milford
ist Saturday and spent the day with
IT. and Mrs. r. Ralston Davis.
Rogers Farrow, who spent the
eek end with his parents, Capt. and R
Irs. George FarrOw, returned to c.
ew York on Monday and from there w
i'll sail for France. He has just com pc
leted a course at the Pugsley Nauti- in
Il School, where he received a lie to
lse for first mate on any waters. He so
the youngest mate to which a lie
Use of this kind has been issued. tr