Milford chronicle., 1916-03-03
HARRINGTON.

Chronicle, and will be glad to arrange
with any one. who will undertake the
duties for weekly letters. The pay will
be commensurate with the character OF
the news sent in. Address or call upoz
the Chronicle Office, Milford, Delaware. J
(The following items of news were
gathered this week and sent to the ChTOni-
Gle by our regular correspondent, but for
a reason which is clearly set forth in her
letter to the publishers, local matters of
the town of Harrington will not be ham
died by her, and the news will be from
the vicinity of Vernon and the nearby
districts. Editor.
The Adams Express Business of Har-
I rington has been taken over by d r.
| Sawtelle, who announces that the Office
will be conducted upon business lines
under his management, and that regular
hours will be observed. This will be an
! Improvement over the way it was con-
Quoted, and the convenience of the ship
ping public will be considered.
Another son was born unto Mr.. and
Mrs George Hanson, the Station Agent
at Harrington, on Sunday afternoon,
February goth, and this is their fourth
boy.
The sale of personal and timber which
took place onWedneSday last on the farm
! X miles fro.I Pennington. was one of
the largest held in this vicinity this
season. The interest seemed to be cen.
tered in the timber very largely, but the
farming fixtures brought good prices
Men from Maryland and the lower part
of Sussex County as we'll as from upper
Kent County were present. This sale
was advertised in the MILFORD CHRoNI-
Gle for several weeks, and of course the
facts were generally known in all parts
of the peninsula. Its surprising how far
and how generally the CHRONICLE is read.
The end of winter brought heavy rain
fall and as a result, the swamps and
bitches are we'll filed with water. The
roads are certainly far from even fair to
travel over at this time. and the people
are beginning to ask, what all the talk
about good roads" for Kenty county
amounts to anyway.
The peach buds have been examined by /
those fam iliar with the business, and mp
to the present they are unharmed by the |
cold weather. For this reason, unless |
something happens further along in the
season, there will be another crop of !
peaches this year.
Because of the warm weather last fall I
and the hard freezing of this past winter
present time. This may or may not mean
something for or against the crop to be
harvested next June.
The horrible condition of the roads to-
ward Burrsville, Md. are a terror for
those who attempt to travel over them.
They were never worse than they have
been this winter, and we wonder what
will happen If any moTe sO-called good
-oads are built from that SS5, 900 bor-
owed to build good roads in Kent Coun-
y with
By request from DR.. Wagner, COmmis-
ioner OF Education for Delaware, Mrs. =
Alice II. Ross has wrote the following
rticle on the subject of Hot School
- which will be published as the
experience in her school in the news
apers of Delaware. The article follows >,
after having hot lunches for several y
-eeks we are perfectly delighted with "
ne results, and it works like a charm n
ur school. We feel that we would be "a
eprived of necessity If we could not -,
ave the hot lunches. The expense is "a
most nothing for the regular stove is
sed. and we bring the dishes and cook to
* utensils from our homes for warming V,
cans, peas, potatoes, milk for cocoa and
her foods. After cleaning they are
cked in the bottom of the book case ne
hich was bought from funds raised for
Ie entertainment fund. The pupils take wi
rn in serving and in the dishwashing,
hich they seem to greatly enjoy. The
wells and cloths are washed and ironed, m
hich brings in really training in the
,mestic science branches, or home eco tai
,mics. We have also started sewing as MI
side issue in the experiment, and have HI
, s,.ear,et-~, a1l
ne hot lunch idea has everything to
commend it, and no real criticism can Nj
raised against it. It brings happiness ca
the children by creating a new ami
al interest, which helps them to solve mel
e problem of discipline by keeping them pei
terested and occupied Better school
)rk is done and believe that fully ten at
r cent more is actually accomplished lar
rough the proper digestion of foods bu
lOther point is the fact that less rich by
ID is used, which is expensive, and the Sci
ildren are given actual experience in rec
eful training of the hands as well as Ma
their head. which should be part of Ha
cry childs school education. Here at to
School we are delighted Ho
III the experiment. kin
Signed, MRS. ALICE II. Ross. -
rhe recitation by Mrs. Alice II Ross -
fore the Harrington New Century Club,
ich met at the home of Mrs. W. c.
light on Tuesday of last week, was ~
ection from the writings of J. 7. Trow- IN
dge, who recently died in New York
is poem will be shortly rendered in =
y to be given by the Andrewville Irv- J.
Literary Society.
oseph Simpson is very i'll and his con-
ion does not improve to the regret Of -
many friends.
irs. Thomas Clancy, who passes her
nmers here, is an active worker in the
Association.
,eese Jones is home for a two weeks
alton.
frs. Annie Collision, of Pennington,
guest with Mrs. Minner.
oseph Barney, of Newark, and George
e, of Wilmington, have been visiting
ltives and friends here the past week.
LONG NECK.