Milford chronicle., 1918-01-04
MILTON NEWS.

! The holidays are over. And with their
I disappearance the light of 1917 goes out.
Tie past year has been an eventful one.
1t has made history. Such history as we
have never made before. We are all
one year older, and let us hope one year
wiser Good bye 1917 Welcome Mr..
1918. We enter the New Year in the
midst of World War such as has
never before, rocked the European Con-
, tinent, nor extended across the Atlantic
to this favored land. We are into it and
the best we can do is to fight and pray
that We may keep it on the other side of
the water. This we shall undoubtedly
do. We want no autocTacy nor Kaiser
ism here. The Kaiser is reported to
have said, "Gott Strafe, Wilson 20 and
we say, God damn the Kaiser % so
may it be.
Marriage bells have been ringing dur
ing the holidays. War does not scare
the young from matrimony. On the goth
ult. David Jefferson. Jr., and Miss Pris-
ella Donovan were united in wedlock at
the M. P. Parsonage by the Rev. M. +.
Hungerford.
Mr.. Lloyd Reed and Miss Susan Shock
ley were united in matrimony on the p
ult. by the Rev. NJ. f. Hungerford. The
ceremony was performed at the NJ. P.
Parsonage. Miss Dorothy Moulten acted
as bridesmaid. and James Reed, brother
Of the groom, was best man. A number
of friends witnessed the ceremony.
On Saturday, the p tlt., at Nassau,
by the Rev. Allen, Miss Bertha Glen
daniel and Mr.. Leroy Carey were made
one by marriage.
Miss Dorothy Moulton has been acting
as saleslady at the Palmer store during
the holidays.
a family reunion took place at the
home of Mrs. Martha Mustard on Christ
mas Day, when twenty-three of the fam
lily were gathered together for dinner
ALI of her children and grand children
were present, but one.
$500 was realized by the entertain
ment held at the NJ. P. Church on Thurs
day evening. The church was full. This
amount was collected at the door as
free will offering, and will be sent to the
suffering children of Armenia.
w. H. Conwell, of Norfolk, Va, was
a visitor during the holidays.
Prof. ]. Harold Short, of Merrill Col
lege, stamford, Conn, visited his mother
near town during Christmas
Douglass Robinson, enlisted in the
Hospital Corps and in training, has been
home during the holidays, and returned
to camp on Friday. Hildreth Fithian, of
Camp Dix, was also home during the
week, and Clarence Young, a colored
soldier.
Mrs. Elizabeth Conwell, 81 years of
age,-is knitting a blanket of variegated |
colors as a present for some soldier boy. |
We regret to learn that DR.. William J. |
Hearn, a former noted surgeon and pro- /
fessor emeritus of Jefferson Medical Col |
lege, died on Friday the 2l ult., at the
home of his son-in-law at Media, Pa. |
DR.. Hearn married his wife, then Miss /
Amanda Prettyman, in this town, and /
practiced medicine here over forty years /
ago. He owned a cottage on Broadkiln /
Beach, and before the accident that hap |
pened to him few years ago, was an
annual summer visitor at that place and
at Milton. We admired Dr. Hearn not
only as surgeon and physician, but for
his sociality and generous disposition.
Louis Lane, machinist has removed
from Townsend to Milton.
One of the electric light poles on La
vania causeway is broken of, and the
pole and wire are in the lake. AS this
line is only used during camp meeting,
TO one appears to have anything to do
with it at any other time. But it should
be attended to, and taken out of the
water, or ice it is now in.
There has been but little change in
residences this year Thomas Cordry
has removed from a farm into town and
a home corner Front and Chest
nut streets. George Fisher has removed
from the country into property belong
ing to the heirs of the late Mrs. Letitta
Wilson on Chestnut street.
Charles Jones takes possession of the
Sussex Garage on North Union street,
ately in charge of H. Ernest Conwell.
Louis Lane, practical machinist, will
10 the work of the garage.
The "a. 4. Sunday School had its treat
)n Friday evening, and held an enter
.ainment on Sunday evening.
ITO tons of coal were received on
Christmas Day by c. G.. NAPLES, coal
iealer, and the people Of Milton now
lave plenty of fuel, and this is needed
It present. On Saturday morning an
,ther cold wave struck this town, and
he thermometer fell to Is degrees; on
Sunday morning it registered degree
,elow zero, and on Monday running
bout the same. Many of the pumps in
own were frozen each of these mornings.