Milford chronicle., 1920-10-29
LEWES NEWS

1NolSt W III. MDoOuf track foreman
on the NJ. d. & V. r. r. Co., met with
very painful accident on Friday last
when he was handling some freight
and in some way piece of heavy
freight fell upon him and broke his
leg. He is now at the Beebe hospi-
tai
James Robertson of Wilmington
was a town visitor during the week.
The Lewes Oil and Chemical Com
pany tied up their fishing steamers
on Tuesday for the season. although
they were still making good catches
and the fish were producing a good
yield of oil. but the price of the oil
and scrap has dropped so low, that
with the price of labor. and coal il
was not paying proposition.
Mrs. COrnelia Wolfe is spending a
few days with friends and relatives
in Philadelphia.
The Misses Clara NJ. and Mary West
of Rehoboth Beach have moved in the
Maull property near Pilottown and ex-
pect to make this their future home,
heretofore they have been living in
Philadelphia in the winter months
and in Rehoboth Beach in the sum
mer months.
John NJ. Vessels made a business
trip to Wilmington during the week.
W. Elmer West and family of Har-
rington. formerly of this town, are .
spending a few days with friends and
relatives here.
T. Carlisle Collins of Milford, repre-
senting the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, was a town visitor during the
week.
Local sportsmen are having fine
sport shooting ducks on the marshes.
Several were bagged the first day the
season was opened, but since that
time only few have been killed each I
day. l
John II. Jones has purchased a tract c
of timber in Angola from Mrs. John v
Mitchell Lank and will put his saw c
mill in there at once cutting the tim v
ber for building lumber a
William H. Roach of Wachapreague, l.
Va, is spending a few days with his q
parents here, Mr.. and Mrs. Mark II. c.
Roach. Il
Nearly all the employees at all three "
fishing plants have been laid off on el
account of the boats being tied up eX- d
cept a few which are on salaries. al
Quite a number of fish were caught 81
this season but not as many as were
caught last season and neither is the m
price of the product near as good as ii
it was last season. Dl
William J. Carson and wife are W
spending a few days with their daugh- fr
ter, Miss Helen Carson in Whining la
ton In
Joseph L. Cahall Of Georgetown was to
a town visitor on Friday. de
The Ushers Union of the NJ. E. re
Church held special meeting in the pO
Sunday school room on Friday even on
ing. elC
The oyster industry has almost ier
come to a standstill here on account hi:
of the warm weather which has pre- thu
vailed since the oyster season open
ed on October first. As these oysters DIR;
are shucked before being shipped and Tn
will not keep very long after being sid
taken from the shell in warm weather Ell
it is impossible to make shipments un- wa
til the weather gets cooler, these oys- art
ters are the finest they have been for ing
years. wo
William H. Workman, contractor put
from Milton has about completed uni
Charles H. Lynch's bungalow on sol
South street, near the school house fro
and Mr.. Lynch expects to move to his S.
new quarters in a few days an'
John D. Elliot whose dwelling was hin
destroyed by fire several months ago dis
and who has been occupying the JOS pre-
eph d. Thompson property on Arhells out
avenue will move his family to Phil I
being unable to rent house tro
here dal
Captain William E. White, master ore
of the fishing steamer "Beewith", Tn,
which was operated by the Hayes and hea
AndertOn company caught $4,000 bar in
rels of menhaden this season here, to
the largest catch of any other steam led
ar orloraffucr af that nlanf Tho Dpyf in IN ,
order was the steamer Cod with Dor
10000 barrels. A
Local sportsmen are in high glee has
over the prospect for rabbit and bird Wa
shooting which they expect to enjoy Ell'
he coming season, which opens No mo-
7ember 18th. 1t is reported by many The
)f the farmers that they have seen S2,0
more game in the past few weeks than A
hey have seen for number of years, rive
rhe reason for the abundance of game Wo
s due to the fact that last winter and
vas not at all hard on game and many N
If the farmers have been keeping their carr
logs fastened during the summer NJ
months which generally destroy so fror
much game before it reaches the size in {
hat it can take care of itself. con
The local republicans have rented pan
he room over Max E. Gebhardt's a 81
,akery which was formerly used as ably
he telephone exchange for their club A
Dom. fror
The revival services which have T.
cen going on at Conleys Chapel for NJ
everal weeks closed last week with ed
bout 40 conversions to their credit. Phil
lev. William d. Wilson of this town visi
onducted the services. Revival ser enbr
ices began at Whites Chapel on Sun
ay evening, conducted under the
anne leader.
William S. Marsh. accompanied his
augnter, Miss Lillian NJ Marsh TO 7,
lew York last week where she will -, ~
ttend the Scoral School. W.
DR.. Hiram r. Burton who has been 90. -
ttending the convention of physicians NJ ~
nd surgeons at Indianapolis returned o.sa M
asst week. enc Cii
Arthur Mcbride who has beer teach - rs
lg English and French in the public ,1-s ~