Milford chronicle., 1921-08-05
LEWES NEWS


t of years that all three of the loca
I fishing plants have not been operat
] ing with from ten to twenty fishins
= steamers operating here also, ant
! without this industry many of thu
2 merchants, business men and espec
/ tally the labOring men are feeling the
effect of it, it is hoped that possibly
: one out of the three will open for fall
/ fishing, providing the fish are still
, running plentiful and other condi-
) tions are favorable. The town also
misses the revenue derived from the
water which is sold to the different
plants and steamers, amounting to
several thousand dollars each season
The local base ball team journey
ed to Lincoln City on Saturday and
were defeated by a score of IA to 4.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Shaffer of New
York City are spending a few days
with the latter's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard P. Morrix, near Mid
way.
Agnes M. Newbury of Brooklyn, N.
Y. is spending a few weeks on Lewes
Beach.
Miss Olga Amundson, of Philadel-
phia, formerly of this town, is visit
ing Mrs. Charles R. Lynch.
] The Methodist Protestant Sunday
school held their annual picnic last
week at Oak Orchard. The means of
transportation was by automobile.
Some unknown person had the
nerve to steal new tire off the back
of John M. Lynch's Ford coupe while
it was parked at the Hotel HenlOpen
during the dance on Saturday even
ing.
Louis Graves has moved his family
from the Milby property on Market
street to one of the brick houses at
the corner of Fourth and South
streets.
Charles L. White who is employed
as mate on an ocean going steamer is
spending a few days with his parents
here, Mr.. and Mrs. William w. White.
AS a result of an exploding oil
stove, Walter Argo, colored, received
a severe burned hand when he pick
ed up the flaming oil stove and threw
it out doors, had it not been for the
immediate action on the part of Ar
go. a serious fire would have resulted, |
the fire alarm was sounded but the
fire was extinguished before the fire
men arrived.
A number of local people attended
the picnic of the M. E. and the Pres
byterian Sunday SCHOOLS M51d at
Ocean C4ty, Md, on Wednesday Of |
last week. The local base ball team
on a few minutes notice picked up a
team. and played the Ocean City boys
but were defeated by a score of 8 to
8.
Clarence M. Carpenter, the local
milk dealer, is confined to his home
on account of illness.
Nearly all the farmers in this sec
tion have their wheat threshed by this
time, and the yield was the poorest
known for many years and the price
offered now is about $1.25 a bushel.
The farmers say at that figure they
are losing money on the crop cOnsid-
ering the high prices they paid for
phosphate and the price that they
could have realized on the wheat they
sowed.
Many of the local members of the
Tall Cedars of Lebanon attended a
field day held by that organization on
Thursday at Ocean City, Md.
Charles H. Mason and family of
Aenhett Square, Pa, are spending
.wo weeks vacation with Mrs. Mason's
,ather here, Louis Lauritsen.
Many people from here and Reho-
1oth and vicinity have been attend
ng the Kent and Sussex County fair
It Harrington.
There are now seven wheat theSh- I
rs operating between Lewes and Re |.
loboth this week and at the present S
ate if the weather continues for a '
ew days longer all the wheat in this
ection will be threshed. Every year s
he farmers in that vicinity are last N
mes to secure a thresher and when
he season winds up all the threshers '
md here at the same time. q
William T. Conwell, president of the v
--Rub-It Chemical Company of Phil
delphia is spending a few days with C
is parents here, Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn d
5 T. Conwell. n
William Magee of Wilmington, for v
lerly of this town, is spending his al
acation with friends and relatives "
ere. b.
Mr.. and Mrs. John R. Lawton are
congratulations upon the al
rrival of fine baby girl. bl
Charles w. Robinson and brother,
fired Robinson of Baltimore, Md, pl
rmerly of this town are visiting W
eir mother here, Mrs. Cornelius M. JC
Obinson. n
William H. Roach and family of n
achapreague, Va, are spending two "
eeks with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
ark H. Roach here.
Fain T. Yost, one of the foremen on
e new school building, employed by r--
e du Pont Engineering Company, Il.
40 has been in the Beebe Hospital I
r several days as a result of injur- I
5 to his knee is able to be out to III
5 boarding house again.
The WescOat Auto Company who .
We just recently, within the past 3 .
,eks, disposed of a carload of new
lpmobiles has just received another
rload this week. L
William F. Lofand, of Baltimore, M
l., who has been visiting his parents
re, Mr.. and Mrs. William c. Lofand l@4
S returned.
Notices have recently been posted v
vising those who desire to take the for
for postmaster of the To-
post Office which is to be held
ne time in August. Rumor has had
for some time that Justice of the No No
ace Napoleon B. Register will be Fri
next postmaster here to succeed MOI
S. Fredonia c. Lohand, the present Fri, KS
umbent, whose term has expired. Nor
oseph r. Moore has been suffering we
some time with muscular rheuma- Nor
n. and is slowly improving. Wee