Milford chronicle., 1921-05-06
MILTON LETTER


le Thursday night of last week. On Sat
urday evening George Neal, another
$ member of the crew, arrived in Mil
l. ton.
2 Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur NIacklin of
= Wilmington were the guests of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Dol. Palmer
n last week.
S son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
S George R. Palmer on April 25th.
The high school boys have cleaned
= off the lot at the corner of Front and
= Federal streets, to be used for the
Saturday evening concerts by the Mil
r ton band this summer. A band stand
= has been erected here and an other
wise unsightly lot has been trans
I, formed into a beautiful park. The
concerts will begin about the first of
June. These open air musicales were
2 popular last summer and drew large
= crowds to the town every Saturday
night. The band has ordered new un-
= forms and will present a natty ap-
pearance this summer.
AIiltOn's public school is making
great preparation for the field day to
be held by the schools of the county
= at Georgetown on May 18th. There
} will be a parade of the pupils from
every school accompanied by several
bands, in the morning. In the after
noon there will be held athletic events
of various sorts between team from
each school.
Mrs. Arthur ShOckley who has been .
quite ill at her home near town is .
cOnvalescing.
House cleaning is the order of the
day in Milton, and the demands for
local paper hangers is great.
A strawberry festival will be held
in the Chandler building on Friday
and Saturday evening, May and by
the Milton Fire Company. This is the
second of a series of such affairs to l.
be held during the year in order to
raise fund for the purchase of a fire
engine for the town. The ladies of
the town are behind this movement
and success is assured. The ladies {
ask only that the men loosen up their ]
purse strings and fill up on straw
berry short cake, etc., on Friday and t
Saturday evenings and they will do
the rest. Y
Handy Prettyman is supplying the I
Milton people with ice from the
Georgetown plant, and we are assur-
ed of steady supply of ice during
the coming summer. Handy built a
large house for the storage of natural
ice on the margin of Lake Fanganzyki Il
but the mild winter prevented the tt
lake from freezing over b
The road from the south edge of b
town for mile toward Georgetown t.
has been plowed and is being put in
shape for the heavy traffic of the c,
coming summer. At present it is diff c.
fcult going for automobiles, but will
soon be in good condition. 81
Don't forget the strawberry festi- W
val tonight and tomorrow night in D,
the Chandler building by the firemen. T
George w. Simpler and wife motor pl
ed to Philadelphia on Friday, accom-
panied by Mrs. ]. H. Jester and Mrs. ell
James Mitchell. te
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphus Parsons and ii,
Mrs. Annie Connard and sons spent bs
Sunday with relatives in Dagsboro.
p Miss Eva Smith has had her front eli
porch repaired. m
Willard Clifton is adding a story to er
he rear of his residence on Mulberry ar
treet. tir
Captain Henry P. BlEtan is having
is residence repainted, inside and ca
ut. ~
The frame work for the new color w,
d school is being erected, and the
uilding is expected to be completed ent
the middle of May. of
A new roof has Ieen put on the
'ont porch of the residence of Chas. a1e
J.. Virden. ~ ~
work on the new bank building for wa
le Delaware Trust Company is pro- Ge,
ressing rapidly. n
A forest fire on the farm of Mrs.
L. Atkins damaged several acres cd
valuable timber. III
Factory peas are in bloom and from cha
resent indications the crop will be A
normal one. While the vines are Mic
)t as tall as in former years, owing mi
the late freeze, the vines are well mo,
It with blossoms. 80 Gl' clei
Alfred Rogers who moved here a A
" months ago from near GeOree- c.,
Wn has moved back to his farm ~
John Hudson who has been award - a,
the contract to carry the mail ,.ool
om ElIendale to Milton, has DUR of
ased an automobile truck for the u ~ :
'rk' which will insure an earlier oh,
rival of the noon mail in Milton. NJ
Will also carry passengers to and of :,
I'm Ellendale. He takes over the - q
lite July 1st, next.
IN Saturday, May 7th, the large
,tage of DR.. Hearn, on BroadkiIn
ach, will be sold at public sale in
ton. This is one of the largest and
u located cottages on the beach. Lii
lshermen at Slaughter Beach are spen
KING fair catches of trout and hard Deln
.ds, and receiving top prices for Mi
m. Auto trucks from Wilmington end
chester are getting most of the ,Fede
and paying as high as $500 a Mi
mel for the trout and $500 for the Sund
heads. From present indications Smy1
many trout will be saIted down Fr;
local farmers this year for win taine
food, as the price is prohibitive. Greer
" farmers are sailing the latter Mr.!
that few years ago were thrown the W
=. bee.
ne Lofand Brick Company has be- A !
the making of brick. This is one are S
he largest brick manufacturing not o.
is on the peninsula and gives em- some
ment to about fifty men. They are Mr..
lsh1ng the brick for the erection daugh
ank buildings for the Delaware with
It Company at Milton and George Hell
!. two S
ing your girl to the strawberry Harve
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