Milford chronicle., 1922-05-26
Milton News By Paragraphs


full if the trees will live.
The bass season opened on Thurs
day of this week and the ponds and
lakes about Milton are teelning with
this gene fish.
Paynter Johnson, q young farmer
near Milton, stepped on 1all iasl
week, puncturing his foot so severely
that he is confined to his home, and
serious complications are feared.
Mrs. Frank B. Carey who was Oper-
ated on at the Beebe Hospital, Lewes
on Thursday of last week is improv-
ing rapidly.
Cut worms are damaging the lima
bean plants to IL great extent in
Broadkiln hundred, and growers have
many children and women in the
fields destroying them. The only way
to get rid of these pests is to dig them
from around the young plants and kill
them. A field that in the afternoon
looks thrifty will be by the next NOR
ming cut to pieces, the plants top
pling over and whitening in the sun.
Scarlet clover and alfalfa are being
cut now in this section. The scarlet
clover crop is away below normal,
while the alfalfa is yielding heavily.
Old fashion clover is looking good
here and a bumper crop is expected
by the growers. This hay crop Will De
harvested within the next ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Martin enter
tanned on Sunday, Captain William
Pettyiohn, of Wilmington, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lafferty Steele and William Pet
tyiohn, Jr., of Harrington.
Thomas Black, of Philadelphia,
spent the weekend with relatives in
Milton.
The work of building jetties for
the protection of RehobOth Beach is
progressing rapidly and is expected to
be completed in few months; before
the heavy storms of the autumn
months arrive. This work is being
done by the State, the last legislature
having appropriated $4,000 to do the
Job, at the urgent request of the land
owners of that resort. In the past ten
years storms have cut the beach front
away until at present many cottages
are in danger of tOppling into the
sea. Only a few years ago, between
the present beach front cottages and
the ocean there was a wide road and
beyond the road was the board walk.
Today the road has been washed away
and the board walk is jammed against
the cottages, and many of the cot
tages have fallen into the sea. Engi-
neers employed by the State recon-
mended the building of several groins
or jetties extending into the sea a
short distance. To prove that they
were correct in their assertions that
such jetties would not only preserve
the beach front but would cause the
sands to pile up behind the jetties,
thus enlarging the beach, one has
only to view the huge pile of sand
that has already piled against the
jetty now partly completed. This jetty
was started about two weeks ago and
is far from being completed at the
sea end, yet the sand has in this short
time piled up along the row of piline
nearly five feet high. The first groin
is being built in front of the Belhaven
Hotel, and will when completed ex-
tend out into the ocean about two
hundred feet. The second groin will
be erected half way between this one
and the Henlopen Hotel and will be ol
the same length. About three hundred
yards north of Henlopen Hotel thu
commission will build a larger jetty
This system of jetties is expected tt
break the force of the storm tides thai
has been so fatal to this Delaware re
sort and make secure the investments
made by residents who stood to lose
heavily. Senator ]. Carey Palmer, Ol
Milton, is chairman of the commission
and is giving the work his attention
Capt. George e. Mcgee, of Milton, is
the inspector employed by the State
to superintend the job. An old wreck
lying near the Belhaven Hotel has
given the engineers the idea of driv'
ing piling from the shore into the
ocean to save the beach. Around this
wreck sand has piled and the beacI
now extends into the sea at this point
further than at any other and the ac-
ton of the storm tides have no efecl
on this pile of sand.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Robbins anC
daughter of New York are the guests
of relatives in Milton.
The Levy Court of Sussex county
has decided to put the bridge al
Drawbridge in good condition. 1t is
planned to move the bridge about ter
feet down the river from its present
location in order that traffic will mo-
be hindered but short time while
the repairs are being made. The
bridge is a revolving one, turning OF
a caisson in the center of the river
The plan is to sink another caisso1
lust down river from the present one
and slide the bridge on to it wheI
completed. This will mean that the
approach on the north, or marsh side
will have to be widened. This bridge
is one of the oldest iron structures il
the county, yet the iron work is al
most as good as when assembled. The
piling and stone work on either ap-
proach have crumbled, making the
bridge unsafe for heavy traffic, such
as traction engines and heavy trucks
The county engineer is now draw
ing plans and specifications for the
work and as soon as completed bids
will be asked and work begun at once
in order that the bridge will be COM
pleted this summer.
1.-THE water main on Mulberry street
is being continued from Federal
street to the Diamond State Mills.
The Ladies Aid Society of Reynolds
M. P. Church will meet on Thursday
evening, June LIST, at the home of Mrs
Charles Morris, near Milton. Every
body cordially invited.
Beaver Dam NJ. P. Church, Harbe-
son, will hold Rally Day on Sun
day, May 28th. Sunday school at 10
o'clock, followed by preaching by
Rev. J. M. Gill, D. D. In the afternoon,
at 8 O'Clock, DR.. T. o. Grouse, of Mil
rsTT 1900 oh