Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-01-31
ALL COUNTY ROADS
BLOCKED TO TRAVEL
BY HUGE DR|F is
Newary Almost Isolated, But
Milk Dealers Manage to
Serve Fairly Well.
ALL STATE ROADS CLOSED

Special Correspondence Every Evening.
Newark, Jan. 3i.--It will be the lat
ter part OF the week and possibly early
next week. unless moderate weather
continues. before hundreds-of farmers
highways in this locality, are entirely
dug out. 1t was not until late yes-
terday afternoon and this morning.
when an occasional resident OF some
of the more remote sections managed
to get through. generally by horse
back. after supplies that 1t was def
nitely learned how deeply those living
on the side roads are showed In.
While several gangs OF men worked
all of yesterday between Newark and
Marshallton. the Lincoln Highway has
not been opened and probably will not
be before some time tomorrow or
| Thursday. Not team or automobile
| has been able 10 get through TO New
ark from Wilmington on the Lincoln
Highway. although the road Is open
as far as Marshsilton. There are huge
drifts In the vicinity OF White Clay
Creek Presbyterian and st. flames
Episcopal Churches that wfil Nave -
be removed before traffic can be re-
-Simed. The Elkton- Newark Will
mington bus line Is suspended and
has made no attempt since Saturday
afternoon TO get through.
Big Drifts in Roads.
! Conditions are even worse on most
all othbr roads leading TO Newark
Depot Road to the PENNSYLVANIA Rail
road station is open sufficiently for
busses to meet trains, but not wheel
has been able to get through this road
below the station which leads tc
Cooch's Bridge. Glasgow and Middle
town. The road is blocked with huge
drifts, ten and twelve feet high In
some places. Three machines are
still stalled in the snow near Cooch''
Bridge which We're abandoned on Sat
urday. What is true OF this road II
equally true as TO the New London
Elkton and Telegraph roads. There
are dozens OF side roads through
which not a track has been made since
Saturday morning. Men who have
been employed by the county arr
working first on the main highways t.
get them opened. 80 the indication
are that the side roads will remain
closed for several days.
one resident of Iron Hill manage
10 get through last night to Newark
and he says the storm was apparently
much moro severe on Iron Hill ant
Chestnut Hill than It was in Newarb
In many places, he said, there ar
~ -A Two
house and that some OF the few road
: leading UP 10 the hills may not b
opened for week.
I Bound to Get to School.
William Schwartz, uenior studen
at the Newark High School. was fror
I o'clock yesterday morning unit
nearly 6 o'clock last night gettin
e from the home OF his parents.
Pleasant Valley, west of Cooch
Bridge, Pencader hundred TO NewaEl
Examinations are being held nj III
If school this week and the young stu
IS dent, for this reason. was especial
Il anxious TO get to school. Shortly aft,
II leaving his home ne found numhe
l. of men with shovels opening the roa
He joined the men and after workin
until nearly 4 o'clock yesterday afte
noon they had opened only about "
miles OF road. Schwartz then mar
a aged TO get to Cooch's Station, on Il
Newark and Delaware City Railroa
and came the remainder of the way
train.
Few of the children from rural Sc
II tons attending the local schools we
u able 10 get in yesterday.
Rural mail carriers from this Off
) are serving those whose mail box
% they can reach. but a trail will ha'
10 be broken in many roads befo
they can get all over their routes.
= Newark has been fortunate as TO Il
j. milk supply. Several farmers wi
/ deliver milk to the local dealers a
hauling ii through snow drifts wi
four horses hitched to wagon,
order 10 get it here. The local deale
q are several hours late in serving q
" milk, but manage TO get around
I'd most of their trade. especially whe
~; there are babies. One dealer is usil
ed a sleigh for serving his milk.