Milford chronicle., 1923-08-03
TOLD IN A FEW LINES


It is vacation season.
Come on, let's go f1shin'.
Sweet corn was never sweeter.
Plenty of wet weather this week.
Lima beans are at their best now.
It's the last month of summer-Au-
gust.
Flowing for wheat is general in low
er Delaware.
Laws Church: Sunday school at 10
a M, August 5th.
Late planted white potatoes are
getting started well.
Fine showers have made the corn
crop in lower Delaware.
Mosquitoes in considerable sized
clouds now poster everybody.
Cantaloupes, deliciously favored
and tender are in local markets.
The Jelly making season is close at
hand; get sugar now, it is lower pric-
ed.
Get money from the Building Loan
Association and start to build your
self home this season.
It is possible to get out of debt if
an earnest effort is made-but it
means a lot of hard work.
Cucumbers took a sharp advance af-
ter a break in the market, and late
planted crops are selling well.
The Kings Daughters will meet with
Mrs. Geo. Fisher Pierce on Wednes-
day evening, August 8th, p. m.
Old people should be very careful
as to what they eat and in what guam
titles, during the summer months.
Laws Church Aid voted $1,000 to
the Houston parsonage for the paint
ing of same at their last meeting.
Cow peas and soy beans are grow
ing in prolific abundance in scores OF
fields in Kent and Sussex counties.
No lights on North Walnut street
last Monday night because of the
breaking Of feed wire on that cir
cult.
Meeting unusual expenses out of
current receipts is one of the speed
lest ways known to reach the poor
house.
The Ladies Aid of Slaughter Neck
M. E. Church will meet at the home
of Mrs. D. H. Argo, Tuesday evening,
August 9TH.
Laws Church Aid will meet Friday
evening, August 10th, with Mr.. and
Mrs. Uric Morris. ALI are most cor
daily invited.
The Latchum building is growing
steadily. It is a substantial structure
and will improve the business section
in appearance.
Give service or get out, is now the
orders to postmasters in Delaware and
that applies to the employees in the
office especially.
Work on the Windsor Hotel is go
ing forward as rapidly as the steel
girders will permit-the shipments
are delayed a few days.
The Plaza Theatre was closed on
Monday and Tuesday of this week, be-
cause of the death of the son of the
owner, Mr.. J. E. Lewis.
An ice cream festival will be held
on the church lawn at Shawnee, Tues
day evening, August 9TH. Come out and
spend a pleasant evening.
Big Thursday, the annual salt water
bathing day at the bayshore beaches
will be August 9th at Bowers Beach
and August 18th at Slaughter Beach.
Build up a reserve fund in the bank
to take care of the future-but don't
invest it in any seven or eight per
cent stocks, on the say Of a selling
agent.
There is less speeding on-the con-
crete highways, since the State Po-
lice have been arresting those who Of
fend, under the new laws. $26.15 for
a short speed ride comes higher than
some of the offenders want to pay.
The Lincoln Division of the Milford
Grange will hold one of the series of
bakes, on August IL, at Pierce Hard
ware store, between a. m. and IL.
There will pie, cake, doughnuts, rolls
and roast chicken. Anyone wanting to
order same, call 146R13.
The Ladies Aid Society of Sand Hill
NJ. E. Church will hold a festival at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ebenezer
Workman, near Georgetown, Tuesday
evening, August 7th. If stormy, next
clear night. Everybody invited. A gen.
eral good time is expected.
The road into Dover is closed for
contractors are taking out
he old road and making the grade. It
will be in September before the road
S finished. Detour through Camden
md enter Dover by way Of Wyoming.
See the official notice from the High
way Department