Milford chronicle., 1923-10-05
Milton Letter

cOuSumaI6d last week Wnen Major
Louis B. Chandler, of Campo Meade,
Md, and William H. Chandler, OF
Scranton, Pa, sold thirteen hundred
acres of valuable timber lands to Har-
ry w. Jester, of Glendale. Consider
alton not made known. This tract OF
timber contains some of the largest
pine and oak timber in the county, be-
sides many acres of gum. The latter
is used in the manufacture of fruit,
truck and berry baskets. The tracts
lay near Redden, in easy access to
railroad shipping facilities.
At public sale on Thursday of last
week w. Walter Sherman sold his
thirty acre farm, near Milton, to Ar
thur Kapp, of Gravel Hill, for S147C.
Mr.. Sherman bought this farm last
year for $1,000. 1t lays on the concrete
road between Milton and Harbeson
and is an ideal truck and poultry
farm.
The Zion Y. P. B. will meet at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Nit
chell on Tuesday evening, October 8.
Everybody welcome.
Lawrence Crouch and Louis Reeder,
of Frankford, Philadelphia, spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. John T.
Crouch.
Harry Parkinson, of Philadelphia, is
spending this week with friends in and
near Milton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles D. Crouch, of
Philadelphia, are spending the week
with his father, Walter w. Crouch.
1t is said that the concrete road
through Milton will be opened to the
public on Saturday of this week. This
road which has been in course of con-
struction since September 3rd, has
been closed and the merchants of the
town have suffered a loss of country
trade, and it's opening will mean re-
vival of business. The contractors are
laying the concrete from the railroad
on Federal street towards Harbeson,
to where it joins the Georgetown
Lewes road. This section is expected
to be completed and open to traffic by
the middle of November. Milton peo-
pie are advocating a continuance Of
the road from this town through
Slaughter Neck to Milford, joining
there with the du Pont Boulevard to
Wilmington. This route would be
agreeable to the two factions, one en-
dorsing a road through Slaughter
Neck from Milford, and the other a
road from Milton to Milford. The route
through Slaughter Neck from Milton
would be but a fraction of mile
longer and would serve the purpose
of both. It is thought that this road
would be built next year. Another
route that is being advocated by the
people on the western side of the
county that is of interest to Milton is
one from Greenwood through Ellen
dale to Milton.
Local oystermen were surprised to
learn that the oyster season in the
Broadlill River opens on October Is,
instead of October 1, as in former
years. The law was passed by the last
legislator without the general know
ledge of Milton oystermen. 1t is
thought that the law was passed at
the bequest of oyster packers, who
claimed that the opening Of the season
on October 1st was too soon, that the
shipments spoiled because of warm
weather. Local Oystermen are pre-
pairing for the season and those who
have investigated the beds at the
mouth of the river say that the season
will be only fair one because there
seems to be a scarcity Of "spats" or
young oysters during the spring and
early summer. There are those who
believe that the demands Of the pack
ers caused the oystermen to deplete
the beds.
Mrs. Peter Wilson is quite i'll at the
home of her son, Marshall, on Chest
nut street.
A daughter was born to DR.. and
Mrs. W. 3. Douglas on Tuesday, Sep
tember 25th, and the next day daugh~
ter arrived at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Everett Calhoun.
Mrs. Luther Wilson has returned
from a visit to Philadelphia.
William H. Workman, Of Milton,
has been awarded the contract to
erect two milk cooling stations for the
Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Company, Of
p Philadelphia. One will be located at
Nassau, and the other at Princess
Anne, Md. The buildings are to be Of
hollow brick, Ideal design, Vermin
proof floors, composition roof, cleo
trio lights, refrigerating rooms, load
ing platforms and a sewage disposal
system. Mr.. Workman will begin the
work of construction at once and rush
the buildings to completion as rapidly
As possible.
] Captain and Mrs. Charles Burrous,
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Scott, left on Sunday for a motor trip
to Chicago, to visit the formers son,
James.
Mrs. John Hazard left on Monday
for New York, where she joined her
husband on voyage to southern
ports.
Miss Clara Vaughan has moved to
Middletown, where she will make her
home with her brother, DR.. Vaughan.
Charles Stuchlik has sold his sixty
acre farm near Milton to Frank Mad
jarosy, of New York. Possession was
given at once. Price not made known.
Mr. Stuchlik will remove to Milton
and continue the egg and poultry bus
mess on a larger scale, giving his en-
tire time to that business.
The personal property of the late
Robert Roach will be sold at public
sale at the home of his father, Harry
B. Roach, in Prime Hook Neck, on
Saturday, October 1S.
Captain George E. Mcgee has moved
into his new home on Behringer ave-
nue..
Another large barge is being loaded
at the Walnut street wharf by George
E. Mcgee with brush for the con-
struction of jetty on the Delaware
Chesapeake Canal.
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