Milford chronicle., 1923-01-26


evening, February 1st. with Mrs
Snarles M. Donovan, near Jefferson
GIoss hoads. Everybody has cordia
invitation to be present.
Joseph Forst, poultry and egg deal.
en- mas had installed a radio receiv-
ing set, installed at his home, and ht
is getting the Philadelphia and New
1OrK market quotations each day.
Inc new rural mail route, from the
Milton postoffice, to be known as
Route 2 covering that territory south
ana west of town, is to be put in op-
eratlon on February 1st. The examina-
ton for driver of the route is adver-
USED to be held at Lewes on Febru-
ary 10th. A substitute driver will be
named to serve the route until a per-
manent driver is appointed.
3. P. Nicholson has Joined the ra-
dlo fans and has installed a receiving
set at the Hotel Jester.
The cold weather of the past few
days has covered the-muskrat marshes
with ice and stopped the trapping
until warmer weather thaws out the
traps. This is true of the flooded mar
shes while the ebb and flow marshes
are yet trapable and Milton residents
are still able to get these rats for table
use despite the freezing weather.
Golden Rule Lodge, No. II, I. o. o.
F., elected on Tuesday night the fol-
lowing trustees: Cemetery, H. Ernest
ConWell, president; Daniel Wagamon,
Jr., secretary; Hiram ]. Outten, SUI
perintendent; George R. Davidson,
William Wagamon, ADDISON Chandler,
and Clinton LOiand. Building trustees,
William B. Wagamon, Clinton Lohand
and Harry K. Martin.
The condition OF Robert Lingo who
was taken i'll in Philadelphia last
week, is such that he is expected
home next week.
Louis Lane and William M. Crouch
were Milford visitors on Friday.
Charles G. Jones and Henry Glen
daniel have each bought player pianos
this week.
Mrs. John T. Crouch who has been
confined to her home for several days
is convalescing.
So many farmers are cutting and
hauling wood to Milton that the price
Of this fuel has fallen considerable. A
two-horse load of oak wood can now
be bought for $500; the former price
being from four to five dollars load.
The Milton High School girls bask-
etball team defeated the Harrington
girls at Harrington on Friday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. David T. Atkins cele-
brated the fifty-fifth anniversary of
their wedding on Wednesday, January
18th.
The Milton Canning Company re-
ceived a car load of seed peas this |
week. This concern has contracted |
with growers for about four hundred /
acres of peas for this seasons pack.
A small daughter of Charles Stuck
lik, near town, fell off a doorstep on
Monday and broke her leg. The next
day son of Alfred Walls, of Prime
Hook Neck, sustained a broken leg
while wrestling with a school mate
at Prime Hook school. DR.. R. B. Hop
kins, of Milton, rendered medical aid
to both patients.
James c. Palmer shipped a carload
Of cord wood from the Milton station
0n Thursday to city markets.
E. P. Nicholson was a Wilmington ]
visitor few days this week.
The coldest snap Of the winter
struck this section Wednesday night
and on Thursday night many water
pipes froze and bursted. The mercury
registered at a. m, 15 degrees above {
.ero; unusually cold for this section.
AXE FanganzyIi is frozen from shore i
o shore and continued cold weather I
few more hours will make skating
possible on this lake and ice houses 6
will be filled. t
The subject for discussion at. the 7
liltOn New Century Club on Wednes-
ay, January 24th, was "The Power of b
he Press" Mrs. Margaret NAPLES had v
harge of the meeting.
H. c. Davidson has installed a radio 1
utft at his home on Mill street.
Clinton LofanG of Pike Neck, on C
thursday night caught a raccoon near I
is home that weighed 16 pounds. This il
! the largest raccoon captured in this t
ection in years. Mr.. Lofand, who
eeps a pack of hounds for night F
uniting, went out with the pack and
Don treed the varmint and succeeded il
/ capturing it, but in the fight with b
le hounds it was killed. He has been
ffered six dollars for the meat and a
If but is holding the fur for higher B
rice. U
On Monday night about twenty-five al
embers of Enterprise Council, Jr. o.
A. NJ, will visit Newark Council. A e.
rye class of candidates will be initi- M
ed into the mysteries of the organi- F.
.tion.
Miss Bird, who has been absent from
ilton schools attending the funeral to
her mother, has assumed her duties cl
teacher in the high school. to