Milford chronicle., 1923-08-10
Many Live Personal Happenings
Reported From Milton During Week

Two Milton lads have Just passed
through an experience that they dc
not care to repeat. In June Lester
Jefferson and Earl Walls, both about
sixteen years old, left Milton to seek
their fortunes. Their first stop was al
Marcus Hook, Pa, where they shipped
on an oil tanker for San Bernadino
Calf. Arriving there the tanker was
ordered to San Francisco. They left
the ship to see the town and when
they returned the ship had sailed.
They were about three thousand miles
from Milton and had less than twen-
ty-fve dollars in their pockets. In
stead of waiting for another ship to
bring them back to the Hook they de-
cided to start for Milton overland.
They walked, road the brake beams of
freight trains, caught lifts from au-
toists all the way across the continent,
landing in Milton just twenty-six days
after leaving San Bernadino, dirty,
tired, but happy to reach home. Their
parents were worried about the boys,
having heard nothing from them since
receiving a suit case of clothing from
them expressed at the California town,
enclosing a note that simply said 1--WE
will be home soon." The parents tried
to locate them through the owners of
the ship but as the lads had not sign
ed the papers until at sea they had no
record of them. When the boys arriv-
ed home it was noon time and the
families were at dinner. The boys fell
to the butter beans and corn and ate
as if starved. Both boys are now sat
CT hoTso
indefinitely.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Crouch, Jr., Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Richter, Mr.. and |
Mrs. George Hobbs, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifford Freehan, Of Philadelphia,
spent the weekend at Broadkiln
Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Berger, of Fair
view, N. j., Mrs. Sallie Sheer and Mrs.
Sadie Harden, of Chester, Pa, are
spending their summer vacation at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel M.
Reynolds, near town.
3 William c. Crouch, member of the
Philadelphia police force, is visiting
his father, Walter W. Crouch.
Miss Catherine Lewis, of Philadel-
phia, is the guest of the Misses Viola
and Emily Maull.
Mrs. Charles Roach has returned [
from the Beebe Hospital, Lewes,
where she has been for treatment. She
is much improved. N
Charles Reed, of Slaughter Neck, is \
in the Beebe Hospital, Lewes, for ;
treatment of a severe swollen throat. :
It was enormously reported on Friday
that Mr.. Reed had died. How the re-
port started no one seems to know,
but it spread rapidly through this
section where Mr. Reed is one of the
largest land owners.
When Mrs. S. M. Reynolds went to
one of her poultry houses recently to =
turn out her flock she was surprised '
to see brown leghorn hen fly out of
the door. Mrs. Reynolds, who is one
Of the largest chicken raisers in this !
part of the county, has nothing on the
farm except Rhode Island Reds, and l
how the leghorn hen got in her poul- /
try house is mystery, unless thief
had visited neighbor before going to T
her coop and in putting some of her !
fryers in crate the brown leghorn !
escaped. Thieves are raiding chicken /
coops around here almost nightly. r
Last week two young men were held T
III Jail AOI OOuLI AOI 1ODD4HS LAS ASH
roost of William Dutton, and many ,
thought that the thefts would stop, :
but several poultry men have since :
lost chickens. Bear traps and trap .
guns are being set for the thieves and 4
it is very likely that the thieves will :
be apprehended. 1t is claimed that the
thieves sell their loot to the boats
that ply between this town and Wild I
wood, N. J., and a close watch will be S
kept on them. No one blames the own I
ers of the boats for buying the chick T
ems, as they are not acquainted with T
all the poultrymen in the district, but T
some one will be at the wharves when
the boats are buying. A