Milford chronicle., 1923-03-23
LIVE PERSONAL HAPPENINGS
FROM MIL TON FOR A WEEK

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles King, Mr.. and
Mrs. James King and Miss Emma King
of Philadelphia, spent the weekend
with Milton relatives.
Fifty more button cutting machines
will be installed in the LippincOtt
factory within the next few days, maxi
ing about a hundred machines. This
concern is having no trouble in Sc
curing all the men required, about go
being now employed and waiting list
of about so.
John D. Smith has been buying
white potatoes at the Milton station
this week, shipping out several car
loads. He paid 40 and 45 cents per
bushel. Next week he will buy at Re-
. hoboth.
The date for the initiation of large
class of candidates at Milford by Eden
Lodge of Odd Fellows, Wilmington,
has been changed from March 16 to
April 9th. All of the lodges in Sussex
county have been asked to have a class
of candidates present on that date and
Golden Rule Lodge No. II, of Milton,
will have about twenty to be initiated
on that occasion. On Tuesday evening,
March 20, the local lodge conferred
the 1st, End and 3rd degrees to sever
al candidates.
Mrs. Martha Mustard, one of Mil
toms oldest residents, is quite i'll at
her home on Chestnut street. Her con-
dition is critical.
Rev. H. E. Reed who has been i'll
for several weeks with pneumonia is
improving rapidly.
Work on the two garment factories
/ is being pushed as rapidly as the wea-
ther will permit, and it is expected
that both will be ready for work about
the last of April. This will mean the
employment of about sixty or eighty
women of the town, when both factor
les are in operation
Charles Jackson, James A. Glen
daniel, Josiah Robins, of Milton, have
been drawn as petit jurors for the
April term of Superior Court of Sus-
sex county, which will convene the
second day of April. Additional petit
Jurors from this district to serve at
the Oyer and Terminer Court to try
the murder cases, are Fred G. Wolfe,
Joseph D. Short, of Lewes; Elmer
Hastings, Milton.
Capt. Joseph Warrington has re-
turned to Philadelphia after spend
ing the winter here.
"Uncle Bill'' Phillips has returned
from a visit to Philadelphia.
Samuel Luther Black, aged 63 years,
died at his home on North Union
street, early Monday morning. Mr..
Black had been ill but a few days,
having taken suddenly i'll at his home
about ten days before his death. He
leaves a wife and two sons, Robert, a
member of the mercantile firm of
Black and Lingo, Milton, and Morris
Black, deputy internal revenue collec-
tor, for the District Of Delaware. Flu
neral services were held at the resi-
dence on Thursday afternoon, and in
terment made in Milton M. e. ceme-
terry, by S. J Wilson and Son. Mr..
Black had for several years represent
ed a well known shoe house on the
Delmarvia Peninsula and was well
known to the merchants of that Sec
tion.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Clendaniel
and Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Clendaniel, of
Lincoln, spent Sunday with their sis
ter, Mrs. Robert B. Walls.
Mrs. Hamilton c. Davidson and
daughter, Virginia, have returned
from a visit to Wilmington.
Rev. J. H. Straughn, D. D., president
of the Maryland Annual Conference,
will make his official visit to the Mil
ton Methodist Protestant Church on
Sunday, March 25th. He is expected
to preach at the morning service.
The small son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Davidson, who has been danger
ousIy ill for several weeks, is much
improved and his recovery is now
looked for.
So much rain has fallen during
March that the several millers on the
various ponds and lakes about Milton
are compelled to release much OF the
water accumulated in the ponds, to
prevent the breaking Of dams.
Luther Wilson is having his resi-
dence repaired and remodeled.
Spring is here and this is the time to
paint and paper. Get Devoes Paint and
your wall paper at Chas. w. E1sher S
Son, Milton. mz5-St
IF you are sick, take Chiropractic Ad-
iustments and get well. ANNA K. GRE
coRIUs, ChirObractOr. Offices: Milford
and Dover. sS-H