Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
Milton Letter


surance Company, held at the Hote
DUPONT, Wilmington, this week.
So mild was the weather on Thurs
day that the Milton base ball team
held a stiff practice game on their
grounds in the afternoon.
Edward Sharp, Philadelphia, is the
guest of Milton relatives this week.
A sewer has been laid across Mag
nOlia street to take off the surface
water that comes down Union street
hill during a rain storm.
After being held up for several days
because ice in the river prevented the
longing of oysters, the Milton oyster
house has resumed operations.
! The Milton Canning Company is now
contracting for peas with the growers
for the coming packing season. This
company will shortly contract for the
growing of lima beans. These crops
have been money makers for Broad
kill farmers and the canning company
will experience no difficulty in secur-
ing the required acreage of both
crops. The contract price for peas is
8 cents per pound for good green peas
and for lima beans, cents for the
green beans, allowing twenty per
cent for white beans, and when the
shelled beans show more than 20 per
cent white beans then the grower re-
ceives but 1 and 1-2 cents per pound.
A quiet wedding was solemnized at
the home of Captain and Mrs. James
c. COnwell, early last Monday morn
ing when their daughter, Ethel, was
to Arnsy K, White, Of New |
ark, N. J. The marriage ceremony was
performed at a. m. by Rev. J. c. Nc |
Coy, pastor of Milton M. p. Church, |
The wedding party left after a we'd
ding breakfast for their new home in
Newark, where the groom is general
of the Newark branch of
he Goodyear Rubber Company. The
bride is one of the most popular young
in the eastern section of
southern Delaware and has a host of (
friends throughout the State and on
he Eastern Shore of Maryland. The {
room is the son of the late Freder-
ok and Ida White, and was born in t
lilton and resided here until young s
manhood, when he removed to New t
ersey.
Muskrat trappers along the Broad
i'll and Prime Hook marshes are be-
lg hampered greatly in their work
= the cold weather. Ice forms on the
Onds and lagoOns where the rats feed
nd freezing the traps so that when
lie rats get in them they will not
row. The price offered for the raw
II is such that trappers are anxious
catch as many as possible before
e price falls later in the winter,
ne scarcity Of rat meat in the local
arket has jumped the price from ten
nts pair to thirty cents.
The canning factories in and around
lton have been this week contract
with growers for peas for the
ming season. From present indica-
ms it is expected that the acreage :
this crop will be somewhat larger
1924 than last year. Contracts will :
IN be made for the growing of lima :
ms. This crop was a money maker
growers last year and an increas-
acreage is also expected in this ~
p.
liss Lena Reed Lofand, daughter =
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lofand, of
'adkiln Neck, and Charles Paul
cent, son of Charles Vincent, near
yes, were married at the Milton M.
parsonage by Rev. J. w. Town
d, on January 10. They will reside 9;
the Mrs. Emma Burton farm. in 10
adkill Neck. ~
ne funeral of David A. Wiltbank.
was stricken with paralysis on 2.
inesday of last week and died ear
saturday morning, was held at his D:
home on Tuesday afternoon. Rev. 7:
I. Mccoy officiating, and interment ?.
e in Zion cemetery, by w. T. At ~
, of Lewes, funeral director. Mr.
bank leaves a widow and six chill
!: Or. John c. Wiltbank, of Milton;
Alice Wiltbank, near town; Mrs. -
e Thompson, Harbeson; DR.. JOS
Wiltbank, Camden, N. j.; Horace
bank, Baltimore, and David Wilt
> Jr., PocomOke City, Md.
aude and Arncy White, Of New
ey, spent the weekend with 10.C
DIS in Milton. ~
car S. Belts is seriously ill at his III
on North Union street. Mr.. Belts 20
is employed at the Sol. Edman
Son garment factory, was taken -
a severe pain in the head while AM
lie factory and started home but
compelled to stop in front of the
Of John A. Hickman, where he
seen by Mrs. Hickman, who as
him to his residence. He is I'M
he care Of his physician and his
ton is but slightly improved at |
ime.
and Mrs. Linford G. Wiley, of
ington, spent the weekend with
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