Milford chronicle., 1924-07-04
Milton Letter

Pu1 ~ IL SOOu state of repair fol
rentlng purposes. He later proposes
10 make double dwelling of the
property, thus giving to Milton twC
more renting houses. There is ?
serious shortage of renting bOuses
in Milton and Mr.. NAPLES has done
more than any other man to relieve
this situation. He has bought anC
made habitable some six or sever
houses within the past two years
Fred w. Pepper, the contractor
has completed the pouring of con.
crete for the new bridge over Lake
Fanganzyh and the county has .
force Of men at work laying a con.
crete floor for the structure. This
bridge when completed will be a sol.
i'd structure and of beautiful archi.
tectural lines. 1t is expected that the
bridge will be open to traffic within
the next ten days.
The Ladies Aid Society of Rev
nolds M. P. Church will meet with
Rev. and Mrs. Cullum at the parson-
age at HarbesOn on Thursday even
ing, July 10th. Everyone has a cor
dial invitation to be present. We ap-
preciate the young folks attendance
very much.
A lawn festival will be held at
Reynolds NJ. P. Church on Tuesday
evening, July Sth. If that evening be
stormy the festival will be held on
Wednesday evening, July 9th, for the
benefit of the Sunday school. All
kinds of refreshments will be for
sale. Come one, come all and have
a good time-but bring a pocket full
of money.
Lewes defeated Milton at Lewes on
Saturday by the score of 8 to 6. The
game was an interesting one and
drew a large crowd.
Blackberries are ripening and the
crop here will be a large one.
Wheat harvest in Broadkill hun
dred is now on and will be general
bv the last of the week. The yield
will not be up to normal in this dis
trict owing to the excessive rains of
the early spring, which drowned out
MANY acres in the lowland sections.
In many fields there are only two
grains to the plat where, in normal
years there are three grains. 1t is
estimated that the crop here will be
a little more than two-thirds of nor
NAL.
So numerous were the peaches on
the trees in the Chandler orchards
that men were set to work last week
picking much of the green fruit from
the trees. This was deemed neces-
sarv by Mr.. Chandler to prevent the
breaking off of many limbs, and al
60 to allow the fruit to reach mark
etable size. The picking of apples on
this farm will begin this week. The
apple crop will be a large one and
will furnish work for many laborers
to pick and pack the apples for the
city markets.
Milton canneries closed the pea
hacking season on Saturday after
noon. It has been one of the largest
seasons in recent years. /
The Draper factory has exceeded
its pack by several thousand cases.
while at the Milton Canning Com
panv's plant, the pack was $4,000
cases-double the pack of 1928. All
growers have made money this year
from the pea crop, there occurred
nothing to cut short the crop. Hiram
J-.Outten, known in the BroadKllI
District. as the "Pea King, from
thirty acres planted, received IN eX-
cess of three thousand dollars for
the crop delivered at the Draper
factory. o..4
The MARYLAND, Delaware & Coast
Railway Company began its passens-
or schedule on Saturday. The west
hound train leaves Milton at 7:2l a.
m. and 4.51 p. m. and east bound
trains arrive in Milton at ll;56 a. m
and 9:O6 D. m. On Sundays the east
bound train leaves Milton at l2:26t
noon. and west bound at SOL. The
freight service will not begin for
several weeks. The Milton Shippers
met at the Milton Canning Com
panvs Office on Friday to formulate
plans to COMPEL this road to handle
the Milton business at the same rate
as the Pennsylvania Railroad has
done in the past. Mr.. Gardner, rep
resenting the Tri-State Gamers AS 4
sociation. was present. The present
rate is the same as Greenwood or
Glendale on the Pennsylvania sys-
EN-. The new owners want to charge !
Milton shippers twenty-five dollars
extra on carload shipments for haul
ng from either Greenwood or Ellen
lale to Milton. This the local ship
,ers object to and an appeal has
)een taken with the Interstate Z
Commission for adjust ]
nent. It is said that the new owners
ian every day service If t
conditions warrants" 1t is z
.oped that the matter may be set n
led at once that local shippers may t
lot be compelled to suspend ship n
lents. t
George R. Palmer has accepted a a
osition with the M. D. & Coast +
lailway Company as station agent
t Milton. J. Ray Turner, who has Fl
cen agent here under the Pennsyl-
ania Railroad Company, has been h
-ansferred to Ironshire, Md. Mr.. u
urper will take up his new position IT
/ a few days.
William COnwell, Jr, of Norfolk, ;.
a., is spending the summer with a
is grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. - .
{. Conwell, in Milton. {,
Captain H. P. Burton, one of Mil I
ms Oldest residents, has been Ill
t his home-on Federal street. lie Is u I
omewhat improved at this time. !,
Charles Clendaniel has removed u
,om Milton to the Kohlerberg tarm'
ear Lincoln City. a,,-,7, i
Several cottages at BroauKlll "
each have been opened for the sea- o
on by the owners. This bayslde re
ort is becoming more popular eac1 +
ear and q big season is eXpecteu b