Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20
Milton Letter

e milton, thursday evening, June 26. Ii
. stormy next clear night. Everybody
! is cordially invited.
. Captain George e. Mcgee has con-
tracted with the government for. sew
2 eral hundred cords of pine brush. The
brush is to be used in the construc-
! tion Of jetty just above Reedy Is
. land, in the Delaware River A barge
was toWed here on Thursday by the
tug boat Miller" of the Engineering
Department and is now being loaded.
1t will require four barge loads to fill
,he order.
The firemen of Milton will hold a
carnival and patriotic celebration on
July Fourth. In the morning patrio-
tic services will be held in the Fox
Theatre after a parade of the local
lodges, school children and decorated
floats, headed by a brass band. In the
afternoon a game of ball will be play
ed between the Milton A. C.'s and a
team to be announced later. In the
evening the annual display of fire
works will be given. Various boothsI
will be placed in the center of the
business district, together with var
iOus forms of amusement and enter
tainment. The proceeds of the affair
will go to the firemen for equipment.
William Parker of. New York is Wis
iting his sister, Mrs. Alexine Collins.
Miss Emily Maull is spending some
time in Wilmington, Philadelphia and
Mullica Hill, N J.
Rev. and Mrs. Givens and son, Ken
meth, of Northeast, Md, We're Milton
visitors on Friday. Rev. Givens was
formerly pastor of Milton M. E.
Church.
In many strawberry patches about
Milton the plants are dying from some
cause unknown to the growers. The
plants, with their ripening fruit,
wither and when pulled up it is found },
that the roots have died. This condi-
ton occurs in spots that spread over
several square feet and seems to stop
and appear at some other part of the 1
patch. What the disease is, is a mys- {
terry to growers. c
Augustus Redheffer, of Harbeson, g
and Miss Emma Johnson, daughter of
the late Thomas Johnson of Cool
spring. were married at the Beaver
Dam M. P. parsonage on Saturday ev-
ening by the Rev. c. NJ. Cullum. Mr.
3edheffer is the driver of a rural
nail route out of HarbesOn. They will
'eside in that town.
Robert B. Walls and wife and Mr..
md Mrs. Clifford Johnson spent Sun
lay in Wilmington as the guests of
robert B. Walls, Jr., who is attend
ng business college in that city.
Children's Day services were held
t the Milton NJ. P. Church on Sunday
Vening. The church was tastefully
with plants and flowers and
be program was a very interesting
ne. One Of the largest congregations u
-itnessed the exercises and a liberal
was made to foreign mis- H
Ons. L
Lincoln defeated Milton at Lincoln s
4 Saturday by the score of 10 to 0. H
h, Boy! but it was an awful scald-
g the Milton boys received, but &
lere is no excuse for it other than it III
as the poorest played game the Mil y
n lads ever put up-and Britt was 4
form. Nuf sed. Il
The crossing at the intersection of z
road and Union streets is a dis 1
ace to the town and a menace to II
ito drivers. The water rushing down z
e latter street to the river comes f
tn such force that it is impossible II
keep the gully beside the concrete g
ad>flled with dirt. This intersection ll
ould be filed in with concrete and NJ
ne at once. ~
Habbart Mccoy, son of Rev. and ~
S. J. c. Mccoy, Of Milton, has left liz
an automobile trip to Yellowstone "
rk, in company with some Whining n
friends and expects to be gone IN
zee months. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. William Green, Phila- M
phia, spent the weekend with Mr.. IR6
d Mrs. Fred Johnson, on Union q
eet. M
0he Milton Canning Company and lN
Draper Company are busily en- 8
sed in canning peas. The crop is LN
Of the largest ever grown in "
)adkill hundred and the crop will 81.
a paying one this year. lN
lr. and Mrs. Joseph Bennett, Mr.. ~
Mrs. Charles Macklin, of Freder- W
were guests on Sunday of Mr.. and lM
). Thomas Spencer. M
[r. and Mrs. Raymond Spencer and M
ghter, spent Monday with Mr.. and Tx
. Clarence Spencer, near Lewes. ~
scar S. Belts is trucking berries, m
aragus, eggs and poultry to Will b0
gtOn, making three trips a week, ~
Irning with southern grown cab m
e and tropical fruits for the local lW
ket. ~
'ork on the new concrete bridge
: Lake Fanganzyki is progressing W
dly and is expected to be COM 81
ed by the first of July. lMI
ass fishermen are having excep- W
al success in the various ponds %N
lakes about Milton. lMI
rs. George Goodwin, who under "
an operation at the Beebe Hospi- ~
Lewes, recently, has returned M
e, much improved. "
SIS Fannie Winans, of New York, m
has been visiting Mrs. Garfield at I6il
Workman farm, has returned @
2. mn
son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. R0I
ph Fisher on Sunday night The ~
weighed nine pounds and Joe is l0l
ing a broad grin. WJ
=. and Mrs. Oliver West are visit %%
elatives near Georgetown for the lI
two weeks. I
IN R. Marvel attended a con- W
ce Of the Eastern Shore field Sx%
of the Continental Life Insur- lMl
Company, held at Easton, Md, "
-onday of this week. M