Milford chronicle., 1924-01-11
Milton Letter

The funeral of David Postles wa,
held at the Milton M. P. Church OF
Friday afternoon. ReVs. Townsend anC
Grouse officiating. Interment was
made in Odd Fellows cemetery. Mr.
Postles died at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles Reynolds, in Broad
kill Neck, where he, with several rel
atlVes, had partaken of a New Years
dinner. Shortly after eating he was
stricken with paralysis and died in a
few minutes. He was 73 years old, and
leaves a widow and nine children:
Mrs. Greensbury Birmingham, Mrs.
Charles Reynolds, Mrs. Hulda Hast
ings, George Postles, near Milton;
Mrs. Fred Reed, Mrs. John Leverage,
Linden POstles, of Milton; Thomas
Postles and Harry POstles, of Phila-
delphia. Mr.. POstles was born and
reared near Frederick and came to
this section about twenty-five years
ago, purchasing a farm near In
grams Mills. He was a progressive
farmer and prominent worker in the
church.
Mrs. Lydia Matthes and children, of
Millville, N. j., are the guests of her
mother, Mrs. Ida J. Fox.
A Ford runabOut owned by the R.
L. BOnham Co., road constructors, col
lided with a touring car driven by DR..
R. H. T. Wilson at the corner of Front
and Federal streets early Tuesday
morning, damaging both cars. The
driver of the runabout says he was
blinded by the glar of the sun on his
windshield so that he could not see
the Wilson car and before he could
halt his car, crashed into it. The run
about was the worst damaged.
Myers Reynolds, operator of a wood |
saving outfit, narrowly escaped seri- |
GUS injury on Monday. He was pour |
ing gasoline into the tank when some |
of the oil dropped on the red hot ex-
haust pipe, causing an explosion. Rey-
nOlds was scOrched about the arms
and lost his eyebrows, but was other
wise uninjured.
Milton Chautauqua will be held in
the Fox Theatre February 21st, 22nd
and 23rd. An interesting program is
promised the patrons. Tickets will be
put on sale by the guarantors in a
short time.
William M. Wilkins, near town, last ,
week killed six hogs that weighed |
440, 443, 422, 435, 1888 and 800 pounds h
"a total of 2478 pounds.
Miss Emma King, Mrs. Julian Gibbs, '
Rev. Charles A. Behringer and son, {
Charles, visited Milton relatives last d
week.
There will be a box social and ice r
cream and cake festival at Donovan's I
school house on January 18th. Every
body invited. Miss Mabel Conoway, the S
teacher, promises all who attend a
good time. V
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Davidson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Burns, of Phila- C.
delphia, spent a part of last week A
with Milton relatives. N
Mrs John P. Holland has returned c
to Milton after spending some time W
with relatives and friends at ASA W
league, Va.
Union revival services are being h.
held by the Methodist Churches of d;
Milton. Rather than holding separate
meetings in the two churches the
pastors and congregations agreed to
unite and hold the meetings alternat-
ing between the two churches. This
week the services were held in the
Methodist Protestant Church and next fu
week they will be held in the MethO- ne
list Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Nora V. Ennis will sell at pub I'll
ic sale at the Ennis home, IL miles wi
vest of Harbeson, on the Georgetown
Iewes concrete road, her live stock da
Ind farm machinery on Thursday, CIR
January oath. This will be one of the Nc
argest public sales held in the coun-
y this winter. fro
Hildreth Fithian, State Motorcycle ha
policeman, who was seriously injured tiv
everal weeks ago when he threw his
machine rather than crash into a ph
cam on the streets of Milton, is now WI
BILE to be out and will report for duty !
ext week. pie
Lake Fanganzyki is frozen over, the I
,e being about two inches thick. for
hould the cold weather continue two of
r three days longer skating will be que
njoyed by the youngsters, and ice Fri
ouse owners will begin to fill their Der
0uses. \
This record is what Mrs. S. M. Rey- ade
Olds has done with her 300 S. c. r. tio1
Red hens during the year of 1923: has
The first column of the table is the ey,
onth in which she gathered the N
ygs; the second column is the num- ten
sr of eggs she gathered; and the unc
ird column is the amount of money Wei
le received for the eggs in the given N