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Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30
MANY GIFTS RECEIVED
FOR HOSPITAL BAZAAR
Those at Head Of Affair Say il VIII
BE Largest Ever Held Here

A meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary
was held at the home Of Mrs. Rob
ert Griffith ON Tuesday night of
last week, and it was learned that
over thirty beautiful gifts have been
received from friends of the Milford
Emergency Hospital living outside
the State of Delaware. This shows
a wonderful spirit, and demonstrates
the fact that when all gifts are re-
ceived that the hospital bazaar will
be the largest of it's kind ever held
in lower Delaware.
The menus for the suppers have
been announced. The first night
will be in charge of Mrs. J. Stanley
Short and roast turkey supper will
be served. On the second night,
Mrs. Edward J. Salevan will serve
an Old-fashiOned chicken pie supper
The third night will be in charge of
Mrs. George H. Hall, and the menu
will consist of chicken salad and
fried oysters. These are three of
Delaware's most famous dishes, so
make your arrangements now to
dine at the Community Building, the
first week in December.
OlllSlS CHI AuuSICdl features are De-
ing arranged for each evening which
will be most entertaining.
If you have not already made up |
your mind just what you are going |
to contribute to the bazaar, it would |
be appreciated if you would decide
as soon as possible and then notify
Miss Lena Short, Milford, Del, so
that your contribution can be prop
erly listed.
Remember the dates and tell your
friends-December 2, 3 and 4.
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30
ASKS COURTS
AID TO RECOVER CHILD
Dover Residents Suspect a Plot to
Kidnap Child.

What savOred of the kidnapping
of a child by its mother from rela-
tives of its father was revealed at
Dover Monday when, after attempts
to take the child from the home of
relatives, and failing to secure
same, a writ of habeas corpus was
secured from Judge Rodney, sitting
in the Court of General Sessions for
the producing in court of Jay Chris
tOpher. the twO-year-Old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph L. Christopher,
former residents of Dover. At pres
ent the husband and wife are living
apart and Mrs. Christopher claims
in her petition to the court that she
does not know the whereabouts of
her husband.
The child in question is now in the
custody of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r.
Massey of Dover, Mrs. Massey be-
ing sister of Joseph L. Christie
pher.
The ChristOphers were married in
1922 and lived for a while in Dover
and later moved away, the child be-
ing left with the grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs w. f. Christopher, and
later was taken by the uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs Walter T. Mas
sey, without apparent objection on
the part of the father and mother
Of the child.
Mrs. Madlyn Wright Christopher,
The mother has been visiting the
Nasseys for several days, there be- |
ng no suspicion on the part of the |
Nlasseys Of anything out of the or
iinary until Sunday afternoon, when |
he Masseys, with Mrs. Christopher, |
he mother and the child went for
drive in the Massey automobile.
IN returning to the Massey home,
he Masseys noticed car bearing
New Jersey license. lingering
lose to their car and by some sign
II other, it did not stop. and it is
ow believed it was the intention to
nake an effort to secure the child
nd rush it into the New Jersey car
nd drive off.
A later attempt was made to Sc
ure the child from the Massey
ONE by Mrs. Christopher and one
two men in the New Jersey car,
ut they were frustrated when Mas
ey ordered the man from the house
Other efforts to secure the child
ON the Massey home having fail
/, the writ of habeas corpus was
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30
ALL REVELERS AWAIT
HALLOWEEN; GHOSTS
& COLLINS HOLD SWAY
SuperstitiOns Date Back Centu-
ries To Ancient Rites OF Druid
Priests.
NO CELEBRATION HERE
As Yet No Organized Effort Has
Been Made In Milford To En-
tertain Mummers.

With the falling of the leaves and
the gathering of the harvest comes
Halloween and, as if to emulate the
gay cOlOrings of the countryside,
store windows in Milford's shopping
districts are taking on the spirit of
All HallOW's Eve which this year
falls on Saturday There are toy
black cats galore, black bOnneted
witches and pumpkin faces set in an
orange and black background.
If the turkey is the victim for the
Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts,
then Halloween demands its tribute
of nuts and apples to aid the youths
in divining who will be their future
wives. The girls, of course, also
have their inning and even the un-
believer will, in a spirit of fun, try
Ito get just a little peep behind the
curtain that separates the present
from the future, for Halloween is
just that sort of time.
On that night the supernatural is
supposed to be in the ascendant. 1t
is a night of ghosts and witches to
reVel. Old chrOniclers averred that
on Halloween "the immaterial could |
be separated from the material"
Back through the centuries, before |
the growth of Christianity, the |
Druids around November 1 held a |
thanksgiving feast for the sun god |
when the harvest had been gathered.
On the eve of this festival Saman,
the lord of death, was supposed to
reign and the spirit world was call
ed before him. In parts of Ireland
and the highlands of Scotland, Octo-
Der 81 still is known as "Oidche
Stamina" or the vigil of Saman.
In time some of the Roman OBJ
iervances accompanying the har-
rest festival for Pomona were add
I'd to the Druidic, but the mysticism
If the Celtic celebration had a rather
enduring quality. Bonfires had a
arge place in the festival. On the
Hills of Ireland, Scotland and Wales
hey tlared and in each region there $
we're usually two such blazes. be- l
Ween which would be driven the 1
lerds in order that disease and dis c
ster might be driven on for an
ther year: Later those building
he bOnfres were won't to drop a
edible for each one at the pyre.
When the last flicker had died DOWN
he stones were eagerly scanned, for
roe betide the nan whose pebble
Continued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30

SOCIETY PRIZE LIST
Exhibition At EastOn, Maryland,
November II To 10 Will Have
Fine Exhibits.

The executive committee of the
Peninsula Horticultural Society, has
just completed the premium list for
the annual exhibition to be held at
Easton, Md, on November II, Is
and 10:
Cash priZes-For the best display
OF all fruit, $3.50; second, 500;
third, $500.
The prizes are to be awarded on
the following basis: First, the total
amount, quality and variety of the
fruit exhibited for the barrel. box,
and plate premiums, and table of
other display, which exhibits shall
be scored as follows, 20; quality of
fruit, 40; attractiveness and educa-
tiOnal value, 40.
Apples-FOr the best single box of
apples: First, SIS; second, $40;
third, $500
For the best three boxes of apples
S15; second, $40; third, $500. For
best five boxes of apples: First, S24;
second SIS; third $40. For the best
single box of each of the following
varieties: First, $500; second, $500
third, $500. Rome, York Imperial,
Stayman, Delicious, Jona-
than, Grimes, Mcintosh, Paragon.
For best single bushel Ground bas-
1et or bottOmless hamper) first, SIS;
second, $40; third, SIS.
For best bushel of each of the fol-
owing varieties, first $5; second,
53; third, So, namely: Delicious,
Grimes, Jonathon, Mcintosh. Rome,
5taymon, Winesap, York Imperial, /
Paragon.
For the best three barrel col
ection, one or more varieties, first, |
80; second, SIS; third, $5.
Continued on page fve)
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30
1t. GOVERNOR ANDERSON
URGES SEGREGATION OF
INFERIOR MINDED CLASS
Nobody Knows What
A 'TatOr Hill Holds

"The News" of Onancock,
Virginia, in it's last issue tells
how they grow potatoes in that
section. The item follows:
GAS they lived they grow.
Mr.. A. J. Lilliston, of W., filled
a barrel of sweet potatoes,
yellow, from eight hills this
week on the 'Hargis Farm be-
tween Tasley and Accomac.
There were six primes left
over after the barrel was fill
ed.
"The smallest hill turned
out eighteen tubers and the
largest hill was twenty-six
prime potatoes. One potato
weighed 81 pounds and if this
potato story is too rich for
your system you may see the
photographs taken by the
County Agent, w. o. Strong.
"The sprouts had been set in
extra rich spots, where the
cleanings from the potato bed
had been heaped."
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30
THOUSANDS OF DUCKS
ON SUSOUEHANNA FLATS
Hunters Anticipate One of Greatest
Seasons in History OF Sport

One of the greatest cunning sea-
sons in years is promised on the
Susquehanna flats. Yachts are at
anchor along the Susquehanna riv-
er, and hundreds of men are engaged
in applying paint to boats and de-
coys. The ducks are on the flats in
thousands, and all is set for the
opening day, next Monday, November
1st.
Clerk of the Court H. w. Lewis,
of Elkton, and his force of clerks
have been kept busy during the
past few days granting hundreds of
ducking licenses and the indications
are that more people will indulge
in the sport this year than ever be-
fore.
On the opening day the Federal
and State Game Wardens will be on
the fats, and they will rigidly en-
force the law The Federal and
State laws are practically identical,
they permit hunting on Mondays,
and Fridays, between |
sunrise and sunset.
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30
FIGHT TO PREVENT
INCREASE in RATES
Farm Bureau Opposed to Attempt
to Boost Cost of Shore Shipments

The Maryland Farm Bureau Fed
GRAFTON, through its secretary-treas-
urer, NJ. Melvin Stuart, in cooper
alton with the Salisbury -WicomicO
Chamber of Commerce, of which w.
T. Gardner is traffic manager, and
the county Farm Bureaus of the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, for the
second time within a few months
has entered a fight to prevent an
increase in freight rates to points
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
Delaware and Virginia. Some time
ago the transportation lines serving
that territory filed supplements to
its tariff of freight rates proposing
an increase in all it's class rates.
Recently these carriers have, thru
the Truck Line Association, asked
for an increase in the community
rates as affecting petroleum and |
petroleum products to points on the |
Eastern Shore. This latter increase |
has been passed by the association
and by the general freight agent of |
the Pennsylvania Railroad with ut
ter disregard for the protests that
were made. Both of these cases are
now before the Interstate Commerce
Commission and hearing on the
class rates case was held in Sails
bury, Md, on October 18th, when
of the various East
ern Shore County Farm Bureaus
we're present to testify. The sup
element docket has been suspended
~ the l. c. c, until January 20,
926. Attention is being called by
he State Farm Bureau Office to the
act that both these proposed in
reases in the cost, of producing
arm crops, in the cost of living, t
travel, etc. t
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30
SPECIAL TRAIN FOR
The DICKINSON GAME
Proposition Was Considered At
University Luncheon Thursday

The proposition of a special train
for the Delaware delegation to at
tend the Dickinson football game at
Carlisle, Pa, on Thanksgiving Day
was the special topic for discussion
at the weekly luncheon meeting Of
the Wilmington Chapter of the Uni
versity of Delaware Alumni Asso-
citation last night.
In the event that a special train
is obtained, arrangements would be
made for the train to leave Will
mingtOn about 8 o'clock in the
morning, proceed to Newark Cen
ter and then up the Pomeroy branch
to Harrisburg and on to Carlisle"
arriving there about 1 o'clock in the
The return trip would
be made shortly after the game, the
train arriving in Wilmington that
night about 10 o'clock.
1t is necessary to secury 300 pas
sengers to make the trip to obtain
the special train and an effort is
being made to find out how many
will make the trip.
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30
PRODUCTS SHOW TO
BE HELD AT DOVER
The Kent County Farm Bureau
Plans Event For November
18th And 18th.

The second annual farm and home
products show will be held in the
Capital Grange Hall in Dover ON
| Wednesday and Thursday, NOvem-
ber 18th and 18th, according to the
announcement recently made from
the Office of Kent County Agent
Russell e. Wilson.
This exhibit will be held under
the direction of the Kent County
Farm Bureau and the County Home
Bureau in cooperation with the
various Oranges and the Agricul-
tural Extension Department of the
University of Delaware. Through
the efforts of the different commit
tees appointed by President Ed.
Willin of the Kent County Farm
Bureau, arrangements and plans are
being completed with view toward
this farm and home pro-
ducts exhibit the largest and most
attractive affair of its kind ever
staged in the county. All farmers
and their families throughout the
county are therefore being urged to
help make this show a success by
the various products from
both the farm and the country
home.
Although this past season has
been more or less unfavOrably for |
.he production of some crops, there
S evidence of a good corn yield
his fall, and all farmers who are
planning to exhibit their choice
iced ears should take time to select /
hem as the corn is being harvested
Turing the next few weeks. In ad-
lition to this local exhibit there will
'e State Corn Show in Dover dur
ng the first part of January, and
ii corn growers in the state will
want to compete for premiums in
his annual show, so the farmers
t Kent county have two OppOrtu- 4.
ities to exhibit their products this !!
ear.
The farm and home products
how which was held in the Capital :
range Hall in Dover last Decem- !
er met with the approval of the {
lrmers generally throughout the e
1unty, and much of the success !
the exhibit can well be attributed ~
the excellent support given to it Z
the merchants and business men ~
Dover and Kent county who con- D
1buted so literally toward the pre- Il
lum list. When approached again Il
us year for contributions toward
le second annual farm and home r
'oducts show, the soliciting COM =
ittee reported a very cordial re- Ey
'onse from these merchants, and, =,
addition to the premiums secured ~
ON the Dover business firms, sew ~
al articles have been donated by u,
Continued on page fve) nj
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30
This Well Known Milford Concern
Had Been Sued For $5OO,OOO
Damages.
NEWS ITEM The CAUSE
Plaintiff Company Claimed News
paper Story Had Injured Their
Business.

After celebrating for thirty MN
utes, a jury in the United STATES
District Court in Wilmington, Tues
dav morning returned a verdict IN
favor of the l.. D. Caulk Co., of Mill
ford. defendants in a half million
dollar damage suit brought against
them by the Med-A-Dent Company
manufacturers of a dental prepara-
ton. The defendant company was
represented by James 1. Boyce ana
Robert H. Richards. c. &. heeuy
and Robert Pennington were counseI
for the plaintiff
The Jury was charged by Judge
Norris at the opening of Tuesdays
session of the court. the taking OF
testimony and the addresses to the
iurv having been finished Monday
afternoon.
After charging the jury and while
the body was deliberating, Judge
Morris informed Mr.. Keedy that tne
courts action in refusing a non-sult
would not prevent him from nllnS
reasons for a new trial. Mr.. Keedy
said he was willing to abide by the
decision of the jury.
The court said the non-suit point
raised at Mondays hearing was or
primary Importance and new one
in the local courts.
The Med-A-Dent Co., brought |
suit against the defendant company |
charging that they had caused 10 |
he printed in the Milford News,
house organ of the Caulk Company, |
in 1928, alleging the preparations
made by the Med-A-Dent Company
did not possess the curative prop
critics it was alleged to have.
The taking of testimony in the
case was finished Monday noon, at-
ter several days trial with the read
inc of dispositions taken in Louis
Vile, Ky.
In his address TO the jury c. e.
Keedy, counsel for the plalntll1s,
asked that the jury return a verdict
Of $4,000. that being the amount
spent by his clients in organizing
heir company which he contended
was forced out Of business by the
articles published by the defendants
n the Milford News, a house organ
If the defendant company.
James I. Boyce, counsel for the
defendant, in his address pointed
,ut to them the Importance of the {
,ase, and declared that it was a
natter OF the keenest interest to all
he dentists in the country. If a six
ent verdict is returned, he declared {
t will prove that Med-A-Dent can s
ure pyorrhea and that the Caulk t
company lied. {
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30

OUR PRINTING PLANT
IS THE LARGEST ON
THE PENINSULA. LET
Us QUOTE ON YOUR
NEXT PRINTING ORDER
Milford chronicle., 1925-10-30

THERE ARE 1900 Ru.
lRAL WEEKLY NEWS
PAPERS IN THE UNI.
TED ST A TIE S. THE
lCHRONIcLE ST ND S
FOURTH IN THIS LIST
I'm CIRCULATION.
Evening star., 1925-01-13
COURT UPHOLDS RIGHTS
OF RAILWAY LABOR BOARD
Confirms Authority to Compel Wit
ncsses to Appear and Testify
in Disputed Cases.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, January 13.-Federal Judge
Wilkerson yesterday for the sec
ond time upheld the right of the
Railroad Labor Board to compel wit
nesses to appear and testify before it
Counsel for the defendant, j. Ma Guire
local chairman of engineers on the
Chicago and Northwe estern Railway
representative of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, indicated an
appeal would be taken.
The board previously won a Simi-
lar decision in the case of ID. b
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men, who has appealed to the United
States Supreme Court. The brother
refused to send representative be-
fore the board in connection with
the negotiation of new wages and
the working conditions with Western
roads.
The brotherhoods took the position
that the boards orders had been held
unenforceable by the United States Su-
preme Court, and that it was mere
arbitral body without power to com
pei testimony. They also charged
that Ben. w. Hooper, chairman, was
prejudiced against them. As to that
Judge WilkerSon said:
The Labor Board does not act as
an arbitrator in the proper sense OF
the word, but as an administrative
body. It's acts, if arbitrary, are void.
Whether it's acts are arbitrary is to
be determined, not by the state OF
mind of one of its members, but by
the acts themselves
Evening star., 1925-01-13
ASKS FISH CONTROL
Be GIVEN ALASKA
Territory Senator Says ST.
perviSion Should Be Taken
From United States.

Alaska's silver horde-the salmon
fisheries OF the territory and Alaska S
greatest physical asset, even greater
than her gold mines-should be placed
under the direct supervision of the
Territorial Legislature and taken out
Of the hands of the Department OF
Commerce. This is the opinion of
Frank A. Aldrich, a member of the
Alaskan Territorial Senate and a
''sour-dough" Alaskan, one of the
pioneers in opening up Uncle Sans
northernmoSt territory and resident
of Alaska since 1892.
Senator Aldrich is in Washington
on a visit to some of his old friends
here, many of whom he had not seen
for upward of half a century. He
must be back in Juneau, the capital
Of Alaska, by March ?, when the Terri
torial Legislature reconvenes. The
other day he lunched with Gen. Miles,
his former commander in military ex-
petitions against the Nez Perces In
dians in Wyoming, and while on his
way East called on John T. Adams,
former chairman of the Republican
national committee, another old
friend.
Led Adventurous Life.
The Alaskan pioneer has led an ad-
venturous life, as IA younsster on the
Western plains in the Federal armies
campaigning against the Indians, and
later in the land Of gold and salmon
Senator Aldrich was not one of the
fostunates to strike a wealthy gold
loHe. Few men We're, he said, many
on them paying with their lives for
tl4ir search after the yellow metal.
Senator Aldrich was amazed at
what he termed the cold climate of
Washington. Juneau. the capital of
Alaska, warmed by the Japan cur
rent, has much more equablc eli
mate than Washington. \ cold snap
where the thermometer touches Il or
is degrees above, zero is unusual in
the Alaskan capital. Inland, how
ever, far from the seaCoast, along the
upper Yukon and near the Arctic
Circle. temperatures of 60 or 20 be-
low zero are not uncommon.
Not Ready for Statehood.
Alaska is not yet ready for state
hood, Senator Aldrich declared, not
withstanding recent declarations Of
Gov Bone that the northernmost
Territory of the United States is
ready to become the forty ninth State.
1--WE have only $4,000 whites and
possibly 10000 Indians within the
Territory" Senator Aldrich said, ''and
900 miles of coast line. If we as
sumed the obligations of statehood
we should have to assume its debts
as well. This we are not ready yet
to do"
Alaska's greatest assets, next TO it's
fisheries and its gold mines, are its
great timbered areas. Alaska, he says.
has enough timber to supply pulp wood
for the United States for all time if a
forward looking policy of reforestation
IS employed.
Dan Sutherland. delegate to Con-
gress from Alaska, and Mr.. Aldrich
were members of the first Alaskan
legislature in 1913. They have been
firm friends from the very beginning
of Alaskan growth.
Turning to the salmon fisheries,
chief source of wealth from Alaska
today Senator Aldrich recommended
that the territory be given control
over the fisheries, authority to impose
a tax on the fish taken and to use the
money thus obtained for expenses of
the territory. a
Evening star., 1925-01-13
AIR MAIL PILOT FINED.
Pleads Guilty to Shooting Antelope
in Nebraska.

LINCOLN. Nebr., January 13.-George
r pomeroy. air mail pilot flying be-
tween Omaha and Cheyenne, has been
fined 800 and costs for killing an
antelope near Kimball, Nebr., on De-
cember u last. it was learned from
Game Warden c. A. Gray, who investi-
gated the case.
Pomeroy admitted. Gray said, that
he descended in his plane and, with
Charles Norberg, rancher, killed the
antelope However, he said that he
had been forced down because OF Il
broken rudder wire.
Evening star., 1925-01-13
FOUR SEEK BIG GAME.
Detroit Men Also to Take Pictures
in Jungles.

By Cable TO The Star and New York World.
CAIRO, January 13.-In quest of
rare specimens of big game. includ-
ing white rhinoceros and a cinemato-
graphic record of the euna in their
native habitat, four Detroit men
Col. Edwin S. George, Col. Sydney d.
Walden, Comdr. Harold H. Emmon
and Dr. James Inches-will leave
here tomorrow on six-month overland
trip toward Cape Town. costing ap-
proximately $4,000 each.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1925-01-13
BANDITS GET $4,000.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. January 13.-
Four men seized Nathan A Bel
lis, 81, manager of downtown
Katz drug store, while he was driv-
ing home, and forced him to return
to the store and open a vault from
which they stole $4,000 in cash
Bells reported to the police. The
robbers escaped.
, 1925-01-17

1t was quite by accident, while
reading the paper, that she
noticed an article advertised in
the Casper Daily Tribune priced
much lower than the price she
had paid the day before for the
same thing. This discovery gave
her a '1ead," and she read several
more ads. Suddenly it dawned
on her that here was a much bet
ter way to save money---which
really meant a raise in Johns
salary.
These money-saving ads had
been placed in her hands
EVERY day-just as they are
being placed in the hands of
thousands of others, just as
they are in YOUR hands now
but only those people who
have learned of their power to
lower living costs are getting
real values-bargains that spell
Money Saved" which is ex-.
actly the same as a raise in the
pay-check.
, 1925-01-17

The moment John entered the
door, Mary knew by the ex-
preston on his face, by his
downcast appearance gener-
ally, that he had failed to get
the raise he so confidently ex-
pected.
She interrupted his swell, |
didn't =. with cts all right,
dear, I'll get you a raise"
The talk of expenses, savings
and raises had originated over
the breakfast table that morn
ing. And both John and Mary
had decided to do something
more than just talk aboutit /.
John decided that it was time
he got a raise. He asked for
one and failed to get it. Mary
spent the day finding out ''just
where all our money goes"
She found, to her great sur
prise, a great many leaks in
the household fund. She real
lied that stopping these leaks
really meant a raise for John.
, 1925-01-17

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