Milford chronicle., 1925-07-24
Milton Letter

have been guests OF Mr.. and Mrs
William B. WagamOn for severa
weeks, returned to their home il
York, Pa, on Sunday. Mr.. WelcI
sustained a broken leg while NOV
ing a piano at the WagamOn home
some time ago, which delayed theil
return home. He is rapidly recover
ing and was able to make the jour
ney by automobile.
Jesse Walls is completing his new
dwelling on Federal street.
William Martin has been a Balti-
more visitor this week, on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry McAllisteT
have been spending some time in the
Stephens cottage at Broadkill
Beach.
A concrete bridge is being erected
by the county engineer over the
stream at the entrance to Broadkill
Beach, doing away with the dang
erous wooden structure that has
done duty here for many years. A
temporary bridge along side of the
new structure takes care of traffic
over the stream until the new one
is finished. This is a much needed
improvement and removes the last
wooden bridge on the marsh road,
a concrete bridge having been built
last autumn over Peter Field Ditch.
Marsh owners and trappers say
that hundreds of young muskrats
have been destroyed this summer be-
cause of the drought making the
ponds and streams on Broadkill and
Prime Hook marshes almost dry.
The young have had to founder
through the soft mud to reach wa
ter and many have been smOthered
in the mud. David Reed says he has
found scores of very small rats dead
in the mud along the streams on
his marsh lands. This has been the
driest summer in years and many
ponds that ordinarily have been full
of water are entirely dry.
Milton NJ. E. Sunday school pic |
niced at Warwick, on Indian River,
on Thursday afternoon. They spent
a most enjoyable day at this pleas
ing resort.
William Fox, who has been spend
ing several days as the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. John T. Crouch, has re-
turned to his home in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Fox spent a few days at Broad
kill Beach and thoroughly enjoyed
the bathing and hook and line fish
ing.
Concrete sidewalks are being laid
in front of the properties of E. M.
Jefferson, J. R. Atkins and D. T. At
kins on Union street.
Walter, William and Charles
Crouch were Milford visitors on
Wednesday afternoon, visiting rel
atives.
Leighton Richards, an employee of
the Milton Button Factory, received
a severe cut of the left hand when
shell he. was cutting broke and the
ragged edge of the shell cut deep in
to the palm of his hand.
y /Millard Walls has traded his town
property to Lemuel Carpenter for a
40-acre farm in Cave Neck and will
remove thereto.
Many shares of the new series of
the Milton Building and Loan As
sociation have been issued during
this month. The series will be kept
open during July.
The sloop Fitzgerald left on
Thursday for Wildwood, N. j., with I
a load of chickens and eggs. 1
Charles Wilson has had a front
porch erected to the front of his
residence on Broad street.
A concrete sidewalk has been laid
in front of the property of David l
Dickerson on Mulberry street. t
The rains of the past few days are
seriously interfering with the b
threshing of wheat in Broadkill hun 1
dred. While the majority of the '
crops have been threshed there are
several large crops in the bay shore a
district that have not been threshed
and as the wheat is still in the shock
fear is entertained that the almost S
daily rains will cause the grain to il
sprout. u
B. M. Belts of Greenwood, has
been the guest of his granddaughter, n
Mrs. Luther Wilson. v
Early gardeners are enjoying lima N
beans. The first to gather limas from b
his garden was r. Davis Lingo, who a
had them on his table Friday of last
week. Since that time several Mil h
tonians have been gathering them. T
Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Crouch
who have been spending two weeks Il
with his father, w. W. Crouch, re- 81
turned to their home this week. They al
spent one week at Broadkill Beach
and thoroughly enjoyed the bathing tt
and fishing. With party of friends
Mr.. Crouch on Thursday caught 40 th
iea crocus with hook and line. F.
Milton canneries are preparing for R
he lima bean packing season, which tU
S expected to open about the 18th
If August. Despite the extremely w
Try weather of June the crop prom in
ses to be a good one and nearly Nc
formal pack will be put up. At the
Draper cannery string beans are be- G
ng packed. tel
The pouring of concrete on the liz
lew road from NAPLES Mill to Five
Points is progressing. The pouring
egan at the NAPLES Mill end of the
Dad and about mile has been COM
leted. The work is necessarily slow
S the road building material has to an
e hauled by trucks from OverbrOok, LIE
distance of five miles. However as
be road progresses. the haul will ba
row shorter. The long fill across an
Yaples pond is going ahead rapidly, all
S is also the fill at Drawbridge. ito
[any Milton men and trucks are en-
loyed on the road. tel
Land owners and tenants in this W.
ection have banded together to pre- wa
ent Game Association" gunners-
nd this means all but their immed Mi
tie neighbors-from cunning on err