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Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
GLENDALE WHITE SCHOOL
BURNED LAST SATURDAY
Lightning Struck Nearby Building,
And Both Were Destroyed I

The white public school building
and combination garage and lodge
room, used by the colOred people of
Glendale, were burned to the
ground late last Saturday afternoon.
The fire originated when lightning
struck a building not far from the
school house. The second door of
this building was used as a lodge
room by a negro lodge, while the
lower floor was used as a garage. 1t
was fully twenty minutes from the
time a crash was heard following
the lightning bolt that the building
burst into flames. When the fire was
discovered the Glendale Fire Com
pany was called out, and assistance
was asked of Georgetown and Mil
ford. In some manner misunder-
standing resulted in delay in call
ing the two latter towns. When they
arrived the school building was in
flames and doomed. Some of the
desks in the school house were saw
ed, but the majority OF the equip
ment fell prey to the flames.
Only three more weeks remain of
the present school term, and ar
rangements have been made to take
care of the children during this time.
Plans for rebuilding will be els
cussed by the citizens of Ellendale
in the near future.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
WILL MAKE SURVEY
OF ENTIRE STATE
Service Citizens Engage Experts To
Study Every Sub Division

The Service Citizens of Delaware,
it was announced this week, has en-
tered into a contract with the Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board
of New York to make comprehen-
sive survey of the tax question of
Delaware. This survey is now under
way and it will be completed and
published in book form sometime in
November.
The National Industrial Confer
ence Board has just completed SINH
lar studies of the tax situation in
Wisconsin and West Virginia.
The study to be made will include
the tax situation of every town and
city in the state, every county and
the state in general. The survey Will
set forth in detail every item of in
debtedness as we'll as income of the
state and will be compared with
the taxes paid in other states. The
National Board makes no recOmmen-
dations in its survey, devoting its
time entirely to setting forth the
facts.
Governor Robinson has promised
thorough cooperation of every de-
partment of the state in having the
statistics and other information COM
piled.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
MILFORD GIRL WINS
IN AUTO CONTEST
Miss Alice L. Brown Receives
WilIys knight BrOugbam For
Her Work. =

Miss Alice L. Brown, employee at
the First National Bank in Milford,
won third prize in the Every Even
ing circulation contest just cOnclud-
ed, and by thus placing in the win
ner's column was awarded beauti-
full automobile. The winners of the
contest were announced last Satur-
day afternoon, and Miss Brown went
to Wilmington on Monday at which
time William E. Metten, publisher or
the Every Evening, handed her an
order for the car The automobile,
a six cylinder Willys-Knight Broug-
ham, is q beauty. The lucky win
ner drove it to Milford on Monday
afternoon and her hundreds of
friends who had assisted in her prize
winning aspirations inspected it.
Miss Brown during the entire con-
test was well up among the leaders
of the subscription solicitors and her
last minute efforts kept her with the
leaders. The citizens of Milford
were very much pleased that Miss
Brown had been returned winner
in the contest. Miss Brown wishes
to thank her many friends who so
readily supported her during the
contest.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
JOHN W. Herring RESIGNS
PLACE AS REVENUE HEAD
Desires To Devote More Time To
Farms And Business

Much surprise was Occasioned on
Wednesday throughout the state
when it became known that john W.
Herring had tenuered his resignation
as Collector of Internal Revenue,
Much speculation followed as to who
would succeed him in the Office and
the names of several persons have
been mentioned, but so far as is
known no selection has been made.
When seen Wednesday relative to
his resignation, Mr.. Herring made
this statement:
"In order to devote more time to
my farm lands and other business
affairs, have rendered to the Presi-
dent my resignation as Collector of
Internal Revenue for the District of
Delaware, effective on or about July
10, 1926, or at the Presidents con-
venience and pleasure.
my tenure of the Office during the
past four years has been genial and
pleasant as have been also my rela-
tions with both the government and
the public.
Il shall retire with the conscious
ness of having done my full duty to
both, aided as 1 have been, by a
corps of earnest, patient and untir-
ing Office and field assistants.
"It would be an objectionable sin
if 1 should omit to express my deep
appreciation of the cordial and I'M
complaining cooperation of the
newspapers of our State in inform
ing and educating the public in the
matter of their rights and duties un-
der the Federal tax law and thus,
from a sense of public duty, aiding
this Office to carry on with efficien-
cy and dispatch.
Il shall carry with me to Mil
ford, my home, pleasant recollec-
tions of my sojourn in Wilmington.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
CALEB E. BURCHENAL DIES
In BALTIMORE HOSPITAL
Prominent Church Worker And Law
yer Victim OF Brights' Disease

I Caleb E. Burchenal, prominent as
a lawyer and member of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, died at
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti-
more Tuesday afternoon. He was a
resident of Wilmington. Death was
due to Bright's disease and he had
been removed to the hospital where
he could be under the care of spe-
cialists. His wife and son were at
his bedside when he died. The re-
mains were taken to his home at
1900 Broome street, Wilmington
from which place funeral services
were held.
Mr.. Burchenal is survived by his
wife, a son, J. Holland Burchenal,
12 years old, and a daughter, Dura
Elizabeth, two years old. His IA
ther and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. JOS
eph S. Burchenal, and a brother, J.
Edgar Burchenal, live at Canterbury
and sister, Mrs. Alice Lewis, lives
in Oregon.
Mr.. Burchenal was twice married
His first wife was Miss Mary Hol-
land, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph E. Holland, of Milford, who
died in 1916, leaving one son, J.
Holland Burchenal, and his second
wife was Miss Dura E. Gilbert, OF
Sunbury, Pa, whom he married in
1920. The two-year-old daughter is
by this marriage.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
MILFORD TALL CEDARS
LEAVE FOR PROVIDENCE
Rangers And Band OF Evergreen
Forest Will Parade Today

About twenty-four rangers and
thirty members of the band of Ever
green Forest, No. 40, Tall Cedars of
Milford, left here yesterday after
noon for Wilmington. Last night
they took train for Providence,
Rhode Island, where they are sched-
uled to take part in the parade,
which is a feature of the annual ma
tional convention being held in that
city At Wilmington the members
of Evergreen Forest were joined by
members of the rangers of Brandy
wine Forest, of Wilmington, and at
Chester the band and rangers Of the
Chester Forest were added to the
party. The rangers and band of
Evergreen Forest made wonderful
showing and brought forth much
praise from the crowds at Atlantic
City last summer at the annual con-
vention and parade. The rangers
have been faithfully training with
new stunts and drills and hope to
win commentator at Providence to-
day. Tonight the Evergreen Forest
Band will broadcast from Station
WAR, Providence. The time will be
1880 o'clock.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
DR.. F. J. LIBBY WILL
SPEAK ON WAR PREVENTION
Milford Churches Will Hold Union
Meeting Next Sunday Evening

On next Sunday evening at 1880
o'clock, there will be a Union meet
ing in the First Methodist Protestant
Church of this town, Rev. ]. Frank
lin Bryan, D. D., minister.
The occasion is one of interest to
many of the Milford citizens and
general public. Rev. Dr.. Frederick
J. Libby, the executive secretary of
the National Council for the Proven
ton of War, will be the speaker. He
will speak on the subject of pre-
venting war.
The pastors and members of the
other protestant churches of this
city will dispense with their SER
vices and will attend this service at
the Methodist Protestant Church.
Frederick J. Libby not only has
kept in constant touch with the Flu
ropean situation through reconstruc-
ton work during and Immediately
after the war, and two months
visit to France, Germany and Eng
land in 1928, but in years before the
war lived and travelled in fourteen
countries in Europe and Asia. He
therefore brings to his work for
international peace an intimate
knowledge of many peoples and OF
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Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
SUSSEX FARMER FINED FOR
SCHOOL LAW VIOLATION
Lawrence Walls Pays $3.50 For
Failure To Send Children To School

Failing to comply with the State
school law which requires that chill
dren must be in school 100 days dur
ing the term, Lawrence Walls, far
mer, residing in Sunshine School
District No. 144, between Georgetown
and Lewes, was arraigned before
Magistrate William H. Wilson OF
Georgetown on Tuesday, and fined
S5 and costs, amounting to $3.50,
for failure to have his three chill
dren, Blanche, aged II; John, aged
8, and Cecil aged 8, in school the
required time after repeated visits
on the part of Miss Edith 1. Jones'
visiting teacher for Eastern Sussex
and especially after a three days no
tice from the State Board of Educa-
ton.
The charge was preferred by Miss
Jones, after the lapse of time speci-
fed in the notice from the State
Board. In all the visiting teacher
made seven calls to the Walls home
and prevailed upon them to see TO
it that the children were in school.
Mr.. Walls pleaded guilty and
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Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
KENT GRAPE GROWERS
Z TEST SPRAYING MIXTURE
Demonstrations Now Being Made To
Ascertain Best Formulas

For the past four years demon
strations showing the proper time
to spray grape vineyards for the
control of black rot and other fung-
Gus diseases prevalent in this sec
tiOn have been conducted in Kent
county under the direction of DR.. I.
i. Manns, Plant PatholOgist OF the
University of Delaware Agricultural
Experiment Station, in cooperation
with County Agent Russell e. VIII
son and those growers who have
agreed to serve as co-operators in
this disease control project.
The plan of Unconstitutional work
being conducted in the county this
coming season is essentially the
same as the program which was fol-
lowed last year in the vineyards OF
r. E. Spruance, near Smyrna, and
DR.. Alfred Smith, near Wyoming,
where disease control demonstra-
tions were carried on by the plant
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Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
MILFORD BOY SCOUTS
WILL MEET FATHER
OF SCOUTS TONIGHT
Daniel J. Beard, National Scout
Commissioner Of America,
Speaks Tonight.
GUEST OF ROTARY CLUB
Local ROtarians Will Entertain
Boys OF Town This Evening In
Community Building.

An event of more than passing in
terest to the boys, and especially
Inc members OF the Boy Scout or
sanitation, of Milford will take place
mis- evening when Daniel J. Beard
viii address the boys Of the COM
munity. Mr.. Beard is the father of
the BOY Scout movement in Ameri-
ca. He is at present National Scout
Commissioner of America, and is
probably better known among the
boys of American than any other liV-
ing man. He is brought to Milford
by the Rotary Club, and at consider
able expense to the individual men,
bers Of the club. The visit of Mr..
Beard was scheduled for several
weeks ago, but illness made it nee
essary to cancel his engagement at
that time. After much effort DR..
Walter L. Grier, Chairman of the
Boys Work Committee of the Rotary
Club, was able to secure tonight as
the date for the visit of the nation
ally known boys counsellor.
The plans for the evenings enter
tainment, as arranged by the Rotary
Club officials, call for entertaining
every member of the Milford Boy
Scouts at dinner at the Windsor
Hotel at 6:3O o'clock. The Boy
Scouts will be the guests Of the Ro-
tarians at that time. Immediately
following the dinner, at about eight
o'clock. the Rotarians and their
guests will go to the community
building where the talk of Mr..
Beard will be given. Every boy in
Milford is invited to be present at
the evening meeting as the guest of
the Rotary Club. In addition to the
boys of Milford and vicinity, the Boy
Scout organizations of Dover,
Bridgeville and RehOboth have been
invited to come to Milford to NETT
and hear their national commander.
At Laurel Scout troop is now for
ming, and all the boys who have
made application to become members
of the Laurel troop have likewise
been invited to be here this even
ing.
A general invitation has been is
sued to the boys of Milford through
the public schools, and those who
were not reached in this manner are
invited through the columns of the
Chronicle. The visit of Mr.. Beard is
one which should bring pleasant
recollections in the future years to
those boys who hear and see him
this evening. While it is anticipated
that an enormous crowd of boys will
present themselves at the community
building tonight, the ROtarians are
planning to accommodate all who
come. There is absolutely no charge
of admission for tonight's affair
Every boy will be admitted free and
without tickets of any kind.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
MILFORD FOLKS HEAR
OF GREAT NORTHWEST
Frank B. Riley Entertains ROtari-
ans And Their Guests Last Fri
day Evening.

Members of the Milford Rotary
Club and their guests last Friday
evening heard with great interest
Frank Branch Riley, internationally
known as traveller, guide them
through millions of acres of majes-
tic pine, fir and spruce forests,
across mountains and glaciers and
over lakes that were but huge mir
rors for the glalnorOus landscape,
all of which go to make up the seem
ic splendor of the Pacific northwest.
Mr.. Riley's lecture on The Lure of
the Great Northwest" was illustrat-
ed with beautiful colored views of
scenes in the section he described.
1t was given under the auspices of
the Milford Rotary Club in the gym
nasium of the community building.
Mr.. Riley, who is on his eighth
transcontinental tour, is a mountain
climber of note. He is founder and
vice-president for Oregon of the
Pacific Highway Association and
executive committeeman of the Ma
tional Park Highway Association.
At the time of the celebration of
one hundred years of peace between
the United States and Great Britain
he was chosen official orator for the
State of Oregon, which rectiiies ade-
quately to his ability as Il speaker.
His descriptions of the beauty of
the country, where the west ends"
was joyous. 1t was an amplificatiOn
of the scene projected upon the
screen in natural colors through
splendid photography.
The artists enthusiasm for the
country about Portland, and the
states of Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia, was infectious.
Those present viewed with him from
many points of vantage the great
Crater Lake, in the Crater Lake Ma
tional Park, once the mouth of a
seething volcano, though now an i'm
mense mirror 5000 feet in depth re-
flecting the brown, bronze and burnt
gold of the rims that tower 5000
feet above.
They saw the Grand Canyon Cf the
Columbia River, the famous stream
now sluggish and almost immovable,
then rushing and crashing over
rocky ledges to an unknown desti-
nation.
Lake Louise in the Canadian Rock
les, Mt. Rainer National Park, Multi
nomah Falls, all had lure. that
seemed to beckon to his auditors.
In graphic words Mr.. Riley car
ried his listeners over glaciers, 12,-
900 feet to a mountains peek, camp
ed with them below the timber line
in a land resplendent with multi
colored flowers. He showed them
how the salmon leaped the falls in
swimming up stream and how the
great primitive trees were sent
thousands of miles away to be util-
lied by man.
Several persons in the audience
who have visited the country about
which Mr.. Riley lectured expressed
themselves as being much impressed
with the true presentation of the
story and views of the great north
west country.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
CAESAR RODNEY
EASY VICTOR IN KENT
COUNTY FIELD MEET
Camdeu-Wy WyOming School Runs
Away With Annual County
Contest.
MILFORD In SECOND PLACE
Local Pupils Outdistance Dover Ia
Days Sport With Fifty Points
10 Spare.

Caesar Rodney High School cas-
lily captured the Kent County Track
and tleld Meet held on the athletic
field OF the Dover High School last
Friday afternoon. The students from
Camden and Wyoming, where Caes-
ar Rodney is located, have captured
this meet for the past several years,
but never before by as large a mar
gin as this year. They secured 232
points, 80 more than their two near
est competitors combined Milford
was second with 126 points, while
Dover was a poor third with 76
points.
Houston led the second division
schools with 80 points and FELTON,
was second with -. Woodside was
third with ten, Hartly and Magnolia
tied with eight each, Frederica and
Viola secured six points apiece.
Smyrna secured three points and
Clayton and Frazier each secured
two points.
The day was ideal for the meet
and a large crowd was on hand.
Bronze, silver and gold badge tests
runs were held in the morning. The
field and track events were held in
the afternoon. Caesar Rodney had
entries in almost every event. They
had little difficulty in outclassing the
field. Summary:
50-yard dash for SO-pound boys:
First, Mastering, Caesar Rodney;
End, Metz, Caesar Rodney; 3rd, Will
kinson, Milford.
50-yard dash, 80-pound girls: 1st,
Catalde, Caesar Rodney; End, Short,
Caesar Rodney; 3rd, Bishop, FELTON,
5O-yard dash, 95-pound boys: 1st,
Case, Caesar Rodney; End, Kemble,
Caesar Rodney; 3rd, Welch, Milford
50-yard dash, 95-pound girls: 1st
Quillen, Caesar Rodney; End
Thompson. Viola; third, Farrow
Caesar Rodney.
50-yard dash, 110-pound boys: 1st
Johnson, Caesar Rodney; End, Evan
ham, Smyrna; 3rd, Hopkins, Caesar
Rodney.
-440-yard relay, S0-pound boys: 1st
Dover; End, Caesar Rodney; Srd
Milford.
440-yard relay, 95-pound boys: 1st
Caesar Rodney; End, Magnolia; Srd
Dover.
22O-yard relay SO-pound girls: 1st
Caesar Rodney; 2nd, Houston; Srd
Milford.
22O-yard relay, 95-pound girls: 1st
Caesar Rodney; End, Milford; 3rd
Hartly.
660-yard relay, 110-pound boys
1st, Milford; End, Caesar Rodney;
3rd, Houston
Standing broad jump, SO-pound
boys: LIST, Holtsson, Houston; End
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Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
SCHOOL CHILDREN PAY
RESPECTS TO FORMER TEACHER
Milford Pupils In A Body Attend
Funeral OF Miss Anna Hall

Miss Anna Hall, aged So years
and three days, died at the residence
of her brother-in-law, William T..
Watson, on North Walnut street,
Milford, Delaware, Sunday, May 16,
1926. The funeral services were
held on Wednesday afternoon and in
terment made in Odd Fellows ceme-
terry; Rev. Henry L. Bunstein, her
pastor for forty-six years, conduct
ing the services. She was for thirty
six years a teacher in the public
schools of Delaware; resigning from
service last November, after twenty
eight years of continuous work in
the Milford Public Schools. Her
school work started at Pennington,
Delaware, where she taught for sew
en- years; then at Harrington for one
year and then came to Milford in
1897 for the balance of her life WORK.
Miss Hall was a woman of strong
personality; member of the Pres
byterian Church and Jealous in the
cause of education. She leaves four
sisters and a brother; her mother
and father, having died several
years ago. The sisters are Mrs. Abb
ner G.. Plum, of Wilmington, North
Carolina, Mrs. John Underwood OF
West Philadelphia. Miss Lucy Hall
and Mrs. William T. Watson of Mil
ford, and Cornelius J. Hall of Clay
ton, Delaware.
The teachers and high school pu-
pills paid their respects by attending
the services in a body and sending a
beautiful floral piece. The schools
were closed during the funeral and
the Board of Education were hon
Orary pallbearers.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
STRICT SEARCH FOR
The JAPANESE BEETLE
No Plants Can Come Into Open Dis
tricts Without Permits

The shipments of potted plants
from the areas now under quaran-
tine due to the prevalence of the
Japanese beetle is being scrutinized
by the beetle inspectors.
According to reports filed with W.
E. CranstOn, administrator of the
quarantine in the northern Delaware
district, fifteen cars bound for lower
Delaware were found to have such
plants in them on Saturday.
Ten of the car owners were turn
ed back while five others who re-
moved the sod from the plants, were
allowed to proceed.
Mr.. CranstOn on Monday said all
tomatoes and other vegetable plants
raised in Brandywine, Wilmington.
Christiana and New Castle hundreds
would be barred from the counties
below New Castle, and Christiana
hundreds, unless a permit was issued
for the transportation of such plants.
Milford chronicle., 1926-05-21
VISIONS DELAWARE
ASLEADING NATION
IN GOOD HIGHWAYS
Lieutenant Governor James Hall
Andersen Tells Motorists State
Is Just Beginning.
PRAISES 7. C. DU POINT
In Talk Last Thursday Night He
Says Senator's Idea Resulted
In Good Roads.

While Delaware has been keeping
abreast of increasing highway traf-
fc by improving its system of roads,
the improvement thus far is but in
significant with what is to be done
in coming years, Lieutenant-Gover-
nor J. Hall Anderson set forth last
Thursday night before members Of
the Chester County, Pa, Automobile
Club.
Mr.. Anderson was the chief speak
er at the clubs annual banquet in
the ball room of the Hotel DUPONT
in Wilmington. Six hundred men,
bers of the club and guests attended.
Mr. Anderson looked forward to
the time when Delaware will have
sixty per cent of it's $500 road-mile
age improved without the aid of
extra taxation or bonding.
In leading to his plan for improv-
ing Delaware roads to the extent
that they might stand as a. model
for the entire Union" Lieutenant
Governor Anderson paid tribute to
Senator T. Coleman DUPONT for his
S4,000,000 road gift to Delaware by
declaring: "I believe that Coleman
dupont hv virtue of this gift, has
done more for this lie State than
any man alive, and that it represents
the most colossal gift of any man
in history to his native State" Mr.
DUPONT gave more than his money,
Mr.. Anderson said, "He gave his
| time"
The Lieutenant Governors plan to
improve so per cent of Delaware's
roads 80 that every farmer may
have an improved stretch of road
leading past his door," he said, lies
in use of the excess revenue amount
ing to approximately $150,000 an
nually derived from the present Ii
cense and gasoline tax.
Delaware, he said, is able through
this license and gasoline tax to con-
struct, maintain, improve and eX-
tend it's present road system and
have $150,000 over each year. In
ten years this amount will grow to
$1,5O0,O0O, or more than enough to
improve 1000 miles of secondary
roads with Stag.
He pointed out that although 1--WE
in Delaware are proud of our i'm
proved roads," that only the surface
had been scratched as yet. Out of
a total of $500 road mileage in Del
aware, he said, only a little more
than 1 per cent, or between five and
six hundred miles had been i'm
proved This condition, he said, is
not only local to Delaware, but to
the entire nation. Here he brought
out the Importance of road cOmmu-
nication in keeping with all other
modern advancements in communi-
cation as a means of furthering the
desired brotherhood of the country.
AS long as two-thirds of the farm
ers of this country still live on dirt
roads, the Lieutenant Governor said,
we in this country could never truly
boast of improved roads.