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Evening star., 1926-05-23
Your Furs! Cleaned Free Before
Storage Here

It's high time to place your valuable turs in safe
eeping. For very nominal charge we will place:
lem in cold storage where they will be protected
.om moth, dust and theft. Phone-Franklin 74OO.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
MOTHER CONVICTED
OF KILLING BABE
DROWNED In BAG
Kent County Jury Returns Sec
end Degree Verdict Against
Edna Edwards.
WOMAN DENIES GUILT
Declares Negro Parent Took
Child; Latter To Be Tried
Separately.

After being out for about four
hours jury in the Court of Oyer and
Terminer at Dover on Monday
brought in a verdict of murder in
the second degree against Edna Ed
wards, alias Edna Reed, a white wo-
man who was indicted jointly with
Lee Horris, negro, for the murder
of their child on May 26.
The body was found in a bag,
weighted with bricks at Carter's
Bridge near the Maryland line on
June Is.
The woman on the witness stand,
in her own defense, denied knOwl-
edge of the murder of the child but
testified that she had given it to
Harris who had promised to give it
away as he had a previous one, and
later to hearing a splash near the
bridge where the body was found
later. She declared that Harris had
told her that it was all over and
there would be no further trouble.
The case began Monday morning
with Deputy Attorney General Earl
D. Willy representing the state and
Former United States Senator Rich
ard R. Kenney and Charles L. Terry
representing the defense. At the
opening of the case the counsel for
the woman asked for a separation of
the trails so that she might be tried
alone. There was no objection to this
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Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
CHRONICLE WILL BE
DAY LATE NEXT WEEK
Forms Will Be Held In Order
To Give The Full Election
Returns.

Following the custom established
years ago, the Milford Chronicle
will not be put into the mails next
week until Friday instead of Thurs
day afternoon. This is done in or
der that the official election returns
for Kent and Sussex Counties may
be printed for the information of
our readers. The Judges sit in
each county to canvass the vote on
Thursday, and there usually are
contests in some of the districts
which require that the ballots be
recOunted. This requires time and
it is not until late Thursday, as a
rule, that the count is completed.
Representative of the Milford
Chronicle will secure these official
figures as they are being tabulated,
and just as quickly as they can be
put in type the paper will be put on
the press. The Chronicle is the only
weekly newspaper published in Del
aware which carries the official vote
complete for both Kent and Sussex
Counties. Persons requiring addi-
tional copies of next weeks issue
had better order early for the edi-
ton will be grabbed up quickly
when put on the newsstands.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
STATE ". c. 7. U. NOW IN
SESSION AT HARRINGTOa
Delegates Hear UpshaW Coz
ViOlatOrs Of PrOhibi

The WOmen's Christian Temper-
ance Union of Delaware began it's
annual convention at Harrington on
Wednesday. The session will close
today.
One of the features of the meet
ing Wednesday was the annual ad-
dress of the president, Mrs. J. w.
Killen of FELTON,. Mrs. KilIen gave an
interesting review of the years work
and urged even more aggressive
work in the future, especially be-
tween now and election day.
William Upshaw, former congress-
man from Georgia, urged the women
to agitate for the conviction of tbe
man who makes, sells, gives or buys
intoxicating liquors. He branded
each of these traitor to his coun-
try and said the same flag that was
defiled by our enemies is now being
defiled by the outlaw liquor Offend
er
Mrs. Addie V. Satterfeld. presi-
dent of the Harrington Union. well
coined the delegates. Mrs. Ella d.
Cordray, state evangelistic direc1oI.
and president of the Kent Union. ex-
tended welcome in the absence of
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Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
MILFORD CAR WRECKED In
ACCIDENT NEAR BLACKBTRD
L. J. Matthews And Miss Trainer
Escape Serious Injuries In 1IiShap

Leonard J. Matthews, general
manager of the J. H. Mulholland
Company spoon factories in Mil
ford, and Miss Trainer, head of the
office force at the plant, had a mar
row escape from serious injuries
when the automobile in which they
were riding skidded and overturned
on the DUPONT Highway near Black
bird, last Saturday. Mr. Matthews
and Miss Trainer were driving
north on the highway during the
rain storm. When just south of
Blackbird the car skidded suddenly
ran across the road and overturn-
ed. Miss Trainer was thrown
through the top of the car and fell
in plowed ground in a field along
the road. Mr.. Matthews was thrown
clear of the car and was not pin
ned by any of the weight. His
right hand was badly cut by flying
glass. Miss Trainer was only
slightly bruised, and was able to
proceed to Wilmington by another
automobile where she took a train
for Philadelphia. The car, a Nash,
owned by Mr.. Matthews was badly
wrecked.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
DELAWARE OYSTERS ARE
FREE FROM DISEASE GERMS
Both BiValVes And Water On Beds
Are Found 10 Be Safe.

That oysters taken from Delaware
beds on the Delaware side, and
from creeks flowing into the bay
are 100 per cent clean and without
taint or contamination is revealed
in the report which R. c. Beckett,
sanitary engineer of the State
Board of Health, made this week to
DR.. Arthur T, Davis, executive head
of the State Health body. Not only
are the oysters good but the water
supply in the bay and its tributaries
is comparable to good drinking wa
ter, according to tests made. In
commenting on the survey he made
during August and September, Mr..
Beckett said:
1.-THE oyster beds found in the
Delaware Bay and in st. Johns
river, Murderkill creek, Misspilion
river and Broadkiln creek were
again sampled this fall. Oysters
were dredged by the State oyster
boat at various beds in the bay.
Samples of water were also collect
ed at the bottom of the bay and
near where the oyster samples
WOA y bpAOhs n uOASn VI LWO Oy obS4 .
made up each sample. The water
sample was taken by lowering a
weighted container to the bottom
Of the bay at which place the stop
per of the bottle was lifted by
means of a cord.
"The oyster and water samples
were taken within several hours to
the laboratory where, after thor
Ough scrubbing and cleansing Of the
oyster shell, the liquor was drained
from three or four oysters by OPEN
ing slightly the oysters. The water
sample was tested similar to the
ordinary well water sample, using,
however, various dilutions on ac-
count of The unknown degree of pol
luton Of the bay and rivers.
The results of the oyster tests re-
veal the oysters from the Delaware
Bay to be of exceptional cleanli-
ness. The water supplies in the
bay ALSO revealed a water of very
good qfality, comparable to good
drinkin nHvater.
"TheA AAN rs obtained in the four
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Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
STATE HEALTH OFFICER
WARNS AGAINST TYPHOID
Precautions Should Be Taken To
Safeguard Water Supply, He Says.

The presence of six cases of ty-
phoid fever in the state, three in
Kent county and three in Sussex
county, is stirring the officials Of
the State Board of Health to re-
newed activity in trying to educate
the public concerning certain de-
tails whereby, if proper precautions
are taken, aside from being immun-
lied, they may avoid taking the dis
ease. During the summer r. G..
Beckett, sanitary engineer, has Wis
tied every town of any importance
in the state, seeking to learn the
conditions surrounding their water
supply and the water supplies of
private citizens.
In connection with these fall
cases of typhoid fever and the wa
ter supply which oftentimes is re-
sponsible for the disease, Mr.. Beck
EFT says:
1.-THE usual dug well consists
either of a brick or stone lining
with a board top, either of single
or double layer. Moreover the US
ual dug well as a consequence does
not have a water-tight top but in
stead a top with several cracks
through which waste water percol-
ates back into the well. This is par
ticularly true of the joint where the
wood stock Of the pump enters the
well. Oftentimes it is possible to
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Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
THIEVES STEAL TIRES
FROM WEBB'S GARAGE
1t Is Possible That Same Parties
Who Entered Evans Store Did
The Job.

Thieves, who left no clue as to
their identity, entered the garage of
the Kent County Motor Company, of
which William A. Webb is treasurer,
last Thursday night and stole a
quantity of automobile tires. En-
trance to the garage was gained
through a rear window, after which
the thieves made their way to the
front of the garage and to the Sec
ond floor stock room from which the
tires were taken. While the guilty
parties left no clues by which they
might be followed it is the general
supposition that the same person or
persons who entered the jewelry
store of S. C. Evans last Sunday a
week ago are implicated in the rob-
berry. A few months ago the store
of Wharton & Barnard was entered
during the night and a quantity of
tires and radio equipment was taken.
If a gang is working in this vicinity
they are evidently disposing Of their
loot elsewhere. Complaint is being
made that tires and other remov-
able parts are being taken from au-
tomobiles standing on the streets of
down-state towns. In Milford it is
thought to be the work of boys who
are finding an outlet for their loot
nearby.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
DELAWARE IS NOT
ASHAMED OF TAX
PLAN---P. S. DUPONT
Compares FavOrabIy With Other
States, He Says In Statement
At Meeting.
SURVEY WAS DISCUSSED
Representative Group Of Della
wareans Discuss Report To Be
Given Governor.

Delaware has no reason to be
ashamed of its tax system as COM
pared with those of other states.
This was the statement made by
Pierre S. DUPONT, state school tax
commissioner, at the Hotel dupont
last night following the informal
discussion by public officials and
business men of the preliminary re-
port of the survey made of the
states finances by the National In
dustrial Conference Board at pri-
vate dinner given by Mr. DUPONT on
Monday. Details of the survey will
not be made public until the revised
report has been returned by the
printers. The final report will then
be submitted to the governor by the
Service Citizens, after which it will
be presented at the next session of
the General Assembly for legislative
action.
The president and two represen-
tatives of the National Industrial
Conference Board were present at
the dinner to explain the nature Of
their report. Each of the guests
had been given some time ago a
mimeographed copy OF this prelim-
mary report so as to acquaint him
self with its substance before the
dinner and thus facilitate matters.
Many recommendations were made
by guests of Mr.. DUPONT, forcing
as they did the most representative
group of Delawareans for the con-
sideratiOn of a report of this nature
that will have a far-reaching in1lu-
ence on the tax policies of the
State.
The final report is comprehen-
sive one, covering in every detail
the finances of the State, and MAX
ing an exhaustive analysis Of the
tax system. 1t shows the relation
ship in this State of the wealth, in
come and taxes and compares Della
wares situation with that OF other
states.
The survey was authorized at the
request of the Service Citizens last
spring and is the fourth one OF a
state to be made by this Organiza-
tion. 1t is written expressly for The
business man and persons affiliated
with industries in Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
EGG LAYING CONTEST
WILL BE CONTINUED
Work This Year Will Be Known As
Delaware Farm Egg Record Club

Announcement has been made by
H. S. Palmer, extension poultryman
of the University of Delaware, that
the farm egg laying contest, which
was started in the state last No
vember with over two hundred poul-
try raisers keeping daily egg records
of their focks, will be continued this
coming year under the name of the
Delaware Farm Egg Record Club. =.
Each of the poultrymen in this
club will be given free of charge a
calendar containing a page for each
month of the year on which to rec
ord the daily egg production of the
flock. This calendar, which has
been prepared by Mr.. Palmer, also
contains number of valuable and
timely suggestions relative to the
management and care of the poultry
during the entire year beginning No
Vember 1.
In addition to the keeping of these
daily egg records, each co-operator
will also keep an account of the
number of hens and pullets on hand
each month, and these reports are
to be mailed to the poultry special
ist at the University of Delaware
who will prepare summary of the
total egg production of all different
members of the club. These monthly
reports accompanied by letter will
show the lowest, highest and aver
age records for the month, along
with practical information in regard
to the proper feeds and general
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Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
APPLE CROP IS HEAVIEST
in COUNTRY'S HISTORY
Bureau Of Markets Seeking To Aid
Farmers Sell Their Crop

How to dispose of the tremendous
crop of apples grown in the United
States this year is a problem that
is giving marketing experts con-
siderable concern. In an effort to
try and sell some of Delaware's
crop, w. T. Derickson, director of
the bureau of markets of the State
Board of Agriculture, visited New
York City the last week and con-
ferred with fruit dealers and COM
mission men in that city. He
found conditions in New York tho
same as they are in Delawar5 and
all other states that raise apples.
At a place in New Jersey, Mr.. Der
icksOn received an offer of so cents
a basket for sound apples which
are to be turned into cider. The
cider man told Mr.. Derickson that
he would take three carloads, but
that was all.
Il never. saw SO many apples, "
said the New Jersey cider manu-
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Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
STANDARD TRAINING SCHOOL
HOLDS CLOSING SESSION
Georgetown School Largest Ever
Held In The Wilmington Conference

This Friday night the Georgetown
Standard Training School, which has
been in session every Friday night
during the month of October will
come to a close. The school, which
has 1876 students registered, is the
largest which has thus far been held
in the Wilmington Conference. At
the session tonight, those who have
successfully completed the course of
study in which they were enrolled,
will each receive a certificate of
credit which represents one unit of
the twelve required for the diploma
of the Standard Training Course.
Many of the students are receiving
their first units of credit, while
others have twO,~three, four, five, or
more, as the case may be, according
to the number of training schools
they may have previously attended.
Of the total number registered,
there are 80 teachers, pastors, II
superintendents, and 81 church
workers of various types who do not
come under this classification. There
etIG % ulllGlSllJ Cuu4C CnCS Wn1Sh hafO
students registered in the school as
follows: Georgetown 50; Georgetown
Circuit (St. Johns, Cokesbury, Beth
esda) 8; Seaford %; Seaford Cir
cult (Wesley) II; Milford 21; Lewes
10; Lincoln IL; Dagsboro 10; Re-
hoboth (Epworth and Ebenezer) 10;
Milton g.; Bridgeville 8; Ellendale
Z; Ellendale (McColley's) 2; Mills
boro z; Millsboro (BetheD 8; Green
wood 2; Dover =; Laurel 2; Freder-
lea 2; Blades q; Blades (Asbury) 1;
Gumboro (Carey's) 2. Besides the
foregoing, which are all Methodist
Episcopal Churches, there are five
churches of other denominations as
follows: st. Paul's Protestant Epis-
copal, Georgetown, 2; First Metho-
dist Protestant, Georgetown, 1; ST..
Luke's Protestant Episcopal, Sea-
ford, 1; The Methodist Protestant
Church of Dover I; Christ Reformed
Church of Annville, Pa, 1.
Other school similar to the one
held in Georgetown, which are in
session at the present time are To-
Gated at Elkton and Denton.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
MILFORD FREE LIBRARY
WILL OPEN DOORS TOMORROW
Citizens May Borrow From The liz
brary During Hours Il Is Open

The Milford Free Public Library
will be open tomorrow. Saturday,
October 90th, from 2 O'Clock until
5 o'clock in the afternoon, and from
Z until 9 in the evening. The sched-
ule of hours as announced for the
library in the future provide that
the library will be open every We'd
nesday afternoon from 8 o'clock un-
til 2 o'clock; every Friday noon
from II o'clock until 1 o'clock, and
Saturday afternoons and evenings
The Library Commission would be
glad to receive gifts of good books,
especially recent ones, but no room
for any volumes that would not he
a permanent addition to the oolip-
ment is available. The Milford Free
PUBIC Library opens under very fa-
yorable auspices. 1t has a large
4 dmber Of books and is housed in
one of the large rooms in the new
Community Building.
Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
SHORE ASSOCIATION PLANS
FERRY FACILITIES FOR TRIAL
Committees, To Work With This
End In View, Are Approved.

At a regular meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Del-Mar-
Va Eastern Shore Association, last
Friday, at the executive offices,
Salisbury, a resolution was adopted
authorizing the appointment of a
committee on legislation for the
purpose of taking up at the coming
sessions of the Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia Legislatures, the ques-
ton OF securing land at Cape
Charles and Norfolk for combined
Tri-State park and docking pur-
poses.
This action is based on the As
sociatiOn's efforts to aid the Amer
lean Automobile Association in per-
fecting a main North to South route
through the Peninsula. The Asso-
citation has already secured through
the American Automobile AssOcia-
ton change in the strip maps.
with the result that the Del-Mar-Va
Trail is being not only featured as
a logical link, but is emphasized on
the news maps and schedules of the
Association. Even further than this
the Association has secured chang
es in the Federal and Canadian
Government maps to show complet-
ed highways from New York to
Norfolk, Va. via Cape Charles over
the Del-Mar-Va Trail and is work.
ing with the Pennsylvania Railroad
System and the agencies now hav-
ing to do with trans-Chesapeake
transportation for adequate ferry
service.
The executive committee adopted
a resolution providing for three in
ter-county congresses of its men,
bership, to be held at different
points on the Peninsula for the
purpose of taking an inventory, by
the Association Of the Peninsula at
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Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
URGES SUPPORT
REPUBLICAN TICKET
J. Hall Anderson Asks Reelection
Of Congressman; Stresses Sound
Party Principles.

Basing his plea for support fol
the Republican ticket in the COM
ing election on accomplished facts
rather than upon baseless theories
Lieutenant Governor J. Hall Ander-
son addressed gathering of Will
mington men and women voters on
Monday night.
Reviewing the past history of the
Republican and Democratic parties
both in the nation and in the State
Mr.. Anderson compared the sound
financial and economic principles
OF the Republican party with the
proven unsound theories of the
Democrats, particularly on the tar
if question.
Mr.. Anderson urged that the pro-
tectiVe tariff is as much a vital is
sue today as it was when the appli-
cation of the principle as expOund-
ed by the Republicans was first
applied and became the bedrock
upon which the prosperity of the
country rests.
I'VE do not believe in a tariff
for revenue only, but just enough
tariff to equalize the cost of mer-
chandise manufactured here and
that manufactured by pauper labor
abroad, so that the wheels of in
dustry may keep American work
ingmen employed and able to buy
the things they produce"
The speaker called attention to
the panic which followed the appli-
cation of the Democratic theory of
tariff for revenue only during the
administration of President Cleve-
land and the return of prosperity
under the protective tariff as ap-
piled after the election of William
Mckinley.
when Woodrow Wilson was
elected in 1914" Mr.. Anderson
said, "a Democratic Congress pass
ed the Underwood tariff bill, just
as the World War broke out. The
war erected a great tariff wall of
its own, for European countries
had no goods to send to America to
compete with American made
goods. In spite of the fact that we
wall of war, the highest tariff wall
in the history of this country. But
after the signing of the armistice
the countries of Europe found labor
willing to work for any kind OF
wages, and in 1920 they flooded this
country with goods from one end
to the other. There never was
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Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29
STATE MINISTERS
ASK VOTES FOR
DRY CANDIDATES
Dover District Meeting Protests
Against Auti-PrOhibitiOn AssO-
citation.
REV. DISSTON W. JACOBS
Elected By Ministerial Members
To Represent The District In
The Area Council.

At a meeting of the ministers and
laymen of the Dover District of the
Wilmington M. L. Conference held
in Wesley M. E. Church, Wednesday,,
October goth, resolutions were adOp-
ted protesting against the purpose
as well as the method of the Asso-
citation Against the Prohibition
Amendment" and commencing the
work of the Anti-Saloon League. The
resolution also calls on all voters
at the coming election to vote for
only those candidates known to be
in favor of enforcement of the pro-
hibition laws. The resolutions fol-
low:
Resolved, That we, the ministers
and laymen of the Dover District of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, as
sembled in Wesley M. E. Church, Do
yer, Delaware, on this Goth day of
October, believe unqualitiedly in the
principle as well as the merits of
the 18th Amendment and the Vol
stead Act, and we most emphatically
protest against the purpose as well
as the method of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment
in its endeavor to annual our Pro-
hibition and Enforcement laws, and
we here and now VOW that we will
take every opportunity to intelli-
gently contradict their WsciOusly
misleading propaganda and will give
to our people the true facts relative
to present day conditions concern
ing this great question.
I'VE further commend the effec-
tive work of the Anti-Saloon League,
our own Board of Temperance, Pro-
hibition and Public Morals and the
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ion and urge our people to continue
their moral and financial support to
these necessary arms of the church.
I'VE further earnestly request all
people to cast their votes at the
coming election for only those can
didates that are known to be in 10y
al sympathy with the full enforce
ment of our prohibition laws.
"We also appeal to each pastor in
this district to see that the respec-
tive representatives both national
and state, know the desires of their
people regarding the appointment of
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