Milford chronicle., 1926-12-31
HERE AND THERE ON THE
DEL-MAR-VA PENINSULA
Items of Interest Prepared by
Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shore
Association

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The Worcester County Farm Bur-
eau Federation held its fall meeting
in Snow Hill on December z. About
$50 members and their wives were
present. DR.. f. B. Bamberger, of
the University of Maryland, Mr.. R.
A. Palm, of the Federated Fruit and
Vegetable Growers, Inc, and Carl H..
MOnsees, of the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
Shore Association, addressed the
meeting after dinner had been serv-
ed. The theme of the meeting was
| cooperation in its various phases
as it touches agriculture.
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Kent County enjoys the distinction
of being the home of Maryland's
champion COW. She is Bess Clothilde
Pontiac Burke, 577,879, and is owned
by Norman Pennington, of Kennedy
vile. one of the leading members of
the Kent Boys All Calf Club. Young
Pennington became a member of the
Boys Calf Club in 1921 and shortly
afterward his first club heifer was
Bess, which he purchased from his
father, Edgar H. Pennington, prOmi-
nent Holstein breeder, for $65 made
from growing tomatoes. At the age
of years Bess, which had won blue
ribbons at Maryland State fairs for
the best in her class, as well as at
other exhibits, broke the State rec
ord for a seven-day milk test, her
mark being 26.6 pounds of butter and
606.1 pounds of milk. So far as is
known by County Agent Horace B.
Derrick, shown in the picture with
the cows owner, this has never
been equaled in Maryland.
The Chamber of Commerce and
Town Council of Middletown, Della
ware, have been negotiating with the
Textile Manufacturing Company of
Frankford, Pa, and the Louis Miller
Shirt Company, both of which are
expected soon to locate in Middle
town.
Seven miles of State Highway will
be paved with concrete in Northamp
ton County in 1927. This addition
will greatly attract tourists to the
Eastern Shore of Virginia and the
Del-Mar-Va Peninsula.
The Industrial Finance Corpora
tion of Cape Charles, through J. w.
Wilson, E. NJ. Kellogg, RIA. Parsons
and Otto Lowe have already begun
negotiations with industries in Phil
adelphia and New York looking to-
ward the establishment of indus
tries in Cape Charles.
The Agricultural Committee of the
Salisbury-Wicomico Chamber of !
Commerce is sponsoring through W.
Upshur Polk, Superintendent of the
Chesapeake & Atlantic
Company, the operation of
Livestock train" over that division !
within the next few weeks. The train
will be operated from one terminal /
of the Division to the other, making
stops in various towns enroute to
exhibit specimens of thoroughbred .
Ayreshire, Guernsey, Jersey and HOl- /
stein. Plans are on foot for the Op-
Grafton of a similar train on the |
Norfolk Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and it is believed that any
future trips are dependent upon the
success of the first.
Students of Washington College,
are assisting in the
of data for DR.. Esther
NJ. Dole, professor of history and
Raymond A. Fitzpatrick, professor of
commerce, who will later write the
history of the nine counties
Of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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An event of considerable signifi-
cance to the taxpayers of Delaware
was the announcement made Friday
hat a charter had been filed at Do
yer for the Taxpayers Research
League in Delaware. The annOunc-
I'd purpose of the Taxpayers Re-
search League is to make a contin-
lous scientific study of Government
problems in Delaware, including
luGSllOIS VI dto0GOOIlC4Alg IetAebLAOAAg
md the expenditure of public funds.
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The Pennsylvania Railroad is
planning immediate construction of
is improved freight terminal facil-
ties at Little Creek, near Norfolk,
Ia. This will be the most extensive I
ailroad freight ?ferrying operation of
is kind in the world, and its pres
mt tremendous volume of perishable
md othe rtraffic from southeastern
POINTS to Philadelphia, New York,
3Oston and other northern and east
IN markets should rapidly increase.
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The Secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce of Dover, Delaware is in
with Stainless
steel Boat Manufacturing Company
which is looking for a factory site.
This Company wants to locate in a
own where labor is available and
our feet of water at high tide may
e had.
Cape Charles had a community
Christmas around thir-
Y foot cedar Christmas tree which
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