Milford chronicle., 1926-06-11
Milton Letter

hacking peas and expect to nnlSp |
hacking next week. The crop this |
wear is greatly curtailed because Of
weather conditions being very un-
favorable. The acreage planted 10
meas this year is about two-thirds |
the usual acreage sOwn because OF
the unfavorable market conditions.
L. A. Pepper, who recently sofa
his Droperty on Union street because
of i'll health. will sell his household
goods at public sale on Saturday al
ternoon. June 19. Mr.. Pepper has
sold his stock of merchandise to Z.
prank Jefferson, who will conduct a
general store in the property Vaca-
ted by Mr.. Pepper. Mr.. Jefferson mas
also bought the store property
Milton residents were shocked aI
the sudden death of Miss Lima ret
tviohn at her home on Federal
street on Saturday morning. MISS
Pettviohn retired on Friday evening
in anparent good health but during
the night she was taken ill and call
cd Rev. and Mrs. J. S. EldrldSe,
neighbors, who hurried to her elu
and summoned DR.. r. B. HOPKINS
but death occurred before the physl-
clan arrived. Miss Pettyjohn has con-
Quoted a ladies furnishings stoIe
here for many years. She had start
ed the erection of handsome nome
on Federal street, above Sand, and
unon its completion expected to re-
fire from business. The deceased was
57 wears of age and was the daugh-
ter of the late George w. and Mary
H. Pettyjohn. For years she was d
clerk in the Hilyard store at George
town. Funeral services were held on
Tuesday by Rev. J. S. Eldridge and
interment made in Sand Hill ceme-
terry by w. T. Atkins, funeral direc-
tor of Lewes. =,
George w. Carpenter, well
known farmer of Broadkill district,
died at his home on Thursday, June
3rd. after an illness of several years.
Age Al years. He leaves a wife and
four children. He was the son OF
John Carpenter, a retired farmer, OF
Milton. Funeral services were held
on Saturday afternoon and inter-
ment made in Whites Chapel ceme-
l.
Charles Henry Banning of Milton
and Ethel Kate Moore of Lincoln
CITY. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Robert Moore, were married at the
Milton NJ. P. parsonage on June 2nd
by Rev. A. H. Green.
Rev. Green also married on June
5th Herman Clifford Daisey, OF
Stockley, and Della Elizabeth Rick
ards. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
ry Richards, of Stockley, at the NJ. T.
parsonage.
Automobile drivers of Milton find
that the new concrete road from Mil
ton to Waples Mill, joining the Mil
ford-Rehoboth road, makes the dis
tance to Milford and points north
much shorter, and pleasant to drive.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Hickman
of Philadelphia, spent the weekend
with his mother, Mrs. John A. Hlck-
man.
Work on the new bridge over the
Broadkill River at Drawbridge, is
progressing rapidly. When complet-
ed the Milford-Rehoboth road Will
have no detour its entire length.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Hahn spent the
weekend with Wilmington relatives.
Milton public schools have closed
and the out of town teachers have
left for their various homes. The
school year has been a most sue
cessful one, a class of thirteen grad
uated.
Harvey Wells is erecting a resi-
dence on Atlantic street on part OF
the land he recently purchased of the
Samuel Martin heirs. Mr.. wells
sold plot of this land to the Broad
kill Pearl Company, button manu-
facturers, who will shortly begin the
erection of a modern factory build
ing thereon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Darby OF
Philadelphia, have been guests OF
his grandmother, Mrs. William
Greene.
Joseph Lank, Jr., a student OF
Peirce's Business College, Philadel-
phia, is spending his summer vaca-
ton with his parents in Milton.
Charles G. NAPLES has improved
the appearance of his property al
the corner of Mill and Chestnut
streets by a coat of paint and the
erection of a front porch.
Bobby" Black is quite i'll with
measles at the home of his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert B. Black on
Federal street.
Mary Betty Crouch who has been
very i'll at the home of her parents
is greatly improved.
Children's Day services will be
held in the NJ. P. Church on Sunday
evening, June 13. An appropriate
program of recitations, dialogues
and singing has bee narranged by
the Sunday school teachers and pu-
pills.
A strawberry festival was held by
the Golden Rule Sunday school class
of Milton NJ. P. Church on Saturday
evening.
Having filled every available place
on their mill grounds for lumber the
Gillis Crate and Shook Mills are
storing the surplus on portion OF
the base ball lot. This concern has
bought several tracts of timber and
have saw mills on them converting
the timber into suitable lumber for
the manufacture of shocks. They
ship out several carloads of crates