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Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
THREE NAMES SIGNED
ON FEW AUTO LICENSES
Unusual Conditions Due To Changes
In Secretary OF States Office

Delaware automobile owners who
purchase license tags during the
next week will have the unusual dis
tinction of possessing registration
cards with the signatures of three
secretaries of State.
This unique situation was brought
about on Tuesday when orders were
issued to the various magistrates
throughout the State who sell auto
mobile tags, to return all unissued
registration cards to the office of the
Secretary of State at Dover in order
that the signature of Sylvester D.
Townsend, Jr., who was recently
appointed Secretary of State by Gov
ernor Robinson. might be attached.
A similar order was issued when
Miss Fannie Harrington was ap-
pointed to the office. At that time
all the unissued registration cards
were returned to the office and the
signature of the late William G.
Taylor blocked out and her own at
tached. This time her signature
will also be blocked out and that of
Mr. Townsend signed to them.
The order was issued Tuesday
morning and will not affect any reg
istration cards that were issued pri-
or to that time, regardless of wheth-
er or not they bear the signature of
Miss Harrington or Mr.. Taylor.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
DOVER CHORAL SOCIETY
in CONCERT AT WYOMING
Well Known Musical Organization
viii Give Unusual Program


There will be a very delightful
and unusual concert given at the
Round Table Club House, Wyoming,
on Friday, March 10Th, at 8 o'clock.
The Dover Choral Society will sing
some of its most popular numbers
such as '"The Bells of st. Marys" and
the Soldiers Chorus" from Faust.
They will also sing "Oh, Who Will
Der the Downs" which is the best
number they have ever sung with
out accompaniment. J. Hall Ander-
son will direct Mrs. Mary Burton
will sing Garry Me Back to Old
Virginny" with the chorus accom-
paniment. Mrs. Frank Hall Davis
will sing the lovely Ave Maria" of
Bach Gounod with violin Obligatc.
DR. Cummins and Mrs. Russell Viii
son. both of whom are favorites,
will sing solos. Miss Myrtle Lloyd
who has been heard recently by
many of our radio fans when she
broadcasted from Philadelphia will
sing a group of songs.
Mrs. J. S. Faulkner will play one
of her wonderful piano solos, in this
instance the Sixth Hungarian Rhap-
sodie by List. Everyone who has
heard Mrs. Faulkner has been en-
raptured by the beauty of tone, per-
fection of technique and mastery
Interpretation and her number is
looked forward to with eager expec-
tation.
Mrs. Nelson of Milford will also
be a great addition to the program.
Her delightful singing and playing
needs no comment as she is known
to be true artist. Mrs. Allie May
Moore will sing a solo.
There will be a group of violin
numbers by Mrs. ]. Hall Anderson
and some violin duets, vocal duets,
mems choruses and ensemble num-
bers.
The concert is to be for the bene-
fit of the Friends Foreign Service,
a worthy cause, especially at this
season.
There will be no reserved seats.
Tickets are fifty cents and can be
had at Wise's drug. store, Dover;
Caesar Rodney School, Camden, the
Harrington store, Harrington; Mrs.
McIlvaine, Magnolia; Mrs. William
Leach, Frederica and Mrs. Clyde
Nelson, Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
MILFORD FIREMEN CALLED
TO HOUSTON FIRE MONDAY
Home OF Thomas Doyle Destroyed
By Flames

Fire about o'clock Monday night
destroyed the home Of Thomas Doyle
in Houston. Members Of the family
were seated in the living room when
they noticed smoke and on opening
the door leading to the hallway
they found the stairway in flames.
The origin of the fire has not been
determined. The Carlisle Fire Com
pany of Milford answered a call for
help, but the house was too far gone
to save by the time the firemen ar
rived. Only a small quantity of
furniture was saved. The loss was
about $4,000 partly covered by in
surance.
William Wales a boarder lost $50.
The money was in a bureau drawer
in his room on the second floor.
Wales made an attempt to reach the
room but was overcome by smoke
and had to be carried out.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
DECREASE In FARM
OF STATE
In LAST SIX YEARS
Since 1920 White Farmers Have
Decreased 3l7.-.NegrOes Drop
1898.
INCREASE IN DAIRYTNC
Production Of Milk In Delaware
Gains l,6OS,7OS Gallons In Six
Year Period.

According to preliminary figures
of the United States Census Bureau
the farm population of Delaware
has shown a considerable decrease
since 1920. The white farm pOpula-
ton decreased from 42.250 in 1920
to 9S,933 in 1925. A similar decrease
is shown in the negro population on
the states farms, which show the
negro population on the farms in
1920 was 1862. as compared with
5729 in 1925. The number of farms
in the state as of May 2S, 1925 was
1G,257.
The value of farm implements de-
creased from S6,7S1,31S in 1920 to
$5,9O6,223 in 1925. The number of
tractors on farms in the state Janu-
airy l, 1925, was reported as 694.
The number of radio receiving sets
on the farms in Delaware January 1
of last year, was 352, out of the
total of 10,257 farms.
There are 1902 farms in the, state,
located on concrete or brick roads;
679 on macadam roads; 121 in gravel
roads; 2O39 on improved dirt roads,
and 4643 on unimproved dirt roads.
Although the decreases are not on
the farm population, a considerable
increase is shown in the amount of
milk produced in the last few years.
In 1919 the production was 1885,
313 gallons as compared with 49,
037 ,O16 in 1924.
A slight reduction in the mortgage
debt on farms is shown. In 1920 the
amount was $4,46O,416 as compared
with S4,325,556 in 1925.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
SECRETARY TOWNSEND
TAKES UP new WORK
Assumed Duties Monday Morn
ing.-Spent Day FamiIiarzing
Self With Work.

Sylvester D. Townsend, Jr., for
mer encouragement of Delaware,
who on Tuesday of last week was
appointed Secretary of State by
Governor Robinson, to succeed Miss
Fannie S. Harrington, who filled that
Office since last November, assumed
the duties of the Office on Monday.
He was sworn in last Saturday in
his Office at Wilmington by Magis-
trate Gluckman.
On Monday morning Mr.. Town
send went to Dover and spent all
morning familiarizing himself with
the details of the Office. Many of his
friends called to congratulate him
on his appointment, as Mr.. Town
send is almost as well known in Do
yer as he is in Wilmington, his
home.
Miss Harrington accepted the Of
flee early last November to meet the
exigency caused by the disappear
ance of William G. Taylor, then Sec
retary of State, who was drowned off
the North Carolina coast, as Cover
nor Robinson at that time was pre-
pairing to attend a meeting of the
National Grange, of which he is the
treasurer, in California. Miss Her
rington has filled the office in an ef-
ficient manner. When Mr.. Townsend
took up the duties of the office Miss
Harrington resumed her former po-
sition of chief clerk in the secre-
tary's office.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL AT
M. P. CHURCH MILFORD
Numerous Converts Have Been Made
During Three Weeks Campaign

A very enthusiastic revival cam
paign has been in progress for the
past three weeks at the Methodist
Protestant Church. Success has been
the keynote from the very beginning.
The attendance has been splendid,
the interest high, and there have
been a large number of conversions.
At practically every service people
have confessed acceptance of Christ.
The church, which has had an un-
usual history, has been greatly in
spired and strengthened by the meet
ings and is full of enthusiasm for
future work.
The services have been conducted
by Miss Grace G. Jones, we'll
known young evangelist of Balti-
more, who is accompanied by her
mother With a charming personal
ity and a winsome manner of pre-
senting the gospel she has held the
attention of her audiences night af-
ter night in deepest interest.
1t is a matter of interest to know
that Miss Jones, who is a member
of an old Southern family, and one
of Revolutionary War fame, is the
great granddaughter of Rev. John G.
Jones, one of the most prominent
preachers, as we'll as author of note
in the Southern Methodist Church.
Each afternoon during the cam
paign a very interesting Bible study
and prayer meeting has been held in
the church under the leadership of
Mrs. Jones.
Special musical selections have
been rendered each evening during
the series of meetings by the talent
ed church choir.
Attention is called to the mems
meeting, which will be held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Sunday is the closing day Of this
revival campaign.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
KENT COUNTY DIRT
ROADS TO Be WORKED
VERY SYSTEMATICALLY
Under New Plan Supervisors Will
Be Compelled To Follow Defi-
mite Plan.
HOPE FOR BETTER ROADS
If Scheme As Adopted Works Out
County Roads Should Be Much
Improved.

Kent County this year will launch
an entirely new plan of dirt road
building and maintenance, and the
Levy Court and County Engineer
Todd hope to very materially in
crease the efficiency of the force of
road workers through the working of
the new plan. Under the old system
each supervisor in the several repre-
sentative districts of the county has
worked the roads as he saw fit; us
ually in the early spring months
when farm work was impossible.
Under the new plan every supervis-
or is allotted a definite sum of money
and will work under very definite
plans which have been formulated
by the county engineer.
The county has purchased one
man graders and a five-tOn roller
These six new graders, with the four
previously owned, makes ten graders
now owned by the county and avail
able for dirt road purposes. This
number will supply each represen-
tative district of the county with one
grader. which can maintain five
hundred miles of road for two hun
dred days, making twenty round
trips each mile. The graders will be
used by ten road supervisors, one in
each of the ten districts of the cOun-
ty. The other ten supervisors of the
county will use four-horse drags, or
the equivalent, maintaining the re-
naming five hundred miles of roads
for two hundred days, making twen-
ty round trips on each mile.
Each supervisor is allowed one
labOrer for eighty days, or the equiv
alent, to install pipe, bramble, etc.
The county has four Case tractors,
each of which can grade one mile of
road in ten hours. Working these
tractors one hundred days, four hun
dred miles of road will be graded,
and the entire one thousand miles
of road maintained throughout the
year at an approximate cost of $4700
per mile
Heretofore the entire amount of
money allotted the road supervisors
of the county has been spent on the
roads during the spring months, and
the grading and other work has been
done according to the individual
ideas of the twenty road supervisors,
or, perhaps, in twenty different ways.
But now four hundred miles of road
will be graded and the entire road
system of the county maintained ac-
cording to the plans of the new sys-
tenn as worked out by Engineer
Todd Engineer Todd, under the
new system will be entirely respOn-
sible for the road system of the
county.
The Levy Court Commissioners,
the courts attorney and County
Engineer Todd entertained. at their
own expense, the twenty road super
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Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
COLLECTOR Herring WARNS
TAXABLES ABOUT RETURNS
Monday Is The Last Day On Which
To Send In Report

The period for filing income tax
returns ends midnight, Monday,
March Is, 1926. To avoid penalty, the
return, accompanied by at least one
quarter of the tax due-or estimated
tax due in the case of net incomes,
in excess of $5,000-must be in the
office of the Collector of Internal
Revenue, or deputy collector of in
ternal revenue by that hour.
In the case of individuals whose
net income for 1925 was $4,000 or
less, complete return is required
on Form 1040A. The commissioner
of internal revenue has granted to
individuals whose net income was
in excess of $4,000 and to corpora
tions, until May Is, 1926, to file a
complete return. However, tentative
returns in such cases are required
on or before March Is, and must be
accompanied by at least one fourth
of the estimated amount of tax due.
If the estimated tax is less than
shown to be due on the completed
return, the difference will bear in-
terest at the rate of per cent until
paid. Tentative returns should be
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Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
FORMER GOVERNORS SON
MARRIED LAST SATURDAY
Miss Daisy E. Rayne Bride OF John
G. Townsend, 3rd

Miss Daisy E. Rayne, daughter of
John and Sarah Rayne, of Ocean
City, Md, and John G. Townsend,
3rd, son of former Governor John
G. Townsend, Jr., of Selbyville,
eluded their many friends on Satur-
day night and went to Frankford,
where they were married by the
Rev. William Reed McElroy, pastor
of the d. Frankford Presbyterian
Church, formerly pastor OF White
Clay Greek Church, New Castle
county.
The bride is one of the most pop
ular young women of Worcester
county, Md. and has a large circle
of friends on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland and in lower Delaware.
Mr.. Townsend for many years was
associated in the fruit brokerage
business with his father, former
Governor Townsend, in Selbyville.
For the past few years he has been
engaged in the road contracting
business. having constructed many
miles of improved highway in North
/ Carolina. At the present time he is
engaged in road building work in
Florida.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
ANNOUNCE DELEGATES
TO LAY CONFERENCE
William C. Abbott Will Be Rep
resentative From Avenue M.
E. Church, Milford.

Following is the list of delegates
to the Laymen's Association from
the Dover District, Wilmington NJ.
E. Conference, which will meet in
Dover on Friday and Saturday,
March 26 and 27, holding a joint
session with the Wilmington Annual
Conference on Saturday:
Beckwith and Spedden, Roland
Dali, delegate; Howard Spedden, re-
serve.
Bethel, J. S. Gordy. delegate; An
drew Hastings, reserve.
Blades and Epworth, J. B. Lowe,
delegate; E. F. Dukes, reserve.
Bridgeville, H. P. Cannon, dele
gate; X. NJ. Wiley, reserve.
Cambridge, Granville Hooper,
delegate; E. S. Hubert, reserve.
Camden, DR.. L. S. Conwell, dele
gate; S. J. Spiel, reserve.
Canterbury, J. NJ. Lynch, delegate;
c. Singer, reserve.
Church Greek, Ira Jones, dele
gate; Olin Robinson, reserve.
CrapO, Wilbie Ruark, delegate;
George Bramble, reserve.
Dover, st. Pauls, J. A. Graham,
delegate; Harvey Farrow, reserve.
Wesley, w. B. Thornburg, dele
gate; J. W. Radish, reserve.
East New Market, F. B. Clifton,
delegate; G. w. Hubbard, reserve.
Glendale, J. A. Ellegood, dele
gate; D. NJ. Donovan, reserve.
Elliott's, Shelton Gray, delegate;
Winfield Gray, reserve.
Pennington, L. w. Richards, dele
gate; l.. LeCompte, reserve.
fredericksburg, C. A. COvey, dele
gate; w. F. Davis, reserve.
FELTON,, J. W. Killen, delegate; J.
T. Moore, reserve.
F'rederica, Lawrence E. Cain, del
egate; Howard Rogers, reserve.
Galestown, J. W. Hastings, dele
gate; S. F. Russell, reserve.
Georgetown, Frank M. Jones, del
egate; E. H. Ryan, reserve.
Georgetown Circuit, Edward Sam
mons, delegate; E. H. Tyndal, re-
serve.
Greenwood, c. H. Kinder, dele
gate; S. B. McIlvaine, reserve.
Harrington. L. T. Jones, delegate;
Mrs. L. T. Jones, reserve.
Hooper's Island, John A. Adams,
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Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
MILFORD'S TALENT
Give SHOW TONIGHT
my Friend From India" Prom
ises To Be A Delightful En-
tertainment.

MY Friend From India" MilfOrd's
big musical comedy, which has been
in preparation for some time, is to
be presented tonight (Friday) at the
Plaza Theatre, with a cast of over
seventy-five of Milford's best talent,
and judging from the interest shown
about town, and the advance ticket
sale, large house will witness the
performance.
The production is being staged by
the Wheeler Producing Company,
which staged Melody Land" with
big success last year, which is a
guarantee of another high class en-
tertainment. The show is being pre-
sented under the auspices of the Mil
ford Alumni Association, and is as
sured of the support of the cOmmun-
ity at large.
My Friend From India" is one
of the late musical comedies, writ
ten for laughing purposes only,
with plenty of action, a well defined
plot, and an abundance of good
wholesome comedy. A feature of the
performance is the solos and musi-
cal numbers, of which there are sew
eral, and in the hands of our best
singing and dancing talent should be
well presented.
The story of My Friend From In
dia" has to do with Erastus Under
holt, a retired Kansis City pork
packer. who moves to New York
with his family, and their endeavors
to get into society, and the comedy
situations which follow, form the
basis of one of the cleverest come
dies on the stage today. S. Willis
Hammond is to be seen as the gruft
old pork-packer; Virginia Mason and
Mrs. Wilson S. Vinyard as his
daughters; Viola Stadler as the
Dutch maid; Miss Leah Jordan as
Marion Hayste, and Mrs. George
Macklin as Arabella, the sister Ol
Erastus, who has been married twice
and is looking for the third.
Among the men parts in the cast
are Fred w. Ireland, who is to be
seen as Charles Underholt, who is
really the cause of all the trouble;
Ralph Tyler as Tom Valentine
Charles friend; Clarence Downing
as the missionary; H. Louder Grie1
as the policeman; Fulton J. Down
ing as Stokes, and H. J. Wheeler as
the Friend from India.
The chorus numbers are cOmpos-
ed of the following: The Society
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Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
YOUNG PEOPLES CONFERENCE
WILL BE HELD APRIL End
UndenOminatiOna Gathering Of
Youth From All Parts OF The State

Plans are being completed for an
undenominationa young peoples raj
", which will be held at Dover on
Friday, April End. Those in charge
of the work expect not less than 800
delegates from Kent county. Plans
for the meeting have been outlined
byCol. Cudlipp, young peoples su-
perintendent for Delaware and
Maryland. Not less than four young
people between the ages of 16 and
"a are expected to attend from each
Sunday school in Kent county. The
all-day program will be divided in
to several parts and will conclude
with a rousing fellowship supper
and council fire. An invitation and
request has been issued to every
Sunday school in Kent county to
send delegates to the meeting. The
present plans provide for the hold
ing of the conference in the Dover
Presbyterian Church.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
EXPECT new D. & c.
CANAL OPEN in JUNE
Sea Level Waterway Is Part Of
System OF Huge Proportions.
Viii Be Tolls Free.

The century-Old canal connecting
Delaware and Chesapeake Bays Will
cease to exist in two or three months
and in it's place will be a new 49,
900, 900 sea-level, tolls-free water
way.
This new project, constructed un-
der the supervision of Colonel Earl
1. Brown, United States Engineer
United States government, is one OF
the two final links in the longest
inland water route in this country
extending from the Great Lakes and
the st. Lawrence River on the north
to Beaufort, S. c,
Already the waterway from the
North to the South is clear, but not
until the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal and another short one across
northern New Jersey are completed
will it be possible to send large
boats along the entire inland route.
Plans for rushing the building OF
the North Jersey waterway between
Bordentown and South AmbOy were
discussed at length by officials Of
various cities along the route and
civic and business leaders last week
at a conference in Trenton, N. J.
The opening of the Chesapeake
Delaware Canal suggested for about
the middle of June, so as not to con-
fict with the Sesqui- i-COntennial cele-
bratiOn, will be the occasion of an
extensive celebration, at which high
Government officials, engineers, bus
mess men and State and city Off
cials will take part.
The depth of the new canal Is
twelve feet. This will be deepened to
thirty feet as Congressional appro-
priations are made annually in the
Federal budget.
The change from the Old-fash-
ioned lock canal to the sea-level
waterway probably will be made in
three or four days. Up to this time
the new construction work of widen
ing the canal has not interfered with
traffic through it. Unless there is
serious trouble from landslides while
the transfer is being made, there is
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Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
FARMERS MEET in MILFORD
THURSDAY, MARCH 18TH
Sessions Will BE Held III Grange
Hall In Evening

Those interested in farming and
agriculture affairs in lower Della
ware, have arranged meeting to
be held in Milford, in the Grange
Hall, in the evening of Thursday,
March 18th, which should be attend
ed by farmers and those interested
in truck and fruit growing generally.
This meeting will be addressed by
men who are well known in all parts
of this and other states, and the
subjects discussed will touch the
personal interests of all farmers.
One of the features of the meet
ing will be an explanation of the
operations of the Eastern States
Farmers Exchange. 1t will be stated,
that all who are patrons of the or
ganization are real members of the
Exchange and are entitled to all
dividends which have accrued dur
ing the past year, and also checks
for the last dividends struck, will be
given to those who have bought their
supplies through the Exchange dur
ing the past year, will be handed to
them in Grange Hall, March 18th.
J. D. link, who is manager of the
Eastern States Farmers Exchange,
will be the main speaker for that
organization.
The County Agent, M. G. Vaughn
of Sussex County, Delaware, and
Mr.. Asa Reynolds, of Georgetown,
will have charge of the Farmers
Bureau of Delaware end of the pro-
gram.
Those farmers in this section of
Delaware who have been associated
in financial affairs are especially in
vited to attend this meeting as we'll
as the general public.
Milford chronicle., 1926-03-12
THREATENING LETTERS
RECEIVED BY PERSONS
IN The BUTLER CASE
Jurors And County Officials
Among Those Who Have Been
Threatened.
hint BURNING HOUSES
Writer Says property Will Be
Burned" In Card To George.
town Postmaster.

Residents of Sussex county, and
especially OF Georgetown, are up in
arms over the receipt of several
anonymous letters and postal cards
pOstmarked Philadelphia threaten
ing the officials who took part in the
trial Of Harry Butler, who, on Feb
ruary 8, was convicted in the Sussex
county courts on a charge of crimi-
nal assault on 12-year-old Eleanor
Steinmetz, of near Bridgeville on
the afternoon of January 21, and
was hanged in the Jail yard at
Georgetown on Friday morning, Feb
ruary 26.
Not only have all of the jurors
who convicted Butler received let
ters, mailed from Philadelphia, and
written in red ink, but some of the
Sussex county officials. While the
blackhand letters received by the
jurors and county officials have not
been so threatening in their tone, yet
they have been considered of suffi-
cient Importance TO lead the govern
ment postoffice authorities to start
an investigation to run to earth the
author of the letters. Possibly the
thing which brought the postal au-
thorities to action was the receipt of
a postal card by Postmaster Jehu F.
Hudson of Georgetown, written in
capital letters on a typewriter with
a red ribbon, and addressed to the
"POstoffice Building, Georgetown,
Del"
The contents of the postal card
| follow: Negro exposed. Blood and
death. Property will be burned in
your city. White race. War, blood.
Armed banks Of colored people," On
Wednesday Postmaster Hudson re-
ceived a letter from Philadelphia
which was full of perforations to
represent bullet holes. The letter.
which has been turned over to the
postal officials, stated in effect that
the postoffice building was going to
be, destroyed and that bullets were
going to be used. Just why Postmas-
ter Hudson should be the target for
these blackhand letters is shrouded
in mystery, unless it was believed by
the writer or writer's that he would
convey the contents to the people
and place fear in them.
Local authorities are of the opin-
ion that it is the work of a religious
fanatic or some man or woman who
is mentally unbalanced. However,
they are leaving no stone unturned
to ascertain the guilty party or par
ties. At this time they are working
on a clue which may lead to some
arrests. Comparisons are being made
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