Milford chronicle., 1926-12-24
Milton Letter

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To the readers of the Milton let
ter the writer extends we'll wishes
for a Merry Christmas and A Hap
py New Year. We have tried iaith-
fully to give the happenings of the
community during the past year and
if we have, missed items OF impor-
tance to some it is because we had
not been informed of them. There
have been some happenings that
have not appeared in the letter be-
cause we thought the suppression of
such news would be the best for the
community. 1t has been said that "a
newspaper should be congratulated
for the news not published rather
than for the news published" " News
of a nature that is injurious to the
family or individual is not tit to
publish and only rebounds to the
discredit of the paper and the indi-
vidual more closely concerned. If
you, during the coming year, have
news of a social or informative ma
ture, we would be glad if you would
give it to the writer for publication.
You can help greatly in making the
letter more interesting. and enjoy
able by doing this. If your neigh
Dor has been mean, keep it to your
self; we don't want it. But if your
neighbOr has beautified his home
and surroundings, has grown re-
markable crop, is i'll, or visiting,
send the news in; we want it. Dur
ing the year we have received sew
eral communications from would
be funny folks" telling of some, to
them, comical happenings. Keep this
stuff at home. We will not use it.
While you are enjoying the Christ
mas season do not fail to remember
the less fortunate-especially the lit
tie folks, who, through laZiness or
illness of the parents, will receive
very little Christmas joy. Make it
your business to give them some
thing that will renew their faith in
Old Santa. Our Savior loved the lit
tie ones, as testified in the Good
Book on numerous occasions and if
YOU can make some of them happy
this Christmas you will be doing
His work. Try it this year. You
will be amply repaid by their happy
cOuntenances.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Ladies Aid Society of the NJ. r.
Church will meet at the home of
Mrs. DR.. Wiltbank Monday evening,
December 27.
A slight rain early Monday MORN
ing, freezing as it fell, caused the
Union street and Federal street hills
to be a mass of ice and dangerous
for automobile traffic. In coming
down Federal street hill car driv-
en- by Milton Belts, skidded and
turned completely around, crashed
into the curb in front of the Sussex
Trust Company building, breaking
rear wheel. Mr.. Belts escaped un-
hurt. A few minutes late car driv-
en- by Louis Clendaniel, coming down
the same hill and at almost the same
place, skidded on the icy road bed
and crashed into the sidewalk in
front of the home of Charles G.
Jones, and suffered a broken wheel.
The driver escaped injury. At the
corner of Union street and Broad
kill road, two trucks driven by Web
ster Jefferson and Adolphus Parsons
collided owing to the slippery sur
face of the road. The truck driven by
Mr.. Parsons received a broken rear
wheel while the Jefferson truck was
not injured. The. two trucks met at
the intersection of the roads and
both attempted to stop, but when the
drivers applied the brakes both
trucks began to skid and turned
completely around once or twice be-
fore they crashed.
The Ladies Aid of Sand Hill
Church will meet on Thursday eve
ming, December 3rd, at the home of
MIR. and hrs. Z. A. Workman, near
Gecl getown. All are invited to at
tend.
J.R. Atkins who was &aken to the
Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia,
last week for examination, has re-
turned home for a few days. He will
return to the hospital after the New
Year for treatment.
Lake Fanganzyki froze over on
Saturday night and on Monday the
youngsters of the town were skat-
ing over it's surface with great
deal of pleasure. The ice was about
three inches thick. On Monday NOR
ming the weather moderated and the
ice began to melt, stopping the fun.
Last week Edward Campbell but
chered two hogs that weighed SOL
and 400 pounds. These hogs were
nine months old.
Blizzard & Morris on Monday
caught about a thousand pounds of
rock fish in the Broadkill River,
near the oyster rocks. This is the
third large haul they have made of
rock fish this winter. The catching
of these fish in the Broadkill River
is unusual, and is explained by To-
cal fishermen because the mouth of
Indian River is closed up and these
fish come on up the coast to Broad
kill River, the first north of Indian
River and Rehoboth Bay. In the lat
ter river rock were caught in large
quantities each winter before the
mouth was closed by the shifting
sands. The fishermen in Indian Riv-
er have been compelled to stop haul
ing because the fish could not get in
over the sand bar for years and now
that the inlet is entirely closed the