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Evening star., 1927-11-17

The Washington Branch of the A
T. V. A. will meet tomorrow after
noon in the home Of the director. Mrs.
George Tully Vaughan, at t71S |
street northwest, at $3.50 o'clock. The
president. Mrs. +. TAYLOR Ellyson of
Richmond and Miss Alethea LupeIi
director Of the Norfolk branch, will
be present.
Mrs Virginia White Speel and Mrs.
Evening star., 1927-11-17
City Without a Pupil.

Not a single child of school age is
4 the City Of Tuscarora. metropolis of
Evening star., 1927-11-17

plan. Other interisiand lines will be
established if the first line proves a
Evening star., 1927-11-17
Sweet Briar Alumnae
10 Give Dinner Tonight.

The Washington Chapter of the
Sweet Briar College Alumnae will
give dinner tonight at the Club
ST. Marks in honor of DIR. Meta
Glass, president, Of Sweet Briar Col
legc. Va. At the dinner will be:
Miss Margaret Banister. Miss Eliz-
aheth Brady, Miss Adela ide Douglas.
Mrs. Peyton Evans. Mrs. Theodore
Gill Miss Nancy Hanna, Miss Fran
ces Henderson, Miss Emily Mackan,
Mrs. Harold Morrey. Mrs John
Mathews. jr.; Miss Dorothy Mark
ham Miss Lucille Schooltield. Miss
Josephine Snowden. Mrs. William r.
Sims. jr.: Mrs. Jared Wood and Mrs.
Bernard Wyckoff
Evening star., 1927-11-17

Washington this week and will be in
her apartment in the Maytiower Hotel
Evening star., 1927-11-17

Miss Lucy Brickenstein will he
hostess at the Arts Club this eve
ming, when the program will be given
by Miss Clelia Florvanti, mezzo-
soprano; Miss Margaret Day. cellist,
and Mrs. Olaf LaCour Olsen Of Tulsa.
Okla, and Miss Frances Gutelius.
pianiStS.
Evening star., 1927-11-17

Miss Helen Galley. daughter of Mr..
end Mrs. n. Prescott Galley. enter
tanned u company of the season
debutantes at luncheon today in com
nli,nent TO Miss Florence Wetherill.
Evening star., 1927-11-17

Mrs. r. Septimus Austin and her
daughter, Miss Madeleine Austin. Will
return 10 this country next week on
the Ma ieStic and will be at the Glad
stone in New York for some time.
Evening star., 1927-11-17

Mrs. William +. Dennis and her
daughter. Mrs. Charles Nelson Riker.
viii he at home tomorrow afternoon
fnforn,allv from to 6 o'clock ir their
home at 1883 r street, for which they
here issued no cards
Evening star., 1927-11-17

Mrs. John r. Williams is visiting
her daughter. Mrs. John Rallantlne
pitney, in Aiken. $. &.
Evening star., 1927-11-17

The benefit card party for Beaure.
gard Chapter No. 1902, United Daugh.
ters OF the Confederacy, at the Con.
federate Memorial Home 1922 Yer
Evening star., 1927-11-17

Mrs. Albert $. Maddox entertain
is guests at luncheon and bridge
xoday.
DR.. and Mrs. Maddox will entertain
1t dinner Monday evening. December
;d2, in honor Of Miss Edna Root of
New York, who will make her debut
Thursday, December Is.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
MARKETING OFFICIALS
PLAN CONVENTION
Six States, Including Some Agricul-
tural Colleges, To Be Represented

W. T. Derickson, director of the
Bureau of Markets for the State
Board of Agriculture of Delaware,
and who is also president of the
National Association of Marketing
Officials, has made tentative ar
rangements for the annual conven-
ton of the organization to be held
at the Hotel duPOnt-Biltmore in
Wilmington on Tuesday, March 15.
This organization comprises the
marketing officials of Pennsylvania,
New York, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia. It also en-
braces agricultural colleges and
agronomy experimental stations and
other officials in any way connected
with the marketing of fruit and pro-
duce.
The program for the one-day con-
vention embraces a review of mar
keting work done in the Middle At
lantic States and the two divisions
to be discussed will be types of
work and how financed.
Shipping point inspection reports
have been divided into three items,
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
GROUNDING Saw HIS
SHADOW ON WEDNESDAY
Ii Old Tradition Holds True We Are
in for Six Weeks of Winter
Six more weeks of winter

SIX more weeks OIL winter
Greeted by a chorus of mingled
cheers and grOans, a tiny ground
hog thrust his head above ground
Wednesday morning, took one look
at his shadow and darted back to his
subterranean headquarters. Before
returning to his dugout home he left
word that he would be back in six
weeks.
The cheers came from the sled
and skate enthusiasts, the college
boys who had just acquired raccoon
coats, and the coal man. The grOans
came from the rest of the public
half frozen and longing for the hal
cyon days of spring.
Tradition has it that every Febru-
ary 2 the grounding emerges from
his underground suite, where, for
months past, he had been snugly
sleeping, and turns his weather eye
upon the world. If he doesn't see
his shadow, all well and good. But
if he does see his shadow, he re-
turns to his nook below the earth's
surface, for instinct tells him that
for another six weeks Jack frost will
continue his reign.
Just how much dependence can be
placed upon the little animals judg-
ment is subject to argument, but the
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50 MILES OF STATE
HIGHWAY COMPLETED
Favorable Legislation At Dover Ex-
pected To Add so Miles This Year

With the exception of the year
1928, which was unusually condu-
Give to highway construction the
year just closed resulted in the lar
gest mileage, namely S3 miles OF
highway being completed. This
makes a total of 592 miles of i'm
proved highways throughout Della
ware. If the plans for road work
this year are approved by the Cen
eral Assembly, upwards of 80 miles
more of highway will be built.
In addition to the regular con-
crete highways constructed in 1926
the modern bascule bridge planned
for Rehoboth was completed. the
Broadkill River crossing is half I'm
ished and will be in operation be-
fore June. In this connection one OF
the most important items under
taken by the highway commission
last year and which got under way
the latter part of December is the
new bridge across the Christiana at
the foot of Market street. 1t is ex-
pected that it will require IL months
for it's completion. In addition to the
past years awards there was car
ried forward from the previous year
10 miles into the working total Oh
1926. making a grand total Of ITO
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
SEAFORD OYSTER
PACKERS Are FINED
DOnOhO & Company We're Using
Cans A Triile Less Than The
Legal Size.

Judge Morris in U. S. District
Court at Wilmington handed down a
decision Saturday morning that will
affect the canning of oysters
throughout the peninsula and Eas-
tern Shore, when he fined George w.
and Alexander DonOho of DonOho &
Co., oyster packers, of Seaford, SO
each for violating the Pure Food
and Drug Act. The government
charged the defendants with ship
ping oysters in alleged gallon cans
that were on the average 11s per
cent short.
The defense of the DOnoho BROTH
ers was that they lave been pur-
chasing their cans from the AtlanA
tic Can Co., of Baltimore and that
every large shipper throughout the
peninsula and along the Eastern
Shore is using the same cans.
If this is true, they told the court,
then every shipper using these cans
is subject to a fine in violation of
the Pure Food and Drug Act.
The chief witness for the govern
ment was DR.. Clement S. BrintOn, of
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
PARENT-TEACHERS PLAN
SUSSEX FEBRUARY MEETINGS
Lincoln Home Association Meets
February 18th

Meetings of Parent-Teacher As
sociations or Community Clubs are
always far more interesting if some
of the people from nearby districts
are among the visitors. For this
reason, a schedule of meetings to be
held in Sussex County in the near
future may serve to get a few in
terested citizens to make the extra
trip to hear the speaker or to get
acquainted with his neighbors.
On Wednesday, February 9Th, the
regular meeting of Flowers PIT. A.,
near Seaford, is to be held; on the
10th, Delmar Association is to meet.
On Tuesday, the 18th, Cannon P-T.
A., near Seaford and Blades, are to
have their meeting; while on the
same evening, the shcOOl building
program is to be the subject talked
of by members of Seaferd PIT. A.
Lincoln Home and Social Associa--
ton is to meet on February 16; and
on Friday, the 18th, both Fishers
and Wainwrights, near Seaford' will
make it welcome for visitors. On
Tuesday, February %, Ellis Com
munity Club, at Oak Grove, plans to
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
CENTURY OLD CANAL
CHANGED FROM LOCK
TO TIDEWATER LEVEL
Water Released On Tuesday And
Final Work Was Started On
Project.
SHIPPING Is BENEFITED
New Waterway Completes Link
OF Inland Waterway Along
Atlantic Coast.

A new inland waterway linking
by tidewater the Delaware River
and the Chesapeake Bay, eliminated
on Tuesday a century-old dream of
United States engineers when at
a. M, the wicket gates of the ancient
locks along the Delaware and Chesa-
peake Canal released for the last
time the flood of waters that ended
for all time the lock levels that have
impeded the free passage of vessels
along it's 13-mile course.
AS the waters of the historic ditch
cut across Delaware more than a
hundred years ago, flowed gradually
through the antiquated locks into
the new tidewater channel, the
Government yacht, Josephine" with
a distinguished party of visitors
aboard, nOsed its way through the
ice foes which jammed the channel
from Delaware City to the Maryland
locks, while Colonel Earl 1. Brown,
United States District Engineer, ex-
planned in detail to his guests, points
of interest in connection with the
$10,O00,000 project.
When the inspection party, prom
inent among which were Governor
Robinson and J. Hampton Moore,
ex-Congressman and former mayor
of Philadelphia arrived, two feet of
water had already spilled into the
reconstructed basin, beginning the
imperceptible elimination of the lev
ell which at this point had been z 1-2
feet above the sea.
While a cutting wind beat across
the deck of the Josephine" as it
steamed rapidly through the ice
checked channel, the scene along
the bleak banks of the ditch shift
ed constantly, presenting many in
teresting pictures. AS the water
dropped inch by inch from its orr
ginal 27-foot elevation toward its
final depth of II feet, row boats,
fishing smacks and other river craft
were left stranded high and dry
along either shore. The pilings
forming the foundations of shacks
and cabins which had hitherto rest
ed beneath the water, were now eX-
posed, adding an exotic touch to the
drab, muddy strip left in the wake
of the receding canal. The falling
water-mark exposed to view the
nests of thousands of muskrats
which could be seen scurrying along
the shores seeking new homes.
Ferry Business Ends
An old man carrying shotgun
was observed standing guard at one
point along the route. State police
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
BLAME DELAWARE
IN TRUCK MIDDLE
Dairymen of Talbot Co., Say Md.
Trucks Were Underbid ON Hauls

Dairymen of Talbot County Mary
land are much concerned over the
reciprocity agreement between Mary
land and Delaware. They maintain
that the trouble started originally
over Delaware trucks undertaking
Maryland trucks for hauling milk in
Maryland and when the appeal was
made that Delaware trucks should
pay the same license as Maryland
trucks in hauling milk. This will be
one of the many questions to be dis
cussed at a series of meetings to be
held in the Eastern Shore sections.
Marylanders claim that when this
was enforced Delaware had no law
like Maryland's but applied another
law, and hence the large number of
trucks carrying live stock, fruits,
vegetables, etc., through Delaware
are burdened with an extra tax that
runs the costs Of operating very
high. -
The dairymen have been opposed
to this tax from the start and be-
lieve that so long as one farmer
! brings milk to town he should be
allowed to bring his neighbor's if he
cares to without being penalized.
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
PIERRE S. DUPONT
SAYS THAT KENT AND
SUSSEX PAY FILING FEE
Most OF The DeIinquents Reside
In Wilmington Budget Com
mittee Hears.
SHOULD YIELD $33O,OOO
Repeal Of Law Would Reduce
The School Finances Very
Materially.

Penalties imposed for the non
payment of the So filing fee have
been extremely severe Pierre S. du-
Pont, State Tax Commissioner, Tues
day morning admitted to the mem
bers of the joint budget committee
of the Legislature when he appeared
before the committee for questioning
relative to the budget for his de-
partment for the next two years.
The admission came in response
to a question from Chairman Hall.
Mr.. DUPONT said that many of those
who had failed to pay the filing fee
did so because Of a lack of know
ledge of the law.
Mr.. DUPONT was accompanied by
Gerald MOntaigne, who has been his
assistant in the work of the tax COM
missiOner's office. Many members
of the Legislature not members of
the budget committee as well as
numerous visitors crowded into the
supreme court room where the hear
ing was held to hear Mr.. duPOnt's
statement.
Just before the hearing was con-
cluded Senator Allen, president pro-
tenn of the Senate, who is a mem
Der of the committee, said he desired
to compliment Mr.. DUPONT on the eX-
cellent report and on the way he
has conducted the office. Chairman
Hall, of the committee, at the close
also thanked Mr.. DUPONT for his
comprehensive report.
20 Cnrofnrs A A11nVa1c
marks complimenting him for the
way he has conducted the office, Mr..
dupont said he felt much of the
credit is due to Mr.. Mantaigne, who,
he said, has really done most of the
hard work.
The State Tax Department is ask
ing for $92,985 for 1928 and $88,9O5
for 1929 and the governor has rec
commended these sums in his tenta-
tive budget. In 1926 and 1927 the
department was allowed an apprO-
priation of $4,000. Mr.. DUPONT said
he took charge of the office in No
vember 1925, and in the first year
they expended $4,000 most o
which sum was for salaries, the in
crease in this item alone being $685.
900. Prior to his assumption of the
office no auditor had been employed
and the department accounts had
not been audited for four years.
The department employs an auditor
a bookkeeper and an extra cashier.
The other items of expense were for
extra clerical help.
Several members of the commit
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
KENT ASSESSMENT BOARD
ACCUSED OF ALTERING RETURNS
Hearing Before Levy Court Will Be
Resumed By Defendants Today

The investigation by c. L. Terry,
Jr., attorney for the Kent County
Levy Court, at the instigation of the
court over week ago, into the af-
fairs of the Kent County Board OF
Assessment as to a violation OF the
law under which they are working,
in the raising or lowering OF assess
ments after posted notices had been
filed, was resumed at Dover last
Friday, there being five property
owners heard, three of whom, 1t
was shown, had had their assess
ments raised and two lowered con-
trary to the law.
without hearing any further VIII
nesses Attorney Terry notified the
court that he believed he had made
out a sufficient case for them to take
whatever action they saw ut
against the three members OF the
board, Messrs. Cooper, Moore and
Hughes, and that he would not pro
duce any further witnesses or look
into any other cases which mlghC
be found on the assessment books.
Messrs. Hughes, Satterfield ana
Hutton representing the three mem
bers of the board asked for an ad-
iournment until today, when they
would present their case in defense
of the accusations of irregularities.
The request was granted.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
MILFORD CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE WANTS SUGGESTIONS
New Organization Is Now Housed
In New Quarters

The Milford Chamber of Com
merce is now housed in it's Office, in
the Northeast corner, on the second
floor of the Community Building,
and awaits the inspection of all who
are interested in the welfare of,
THE Finest Town of the First
State"
We are particularly interested in
seeing those who as yet may have
any doubts as to the great pOssibi-
lities and opportunities of an active
Chamber of Commerce, made so by
the actice participation of all the in
terested townspeople. Have you
suggestion which you feel would
help to make Milford cleaner, bet
ter place, in which to live? There
are no doubt, many who have such
suggestions, and you are therefore
welcomed to the meetings of your
Chamber of Commerce, which meets
on the first Monday evening of each
month. It is only by coming to-
gether and voicing our objections
and suggestions that we will be en-
abled to step forward in Il : path of
progress.
All are welcomed although only
members have a vote, however,
every suggestion will receive cour-
teous and prompt attention.
"We stand for the right of every
child to a childhood free from
grinding toll, and to an education;
for the civic responsibility and de-
cency of every citizen, for prudent
foresight in public matters, and for
fair play in every relation of our
national and economic life-and to
set the ultimate interest of all of
us above the temporary interest of
any individual, class or group"
Although this was a statement
made by one of the best statesmen
the world has ever known, "Theo-
dore Roosevelt" it is just what we
are going to stand for.
If you are a member, take a real
continued on page six)
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
KENT COUNTY TEACHERS
MEET AT DOVER TOMORROW
Topics Of Interest to be Discussed
BY Association Memoirs

The Kent County Education AS
sociation will meet at Dover on Sat
urday at Dover high school. The
following program has been arrang-
ed: Opening song, "Our Delaware"
invocation by the Rev. R. c. Helfen-
stein, D. D., pastor of the Peoples
Christian Church; 9.45, greetings,
Prof. A. ]. Peters; 9.55, Delaware
School Building Needs and the Way
Out" DR.. H. V. Holloway, State
superintendent of public instruction,
song, America"
1925 address, "The Creative
Spirit" Clyde F. Lytle, head Of Eng
lish department, Keystone State Nor
NAL School, Kutztown, Pa, Ills,
business meeting; noon luncheon.
Dinner will be served by the Wom-
ems Missionary Society of the Peo-
ples' Christian Church. Music for
this occasion will be furnished by
Horner's Orchestra. The dinner
will be in charge of Mrs. Catherine
Heite. The toastmaster will be Su-
perintendent John Shilling; song
leader, Miss Reba Tatman. Dover.
Afternoon session: 1.45, song,
mend this road to the state high
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
KENT COUNTY LEVY
COURT HAS BUSY DAY
Hears Complaints Of Unfit Roads |;
Will Take Action

Kent County Levy Court at its
weekly session Tuesday was swamp
ed with road delegations from diff
ferent parts of the county, ten in all,
which kept the three commissioners
busy until late in the afternoon, they
having heard the delegations first.
The first delegation heard was
that from the Ninth district, between
Andrewville and Pennington a dis
tance of two and One-half miles,
where relief was asked over a
greasy dirt road.
The second delegation was headed
by B. H. Emory who asked for relief
for a strip of road south from Ches-
void to Hughes Cross Roads.
A third delegation headed by Pres
ident Walker of Clayton Town COun-
Gil, asked for improvement of a
strip of road three quarters of a
mile long, from the railroad at Clay
ton to the stone road.
A fourth delegation headed by w.
Rawding, of the Ninth district, ask
ed for relief for road from Har-
rington to Whiteleysburg by way of
Whites church, distance Of seven
miles.
A delegation from Smyrna petition
ed for improvement of road from
Raymond's school house to Harper
mill pond, a distance of two and
three-quarters of mile.
Rev. Stewart of Viola asked for
the improvement of road from Viola
to Petersburg, a distance of four and
five-tenths miles leading to stone
road. The court agreed to recon-
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Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
THREE GOVERNORS FAVOR
DEL-MAR-VA CONGRESS
Executives of Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia Endorse Movement


and Virginia Endorse Movement
Chris L. Christensen, head of the
Division of Cooperative Marketing.
Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, D. c., will be the principal
speaker at the second day session
of the Del-Mar-Va Takes Inventory
Congress, in First Regiment Armory,
Salisbury, Nd, February 18th. His
personal acceptance of an invitation
to address the Congress was re-
ceiyed this week at the Del-Mar-Na
Eastern Shore Association offices.
Congress officials express gratltl-
cation in having Mr.. Christensen,
owing to the fact that as national
authority on marketing and agrl-
culture he will cover one of the
most vital subjects the Congress
has to consider.
Letters from the Governors Of
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia,
sponsoring the Congress, were made
public at the Del-Mar-Va Assocla-
ton headquarters this week. They
follow:
From Governor Robert P. Robinson,
of Delaware:
Mr.. Frederick P. Adkins, President,
Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shore Asso.'
Salisbury, Maryland.
My Dear Mr.. Adkins:
The State of Delaware is vitality
interested in the success of the Del
Mar-Va Congress. While not all OF
the State of Delaware is dependent
upon the success Of our agr1cul-
tural industry, am very well aware
CONTINUED on page seVen)
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-04
DELAWARE SCHOOLS
in ORATORY CONTEST
James M. Tunnel, Jr., OF
Georgetown, Will Again Strive
For HOnOrs.

Additional impetus has been Civ
en- the Fourth National OratOrical
Contest on the Constitution by the
enrolment of ten Delaware schools
with the Philadelphia Regional
Committee.
Other schools are expected to en-
roll according to H. V. Holloway.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction, under whose direction the
elimination contests in Delaware
will be held.
Coming from a State which fur
nished a regional finalist last year,
the enrolment of Delaware schools
lends a zest to the contest and puts
into it an Interstate rivalry which
the sponsoring committee feels is
sure to add to the interest of the
contest in this region. Last year
James NJ. Tunnel, Jr., Georgetown
High junior, won second place in the
regional finals and was chosen al
ternate to Thomas P. Cleary, st.
Joseph (Pa.) College High senior
who represented the area in Wash
ingtOn.
Delaware will stage a spirited
State contest under Mr.. HOllOway's
direction, assisted by John Shilling,
assistant in charge of high schools.
Tunnel, who gave Cleary a close
fight for regional hOnOrs last year,
is back in the field hoping again to
win his state contest and compete
with the regions best for the honor
of becoming a national finalist.
The following Delaware high
schools have enrolled to date: Do
yer, Georgetown, Laurel, Middle
town. Newark, RehOboth Beach,
Smyrna, Caesar Rodney, Milton, and
Bridgeville.
The contest, consisting of the
preparation and delivery of ten-min-
ute orations on one of eleven sub
jects relating to the Constitution, is
open to public, private and paro-
chial secondary school students un-
der nineteen.
The Philadelphia Region includes
Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern
New Jersey and Delaware.
The regional winner will be
awarded a four-year scholarship in
any college or university of his or
her choice, or an extended educa-
tional tour of Europe. He or she
also becomes eligible to represent
this area in the American National
finals in Washington, May 20.
The committee stresses the I'M
portance of schools sending in their
registration cards, so they may be
recorded as competing and supplied
with supplemental instructions. Ehe
office of the Philadelphia Regional
Committee, of which Walter l..
Capelli is executive secretary, is 524
Bulletin Building, Philadelphia.