Milford chronicle., 1927-10-07
MILFORD. FRIDAY. OCT. 7, 1927
WITH THIS ISSUE the Milford
VVChronicle starts the fiftieth year

VChronicle starts the fiftieth year
of its existance in the community
where it was conceived and brought
into being by its present owner and
editor, Colonel Theo. Townsend, and
julius E. Scott, who has for many
years been retired and lives in Mil
ford at the present time. Since Oc-
tober 1st, 1878 many things, and
much that is of great Importance,
has become history since the first
issue of the Chronicle was present
ed to the people as four-page sew
en-column local paper. 1t was print
ed then and for several years on
what is known in printing machin-
cry lists, as a Washington hand
press, by its two Originators, assist
ed by Mr.. Harry Davis, as their only
employee, and who is now at the
head and sole owner of the Draper,
Davis Phosphate Company with its
principal works in Milford.
With each succeeding year, the
young men of nearly fifty years ago,
persisted in preparing and printing
the Chronicle and presenting it to
the people of Delaware, as clean
local newspaper, devoted to the NOR
al and financial welfare of the COM
munity where it had its birth and
existance, but also especially the
lower end of Delaware and the State
at large.
The first edition printed was just
a few copies over one thousand,
which were sent to list of actual
subscribers whose support had been
solicited and authorized from each
individual, and that number has new
er been changed as the minimum
weekly circulation, and there is a
score or more of those original sub
scribers who have been receiving it
each week since that time forty
nine years ago, yet on the mailing
lists. an4ss seN
From then the Milford Chronicle
has progressed with a steady in
crease in circulation, until there is
now a bona fide subscription list Of
those who receive the Milford Chron-
icle each week, which averaged for
the year past, total of 6724 copies,
ranging in size from an eight-page,
of eight, columns to each page, to
twenty-page paper, all delivered
through the U. S. Mail, and sold by
the local news dealers in Milford.
Our press records and the records
made for National Advertisers, which
are all sworn to before legal author
ity and are indisputable, is the basis
for this statement.
From the old Washington hand
press to a modern printing press
with it's mechanical equipments to
produce a paper of twenty pages or
more, has been a long road of pro-
gress.
At present the third type setting
machine of the latest modern model
and equipment, which was ordered
from the Exposition Of Machinery in
New York last month, is being in
stalled by the Linotype Company
and will soon be in operation. When
this is finished there should be a
very marked improvement in the ty-
and general appearance of
The Chronicle, which the printing
craft will observe probably before
The average reader of the weekly
but it will be a distinct ad-
rance in the weekly newspaper that
IS making effort for high aims in
The Milford Chronicle has been
me of the dreams of its creator and
,wner for many years. The purpose !
las been to present all the local {
Jews that is fit to print of the home {
own, as well as of the State of Del ]
ware, with emphasis on the two ]
over counties, and with fairness {
nd justice to all.
Its aim has always been to express {
airly and clearly its attitude and I
osition as to moral questions affect S
ng public interests in public life, as a
yell as religious welfare. eve" have
lways advocated progressive busi- '
ess methods for all agricultural in +
erests touching our farmers espe- /
tally, and progressive fruit and pro- I
uce of the fields. a
Believing in cooperation in trans f
we have advanced all eff S
)rts to bring about better and less o
1stly transportation for Delaware
roducts to the great markets of the b
orld. a
Since it's beginning there has not b
zen one issue of the Chronicle s
issed in the forty-nine years of its o
even when a fire de- a
royed a part of the plant in 1920. "
came out only day late, through n
urtesy of its neighbors and friends. it
our dreams of what a rural week n
newspaper should be, have very p
.gely come true in the years I'VE" cl
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