Milford chronicle., 1927-08-19
HAPPENINGS IN
Il AND ABOUT TOWN

A school of about 12 very large
porpoise passed near Rehobota on
Sunday, quite close to the Deach'
and attracted great deal OF atten-
ton. exciting all the spectators.
There will be a meeting of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Carlisle Fire
Company on Monday evening, August
22nd. at the Community Building at
7.3O. All ladies interested please be
present.
There will be a festival at Todds
Church on Thursday and FRIDAY
nights, August %, and 26. The pro
ceeds are to go toward repairing the
church. Don't forget the date. All
come have a good time.
At the baseball game on Saturday
between Milford and Dover on the
home diamond, Milford won, with
score of IA to 2. There will be no
game this week, and next weeks
game will be the last of the season.
G. A. Hall, Councillor for Milford
hundred visited Milwood last Sun
dav afternoon in the interest OF the
Intermediate Sunday School works
and will visit Houston Church next
morning and ThompsOnville in the
afternoon.
Little Hayes Dickerson, son OF
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Dickerson, enter
tanned a few of his little friends on
Thursday afternoon, in honor OF his
fifth birthday. Those present We're:
Margaret Ann Salevan, Evelyn Abb
bott,, Phyllis Ann Wilkins, Ray
Maloney, Elizabeth Kenton, Billie
Martin, Reese Jones and Bobbie
Murphy.
A meeting was held on Tuesday
night to plan a meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary
Club and the Town Council, to dis
. cuss the advisibility of an avenue
through the Milford boulevard or
about 200 yards east of Walnut
Street. The meeting will be held IN
the Community Building on Friday
at 7.30 p. m.
The girls from Milford who spent
the week at the All Boys and Girls
Club at Riverdale were; Louise
Vreeland, Myrl and Hazel McNicol,
Louise Higman, Dorothy, Alice and
Elva Davis, and Hazel Warner over
the weekend. There were only two
Milford boys, Heiman Rosa and |
Watson Shew, who stayed at the
boys cottage.
The corn crop is excellent in Della
ware, and fair to good in Maryland.
Tomatoes, unusually late this year,
are now ripening all along the East |
ern Shore and in Central Maryland. |
Late potatoes report progress and |
sweet potatoes are said to be doing |
as well as can be expected. Wet |
weather in the principal cantaloupe |
and watermelon sections have |
hampered these products to some |
extent.
Dog days officially ended on
Saturday at 2.58 a. M, although |
heirs, assignees and literary ex-
ecutors of the late Mr.. Noah Webster |
say that dog days are an indefinite
period of sultry weather coming |
some time between early June and
July and early September, during
which it is popularity supposed that
dogs are prone to lose their minds.
1t all dates back to the rising of
Sirius, the dog star in astrological
days.
B. Frank Potter and Robert w.
Dickerson can boast of the unusual
record of having threshed wheat,
Potter for 54 and Dickerson for 55,
consecutive years, on the farm.
This is the Potter homestead in
Cedar Neck and known as the B. 3.
Potter farm, now tenanted by
William COverdale. Mr.. Frank
Potter now lives in Milford, but
every year on threshing day he goes
back to the Potter farm to keep up
the record. This is probably more
than any other farmer of this sect
ion can say, to have threshed wheat
on one farm for that many years
without single break.
About thirty members of the w.
G. T. U. met for their annual picnic
at the cottage of Mrs. George Pierce,
the former State President, at
Slaughter Beach, on Tuesday after
noon. Their was first a devotional
service by Mrs. Samuel Welsh, fol-
lowed by business meeting when
plans were made for bake to be
held the last Saturday of this month
in the Pierce Hardware store. After
this Rev. Samuel Welsh made few
remarks pertaining to prohibition
and it's detrimental results upon
young people. The ladies, found the
sea breezes from Mrs. Pierce's
spacious porches, upstairs and down,
very pleasant and conducive to their
appetites for the basket lunch taken
by each. They reached Milford at