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Milford chronicle., 1927-04-29
APPOINT MARKET EXPERT
FOR DEL-MAR-YA PENINSULA
DIR. BOmberger, Marketing Expert,
To Study Conditions

Official announcement of the ap-
pointment of DR.. Franklin B. Bonn
berger, Chief of the State Depart
ment of Markets, University of Mary
land, to the position of Director of
the Marketing Bureau of the Del
Mar-Va Eastern Shore Association
was made at the offices of the asso-
citation at Salisbury this week. DR..
Bomberger is well known to agricul-
tural experts of Delaware.
President H. J. Paterson and the
trustees of the University Of Mary
land will, it is understood, grant a
years leave of absence to DR.. Bonn
berger in order that he may bring
his wide and varied experience in
the field of marketing to the agri-
cultural interests of the Peninsula.
DR.. Bomberger will assume his
new position on May 1, spending by
special request of the zoard of gov
ernors of the Del-Mar-Va Associa-
ton, two or three weeks in making
a closeup study of the methods
pursued by the principal co-opera-
tive marketing associations in var
ious parts of the country-particu-
larly in the Northwest and on the
Pacific Coast. On his return from
this itinerary, he will Immediately
begin operations from offices which
are now being equipped for him in
Salisbury.
In connection with DIR. Bomberg-
er's appointment, the Del-Mar-Va
Association, through its president,
Fred P. Adkins, issued the following
statement:
"The demand for experienced,
technical leadership on the market
ing end of the Peninsula's problems
was so strongly forced upon the
attention of the governors of this
association at our recent Inventory
Congress that a special committee
comnrised Of Graham Gunby, Charles
G.. GeldeI and myself was appointed
to select an eXpert and to negotiate
with him. Since March first, when
CONTINUED on page fiye)
Milford chronicle., 1927-04-29
ANONYMOUS WRITER
PRAISES MILFORD GIRLS
Unsigned Letter Received BY ChrOn-
icle Which Tells OF Experience

The following statement written
in fair to good penmanship came to
the office of the Chronicle last Mon
day through the post office under
post mark of Milford. The vital
point which destroyed its value as
local news, was the fact that the
writer failed to affiX his or her sig
nature to the communication, which
follows:
Dear Editor PLEASE spare me
room in your honorable paper to
print these few lines.
AS we travel around, and also read
the daily papers, we see and hear
much about the girls of today being
worthless and jazz crazy; but l can't
think that they are all that way.
was out for a walk about Milford
on one of the pretty days of last
week, and as 1 passed blacksmith
shop right here in Milford, a sight
attracted my attention and set me
thinking.
In that shop the blacksmith's wife
was acting as helper, using
heavy sledge hammer, and venture
W Sdyg l1CAC 10 hOL q AiletA Al N
with better slight for using ham
mer, than that lady. think that she
is worthy to be called a "lady;"
and, man with such a wife should
be happy and feel blessed.
1t is not well to say that all the
girls are ''fappers and jazz crazy"
for we surely can boast for Milford
at least one woman with the skill
of an artizan. 1 know that there are
and that we are entitled to boast for
Milford for having a great many
smart women and girls, who are not
afraid to work, and all Milford
should be proud of them. (Signed):
From a ReaGer of the Chronicle.
We regret that the writer did not
give his name as 3 guarantee of his
statement, for it would have carried
the weight of truth and confidence.
which would have made the fOun-
dation for future belief in the stur-
dy, outstanding girls of the present
day, who are outshown by the paint
ed dolls, who do not beget respect
from the men or boys with whom
they associate, for ability as helpers
for creating new homes.
Milford chronicle., 1927-04-29
SEED CORN SITUATION
In STATE Is SERIOUS
Authorities Say Care Should Be
Used In Selecting Seed

In last weeks issue of the ChrOn-
icle attention was called to the poor
quality of seed corn available for
planting this year. This matter is
of so great Importance to the farm
ers of the State that further infor-
nation is worth their consideration.
According to the reports on the
samples of corn which have been
tested for termination at the seed
laboratory of the State Board of Ag-
riculture there is every indication of
a shortage OF good seed corn this
spring throughout the entire State.
Taking into consideration the fact
that the greater majority Of this
corn does not test above seventy
five per cent, every precaution
should be taken by the farmers this
spring to plant only that corn which
has been well, matured and which
will show a high per cent of germi-
nation and freedom from root rot
and other diseases that are carried
on the seed.
CONTINUED on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1927-04-29
MILFORD APPLIES
FOR BUILDING UNDER
new SCHOOL PROGRAM
Application Sent To State Board
Of Education Asking For New
Building Here.
FACILITIES INADEQUATE
Petition Points Out Lack Of School
Room And Equipment To Take
Care Of Children.

The Milford School Board at a
meeting last Saturday petitioned the
State Board of Education for a new
school building to be built from
FUNDS received from the school build
ing program as passed by the last
session of the General Assembly.
The application for State aid fully
sets forth the lack of housing facili-
ties to take care of the children who
desire educational training here, and
also asks for the right to hold a ref
erendum to vote upon a bond issue
to raise the Milford Special Dis
tricts portion of the money to be
expended upon the new building.
The petition as sent to the State
Board of Education is printed in
full as follows:
Milford, Delaware
April %, 1927.
Application to State Board of Edu-
cation From Board of Education
of the Milford Special School
District For Authority To
Hold a Special Referen-
DUN Election
Whereas, the legislature of the
State Of Delaware has passed an
Act making possible the Statewide
School Building Program to begin
during the present calendar year,
and
Whereas, this Milford Special Dis
trict Board of Education has had be-
fore the State Board of Education
since May, 1922, more than one
statement showing the needs of this
District, and asking that this Dis
trict be included in the State Build
ing Program when such a program
should be outlined by the State
Board of Education, and
Whereas, the needs of this Dis
trict are at this time such as to
compel the Board of Education to
rent three rooms at distance from
the school property, and to convert
to temporary school uses a dwelling
which was originally purchased by
the Board to be torn away from the
playground; and yet there is need
for three additional rooms for the
coming year with no prospect Of
their being found or provided, and
Whereas, this District maintains
facilities for surrounding Districts
after the pupils of said Districts
CONTINUED on page hve)
Milford chronicle., 1927-04-29
FILING FEE LAW
REPEALER SIGNED
BY GOVERNOR
Law Which Compelled Every Per-
son To Pay Wiped Off Statute
Books.
new APPEAL BOARD
New Law, Now Effective, Will
Not Endanger School Program
Says Executive.

Governor Robinson signed House
Bill. No. 1872, last Thursday. This bill
repeals the $500 filing fee which Las
been in effect for several years, and
changes the personnel of the state
Tav commission. 1t is effective I'M
mediately.
Those persons, however, who nave
mot Maid their 1926 filing fee must
do so. The repeater is not retro
active. tos
while Governor Robinson has
made no announcement of his lnten-
ton if is believed he will sign
House Bill No. 213, reducing the tax
on real estate for school purposes
from % cents to Is cents on the SlOo
of assessed valuation.
In a statement issued after ne nau
eigned the repeater, Governor ROD
inson said he had determined 70
withhold approval of House Bill NO.
ot4 which reduces from three per
cont m one and one-half per cent
the tax on capital gains in the nlgh
bracket. This bill would be retrO-
active as of 1926. -.
It is contended by persons lntel-
asted in the school system OF lne
state that if this bill became law
the state school fund would lose
abont 100000 revenue yearly II II
T"o,,ld also authorize a refund OIL
about SS4O, 900 in school taxes on on
capital gain that have been paid lot
1926. oo1ad
tbe state income tax law remains
The same in most other respects'
providing for no changes Whatever
in tbe income tax rates or the eX-
emptions allowed. ,,uo+od
With the filing fee, elimlnateu
there will be a substantial suIptus Ioao
IN tbe school fund on July 1, 1929,
the Governor said in his statement
in answer to charges that the scnooi u
fnnd m would be seriously depleted IL
the filing fee repeater became law' :
By repeal of the filing fee . tne
state will lose revenue Oh aoou'
5000 900 a year, it is declared;
The House passed the repeater On ~
Anril 8 while the Senate passeo !. II
carly on the morning of April D. d
CONTINUED on page %
Milford chronicle., 1927-04-29
FORMER MILFORD WOMAN
SAFE In WESTERN STORM
Mrs. Minnie Davies And Family, OF
Arkansas, Escape Mississippi Waters

A copy of the "Pine Bluff (Arkan-
sas) Commercial" dated Wednesday,,
April 10th, and carrying a graphic
account of the floods now devastat-
ing the lands bordering on the Miss
issippi River and it's tributaries, was
received at the Chronicle Office this
week. On the upper margin of the
paper Mrs. Minnie Davies, a former
resident of Milford, who with her
family now resides in that city, had
written a note stating that the ter
rible food waters was wrecking the
city, but that the waters had not
reached within five city blocks of
her home. She stated that the har-
rowing story of the flood as printed
in the Commercial was true so far
as she knew. Mrs. Davis since NOV
ing to Arkansas has been teaching
in the Junior High School of Pine
Bluff. In competition with persons
from all parts of the State she was
the winner in a contest staged to
select a State song. The official
song of Arkansas as adopted was
written by her
Milford chronicle., 1927-04-29
Delaware Autos Show
Increase In Numbers

During January and Febru-
airy of this year 1882 motor
vehicles were registered in
Delaware, according to the list
as issued by Charles H. Grant
land, Secretary of State. OF
the number, 39,999 are pleas
ure cars, and 1886, motor
trucks.
There are 149 motorcycles
registered and 576 dealers Ii
censes have been issued, also
81 hearses and undertakeTs'
vehicles have been licensed,
and 139 trailers and 149 trac-
tors.
Milford chronicle., 1927-04-29

THERE ARE $4,000 RU-
RAJ WEEKLY NEWS
PAPERS IN THE UNI
TED ST ES. THE
CHRONICLE TAN S
THIRD IN THE LIST IN
CIRCULATION.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-01

The very ones that sell regu-
larly for $1.25 and $1.49. Nu-
merous shapes from which to
choose. Pillows of lace and
ribbon over soft boudoir shades
or bright colored rayon pillows.
PALA1s
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
Many Direct Circuits

The toll and long distance expansion
program of the Diamond State Tele-
phone Company has now reached a
point where all the principal central
offices in the State are interconnected
by direct telephone circuits. This
means that a quicker, more compre-
hensive Out-Of-town telephone service
is at the disposal of Delaware tele-
phone users.
From the Wilmington central Office,
direct lines now radiate to New York,
Baltimore, Washington, Reading,
Philadelphia, Atlantic City, etc.
The advantage of direct lines lies
in the fact that Out-Of town calls over
such circuits can be handled as quickly
as local calls. 1t is not necessary to
call an operator somewhere between
the point where the call originates
and the destination and request the
operator at that place to complete the
call. The originating operator now
calls the distant office direct, where
the call can be Immediately completed.
The extension of this service is a
step forward in the progress of the
telephone art, and the officials of the
Diamond State Telephone Company
are desirous of extending this service
wherever warranted by the volume of
telephone calls.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
Philadelphia Pharmacist
Recommends Tanlac
Joseph H. Garfield experienced druggist avas rundown
and qUedk. NOsU hale and hearty again, enjoys
former vigorous health. GiveS full
credit to TdnLdc
credit to IGnLGc

Mr.. Garfield owns one Of the best
known drug stores in Philadelphia,
located at 5631 Chester Avenue. His
business brings him in touch with all
kinds of people and all kinds Of med
icines. What a man of hie training and
experience says is worth attention.
''For about two years I suffered
greatly from Indigestion" said Mr..
Garfield, "and was troubled a great
deal with gas. What little I could eat
caused bloating until my stomach
seemed about to burst, and the pain
was intense. AS result of this condi+
ton my nerves went all out of fix and
sleep was impossible. I just rolled
from side to side at night unable to
rest. Naturally, I lost weight rapidly
and weakened greatly.
$50 many people had spoken well
of Tanlac that ] decided to tryit, and
by the time the third bottle was fin
ished all the disagreeable symptoms
had disappeared, Twas aseatingheartily,
digesting normally, sleeping as well as
ever, and put on seven pounds weight.
With that experience have every
confidence in recommending Tanlac
as a good system builder, for it met
every need of my case"
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
A. Brown. both Of seaford. Del,

A. Brown, both of Seaford, Del,
At their meeting Friday night the
Business Methods Committee had
charge of the program of the Rotary
Club, James b. Goslee, is the chair
man. The club expects to visit the
Milford Club on Friday night, Feb
ruary 18th, the visitors Friday night
were Rev. Morgan, of Richardson
Park, who was a guest of Harold w.
f.. Purnell.
John EllingswOrth who was Oper-
ated on for appendicitis in the Beebe
Hospital, Lewes, a short time ago
! has improved so as to return to his
home here much to the qualification
of his many friends.
Mrs. John e. SammOns, of Phila-
delphia, is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. John Kaiser, here.
! Harry DerricksOn was in Philadel-
phia, Wednesday.
Miss Margaret Bullock spent the
weekend with Miss Laura Lynch in
Lewes.
Mrs. Mary Hutchins, of Dover,
spent the weekend with her daugh-
ter, Miss Lillian Hutchins, here.
Mrs. John Egan and Mrs. Howard
! Stewart, of Philadelphia, are guests
of their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Will
son.
William P. Short, of Bethany
Beach, was among friends in town
| Friday.
Joseph H. Cox, of Seaford, was
in town on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony L. Hudson
and daughter, Jane, spent last week
in Philadelphia.
Constable Lorenzo J. Hearn, of
Millsboro, was among friends here
| Saturday.
Former Clerk of the Peace Frank
w. Lawson, of ZOar, was a recent
visitor among friends here.
Miss Catherine Kitchens and
brother. Preston, are visiting in
Philadelphia.
Charles Cooper who has been suf-
fering from a saw cut on his arm is
/ out again.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11

mond State Telephone Company in
Dover.
Mr.. Argo, whose Supervision in
cludes the Milford area, is in charge
of the work incidental to the change
He said that the Telephone Company
was planning TO have all preliminary
work completed this spring and that
the office would he operating at the
new location in the early summer.
More space is available in the new
quarters to take care of the growth
which the Telephone Company feels
will characterize the city. Plans are
now under way for rearranging and
expanding the cable plant in the city
in preparation for the move and in
order to supply additional lines for
the new telephones which, it is felt,
will be required.
The new quarters of the Telephone
Company will include an operating
room, a retiring room for the young
women operators and space for hous-
ing the telephone equipment needed to
operate the office.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
Bethel

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Warren and
son Charles, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Cam of Wilmington spent the week
end with Capt. and Mrs. N. E
Wheatley.
Mrs. VIM. H. Williams is spend
ing sometime in Middletown will
relatives.
Joe Bell and -Alvice Bell of Phila-
delphia spent Sunday with Mr.. anC
Mrs. o. L. Bell.
Miss Frances Eggers is confined
to her home with lagrippe.
Messrs. Warren Riggin, Rodney
LarrimOre, Harrison Moore of Phil
adelphia spent Sunday with theil
families.
Mrs. Louise Shiles died Sunday al
the home of her son, Edward Shiles
age 85 years. The funeral services
were held on Tuesday afternoon al
2 o'clock in the M. E. Church. Rev
J. H. Whedbee officiating.
Mrs. Lawrence Bell is spending
sometime with relatives in Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Harry Bell is a patient in the
Milford Emergency Hospital.
Messrs. John Massey, Henry Esk-
ridge, Uric Smith of Wilmington
spent the weekend with their fam
lilies.
Miss Flossie Culver of Bacons
spent the weekend with Miss Mol
lie Massey.
Mrs. Ida Adams spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Mitchell OF
Laurel.
Capt. Harley Bradley spent the
weekend with his mother, Mrs
Frank Bradley.
Clifford Thawley and family spent
Sunday with Mrs. Thawley's brother
near Reliance.
Mrs. Martha Eskridge spent the
weekend with her sister, Mrs. Eff
fie Henry at Blades.
Mrs. Alice Riggin is spending
sometime with her daughter, Mrs.
Edgar Wotten of Galestown.
Mrs. Harry Boyce of Laurel is
spending a few days with her mo-
ther, Mrs. Ida Adams.
Mrs. Harry Williams returned
home on Tuesday after spending
several weeks with her husband in
Norfolk, Va.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11

The gold flecks in your wall pa
per; on the brilliantly autographed
cigar labels and candy boxes; your
gold finished radiators, beds and
lighting fixtures, most of the gleam-
ing gold decorations in your theatre
and hotel lObbies are made with
bronze powder-an articlel of trade
formerly monopolized by Germany,
but now an important product of
American industry?
Most paints are made out of lead
and zinc and oil? The colors are
largely mineral. Some of the col
ors are made from coal; some, such
as burnt sienna, are just clay.
A child too heavily clothed is as
much exposed to colds as one under
dressed, warns DIR. Russell L. Co
Gil, of Cornell University Medical
School. That's because too many
clothes bring excessive prespiration
which is as bad as exposure in chill
ed air.
Gas, the soft, invisible, sometimes
odOrless, sometimes pungent, pois-
onous vapor, if allowed to be free
will escape harmlessly into the at
mosphere, if confined it will break
or rend the strongest steel, the hard
est rock? 1t is gas that gives the
explosives their gigantic power.
Look at a piece of pig lead and
try to imagine how it can possibly
be combined with linseed oil to
make paint. It's easily done by
corroding the lead. Corrison causes
the lead to resolve itself into white
flakes easily powdered and hence
easily held in suspension in oil.
Most of our hairbrush bristles
come from China and grow original
ly on Chinese pigs.
More furniture and automQblle
seats are now upholstered in leath-
er substitutes than in hide leather
and the ordinary layman cannot DIS
tinguish the imitation from the real
either with his eyes or finger tips?
The ivory" of commerce, made
from cotton, would deceive even the
elephant himself into believing 1t
was cut from his tusks, so perfect
is the coloring and granting OF the
imitation?
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
SUBMARINE CABLE
JOB NOW COMPLETE
Telephone Cables on Deeper
Canal Bed at Delaware City
and St. Georges

The second and final phase of the
lowering of the telephone submarine
cables of the Diamond State Tele-
phone Company at st. Georges and
Delaware City was completed on Janu-
ary 31st with practically no Interrupt
tiOn of telephone service.
The work was done in conjunction
with the government project for deep
ening the Chesapeake and Potomac
canal, which is crossed by telephone
submarine cables at st. Georges and
Delaware City.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11

to talk over telephone operating prob
lens and to present helpful sugges-
tions for the improvement of the serv-
ice. While telephone service is as good
as the Telephone Company can hu-
manly make it, it is nevertheless felt
that these meetings are of great value
G. L. Smith, General Traffic Man
ager for Delaware, addressed the meet
ing, as did J. H. Christensen, the Dis
trict Superintendent of Traffic. These
meetings are held periodically and in
clude an open discussion as well as
The addresses of the telephone officials.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
NEW WILMINGTON
DIRECTORY ISSUED
Over 61OO Listing Changes;
reference to Book There
fore Important

The new Wilmington directory re-
Gently issued contained about 10000
alphabetical listings and zoo CLASH
fed hstings, said E. p. Bardo, Man
ager here for the Diamond State Tele-
phone Company.
There were 14S pages of the white
or alphabetical section and forty-eight
pages of the canary-cOlored or bust
ness classified section.
Since the issuance of the last direc-
tory, more than 6100 listing changes
were madeadue to people moving from
one part of the district to another,
changes to other classes of telephone
service, etc. This means that the new
directory should be referred to before
making calls in order to avoid the
possibility of wrong numbers.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
NEW APPOINTMENT

Miss Anna Collins was recently ap-
pointed operator in charge of the
HOckessin switchboard by the Dia-
mond State Telephone Company. Miss
Collins takes the place of Miss Mar
garet MeVaugh, now Mrs M. Y,
Rigler.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11

One of the results of the lowering
of the canal bed is the draining of the
marsh at ST. Georges, where telephone
poles have been submerged for a cou-
pie of years.
An interesting incident occurred in
the early morning hours one day re
Gently when the barge deepening the
canal cut one of the cables at Della
ware City. A telephone crew was in
readiness for just such an eventuality.
Groome Marcus, Construction Fore
man for the district, had the crew
splice a new section of cable in place
Immediately, thereby restoring the
telephone service in a few hours.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11

1T DEPENDS on what you feed it. Put
it on regular ration of Prince Albert
and it will yield you pleasure, without
stint or limit. ''Never," you will say,
''has the old pipe tasted SO good" There
isn't the ghost of doubt about it. Just
tryit!
AS you open the tidy red tin, close
your eyes and drinlI-in that rich, rare
aroma. You can hardly wait to get the
taste of tobacco that smells as good as
that. Then the big moment: You load
up and light up. That's Prince Albert,
Men, prime favOrite of veteran smokers.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
TELEPHONE MEETING
HELD IN WILMINGTON
Talk of Service from "Sub-
scriber's Point of View"

A discussion of
service from the
subscriber s point
of view was held
in Wilmington by
the Diamond State
Telephone Com
pany recently and
was attended by
all supervisory
people in the traf-
fic department of
the Telephone
Company in the
city.
The purpose of
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
SUGAR

OF the principal foods, sugar shows
less increase in price as compared
with 1913 than any other. 1t has in
creased bu 309o.-The Progressive
Grocer.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11
You can trdUeL many
miles by telephone for a few
cents. Rates in front part of
local directory.
BUILDING OPERA
TIONS UNDER WAY
AT MILFORD, DEL.
Diamond State Telephone
Office to Be Operating in
Masonic Hall in Early
Summer

Alterations will
be made to the
second floor of
the Masonic
Building, Milford,
this month in
preparation for
the move of the
Milford central
office from its
present location
on the north side
of West Front
Street to the Ma
sonic Building, ac-
cOrding to John
Argo. Plant Wire
Chief of the Dia
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11

No score, first game. 2 dealt and bid
one heart. If A passed, what should Y
dor Should he also pass or should he
bid two clubs1 Y should pass and show
his club suit on the second round i he
gets the opportunity. To bid two clubs
over one heart would deny the hearts
but q pass and then a bid Of clubs
shows help for hearts and big club
suit. This is a common situation so
note carefully.
Milford chronicle., 1927-02-11

Pedestrians are reminded that
while they have the technical right
of way, it is of little use atter
serious collision with a fool MOTOR
list.