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Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
THE TOUCH OF HOME CARE

One of the most important ques-
tions which people have to decide in
running a household and their own
personal affairs, is as to where they
propose to buy their supplies. This
question should not be settled hap
hazard on the spur of the moment,
but should be carefully answered in
accordance with some considered
line of policy. We need to think in
telligently whether it is better to
send or go to large places to buy
goods, OF to obtain them through our
own local dealers.
The people who decide to buy at
home obtain what may be called the
touch of home care. They do not
like the idea of taking the product
which some distributing machine in
a large city may hand out to them
where they are strangers. They
want the individual attention that
goes with the use of their own CEN
ters of distribution.
They know that when they buy
stuff at home, they are buying goods
which have been examined with spe-
cial regard to the needs of the peo-
pie of Milford and vicinity. The ques-
ton has been asked by some skilful
buyer, regarding every such article,
is that well adapted to the people of
Milford? Does it fit their needs? Can
they afford to pay the price? The
chances then of getting something
that will fit these requirements and
meet our local needs, is therefore
much improved. The purchase should
wear longer, give more satisfaction
and service.
This touch of home care comes in
the personal attention obtained in
the town where one is known, from
and often from the pro-
prietor of the store in person. This
service can not be had in
places where the customer is not
known. In this way. the
help their customers
from making many mistakes. The
of getting just the right
thing are greatly improved.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
[FrOns National Editorial AsSOeiatiOn1
ESPECIAL TO cHRoNIcLE1

Washington, October 19-Those in
terested in political and legislative
matters here predict that the decla-
rations of representative American
business leaders at West Baden, In
diana, this week, will have an i'm
portant bearing on the Presidential
campaign and the program of the
Seventieth Congress. Recognition is
given to the fact that the big Bus
mess" question is bound to occupy
an important place in the nations
affairs during the next year.
1t is obvious that business leaders
realize the necessity of more inten-
sive cooperation with the agricul-
turaI interests. More than sixty per
cent of the member commercial Or
ganizations reporting to the Nation
al Chamber of Commerce have pro-
vided special machinery to cooper
ate with the farmers in their partic-
ular localities. Breaking down the
barriers of misunderstanding the
business man and the farm will do
much to shape the course of legis-
Iation hereafter.
Despite all efforts to reconcile diff
ferences, real and imaginary, be-
tween the representative of rural
and commercial life, it seems that
Congress intends to devote sometime
to investigation of large business Or
ganizations. Conditions of late have
favored industrial consultations,
and there are certain groups in Con-
gress who have bestowed upon them
selves the role of "trust-busters.% 1t
was generally conceded that Con-
gress was inclined to authorize such
Investigations last year, but lacked
the money.
There is a well-defined movement
underway to have the Federal Trade
Commission conduct an inquiry into
mergers and concessions. Somehow,
the average voter is not as much in
terested in these governmental ex-
petitions into the management of
private industry because they un-
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21

year. The President has made it
clear that he expects Congress to
go slow on tax proposals until the
financial needs of the government
can be clearly ascertained.
Though five or six senator's from
the middle west and northwest are
holding conferences frequently rel
ative to the organization of the Sew
entieth Congress, the conservative
leaders continue to regard the mat
ter lightly. It is said in some quar-
ters that these western progressives
are attempting to frighten the con-
servative members of the Republi-
can majority into the adoption of
legislative policies giving more con-
sideration to the best. It is also
felt that these legislators are en-
deavoring to put over pre-session
trades" or bargaining for patronage
and committee positions. No one ex-
poets the formation of another par
ty from these meetings, yet every
one is watching developments be-
cause of the possible effect on the
Republican convention next sum-
mer.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
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BRIEFLY STATED FACTS

The autoist who emulates the
hare gets bumped.
Time is money, but is hasn't any
thing on gasoline.
A small town is one in which it
is hard to get a $40 bill changed.
Let your light so shine that it
will not blind the man coming to-
ward you.
Reports that money will not buy
happiness still lack general con-
firmation.
Women now are carrying dogs to
match their costumes. To date none
has been seen with a daschund.
Prehistoric man was a fish. ac-
cording to Chicago doctor. This
disproves the theory of evolution.
It's hard to believe the world
isn't getting better when you figure
that you hardly ever see a gold
tooth any more.
A prediction is made that wo-
mems hats will become standardiz-
ed. OF course a man who doesn't
know anything about the nature of
women was the author of it.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
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HOG.KILLING TIME

Notice that smoke rising over be-
hind the farm house? Hear that
porker squeal? Hog killing time is
here. Like laws of the Medes and
Persians that change not, the proper
time for butchering varies not at
all. Each day now at some farm
kettles are got down from the garnet
cleansed and inspected, ladies
gathered together, knives sharpened
and everything made ready. Then
the next day butchering in on with
an early start. Early, because there
is more to be done than can be ac-
complished in one day, and also be-
cause one of the time-honored GUS
toms of butcheing day is to get hogs
on the ,skewers early.
But the meals at butchering time
whole juicy tenderloins, pork chops,
all the pies and cakes, dried corn,
beans, pickles, mashed potatoes,
preserves made from strawberries
gathered over on the hill last spring
jellies from the currents and rasp-
berries up in the patch, canned
fruits from those trees out in the
orchard, homemade bread, fresh
and crackly-all you can eat of
whatever you can think of for din
ner; and then supper the same
menu again, with plenty of fresh
sausage, seasoned with coriander
and spices, in addition to the din
ner's offerings.
And, when all is finished, the
larder is filled for cold days with
food that the city dweller covets and
can not buy. And it's a fine thing
to know that come weel, come woe,
there is meat enough in the brine
or larder or smol1ehouse to keep
the wolf from the door anoher year.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21

STATEMENT of the ownership, management
circulation. etc, require by the Act of Congress
of August a 1912, of MILFORD CHRoNICI e.
published weekly at Milford. Delaware, for
October 1927.
STATE OF DELAWARE. |
COUNTY OF SUSSEX, 3d.
Before me, a Notary Public in and for the
State and county aforesaid. personally appeared
C. Marshall Townsend, Secretary, of Milford
Chronicle Publishing Co.. who having been duly
sworn according to law, deposes and says that he
is Secretary of the MILFORD CHRONICLE, and
that the following is. to the best of his knowl-
edge and belief, q true statement of the owner
ship, management. etc., of the aforesaid publi-
cation for the date shown in the above caption
required by the Act of August "a 1912 embodied
in section 44S, Postal Laws and Regulations.
to wit:
/. That the names and addresses of the pub
Usher. editor, managing editor, and business
managers are:
Publisher, Milford Chronicle Publishing Com
pany. Milford. Delaware.
Editor. Theodore Townsend, Milford. Della
ware.
MANAGING Editor. George Marshall Townsend.
Business Manager, Thomas C. Reynolds and
G. Marshsll Townsend Milford. Delaware.
2. That the owners are:
Theodore Townsend. Milford, Delaware. 15
George Marshall Townsend. Milford, Della.
ware, aO8 Lake View Avenue.
Thomas C. Reynolds. Milford. Delaware. 301
OOuLn WhAluL DLE6Gbs
Mrs. Pauline Townsend Hanly. Rochester
New York
8. That the known bondholders mortgages.
and other security holders. holding per cent or
more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or
other securities are: None.
4 That the two paragraphs next above. Civ
ing the names of the owners stockholders. and
security holders if any, contain not only the list
Of stockholders and security holders as they ap-
pear upon the books of the company but also
in cases where the stock kholder security holder
appears upon the books of the company as trus-
tee or in any other fiduciary relation. the name
of the person or corporation for whom such
trustee is acting, is given also that the said two
paragraphs contain statements embracing af-
iant's full knowledge and belief as to the cir
cumstances and conditions under which stock
holders who do not appear upon the books of the
holders and security company as trustees. hold
stock and securities in acapacity other than that
of bona fde owner; and this affiant has no rea-
son to believe that any other person associate n,
or corporation has any interest direct indirect
in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than
as 30 stated by him.
3. That the average number of copies Of
each issue of this publication sold or distributed
through the mails or otherwise to paid subscrib-
ers during the six months preceding the date
shown above is 6,826 weekly.
G. MARSHALL TOWNSEND.
Sworn to and subscribed
[sEAL1 before me this 10th day
of October, 1927.
EDWARD v. HENDERSON. Notary Public.
thy commission expires January 18th. 1901
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
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INDIAN SUMNER

A period of mild weather or hot
spell in late September, October or
November is bound to be labeled
Indian Summer" by the amateur
weather prophets, and every mortal
practices to some degree this sort
of representation. And just as Of
ten as Indian summer is identified
somebody wonders where the name
came from and if there is any fixed
date for the arrival of this summer
postscript.
Indian summer is also known as
st. Martins summer. st. Marin's
festival falls on November IL, and
Indian summer is due about the
same date, perhaps a little earlier
or later, as it may happen, or even
as late as early December. Late
summer weather of September and
the autumn days of October are not
to be mistaken for Indian summer.
A succession of hazy days of delic-
ious mildness, following a spell of
cold, stormy weather, constitutes
the true Indian summer.
But why is this return of summer
like weather called Indian summer?
A plausible derivation is seen in the
old Indian custom of harvesting
corn in this season. Another theory
is that the Pilgrims gave it its
name when they were told by the
Indians that summer would return
after the first spell of winter.
An interesting explanation is Civ
en- in the Notes of DR.. Joseph
Doddridge, born in 1853, a student
of the folklore, traditions and his
tory of the Indians and early set
tiers. He traces the origin of the
name to the fact that the incursions
of the savages against the white
settlers, which were interrupted by
the arrival of winter, were resumed
during the period of warmer wealth
er usually experienced in New
England in the late autumn.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
HOME TOWN THOUGHTS

Patriotism, like charity, begins at
home. The best way to make a good
country is for everyone to take hold
and make a fine home town.
Many people never appreciate the
advantages of their home town, un-
til some change makes it necessary
for them to leave it.
People rarely hire dumb man to
act as a salesman, and the business
that is speechless about the merits
of it's goods through failure to ad-
vertise, is also handicapped.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
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HENRY FORD'S ADVICE

Henry Ford, in an interview pub
lished in the magazine Industrial
Management" advises young men
to "think big" to cherish large
hopes.
A multitude of men could accom-
plish twice as much as they do, if
they only had faith in themselves
and the possibilities around them.
But there is also a class Of young
men who think too big. They are
not content with the slow plodding
ways of success, because they want
promotion right off now. While
our plodders need to think big, our
visionaries should come down to
earth and not be afraid to think
small for a time.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN

1t is remarked that the great ma
jority of graduates of the medical
schools are fitting themselves to be-
come specialists, with the idea of
locating in populous cities, while
comparatively few are training for
general practice. Only about one per
cent of such graduates are said to
be entering practice in country
towns.
Such tendencies raise the question
whether there is soon to be a scar
city of the old time family physi-
clans, upon whom the people have
depended so much for treatment and
advice in their physical troubles.
The training these men have had
gives them a wonderful degree of
wisdom in handling all kinds of
cases.
A multitude of people would testi-
fly to the wide range of benefits they
have derived from the men of this
type, who have been friends and
counsellors and advisers in all kinds
of troubled situations.
But the young doctors do not seem
to think that end of the profession
is very rewarding. Perhaps they
think of all the bad bills that the
family doctor can not collect. He
does not feel that he can refuse
call of mercy to some family that
has sickness, even if that family is
unable to pay it's bills. So he goes
and gives his time for nothing in a
great many cases. The Office calls of
the specialist, who can collect on
nearly all of the people that visit
him, no doubt look like a more Sc
cure source of income.
But these medical students who
are crowding in as specialists,
should consider that the old time
family physician is a very popular
figure, and people are likely to de-
mand the services of such men. If
there are twice as many specialists
in a city as the people can support,
while only half enough family doc
tors, the last named will have the
more profitable business.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21

STATEMENT of the ownership, management
circulation etc, require by the Act of Congress
of August "a. 1912. of Mill ORD CHRONICLE,
published weekly at Milford. Delaware, for
Oc+obar. 1907
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
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THINGS THAT aCAN'T BE DONE

THINGS THAT "CAN'T BE DONE
The world has always been in
need of men to do things that could
not be done. The need is more
pressing today than ever.
When Columbus started out to
sail around the globe men laughed
at him and told him it could not be
done. Columbus did not succeed in
the attempt, it is true, but he proved
that the thing could be done.
When Samuel Morse started to
transmit messages between distant
points by means of a tiny wire, peo-
pie said it could not be done, but
Morse soon proved differently. Fifty
years later Marconi showed people
how to talk through the air without
even the use of wires.
Edison achieved two things that
most people declared to be impos-
sible when he used electric current
to produce light and when he re-
produced the sound of the human
voice. Motion pictures are another
Of the "impossibles."
There are other achievements,
impossible today, await
ng accomplishment. They stand as
challenge to the ingenuity of
mankind. The need of the world is
or men who can do these things.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
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THE AGE OF IGNORANCE9

This is an age of ignorance, ac-
cording to statement made in his
sermon on a recent Sunday by DR..
w. N. Guthrie, a prominent New
York city clergyman. He complain
ed that people get their information
from newspaper headlines, and the
young people do not care to know
the history of the past.
And yet the reverend gentleman
would probably admit that our
schools and colleges are much bet
ter than ever before, that the at
tendance in them far exceeds our
previous records. Why then is it
that so many people, as he claims,
are ignorant?
People seem to pick up business
ideas more quickly than formerly,
they accomplish things quicker in
their work. Where their ignorance
comes in, is that the majority of
them do not seem interested in
questions of civic and political pro-
gress, etc. But when they set out
to do things, they do them quick
and well. For instance, take the
way they fought the World War.
An ignorant people could not have
accomplished such amazing results
in so short a time.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21

Astronomers report Mars probably
too cold for life, even too cold for
Coolidge.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21

1t sometimes happens that man
is kept from buying mining stock
because he hasn't got the ready cash.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
Road Conditions
 In Connecticut

Road conditions and detours in the state of Connecticut made neces- sary by highway construction and repairs, announced by the state highway department as of June l., are as follows:-
 Route No.
 Branford- East Haven road is un- der construction. No delay to traf- fic.
 East Lyme on the Post Road, bridge near Golden Spur is being constructed. Open to traffic. Fairfleld-Mill River bridge is un- der construction. No delay to traf- fife.
 New Canaan -Poundridge road is under construction. No delay to traf- 1c.
 Westbrook- Pathogue River bridge work on approach span. No delay to traffic.
 Route No. 2
 Berlin, Beckley Crossing is under construction. No delay to traffic. Enfield Enfield street is under construction but road is open to one-way traffic.
 Newington avenue is under con- struction, but open to traffic.
 Route No. 8
 Ridgefield-M street and Dan- bury road. Concrete completed. Shoulders uncompleted. No detours necessary.
 Manchester. Manchester Hartford road Is under construction. Through traffic from Hartford to Rockville should use short detour at Love Lane.
 Route No. 6
 Thomaston, approaches to Rey- holds Bridge are under construction.
 Route No. 10
 Middletown- -Haddam road, grad ing is under way. Slight delay to traffic, where shovel is working.
 Route No. 12
 Norwich-New London road in towns of Waterford and Montville is under construction. Open to traf- fife. Through traffic will avoid this work by using the Norwich-Groton
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
road on the east side of the Thames

road on the east side of the Thames river.
 Route No. II
 Norfolk, Norfolk-West Norfolk road is under construction. No de- tours, one-way traffic.
 Route No. 1O1
 In Chaplin the bridge at South Chaplin is being constructed. One way traffic. Route No. 1OS Somers-East Longmeadow road Is under construction. but open to traffic.
 Rockville -Somers road under con- struction. but open to traffic. Route No. no
 From Bloomfield Center road north. road is under construction, traffic passing through.
 Windsor and Windsor Locks, Hartford-Springfield raod is under construction. Through traffic from Hartford to Springfield detour at Windsor going through Poquonock and suffield.
 Route No. iii Marlboro-Hebron six miles un- der construction, open to traffic, but practically impossible.
 Merid en- -Middletown road. Grad ing is under way, road open to traf- fife. Short section with one-way traf- fife. Through traffic advised to de- tour via routes 346 and 319 through East Berlin. Route No. 112
 New Haven -Middletown road Is under construction. No delay to traf- fife.
 Route No. 116 Farmington-Alsop's Corner to Country club, road is under con- struction. Traffic passing through. Route No. 12f Salisbury. Lakeyille Millerton road is under construction. Road open to travel, no detours. Route No. 122 Bridgeport-N -Newtown road. steam shovel grading is Under way. One- way traffic at congested places. Route No. 125
 Roxbury-Depot Bridge. work on the new bridge foundation under way. No detours necessary. Route No. 126 Norwalk- Danbury road. Concrete completed from Norwalk to Wilton where by taking the State Aid road through Ridgefield the steam shovel grading in Wilton and concrete con- struction with one-way traffic north of Branchville are avoided. Route No. 133 Hartland, East Hartland Mount ain road Is under construction. Pres ent road Is open to travel. No de- tours.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
JOURNEY 0F DEATH
 THING 0F PAST
Progress Detours Old New
 Mexico Trail

Las Cruces, N. M.. June 3 R- Americas oldest trail-the tornado del Muerto (Journey of Death), the highway of aboriginal man centuries before Europeans dreamed there was an American continent-soon Is to pass into disuse.
 Within few months. when the new highway up the Rio Grande valley from Las Cruces to northern New Mexico is completed the Jor- nado del Muerto will be virtually abandoned as a road. for the first time on record.
 The trail, beginning near Old Fort Selden. stretches far to the highway through this state.
 Cabesa de Vaca. member of a Spanish expedition which was ship wrecked on the coast of Texas about 1928 and who, in company with three others passed from tribe to tribe until they finally reached their countrymen in Mexico. prob ably was the first white man to see the tornado del Meurto. It is hlieved that he and his companions 1 first looked upon it from the sum- Kit of San Augustine pass and !, lversed it's southern end. There little wonder that the conquista-
 IT dubbed this perilous passage q Tourney of Death" in view of dearth of water. and sand orms of summer and the ice forms of winter.
 The first expedition Of note
 town to have come over this route s in 15s2 when Antonio de ,pejo traversed the trail. followed the century and half after ards by long line of Franciscan ftiars. With the priests came sol- diers, adventurers and explorers until in 1880 the united efforts of the Indian tribes turned the north ward tide by administering a bloody defeat.
 A few years later another army under Don Diego de Vargas passed northward to the re-conquest of the lost provinces and when Mexico threw off the Spanish yoke and New Mexico became part of the South
New Britain herald., 1927-06-03
Route No. 1s4

Route No. 13i
 Canaan. South Canaan-Lime Rock road Is under construction. Road open for travel. No detoura
 Route No. HI
 Scotland, Canterbury road is un- der construction. Open for travel, very rough.
 Route No. IA
 Woodstock Mass. Line. Road is under construction. Impossible. Putnam-Woodstock, Little River bridge is under construction. No de- tour.
 Route No. 1858 Newtown-Bethel road, macadam construction completed. Shoulders uncompleted. No detours necessary.
 Route No. 176
 Westport- Wilton, Westport- Will ton road Is under construction. No delay to traffic.
 Route No. BPS Waterbury. Cheshire, Waterbury Choshire road is under construction No delay to trafnc-
 No Route Numbers
 Burlington Station, Burlington Center road is under construction. Open for travel. No detours.
 Bolton, Bolton Center road Is un- derconstruction but open to traffic Fairfield Old Kings Highway. Road is under construction. No de- lay to traffic.
 Pennington. Scott Swamp road is under construction. Pennington end ofthe road is closed.
 Harwinton-Burltngton road is un- der construction. No detours.
 Hartford -Newington road is under construction, but open to traffic. Newington, Newington-New Brit ain road is under construction. Road is open 10 traffic. Short detour at New Britain end.
 Newington and West Hartford. Willard street and Newington roads are under construction, but is open to traffic.
 Newington- Clayton road is under construction, open to traffic.
 Old saybrook- Essex cutoff. Road is under construction. Detour over Saybrook Junction road, routes 1 and 10.
 Plymouth. Bull Head road. Bridges are under construction. Short detour around bridges. Holland, Tolland-Vernon road Is under construction. Short detour. West Woodstock-South Wood- stock road is under construction, open to traffic.
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