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Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
Houston

Church news for Sunday, Octobe'
80: Sunday school at $780, Superin-
tendent, Howard r. Moore. Preach
ing at 10, by the pastor, Rev. A. G.
Thomas. Subject, "a Little Farther"
Glass meeting. Epworth League
7:15. Leader, Frances Morgan. Sub
ject THE Equipment of a Chum
Winner" Preaching at o'clock
Subject, 'Why 1 Ought to go to
Church" Holy communion at Laws
at 3 o'clock, led by Rev. J. D. Reese.
The local w. C. T. U. will meet
at the home of Mrs. David Vineyard
on Thursday night, November 3rd.
A good attendance is desired. Text
word Mighty"
Don't forget the Halloween enter
tainment at the school house on
Friday night, October %. Admission
Is and rs cents. Proceeds for the
benefit of the school. Everybody
come out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitley Webb and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. William Tru-
lit and children of Milford were the
guests on Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Webb.
Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace McFaul and
son of Milford visited Valley Forge
on Sunday.
Miss Elva' Marvel and Gladys
spent the weekend
with Miss Kathryn Vineyard.
Mrs. Joseph Marvel IS spending
several days with her daughter, Mrs.
Samuel Hill at Laurel.
Lawrence Armour and sister, Miss
Gladys, spent the weekend in Will
mington.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28

STATEMENT of theownership management
circulation etc, require by the Act of Congress
Of August "A. 1912. of Mil ORD CHRONICLE.
published weekly at Milford. Delaware, for
October, 1927.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
HALLOWEEN NIGHT MISCHIEF

Halloween, when it started far
back in the midst of time, was the
night when evil spirits were suppos-
ed to flock out of hiding places and
roam the earth, marauding and de-
stroying.
After many centuries we see the
work of the evil spirits inherited and
ably handled by Willie, Tom, Pat
and the rest of the youthful gang"
1t illustrates how next to impos-
possible it is to get a custom or SUI
prostitution out of the human brain,
once it gets there.
On the ancient agricultural calen-
dar, Halloween was a sort of New
Years Day. Harvest was over and
the landlord called for his share of
the crops raised by tenant farmers.
1t was the custom for him to ar
rive late in the evening and make
merry at such pastimes as cider
drinking and apple bobbing. When
the fun was over and the landlord
got down to business, it was early
morning of November 1.
Probably this is why the first of
the month is rent-paying day, in
stead of the fifteenth or any other
date that would be just as logical.
Time was, when Halloween was
less a night of deviltry and more a
night of hospitality, good fellowship,
roaring fireplaces, good things to
eat and drink, and delightful super
stition such as walking down cellar
stairs backward, earring a candle
and a mirror, in which "her" future
husbands face might appear.
The world has not enough of hos
pitality and goodfellowship. Let's
revive it, this Halloween, and make
he night of witches and COLLINS
ovial as well as prankful.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28

vival services at Gumboro on Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Hudson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Mitchell spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. E. H.
Hudson and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Jones spent
Sunday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
Severn Hall.
E. H. Hudson is still on the sick
list.
Edgar Timmons is suffering from
a swollen tonsil.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. p Jones son
Oliver, spent Sunday evening with
&. H. Hudson and family.
Mrs. Mary J. Jones returned home
Saturday after spending some time
with her daughter, Mr.: and Mrs G.
H. Ward of Loves X Roads.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Tinmons
and two children, Rhyspa and Reese
spent Sunday with w. w. Timmrns
and family.
Services Sunday: Sunday school
1870. Preaching 2:30. Everyone IN
Vited.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28

Mrs. George w. Johnson was the
dinner guest on Sunday az the llome
of her daughter, Mrs. Merrill This
tlewOod.
Miss Linda Burris has been visit
ing in Milford
Mr.. and Mrs. CarrOw of Dover and
Emory Webb and Miss Agnes This
tlewood were dinner guests of Mrs.
Edgar Marvel on Sunday.
The Misses Hilda and Virginia
Sockrider of Milford spent the week
end with Miss Lilly Wilson.
Deputy Great Pocahontas Lulu R.
Walls and six of her aids trailed
through the hunting grounds of
Houston on Tuesday sleep, October
18th and raised the chiefs of Mime
haha Council, No. II, to their re-
spective stations.
The sick from Houston who e
in the different hospitals are getting
better and little Walter Tow nsend
who with his brother William were
very badly injured in an auto acct
dent have been discharged from the
Marshall Hospital.
Mrs. Eugene Sharp was the guest
on Wednesday of Mrs. Wilson Vim
yard of Milford.
Mrs. Thomas Doyle is visiting rel
atives in New York City
Charles S. Rose of Centreville,
Md, and Miss Mildred Marie Faulk-
ner of near Houston, were quietly
married at the Pilgrim Holiness
parsonage Saturday evening, Octo-
Der 18th by Rev. R. o. Musser. Mrs.
Rose is a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Faulkner whose address is
Harrington. Mr.. and Mrs. Rose will
make their home in Centreville, Md,
where Mr.. Rose is employed as
carpenter.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28

STATEMENT of the ownership, management
circulation etc, require by the Act of Congress
of August "A. 1912. of MIL ORD CHRONICLE.
published weekly at Milford. Delaware, for
October, 1927.
STATE OF DELAWARE,
COUNTY OF SUSSEX. 90
Before me. Notary Public in and >for the
State and county aforesaid, personally appeared
u. Marshall Townsend, Secretary, of Milford
ChrOni, lie Publishing Co.. who. having been duly
sworn according to law depost and says that he
is Secretary of the MILFORD CHRONICLE, and
t1at the following is. to the best of his knOwl-
edge and belief. true statement of the owner
ship, management, ETC., of the aforesaid pubi-
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
Publisher Milford Chronicle Publishing Com
Dany, Milford, Delaware.
Editor. Theodore Townsend, Milford. Della
ware.
Managing Editor. George Marshall Townsend.
Business Manager, Thomas C. Reynolds. and
G. Marshall Townsend. Mi ford. Delaware.
2. That the owners are:
Theodore Townsend. Milford, Delaware. Is
West second Street.
George Marshall Townsend. Milford, Della.
ware 4Os Lake View Avenue.
Thomas C. Reynolds. Milford. Delaware, S01
South Walnut Street.
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 APP
pear upon the books of the company but also,
in cases where the stock holder security holder
appears upon the books of the company as trus-
tee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name
of the per son or corporation for whom such
trustee is acting. is given also that the said two
paragraphs contain statements embracing af-
fant's full kROwladge 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 Rcapacity other than that
of bona fide owner and this affiant has no rea-
son to believe that any other person association.
or corporation has any interest direct indirect
in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than
as 30 stated by him.
s. 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,S26 weekly.
G. MARSHALL TOWNSEND.
Sworn to and subscribed
LSEALl before me this 10th day
of October, 1927
EDwARr v. HENDERSON Notary Public.
I'M c n 10 ion 'vrires Ianusry 18th 1930O
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
Careys

The farmers in this vicinity are
busy getting their potatoes harvest
ed. The crop this year is not as
large as last years crop.
Miss Ruth Parson spent the week
end with Miss Ida Layton.
Miss Florence Jones returned
home Saturday after spending a
week in Pennington with Rev. and
Mrs. James O'Neil.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hall spent
Sunday with relatives near Delmar.
Many from here attended the re-
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
WOMEN AS PITCHERS

Take nothing for granted, o love-
sick Romeo! She who throws a kiss
today may throw a platter tomorrow
Farm & Fireside.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
get promoted to better ones.

get promoted to better ones.
Remember this fact: Firms, in
corporations or individuals, will get
returns from their business, only in
proportion to what is put into the
business in the form of thoughtful
study and persistent effort. If moth
ing is done, either failure or disap-
pointment will result. Action and
intelligent study of business prob
lens will bring success.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28

SoS
ARE YOU as merchant or sales
man getting ready for your job of
attracting the attention of the men
and women, parents and families, TO
the holidays business that is to be
harvested within the next seven
weeks? That work needs your best
thought.
Dwight Morrow, newly appointed
ambassador to Mexico, had an in
structor go to his Office an hour a
day for a lesson in Spanish before
he started to station filled with
danger for an ignorant man. He is
well past so years old, but he is will
ling to become a student for the
sake of doing his job right. How
many of us are willing to take equal
pains?
Most of us get new jobs from time
to time, but many people would not
prepare themselves for such new
opportunities in any way They
would just turn up at the new place
at the appointed hour and ask what
was to be done. Or if they ara work
ing right along on some steady job,
it does not occur to them to study
authorities on the subject and try
to learn how to do it better
Take for instance the question of
decorating store windows in Milford
or anywhere else. 1t is quite an art
to trim up a store window so it will
look attractive. Many show windows
are an artistic triumph, and they
also make people want to come in
and buy goods. Some look about the
same week after week. Some show
effort to make them look attractive,
but an expert would say there is no
intelligent plan to make the goods
show up for all they are worth.
If clerk was appointed to the
job of dressing up the show win
dows of his store, he would be like
ly to get some good points on it by
studying the trade papers in his
line. Or books can be found that
give suggestions for window trims.
From such means he could usually
improve the display, and his en-
ployer would see the difference and
appreciate it. 1t is in such ways that
people get ahead.
In any job there is some better
way of doing it that can be found by
study. Those who study their jobs
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
MILFORD, FRIDAY, OCT. %, 1927

MANY FINE BARGAINS are Of
fered all the time by the stores of
Milford, and other towns using the
columns of the Milford Chronicle,
but they do you no good unless you
read the advertisements telling
about them.
Watchful waiting may be all right
in international affairs, but it takes
pushful plugging to carry a town
ahead.
While some towns have been hun
ting for new industries, they have
lost old ones for lack of home en-
enlargement.
Milford chronicle., 1927-10-28
&e@

MANY TOWNS are cursed by fac
tional quarrels and Milford suffers
occasionally from this trouble. The
people always seem to be scrapping
over some heated issue. If one ele-
ment tries to get something useful
done, those opposed to that element
will carp at the scheme or actively
oppose it. The town is so torn up
by these differences that it does not
become possible to bring about
strong and united movements for
improvements.
One of the essentials of cOmmun-
itS progress, is to get one or more
strong organizations devoted to
such aims. The Chambers of Com
mercs and Boards of Trade are ac-
comprising that result in many
cities of our section. But such Or
CARNATIONS must be generously
supported, or their efforts are him
dered by the lack of favorable pub
lie sentiment behind their projects.
A public school building is now Mil
fords great issue.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
Foes Menace Usefulness
of Labor's Radio Station
especially should get busy with teIe-
grams, letters and resolutions. Quick
action is essential.
CANTON STRIKE RULES

Hankow, China Employers rights
in strikes are limited by the strike
regulation act of the Republic of Can
ton.
Shopkeepers and owners of factor
les are permitted to carry on their
business during strikes, but are not
permitted to break strikes by tempo
rarily engaging other workmen.
In setting a wages strike, the en-
ployers shall pay wages during the
strike on the new scale agreed be-
tween the two parties.
In a strike, employers are not per-
mitted to bribe portion of the strik-
ers or employ men of bad character
in order to resist the strikers.
Unions and laborers, on the other
hand, are prohibited from blockading
shops or factories during the strike
and from obstructing the operations
which are conducted by the employers
themselves. Laborers are also pro-
hibited from con6scating goods or
articles from shops or factories during
strike.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13

pulse of the industry has been recog-
nized. President Lewis, in his letter
to the Federal Council of Churches,
suggested consideration of this plan
as being one way out of situation
that menaces the coal industry.
At the present time conditions in the
bituminous coal fields in respect to
the suspension are unchanged. Indi-
vidual settlement on the basis Of the
Jacksonville agreement are being
made daily in various districts. The
association of Indiana operators ,has
scheduled meeting with the miners
to discuss wage settlement. This is
the first attempt of the miners and
operators of the state to hold a joint
conference. Strip mine owners have
signed an agreement with the miners
and many of their mines are working.
A number of individual shaft opera
tors also have signed agreements.
President Lewis said that the set
tlement for the wage controversy will
be gradual and will be brought about
by the extension of the Jacksonville
agreement rather than by any major
consideration. Both he and the other
international officials expressed gen
eral satisfaction over the bituminous
coal situation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
LONCSHOREMEN'S
COMPENSATION NIL

Washington. - Longshoremen and
other harbor workers are placed in
an unfortunate position by the failure
of the recent congress to appropriate
money for the administration of the
longshoremen's compensation act.
The law becomes effective July /
After that date suits for damages for
injuries are abrogated, and no steve
doring company may make contract
to render service for loading or un-
loading vessel without certificate
from the deputy commissioner of the
district. The United States employ
es' compensation is charged with the
general administration of the act, but
without funds it is placed in an en-
barrassing condition.
Although applying primarily to
lingshoremen engaged in loading and
unloading vessels, the act includes
also more than a score of crafts or
trades-such as plumbers, painters
and pholsterers-whose work is
called for on an extensive scale in
modern vessels.
Until the enactment of the present
law longshoremen and other harbor
workers, numbering several hundred
thousand, have been in a peculiar po-
sition. If injured on dock, long
shoreman deceived the benefits of the
state workmen's compensation law,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
LABEL LAW
OF Canada Now Includes
Labor

Ottawa, Ontario.-The Dominion
government has included trade union
labels, shop cards and buttons in the
trade mark law after 80 years of agi-
tation by organized labor. The bill
unanimously passed both houses of
parliament.
Formerly a representative of a
trade union was compelled to register
the label of his organization in his
name and prosecute any infringement.
The union now has the right to prose
cute.
Opponents of the amendment claim
ed the measure will be used to per-
secute employers, but the trade unions
answered this argument by agreeing
that all penalties for violation of the
act shall be credited to public poor
funds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
Lewis Plan to Stabilize
Conditions in Bituminous
Industry Meets With Favor

BY international Labor News Service
Indianapolis, Ind. = The necessity
for some constructive plan for the
stabilizing of the bituminous coal in
dustry, as suggested by the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America, and the reply made thereto
by President John L. Lewis, of the
United Mine Workers of America, has
resulted in considerable favorable
comment, reports show.
President Lewis, at the Miami con-
ference in February, suggested that
the joint conference, as then organ
lied, continue in existence during the
life of the agreement which would be
made between the miners and oper-
ators; the conference to meet from
time to time to confer on various
phases of the industry as they might
come up. The Lewis proposal set out
that both sides should strive for con-
ditions in the industry which would
give proper financial returns for capi-
tai invested and advance the living
standards of those employed in the
industry.
The proposal met with little re-
sponse at Miami, but since that con-
ference, the necessity for some con-
tinuing body to keep its hands on the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
RYE BREAD FAMINE
Follows Jewish Bakers
Wage Demand

BY International Labor News Service.
New York City.-The strongest la
Dor union on the East Side is striking
again. Nobody familiar with the
Jewish trade union movement is in
doubt which is the strongest union.
1t is that of the Jewish bakers, the
last of the hand workers in trade
that is rapidly being mechanical.
Jewish rye bread made by machinery
like American white bread has not the
taste or the toughness essential to the
real article.
So the journeyman baker remains in
his glory turning out a product con-
noisseurs will pay double for. Because
of the kneading and mixing and the
heat necessary to bake these heavy,
golden brown loaves it develops
brawny workmen.
These bakers stand in the forefront
of the labor movement. They are all
members of the Bakery and Confec-
tionary Workers International Union
and have recently consolidated their
five locals into one union, Local 500,
with 5000 members. They have the
44-hour week and they ask the 40
hour week with an increase in wages
that will even up the loss in working
time. They ask raise from $66 to
$72 week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
Plumbers Get Injunction
To Halt Lockout Declared
By New York City Employers

By International Labor News Service.
New York City.-The Queens
plumbers local has obtained an in
junction against the Building Trades
Employers Association and the Mas
ter Plumbers Association to halt the
city-wide lockout that has been de-
clared because one plumbers local is
on strike for increase in wages from
$12 to $14 day.
If the temporary restraining order
is sustained the plumbers are likely
to sue for the wages they lost when
the employers broke the contract,
which has until 1881 to run. The
local contends the employers have
entered into an unlawful conspiracy to
Brooklyn men who are on strike.
Lost Wages Reach Big Sum
Wages at $66 week which the
1000 men are losing will run up to
nearly half million dollars the mas
ter plumbers might have to pay if
they do not back water. Hasty con-
ferences have been held between Off
cials of the United Association of
Plumbers and Steamftters and the
master plumbers to adjust the situa-
ton. Secretary Thomas E. Burke is
in charge of the plumbers side of the
controversy.
: The plumbers are taking the lead
off position for the five-day week. 1t
is logical time for such action be-
cause in New York as elsewhere there
has been a marked let down in the
building trades. Unemployment has
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
SWIFTS SPEED-UP
PLAN BRINGS
SWIFT STRIKE

Portland, Ore.-Swift & Co., meat
packers, attempted to establish a
swift system among unorganized en-
ployes at their local plant, but a
strike resulted.
The speed-up scheme is called a
bonus system. Time-keepers with
stop watches would stand over en-
ployes for several days and the great
er production would be considered the
bonus basis. By intense application
workers would secure a maximum
daily wage increase of 20 and 80
cents. One employe received check
for one cent as payment for his bonus
The check has been photographed and
is published by the strikers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13

been noted in many branches, carpen-
ters, plumbers and bricklayers being
out of work in considerable numbers
until recently. With not enough work
to go around, the five-day week should
be encouraged. However, the employ
ers will fight this to the last. Their
determination is shown by the lock-
out of plumbers locals that have moth
ing to do with the Brooklyn contro-
versy involving 5000 men.
The S. w. Straus & Co., reports a
sharp decline in building. According
to the company's national survey
every American city shows falling
off in building permits. The national
loss for March was 8 per cent COM
pared to the same loss last year, and
91a per cent decline in 25 leading
cities. In Pennsylvania the drop is
surprising, 18 per cent for the first
quarter of this year compared with
the same period in 1926.
Too Many Small Houses
Building continues fairly brisk in
New England. New York operations
have revived in the last month of
good weather and there is seasonal
demand for bricklayers, lathers and
plasterers. However, here as else
where, there is sharp decline in the
number of small houses started. There
are acres of flimsy frame houses that
are a drug on the market and many
contractors are facing bankruptcy be-
cause there is an over supply of this
type of cheap house that will not
stand the weather.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
WINS RIGHT TO
PICKET AFTER
3-YEAR FIGHT

New York. - Organized garment
workers won a three-years' fight for
the right to picket in several nearby
cities when Supreme Court Justice
Morschauser set aside temporary in
junction that denied this right
Garment manufacturers moved to
these cities from New York to avoid
union standards. When the workers
started an organizing campaign they
were enjoined by Supreme Court Jus
tice Taylor. The anti-union manufac-
turers competed with local houses
that accept union standards.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
PRISON LABOR COSTLY


Oklahoma City-The broom corn
industry of this state is affected by
the states operation of one of the
largest broom factories in the world
at the McAlester penitentiary.
These brooms are sold at cut-throat
prices throughout the United States in
competition with free labor employed
by manufacturers who buy Oklahoma
broom corn. To retailiate against
this unfair competition free labor
manufacturers are buying their broom
corn elsewhere AS a result broom
corn growers in this state lost 81, 1866,
900 last year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-13
PLUMBERS LOCKED
OUT

New York.-Contractin plumbers
ignored wage contract and locked
out 10000 employees to involve them
in a strike of Brooklyn plumbers. The
New York contract provides that if
plumbers in another borough of
Greater New York secure a wage in
crease, this shall apply to Manhattan
Borough. In an attempt to block as
sistance to the Brooklyn strikers, the
lockout was enforced.