Milford chronicle., 1927-08-05
MILFORD. FRIDAY, AUG. 5. 1927
WHAT IF III HAPPENED?

MILFORD, FRIDAY. AUG. 5, 1927
WHAT IF III HAPPENED?
The people of Milford do not
realize the position they occupy
as to the actual necessities they
use each day and night so far as
the light and water supply is
concerned.
Suppose that an accident, dis
abled the power plant in Milford
for even a day or a week, before
repairs could be made to get SER
vice for the people. Suppose
they were deprived of all light
for their homes, electric current
for ironing, for sweeping, tor
lights on the streets, and most
of all, for power to drive about
all manufacturing in the town.
Imagine the results. No lamps
not even a candle stick to hght
the home. No power to pump
water to drive machinery. All
work for the hundreds of people
stopped; even the stores closed
down for lack of lights in the
evenings. The hospitals in dark
ness as well as the streets. The
banks without lights to guaro
their vaults, for even a few days.
That is what the people of Mil
ford now face without any re-
serve equipment for their power
and light plant. Can we risk THIS
calamity? Certainly not. That
is what the Town Council is
calling the people to vote upon
at the Special Election on Satur-
day, August 18th. Go vote one
vote for every dollar Of taxes
you paid in 1926, for building the
additional equipment. 1t is al
ready ordered, so do your full
duty and vote for the bond issue.
Do@
IF FARMERS would stop knock
ing and study new ideas as to how
to successfully get profitable re
suits from their fruit and vegetable
they will be surprised a
the splendid success that can be ac
complished from this alone. Not ev
cry enterprise in business is a grea
success, but there are few which are
absolute failures, because each effor
has brought experience in how bes
to handle each problem.
Less than twenty years ago tn'
farmers of the district about Laure
and Seaford, were not prosperlng al
of preyious years. They had go'
into ruts as to crops, cultivation
and most of all, they hac
lost ambition to better their condl'
ton. In 1927 the picture is wonder
ful1v changed. The farmers, truci
~owers and fruit growers especial
ly. have come into realization o.
what twenty years ago, was regard
ed as an idle dream, through the
change in crops, cultivation anc
most of all, in marketing the crops
and now that part of Sussex County
is one of the successful and happl'
est parts of all of Delaware.
In the news columns of the daily
oapers and in this issue OF the MIL
,ord Chronicle, are printed reports
If the crop of cucumbers which has
inst gone to market from that part
If Sussex, which show just for the
LAUREL section an income in cash TO
,rowers of cukes, nearly one hum
ired thousand dollars. Their straw
,erry and blackberry crops whlcn
preceded the cukes were more tnan
he average as money crops, and
ollowing the cukes comes the can
aloupe, the watermelon, the lima
,ean and tomato crops, to be follow
d later by the sweet potato CROP
which in all produces a rather pleas
ng picture for the farmers who use
heir brains and study how to get
uccess, instead of decrying the pro-
ession of farming as a business.
It is true that all farming enter
rises are not successful. 1t IS
uually true that all farmers have
OF the same brain ability, business
bility, physical ambition or equal
mounts of laziness and Incidence,
o there will always be two classes,
hose who succeed and others who
all because they will not work with
heir brain to direct in practical
rays, and at the proper time, such
york as is needed to prepare for
liant, cultivate, gather, pack and
nally sell the crops which are pos
ible for all farmers who do these
nings, to produce in Delaware.
For this reason the farmers about
.aurel and Seaford, have found in
ecent years success by operating
heir farm crops along new and ad-
anced lines. This condition is pos
ible to bring about in every part
E Sussex county where the land is
rained and properly cultivated. In
ne vicinity of Milford twenty years