Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-02-03
Milton Letter

The worst snow storms for years
visited this section on Saturday.
Snow began to fall early Saturday
morning and continued until late
Saturday night. A high wind ac-
cOmpanied the storm and piled the
snow into drifts that in some places
was ten feet deep, completely block
ing traffic. The evening mail due
here about seven o'clock arrived
about ten, and then the star route
driver could not come across coun-
try from Glendale, but was forced
to detOur via Georgetown and Har-
bosom. The star route driver from
Rehoboth to Harrington left here
about six o'clock and after reaching
Milford was compelled to lay over
until Sunday afternoon before going
on to Harrington. He failed to
get through on Monday morning,
but the Glendale driver, by using
a mule team, succeeded in getting
to and from Glendale with the
first mail to reach here about one
o'clock Monday afternoon. Sunday
papers, delivered to the carrier here
by auto from Harrington, failed to
arrive until Tuesday, when they |
came via Glendale. A deep drift |
about a half mile north of Milton |
trapped a P. A. X. truck north |
bound and the driver was compelled |
to stay until morning when he came
back and attempted to get to Will
mingtOn by way of Georgetown.
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and could not get to town to do
their weekly marketing until Tues
day, except those residing within a
mile or two of the town who walk
ed in and out again with the neces-
sary groceries. Telephone service
was broken down to the north for
a day or two before the repairmen
could put the lines in order. While
there is no real suffering in the
town there are many homes in
which the fuel question is becoming
serious. On Monday afternoon the
State Highway Department had out ]
snow plows and the concrete roads
were made passable. Some of these !
plows were started Saturday eve
ming but were unable to cope with {
the situation despite the fact that {
hey kept going all night and all
lay Sunday. 1t was the worst
storm to visit this section for seven i,
II eight years. a
George Andrew Bryan, an aged +,
'esident of Milton, suffered a second n
'aralytic stroke on Friday, and his b
condition is serious. He is confined
o his home practically helpless. S
lie is about 80 years of age and his c,
amily and friends are greatly con- n
erned about his condition.
A contest between singers from a
ewes, Nassau, Seaford and Berlin, OF
Id, was held in the First Congre- la
atiOnal Church last night before a st
lrge crowd of music lovers. Negro II,
pirituals and old plantation songs hC
ere sung by the singing bands, and
t the end of more than an hour of
cal enjoyment the judges awarded
rst prize to Lewes. Second prize
as divided between Nassau and
erlin. After the contest refresh to
ents were served in the base da
ent of the church. The proceeds Vi
the contest goes toward paying To-
t the church Indebtedness. pr
John H. Heavalow has had the ar
alls of his residence shingled and Pc
now painting it. sp
H. S. Fithian has had a new roof ou
it on his home on Union street.
Riley Ingram is erecting dwell to
g on Atlantic street, just east of
e town limits. CHI;
Captain William Pettyjohn is hav- PR
g his residence on Chestnut street me
inted and repaired. Civ
Mrs. Elizabeth Hearne, of Cam pla
n, ~ J., is the guest of her bill
other, Henry McAllister, who is tiv;
tie ill. Tr,
Green Dutton, of Lewes, was a the
lton visitor on Friday. pr
No session of the Milton school z
S held on Friday, owing to civ
eting of the teachers of Sussex Y
nty, held at Laurel on that date. orr
4 strong wind storm, accompan-
by rain, lightning and thunder,
;sed over this district Tuesday
Int of last week and left a trail
and damage throughout 1t
district. Telephone poles lead
to and from town were blown L
vn during the storm, and many exc
es were uprooted and small or
ldings overturned. On the Chal- also
,ka farm, in Cave Neck, a poul- ter
house one hundred feet long was tiers
lpletely demolished. A large in e
oder house on the farm of John ual
Workman, on the road from Mil kind
to Georgetown, was overturned. assn
arge cedar tree on the farm Of preC