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Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
| MILFORD CHURCHES
OBSERVE MOTHERS DAY
Services Appropriate To The Day
Were Held In All Churches

Impressive services appropriate
to Mothers Day were held last Sun
day in all the Milford churches
which were beautifully decorated
with white flowers. Mrs. B. w.
Mills, assisted by members of the
Fellowship Bible Glass, pinned flow
ers on all the congregation at the
Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, and the decorating of the
church, which was done by the
Volunteer Glass, included a large
banner spelling Mothers Day, -
which extended across the front of
the church. Rev. Mr.. HersOn's SER
mon, dealing with mothers past,
present and future, was full of ap-
peal to everyone. The choir sang
several special selections, the SER
vice concluding with Home, Sweet
Home" In the evening the Ep-
worth League, led by Miss Lydia
Abbott, held their service also in
keeping with Mothers Day, which
was followed by a sermon again ap-
prOpriate to the day.
The Presbyterian Church was
filled with beautiful white flowers,
and in the morning there was spec
ial music suggestive of the day;
and Rev. Mr.. Humphreys preached
an excellent sermon. Young girls
of the church pinned a white flower
on each person as they entered the
vestibule. The evening service was
devoted to the reading of a bio
account of the mothers of
great men, interspersed at apprO-
pirate intervals with song selec-
tiOns illustrating and emphasizing
the story at the various points.
Rev. Mr.. Humphreys read the story
and a chorus of about Is voices
sang the selections.
The First Methodist Protestant
Church celebrated the day with
special music and a sermon by the
pastor, also appropriate, in the
A large basket of white
flowers stood before the pulpit and
flowers were pinned on the congre-
cation at the entrance to the
church. At the evening service
there was again special music by
the choir and the orchestra, and
Rev. Mr.. Bryan preached a special
sermon for Mothers Day, using as
his subject, Naomi, the Sacrificing
and SOrrowing Mother"
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
DROWNED WHEN
PINNED UNDER AUTO
Russell C. Kemp, Milford Neck Boy,
Meets Tragic Death

Pinned under an automobile
which had turned over and fallen in
to a ditch, Russell c.. Kemp, aged
about 18 years, who lived on a farm
in the Milford Neck section, was
found dead Saturday morning about
z o'clock along the causeway lead
ing from Frederica to Milford.
Kemp was in Frederick Friday ev-
ening visiting his uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Burney Kemp. He left
their home about 8 o'clock to drive
to his own home and Mrs. Kemp
watched the car as it proceeded
along the causeway. Suddenly she
saw the lights on the machine go out
but thought it a temporary derange-
ment and forgot the incident.
Saturday morning when the ma
chine was found it was discovered
the left front tire had blown out and
this is thought to have caused the
machine to overturn, roll Off the
highway and fall into the ditch. Al
though the water is shallow Kemp,
who was riding alone, was pinned
under the wreckage and drowned.
An inquest in the case was held Sat
urday afternoon.
The car in which he had been rid
ing was a Ford roadster. 1t was
found lying on the side of the road
by Elmer Voshell, Otis Stokes, James
Graham and Lester Hall. They turn
ed the machine over and discovered
the dead body of the young man in
the mud.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
.ROTARIANS WILL HOLD
LADIES' NIGHT MONDAY
Interesting Program Prepared For
Affair Held In Community Building

The members of the Milford Ro-
tary Club will entertain their ladies
at dinner next Monday evening at
which time an interesting program
will be given. ROtarians and their
wives from Dover, Laurel, Smyrna
and Georgetown will be present at
the dinner, which will be held in
the Community Building. The prin-
cipal speaker of the evening will
be Miss Mildred Johnson, who is an
air mail flyer, having covered all of
the air mail routes in this country
and many in Germany. Miss John
son returned from Germany about
two weeks ago after an extended
tour of the airways of that nation.
She was scheduled to visit Milford
last Monday evening, but the sud
den death of her mother caused a
Encouragement of the program and
ladies' night affair. Music for the
occasion will be furnished by the
Philadelphia Quartette. This excel
lent musical organization has visit
ed Milford before and is exception
ally fine. Other entertaining fea-
lures will be provided by the Rotar-
ians for their guests next Monday
evening.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
MUCH INTEREST in
DEL-MAR-VA MEETING
Annual Session To Be Held At
Salisbury Next Friday Will Be
Largely Attended.

A greater interest than ever pre-
viously manifested is being express
ed in the third annual meeting of the
Del-Mar-Va Eastern Short Associa-
ton, to be held in the Wicomico Ho-
tel, Salisbury, Friday, May 25th.
Scores of letters from business lead
ers and prominent citizens in all
sections of Del-Mar-Va are being
received daily by President DR.. G..
Layton Grier, voicing direct interest
in the Association and its future.
These comments are accepted as ev-
idence of a decided broadening in in
terest and development in favor
able feeling which officials of the
Association believe will cause the
annual meeting to be the most large
ly attended and enthusiastic in the
Associations history.
The program for the meeting
which was ratified by the Board of
Governors who met last Thursday,
provides for the morning session to
be devoted largely to business. Pres
ident Grier will present a report of
the Associations past activities and
DR.. F. B. Bomberger, Executive Di-
rector, will review the departmental
work and outline a future program.
Brief reports from the Bureaus of
Traffic &. Transportation, Advertis-
ing & Publicity, and Marketing will
then be presented.
Following the routine business,
The meeting will be opened for in
formal discussion among the MEM
1ers as to the Associations future |
program and policy. Association Of
icials believe it to be vitality essen
ial that the membership take a di-
'ect and active part in determining
he future work Of the Association.
Keen interest is centered about
he speakers program which will
eature the Associations meeting.
While men of national and interna-
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Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
LEWES MAY GET DEEP
WATER CHANNEL If
TOWN CO-OPERATES
Federal Engineer Edgar Jadwin
Urges $2S7, 900 Improvement
For HarbOr There.
WANT TURNING BASIN
Town Authorities Must Dredge
Wharf Waters To Twelve Foot
Depth.

That Major-General Edgar Jad-
win, chief of engineers of the army,
has recommended a modification of
the proposed Delaware BreakWater
project became known when the War
Department announced Tuesday that
channel IL feet deep aud 300 feet
wide extending to Queen Anne wharf
at Lewes, had been recommended to
Representative S. Wallace Dempsey,
chairman of the House committee on
rivers and harbOrs. The recommen-
datiOn of army engineers provides
for a turning basin 900 feet square
as recommended by the district en-
gineers.
The estimated cost of the propos-
ed improvement is $2S7,OOO and the
annual maintenance of $4,000. The
recommendations provide, however,
that no work shall be undertaken
until local interests give assurance,
satisfactory to the secretary of war
and chief of engineers, that they
will dredge to the same depth in the
berths at Queen Anne wharf, or that
they will construct another wharf
open to the general public, and hav-
ing approximately the same berth
ing facilities.
The improvements are the result |
of long agitation, dating from No
vember 1928, when on that date the |
chairman of the rivers and harbors |
committee enclosed a copy of a res
olution of the committee requesting |
the Board of Engineers to review the
reports on Delaware Breakwater and |
harbOr of refuge, submitted in the
Congress, with a view
to determining whether any modifi-
cation of the recommendations was
advisable at the present time.
Favorable action of the Board of
in recommending the
of the channel and turning
basin was taken since Representa-
tive Robert G.. Houston became a
of the House committee on
rivers and harbors. Mr.. Houston
has been urging a number of other
to Delaware water
way projects since he became a
of the House.
Lewes men interested in naviga-
ton when told of the recommenda-
tion of the Chief of Engineers of the
Army expressed the opinion that
the people of Lewes would do their
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Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
JURORS FOR JUNE
TERM SUSSEX COURT
7. c. Collins, H. H. DerricksOn,
W. A. Reed And G. H. Baynum
Will Serve From Milford.

Jury Commissioners J. Edward
Goslee and Joseph H. Cox have
drawn jurymen for the June term
of Sussex County Court, which con-
venes on Monday, June 25th. The
panel as drawn follows:
First Representative District
Carlisle T. Collins, Milford; R. H.
DerricksOn, Lincoln; Walter A.
Reed, Milford, and George H. Bay
mum, Milford.
Second District-Francis Hardes-
ty, Bridgeville; Enos T. Wright,
Bridgeville; William D. Lynch,
and Harry c. Layton,
Third District-Charles league,
Georgetown; John R. Cannon, Can
non; George R. Trimble, Seaford,
and Samuel H. Messick, Seaford.
Fourth District - Walter M.
Seaford; John Carlton
Hearne, Laurel, and Edwin H. AL
len, Laurel.
Fifth District-John D. Collins,
Laurel; Charles E. Wootten, Lau-
rel, and c. c. TOmlinson, Delmar.
Sixth District-Raymond P. Long,
Frankford; John S. Dobson, Mills
bOrO, and Alvin ]. Timmons, Days
borO.
Seventh District-John A. Clogg,
William T. Hudson of
w. L., Selbyville, and Harley L.
Evans, Selbyville.
Eighth District-William A. Car
ey, Millsboro; Carlton Lingo, Mills
boro, and IRA Stevenson, Millsboro.
Ninth District-Albert P. Croll.
Georgetown; Harold D. Hatfield,
Georgetown, and Charles H. Hast
Ings, Georgetown.
Tenth District Dora Warren.
Frederick C. Marshall,
Lewes; Rowland B. Ingram, Reho-
both, and Grover c. James, Milton.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
AIM TO REDUCE DEATH
RATE OF YOUNG CHICKS
County Agent Snyder Hopes To
Greatly Aid Sussex POuItrymen

Prof. H. S. Palmer, poultry spec
ialist of the University of Della
ware, and Sussex County Agent G..
R. Snyder, have found some very
interesting data relating to the
"Grow Healthy Chick" campaign
which they started in Sussex county
in February.
The main purpose of the cam
paign was to aid the poultrymen in
growing better chicks. Since Sus-
sex is fast becoming a great poul-
try county, it was necessary that
something should be done in lessen
ing the mortality of chicks.
Accurate records kept by some
of the poultrymen last season show
ed that up to six months of age an
average of 20.79o of their chicks
died. The best record showed a
loss of 5.196, and the poorest rec
ord showed a loss of 1857. The
approximate loss last year was S5
to 4096. Instances of so to 75%
losses were known.
The poultry specialist and county
agent have secured the cooperation
OF 3S poultrymen in the county who
will try to follow as many of the
following points as possible; clean
chicks, clean incubators, clean
brooder houses, clean land, clean
litter, clean feed, clean manage
ment and clean laying houses.
Twenty-seven farmers have signi-
fed their intentions of following
the first point, II will follow the
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Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
LATE FROSTS DAMAGE
BERRIES SLIGHTLY
Heavy FrOsts Sunday And Monday
Caused Apprehension For Berries

Strawberry growers in middle
Delaware were much concerned
over the heavy frosts which were
noticeable on Sunday and Monday
mornings of this week. The frost
on Monday morning was exception
ally heavy, and all vegetation was
covered with a thick coating of
frost before the sun chased it away
At Milford the frost was the heav-
lest to occur this late in the year
for a number of years. In fact, it
is very seldom that frOsts occur
here after the goth of April. Berry
growers state that some of the
Strawberries have been killed by
the freeze. The plants are now in
full blossom and were at the right
stage of development to suffer from
the frosts.
Notwithstanding the frosts, how
ever, the crop will not be damaged
to such an extent that the growers
will lose heavily. The frosts nip
ped other young vegetation, but no
fears are entertained that growing
crops will be dangerously hurt.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
METHODISTS DROP
COOKE CHARGES ON
BISHOP MCCONNELL
QuadrenniaI General Conference
Says Accusations Are Without
Basis.
COLOEA SECONDS MOVE
Chairman Of Wilmington DeIega-
tiOn Tells Conference Charge
Is Without Foundation.

Technical charges of maladmin-
istration and immortality, brought
against Bishop Francis J. McCOn-
nell, of Pittsburgh, by the Rev,
George A. Cooke, of Frankford, Del,
were summarily dismissed on Tues
\ day by the Quadrennial- General
Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church.
The conference last week voted
confidence in the bishop and held
that the allegations were without
Foundation.
Mondays action was taken on a
report of the committee on Epis-
cOpacy in which charges were re-
ferred for a thorough investigation
so that there could be no complaint
in the future that the conference
had ''whitewashed" a bishop.
The committee report, signed by
Orien w. Fifer, chairman, said
there was absolutely no cause for
action"
DR.. James w. Colona, chairman of
the Wilmington delegation, told the
conference there was no basis at all
for Mr.. Cookies charges and de-
manded the right to second the re-
port. 1t was adopted unanimously.
DR.. Cooke had charged that Bish-
Op Mcconnell was guilty of "im-
morality in giving approval to the
teaching of the theory of evolution
sin violation of his vows as a min
lister" and in certifying to the jour
nal of the Wilmington conference
knowing that certain proceedings
had been suppressed. The malad-
ministratiOn count involved the
bishops conduct of the annual con-
ference.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
MORE ACCIDENTS
BUT FATALITIES
SHOW DECREASE
l59 Mishaps On State Roads
For First Four Months Of
This Year.
KILL LESS THAN LAST YEAR
Six Dead Is Four Less Than
Toll Last SeasOn-..GiVe Rules
Of Road.

Although there were a few more
accidents and more were injured in
the first four months of this year
than in 1927, the number of fatali-
ties is only little more than half
as many as met their deaths through
accidents on the highways, accord
ing to the report of the State Police
for January, February, March and
April.
There were 159 accidents, just
ten more than last year and SO
persons injured which is 19 more
than in 1927. The number of per-
sons killed was six for the first four
months of the year as compared
with 10 for the same period last
year. The estimated property dam
age this year is $25,3O9 as COM
pared with $23,576.
The six fatalities for the first
four months this year were divided
among three mishaps with motor
vehicles, two pedestrians and one at
railroad crossing. There were 63
slightly injured and IA seriously in
jured as compared with So slightly
injured and four seriously injured
last year. Jay walkers" appeared
to be growing in number, there hav-
ing been seventeen slightly injured
and two seriously injured this year
as compared with nine slightly in
jured and five seriously injured in
1927.
There were 103 mishaps in dry
weather on the highways, which is
one less than last year. With wet
conditions there were Sc as against
As in 1927.
Straight stretches of highways
proved such an attraction for
speeders that there were 95 acci-
dents on such stretches which is
two more than last year. There |
were So mishaps at intersections as
against 43, six at railroad crossings
as against four and six at curves as
against nine last year.
Recklessness heads the list of !
of accidents with "a as
against 25 in 1927 Inattention is
second with "a as against 12 in
1927 and there were seven mishaps
due to operating a car while intoxi-
Gated as against thirteen last year.
jay walking" was charged with II
accidents as compared with ten,
failing to stop at crossroads is
charged with eleven as compared
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Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
WILL DREDCE INDIAN
RIVER INLET THIS. YEAR
State Commission Decides To Go
Ahead With Work Without
Government Aid.

At a meeting of the Indian River
Inlet Commission at Dover FrNay
afternoon the contract for dredging
to open up the inlet was informally
awarded to the Lukens Dredging
and Contracting Company of Balti-
more at its bid of 24.410 cents per
cubic yard.
Although the U. S. Board of Engi-
neers at Washington turned down
the request that the government aid
in opening up this inlet to save the
fishing and grabbing industry which
has been on the decline ever since
the inlet started to close up the
commission has decided to go ahead
with as much of the work as pos
sible with funds available. 1t is
hoped that the government can be
induced later to help with the work.
The commission is composed of
former Governor J. G.. Townsend,
Jr., Rufus D. Lingo and William J. P.
White, all of Sussex county. There
were two other bidders. The Della
ware Dredging Company, of Phila-
bid 80 cents per cubic yard,
and the Calkins Dredging Company,
of Norfolk, which made a bid of
271a cents per cubic yard.
After the bids had been gone over,
the commission announced that it
had decided to award the contract
to the Lukens Company. 1t also an
nounced that D. Raymond Montgom-
cry, of Dover, had been selected as
engineer in charge of the work. The
legislature appropriated $4,000 as
he share of the State.
1t is claimed by the residents of
Sussex county that the Lewes canal,
Lewes with Assawamon
Bay, had the effect of closing the
Met and thus prevented the fish
Ind crabs from thriving in Indian
River inlet from the river to the
ocean and doing great damage to
hat section of the State. At one
ime the feeling was so high that a
lumber of residents dumped bags of |
and into the canal and blocked it.
They were brought before the Fed
raj Court but released after the OBJ
truction had been removed.
The matter had been under con-
liberation so long and met with so
many setbacks that surprise was ex-
Dressed when It was found that the |
had decided to go ahead |
With the work.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
CAESAR RODNEY WINS
KENT MEET WITH EASE
Milford Schools Take Second
Place In Event Held At Har.
ringtOn Friday.

Caesar Rodney High School woT
the track and field meet of Kent
county schools under the auspices
of the Delaware InterschoIastic
Athletic Association, at Harrington
on Friday, with plenty of room to
spare. True to their namesake the
Caesar Rodney athletes were first in
the majority of events and piled up
total of 252 points. Milford, which
was second, tailed 11S1s points.
Caesar Rodney, by winning retained
an honor held for several years.
Harrington's capacity for enter
tanning the meet was unlimited with
the offer by fair officials to use the
Kent and Sussex Fair grounds.
1t was estimated that 10 less
than 10000 persons gathered at the
grounds.
Only one accident occurred. Chas.
O'Neal, son of State Highway Of
ficer ONeal, while participating in
the running high jump, fell and
broke bone in his wrist.
The points scored by each school
follow: Caesar Rodney, 252; Mil
ford, 11S1a; Harrington, Is; Dover,
81; Houston, 351s; FELTON,, 10; Viola
Is; Smyrna, a. Magnolia, 8; Jumps
6; Frederick, 3; .Hollandsville, 2;
Dodge ball distance throw-First,
Lille Wilson, Houston; second,
Violet Dickerson, Smyrna; third, NJ
Sipple, Caesar Rodney.
Dodge ball, class list, Milford;
End, Harrington, and 3rd, Caesar
Rodney.
Dodge ball, class 2-1st, Milford;
End, FELTON,, and Srd, Harrington.
Dodge ball class 3-1st, Viola;
Ind, Jumps School, and 3rd, Hol-
andsville.
Volley ball contests-Class 1, 1st,
End, Caesar Rodney, and
'rd, Harrington. Glass 2, 1st, Mil
ord and End, Caesar Rodney.
Running high jump, unlimited
lass bOys-1st, Clarence Collins,
End, Thomas Pickering,
caesar Rodney, and Srd, John F.
2oosa, Milford.
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Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
SLAUGHTER BEACH
ROAD GETS APPROVAL
Estimates Submitted 70 The High
way Board But No Awards Made

At its meeting last Wednesday the
State Highway Commission approx
ed the Slaughter Beach road. The
following bids were received but no
awards were made:
Contract SO, MISUNDERSTANDING
road, 500 miles, Kent county, stone
and Stag bids: H. F. Sturn and Son.
Camden, N. j.. $127,066, $146,766;
George and Lynch, Dover, $128,785,
$126,5S2, $12S,4O2, $126,955; Walter
Roach & Sons, Georgetown, $1S0,047,
$12S,227; $128,2S5, $126,465; Field,
Barker and Underwood, Philadel-
Hphia, $127, 7,495, $125,SS5, $123,665,
$122,1O5.
Contract 65A, kits Hammock ex-
tension, III miles, Stag, macadam,
Field, Barker & Underwood, Phila-
delphia, 5000, $7,4OO; Gooden &
Clark, Dover, $3.50, $3.50; Louis
A. Cissel, Wilmington, $7,145, $S,84O;
w. w. Truitt, Lincoln City, $9,46O,
one bid.
Contract 1O7, sidewalks, Marshall
ton, 20 mile, ]. A. Bader, Whining
ton, S14,675; A. Petriollo Co., Will
mington, $14,763; Louis A. Cissel,
Wilmington, $14,79S; James A. Hut
Crimson, Newark, $13,SSS.5O; Ken
nedy & Little, Newark, $17,SO5.SO;
Andrew Mitchell & Sons, New Castle,
$17,944; John Tanning, Marshallton,
$2O,978; Samuel R. Lloyd, Whining
ton, rS14,422.5O; Pasquale ]. Mon
gillo. Wilmington, $15,164.
Following the opening of the bids
two delegations appeared, one ask
ing for road from Vines Creek or
Sandy Landing by way of Dagsboro
to Bethany Beach, leading to the
girls camp in Sussex county under
the direction of the Y. W. c. A, a
distance of one and one half miles;
the other delegation asked for a
road from Dagsboro to Mission, IN
Sussex county.
Both delegations were given to
understand that all the appropria-
tions for this year had been made
and it would be impossible to give
assurance of any work being done
on these roads this year.
Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
KENT BOYS AND GIRLS
CLUBS MEET AT DOVER
Eighth Annual Rally viii Be Held
TOmOrrOW-Fine Program

Plans were completed this week
for the Eighth Annual Rally of the
Kent County Boys and Girls Clubs
to be held on Dover Green, Saturday,
May 10, beginning at 10 a. m. The
program will be in charge of Miss
Helen L. COmstock, County Club
Agent.
Club children throughout the coun-
ty always look forward to this event
as being one of the best times of the
club year when they can become ac-
quainted with boys and girls in all
lines of work, and with their local
and state leaders. The attendance
last year exceeded all other years
both in number of club children and
the number of parents and friends.
It is expected the attendance this
year will surpass that of last year.
If the day is stormy, the rally will
be held in the Armory. All club
members are requested to bring
box lunch.
The speaker of the day will be
Governor Robert P. Robinson, who
at previous rally, was made an
honorary club member. Governor
Robinson is much interested in farm
boys and girls. For the second year,
he is Offering two $3.50 gold pieces
to the boy and the girl in Kent cOun-
ty who had the best record of work
completed for the past year. These
prizes will be awarded at the rally.
Governor Robinson's address to the
children will be at p. m.
At 1:45 p. m, there wlA be a roll
call. Each club will answer with an
original song, drill, or stunt. The
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