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Milford chronicle., 1928-01-06
new CHARTERTNG
PLAN SUCCEEDS
Business Under Revised System
Shows Material Increase To
State.

The success the revised corpora
ton charter law is having, the per-
sonal work of Secretary of State
Charles H. Grantland in aiding the
department to obtain more charters
and the fact that the franchise tax
received this year promises to be the
largest in the history of Delaware,
are things which the members of the
legislature and State officials have
reason to feel proud of at this time.
When the legislature last year cut
the price Of the initial fee for OBJ
tanning charter in half, many pre-
dicted it would be a costly expert
ment to the State. Those favoring
the revision, believed that it would
eventually prove profitable, but be-
cause it had not been tried out, they
considered that the deficit in the
first year might range from a quar-
ter of a million to 100000. It it was
not worse than that, they believed
1t would be a good thing for the fu-
ture. They contended in obtaining its
passage, that while the initial char
ter fee was cut in half, this fact in
itself would prove an attraction to
corporations.
After nine months Of operation,
according to Mr.. Grantland, the de-
ficiency compared to last years re-
ceipts is only about 100000 and with
three more months to go, there is no
doubt in the mind of any one con-
versant with the situation, that the |
total for the year 1925 will be pass
ed by April 1.
The volume of business has in
creased rs per cent in the State De-
partment Mr.. Grantland announces.
It's meant more work, but the in
creased business and the returns
have warranted it. And
the greatest encouragement to those
who sought the revision was that
the corporation companies doing
business in Delaware are able to Of
fer greater inducements to cOrpOr-
atoms to become chartered here and
the outlook for the future is bright,
officials say.
In the work of the past nine
Mr.. Grantland has played
an important part. Up to this year.
when some one wrote and asked
about some particular feature of the
charter law of Delaware, the custom
was to inclose printed copy of all
the laws.
This blanket lot of data was often
not what the prospective charter
seeker wanted. He wished some
specific data that might apply to
some peculiar condition in his appli-
cation for charter. This was an
easy way of disposing of the query
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Milford chronicle., 1928-01-06
WOULD WIDEN ROAD
THROUGH SUSSEX co.
Engineer Buck Suggests Other
Highway improvements In An
nual Report.

In his annual report just made
public, C. D. Buck, chief engineer OF
the State Highway Department, sng-
gests the widening Of the du Pont
boulevard from Milford to Selbyville
as one of the projects for this years
construction work. If his sugges-
ton is followed the concrete road
he'd will be made 20 feet. 1t is now
IA feet in width.
The nearest perfect highway that
the engineering talent OF the coun-
try can design today-the fastest,
the safest and the most desirable to
travel, is a road of proper width
built for traffic moving in only one
direction and sufficiently far remov-
ed from other roads to prevent
might binding" says Mr.. Buck.
He therefore recommends that the
department provide such super
highway between st. Georges and
State Road Station. He suggests
that a 2O-foot road paralleling the
present highway at a distance OF
possibly 80 feet to the east or west
be built.
The number of out-of-State mo-
florists who will seek Delaware dur
ing the next spring and summer Will
be limited only by highway conges-
ton and its consequential delays,
Mr.. Buck says in the report.
eff it is to the States benefit and
the prosperity of our citizens to en-
courage citizens Of other states to
visit us, roads of adequate width will
attract them and in limitless num-
bers by reason of the States geo.
graphic location" he added.
From Wilmington, 6 miles south,
the department altered this year an
1S-foot road to one SO feet wide.
However, it does not function as it
might, since some drivers persist in
holding to the center of the road in
stead of driving to the right, as is
Mr.. Buck makes several important
recommendations in his report in ad-
dition to the one concerning the
He urges cOnstruc-
ton of sidewalks at various points
along the most heavily Travelled state
roads. He also recommends that the
State own its own sand asphalt
plant.
Mr.. Buck points out in his report
that the departments outstanding
of the year was the
saving that has been
made in the average cost per mile
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SHERIFF STOPS SCRAP
OF COLLEGE CLASSES
University of Delaware SOphs And
Freshmen Battle At Dover.

University of Delaware Freshmen
and Sophomores caused consider
able excitement along State street
in the vicinity of the Dover Opera
House Tuesday night. It was not
until Sheriff Frazier pulled his gun
and threatened action that the stu
dents and especially the Sophs were
quieted down and shortly after
wards left town. Town officers and
several members of the state high
way police force aided in stopping
the disturbance.
According to the custom of the
University, it is necessary for the
freshmen to hold their annual ban
quet ION the quiet" This year they
selected the Dover High School as
the place to hold it, and the senior
class served an excellent dinner to
the 55 freshmen who attended. This
part went off all right, but when
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TELEPHONE SERVICE
TO Be BETTERED
DiamOned State Telephone Com.
pany Will Spend 100000
This Year.

Close to 100000 will be spent
by The Diamond State Telephone
Company next year for expanding
the telephone plant in Delaware, &C.
cording to the recently approved
budget figures for 1928, as an
nounced today by C. r. Sypherd
manager of the company. Practical
ly all sections Of the state will come
in for some portion of the expendi-
lures during the year.
A large part of the 1928 expendi-
lures will be used for central Office
equipment and installations, but ap-
proximately $2S6,000 of the total
amount of money is for what is
known as outside plant" This in
cludes cables, wire, poles, cross
arms and all apparatus and equip
ment outside of the central offices.
OF the amount set aside for out
side plant, about 100000 will be
spent for cable construction in
underground conduit and pole lines.
About eighty-four per cent. of all
telephone wires in the state are
now enclosed in cable which makes
them as secure against storm
breaks as it is possible to construct
them. The extended use of cables
wherever the volume of business
makes the installation economical
is now the policy of the Bell System.
Several additions will be made to
the toll cable plant during 1928. One
of the outstanding jobs of this char
acter is the erection of the Dover
toll cable which is planned to next
year. This work consists in build
ing a storm-proof cable for a Sec
ton north of Dover. Middletown
and Wilmington are also to be ben
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DRAW JURY PANEL
FOR FEDERAL COURT
W. VauIes Grier And C. E. Grove Sc
lected From Cedar Creek

Petit jurors for the U. S. District
Court, for the District of Delaware,
have been drawn by H. C. Mahaffy,
clerk of the court. The jurors will
report January 9. The jurors are:
Wilmington Hundred: William M.
Foord, Hollyday S. Needs, Jr., Fred
erick L. Kurtz, John w. Toadvine,
Henry L. Fulenwider, Paul J. Now
land, John A. Bader, Edward c. May,
John e. Krauss, John B. Jessup,
Thomas M. Monaghan, Frank Nc
Cormick, Ellwood Souder, William
C. Murgatroyd and Samuel E. Tar
button.
New Castle Hundred: John T. z.
Clayton.
Duck Creek Hundred: Edward
Farrell and Ellwood W. Bartlett.
North West Fork Hundred: Harry
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Milford chronicle., 1928-01-06
KENT COUNTY LAWYER
FINDS FARMING PAYS
Arley b. Magee Has Made Money
From Apples On Old creed Farm"

Men in some states have struck
gold dust, oil, good health and good
fortune and amassed fortunes. There
is one man in Kent county who has
property, big cash deposits, who
owns Little Heaven" south of Do
yer, who cleared $4,000 from his
apple crop in 1927. Whose health is
much improved and now has started
to reap harvest by the sale of
thousands of nice, fat broilers and
who leaves his law Office daily at 4
o'clock, visits his farms and comes
back to his Office each morning
nuch refreshed.
He is Arley B. Magee, a former
Mayor of Dover. leading member
Hf Kent county bar, chairman of the
Advisory Council of the Marketing
bureau of the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
hore Association. Mr.. Magee is also
hartman of the agricultural com
littee of the State Bankers Asso-
ation.
HIS has divided five adjoining
firms from a tract of $50 acres
witch lie along the du Point Boule-
vrd.
order to comply with the new
site law governing the shipment of
aples in carriers clearly branded
hepurchased a separator, the only
on in the state, and in that way the
valous sizes were culled and then
eao package carried the guarantee
tina if the fruit were not up to the
staldard the money would be re-
funed.
Nrman Holiday has 49, acres, the
greSer part of which is III apples.
Clinton Culver has 55 acres in his
farm of which IS are in apples and
20 scres cleared land. He has ten
milo COWS and IS hogs, as well as
3, 100 broilers.
This is the place known as Little
Heaven" and is well wofth visit
and IN hour or two to Inspect the
orchtrd. AS the visitor olives along
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CAULK FIELD FORCE
MEETS In MILFORD
Annual Meeting Of COmpany'S Rep
resentatiVes; Interesting Program

The annual meeting of the whole
sale field force of the L. D. Caulk
Company is now in session. Begin
ming on Tuesday, January 3rd, this
convention will continue until next
Wednesday, January 18th. This
week will be spent in discussing the
technique and merits of individual
products by DR.. Paul Poetschke and
DR.. c. A. Nelson. From all over
the United States the Is men arrived
here on Tuesday afternoon, report
ing at the laboratories in the early
afternoon for a visit through the
plant, in charge of DR.. Walter L.
Grier. On Wednesday morning
there was a greeting by DR.. G. Lay
ton Grier, followed by discussions
of Alloy, Mercury and Accessories,
and in the afternoon discussions of
New Model Alloy and New Copper
Amalgan. On Thursday morning
Synthetic Porcelain and everything
that pertains to the translucent fill
ing material line were discussed,
with, in the afternoon, continual
ton of this program with sales
demonstrations. Friday morning
will be given to the discussion of
Clements and everything that per-
tains to the cement line, and New
Mildel Cement, with, in the after
noon, Oral Infections and PrOphy-
laxis, Mercitan, Osogen and Phar-
maceuticals, as subjects. William
G. Smith will also talk of the Pos
sibilities for the Sale of Mercitan
and Pharmaceuticals, in the after
noon. Saturday morning the sub
jects will be Miscellaneous Pro-
ducts-Waxes, Stellite, Gutta Per-
cha, ETC., followed by short review,
with the presentation of construct
i've suggestions from each of the
men for discussion. On Sunday
there will be a dinner for the rep
at the Henlopen Hotel
at Rehoboth.
Next week will be devoted to
Sales and Sales Problems, begin
ming on Monday with talk about
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NEW YEAR USHERED
In WITH COLD WEATHER
Wednesday Morning Was Coolest 10
Season, Thermometer At 8 Above

The new year was ushered in this
week with the coolest weather. of
the season, Monday, Tuesday land
Wednesday each showing a lower
thermometer reading than for ANY
other days of the present whittier
months. The coolest day of the
year was Wednesday of this week,
when the official government ther-
mometer in Milford registered 8
degrees above zero. On Monday
morning the low mark was 10 above
and on Tuesday IL above. Charles
J. Holzmueller, official government
weather reporter for Milford, re-
ports the following thermometer
readings for the period from We'd
nesday of last week to Wednesday
of this week:
Milford chronicle., 1928-01-06
FIVE ECLIPSES WILL
OCCUR DURING 1928
Moon Eclipse Visible Here November
"a; Luna Has Another; Old Sol 8

The celestial luminarss are
scheduled for first class snow this
year. The sun will put On three
eclipses and the moon two. But Mil
ford will see only one "a tohl moon
eclipse.
1t is only in lapses of hundreds of
years that this number of eelipses
occur in one year. and the a,trono-
mers will be ready to observe all
they can, particularly the ;adical
ones who hope they can eventually
secure enough data to untermine
conventional and standard ideas
about the heavenly bodies, time,
space and so forth.
The first act will be on Nay ~,
when the sun will do total eclipse
skit, but only a portion of the act
will be seen in the extreme @uth-
ern mart of South America. The total
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Milford chronicle., 1928-01-06
DAMAGED BOAT PUTS
In AT BREAKWATER
Schooner With Masts Gone, TOwed
To Safety By Federal Cutter

The schooner Brina P. Pendleton,
her fore and mizzen mast gone, and
her general appearance more like a
floating iceberg than a vessel, was
towed into the Delaware Breakwa-
ter at Lewes on Wednesday by the
cutter Acushnet shortly before noon.
The vessel, which had come peril
ously near being lost in a dangerous
anchorage 40 miles south of New
York, was first sighted by the Porto
Rican freighter Coamo, which Of
fered to take aboard members of the
crew but they chose to stay with
their vessel.
Coast guard officials at Lewes i'm
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PLAN RAT CONTROL
CAMPAIGN FOR KENT
County Agent Wilson VIII Demon
strate Method OF Fighting Pests

There is no argument to the fact
that one of the greatest losses to
property and its contents is caused
by the various kinds of rodents, and
especially rats which annually dam
age and destroy thousands of dol
lars worth of property and food
stuffs throughout the country, and
in view of this condition a rat con-
troll campaign is being planned for
Kent county under the direction Of
County Agent Russell E. Wilson,
who will conduct demonstrations on
farms to show how these pests can
be exterminated by the use Of a
dust known as cyanogas,
Hiau. injected under the farm
Aseans of a small foot
designed for this
exclusion of rats
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Milford chronicle., 1928-01-06
DRY AGENTS WO RK
SCORED BY JUDGE
Declares In Court Respec table Citi-
zens InVeigIed Into Wi ne Sales

Judge Hugh M. Morris, sitting in
United States District Cou TT, at Will
mington, on Tuesday, too k occasion
to rebuke the methods bf Federal
agents operating in Delav rare in an
effort to enforce the Federal prohi-
bition law. Judge Norris imposed
fine on one man, and RENTED
Jail sentence on another who had
pleaded guilty to selling mall guam
titles of wine to government agents
whom they said had invetgled them
to sell.
Judge Morris rebuke clhme as he
was imposing a fine of $50 on Jacob
L. Kenny, aged II years, of Laurel,
who pleaded guilty to a charge of
selling wine to H. D. Thompson, a
dry agenhn. zRzssAsaid.
he was not a bog
the agent had as
have the wine Il
he said, was fol
SEES testified
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WHEAT FUTURES
SLIGHTLY DOWN
IN CHICAGO PITS
September Corn Weak, but
Other Deliveries Rose;
Oats Lower.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.-Wheat prices
today reacted from Tuesdays sharp
advance, all deliveries going frac-
tionally lower. September corn was
again weak, but the other months
made moderate gains. Oats was
slightly lower.
Wheat opened u to z cents off,
corn ranged from q off to 4 cents
up and oats was unchanged to q
cent off. Provisions we're about I'M
changed.
Frost reports from parts Of AL
berta we're responsible for Tuesdays
sharp gain. Temperatures in
Canada and the Northwest we're
again low today, but no damage was
reported. Export trade Tuesday was
estimated as high as 100000
bushels.
Corn responded only moderately
to the strength in wheat. Rain is
needed in Nebraska and the Da-
kotas. but other parts of the belt are
doing well.
Liquidation and hedging pressure
sent oats to new low prices early
Tuesday with only a slight rally
later.
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Deaths

>, George Washington Dilts, rs, Methodist
Hospital, septicaemia
Catherine Parsons "a, 1920 NJ Illinois.
Horace A. Stout. 63, Christian Hospital.
acute myocarditis.
Rose E. Rice S6. I'll E. Forty-Ninth.
chronic myocarditis.
John Stoudt, mo-. city hospital en-
tertis. 20
Catherine E. Schultz. 40. 1924 Cornell.
peTnicious anemia.
:. Mary Beatrice Kreinhagen. 4. 2O22 Eng
fish. castro enteritis
Peter F. Hill, So. 44a N. Beville. car
Frank Malta, AZ. 10 N. Linwood. sar-
coma.
Leslie F. Collier 80. 1890 Fletcher. myo-
Charles Wesley Edmonds, / day. 1945
Sheldon, pulmonary embolism.
Eugene Reid, %, Christian Hospital.
acute dilatation of heart
Mary Ellen Calhoun, So 2542 N. Della
ware, CARDIAC insufficiency.
Jennie G. Breeder, ~, 2l23 W. Norris.
chronic mYocarditiS.
James Nord,, rs, Van Camp Packing
Company apoplexy.
John Hohnstreiter, as. city hospital, lobar
Wood Porter. 4s, COS Douglas, lobar
:, Carl F. Rogers. SIS, 40 N Bolton. coronary
thrombosis.
Mollie Alwilda. rs, Methodist Hospital.
diabetes mellitus.
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In the Stock Market
lBY Thomson 4 McKinnnnl

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-Although
industrial news is in limited sup
ply, it is constructive. Today's car
loading report shows good progress.
there is another steel merger and
oil production is declining from a
trading standpoint, however, the an
nounced plans to segregate the in
vestment holding of the Allied
Chemical is likely to traders imag-
nation. In connection with decline
OF call money rates. today's denial
that the reserve banks are BUYERS
OF bankers acceptance removes the
idea that any change of policy is
taking place. That brings us to the
point where it seems still advisable
to regard the current case in call
money as being of temporary char
acter only and to continue the be-
lief that it is hardly judicious to ex-
tend long accounts.
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PORKERS CLIMB
so CENTS TOP
PRICE HITS $13
Hogs Advance SIPS in
Week, With Continued
Low Receipts Here.

Hogs scared Is to so cents on the
hundredweight to top price of SIS
at the Union Stockyards today with
continued low receipts. The recent
advance has brought the top from
$11.75 last Wednesday to $13 today.
The best price a year ago today
was $11.50, with 1000 animals. Re
ceipts today we're $500 and there
were 100 holdoyers. Material in the
bulk, weighing 15O-285 pounds, sold
for $1235@1290.
Beef steers we're weak and the
stock strong in the cattle division,
while other material was unchanged.
The Chicago market was slow and
10 to Is cents higher than Tuesdays
best prices, few loads of choice
180-240-pound weights going for
$12.40@12.65. The top was a quar-
ter under the local market at $12.75.
Receipts numbered 10000.
Heavy butchers, 250-350 pounds,
sold for $11.7512.40Gp, IS to 40 cents
higher on the local market, while
material in the 200-250-pound class
brought $12.35@1290, up As to so
cents. Lights, 10000 pounds, we're
up evenly so cents to $12.75@13, and
light lights. 130-160 pounds, brought
$l1.65 1880, 35 to so cents higher.
Pigs, 90-130 pounds. advanced so
cents to $9.50@1125, and packing
sows were up quarter to S1025
@1125.
Beef steers were weak and she
stock was strong in the cattle di-
vision, with the supply up to 1,40O
head. Steers were $13.50@ 1925, off
rs cents on the top while low cutter
and cutter COWS advanced a quarter
on the high end to $5.5067.50. Beef
COWS were unchanged at $9911.50,
as were bulk stock and feeder steers
at $8m12.
Vealers were unchanged. with the
best bringing $1650d17.50, and heavy
calves. $7@11 There were about
TOO animals here.
Sheep and lambs sold at steady
prices with 1,400 animals in the
pens. The top was $14 and bulk fat
lambs sold for $1275013.50. Bulk
culls were $8a1O.25, and fat ewes,
S4.50a650.
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Nicholas George, So, was taken to
city hospital unconscious Tuesday
night when a wardrobe he was car
rying downstairs at his home, 1926
w. Washington St., fell on top of
him.
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Building Permits

&c: W, Cones. Sons. dwelling and garage,
6l15 Ralston. s4.l00.
@. Binkley. dwelling and garage. $3.50
Washington Blvd, $4,000.
G.. E. Conner, dwelling and garage 1927
Boulevard Pl.. $4,000
R. Gertchen. garage. 1854 Climber s526.
1000.
H. Kleifgen, repair, 4404 E. Tenth. $500
B. Henson. reroof. 1850 College. $3.50.
y; Cato remodel 426 S. New Jersey,
W J. Faust. dwelling. s27 N Gladstone,
A. scandand. station. 2442 South State,
$500.
L. Hazedek. garage. 73l S. Meridian
$500. Z salmon repairs SO8 N La Sale
J. T. Meyer. garage. AZ Schiller, 1921.
&C; Roberg. steam heat. 1880 N. Capitol
W. a. DAWN, garage, 1922 Parker, 1925
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Faces Forgery Charge

BIZ Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Aug. is
John Baribough, 38, Indianapolis
salesman, is in city Jail here charged
with forging an order for $156 on
the Hoosier Lamp Works. Bari
Dough is a salesman for the Merten
Manufacturing Company. He was
given a preliminary hearing before
City Judge H. B. Mccoy Tuesday
and his case was taken under adj
visement until Tuesday.
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CARNIVAL RE0PENED
AFTER NEW PETITION
Controller RevOkes Closing Order
When Law Is Observed.

Controller RevOkes Closing Order
When Law Is Observed.
The carnival being held under
the auspices of the Ironwood Camp,
Modern Woodmen of America, at
Tacoma Ave. and E. Washington ST.,
was reopened Tuesday night and will
continue to operate. This was the
announcement today by Sterling r.
Holt, city controller, who ordered
the fete closed Monday night when
it was learned a petition of approval
for location of the show, presented
in his office, was not bona fide.
A city ordinance provides that go
per cent of the property owners
within 500 feet of the carnival loca-
ton must sign the approval petit
ton. A new petition was circu-
Hated by the lodge and was APP
proved by Holt.
Holt declared that the ordinance
under which the carnival operated
was mixed up" and that he was
considering plans to have it altered.
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SUSPEND SENTENCE ON
GRANDMOTHER PLEA
Youth Freed of Further Charges
After Serving Term.

After Serving Term.
Fine and sentence for drunken
ness and carrying concealed weapons
were suspended by Special Judge S.
j. Smith in municipal court three
today in the case of William Thomp-
son, 81, of SOC w. Morris St., who
returned from serving a three
months sentence at Indiana State
farm to face the charges.
Smith has record of three con-
victions for felony, but his grand
mother, Mrs. Anna Bertline of the
Morris st. address. assured the judge
if the old charges were dropped she
would voLch for his behavior.
The concealed weapons and drunk
charges were brought by Patrolman
Cecil Neal who alleged that
Thompson had attacked him with
brass knuckles in a dry beer saloon
at Michael and Wyoming Sts., last
May. The youth was sentenced to
the farm at that time for assaulting
and robbing an old man and the
police charges were let stand until
today.
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FIRM INSURES DAYLIGHT
Buys $4,000 Lot to Guard North
Exposure.

Daylight insurance" in the form
of $4,000 real estate purchase.
was taker Tod by the Herff- Jones
Company manufacturing jewellers
on the tit.h floor of the jackson
Bldg, 1927 N Capitol Ave.
Through Moore & Fox, realtors,
the Herff-Jones Company bought
property adjoining the Jackson
Bldg on the north, at 1925 N. Cap
itol Ave, to insure nothing would be
constructed there to obstruct north
light from entering the fifth floor
windows of present quarters.
The property fronting sixty-one
feet on Capitol Ave, and 208 feet
deep, was bought from the Rybolt
Heating Company. A single resi-
dence now stands on the lot.