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Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
MILFORD COUPLE
MARRIED SO YEARS
Mr.. And Mrs. Joseph Belts viii En-
terrain Friends On Anniversary

The fiftieth wedding anniversary
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Belts will be
next Monday, October 22nd, 1928. A
reception to their many friends will
be held that evening at their resi-
dence, No. 412 Washington street,
South Milford, from six to ten o.
clock. Mr.. and Mrs. Belts have liv-
ed all their lives in the town in
which they were born, and have for
a life time been identified actively
with Milford and it's affairs. Both
are hale and hearty and should have
many more years before them. The
Milford Chronicle after printing the
announcement of their marriage in
the third issue of this paper, printed
in October. 1878, now has the pleas
ure to extend most cordial greetings
to Mr.. and Mrs. Belts on the ap-
proach of their fftieth wedding an
niversary. and hope they may both
live to enjoy the fruits of looking
back upon a well spent life. Greet
ings to old friends.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
AUTO WRECKED WHEN
IT STRIKES LARGE HOG
Claude Lynch, Driver, Sustained
Badly Cut Hands In Accident

A large hog was instantly killed
and the automobile which hit it was
badly wrecked late Sunday after
noon on the Neutrality-suspicious.
highway, in front of the Truitt farm.
The automobile was driven by
Claude Lynch. who was going tow
ards Harrington. The hog came out
of a corn field and started to cross
the highway. An effort was made to
avoid hitting the animal, but this
could not be done, with the result
that the animal was dragged several
feet and the car which could not be
steered because of the hog becoming
tangled in the steering apparatus,
ran into a ditch and turned COM
pletely over. Mr.. Lynch was badly
cut about both hands, but three
other occupants of the car were I'M
injured. The automobile was badly
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
TWO In FAMILY DIE
FEW HOURS APART
Margaret Alice, Of Dover, And Her
Uncle, Stricken Suddenly

Two deaths occurred in the Alice
family the members of which are ma
tlves of Dover, within a few hours
on Friday night and Saturday.
The first was the death of Miss
Margaret Alice, about 30 years old.
She was the daughter of Pressly
Alice, brother of former United
States Senator J. Frank Alice.
Miss Alice left her mother, who
was in the kitchen of the apartment,
and went into a front room. Her
mother called her several times and
receiving no answer went into the
room and found her daughter dead.
It is believed that death was due to
heart disease.
Shortly after noon Saturday for
mer Senator Alice received a tele-
gram announcing that his youngest
brother, Charles, who formerly lived
in Dover, but is now located in Ala
bama, had died in North Carolina.
He was about 60 years old.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
POULTRYMEN TOUR
STATE NEXT WEEK
Two Day Trip Will End With
Banquet In Grange Hall At
Milford On Friday.

The attention of all poultry rails
eTs in the state is being called
again to the third annual state poul-
try tour which will be held on Oc-
tober 25 and 26 under the direction
of the Delaware State Poultry AssO-
cation in cooperation with the Elk
tension Department of the Univer-
sity of Delaware.
In addition to visiting several
poultry farms in New Castle and
Sussex counties, the tour also will
include one or more industrial
plants where ingredients of CONNER
cial poultry feeds are manufactured,
and as a closing feature of this an
nual inspection trip the poultry
men and their wives will assemble
in the Milford Grange Hall on Fri
day evening, October 26, for their
annual banquet and business meet
ing of the association.
The tour will start at the plant of
the Mason Alfalfa Process Com
pany, near Wilmington, at $3.50 on
the morning of the first day, and
from there the crowd will motor to
the Burrows and Phillips Poultry
Farm, near Christiana, where a big
flock of turkeys have been raised
under artificial methods of brooding
and on a limited range. The next
stop will he made at the experiment
al poultry farm at the University
of Delaware, where one of the inter-
esting features of the noon program
will be a lecture by Mrs. Helen
Baker, of Chestertown, Maryland,
on the subject, Modern Methods of
Growing Turkeys" This lecture
should be of exceptional interest to
the poultrymen of Delaware who are
considering going into this phase of
the poultry business. The last stop
for the day will be at the poultry
farm of ]. w. Suddard and Son, near
Newark.
The itinerary of the tour for the
second day will include several
poultry farms in Sussex county, and
the crowd will meet at $3.50 o'clock
at the hatchery of w. V. Steen at
DagsbOrO. From this place the party
will proceed to the Marvel Poultry
Farm, west of Georgetown, where
dinner will be served by the ladies
of the Georgetown Grange. The
Swanson Poultry Farm will be Wis
tied at three o'clock in the after
noon, and the final stop for the day
will be made at the poultry plant of
Fred G. Smith, near Milford.
The lecture on the subject, "Treat-
ing Poultry for Internal Parasites"
which will be delivered by DR.. Maur-
ice Hall, chief of the Geological Di-
vision of the Bureau OF Animal In
lustry of the U. S. Department of |
Agriculture, in connection with the
annual banquet in the Milford |
Grange Hall that evening, will be
we'll worth hearing, as the speaker
IS a recognized authority on this
subject.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
EGG-LAYING CONTEST IS
TAKEN TO PENNA.
After Several Years At Milford
Transfer Made To Morton, Pa.

The Egg-Laying Contest, which
has been located at the western en-
trance to Milford for several years
past, will be transferred to Morton,
Pennsylvania, next Monday. 1t will
be opened to the public at that place
on November 1st. The contest was
started by the old North American,
a newspaper formerly published in
Philadelphia, and was originally To-
Gated at Georgetown. 1t was later
moved to Milford, on land owned by
Senator T. Coleman DUPONT, and
operated in conjunction with the
State Board of Agriculture. When
the North American consolidated
with the Pablic Ledger it was taken
over by that publication.
The change is made at this time
because the 18th annual contest
closes next Monday. The next con-
test opens on November 1st. Poul-
trymen in lower Delaware have
been much interested in this con-
test, and birds from all parts of the
world have been sent here to COM
pete for the prizes offered each
year
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
KENT GRAND JURY
FINDS THAT COUNTY
JAIL IS INSANITARY
General 0verhauIing Of Building
Is Recommended Owing To Its
Poor Condition.
FIND MANY TRUE BILLS
Jury Completed Its Work In One
Day After Returning Indict-
ments... Established Record.

The Kent county courts opened
at Dover on Monday for the October
session. The grand jury made a
record for itself, in that it consid-
cred Il cases, returning all true
bills, visited the Kent county aims
house and the Kent county Jail and
finished the work before that eve
ming. 1t is the first time in the
memory of any of the Kent County
Court officials that the closing work
of the Grand Jury has been COM
pleted in one day.
In discharging the grand jury,
Chief Justice Pennewill congratulate
ed them for expediting the work so
satisfactorily and economically to
the county.
The true bills returned by the
grand jury included the following
Fletcher Alexander, assault and bat
terry; James May, James Swiggett,
Windal Shockley, alias Wendal
Shockley, all for escape from Kent
county Jail some weeks back while
being allowed out in the Jail yard to
do chores around the premises. The
have not as yet been apprehended.
Joseph E. Raiks, unlawful trans
porting spirituous liquor, pleaded
guilty. William Bartlett, alias Will
liam Henry Gilbert, larceny; Sassa
Messina, four indictments, for using
female child for immoral purposes;
Oakland Brown, three indictments,
for larceny, pleaded not guilty;
Howard Johnson, illegal possession
of spirituous liquors; Clarence
COrbin, Negro, murder first degree,
shot his wife at Smyrna, September
20; Raymond Wilkerson, assault
and battery; Oakley Potts, two in
dictments, one for unlawful throw
ing glass on the public highway,
and one for resisting an officer; Ell
wood Murray, carrying concealed a
deadly weapon; Charles Brown
Greist, alias Henry Williams, alias
Harry Miller, bigamy; William Hen
ry, desertion and nOn-support.
The report of the grand jury was
as follows:
Having completed our work for
the year, the Grand Jury respectful
ly submits the following: eighty
one indictments have been cOnsid-
cred, of which 70 have been return,
[COnrinued on PAGE 81
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
1929 AUTO TAGS
READY NEXT MONTH
Those Desiring To Retain Their
Present Number May Apply
At That Time.

Arrangements are being made by
the State Titling Department to
begin next month receiving applica-
tions for 1929 automobile license
tags.
To accommodate those who desire
to have the same number they are
using this year, application may be
made during November. After No
vember the issuance of all other tags
will start, although no one will be
permitted to place them on their
cars until the first of the year. 1t is
expected, however, that the State
may again this year permit five days
grace on the new tags by allowing
motorists to start using them on De-
cember 27, and keeping their old
tags on the machines until January
9Th.
The issuance of tags during No
vember to enable those who desire
the same number is carried out in
only few States, and has been a
source of pride to many Delaware
ans that they are able to have the
same license number as they have
house number and telephone num-
Der. Others who like low numbers,
and companies who take their name
from their license number have been
greatly accommodated by this action
of the State
The license plates this year will
have blue letters on a gold back
ground. This is the first time since
the issuance of license tags in Della
ware that this color scheme has
been used, according to the collec-
ton of tags made by Magistrate
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
STATE RED MEN WILL
MEET HERE NEXT WEEK
Great Council VIII Hold It's Annual
Election of Officers On Thursday

The Great Council of Delaware,
improved Order of Red Men, will
hold their 73rd Council in Milford
on Wednesday and Thursday, Octo-
Der "a and %, 1928.
Commencing at s P. NJ. on We'd
nesday. October "a, a short program
of several vocal selections and in
strumental music, will be given
Rev. Frank Herson will give the
Invocation, and Col. Theo. Townsend
who is charter member in Saki-
mas Tribe, will make the address
of welcome, which will be responded
to by Mr.. Charles McIntire, of Will
mington. Rev. J. Franklin Bryan
will give the benediction.
After the program the Council
will be called to order by Great
Sachem VIM. F. Schell, and business
OF Importance will be discussed.
On Thursday, October %, the
Council will be called at 8 A. NJ
The election of officers for the en-
suing year will take place. Geo. H.
Hall, of H., of Milford, who is now
Great Senior Sag, will become Great
Sachem this year.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
ME-. CONFERENCE MAY
GO TO WILMINGTON
Ministers Say That Georgetown
Building Is Too Small To House
Crowd.

Fearing that the Georgetown M.
E. Church will not be large enough
for the next annual session of the
Wilmington M. e. Conference, min
listers are discussing the ACCESSIBILITY
of asking that the conference be
held in Wilmington, but no such ac-
ton is contemplated until the wish
es of Georgetown are expressed on
the subject.
At the last session in Union M. E..
Church, in Wilmington, invitations
were extended from Chestertown,
Md, and from Georgetown.
The invitation of Georgetown was
accepted, and while some doubt was
expressed at that time that George
town had sufficient accommodations
for such a large number of persons,
the Rev. Theodore f. Beauchamp
said Georgetown would care for as
many as possible and that the over
flow would be taken care of by other
nearby towns.
A lay conference will be held in
conjunction with the ministerial and
in addition to about 250 ministers
and official visitors, there will be
about 200 laymen present.
This would mean at the joint ses-
sion of the two conference bodies
that at least $50 official participants
will be there exclusive of any visit
ors.
There is no church building in
Georgetown with a room large
enough to hold that many persons at
one time, it is said Some ministers
feel it is unjust to Georgetown, as
the invitation was only intended,
and accepted, for the ministerial
conference.
In addition to the lack of church
room there is not sufficient hotel ac-
cOmmodation to begin to care for the
large number of visitors, it was
pointed out.
The Georgetown Church can only
seat about $50 persons in the main
The Sunday school room
adjoining, seats about so more, MAX
ing total capacity of not more than
300.
While there is no intention on the
part of the. ministers to interfere
with the plans of the Georgetown
in view of the increase in |
the number of those to attend the
next session, they feel that it would ,
be better to hold the next session in
Wilmington, where there is ample
room, not only in the churches, but |
an abundance of hotel accommoda-
tons.
In the event of the Georgetown |
Church deciding to give up the en-
of the next session of |
the conference, it is likely that the
will be held in either
Grace, Harrison street or McCabe
churches, Wilmington, and that the
will pay for the enter
tainment of the ministers and lay
men.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
GRAND MASTER NAMES
MASONIC COMMITTEES
Appointments Also Made For WASH
ingtOn Memorial Association

Grand Master ]. Bayard Hearn of
the Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. NJ, of
Delaware, has appointed the follow
ing committees, the lodge numbers
being in brackets:
Foreign correspondence Thomas
j. Day, (29) Warren A. Singles (25)
Edward A. Wiltbank, (15) Edwin R.
Osler, (2S) Geo. w. Donoho, (21).
VIM. d. King, Jr., % M. M. Carpen-
ter (14) William o. Wingate, (23)
Frederic w. Kurtz, (14.
Records Henry S. Young, (23)
Charles Simmons, Jr., (14) Chester
R. Jones, (27.
Finance-Charles McIntire, (20.
Necrology-George T. Macklin CO.
Harry G. Little, (26) Moro McDIil-
Ian, (23).
Grand Lodge library. B. Elias
on, Old David D. King, Jr, 600
John F. Robinson, (14.
Jurisprudence-Joseph Stuart 900
William J. Highfeld, (20) Edward
G. Walls, 13) Thomas J. Day, (29J
Joseph L. Cahall, (12).
Work = Charles McIntire, (27
Walter P. Lewis, % Percy C.
Holmes, 15) Samuel H. Reed, (29)
Walter L. Morgan, 14).
By-laws-Thomas J. Day, (29)
John S. Brokaw, (11) James T. Ella
son, (2).
observation-disclosures w. Robertson,
(14) Samuel B. Bender, (19) Thorn
as A. Holloway, (3O).
Printing-John F. Robinson, (14)
Thomas J. Day, (29) Harris Samon-
isky, 90.
Grand charity fund - Stuart J.
Horn, CID Stanley S. Stevens, (19)
Samuel J. Stein, (2D.
Grand Walter w. Bacon,
C2) J. Harry Beckerle, I'D Harry
G. Coyle, 600.
Past grand masters portrait jewel
and aprOn-William J. Highfeld,
900 Frank B. Carey, 40 George C.
Maull, q5).
Masonic Service-E. w. Cooch (25)
William E. Valiant, QD J. P.
Pierce, 60 A. Victor Hughes, (23)
Harry Mayer, (7.
Education-Harry W. Lowe. 14)
Harry Mayer, CD J. Gilpin High
field, Jr, (20) Haldeman C. Stout,
(23) Weldon c. NAPLES, (4).
Board of managers of the Masonic
Home of Delaware, Inc.-Joseph
Stuart, (20) Edward w. Cooch, (25)
Joseph S. Hamilton, (14) Harry w
Lowe, Q4 Edward B. Mode, Old
Archibald S. Reed, (1D William E.
Valiant, ca James T. Chandler,
cd William M. Mask, Jr., (2O).
Representative to the George
Washington Masonic National Mem
orial Association, past grand master,
Thomas J. Day.
Grand instructor, past junior
grand warden, Frank L. Long.
State Chairman George Washing
ton Masonic National Memorial As
ISOLATION, past senior grand warden,
Harry w. Lowe.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
SUSSEX DEMOCRATS In
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN NOW
Mass Meetings Have Been Held
Throughout County

An intensive campaign throughout
Sussex county, including personal
canvassing and mass meetings, was
started this week by candidates on
the Democratic state ticket.
Following a personal canvass in
Greenwood Monday morning and in
Bridgeville Monday afternoon, the
candidates addressed a mass meet
ing in GumbOro in the evening.
Tuesday morning the candidates
conducted their personal canvass in
Seaford and in the afternoon at Lau-
rel. A mass meeting was held at
Delmar in the evening.
The personal canvass on Wednes-
day took the candidates to Frank
ford in the morning and to Days
boro in the afternoon. The Wednes-
day evening mass meeting was held
at Georgetown, and in addition to
the candidates, Miss May Helm, an
attorney of Washington, D. c., spoke.
Millville was visited Thursday
morning, followed by Selbyville in
the afternoon. A mass meeting was
held at Millsboro in the evening.
Today the personal canvassing
will be conducted in Milton in the
morning and at Rehoboth in the af-
ternOOn. The evening meeting will
be held at Oak Orchard.
Saturday will be devoted to per-
sonal canvassing, with Glendale the
morning touring point, and Milford
in the afternoon.
Other mass meetings scheduled
for Sussex county are as follows:
Friday evening, October 26, Seaford;
evening, October 49, Milton,
and Saturday afternoon, November
3, Milford.
The candidates held a meeting at
Laurel last Saturday.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
NEW OFFICERS ARE
INSTALLED HOME LODGE
C. Melvin Moore Grand Master Mil
ford Lodge; Banquet Follows

District Deputy Grand Master w.
Henry Ennis, assisted by the follow
ing staff, installed the ofiicers-elect
of Crystal Fount Lodge, No. 10, last
Monday evening with full ceremon-
les taken from the new ritual: c..
Melvin Moore, G. M; w. w. Wright,
G. I. G.; G. Berbaum, G. Sec'y.;
William w. Lurty, G. Treas; F. P.
McCauley, G. A. G.; N. J. Lower, G..
F. s.; Joseph W. Ennis, G. V. G.;
Walter Ford, G. c.
This is the first time the new
ritual was used in Milford, and a
large membership was in attend
ance. At the close of the installa-
lions the members adjourned to the
basement of Grange Hall where re-
freshments were served by the la
dies of the grange, followed by an
entertainment, in which Professor
Arthur Hudson rendered beautiful
violin solo, assisted by Miss Lillian
Bruning at the piano. Mrs. William
KentOn and Mrs. Augustus DECKER
son, charming soloists from the NJ.
p. Choir, rendered two beautiful
duets. That was the outstanding
feature of the evenings entertain
ment. Little Charles Breme, of the
Milford Boys Band played "Constan-
tinople" as a cornet solo, assisted
by his father at the piano. This
brought forth round after round of
applause. Short addresses were
made during the evening by Grand
Lodge officers, and Rev. J. Franklin
Bryan, of Milford.
Odd Fellows Orchestra, with Pro-
fessor Hudson directing, assisted by
Tom Derrickson, trumpet, and Pres
ton Hudson, clarinet, played during
the evening.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
WANT CHANGE In
APPLE GRADING
Suggest U. S. No. Us Be Graded As
Choice Fruits i'm This State

Changing of the grading of apples
and a campaign to educate the farm
ers and orchardists of Delaware to
the necessity of shipping nothing but
first class fruit and vegetables will
be one of the major activities of w.
T. Derickson, director of the Bureau
of Markets, of the State Board of
Agriculture.
A few years ago Delaware apples
were barred from New York markets
because of the wOrmy, decaying
apples shipped there. The New York
health authorities placed a quaran-
tine on Delaware apples and re-
fused to admit them.
This situation caused the local
apple growers to realize that they
must cut out indiscriminate ship
ments and thu topping off Of bas-
[COHt' med on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
DEMOCRATIC CRY
OF EXTRAVAGANZA
REFUTED BY BUCK
Republican Candidate For Cover
nor Spoke On State Finances
Thursday Night.
The FIGURES ARE GIVEN
He TeIIssHOw Good Roads And
Schools Have Been Built In
Delaware.

C. Douglass Buck, Republican
nominee for governor Of Delaware,
made a strong address last Thurs
dav night, which was broadcast
from station WDEL, in Wilmington.
He spoke under the auspices of the
Engineers for Hoover Committee of
the State. The address was especi-
ally interesting for the reason that
Mr.. Buck spoke on the money ex-
pended by Delaware for improved
roads and good schools and gave
figures which were surprising to
most people. He showed how the
roads had been paid for without in
creasing tax on real estate and how
new schools had been built out of
the surplus fund of the State on the
nay as you go plan. He refuted the
idea of Republican extravagances.
Mr.. Buck said:
Mr.. Bucks Address
I'm this campaign as in previous
ones, our opponents at home are
strenuously attempting to make
capital of the Republican party's
record of the last administration.
Their criticism of the Republican
achievements, is invariably founded
on records, so abbreviated, that the
inference woven by their words is
misleading.
zone of our leading Democratic
papers appeared last week with an
editorial, stating that the United
States Census Bureau, showed the
per capita cost of Delaware's State
government to be on the increase,
that it was more in 1926 than in
1925 and greater in 1927 than in
1926, which facts were used as the
basis for criticism of a costly admin
istration. Assuming the govern
ment's figures are correct, and 1
think they are, they are likewise, as
presented, misleading and meaning
less, as any mention of the per cap
tia increase in State income over the
same period of time, is carefully
avoided As our per capita income
between 1925 and 1927 did increase,
and the increase was far greater
than the additional per capita cost
for these years, such facts might
we'll have been included in fairness
and good craftsmanship. Any bust
ness that can increase its income
80 per cent in two years at. an in
crease of less than 20 per cent in
it's operating cost, is deserving of
your confidence, and this is a recent
accomplishment of the Republican
party in Delaware.
Extravaganza Loses Force
Again, extravaganza is a word,
without which, many orators in this |
State would be at a great disad- |
vantage They have used it until its |
significance is lost. They tell their |
hearers that the State is being pre-
pared for bankruptcy by bond issues
CCOntinued on page I21
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
BAN STILL ON CREEK
OYSTERS; BAYS 0. X.
Z. S. Government Test DisclOSes
Greek Waters Remain Polluted

Government tests of the waters of
the various creeks in Delaware and
examinations made of oysters taken
from these creeks this year, indi-
cate that both the water and the
oysters are more contaminated than
they were last year. These govern
ment tests last year resulted in a
ban being placed on creek oysters.
The oystermen were forbidden to
tong oysters or offer them for sale.
AS a result of the increased pollu-
ton of both water and oysters, it is
hardly likely that the U. S. Public
Health Service will lift this quaran-
tine until the sewage from towns
and marshlands along which the
creeks flow, is eliminated.
The government tests have been
cOrroborated by samples of water
and oysters tested at the laboratory
of the State Board of Health.
The State Board of Health because
of it's tests, and supported bv the
government analyses, has forbidden
the sale of creek oysters anywneIe
in the State. But this does not
mean, however, that Delaware Bay
oysters are contaminated.
Two packing houses are now Oper-
ating in lower Delaware, handling
nothing but bay oysters. The plants
have been inspected by R. c. Beck
EFT, sanitary engineer of the State
Board of Health, and found to be
sanitary. As matter of fact, Mr..
Beckett states that sanitary condi-
lions were never better. In order
to prevent floating of oysters, pack
ers are permitted to allow the oys-
tiers to be in the washing box only
three minutes. Any longer time
would result in the packer rendering
himself liable to the law.
Up until a few years ago, Della
ware oystermen tonged for creek
oysters and sold them throughout
the State. Now according to law,
the only reason they can tong for
oysters is to transplant them.