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Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
KENT POMONA GRANGE
WILL HOLD FIELD MEET
Louis J. Taber, Master OF National
Grange, viii Speak

The annual field meeting of Kent
County Pomona Grange, No. 2, P. of
H., will be held on Saturday, August
10, on the lawn of Gilbert Pratt's
residence, one-quarter of mile east
of Smyrna. The farm can be reached
by turning east on Commerce street
in Smyrna. 1t is the first place on
the right. The program starts at 10
o'clock Saturday morning. From that
time until noon the schedule pro-
vides for mems sports under the di
rection of Trophy Grange, and wo-
mems sports in charge of Capitol
Grange. At IL, noon, a picnic lunch
will be served. The program for the
afternoon will begin at 1:45 with
community singing. At 2 o'clock a
fashion show will be given by the
Interstate Dairy Council. The main
address of the day will be that of
Louis ]. Taber, Master of the Ma
tional Grange, at o'clock. These
annual field meetings bring together
hundreds of grangers from all parts
of Kent county. The program this
year has been arranged to provide
excellent entertainment and instruc-
ton for those who attend.
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
MILFORD GREENWOOD
ROAD WORK FINISHED
Concrete ROadbed Through Holly
Swamp Completed Last Week.
Will Be Open Soon.

With the completion of a mile and
a quarter of standard concrete pave
ment through the Holly Swamp
south of StaytonsYille, last week, the
remaining gap on the Milford Green
wood highway is finished. The road
when thrown open to the public
within the next few days will con-
siderabiy shorten the distance be-
tween Milford and towns on the
western side of Sussex County and
the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The
State Highway Department had or
iginally planned to construct the
road bed through Holly Swamp of
asphalt, but the heavy rain fall late
last summer caused the swamp to
flood and brought about conditions
which made it necessary to change
the materials to be used. The fill
could not be completed until this
summer.
Holly Swamp is expected 10 rival
the famous Ellendale Swamp fol
beauty. Each side of the road
abounds with beautiful Delaware
holly, beech and maple trees. With
the care and attention with which
the Highway Department is giving
such scenic spots the road should
soon become a favorite drive. The
entire road from Shawnee to Green
wood was constructed by the High
way Engineering Construction Com
pany of Selbyville. Other than the
section through the swamp it is built
of sand asphalt. John Kitchens was
the Highway Department engineer
in charge. -
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
POULTRYMEN PLAN
TOUR AND SHOW
Tour Wednesday And Thursday,
August 2S and 29; Show At
Milford December 3, a, S.

At the call of Warren C. Newton
president of the Delaware State
Poultry Association, a special meet
ing of the executive committee was
held in Bridgeville on Thursday eve
ming of last week to discuss plans
for the annual statewide poultry
tour on August % and 30, and the
state poultry show which will be
staged in Milford on December 8, 4
and 5, under the auspices of this or
ganization in cooperation with the
Delaware State Board of Agriculture
and the Agricultural Extension De-
partment of the University of Della
ware.
The tour committee, which is COM
posed of H. S. Palmer, Extension
Poultryman of the University of Del
aware, and secretary of the Della
ware State Poultry Association,
Glen Cowles of Milford, and county
agents Ed. Willim, Jr., of Newark,
Russell E. Wilson, of Dover, and c.
R. Snyder of Georgetown, decided to
arrange for a two-day tour again
this year within the State, as it was
thought that more poultry raisers
will attend than if such a trip should
be scheduled to include any of the
adjoining states.
The first day of the tour will in
clude New Castle and Kent coun-
ties where the visitors will have the
opportunity to inspect the poultry
plant at the University of Delaware
Farm at Newark in addition to one
turkey farm in the northern part of
the State, and one or two poultry
farms in Kent county. Some of the
poultry farms on which excellent re-
suits have been obtained this season
in the growing of healthy chicks will
be visited in Sussex county during
the second day, and the tour will end
that evening with a banquet and a
special program of an entertaining
and educational nature. AS definite
ARRANGEMENTS have not been made
for this banquet, the place where it
will be held and the program to be
presented will appear at a later
date.
Although many things of interest
to all poultrymen will be included
in this years tour. the itinerary of
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Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
TURN DOWN PLAN
TO DEEPEN CANAL
Engineers See No Benefit From
Inland Waterway From Chin
colleague To Lewes.

The Board of Engineers for River:
and Harbors at Washington, does
not see the necessity of the Fedora
Government redredging and com
pleting the inland waterway from
Chincoteague- Bay, Va, to the Della
ware Bay, a proposal which was ap-
proved by Lieutenant-Colon R. P
Howell, U. S. Engineer for the Will
mington District.
The board in notice sent to in
terested parties states that ''it does
not appear that a sufficient tonnage
would develop to justify the expend-
itures," and that 'the benefits from
the proposed improvement would be
largely of a local nature"
Colonel Howell recommended
some time ago that the government
provide waterway six feet deep and
construct and operate the necessary
bridges.
The Board of Engineers has invit-
ed interested parties to submit,
within thirty days, statements and
arguments bearing upon the neces-
sity for the improvement in the in
terests of commerce and navigation.
The present waterway extends
northerly from Chincoteague Bay
following the waterways parallel
with the Atlantic Ocean, through
Virginia, Maryland and Delaware,
passing through the neck of land at
Ocean View, Del, and the land be-
tween Rehoboth Bay and the head
waters of Lewes River, entering the
Delaware Bay at or near the town Of
Lewes, total distance of 20 miles.
Proponents of the proposed i'm
provement have been seeking perma-
nent establishment of a channel 6
feet deep at low tide and 40 to so
feet wide from Chincoteague Bay to
Rehoboth Bay and Delaware Bay. 1t
is also urged that the mouth of the
Broadkill River be considered a
portion of the project and that it be
further improved by jetties and
dredging to provide a channel six
feet deep at low tide and 100 feet
wide.
There are about 80 wharves and
landing places along the waterway.
Sections of the canal are used for
commercial traffic, even in its un-
completed condition. Considerable
traffic in sea foods, farm products,
coal and general merchandise is
carried on between the wharves and
landings at settlements on tributary
streams and towns along the water
way having railroad connections.
The usual draft of loaded vessels
is 8 to 7 feet. The principal items OF
commerce consist of clans, oysters,
fish. oils. coal and oyster shells. Ton
mage shipped annually averages
20 0O0 short tons having an approx
innate value of between $1,5OO,OOO
and $2,O00,000.
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
MRS. ANNIE E. DAVIS
MERRY AT 81 YEARS
Aged FELTON, Lady Celebrated Birth
day Last Wednesday

With about forty guests, including
her five children, present, Mrs. Annie
E. Davis, widow of Solomon I. Da-
Wis, celebrated her ninety-frst birth
day anniversary, at FELTON, last Sat
urday.
Luncheon was served on the spa
cious lawn of her home ut 1880 o.
clock, and ice cream and cake at 5.
One of the features of the affair was
the christening of two great-grand-
children by Rev. J. E. Parker, pastor
of FELTON, M. E. Church, of which
Mrs. Davis is a member. The chill
dren were Walter, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roscoe G. Walker, of Whining
ton, and Mary Jane, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John D. Gray, of Middle
town. Last year Rev. Parker also
baptized great-grandchild
During the day Mrs. Davis receiv-
ed number of beautiful gifts.
Mrs. Davis is in excellent health,
despite her age and is able to be
about. She cooks. daily, sometimes
twice a day. Size enjoys all her fac
ulties and gets the greatest pleasure
out of life. TIP until last year she
had been quit a knitter, and had
won severe prizes at the Kent and
Sussex Fair. This year, however, she
did not enter any work.
Her five children are Col. S. T.
Davis, of York, Pa; J. S. Davis,
Mrs. w. A. Eaton and Mrs. Martha
D. Friedel, all of FELTON,, and Mrs. A.
o. Gray, of Wilmington. There are
also twenty-one grandchildren and
twenty-five great-grandchildren.
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
SEE NO PANACEA
in MASS FARMING
Survey In Twenty.Three States
Shows Same Degree OF Eff
cheney In All Sizes.

Convincing proof that larger scale
farming provides no panacea for the
ills of agriculture is afforded in an
analytical report on the subject is
sued this week by the American
Agricultural Service Department of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States.
The survey based on the actual
operation of IA farms located in 28
states, averaging 11,797 acres in ex-
tent, reveals that the large scale
farms in the United States are nei-
ther more or less successful than the
small, family-sized farm. In the
same degree some show profits while
others show losses, disclosing the
same variation in efficiency discern
able in agriculture as whole.
The conclusion reached that the
threat of a revolutionary change in
the economic structure of agricul-
ture held out by the adaptation to
farming of the principle of mass
production which has proven so ef-
fective in industry, with disasterous
results to social life of the rural
population, is far from fulfillment.
Large scale farming in the United
States," the report reveals, 'is a
well-established industry of consid-
cradle magnitude. In 1926 over nine
thousand corporations engaged in
farming made reports to the Income
Tax Unit of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue. Their gross incomes in
that year aggregated $709, 900, al
most 6 per cent of the total gross in
come of American agriculture.
From this study it appears that
large scale farms may have advan-
tages over family farms in superior
management organization, more eff
cient utilization of machinery, spe-
cialization of labor, buying and SELL
ing in wholesale quantities, and, in
some instances, reduction of over
head expense. The large farms also
have certain disadvantages. They ex-
perience difficulty in securing eff
cient labor and in securing the de-
gree of interest of the laborers in
the success of the business which is
found on family farms. The sea-
sonal character of farm work and
uncertainties in weather conditions
prevent as effective use of machinery
and as complete division of labor as
is achieved in some other industries
The future development of large
scale farming in the United States
is a matter of conjecture.
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
USE OF PROPAGANDA
In SCHOOL FLAYED
David A. Ward Signs Report Attack
ing Officials For Allowing Such

David A. Ward, superintendent of
schools, of Chester, Pa, formerly of
Wilmington, and nine other educa-
tors on Saturday laid before the Ma
tional Education Association a de-
tailed report on propaganda in Am
erica's public schools. Ward is
member of the associations commit
tee that has been probing propagan-
da in educational institutions.
The shrewd propagandist, says the
report, comes to board of educa-
ton, with persuasive and plaus-
ible request for permission to enter
the schools in manner which Vio-
lates the carefully devised policy of
the board" "The special interest" it
is pointed out, 'is camoufaged in
plausible or even patriotic and other
noble motives"
Severely attacking school officials
who allow propagandists to invade
the schools, the report, signed by
Ward declares, "any school board
member or any superintendent of
schools or member of his staff who
gives way in this manner should
clearly understand what he is doing.
He should realize that he is bar
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Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
MISSING SUSSEX MAN
FOUND BY HIS SON
Thomas A. Williams Discovered
Walking Along Road

Thomas A. Williams, former Levy
Court Commissioner of Sussex Coun-
ty, merchant and prominent Republi-
can politician, living between
Georgetown and Bridgeville, who had
been reported missing from his home
was located and was returned to his
home Sunday after a search was
made for him most of Sunday by
Sheriff Bud Coy, State Detective OF
tie Donoway and State Highway Po-
liceman James Wood, aided by a
posse of nearly fifty men living in
that section.
Mr.. Williams was found by his son
Marvel, of Queen Anne County, Md,
walking along the road between the
Williams home and Bridgeville. The
son, as we'll as other relatives. in
Maryland and Wilmington, had been
notified of his disappearance early
Sunday morning. The son was on
his way from Queen Anne, to the
home of his father when he met him
along the road.
Relatives are unable to explain
what possessed Williams to leave his
home without telling his daughter,
Mary, who keeps house for him. 1t
was feared that he had wandered in
to a nearby wood and became i'll or
had met with foul play. 1t was be-
cause of these suspicious that the
officials were notified to aid in the
search.
Several months ago he suffered
from a light stroke of paralysis and
it was feared that another stroke
had seized him. Whether he tempor-
arily suffered on Sunday from light
attack of amnesia is not known.
So far as can be learned, Williams
has talked but little about the affair.
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
MILFORD BOYS BAND
WINS MANY 1ST PRIZES
Local Organization Makes Excellent
Showing In Firemen's Parades

The Milford's Boys Band is prov
ing to be an excellent attraction at
the several towns in which they have
marched in firemen's parades during
the past month. In four instances
they have been awarded first prizes
as being the best band in line. These
prizes were given at Dover, Wyom-
ing-Camden, Selbyville and Denton,
Md Each time the local organization
has appeared in the firemen's par
AIDES it has received much favorable
applause and comment. The band is
managed entirely by the boys and is
proving to be self-supporting The
boys are much interested in their
work and spend considerable time in
practice work Much of the credit
for the organization of the band is
due Edward Evans, manager of the
Plaza Theatre, who encouraged the
boys during the early stages of the
existence of the band. They will be
one of the features at the Milford
Firemen's Carnival which starts the
last of this month
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS
TO CAMP In DELAWARE
213th Coast Artillery viii Follow
Delaware Troops At Bethany Beach

Approval of the camp of the 198th
Coast Artillery, Anti-Aircraft, Della
ware National Guard, at Bethany
Beach has been tactily given by the
War Department at Washington, by
the assignment of the 213th Coast
Artillery, Anti-Aircraft, Pennsylva-
mia National Guard to the camp dur
ing the period from August II to 81,
following the Delaware National
Guards encampment period.
This will be the first time that the
national guard regiments of any
other State besides Delaware have
attended the camp at Bethany Beach,
and it is believed that the assign
ment of the Pennsylvania National
Guard outfit is due to the excellent
condition of the camp since its es-
tablishment two years ago.
The Pennsylvania regiment will
follow right on the footsteps of the
Delaware National Guard for they
are due at the camp the day that
the Delaware National Guard regi-
ment leaves. There will be 750 men
in the Pennsylvania regiment and
Colonel J. c. Smith will be in COM
mand.
The Pennsylvania troops are from
. Allentown. Reading and Lancaster.
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
MANY DELAWARE
APPLES In THE MARKET
Approximately 200 Carloads Have
Been Shipped Since June 1

Shipment of between 600 and 700
carloads of apples from Delaware
orchards since June 1 is reported
from the office in Dover of the Del
aware State Board of Agriculture.
Shipments of the fruit have been
made to markets found principally
in Buffalo, Chicago and Canada, ac-
cording to the department statement.
Hundreds of bushels of apples have
been sent to each of these markets
each month since the apple crop
matured.
Other grades of Delaware apples
which find ready markets in other
sections include the Williams early
red, Fourth of July, Astrachan, and
Crimson Beauty, which are sent out
of the State in large quantities every
week.
The short crop of apples this year
has resulted in excellent prices for
Delaware growers.
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
WOFEDERAL AGENTS
SHOT in NIGHT RAID
ON A SUSSEX STILL
Elmer Riggin And Edwin Wind
sOr Wounded As They Ad.
vance On Place.
SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED
Albert Eskridge Held On Shoot
ing And Liquor Manufacturing
Charge.

Two Federal prohibition agents
were shot, but not seriously injured.
and their alleged assailant was can
tured in a raid on the Fox HaIl''
farm of Raymond Gordy, near Blades
just outside of Seaford on the Nan
ticoke River, Friday night.
The injured men are Elmer J. Rig
gin, 45, who received q load of shot
in his back, extending from his left
shoulder to his hips, and Erwin
Windsor, AZ, who was shot in both
legs, from his thighs to his knees.
Albert Eskridge, % years old, of
Seaford, was arrester by compan-
ions of Riggin and Windsor, and
charged with the shooting. At a
hearing before United States Com
missioner Albert F. Polk in the Fed
eral Building at Wilmington on Sat
urday morning, he was held in
$500 bail for further hearing.
Eskridge was charged with man.
ufacture of intoxicating liquor, pos
session of liquor, and shooting with
intent to kill. He pleaded not guilty
to the three charges.
Riggin, who resides at Laurel and
Windsor, of Hurlock, Md, were TAX
en- to Laurel following the shooting
by Harley Hickman, chief of police
of Laurel, who participated in the
raid. The other two agents Oh the
raid took Eskridge to the Laurel
Jail.
According to the agents the plant
had been located for some time, and
Friday night they determined to
make the raid. They went slowly
through the woods that were very
black because of overhanging BRAN
ches and clouds. AS they approached
the still, they stated they could see
Eskridge working over the still by
the glow from the fire beneath it.
They were close to him, in single
file, when they flashed on their lights
to expose him to clearer view.
He had a flash light in his hand
and turned it on them but the more
powerful lights of the agents seemed
to blind him temporarily. He drop
ped his flash light and grabbed his
shot gun, and without further ado,
cut loose, aiming at the flash lights
in the hands of the agents. Riggin,
either discerning his intent, or
on wood, stopped, and when
Eskridge fired. the shot from the 12-
gauge shot gun caught him on the
left shoulder and plowed down his
back toward the right hip.
windsor was in back of Riggln
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Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
NONE BUT OFFICIALS
ALLOWED In FIRE ZONE
Director Ball Rules On Recently
Passed Motor Vehicle Law

At the Delaware Volunteer Fire
mems Association held in Whining
ton, July 10, Thomas Baker, delegate
of the Robbins Hose Company, oi
Dover, brought up the subject of mo-
tor vehicle laws of Delaware, rela-
tive to automobiles following OF
parking within 500 feet of a fire en-
gine and read the following letter
from William Ball, motor vehicle di-
rector:
"It shall be unlawful for the driv-
er of any vehicle other than on Off
cial business to follow any fire ap-
paratus travelling in response to a
fire alarm closer than five hundred
feet or to drive into or park such
vehicle within five hundred feet
where fire apparatus has stopped in
answer to fire alarm.
at is your desire to know who
should be considered 'on official bus
iness.' It is my Interpretation of the
above mentioned law, the person on
official business is an officer of the
law, or an active member of a fire
company responding to or on duty
at the scene of a fire, of course, you
know the enforcing of this law
comes under the police department,
and I have taken this question up
with w. w. Mack, chief engineer of
the Delaware State Highway Depart
ment and he approves my interpret
alton of this part of the law. Should
it be necessary, I think it would be
very easy for an active member of a
fire company to prove by the offi-
cials of said company if he was on
official business"
The above was ordered published
so that the public would become
familiar with the law.
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
CADET ELECTROCUTED
AT FERRIS SCHOOL
Laurel Boy, Electrical Student, Was
Making Repairs To Wire

Repairing an electric light wire
which had been torn down during a
heavy electric storm, Fred Short, 16
years old, of Laurel, was oIectrocut-
ed Saturday morning at the Ferris
Industrial School. The boy had
been an inmate of the school for two
years and a half.
The broken wire led from the main
school building to the pump house,
400 feet distant. The boy was stand
ing on a ladder holding one end of
the wire. When he fell he was car
ried by attaches of the school to an
automobile and taken 10 st. Frances
Hospital where he was pronounced
dead.
Short was not wearing rubber
gloves but used insulated pliers. He
was studying electrical repair in the
schools electrical class.
The boy is son of George P.
Short, a farmer of near Laurel.
Only about 220 volts of electricity
was carried by the wire.
Milford chronicle., 1929-08-02
CLINIC FOR STATES
MENTALLY DISEASED
OPENS this MONTH
DR.. Tarumianz Announces Staff
Of Institution Authorized By
Legislature.
THREE BRANCH CLINICS
Places Will Be Established
At Wilmington, Dover And
Georgetown.

Authorized by the State Legisla-
ture, a mental hygiene clinic is to
be opened at the Delaware State
Hospital, Monday, August IL, accord
ing to a. announcement made by DR..
M. A. Tarumianz, superintendent of
the hospital, and head of the clinic.
By virtue of his capacity as director
of this clinic, DR.. Tarumianz also
earns the title of State Psychiatrist
and Criminologist.
DR.. P. F. Elfelv has been appoint
ed acting clinical director, and will
be assisted by psychiatrist, psy-
chologist, psychiatric social worker
and a clerk. Branches of the clinic
will be established in Wilmington,
Dover and Georgetown.
The official announcement, as
made by DR.. Tarumianz, follows:
DR.. P. F. Elfelv has been appoint
ed acting clinical director of the
mental clinic, which is to be opened
August IL. Headquarters will be at
the Delaware State Hospital, with
subsidiary clinics at Wilmington,
Dover and Georgetown. This clinic
will consist of a psychiatrist, psyche
logist, psychiatric social service
worker and clerk. This unit will
also have charge of child guidance
in this State. All patients or chill
dren brought to the clinic must be
recommended by physicians, lospi-
tails, institutions, social agencies,
courts and schools. Kindly make ap-
pointments by telephone.
(Signed) M. A. TARUMIANZ, NJ. D.,
Director, State Psylchiatrist
and Criminologist.
Following is copy of the State
law relating to the clinic:
Section 1.-The State Board of
Trustees of the Delaware State Hos
pital, at Farnhurst, is hereby au-
thorized and empowered to establish
a mental hygiene clinic, to be COM
posed of such professional assistants
as may be recommended by the SUI
perintendent of the said clinic. The
superintendent of said State hosp1-
tai shall be directing head of the
said clinic, and he is hereby con-
stituted State Psychiatrist and Grim
inologist. 1t shall be the duty of the
said clinic to examine all children
within the State, attending public or
private schools, who are two or more
years retarded, when so requested by
the superintendent or. other eXecu-
tive heads of such schools. The said
Mental Hygiene Clinic shall likewise
undertake and carry on continuous
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