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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
NEW MOTOR VEHICLE
BILL BEFORE SOLONS
Measure May BE Amended To Make
Speed Limit 40 Miles

Former Senator l.. A. Drexler
chairman of a joint committee that
for some weeks has been preparing
codifcation of the automobile
laws OF the State brought the bill
to Dover on Tuesday.
The bill went to the Revised Stat
utes Committee of the House of
which Representative Brewer Is
chairman and will come out as a
substitute for a skeleton bill intro
duced by Mr.. Brewer. On motion
of Mr.. Brewer 500 copies Of the bill
were ordered printed.
This bill is intended 10 place all
OF the present automobile laws and
few new ones into one law With
the exception of those laws raising
revenue such as the gasoline tax.
One principal feature OF the BIZ
is the provision 10 compel all new
drivers 10 pass an examination be-
fore securing a license. This Will
not affect those drivers who already
have license. In a number of 10
stances the fines for minor Offenses
are reduced in this bill. Al present
the speed limit Is 80 miles In the
bill but II is likely II viii b.
amended to make IL 40 miles Rp
hour.
The joint committee that prepared
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
FRANK E. LITTLE ENDS
LIFE WITH BULLET
Had Suffered Poor Health For Some
Time-Funeral Tuesday

Frank E. Little, II, committed sui
eide early last Saturday by shooting
himself in the mouth with an army
revolver. The bullet penetrated his
brain and examination revealed that
death was almost instant.
Mr.. Little, who made his home
with his brother-in-law and sister,
Lieutenant-Colon W. E. Lank and
Mrs. Lark, on East Front street,
South Milford, had been in poor
health for some time. Saturday
morning when Mrs. Lank went to
call him she found his door locked
and could get no response from him.
Colonel Lank was away at the time
but when he returned his wife told
him of the incident. When Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Lark could get no re-
Spouse to repeated knocking on the
door of the room, he forced it open
and found the man lying in a pool
of blood. Little had evidently been
dead for some time.
He had secured Colonel Lank's
army revolver. The shot was not
heard by either Colonel or Mrs.
Lank.
For a number of years Mr.. Little
was employed at nurseries in Mil
ford. He had been in poor health
for the past several months. Flu
neral services were held at the home
of Colonel Lank Tuesday afternoon,
and interment made at Odd Fellows
Cemetery.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
PLANS COMPLETE FOR
c. E. CONVENTION
TwO-Day Gathering Will Be Held
At Cannon, Delaware

An interesting program is being
carefully arranged for this years
convention of the Sussex County
Christian EndeavOr Union to be
held April End in the Cannon M. p.
Church.
Good music, helpful conferences,
fellowship supper hour" interest
ing instructors in Christian Endeav-
or work, and an altogether delight
full afternoon and evening are be-
ing planned for the convention.
Not only members of Christian
Endeavor societies, but everyone in
terested in Christian Endeavor ac-
tivities, and those who like meetings
full of pep and enthusiasm are well
come at the sessions of the conven-
ton in the afternoon and evening
and also at the supper.
Each society in the county is
striving to have their church bring
home the prize for securing the lar
gest number of registrations of
Christian Endeavor members, and
visitors or. friends. The registra-
ton fees are 25 cents for seniors
and intermediates, and 10 cents for
juniors and visitors.
Air registrations must be mailed
to Mr.. ]. r. Cannon, Cannon, Della
ware, not later than Monday, April
LIST.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
FARM POPULATION
SHOWS DECREASE
Smallest In Twenty Years Ac-
cOrdiDg To U. S. Department
Of Agriculture.

The farm population of the United
States is now the smallest in twenty
years, reports the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, which esti-
mates the farm population of H.
511 900 persons on January /, 1929,
as compared with a peak of 32,000,-
600 persons in 1909.
The bureaus estimate also shows
decrease in farm population dur
ing the past year despite improved
agricultural conditions and a slight
slackening in industrial employ
ment, the January 1, 1929, figure
comparing with a farm population
of 27,699,000 persons on January l,
1928.
The decrease in farm population
the past year would have been much
greater were it not offset by an ex-
cess of births over deaths, the fig
ures revealing that in the movement
of population from and to farms l.
100000 persons left farms during
the year, and 100000 persons
moved from cities to farms.
The movement away from farms
slowed up somewhat during the
year as compared with Immediately
preceding years, but the movement
from cities to farms was also small
er. Thus it is shown that 100000
persons left farms during the past
year, compared with 1,97S,000 i'll
1927, and with 2,155,O00 in 1926. The
movement from cities to farms was
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
PETIT JURORS DRAWN
FOR FEDERAL COURT
March Term OF The United States
Tribunal Opens On The 25th

In Federal Court at Wilmington,
petit jurors have been drawn for the
March term, which opens Monday,
March 25. The jurors, drawn by H.
c. Mahaffy, clerk of the court, are
as follows:
Wilmington hundred: William A.
Hyde, Fred H. Gawthrop, Edward
B. Mode, Henry Hopes, Willard F..
Davis, Carroll w. Griffith, Edgar M.
Hopes, Francis T. Manion, William
T. Moseley, Henry Snyder, Ellwood
A. Davis; New Castle hundred: Will
liam Etchell, Allen v. Lesley
George, Philip d. Laird; Mill Creek
hundred: Edmund Wollaston, Her.
man Cook; Red Lion hundred: Will
liam G. Janiver; White Clay Creek
hundred: Francis A. Cooch; St.
Georges hundred: Daniel Corbett,
Lee Sparks; Duck Creek hundred,
Charles Hanratty; Mispillion hun
dred: John w. Sheldrake, William
Crowl; Blackbird hundred: Harry
S. Woodkeeper; South Murderkill
hundred: William F. Davis; Broad
kiln Hundred: Ward Short; Little
Creek hundred: Victor G. Records;
Kenton hundred: Edgar G. Boggs;
West Dover hundred: Ambrose Mar
vel, George P. Scotch; North Muir
derkill hundred: Charles L. Terry;
Northwest Fork hundred: John c.
Barwick, John c. Thawley, William
d. Lynch; Georgetown hundred:
Byron Pepper; Baltimore hundred;
William c. Godfrey.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
HOMEMAKERS SHORT
COURSE AT FRANKFORT
Women OF Lower Sussex viii Have
Opportunity To Get Instruction

The women in and near Frank
ford will have the opportunity of
attending Homemaker's Short
Course to be held by the Home Eco
Monies Extension Service of the Uni
yersity of Delaware.
Miss Laura B. Rutherford, Home
Demonstration agent of Sussex
county, visited Frankfort and the
Omar Grange last week to make
the necessary arrangements. The
meetings will be held in the Omar
Grange Hall about two miles east of
Frankfort, on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, April 2 and 3rd. Meetings will
be held both mornings and after
moons. Every woman is invited,
with special invitation to the rural
women around about Frankfort.
Those planning to spend the day
should bring a little box lunch for
themselves and cup for coffee
which will be furnished free of
charge.
An outline of the demonstration
follows:
Tuesday, April end
1000 A. M.-"Cutting and Fitting
a Dress" by Mrs. Mckinley and
Miss Rutherford.
100 P. M.-"The Why and How
of Vegetables in the Diet" by Miss
Pearl Macdonald, the new nutrition
specialist of the University of Della
ware.
Wednesday, April Bird
1000 A. M.-'Laundering" Knit
ted Garments of Wool and Rayon,
by Miss Laura Rutherford.
100 P. Maids to Spring Sew
ing" by Mrs. Mckinley and Miss
Rutherford.
Miss Rutherford says, "No Home
maker who is interested in any of
the above problems can afford to
miss the opportunity of attending
these meetings which the University
is bringing right to her community"
Watch for a more detailed account
of each meeting to be announced
next week.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
PHYSICIAN Is SAVED
FROM PRISON TERM
Plea Patients Need Him Brings
5000 Fine To DR.. Claude Keith
Of Frederick.

A plea by Joseph Cross in NUM-
cipal Court in Wilmington on Tues.
day probably saved DR.. Claude Keith
of Frederick, from serving an i'm
prisonment sentence on a charge OF
operating a car while under the in
fuence of liquor. 1t was the ply
sician's second offense on that
charge. Judge Lynn fined DR.. Keith
5000 and suspended an Imprisonment
sentence of three months and pa
rolled the defendant to James Boyd,
an official of the State Titling De-
partment, for two years.
DIR. Keith will not be allowed to
operate a car during that time, and
if his duties call upon him to do so
another person must operate the
car, the court stated. The defendant
agreed to that condition.
Patrolman Pritchett arrested the
defendant while driving a car on
Front street, Monday week and ac-
cording to the policeman Keith stag
gered when he climbed from his
car. Keith offered no defense at
the hearing. He pleaded guilty.
1t was revealed that the physician
was arrested on a similar charge in
SEPTEMBER 1927, by State Highway
Police and his license was revoked
for year. When Patrolman Pritch-
EFT arrested him the defendant had
no license and this charge was also
placed against him but was retired
in court when it was learned that he
had license.
Mr.. Cross appeared in behalf of
the defendant and stated that there
is considerable sickness in Freder-
lea and that DR.. Keith has always
to calls at all hours of
the night and that he is second to
none as a physician in lower Della
ware" Mr.. Cross also stated that
the defendant is much needed in
Frederick because the other doctor
there is ageing and does not make
night calls.
The court declared in view of these
the ends of justice would
be served by paroling the defendant
the fine would have to be
paid.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
BIRD DOG TRIALS
START MARCH Il
Delaware Setter And Pointer Club
Meet To Be Held At Glasgow

The Delaware Setter and Pointer
Club will hold it's Spring trial at
Glasgow, Delaware, beginning March
9th, which will last three or four
days.
The bird-dog lovers will be given
real treat by seeing their favorite
breed in action on real game. These
field trials for dogs are becoming a
great sport as one may judge by the
purses offered.
There is a circuit including Della
ware, Jersey and two clubs In New
York State which collectively will
give over $4,000 in money. The
Delaware club will run an amateur
class also which bars these big field
trial performers from competing.
This gives the cunning or novice
dog a chance in company of his own
kind. Trophies will be awarded in
this event. These trials are run
over terrain which has good cover.
1t takes from three to four hundred
acres as a dog has to show range,
style and obedience as well as bird
work. Bob white, quail will be lib
Grated and 10 dozen will be used for
this meet. They are imported from
Mexico.
The way dogs are tested, two are
braced together, they are sent
around the course and finish up in
big field where the birds are lib
Grated, so each dog has a chance on
game. The judges and handlers
are mounted and ride after the dogs.
Some of the best known dogs on
the continent will compete in the
trials. The public is invited to wit
ness the trials.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
HOMEMAKERS PLAN
LUNCHEON MEETING
Annual Meeting Of The Delaware
Home Economics Association In
Georgetown March e.

The annual luncheon and program
of the Delaware Home Economics
Association is to be held in George
town on Saturday, March g. Lunch
con is to be served at 1890 at the
Georgetown Club House by the la
dies of the Georgetown New Cen
tury Club, and the afternoon pro-
gram will follow Immediately after
the luncheon. All homemakers are
invited to attend, whether or not
they are members of the Delaware
Home Economics Association. A
business meeting, for members only.
will precede the luncheon. Reser-
vatioas for the luncheon must be
made by Friday, March %, to Miss
Sadie Guseman, Georgetown. The
luncheon will be s1.0O per plate, and
money should be sent with request
for reservation.
This is the sixth annual gather
ing of home-makers in Delaware,
sponsored by the Delaware Home
Economics Association. The gen.
eral topic chosen for the afternoon
program is what Delaware is Do
ing for the Home" Six different
state organizations or groups which
are especially conferred in the home
are taking part in the program.
Each group, under a specially ap-
pointed chairman, will present their
work in Home Economics or home
betterment in a fifteen-minute pro-
gram which is being planned for its
educational as well as it's entertain
ing value. The following are the
groups with the chairman for each;
The Grange-Chairman, Mrs. Jno.
Conwell, Dover. Talk, What the
Grange is Doing for Better Homes"
Mrs. J. c. Slack, Georgetown Grange.
The All Clubs-Chairman Miss |
Anne B. Moore, Sussex County Club |
Leader, Georgetown. Playlet, All |
Club girls.
Delaware Federated Women's
Clubs-Chairman, Mrs. Virgie Gull
yer, Bridgeville, State Chairman Di-
vision of the American Home, Della
ware Federated WOmen's Clubs.
by five federated clubs.
University Extension Women's
Clubs-Chairman, Mrs. Helen B. Nc
Kinley, State Home Demonstration
Leader, Newark. Playlet, "a WO-
man of No Occupation" Harbeson
Home Demonstration Club.
Women's College, University of
Delaware = Chairman, Miss Amy
Rextrew, Director of Home Eco
Monies Department, Women's Col
Iege, Newark. Talk, Our Home
Economics Department" Virginia
Swain. Talk, Our Home Econom-
les Club" Teresa Scott, Seniors,
Home Economics Department.
Vocational Home Economics in
he Schools-Chairman, Miss Eliza
beth Schmermund, teacher of Home
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
STATE NURSES FIND
MANY PITIFUL CASES
Discover Sick Mother Being Cared
For BY Child Aged TeR

One incident of a day in the life
of State Board of Health County
Nurse and the value of these nurses
to the community is given by Miss
Hazel p. Kitchens, connected with
the Kent County Health Unit.
Zone day a parent, knowing that
we We're examining school children
in her vicinity" said Miss Kitchens,
"sent a message to the school that
she would like the nurse to visit her
little child who was sick at home,
When / arrived there, ! found the
home in a deplOrable condition, The
mother was i'll in bed and a child
about ten years of age was attend
ing her. The family not being able
to afford a doctor. The child while
was there, brought in the mothers
dinner, which consisted of four meat
balls and a large bowl Of tea, but no
vegetables OF bread / instructed
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
REPUBLICANS HELP
DEMOCRATS SHELVE
HYNSON DRY Bill
Measured Referred To Temper
ence Committee, The Drys Be-
ing OutvOted.
FATE NOW IN DOUBT
May Now Be Left To Die As
Opponents Have The Upper
Hand.

The Hynson dry bill which was
passed by the House and was sup
posed to be sure of passing the
Senate, now reposes in the temper
ance committee of that body. When
the bill first appeared in the Sen
ate there was an argument over re-
ferring the bill to this committee
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS J. Henry
Hazel, who was presiding, placed
the bill in the committee on Public
Health which reported it favorably
the same day.
Monday afternoon it was announ-
ced that the Republican members
of the two houses had agreed to
amend the bill so that it would
change the provision concerning the
emptying of liquids or the breaking
of a vessel containing liquids to
liquor" instead of liquids. 1t was
generally understood that the bill
was to be passed with this amend
ment and the amendment had been
prepared
The Rev. E. G. Prettyman, super
intendent of the Anti-SalOon League,
who is backing the bill, and George
W. Abberger and George Barnhill,
of the Association Against the 18th
Amendment, who claimed that the
law was too drastic, were on hand
early on Tuesday. Numerous friends
and opponents of the bill in addi-
ton to those named were also about
and there were numerous conferen-
ces about the halls of the State
House.
The Democrats spent a long time
in conference. The Senate waited
for them and as soon as they had
arrived Senator David, a Democrat,
moved that House bill No. 166,
which is the Hynson bill, be re-
ferred to the committee on temper
ance for further consideration.
There was no discussion and a vote
was ordered by Lieutenant Governor
Hazel, who was presiding. The vote
was
Yes: Burton, David, H. M. Deputy,
w. F. Deputy, Green, Hall, Latch
UNI, Lynch, President Pro Tenn Sim
onton-9. No. Downs, Hollis, Spi-
GER, Van SAINT, Veasey and Wharf
ton; not voting, Hopkins; absent,
Jacobs.
The bill was committed to the
committee. Three Re-
publicans, Burton, Green and Sim
Onton, voted with the six Democrats
to commit the bill to the committee
on temperance. The member not
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-22
REVIEW DICTIONARIES
WORK in KENT COUNTY
Edward White, National Vice. Com
mander, Addressed Enthusiastic
Gathering At Dover.

A review of the activities of the
American Legion during the first
ten years of its organization, was
presented at a dinner meeting OF
former service men in the Hotel
Richardson at Dover Friday by Ed
ward White, of Connecticut, Nation
al Vice-Commander of the Legion.
In pointing out that it was time
for the Legion to take inventory of
its past existence, Mr.. White dis
cussed many matters that have been
before the organization. He ex-
pressed the opinion that the Legion
was the balance wheel that kept the
nation on even keel during the try
ing days following the war when
other nations were having their gov
ernments overthrown by service
men, who took charge of the gov
eminent themselves.
The American Legion is the out
standing champion of the former
service men before the National Gov
eminent, stated the speaker, and
then he reviewed what the Legion
had accomplished in the way of
Congressional legislation for the aid
of the disabled and their dependents,
the active part taken in the ap-
prevail of the peace treaty and the
passage of the cruiser bill.
Mr.. White also pointed out the
active work of the Legion in child
welfare among the orphans of the
former service men and the good
results that have been obtained
throughout the country in the COM
service work instituted by
the Legion.
Captain II. H. Hanson, of Dover,
served as POSTMASTER and the invo-
cation was offered by the Rev. G.
Ashworth Burslem, pastor of the
Dover Presbyterian Church and
chaplain of the Department of Della
ware.
In welcoming the visitors to Do
yer Mayor J. Wallace Woodford
made an interesting address in
which he complimented the Legion
On it's many activities particularly
heir efforts towards making good
government and the preservation of
liberty.
Lieutenant Governor J. Henry
Hazel, serving in the absence of
Governor c. Douglass Buck, well
,omed the former service men on |
behalf of the State and urged them
o continue the good work they |
lave been doing.
Greetings from the Department |
# Delaware were extended by VIII
lam E. Mathews, Jr., of Smyrna, the
Commander.
Olaf Hansen, of Bloomfield, N. j.,
Adjutant of New Jersey,
his Department at the
Meeting and in "peppy" address
eviewed some of the accomplish
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Milford Chronicle Picked
For 1923 AHAmerican
Weekly Newspaper Eleven
HERE'S ALL-AMERICAN
1928 NEWSPAPER TEAM

1-PubIisher at fullback-E. w.
Huse, Wayne (Neb.) Herald.
2-Buslness Manager at right
haIf-Ross n. AIcorn, Raw
Inns (Wyo.) Republican, a
semi-weekly.
3-AdVertising Manager at left
half - Roy clippinaer, Carmi
Oll.) Tribune Times.
4Editor-in-c Chief at quarter
back-A. L. Moreau, Free
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@circulatlon Manager at Gen.
ter-col. Theodore Townsend,
Milford (Del.) Chronicle.
6-Manaeing Editor at right
quard-ErWin Funk, Rogers
(Ark.) Democrat.
7-Editor of the Editorial Page
at left guard-Jofn N. Green,
Colorado springs (Colo.)
Farm News.
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Projects at right tackIe-N.
A. Nichols, FL Reno (Okla.)
American.
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LAWMAKERS FAIL
TO GET TOGETHER
ON CLAIMS Bill
Some Prepare New Measures
While Others Cling To Old
Claims.
TAKES some FIGURING
Another Conference Held With
U. S. Senators And Leaders
Of Republican Party.

Many of the members of the last
General Assembly whose mileage
bills were in dispute, went to Dover
on Monday and conferred with the
House Committee on Claims, United
States Senators Daniel o. Hastings
and John G. Townsend, Jr., former
State Senator 1. d. Short and Gen
eral ]. Austin Ellison were also
present from time to time. A num-
Der of the former members agreed
to make out new claims in accord
ance with the decision of the court.
Some, however, declined to make
any change in the bills rendered.
One of those who refused to make
any change in his bill was former
Representative S. B. 1. Duncan, of
New Castle. He claimed that 10
cents a mile was a fair allowance
and that it made no difference what
method of travel a member might
have used he did not feel that any
one could make a certain claim and
then accept less without admitting
that he was putting in wrong bill
in the beginning.
1t took a considerable time for
some of the members to make out
their claims and the reductions in
the bills were much less than had
been expected. In a number of
cases a man would take a certain
number of members with him in his
car for a week and then some other
member would take the same mem
bers. The bills would therefore be
for ten cents a mile for certain
number of miles and IL cents for
the remainder of the time. Some of
the members who were supposed to
get 8 1-2 cents also travelled further
than the figures which they had
first put in and more mileage was
found due them.
Some of the members of the Sen
ate still insist upon ten centS>a mile
or nothing. It is not known what
action will be taken on their bills.
New bills giving the 'evised figures
will be offered in 4e House and 1t
is believed that ting will get enough
votes in the house to pass them, but
it is doubtful if there will be
enough votes in the Senate to pass
the measures without considerable
argument. Most of the members feel |
that the question is progressing IA |
vorably toward settlement, but there |
are others who are not so sure. |
Some of the members of the Senate, |
of both parties, feel that the Sen |
ate ought to stand by its action In |
overriding the veto of the Governor. |