Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
Milton Letter

destroyed the home of Dorman PORT
ter, owned by the c. G. NAPLES eS-
tate, at the corner of Walnut and
Mill streets. Mrs. Porter was awalk-
ened about o'clock, choking from
smoke and aroused her husband and
daughter. Neighbors responded to
the call for help and succeeded in
saving much of the furniture on the
first floor. In a few minutes after
the fire siren sounded the fire com
pany with their engine was on the
scene and prevented the total de-
struction of the building. The fire
started in a shed kitchen on the east
side of the house and spread rapidly
to the main building, eating its way
up the east side of the building,
reaching the second story, where
some of the family were sleeping.
When the family escaped from the
burning building the entire house,
including the one stairway, was
filled with binding smoke. In crop
ing her way to safety Mrs. Porter
was injured about the face when she
ran into a partly opened door. The
loss to the property is about $1,000
and several hundred dollars to the
furniture.
The Friendship and Golden Rule
Bible classes of the Methodist Pro-
testant Sunday school will hold their
first business meetings since the
summer vacation on Monday even
ing, October 9TH, at 1880, in Social
Hall.
The evergreen season will begin
in a few weeks and local dealers are
expecting to prepare for busy sea-
SOM Holly berries, with which all
holiday evergreens are decorated,
are reported plentiful in the Broad
kiln and Ellendale swamp districts.
It will not be necessary for local
dealers to use artificial berries this
year, as in some years when holly
trees are barren of the little red
berries that are so much in demand
for Christmas decorations. Farm
wives are looking forward to the
wreath wrapping time to come that
they may fill their purses with
money to purchase needful winter
wearing apparel. Dealers send trucks
to the homes of the wrappers to
gather the wreaths and pay cash on
delivery. Many farms in this section
produce more cash at the Christmas
season for holly products than they
do from any one tillable crop raised
on the farm. Children, and some
times men, gather the holly from the
woods while the women make the
wreaths.
The war between farm land own
ers and muskrat marsh owners in
Broadkiln and Prime Hook Necks
has reached an amicable settlement
if plans now agreed upon by the two
factions are carried out. For sew
eral years these men have been at
loggerheads over the matter of wa
ter on the marshes. Farm land own
ers have contended that the closing
of Prime Hook creek, near Broad
kiln Beach, flooded their low lands,
making it impossible to cultivate
many acres. Last year an agreement
was entered into that the mouth Of
the creek would be kept open from
March 1st to December, and that
from December to March the mouth
of the creek would be closed in or
der that muskrat marshes would be
covered with water. Keeping the
mouth open during the summer has
proved both costly and almost i'm
possible. At a meeting of the inter-
ested parties this week it was agreed
to cut a new mouth to Prime Hook
creek to the old bed of the Broadkiln
river, about a half mile and to put
in waste and sluice gates to control
the water on the marshes. A pow
der expert from the DUPONT Com
pany, Wilmington, is soon to make
an inspection and report the cost of
blowing the new ditch with dyna-
mite, and if the cost is not prohibi-
tive the work will be started at once
and the gates installed next spring.
Controversy over the matter has
been strong and one or two first
fights have occurred between the
champions of the two camps, and
this amicable settlement is pleasing
to friends of both sides. The trap
ping of muskrats on these marshes
is worth thousands of dollars to
rtappers and owners of the marshes
each winter.
Another result of the meeting was
the almost unanimous opinion OF
trappers that the trapping season is
entirely too long and is proving the
destruction of the business-many
predict that if the season is not
shortened there will be no muskrats
on these marshes in very rev
years. 1t is proposed to ask the leg
islature at its next session to make
the trapping season from February
1st to March 10th in each year, in
-fo - MATGn
10th, as now permitted. There Will
be some opposition to the shorten
ing of the season but those really IN
terested will ask for the short trap
ping season.
The Everready Club Of Broadkiln
gave box social at the school house
on Thursday evening, October 3. 1t
was a great success and the mem
bers of the club thank all who helped |
in any way to make it SO. The club |
will hold their monthly meeting at |
the home of Clarence Card on We'd
nesday evening, October 18th. Mem
bers and friends are cordially in
vited to attend and help make the |
meeting a success. They are also |
planning to give a play at the Cool
spring community building. Watch
for the date.
Miss Cleora Outteh will lead the
Epworth League at Zion M. E.
church on Sunday evening. Topic:
"Having a Coed Time" The League
is doing a coed work in this section
and their weekly meetings are both
instructive and entertaining.
Marian Anna, infant daughter OF |
Mr.. and Mrs. Layton Wiley, died at
the home of her grandparents, Mr..