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Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
OPERATORS LICENSES
GOOD UNTIL MARCH ]
Under Old Law January 1 Was Clos
ing Date; Auto Tags Ready Dec. Is

Motor Vehicle Director William H,
Ball calls attention to the fact that
operators licenses under the new au-
tomobile law expire March 1 instead
Of January 1 as heretofore. This fact
will largely aid the automobile de-
partment in the annual rush for il
censes of both tags and operators
cards.
Director Ball also states that
where persons have changed their
address since receiving their last au-
tomobile license, and still residing
in the State or if out of the State
and still retaining a Delaware Ii
cense. they are requested to give not
only their present address but their
previous address as this will also
greatly facilitate matters in the issu-
ing of licenses.
Mr.. Ball expects to begin sending
out the cards for next years licen-
ses within the next few days and it
will be to the advantage of the au-
tomobile owner that he fill in his
cards at as early date as possible
so as to insure prompt delivery.
There being no five days of grace
for next year as has been the GUS
tom in the past that of allowing five
days in January to secure licenses,
the new regulation of allowing auto
mobile owners to place their tags on
their machines after the 18th day of
December will also facilitate mat
ters as to securing their licenses
early as possible.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
STATE PATROLMEN TO
WATCH BUS DRIVERS
Board Of Education Members
Hold Regular Business Session
At Dover.

At the regular State Board Of Ed
ucation meeting, held in the Su-
preme Court room, at Dover on Fri
day, business was transacted. A re-
port was given by Mr.. Adams on
painting and on transportation OF
colored children in the Middletown
section.
AS a result of the conference OF
members of State Highway Depart
ment, State Board of Education and
State Automobile Department rela-
tive to the inspection of school buses
and examination of drivers, the State
highway police are to watch bus
drivers frequently to see to the ex-
animation of equipment by compe-
tent mechanics.
The textbook Field Crop Enter
prises," by K. C. Davis, was adopted
and will be placed on the official
list. Superintendent S. M. Stouffer of
Wilmington was recommended for
membership on the Delaware Ameri-
canization committee in place of DR..
Ward who was formerly head of Will
mington schools.
The appointment of school trustees
in absence of school elections was
also discussed. The school budget
for State board unit submitted by
the secretary was approved by the
State board. Allowance for textbook
committee of an amount not to ex-
ceed $500 was allocated to pay the
expenses in part of the textbook
committee.
Heretofore the State Teachers As
sociation has borne all expenses of
speakers. In order that the associa-
tion might secure the best speakers
available the State board allocated
$500 for the white association and
$100 for the colored association.
The following allotments made in
the board meeting, August 8, were
recommended to be allowed to the
a cost not to exceed $4,000. The
amount was raised by As residents
of the district to aid in the building.
Continued on Page 81
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
FISHERMEN SAVE BOAT
FROM FIRE AT WHARF
Timely Arrival Of Men Who Saw
Smoke Saved Steamer Martin

The prompt action of Captain
James Millman and one of his men
saved the Steamer Martin, which
was moored to the wharf at the fish
factory at the mouth of the Mispil-
lion River, from destruction on
Tuesday morning. Captain Millman
was on the way to the oystering
grounds when he and his companion
noticed smoke issuing from the
steamer. They called the watchman
at the plant and investigation dis
closed stubborn fire burning below
deck. After hard work they were
able to extinguish the blaze and save
the boat. Had the men noticed the
smoke a few minutes later the fire
would have gained such headway
that they could not have successfully
cone with it. No cause for the fire
can be advanced for their had been
no fire on the steamer for several
weeks. The boat is one of the fleet
used by the owners Of the fish fac
tory.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
STATE May SECURE
$3,5OO,OOO CHARTER
FEES THIS YEAR
The Charter Business Has Shown
Remarkable Growth During
This Year.
$2,763,72l THIS YEAR
This Great Increase Was Caused
By A Change Ia The IncOr-
pOratiOn Laws.

The splendid growth of the cor
poration charter business in Della
ware is gratifying to Governor c.
Douglass Buck, and Secretary of
State Charles H. Grantland. Because
of the change made by the General
Assembly two years ago in the char
ter law, the business has greatly in
creased, but never so much as this
year. Secretary Grantland estimates
that more than 100000 in excess
of last year will be collected.
Up to October l there had been
paid into the State from corporation
tax fees total of $2,763,721.17.
These are the returns from 1894
charters.
The total amount received for the
same period last year was $486,-
1864. This was for 4477 charters. 1t
is estimated that in the next three
months additional funds added to the
sum already received will make a
grand total of $3,500,000. The re-
ceipts last year totaled 81 ,459, 1914.
In addition to the corporation fees,
considerable money is received from
the issuance of certified copies of
charters and from a filing fee with
annual reports of various corpora
tions. Secretary Grantland estimates
that there will be $250,000 received
from this source.
Another source of income is the
franchise tax that corporations pay
for during business under a Della
oh -.
ceived this year is estimated at ST.
250,000.
Mr.. Grantland, who recently re-
turned from a meeting of the Associ-
alton of Secretaries of State, held in
Boston, was gratifed with the COM
pliments paid the Delaware charter
law, and the way in which it is be-
ing administered. It was stated on
the floor of the convention that Del
aware charter law was as near 100
per cent perfect as any such law in
existence.
Secretary Grantland is putting
into operation new system in
handling the franchise tax and as
sessments in his office. The old time
way up to now was to do the work
in long hand. Mr.. Grantland has
changed this system, using addresso-
graphs. A plate is made with the
name and amount Of tax of each
corporation and will be mailed to the
corporation the end of this month.
This will prove of benefit to the cor
poration which must file its annual
report with the Secretary Of States
Office by January 1.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
CHILD DEATH RATE
CUT BY EDUCATION
Alarming Increase In Fatalities
Among Adults In State From
Some Diseases.

Splendid progress is being made
in Delaware in decreasing the deaths
due to childish ailments, but there
is alarming increases in the deaths
among adults from certain diseases
it is disclosed in a study of vital sta
tistics of the State by DR.. C. A. Sar-
gent of the State Board of Health
Diseases that are being fought by
means of toxins and serums fought
by means of toxins and serums show
marvellous progress in the way OF
combating fatalities.
tuberculosis stands out promi-
nently among the ills where the
mortality has been lessened. From
200 deaths per hundred thousand in
1914, the rate has been cut to 80 in
1928.
Apoplexy shows an increase that
should give concern. From 95 per
hundred thousand population in
1914 the rate increased to 148 in
1928.
Cancer almost doubled in that
length of time. From 66 in 1914 the
rate had increased to 102 in 1928.
The result of clinics to instruct
mothers and prospective mothers in
the care of their children, establish
ed by the State Board of Health in
the past four years, have brought
about wonderful results. From 1874
deaths per one thousand live births
the rate had been decreased TO II
last year.
Heart trouble is on the increase.
From 1876 in 1914 it has jumped to
224 per hundred thousand popula-
tion last year.
Brights disease shows an increase
but not so alarming. From 1923 in
1914 it has grown to 1877 last year.
One of the greatest gains was in
diarrheal ailments, the result of bet
ter sanitation and care of infants.
From 108 in 1914 it has fallen off
to % last year per hundred thousand
population.
Typhoid fever, because of better
sanitation and a program of educa-
ting the public has fallen off from %
per hundred thousand in 1914 to 2
fatalities last year.
The death rate in diphtheria is
steadily decreasing, being II in 1914
to last year. Through the use of
toxin anti-toxin among children, the
rate, it is expected, will be still fur
ther reduced.
Deaths from accidents have in
creased owing to the steadily grow
ing fatalities among automobile vic
Tins.
Whooping cough has been cut from
II to in the same period of time.
Measles stands the same as it was
fifteen years ago, six deaths each
year.
Pneumonia, because of education
in what to do and what not to do
has been cut in half, there being only
1O1 last year per hundred thousand,
as compared with 22O fifteen years
ago,
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
z BOYS GROW 2 ACRES
PRIZE YELLOW CORN
John And Harold Marvel, Of HOus-
ton, Have Remarkable Crop

John and Harold Marvel, sons of
! Edward Marvel of Houston, are
members of the Kent County Boys
Club, and each had one acre of corn
as his individual project for the cur
rent year. This past week a part of
the corn was gathered for official
measurement, and five ears of the
corn were brought to Milford, where
they were placed in the show win
dow of Hills Restaurant on North
Walnut street for the public to see.
Each ear of the display has twenty
rows Tor plats) on the cob, and there
are sixty grains in each row. The
cobs are filled from but to extreme
tip with well formed grains of yellow
corn. These boys have had splendid
results to repay them for their labor
in agriculture in an intensive way.
Those who have seen the two acres
of corn growing, state that it is all
most amazing that such corn can be
produced; but they give all praise to
John and Harold for intelligent man
agement and thorough work and
care in producing the crop. 1t is
worth thinking over by grown-ups.
The labor is no more as cost fac
tor to grow heavy yields of corn
from one acre producing from seven
ty to ninety bushels to the acre, than
the cost for an acre producing thir-
ty or forty bushels. There is a rea-
son for these results, and it is work,
common sense and liberal, or even
excessive use of manure or fertiliz-
ers. These boys have proved what
can be done on Kent county soil.
Why not every corn grower follow
their lead? 1t pays in cash, and it
pays in satisfaction of successful
production Of a dependable crop,
and arouses a community pride as
well.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
JURY FAILS TO AGREE
In DOCTORS CASE
Milton Man Was Charged With II.
legal Operation

DR.. Robert H. T. Wilson, for forty
years a practicing physician, of Mil
ton, and at one time located in Phil
adelphia and Bethlehem, Pa, was
tried in Court of Oyer and Terminer
Tuesday afternoon for an alleged il
legal operation on Mary Jane Walls,
wife of Herman Walls, of near Mil
ton, on April II.
Mrs. Walls died on May 1, in the
Marshall Hospital, Milford, from
blood poison, resulting, it is claimed
from an illegal operation. Mr.. Walls
was a witness for the State, telling
of an alleged visit to the physicians
Office with his wife on the night of
April IL. The physician denied the
testimony given by Walls, stating
that he gave the woman a physical
examination. After deliberating for
more than five hours, the jury was
unable to agree. 1t was rumored
that the jury stood 9 for acquittal
and for conviction.
Harold T. Wilson, of near Harbe-
son, charged with non-support of his
wife, Mrs. Gladys M. Wilson, was or
dered by the court to pay her SO a
week.
Harry McCallister, Broad Creek
District, charged with desertion and
non-support of his wife, Mrs. Mary
McCallister, was ordered by the
court to pay his wife So per week,
commencing Tuesday. He was held
IN $500 bond to carry out the court
order.
Robert Chandler, of Seaford,
charged with stealing ten bushels of
corn from J. Harley Wilson on Sep
tember %, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to serve six months in the
New Castle County Workhouse, pay
$40 as restitution money and the
costs of the prosecution.
Sherman Self, of Lewes, charged
with assaulting and robbing Alvin
Minor, of Lewes, on September 26
was found guilty and sentenced to.
serve ten years in the New Castle
County Workhouse, pay fine of $500
and the costs of prosecution. Self
robbed Minor of 81.
Howard Butler, of Northwest Fork
District, charged with having three
quarts of liquor in his possession on
October z was found guilty and SEN
fenced to serve two months in prison
and pay fine of $50 and costs Of
prosecution.
Elijah Long, Of near Roxana,
charged with assault and battery on
12-year-old Alberta Murray, Balti-
more district, September 6, while she
was on her way to school, was con-
victed by a jury in General Sessions
CONTINUED on Page 81
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
BUCK is REALIZING
HIS HOPE FOR CUT
In DELAWARE DEBT
Reduction OF $7,OS5,OOO Has
Been Effected Already In
State Road Bonds.
FOLLOW PAY-GO PLAN
All New Road Work Will Be
Paid For From IncOme-..NO
New Bonds.

The hope Of Governor c. Douglass
Buck to reduce the public debt ma
tertally during his administration, is
being realized. Already, the State
deDt, insofar as State road bonds are
concerned, will have been cut ST.
O65,OOO during the first year of his
administration.
In his inaugural address last jan
uary, Governor Buck pointed to the
desirability of having the State of
Delaware establish a "pay-as-you-
go" basis for the building and main
tenance of the public highways of
the State, and expressed a desire
that as soon as possible this policy
might become effective. 1t is gem
orally known the Governor is op-
posed to the issuance of bonds by
the State for any purpose in the near
future, and is hopeful of reducing
the public debt materially during his
administration.
To this end, a conference was re-
Gently held in the executive offices
at Dover and was attended by the
Sinking Fund Commission, consist
ing of Governor Buck, Secretary of
State Charles H. Grantland, Treas
urer Howard Ward, who is the Sink
ing Fund Commissioner, Auditor of
Accounts Edward Baker, together
with the Deputy State Treasurer, the
Deputy Auditor of Accounts and the
Chief Engineer of the State High
way Department.
On behalf of the Highway Depart-
ment, a budget was presented by
means OF which this department
could hereafter operate on a "pay-
as-you-go" basis, provided relief
could be had from the burden it was
obliged to care for out of the an
nual receipts for the payment of in
terest and sinking fund obligations.
To obtain such relief necessitates
the cancellation of the outstanding
road bonds held by the Sinking Fund
Commission and such other highway
bonds held by the public, as the
State can afford to liquidate.
1t will be recalled on July 1 of
this year the Sinking Fund Commits
sion called and retired $2,1OO,OOO of
State highway bonds, and it is the
purpose of the Commissioner, at the
request of and with the approval of
the members of the Sinking Fund
Commission, to call the 1921 issue of
highway bonds now held by the pub
lie amounting to $1,455,OOO, these
bonds to be retired in January, 1880.
The fund for the retirement is ex-
pected from the collections of the
registers of wills of the several
Continued on Page 81
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
KENT PENSION FUND
FOUND EXHAUSTED
Has No Amount For Month, Dover
Meeting Reveals; Many Cases.

At regular monthly meeting of
the Mothers Pension Commission at
Dover on Wednesday, two new cases
were heard from New Castle county
and two granted. In Kent county
one new case was heard but disal-
lowed only one dependent child be-
ing shown. Kent county has no
fund for the pension for this month
as the fund has been exhausted.
In Sussex county two new appli-
cations were received and one grant
ed; one disallowed and one having
sufficient income.
Old cases considered included four
in New Castle, discontinued, and two
reduced.
In Kent county six. old cases were
reviewed, two of which were discon-
tinued and one reduced.
Members present at the meeting
included Mrs. Layfield Long, Mrs.
J. M. Lank, Mrs. Frank Hall Davis,
Miss Marie Lockwood, Miss e. Haz-
zard, Miss Lizzie Woodruff and the
executive secretary, Miss Griggs.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
SHOW INCREASE in
COST OF RUNNING The
STATE FOR YEAR 1928
The Per Capita Cost This Year
Was $l9.S6 Compared With
$l9.16 In 1927.
PAYMENTS $4,S26,O35
Figures Of Department Of Com
merce Based On Estimated
243,OOO Population.

An increase of 20 cents per capita
in the cost of maintenance of the
government of the State of Delaware
in 1928 as compared with 1927, is
shown in financial statistics of the
State announced this week by the
Department of Commerce. The fig
ures were based on an estimated
population of 243,000.
The payments for operation and
maintenance of the general depart
ments of the State government
amounted to $4,826,035, or $19.86 per
capita. This includes $1,406,3SO, ap-
portionments for education to the
minor civil division of the State. In
1927 the comparative per capita for
operation and maintenance of the
general departments was $19.16.
The interest on debt in 1928
amounted to $474,073, and outlays for
permanent improvements, $2,558, ,123.
The total payments, therefore, for
operation and maintenance of gen.
eral departments, interest, and out
lays were $7,S58,231. The totals in
clude all payments for the year,
whether made from current reve-
nues or from the proceeds of bond
issues.
Of the government cost reported
above, $2,383,939 was for highways,
$258,167 being for maintenance and
$2,126,772 for construction, the de-
partment announced.
The total revenue receipts for 1928
were $8,96S, ,467, or 1851 per capita.
This was $3,668,359 more than the
total payments of the year, exclusive
of the payments for permanent inn
provements, and S1,110,236 more
than the total payments; including
those for permanent improvements.
This excess, the report explains, is
reflected in reduction of debt, and in
purchase of investments and in
creased cash balances, not shown in
this summary. Property and special
taxes represented 5S.S per cent of
the total revenue. for 1928 and 61.4
per cent for 1927.
The report shows that earnings of
general departments, or comparison
rendered by State officials, repre-
Continued on Page 81
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
FIRST BICYCLE RACE
WAS HELD In DOVER
First Race Was Held III October,
1880, In Delaware Town

On the occasion of the annual re-
union of the Veteran Wheelmen's As
sociation, the old William Penn Inn
at Gwynedd, Pa, witnessed a return
to the days when "Trilby" was the
book of the month, and a bicycle
built for two" was not yet an anti
guilty.
The event marked the fifty-third
anniversary of the introduction in
America of the safety bicycle, or the
type in use today. 1t was first eX-
hibited in 1876 at the Centennial, and
was generally adopted here during
the next decade.
Strolling among the guests, renew
ing acquaintances, was George d.
Gideon, winner of the first bicycle
race ever held in this country, at
Dover, Del, in October, 1880. He was
taught to ride by Joseph Pennell'
now famous for his etchings and lit
ographs. Mr.. Gideon was once chair
man of the National Racing Board OF
American Wheelmen, and was presl-
dent of the Germantown Cycllng
Club.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
EDUCATION PROGRAM
AT POULTRY SHOW
Program As Now Arranged Will
Be Of Great Interest To All
POultrymen.

In connection with the plans for
the State Poultry Show, which will
be held in Milford on December 8,
and 5, under the auspices of the Del
aware State Poultry Association in
cooperation with the State Board of
Agriculture and the Agricultural
Extension Department of the Uni
versity of Delaware, secretary H. S.
Palmer has announced the educa-
tional program which will be of
much interest to all the poultry rails
ers in this section of the country.
The program is as follows:
Tuesday, December 3
1880 P. M.-"Produce More Eggs
Per Bird Program" Roy E. Jones,
Extension Poultry Specialist, Storrs,
Connecticut.
$3.50 P. M.-"The Vineland Quail
ity Egg Club-How It Tops the Mar
ket," w. A.: Atkinson, President of
the Quality Egg Club of the Vineland
Poultry Association, Vineland, N. J..
$3.50 P. M.-General Discussion.
Wednesday,, December
300 P. M-"Ringside Judging of
R. o. P. Birds" J. H. Drevenstedt,
Official A. P. A. Judge, Northport,
N. Y.
$3.50 P. M.-"The Usefulness of
Batteries in Chick Brooding," C. S.
Platt, Assistant in Poultry Husban-
dry, New Brunswick, N. J.
500 P. M.-Hatcherymen's Lunch
con and Business Meeting. Address
by Reese V. Hicks, Managing Direc-
tor, International Baby Chick Asso-
citation.
1880 P. M.-"Grading and Gambling
Eggs for Market" R. R. Slocum.
Senior Marketing Specialist, Bureau
of Agricultural Economics, U. S.
Continued on Page 81
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
DR.. |. J. MAC COLLUM
HEADS DELAWARE
MEDICAL SOCIETY
DR.. Oliver V. James Of Milford
Was Named First Vice Presi-
dent.
HEAR MANY AUTHORITIES
Papers Presented By Authorities
At Annual Meeting OF State
Society.

DIR. l. ]. MacCollum, Kent county
physician, was unanimously chosen
president of the Medical Society OF
Delaware, on Saturday, at the close
of the 140th annual session of that
body, which was held at the Della
ware State Hospital at Farnhurst.
Dr. MacCollum, who was nominated
from the floor by Dr. M. A. Tarumi-
naz, superintendent of the State
Hospital, succeeds DR.. w. o. La
Motto, of Wilmington.
The meeting also approved the Sc
lections of the nominating commit
tee for the following offices: DR..
John H. Mullin, of this city, first
vice-president; DR.. Oliver V. James,
of Milford, second vice-president;
DR.. Samuel G. Rumford, of this city,
secretary; DR.. Joseph Bringhurst, of
FELTON,, and DR.. K. J. Hooker, of
Millville, councillors.
In closing a resolution of appre-
citation to the superintendent of the
State Hospital. DR.. Taruminaz and
others of the hospital staff, was
adopted. The meeting was voted
one Of the best in the history of the
society. 1t was the first time the
society had had a full three-day pro-
gram.
Another resolution urged at least
two months training in mental and
nervous disease nursing in the nurs-
ing schools of the State. No such
course is given at present in any of
the State schools.
The society also recommended the
establishment of central pathologi-
cal and research laboratories in the
State for the study of cancer and
similar ailments. 1t is pointed out
that Delaware is practically the only
State in the Union without such lab
oratories. The reason assigned to
this heretofore has been that the
State was so close to other states
maintaining laboratories that such
was not needed in Delaware. This is
not true of the Delaware of today,
the physicians agreed.
The medical papers in the after
noon were delivered by some of the
foremost authorities in the country.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-18
CHILD PREACHER WILL
PREACH AT REHOBOTH
Jean Cherry, Ten Years Old, Is Call
ed A Walking Bible

Jean Cherry, the ten-year-old child
preacher, will preach at the Groom
Memorial Methodist Protestant
Church at Rehoboth on Thursday
night, October oath, at 1880 o'clock.
This remarkable child was born at a
parsonage, and early in her young
life showed unmistakable signs of
genius. Among churchmen she is
known as walking Bible. 1t is said
of her that she knows more of the
Bible than any person living in Del
aware. While she is hardly more
than an infant she plans to make
that of an evangelist. During the
past few years thousands of persons
have heard this child wonder preach.
Already plans have been made to
have her preach next summer at the
Del-Mar-Va Camp, also the Ocean
City and Ocean Grove Camps. When
she visited this section during the
mast summer hundreds Of persons
heard her at Lewes.