Milford chronicle., 1929-11-15

The Ever Ready Club will hold its
usual meeting at the home of Mr. 4.
and Mrs. Ira Wells on Wednesday
evening, November 20. The members
and friends are requested to be pres
ent as there is some very important
business to be transacted. Miss Elsie
Wells is chairman of the refresh
ment committee; Miss Cleora Outten
is the chairman of the entertaining
committee. We feel that our COM
mittees will make the evening pleas
ant. The Ever Ready play commit
tee report progress on their play
watch for the date in the near fu-
ture. The play will be given in the
Community Hall at Coolspring.
A tragic message from the deep,
believed penned almost a half CEN
fury ago and tossed from a flame
swept vessel, was discovered a few
days ago on the Jersey coast, PEAR
Townsend's Inlet, sealed in a bar
nacle-encrusted bottle about to be
filled from a moonshine still. The
bottle, believed to have been cast
overheard from the Inflated schoon-
er Mary G. Farr, Philadelphia, which
was lost with all hands off South
Jersey, January 8, 1885, was found
by Sheriff Forrest Rice, Cape May
County, who interrupted duck hun
ting expedition to conduct one
man raid on clam digger's shack
where a miniature moonshine plant
was in operation. Sheriff Rice was
behind a blind on the meadows edg-
ing Great Bay, near Townsend's In
let, when he detected odor of steam
ing mash. Following the scent the
sheriff located shack built on stills
and camoufaged with a heap of
brush. AS he approached, however,
the occupant leaped into speed
boat and escaped, unmindful of duck
shot charges fired across the bow OF
his craft. The sheriff found small
still bubbling over a charcoal fire
and a heap of bottles apparently
square-faced gin bottle, its stopper
daubed with blackened sealing wax
and thick with sea growths, that at
tracted Rich's attention. He broke
the bottle and found a strip torn
from an oilskin slicker. "Aboard the
Mary G.. Farr-Fire gaining in hold.
Can no longer ride out gale. About
to take to long boat. May God help
us ALL" This message scrawled ap-
parently as preparations were being
made to abondon the doomed burn
ing and tempest-tossed ship, Rice
turned over to former Senator Lewis
T. Stevens, Cape May historian, who
through records of the U. S. Life
Saving Service learned that the
Mary G. Farr had set sail from Bal
timore, December 81, 1885, with a
crew of seven men and a cargo of
corn for Providence, R. I. The char
red and gale battered wreckage of
the schooner had been driven ashore
at Spring Lake, N. j., after gales
which had continued January 8,
and 10. The bodies of Captain John
D. Conwell, and the steward, Will
liam w. Warren, both of Milton,
were found on the beach few miles
from Spring Lake two days later.
Bodies of the crew were found as far
north as Asbury Park and Long
Beach. The older citizens of Milton
we'll remember the loss Of the Mary
G. Farr and the return to Milton of
the bodies of Captain Conwell and
Steward Warren. A daughter of Cap
tain Conwell. Mrs. Charlotte Wilson,
is still residing at the Conwell
homestead, and son. Arthur Con-
we'll. is a resident of Philadelphia.
Not completing the sale of the
Hotel Jester furniture last Saturday,
the sale will be continued this Sat
urday. Because of this continuation,
Joseph A. Lindale will postpone his
sale of household goods to Saturday
afternoon, November 26.
At the third quarterly conference
of Goshen M. E. Church, held on Sun
day evening, November 10, Rev. c.
NadaI Jones was unanimously asked
to return for another year as pas
tor.
William H. Welch, vice-councillor
of the State Jr. o. U. A. M. Lodge,
with his son, Neal WEIGH, attended
the Armistice Day exercises at
Washington, D. c., on Monday. The
senior Mr.. WEIGH took part in the
placing of wreath on the grave OF
the unknown soldier in Arlington
cemetery by the Nation Councillor,
assisted by the State councillors and
vice-councillors.
The interior of Milton M. p.
Church is being renovated and re-
paired. A new carpet will be pre-
scented and laid shortly by the La
dies Mite Society.
A number of Miltonians attended
the Armistice Day celebration at
Georgetown on Monday. Several low
ers of athletic games saw w. c. l..
| of Dover and Georgetown High
School foot ball teams battle to tie
score in the afternoon. Neither goal
line was crossed, though the boys
fought hard. Shorty" Lingo and
"Dick" Green, of the Dover team,
are Milton boys and did honor to the
Broadkiln town.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Quig of Media
spent the weekend with the latter's
mother, Mrs. Mary A. Crouch.
Joseph M. Lank, cashier of the
Sussex Trust Company, spent several
days this week in Philadelphia.
Union Thanksgiving services will
be held at the M. P. Church on
Thursday morning, November 20.
Rev. C. N. Jones, pastor of the M. e.
Church, will deliver the sermon.
Mrs. Annie T. Ingram, one of Mil
toms oldest citizens, died Wednes-
day morning of last week at her
home on Federal street after short
illness Of pneumonia, aged S5 years.
She WAS the widow of the late ThOs.