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Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
PIERCE HARDWARE CO.
OPENS ITS NEW STORE
Beautiful Addition To MilfOrd's
Business District Thrown Open

The Pierce Hardware Company
opened it's new store building to the
public last Friday morning after
several months of rebuilding. The
three store structure is probably
the most beautiful of any of Mil
ford's business houses. The window
arrangement of the first floor is ex-
ceptionally attractive and makes a
good impression on the prospective
customer. The second floor front
is completely of plate glass. The
display of stoves and washing APP
planes makes the advertising value
of that feature of the building very
noticeable. The interior of the new
building is decorated in soft colors
and the merchandise is displayed on
open counters and from cabinets on
each side the panels of which show
every kind of tool and article to be
found in such store.
The older portion of the store is
now closed in and mechanics are
now busy remodelling the first floor
to conform with the newer struc-
ture. When this remodeling work
is completed the store will make an
exceptionally beautiful appearance
to the customer having business in
the store. The Pierce Hardware
Company is to be congratulated
upon the progressive spirit which
has made its new home possible.
Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
THREE men Held FOR
FREDERICK HOLD-UP
One OF Trio duplicates Others
In Attempted Robbery Of W.
w. Wilson.

Wilbur Kirby, Paris C. Carpenter
and Joseph H. O'Brien, the three
young white men charged with the
hold-up of w. w. Wilson, merchant
at Frederick, on the night of Janu-
airy IS, as Mr.. Wilson was going to
his home after closing his place of
business, were given a hearing at
Dover last Friday before Magistrate
w. D. Burton.
O'Brien, one of the trio, is said to
have admitted his part in the hold
up and implicated Carpenter and
Kirby. The three were held in bail
for the upper court. Kirby in $4,000
bail and Carpenter and O'Brien in
$4,000 each. In default of bail the
three men were remanded to Kent
county Jail for the February term of
court converting at Dover, February
IS.
Mr.. Wilson, the merchant held up,
testified to his being grabbed as he
had his hand on the knob of the
front door of his home and heard
one of the trio say, "stick 'em up"
Wilson yelled, which caused his wife
to turn on the light of the porch,
which scared off the men.
Kirby was apprehended in Phila-
delphia and was brought to Della
ware from Pennsylvania on requisi-
ton papers. Kirby lives in Milford
and runs pool room. Carpenter also
lives in Milford, while O'Brien gave
his address as New York.
Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
W. w. SHEEHAN HEADS
PENINSULA GROWERS
EastOn Man President; ii. G. Baker,
BridgeVille, Vice-Pres. Fruitmen

w. Mason Sheehan, of Easton,
Nd, was elected president of the
Peninsula Horticultural Society at
the annual meeting of the organiza-
ton in Fruitland Grange Hall, at
Camden, last week. Other officers
were elected as follows:
First vice-president, H. G. Baker,
Bridgeville; secretary, ]. f. Adams,
Dover, and treasurer, F. Lee Allen,
Salisbury, Md.
Vice-presidents for counties of
Delaware, Eastern Shore of Mary
land and Virginia were elected as
follows:
Delaware-New Castle County,
Newton L. Grub; Kent County,
Frank w. Richardson, and Sussex
County, w. C. Newton.
Maryland-Cecil County, Levi H.
Balderston; Kent County, C. B. Bur-
Till; Queen Anne County, w. Irving
Walker; Caroline County, Colonel
A. w. Sisk; Talbot County, W. r.
Fike; Dorchester County, Fred
Hirst, Cambridge; Wicomico, w. F.
Allen, ST.; Worcester County, T. J.
Kemp, and Somerset, T. B. Ewing.
Virginia-Accomac, w. o. Strong,
Onley; Northampton, W. l.. Elzey,
Exmore.
Executive Committee Herbert
C. Richardson, Wyoming; w. IL.
Dickerson, Woodside, and w. F. AL
len, Salisbury, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
STATE SENATE PUTS
new RULES IN EFFECT
Protection Against Skeleton Bills
Is Now Afforded Among New
Measures.

Embodying in principal measure
employed by the United States Sen
ate a number of changes have beel
made in the rules governing proceed
ure in the State Senate at Dover
These rules are believed to bring tn,
Senate more directly under the con
troll of the body and are held to af
ford protection against skeleton
bills.
One of the new rules is relative tt
Senators who answer mot voting
to the roll-call. Under this rule q
Senator who answers mot voting
must announce his reasons for sc
doing.
! Another new rule provides that nc
Senator shall absent himself from
the Senate without leave. There is
also new rule providing that pairs
must be announced to the chair. II
has been the custom for some time
for Senators to stay away from ses-
sions or leave the body while it is
in session at will and another GUS
tom has been for two Senators to ar
range pairs without informing the
chair.
Among the new rules is one which
requires a substitute bill to be CIV
en- first and second reading the same
as a new bill. There has been a Gus
tom for years of introducing skele-
ton bills on the last few days of the
session. These skeleton bills contain
nothing but the title and probably
the enacting clause. 1t has been Of
ten the case that they would be fill
ed out in committee and reported
out as a substitute and later given
third reading without first or second
reading. Although it may have been
one of the most important bills of
the session the Senators other than
probably the introducer and the
members of the committee to which
it was referred knew nothing what
ever as to the contents until it was
placed for final passage. The rule to
make this substitute be given first
and second reading will be more or
less a check on this kind of legisla-
ton.
Another rule that is also intended
to keep a better track of skeleton
bills is one that provides, mo mo-
ton shall be in order to amend or
substitute a title to any bill after
the last day on which new bills may
be received by the Senate"
Another entirely new rule is aimed
to keep out any especially objection
able bill. 1t provides that whenever
a bill or joint resolution shall be Of
fered it's introduction shall if OBJ
jected to be postponed one day.
These rules in most instances
were prepared by Thomas E. Peen-
ey, the Senate parliamentarian, at
the suggestion of some of the Sena-
tors. They were submitted to the
rules committee and after approval
by that committee were adopted by
the Senate. Mr.. Peeney spent a num-
Der of years in Washington as sec
rotary to former Senator L. Heisler
Ball.
Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
HIGHWAY BODY PLANS
TO SKIRT LARGE TOWNS
First Strip To Go outside Dover
Limits Taken At Meeting

At the meeting of the Highway
Commission this week it took an
other forward step in deciding upon
new routes that would skirt big
towns. In Kent county stretch
of two miles from the State police
station at the northern entrance Of
Dover to the Little Creek road,
about half a mile east of the State
House, and which road will be out
side the st. Jones river was ap-
proved.
Just how much farther the detour
around Dover will go is problemat-
ical. Those taking this route from
the State Police Station to the Lit
tie Creek Road will avoid traffic
congestion because it will be entire
ly outside of the town of Dover. 1t
may be that the commissioners will
decide to continue this highway
from the Little Creek road to a
point beyond Magnolia.
This matter has been under dis
cussion for two years. In that
event, if the second highway rum
ming North and South was built
from State Road to Dover, motor
lists travelling north and south would
have the advantage of this duplicate
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Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
METHODISTS DISCUSS
NEW SUPERINTENDENTS
Four Appointments Due At Next
Session Wilmington Conference

While there have been no official
statements because no appointments
are certain until the bishop has &C
tually made them, laymen and min
listers of the Wilmington Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
are discussing with interest the
matter of the selection of new dis
trict superintendents, of whom
there are four in this conference.
Rev. James w. Colona, d. D., SUI
perintendent of the Wilmington dis
trict; Rev. Omar E. Jones, superin-
tendent of the Middletown district ;;
Rev. Walter Gunby, superintendent
of the Dover district, and Rev. E. III.
Dashiell, ID. D., superintendent of
the Salisbury district, have all COM
pleted their four-year terms, and as
the church law does not permit a
man to be reappointed to a district
SUPPLEMENTARY, four other minis
ters in the conference must be
chosen by Bishop William F. Nc
Dowell, of the Washington Area,
embracing this conference, to fill
the vacancies thus created.
OF the ministers whose names are
being talked of for appointment to
a district SUPPLEMENTARY the one
most generally agreed upon as a
virtual certainty is Rev. George T..
Anderson, D. D., pastor of Asbury
M. E. Church in Wilmington. He is
an outstanding leader in the affairs
of the denomination in Wilmington,
and is possessed of large fol-
lowing in towns in the conference.
Others who are considered to have
good chance of appointment are:
Rev. John J. Bunting, Crisfield,
Md; Rev. Theodore Beauchamp,
Georgetown; Rev. Lewis B. Morgan,
Richardson Park; Rev. John L.
Johnson, pastor of Harrison Street
Church, Wilmington, and Rev.
James A. Leach, D. D., pastor of
Union M. E. Church, Wilmington.
DR.. Leach's church was host to
the conference last spring, and Mr..
Johnson's is to be host this spring,
when conference opens on Tuesday,
April 2.
Had Rev. w. E. Harrison, d. D.,
pastor of McCabe M. E. Church,
Wilmington, been in the conference
a little longer, his appointment
would be almost a certainty. He
has taken leading part in the work
of his denomination, and is leader
in inter-denominational affairs.
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Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
MAY NOT PRESENT NEW
MOTOR CODE THIS TIME
Delaware Has So Many Laws That
It Is Impossible To Harmonic Them

Chances are that the proposed au-
tomobile code now being framed by
the Delaware Safety Council and
other bodies will not be presented at
this session of the legislature. If the
bill can be framed in time it may be
offered.
Former State Senator Louis A.
Drexler, who is president of the
Delaware Safety Council, said that
so many phases of the automobile
law had to be considered that it was
doubtful if a bill could be prepared
in time for this session.
Many feel that it would be better
to allow the matter to go over for
two years and then offer an entire
new automobile code which would
repeal all other motor laws of the
State. This was done by Pennsylva-
mia and California and it may be the
plan adopted here.
Delaware has so many motor laws
that it is extremely difficult to har-
monte them. 1t is therefore con-
sidered wise to frame an entire new
code and present it to the next legis-
lature.
Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
CHANGES SUGGESTED
IN TAX LAW BY THE
TAX COMMISSIONER

To abolish tax on real estate
for school purposes.
Discontinue tax on corpora
ton capital and place a
franchise tax on all corpor-
ations chartered in Della
ware.
Capitation tax of So on all cit
liens 81 years old or over.
Exempt physically unfit and
those wholly or partly de-
pendent for support.
Revision of the State Income
Tax Law to enable all to
read and understand without
reference to rulings of the
department.
Increase Tax Commissioners
salary to $500 per annum;
assistants to $4,000 per an
mum; auditors to $4,000 per
annum.
Substitute contingent fund of
$4,000 for operating ex-
penses instead of using in
terest and penalties.
Open register of voters to
State School Tax Depart
ment to check names to
avoid tax evasions.
Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
CHURCH WILL START
LOYALTY CRUSADE
Program For Several Weeks Is An
nOunced BY Pastor Bryan Of Milford

Rev. Franklin Bryan, pastor of
the First Methodist Protestant
Church of Milford, has announced a
schedule of programs for several
weeks under the general topic of
"The Church Loyalty Crusade" Rev.
Mr.. Bryan believes that the members
of his church will be greatly bene-
fitted and helped by the crusade
which will start next Sunday. The
outline of programs for the entire
schedule follows:
1. Sunday, February 10-"The Call
to Loyalty. Morning, The Roll Call.
A visible response to the call to 10y
atty. Every member present with roll
call card signed and received as a
token of loyalty. Evening, Mems
Night. The women are not excluded.
Men will occupy reserved section. A
service for "Fathers and Sons"
Mems chorus to lead singing.
II. Sunday, February 1.-THE
Way to Loyalty" Morning, Family
Day. Revive the Old Family Pew.
Come and sit together as families.
The Christian family is the way to
Christian loyalty. Evening, Women's
Night. The women will sit in re-
served section. Let every mother
bring her daughter. A service for
Mothers and Daughters" as an ex-
preston of loyalty. Women's choir
leads the singing.
III. Sunday, February 24-"The
Influence of Loyalty" Morning, Wis
itor's Day. Every member of the
church is asked to bring visitor,
some one not a member of any
church. Your effort here is an in
spiration to loyalty. Evening, Young
Peoples Night. The program is by
youth, for youth, to youth. Reserved
section for young people.
". Sunday, March 3-"The Fruits
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Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
DELMARVA FAIR DATES
DECIDED BY OFFICIALS
Del-Mar.Va Penn Fair Association
Met At Salisbury On Monday

The secretaries of fairs, which
comprise officials of the Del-Mar-Va
Penn Fair Association, met at Sails
bury, Nd, for their annual session,
Monday afternoon and elected Off
GERS and decided upon the dates of
1929 fairs on the Peninsula.
Ernest Raughley, of Harrington,
was elected president and H. E.
Mears, of Keller, Va, secretary and
treasurer. James M. Crockett, of
Pocomoke City, who has held the
Office of president for the past twelve
years, declined reelection.
The dates selected for each of the
fairs in Delaware and the Eastern
Shore of Maryland and Virginia are:
Harrington, week of July %; Tasley,
Va, week of July 80; Pocomoke City,
Md, week of August 6; Salisbury,
Md, week of August 10; Cambridge,
Md, week of August 20; Keller, Va,
week of August q.
The duration of each fair is left
to the judgment of the local fair
management.
Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
INCOME TAX LAW
REVISION ASKED BY
PIERRE S. DU POINT
Recommends A $500 CapitatiOn
Levy On All Citizens Over
Twenty-Five Years.
MAKES ANNUAL REPORT
Suggests Lifting Assessment On
Corporation Capital; Substitute
Franchise Tax.

Pierre S. dupont, State School Ta1
Commissioner, in his annual report
for last year recommended the levy.
ing of So capitation tax on all
citizens of the State, repeal of the
tax levied on real estate for school,
purposes, dicontinuance of the tax
on corporation capital and revision
OF the State income tax law. The
total receipts for 1928 received by
the tax commissioner, was report
ed at $3,777,741.51 for the period
ending October 81, compared with
1921, 1904 collected the year be-
fore.
The report was presented to Gov
ernOr C. Douglass Buck and to men,
bers of the State Legislature.
Suggests Franchise Tax
Mr.. dupont in recommending the
discontinuance of the tax on cor
pOration's capital suggests that all
corporations chartered in Delaware
pay a franchise tax.
He recommends that citizens men
tally or physically incapable of earn
ing living and who are wholly OF
pa bAS 0NPOA0CAAb AOA oOppOlNg OC 1 C
lieved from payment of the proposed
capitation tax.
The State income tax law, he sug-
gests, should be rewritten to include
or exclude the numerous rulings
that have been introduced during
seven years of it's administration.
Wording, he suggests, should be
made as complete as possible so that
those reading may understand it
without reference to the rulings of
the tax department.
The total taxes collected by Mr..
duPOnt's office during 1928 amount
ed to $3,777,471, or two and one
half times the collection for 1922,
and compares with 1921 ,450.34 for
1927. While part of this increase
results from a more careful admin
istration of the department the
greater part is due to the prosperity
of citizens and corporations requir-
ed to pay income tax, Mr.. DUPONT
points out, adding that no part of
the increase is due to increased tax
rates.
Taxable Increased
Taxables under the State income
tax increased from 9,91S in 1922 to
1857 in 1928, an increase of 81 per
cent. lightweight per cent of the
income tax due for 1927 was paid by
1923 persons while Sc per cent of
the total tax was paid by 100 per-
sons.
The report shows that the num-
Der of corporations on which the
franchise tax was levied in 1922 was
22,073 and in 1928 totalled 28,801 an
increase of 80 per cent. The total
amount paid was $1,786, 14S.49.
These taxes together with the in
vested capital tax amounted to
more than $3,750,000, about so per
cent of the total State revenue, and
though equal to SIS for every man,
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Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
STATE ALMSHOUSE
PLAN WORKED OUT
BY CHARITY BOARD
COntempIates Abolition OF New
Castle And Sussex County In
stitutiOns.
KENT site IS FAVORED
Change Would Solve Problems
At Insane And Feeble Minded
Hospitals.

Other States having successfully
solved the problem of pooling con-
tiguous county interests in the care
of INDECENT poor, the State Board OF
Charities of Delaware has worked
out a plan which it believes might
be advantageously adopted, and it is
being offered for consideration by
our legislature.
The plan contemplates purchase
by the State of the New Castle Coun-
ty Hospital, at Farnhurst, to be turn
ed over to the State Hospital for the
Insane, the expansion of which has
been found to be necessary; also
purchase of the Sussex county aims
house, three miles from Delaware
Colony for the Feeble Minded, at
Stockley, this to be turned over to
the latter institution. which also re-
quires more room, and utilization of
the Kent county almshouse, about
two miles from Wyoming, as a nucle-
us for a State almshouse, for the
care of the INDECENT wards of all
three counties.
Concretely this would involve an
outlay of about $450,00O on the part
of the State. This would provide for
the transfers of property and would
meet the expense of doing such
building work as would be neces-
sary to convert the Kent almshouse
into a State institution, which there
by would become not only a place
for maintaining the INDECENT poor,
but would also make it possible to
give medical attention such as might
need such care.
Claim Financial Saving
The members of the Board of
Charities believe such a plan would
not only give better facilities than
are now in existence, but also would
result in a saving for all three coun-
ties, in addition to helping the State
Hospital for the Insane better take
care of its patients.
There are now, according to the
boards report, as shown by a recent
survey. 300 INDECENT wards in county
217 in New Castle coun-
ty, 40 in Kent and "a in Sussex. At
each place it is necessary to have
the institution fully manned with
help.
The annual cost for New Castle
estimated at 100000; Kent, $4,000
and Sussex $4,000, total of $117,-
900.
Added to this there is produce
raised from the. farms, largely used
in the almshouses, valued as follows
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Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
NEGROES STAGE FIGHT
HELD FOR COURT TRIAL
Alex Richards And Ed. BrewingtOn
Created Excitement, Sunday

Alex Richards and Edward Brew
ington, both Negroes, were held for
their appearance for court by JUS
tice of the Peace H. B. Thaw last
Monday afternoon on the charge of
carrying concealed deadly weapons.
The trouble which brought the men
before the law officer started when
the men became involved in a dis
pute over woman. Both men
claimed that the other had drawn a
gun on him. In the mixup Richards
was knocked down by Brewington
with the butt of his revolver. Treat
ment was given Richards at the
Marshall Hospital. On Monday
Richards refused to press a charge
of assault and battery against Brew
ington. The charge of carrying
concealed deadly weapons was then
placed against both men by Chief
of Police Courtney. They were held
under $500 bond each for their ap-
pearance at court. Both men are
employed by Charles E. Varney, who
went on their bonds. The cases
will come before the term of court
which opens February 18th.
Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
SUSSEX ESCAPES JAP
BEETLE QUARANTINE
All Of Town OF Milford Is In
Banned Area Revised Regula-
tons Show.

Effective February Is all of Della
ware, north of the Sussex county
line, will. be included in the Japan
csc beetle quarantine according to
revised regulations issued in Wash
ington at the Office of the Secretary
of Agriculture.
All of the town of Milford which
lies in both counties will be included
in the quarantine. Last year the
quarantine affected only parts of
New Castle county. Discovery of
many of the beetles in Kent county
has led to the placing of the Quaran-
tine on that county also.
The revised regulations modify
the regulations governing the inter-
state movement of farm products,
nursery stocks and certain other
materials, including sand, soil, earth,
peat, compost and manure.
They also bring certain parts of
Maryland and Virginia under the ban
for the first time.
New territory placed in the ban
includes Cecil county, Maryland, eX-
cept the voting precinct of Cecilton;
the entire District of Columbia; the
city of Alexandria and Arlington
County.
Provisions of the quarantine re-
quire inspection and certification Of
farm products during the summer
months from June Is to October Is,
except Irish and sweet potatoes,
when free from soil, watermelons,
dried fruits, dried vegetables, seeds,
grains, mushrooms, onion sets,
broom corn, and when used for
packing articles other than fruits
and vegetables, hay and straw.
The revised regulations warn that
trucks, wagons, boats, cars and other
vehicles used in the transportation
of restricted products must be thor
oughly clean before being returned
to the movement of the restricted
products in interstate commerce.
They also provide that shippers be
required to make application for in
spection sufficiently in advance of
the probable date of shipments.
Milford chronicle., 1929-02-08
FREE POULTRY CLINIC
TO BE HELD HERE
On Tuesday, February 18th, at 1900
O'Clock In The Afternoon

How to diagnose poultry diseases
by the post-mortem methods will be
explained in detail by DR.. H. E. Bar
ker of the Research Department of
the George H. Lee Company of On
aha, Neb., at a free poultry clinic
which he will conduct at the Armory
Hall ON Tuesday, February 18th, at
200 P. NJ.
The Clinic will be more of a ma
ture of short course school, or
class for study and instruction on
diagnosing, treating and preventing
diseases and other troubles of poul-
try. Nothing will be offered for sale
and no orders will be solicited.
Poultry raisers who have sick or
unthrifty chickens, and desire to
find out the cause of the trouble,
are invited to bring in such speci-
mems to the clinic for examination.
DR.. Barker will make post-mor-
TEN examination on such subjects
as are furnished, locate the cause
of the trouble, and point out the
LESSONS which are indicative or dag
nostic of the disease; so that all
present will be able to recognize
the same trouble or disease should
it appear in their flock later on. In
addition, he will explain the best
methods OF treating and preventing
each trouble or disease.
The object of the clinic is to as
sist Poultry RaiserS in reducing
their losses. DIR. Barker was for
merly in the employ Of the United
States Bureau of Animal Industry.
and is a former member OF the
Nebraska State Veterinary Examin-
ing Board. His lectures and post
norton work at other points have
caused much favorable comment.
1t is hoped that he will be greeted
with a large audience here.
Pettyjohn's Pharmacy, the. local
agent for the George H. Lee Co.
line of Poultry Remedies, is bring
ing DR.. Barker to Milford. They
will have a display of the different
remedies but nothing is offered for
sale or any solicitation made. Ev-
eryone interested in poultry should
make special effort to be present.