Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-03-15
MILFORD, FRIDAY, MAR. Is. 1929

Every Evening newspaper at WI
mington, has been making another
of his unstudied strokes in educating
the grown folks, as to what fine op
portunities all the people enjoy
through the daily and weekly press
of the country. Incidentally he
brought home to the business folks
of Wilmington as well as others, the
vast financial benefit that creating
and publishing a newspaper means
to them in financial ways. William
Metten is from Kent County ances-
tors and knows the people. He
started in~his work as an apprentice
boy in the shop of the MiddletowI
Transcript, just after the era of w
Scott Way, and has climbed to the
responsible position of Publisher Of
the daily Every Evening. He told
the business men that the pay rolls
of the daily papers of Wilmington
Appropriated twelve thousand dol
lars each week, and those employed
were in the highest class of wage
earners in the business affairs OF
Wilmington. The same general
statement applies to all the newspa-
pers of the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula,
which are modern and progressive
in their management. 1t may seem
to amaze those uninformed, that a
printing plant like the Milford
Chronicle Publishing Company con-
ducts in the town of Milford distri-
butes yearly to its employees a sum
running into many thousands of
dollars. William Metten has done
much for the advancement of Will
mington and its business through
the columns of his paper, and work
ed with the Morning News and Eve
ming Journal, and the Sunday Star
to build up a newspaper standing
for Delaware, which the business
world has recognized and is sup
porting. The business men of VIII
miagton and other places, need to
be educated as to how they can
make their business larger and their
State and City better, and the news
papers are responsible for that edu-
cation. The Milford Chronicle is
trying to accomplish the same re-
suits in lower Delaware, and we can
see progress; but all hail to Bill"
Metten. Let's scatter the white
roses of appreciation while he and
others making the same efforts, are
alive to appreciate them.
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IT'S TINE for the spring season
to become in evidence, and nature is
playing its part in the opening OF
another season. In our gardens
even with the bitter cold of just a
few days ago, there is now in bloom
the little yellow crocus flowers
with the purple and white brothers
of that first of all of our garden
flowers. Then the yellow jasmine
bushes have this week clothed them
selves in many Milford yards, with
the handsome wreaths of small yell
low blooms, which will continue |
with us until about April. The
wheat in the fields, the grass on
lawns and the increasing number OF
birds returning from their southern
haunts during the winter, all tell us
that Spring is here. When the blus-
try weather of March passes, then
Spring will be with us again, and
the good things from the waters as
we'll as the fields, will help to re-
habilitate the human body. Cherio.
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MILFORD ROTARIANS will pay
their fellow rotarians at George
town, Delaware, fraternal visit
this evening. These visits by busi-
ness men of the several towns, at a
get-to-gether dinner, with pleas
ant program of music and amuse-
ments, certainly makes life brigh-
ter and more happy for all the peo-
ple, This is one form of progress
that helps to make us all feel happy,
and the world better for its prae-
tice.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY, March 18th,
will bethis coming Sunday, and of
course the color scheme is "green"
for all forms Of decoration, as well
as food dishes. The custom to deco
rate in honor of this anniversary of
the Irish Saint, is pleasing as well
as cheering, after the bleak cold
weather of winter. Let's all greet
the day with green decorations of
The home, as well as our persons.
Hurrah for st. Patrick's Day. /
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NO TOWN ever made permanent
progress by exaggerating its mer-
is. and 1t is also true that no COM
nunity ever got anywhere If it
Gould not speak up for itself and let
,eople know about its advantages. II