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The Washington times., 1930-07-16
MandeH Faces Toughest Ordeal in Making 135ound Weight
SINGER ODDS
8 To 5 FOR
T|TLEBOUT
BY DAVID J. WALSH

NEW YORK, July 16.-Some-
times an innocent set of scales
inanimate and guilelesS to the
eye, but arrogant in it's judgments
and, as the death notice, final
can look the part OF gallow5.
Often the tape measure Is hang
mans moose and the glass of water
a nectar. brewed by the Medici.
Anyhow, they say that Sammy
Mandell, the lightweight cham
pion, either will make the class
limit of 1876 pounds for his cham
pionship fight with AL Singer to-
morrow night by heroic measures
or he won't make it at all. They
say the spectre of forfeiture on the
scales is mocking his thoughts and
deriding his sleep. They say the
closest decision ever rendered for
or against him will be handed
down at the official weighing-in at
two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Thus, he would seem to be
undergoing the grim ordeal
that so often has Overtaken
champions in the past. Cans,
for example, left his life on
the scales at GOldfield.
Mandell weighed 1879 pounds
less than three days ago and
this would have been quite as it
should be. except for one thing.
The extra weight, they say, repre-
Sents the ease" two pounds,
meaning that there just isn't any
more. After these are chivvied
away, it seems, the only thing
left for the man to take off will
be his shoes before going to bed.
They, therefore, are offering
8 to S on Singer today at a
place up on Broadway where
they have only one house rule.
They won't stand for any gam
bier dying on the premises. That
is, they insist that you bury your
own gambler or they will call
in the gendarmes and tell them
your right name. 1t isn't the
kind Of place where a price on
prize fight will be misQuoted.
So Singer probably will go
in at fairly long odds tomor-
row night, it being apparent
that New York has finally
caught up with Chicago in
the supposed developments
Of its own fight.
Chicago, which thinks it knows
all about Mandell, is picking
Singer. Previously, New York,
which knows all there is to be
known about Singer, had been
picking Mandell. That made the
one in the middle a sure winner
and sustained, in toto, the credo
that prophet is not without
honor, except in his own country.
At that. 1t may be that tney
got smart Just in time to be
wrong. This Singer is only
fair fighter, even when good. He
isn't the man that Mandell was
two years ago and probably never
will be- He hasn't Samuels ring
sense. which is something that
can be acquired, and / suspect
that he hasn't Samuel's courage,
which is something that can't.
But, of course, he still could
beat a fighter who can't fight
any more and, since this is the
guiSe in which a lot of people
now profess to see Mandell. per-
hapS the matter is ordained.
The Washington times., 1930-07-16

Thus, he would seem to be
undergoing the grim ordeal
that so often has Overtaken
champions in the past. Cans,
for example, left his life on
the scales at GOldfield.
The Washington times., 1930-07-16
GRUDGE AFFAIR
NEXT MONDAY

When Marty Gallagher and
Henry Lamar, the Washington
heavies, hook up in a 1O-heat
gallop in the Olympia Arena, at
Carlin's Park in Baltimore, next
Monday night, it will be a real
grudge affair.
This will be the third time they
have clashed in the roped arena.
The first meeting was when they
were in their boxing infancy and
was declared a draw. Their last
bout was early this summer at the
same arena in which they will
clash Monday, and the verdict
went to Lamar.
The official duke" to Lamar
caused quite a howl in Capital
City boxing circles, for almost
everyone from Washington
thought that Marty was an easy
winner. Gallagher did all the
leading and forcing, and was by
far the heavier hitter of the two.
Marty had Henry on the
verge of q trip to dreamIand
at least three or four times
during the bout.
1t was freely admitted that La
mar had much the better of the
little boxing that was done and
showed nice left jab and hook
when he could get Gallagher in a
position to shoot with his left.
At the finish Lamar was prac-
tically out on his. feet and Gal
lagher says he will flatten Henry
this time before the end of the
eighth round.
The Washington times., 1930-07-16

Marty had Henry on the
verge of a trip to dreamIand
at least three or four times
during the bout.
The Washington times., 1930-07-16

1Batted for HOyt In eighth.
WASHINGTON. D o o O2 u 13
Detroit. t....... 90 D D o o D TO
Runs batted in--Judge. CrOnin. Harris.
TwO-base hitS-Judge' (2). HaywOrth.
Three-baso hit-Harris. Sacrifice hits
-Gehringer, West. Left on bases-De-
trOit, 4; Washington, 3. Double plays
-Marberry to CrOnln to Judge; Myer 70
CrOnin to Judge. Stolen baSe-JOhnsOn
Hits-Off HOyt. In 3 innings. Bases
on balls-Off Marberry. 1; off HOyt, 3.
Struck Out-By Marberry, 3; by HOyt,
1. Losing pitcher-HOyt. Umpires--
Campbell. GeiSel and Connolly. TimAe
Of game-0ne hour, So minutes.
The Washington times., 1930-07-16
GALESVILLE BOOKING

The Galesvtlle nine, of Gales.
vile, Md, is on the lookout for
games with local unlimited teams.
Write Charles Woodfield, Gales
vile, Md.
The Washington times., 1930-07-16
Home Run Hitters
Yesterdays HOmeFs

Yesterdays HOmers
Wright. Brooklyn ................
CucclneiIo. Cincinnati .............. /
Walker, Cincinnati ...........
Hartnett. Chicago Nationals. .......
Hogan, New York Nationals.
Roettger. New York Nationals. .
Ryan, Chicago American ......... ]
Byrd, New York Americans .. /
'Cochrane, Philadelphia Americans. /
THE LEADERS
National League
Klein, Phila... 26 Herman, Bklyn 21
L. Wilson. Chi. "a Hartnett, Chi. 90
Berger, Boston. "A OFT, New York. l6
American League
Ruth, y. y. 50 Morgan, CIey... Is
Foxx, Phila. !, 2s Goslin st. L.. IA
simmons, Phila q
League Totals
National League ...,...,......... Asa
American League ....s.ss.ss...... 37s
TotaI S""""ss"""Ss"saO"".& eSS
The Washington times., 1930-07-16
Mcleod Proves I Teacher Still
Has Edge Over Pupils
B9 JUNO KINERK

Fred Mcleod the master teacher of golf has lost of his
odme wizardy of playing the ancient and honorable pasme
some of his pupils despite their promising futures
yet reached the point where they oupont their professor
except on rare occasions.
The Washington times., 1930-07-16
BAKERS WANT ACTION

Rice's Bakers are without
game for today or tomorrow.
Call Lincoln 0515-J.
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
Wins Trip To 4-H Club
Congress BIZ Good
Work.

We are happy to say that a girl
from our school has received the
Montgomery Ward Company schol-
arship trip to the Ninth National
Boys and Girls All Club Congress
at Chicago, November % to Decem-
Der S, with all her expenses paid.
This girl is Frances Coulbourne, a
Senior in the Milford High School.
Her selection for this trip came
as a result of recommendations re-
ceiVed from Miss Comstock, leader
of the Kent County All Clubs. In
order to finally qualify for this trip
it was necessary for Frances to
send a complete story of her club
work to Mr.. A. D. Cobb, Assistant
Director of the Cooperative Exten-
sion Work in Agriculture and Home
Economics in Delaware.
In her story she told that she
Joined the club in 1925 and has met
all the requirements of the All
Club in sewing, cooking, and can
ming, has won about forty prizes at
the Kent and Sussex County Fair,
and has held the office of treasurer
of the cooking club. She won two
trips to Short Courses in Newark.
The first she won for her good
work in judging sewing, cooking,
and canning at the fair; the second
she won for contemporaries dem
onstrating food requirements of a
well-balanced meal. She also told
what she thought about Club work.
We are very proud of our repre-
sentative and hope she has very
enjoyable time in Chicago.
Mildred Burlingame
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
Three Men Employed By
School Board Haze
Their Hands Full.

Keeping our new school building
clean and in order is not as small
q task as most of us imagine. All of
the rooms and halls have to be
cleaned thoroughly every night, and
during the day one man has to be
cOntinuely picking up paper cups,
wrappers, ETC., and doing a hundred
and one odd jobs about the build
ing. The School Board now employs
three men for all this-Mr. Wright.
Mr.. Wilkins, and Mrs. Ryan.
Mr.. Wright is on duty from A.
NJ. until P. M. and his job is to
keep the building as clean as pos
sible during school hours. He goes
through all the class rooms during
the noon hour and after o'clock,
picking up paper. etc. After lunch
has been served in the cafeteria Mr..
Wright collects and burns all the
used napkins, paper cups, and
wrappers. The rest of the time he is
kept busy putting up or getting out
chairs in the auditorium, cleaning
the halls, and doing all sorts of odd
jobs.
Mr. Wilkins is on duty from P.
M. until he finishes his work the
next morning. His job, which is to
sweep out the whole building and at
the same time act as night watch
man, usually takes until or 5 A.
Nj.
Mr.. Ryan, our friend from last
year, is in charge of the furnace
room. He turns the heat on early in
the morning, looks after it during
the day, and turns it off at night
His is a rather responsible job, for
he is apt to be severely criticized
unless the heat is just right. So
far, he has kept the temperature of
the building just about right, so we
are anything but critical.
The job of keeping the school
house clean is entirely routine
work. No matter how clean the
janitors get it, it is always dirty the
next night. Don't you think that we
ought to help just little by being |
more careful about how we throw |
paper around?
H. d. S. 81 I
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
ENTERTAIN FOR
THANKSGIVING
Students Hope To Haze
Entertainments EUery
Week Hereafter.

During the last period Wednes-
day afternoon the Seniors enter
tanned the rest of the High School
students with a short program. The
highlights of the entertainment
were the reading of Hoover's
Thanksgiving Proclamation by Rob-
ert Yerkes, an instrumental duet by
Maxine Grove and Elizabeth James,
and singing by the Glee Club and
double quartet of Senior boys. The
program in full is as follows:
Orchestra.
Proclamation of President Hoover
Robert Yerkes.
instrumental duet, Maxine Grove
and Elizabeth James.
Reading, Alice Appel.
Glee Club.
Recitation, Mildred Burlingame.
Double quartet, Senior boys.
School song and yells.
Orchestra.
Now that the Seniors have led the
way, it's up to the other classes to
give programs of their own. If they
will we can have one entertainment
every week, each class being re-
sponsible for one program a month.
And the better the entertainments
are, the harder the other classes
will try to improve theirs, so let's
see the Juniors, Sophomores and
Freshmen do their best!
H. d. S. 81
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
A N NOTHER
THANKSGIVING
Did You DO Your Share?

Yesterday was celebrated through
out the nation as time of thanks
giving, of giving thanks to our Hea-
venly Father for the many good
things that we have been blest with
in the past year. AS we sat around
the festive board l wonder how
many OF. us gave thought for those
who have been less fortunate than
ourselves. In our own little State
there is great suffering among the
poor and unemployed. Did we do
our bit to make yesterday a day of
thanksgiving among these unfortu-
mates? Did we help them to renew
their faith in God and man or did
we depend on someone else to do
our share? If we did our share we
are twice blest, for in doing so our
selves we find that great joy has
entered our hearts, the joy that
comes from true thanksgiving. If we
didn't do our share we have still
a chance, we can help to make their
Christmas happy. Let us give to
these people with a free and willing
heart, and in doing so we as High
School students, can show to the
people in our town that we are try
ing to do our share to alleviate suf-
fering and create happiness among
the poverty stricken of our State.
-Yerkes 81
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
new TEACHER
HAS EXPERIENCE
Melissa D. McGiHnes

Mrs. McGinnes is one of our first
grade teachers in the elementary
school, She has under her care
thirty pupils.
Mrs. McGinnes is a Delaware girl
and used to make her home with
her parents near Roxana, Delaware.
She attended school in what used to
be Greenbackville High School. In
with her studies there she mixed
basket ball. She was member OF
the varsity basket ball team. Later
Mrs. McGinnes went to. the Selby-
vile High School. After completing
her course in Selbyville High she
entered the Women's College of the
University of Delaware. There she
played on her class basket ball
teams.
When she graduated from the Uni
versity of Delaware she began tea
ching. Her first position was at
Roxana, Delaware, as the first and
second grade teacher. She remained
in this town for five years and then
went to WilliamSvIIle, Delaware.
She taught the seventh and eighth
grades there for two years. Mrs.
McGinnes then accepted the position
as principal in the new Gumboro
school. Here she also taught the
seventh and eighth grades. In 1929
she taught the sixth grade at the
Lord Baltimore School.
When she was at Williamsville
she changed her last name from
Wilgus to McGinnes at the sugges-
ton of Mr.. w. Walter McGinnes,
our present Junior High Science
teacher.
Mrs. McGinnes, when at the Gum
boro School, was selected as one OF
a group of teachers from all over
the State to visit the schools in the
district of Wilmington. The group
visited the Tower Hill School and
some of the schools in Wilmington.
The expenses of the teachers and
the hiring of the substitutes was
taken care of by the Service Citi-
zens of Delaware.
Mrs. McGinnes is a small slim
lady with short black hair and rad
liant black eyes. She has a way OF
making one feel as if he had known
her a long time. She is very pleas
ant and entertaining. Parents, for
this reason, do not miss any chance
of meeting and becoming acquainted
with Mrs. McGinnes.
E. James
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
MARCHING DRILL
HELD WEDNESDAY
Assigned Places And MW-
sic Bring SembLGnce OF
Order.

Wednesday afternoon the Sopho-
mores, Freshmen, and seventh and
eighth grades tried out a new sys-
tenn of marching into the auditori-
um without disorder and confusion.
The four groups were divided into
two sections which formed lines in
their home rooms at different sig
mails from the office, and at another
bell marched into the auditorium in
single file, standing in their "espec-
tive places until all the pupils had
assembled. One could easily imag-
inc himself in a courtroom when
Mr.. Boston said, "Be seated"
After an imaginary talk all the
classes stood up when the School
Orchestra began to play, and, be-
ginning with the first row in front
of the stage, they marched pack to
their rooms in the same way in
which they came out. This was re-
peated a second time.
Some of the Seniors, who happen
ed to be in the balcony, said we
looked like a crowd of prisoners
coming to and from our cells. The
long, mournful note with which the
orchestra began their selection
made this comparison seem more
than appropriate.
On the whole, however, the man
ner in which the school entered and
left the auditorium really was much
e. Sipple '39
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
new OPERETTA
TO Be SUCCESS
Miss CherTybIOsSOna

The operetta is going to be staged
December II and -. There is to be
a double cast. The outline of the
cast is as follows:
CHERRYBLOSSOM
brought up as the daughter of JIoki-
mo, in reality Evelyn Barnes Of New
York, U. S. A., Sara Dickerson
Hilda Calhoun ........... Soprano
KOKIMO
a proprietor of a Tea Garden in To-
kyo, Japan, comedy part, Ralph
Reed.
Bob Yerkes ...... Medium Voice
JOHN HENRY SMITH
a New Yorker, on a visit to Japan
as a guest of Mr.. WOrthington
Tenor.
HENRY FOSTER JONES.
Jacks pal, in love with Iessica,
Townsend Parvis-TenOr.
HORACE WORTHINGTON
a New York stock broker who is en-
tertaining party of friends with a
trip to Japan ON his private yacht
Justus HudsOn-no music for this
part.
JAMES YOUNG
Worthingtons private secretary
Frank Sapp-nO music for this
part.
JESSICA VANDERPOOL
Worthington's niece-Marie Rogers
Irene Williams .... Soprano
TOGO
a Japanese politician of high rank
-Heyman Roosa and Ponder Nor
gan ................. Bass
Mr.. Hudson and his orchestra will
accompany the operetta and furnish
music between the acts. There is to
be a picked chorus from the Junior
High. Mr.. Bowdle has consented to
help train the chorus. The Glee
Club is hoping Mr.. MCGEE and the
Home Economics Department will
help with the decorations. This will
be the first play in the new school
and it will be free to the public.
The object of this is to show the
public just what the club can do.
By giving the Operetta two nights
and using two different casts, lar
ger number of the Glee Club men,
bers will have chance to shine.
Robert Reed
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
WISE OR OTHERWISE
(THE PATHFINDER)

Paul-Are you going to kiss me
good night?
Eve-Mercy, no! That's the last
thing I'll do.
Paul-All right, then, what'll we
do first?
Autoist Ito pedestrian he's just
run over)-Here's ten spot. I'll
give you more later.
Victim-What's the idea? do
not choose to be run over on the in
stallment plan!
81 told Swellfront there were doz-
ems of people in this town who had
never heard of him."
"I'll bet that took down his pride
a bit, didn't it?"
''Naw. He asked their names and
addresses and then set out to find
them and try to borrow something
from them"
Dumb Dora-I was awfully lucky
at the party last night.
Mamma-In what way, dear?
Dumb Dora-We played a game IN
which the men either had to kiss
girl or forfeit a box of chocolates.
I got ten boxes.
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
MILFORD TOWN
FOUNDED ON LAND
SOLD TO VIM. PENN
BOuUn1Gn Brothers Built
Mills For Which Our
TOIUR Is Named In 1850.

In the early spring. of the year
1850 two men made their way down
our peninsula to a tract of land ON
the Mispillion River. William Penn
had granted them the land and they
were coming to see what it was like.
This grant of land had been patent
ed by the name "Saw Mill Range"
ON the condition that they build a
mill on it. The two men, Henry
and William Bowman, by name,
stopped at the camp of the Indian
Chief, Parrett, to whom they paid
the price of two match-coats for
their land on which he lived. These
match-coats were made of coarse,
wooden cloth. One of them was Civ
en- in payment for six hundred acres
of land and the other for any num-
ber above 600 acres. While the two
rested at the camp of Parrett, the
Indian, they told him that Penn had
purchased the whole peninsula for
one rose, to be paid at the feast of
St. Michael, and a small portion of
rents and profits collected which
was to go to the King. That was the
price for which the present State of
Delaware was bought.
After resting a while the Bowman
boys moved on to find a good loca-
tion for a mill. William built a saw
mill on what is now Haven Lake
and the old dam that he used and
which was also used as a ford is
still to be found at the bottom of
that lake. A row of cedars on one
side of the water leads down to
where the ford begins. The other
man, Henry, built a mill somewhere
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28

near the location of the present Red
Mill on Silver Lake. The ford and
dam he used con still be seen jut-
ting out into the water from both
sides of the lake. The middle part
has broken, however, and the sand
and debris has formed the two small
islands beyond it.
The mills of the two boys thriV-
ed. People from nearby towns or
settlements came to trade at the
mills because they could sail in
boats up the Mispillion River to the
mills. At that time the river was
much wider than it is now and very
much deeper also. Then people, see
ing that it was a good place to
build mills, began to come up the
river and make their homes near
the mills of the Bowman Brothers.
AS time passed the little settlement
grew and became a town. Boats
sailed up the Mispillion, were load
ed with lumber, grains and woods to
be carried to Philadelphia and New
York, and carried on an extensive
trade with all the mills that were
built along the river. The town was
a center of industry, and it had no
name. The only way the people had
to get from one side of the river to
the other was by the fords or dams
used by the Bowman Brothers and
they called them the mill fords.
From these the town got its name.
In the year 1887 Joseph Oliver be-
gan to lay out the town and to lease
lots. The Bowman Brothers, the
real founders of our town, were OF
course, dead, and the mill that had
been run by Henry was now run
by P. F. Causey as grist mill.
There were other mills built on both
sides of the Mispilion and causeway
extended along the river to the MIL
ford Bridge on what is now Walnut
Street. In place of the bridge we have
now, a drawbridge was built through
which large ships passed. In winter
these vessels would lay up for that sea-
son, two abreast in the river near the
bridge. The town was very pictures
que, busy hive i'm the midst of
green plain. At that time the business
section of the town was all in North
Milford on the present West Front
Street and around Mill Street. AS we
come on into the nineteenth century
we find that George s. Grier had foun-
dry machines and wood shops where
and farm implements were
made There was a tanning mill on the
lot adjacent to Causey's Mill which
was run by James Clayton for many
years. Among other places were |
Welch's blacksmith shop which had |
been in business since 1887. Adjoining |
it was the wheelwright shop of Perry |
Richards. There was q carriage fac |
tory kept by Samuel Sharp. phosphate |
factories owned by w. l. Simpson and |
Draper, Davis and Co., and an iron |
run by George S. Grer. At one |
time there was even a pottery in Mil |
ford carried on by J. H. Denning, and |
1t is the only one we have ever had. |
The Chronicle came into existence, and |
Causey's mill became a woolen factory |
operated by Hoffecker Brothers of !
Smyrna. All trading came to be done :
in steamboats,, and ship building be-
came one of the leading industries
which has never given place to any
hing else.
With these industries mentioned as
examples of the way Milford was grow
ng up we come to our town in the
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
Freshmen Learn Cheers
And The School Song

The Freshmen are trying to learn
a few yells and they are also learn
ing the School Song, which was pub
lished in the Milford Chronicle last
week. The boys have made up a
few new yells, and of course, they
are selecting a few of the yells fire.
quently used last year.
Wednesday, the Algebra class had
their test on the work completed by
the class. The pupils did not know
what grades they received until
Monday, November II, due to Thurs
day and Friday being the days of
the teachers meeting. But when a
few of the grades were received,
they were not very satisfactory.
The Latin class, under Miss Tat
man, has been working on series
of drills and reviews. Wednesday,
Miss Tatman read the class a long
story, written in Latin, about a pi-
rate. The class was supposed to
translate the story into English
which was done very successfully.
The Science class has now COM
pleted its study of the chief neces-
stiles of life which are food, air and
water. The one which they have
finished studying is air. This week
they started the study of water, in
Guiding the value and the ways in
which it is used. After water is
completed, the study of food will
follow.
H. ]. Derrickson
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-28
Indians And Pilgrims
Popular This Week

This week, the activities in the
three first grades are centered
around Thanksgiving, and include
the study of Indians and Pilgrims.
Poems, stories, pictures, sand table,
art work, and seat work are being
correlated in these activities.
Miss Ross section of the first
grade miss Bernice Jump and hope
that she will soon be back.
Friday we had lantern slides of
Indians. We have on our sand table
an Indian village. Miss Carter and
her boys built for us a real wig
wan. Miss Carter, Miss Sipple and
Miss Watson have loaned us a great
many Indian pictures and books.
We thank them.
Mrs. McGinnes' section of the
first grade miss George Stokes, who
has been ill for some time, and
hope that he will soon be back