Milford chronicle., 1930-11-07
HARRINGTON
Noble Cleaning
Establishment Robbed

8 hole in the glass of a rear window
OF the j. Il. Noble clothes cleaning
establishment, Il robbery was pulled
off last night between midnight and
morning. After making a hole OF
sufficient size to insert an arm and
throw the latch on the window, en-
trance to the washing room was
easy. There are three rooms in the
4 building, each separated by parti-
tions. The rear room contains the
washing equipment, the next room
the pressing equipment and the
boiler and the front room is used
for the storage space of the clothing
I that has been cleaned and awaiting
the owners. The two front rooms
open one room into the other and
then 10 the rear room by glass pan
eled doors which were locked Once
inside it would have been an easy
matter to have gotten excess to the
suits that were finished. Included in
the articles taken we're five dresses,
three pairs of trousers, hand bag.
one pair of shoes. The shoes and
hand bag belonged to r. l.. Magec,
a colored employee. According to
Mr.. Noble it is hard TO estimate the
loss al this time. After the owners
are located, some accurate estimate
can be given, it will probably reach
5000.
The robbery is thought to have
occurred around midnight or before
it started to rain. The ground be
meath the window showed no evil
dence of foot prints. In ali prOba-
sbility it is the work of amateurs,
who were either scared OFF or did
not seek very much when they only
took what articles were i'm sight in
the first room entered. A pair of
trousers was dropped outside the
building in their flight. The clean
ing establishment is located on |
Gains Alley, 4 short street leading |
east from Commerce street and the |
business block. A Halloween party |
was in progress in the Odd Fellows !
Lodge hall next door and ii was close |
TO midnight before the guests at the |
marty. all left Nothing unusual was !
noticed by anyone attending the |
party. A number of young boys /
seen lettering around the lodge hall
are under suspicion.
Ben Emory. Jr.. was substituting |
as night watchman in lieu Of his
father the regular watchman, who
is confined to his home with a
sprained ankle. Sergeant Knox, Of
the State Police, and local officers
are investigating the robbery Ii will
probably go down in the records as
just one more Unsolved mystery Of
the many that have occurred here
in the past ten years, some of which
included murder and no one has
ever been brought before the courts.
In every case Investigations are con-
Quoted but no arrests have ever been
made. Some of the cass of notOri-
Gus mention during this period as re-
called include the tree cutting epi-
sode at the high school; burning of
Prof. Adams home; John c. Baker
murder; Smith & Raughley clothing
store robbery; Slaughter building !
fire and the last robbery mentioned
above.
Council
Observes Birthday i
Harrington Council No. 4, Jr O. U.
A. M. observed the 37th anniversary (
IF the order in this town last night
with a Halloween party held in
heir lodge rooms. About seventy
i've members of the order together |
With their wives and children en-
Dyed a real evenings frolic. The
odge rooms were decorated with |
settings of the fall and Halloween ]
season. Everyone seemed to enjoy
though no program was {
arranged in advance. Mrs. Homer /
Vincent and Miss Della Ryan enter i
aimed with several vocal numbers. ]
franklin LOWE and his musical I
1anjo brought forth much laughter. I
Several other choruses were sung S
1y the entire assemblage. Past State |
Councillor George w. Swain was /
chairman of the evening. During q
he evening the guests also enjoyed g
themselves playing bingo. Before \
'etiring to their homes an abund- !
lnce of ice cream and cake wH S
erved. {
New v
century Club Notes {
The regular meeting Of the IIar- i
ington New Century Club was held a
Il the club house Tuesday after
loon. Mrs. James l.. HaTmstead J
presided over the meeting. The I
lub had as their guests members V
f the Avon Club of FELTON,, and to s
hem the president extended a grac- c
Gus welcome. The meeting opened Il
With tn club song and a salute to the d
lag and prayer. a
Next Tuesday being hrdlu hrdlu W s
After few other matters OF busi- {
Iess were disposed of the chairman a
f the afternoon, Mrs. Ella Wilson, e
frs. l.. b. Harrington, Mrs. J. S. /
and Mrs. Benz. Knox, A
RESENTED their program. %
Mrs. Wilson extended a cordial C.
reeting to the visiting club and
hen turned the meeting over to a
hem. Mrs. Sipple, president of the R
won Club, responded i'll a gracious s,
manner and announced the numbers N
f their program. The following il
rogram was presented: Musical o
seading, Mrs. Louder Harrington; r
travel talk on her recent Euro c
can trip, Miss Stevenson; piano c'
uet, Mrs. Ben. East and Miss Stew cl
nson; song, "Om Delaware. De a
icious refreshments were served p
uring the social hour.
uniOrs Dine-NatiOnal a!
secretary Present p
The second annual banquet OF the az
ecretary's Association of the Jr O. b,
T. A. M. was held in the Harrington e
ire House last evening, the ladies oil