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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
DELAWARE DAY AT
VALLEY FORGE
Special Service to be Held in Chapel
on Sunday, January 5th.

Services commemorating the part
Delaware played in the Revolution
airy War will be held Sunday, Janu-
airy 5, in the Washington Memorial
Chapel at Valley Forge. The services
which begin at 3.15 o'clock, will be
held under the auspices of the Sons
of Delaware in Pennsylvania. This
will be the seventh year that Della
ware State Sunday has been cele-
brated in the chapel.
The Delaware state flag, to be
used in the services, was provided by
the Sons of Delaware in Pennsyl-
vania. Flowers for the chapel altar
will be providedfby the Daughters of
the American Revolution of Della
ware, and the Delaware State bell,
donated by the National Society of
the Colonial Danes in the State of
Delaware, in honor of Captain Rob
ert Kirk and and his regiment, will
be rurs.
Visitors AL be shown the Della
ware bay in the cloister of the col
onies, donated by Colonel George A
Elliott on behalf of the Sons of the
American RESOLUTION in Delaware,
and the delaware panel in the roof
of the reDublicI given by Mrs. 7. Pt
Chandler, Jr.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
STOCKLEY CHILL
Presents Were Given To All
Boys and Girls.

Christmas at Delaware Cole the
State home for feeblemindeo S a
happy occasion for all Z IT'S
bows and girls. Santa Claus pre-
sent and wished each child erry
Christmas as the boxes co hing
gifts were distributed INN ltely
after breakfast on Christina dorm
ing.
A full course dinner waaserved
and a treat of ice cream VS. sup
plied by Sharpless-Fende1 IN Co.
There were Christmas trees immed
and lighted in each cottae The
boxes~zff arrived in time q every
child had a box Of gifts lhOs %
supplying boxes or contrib ING ~ -
some manner were the Won ~
tury Clubs of the State, the ]ane ~
the Parent-Teacher Associat ln, ~
W. C. T. us, the Rotary, w 6o
Quota, public school childreE Ky l1s
ness Girls Clubs, Sunday oS
King Daughters, Sunshine S 10
W. o. N. A. r. D., Jewish o liNN
lions, and numerous individl ,,,or
At 6 the Christmas play W CoI.
by the children attending 80
Ony school. On Friday the 20,
SOunty onI t'n .. Gnt So Tho lOny
SOCIETIES VIM '1 sns u, ond d re-
ligious services. Moving ~
were also shown during they
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
COAST GUARD SEXES
S25O,OOO WORTH OF
RUM And 36 MEN
1850 Cases Of Liquor COnfiscated
As Men Unload From Boat
Near Ocean City.
VESSEL MADE ESCAPE
intercepted Truck Permits Offic-
ers To Capture Men As They
Worked.

Twenty-three alleged rum runners
were captured and 1850 cases Of
choice liquors valued at $25O,OOO,
were confiscated on the beach four
miles south of Ocean City, Md, by
United State coast guards, on Mon
day. The capture of the rum run
ners marks the first instance of this
kind in the sixth coast guard district.
The liquor is described as the
finest uncut Canadian liquor" There
was an assortment of it which in
cluded every good drink. 1t was
estimated that bootleggers, in the
process of cutting could stretch the
q, 900 cases into about 5000 cases of
saleable liquor.
A tip had come from Halifax, N.
F., recently that the Tum-laden ship
was bound for the Eastern Shore and
a lookout had been set.
Early ON Monday the word came
that the ship had arrived and was
being unloaded.
The first strike made at the rum
runners occurred when a group OF
the guardsmen stopped a Camden
bound truck, loaded with 400 cases
of the liquor. There were four men
ON this truck, and they submitted to
arrest without a struggle. The men
were locked up, and their truck held.
In the meantime, the other guards
men, heavily armed, boarded motor
boats and speeded towards the land
ing Mace of the liquor, down Sine
puxent Bay.
When the government raiders
landed on the bay side Of the strip
of coastal land, they crept slowly
through the sand dunes towards the
beach. Dodging behind beach grass
and in sand holes, much as did In
dams meeting early settlers, they
were upon the other 10 men, huddled
about the wet cargo, before the al
legged rum runners knew there was a
government man within a mile OF
them.
CAPTAIN William L. Purnell, keeper
of the Ocean City coast guard sta
tion, in charge of Sc coast guardsmen
from Fenwick Island. Ocean CITY,
North Beach and Isle of Wight sta
tions. who surprised the rum runners
at work. All surrendered without
any show of resistance.
For the past two weeks the rum
runners have been active in ocean
CITY vicinity. The liquor seized was
landed from a ship off the Maryland
COAST during Sunday night and those
captured were engaged in ferrylng
if across the Sinepuxent Bay to the
worcester county mainland, from
where it was taken to northern cities
by trucks. ,.,.
against sc persons alleging consplr'
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
MANY SUSSEX SCHOOLS
SERVE HOT LUNCHES
Children Have Benefit Of Warm
Meals at Many Schools.

Hot lunches are served in many
Sussex county schools during the
winter months. There are many
WAYS of financing these lunches. In
some schools the lunches are manag-
ed by teachers who take turns IN
buying the supplies and collecting
the small fee charged. In some
small schools pupils bring one or
two eggs each day. These are sold
by the teacher and the proceeds pay
for the hot lunches. Another meth
cd of providing these modern neces-
stiles is for the children to bring
farm produce for vegetable soup.
One dairyman gives his school all
the skim milk needed for school lun-
ches.
Menues are varied virtually every
day. Vegetable soup, cream OF to-
mato soup, hot cocoa, hot frankfurt
tiers, bean soup, beef soup and oyster
stews are the favorite items. No at
tempt is made by the schools to serve
an entire lunch. The aim is to pro-
vide each child with one hot dish.
Some schools own equipment for
0OL luuCllCbS III ObAAOA1 S~-
brings a spoon and bowl.
Albert Farley, Supervisor OF
Schools in Southeastern Sussex, re-
Gently asked several of his schools
for a report on hot lunches. The
following are typical extracts from
reports received. FrankfOrd-Lun-
ches are served by members of the
ksenior class under the direction OF
the home economics teacher. The
lunches are well patronized. Gum
boro-The menu changes daily, nut
something hot is served each day.
The charge is twenty-five cents per
week. Roxana-We serve from nifty
to seventy-five children daily. The
charge is always the same, hVe
cents per day. We run both cash
and credit business. The credit linn
it to any child is twenty-five cents,
If there are surplus funds at the emo
of the season we buy needed equip
tment. If there is a deficit we make
it up out of P. T. A. funds. Lore
Baltimore-We serve on an average
one hundred and twenty-five pupils
per day. We bought individual serV-
ing trays for all purchases OF moi
lunches. Dagsboro-We started tC
serve hot lunches the second OF Dec
ember and we shall continue thru
the three winter months. We pur'
chase food at wholesale prices. Hol'
lywood-Food for hot lunches is Of
ten cooked at the home of a nearby
farmer. Something different is serv'
ed every day.
Parents of the present generation
of school children never heard OF ho'
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
WILL START CATTLE :.
TESTING MONDAY
State Board of Agriculture Has fO"-
er to Quarantine Farms

On Monday, January 6, the can LII
paign to eradicate tuberculosis u ~ a.
cattle in Sussex County Will s LatC'
The last Legislature appropIIdd'of
sufficient funds to the State b o@i~ n
Agriculture to make it posslDio oo+1
pay indemnities on all reactlns ''
tie eligible for indemnity. orod
The Legislature also empom pow ~
the State Board of AgriculIurUI, orc
quarantine any cattle, the "%+i
of which refuse to have their ,o o%S.a
tested. Both the State ana oSro+
Departments are anxious to cOnu I.;tIs
this campaign in cooperation VII W.
the farmers, and to test all cattle
without the necessity Of quaranCin-
ing any farms.
It will be of material benefit TO
every cattle owner, whether hisherd
is large or small, to have only ested
animals. and the State Board # Ag-
ricuIture has made public-rQuest
that every farmer in Sussex county
who owns a COW will cooperate in
this campaign and clean up tne en-
tirel County.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
GOLD CHRISTMAS DAY"
TO BE OBSERVED JAN. 6
Many in Lower Delaware Still Cling
to Twelfth Night Customs.

Now that the general celebration
of Christmas is over, others VINO
still call January 6, "Old Christmas
Day" are preparing to celebrate that
festival. 1t is rather surprising how
many lower Delawareans, who have
already passed the half-century
mark will observe what is known on
the Church calendar as the Feast OF
the Epiphany or Twelfth Night.
Many young people consider
Twelfth Night almost myth and
while it has become almost entirely
overshadowed by the glamor OF
Christmas, in Western Europe and
in America, it is still considered quite
the most important festival with the
exception of Easter, in the Greek
Christian Church.
Little Christmas, the Friday before
the great festival is celebrated in
French Canadian sections and in
MANY homes this is the appointed
times for stripping the house of its
YuIetide trimming and returning to
the everyday things of life, leaving
the holiday oys for another year.
In Delaware, especially in the very
southern section, this observance OF
Old Christmas Day is limited not
to individuals of any particular cult
or sect, but to persons bound by love
of tradition in whose families this
dav has been celebrated through
manv generations. Their forefath-
ers strongly believed that the birth
of Christ should be celebrated on
January 6, instead of on December
25. They still argue that when our
calendar was made, the date OIL
Christ's birth was changed. They sub
stantiate their arguments upon GER
tain truths, which they only partly
explain. They claim that on the
night of January 5, certain super
natural powers change the natural
order Of things.
It is then, they say, even though
the earth be in the grip Of winter,
and ground frozen, that datfod1ls Will
burst through the frozen mass ana
hon vines and elders will peep out
TO greet the sunrise on the glorious
Old Christmas morn. But when the
sun tips up over the horizon in the
mast. the tender plant life disappears
and there is never a sign of green life
again until springtime. This phen-
omona has thoroughly convinced the
good people that this day surely
commentaries the beginning OF llIe'
the glorious coming of the Christ.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
LOCAL ODD FELLOWS
WANT MORE MEMBERS
CRYSTAL FOunt Lodge Plans For A
Membership Drive

Milford Odd Fellows will open the
new year next Monday evening, oy
starting what is hoped to be large
increase in membership. AT TINS
meeting the initatory degree Will De
conferred upon a class of candidates
in full form by the degree team OF
CRYSTAL Fount Lodge, No. 10, .. u
F., Crystal Fount orchestra Will
furnish music for the occasion.
Quite a few changes have taken
place on the degree team: New
faces, in new positions, will erect
the members of the lodge Members
of the degree association are plan
ming to start another class OF candl-
dates at once. VIM E. Manloye, as
sistant degree master, In charge OF
the floor work is devoting lot OF
time perfecting the drill, which Will
show great improvement. ,ndino.
odd Fellows from surrot, ttan5
towns have been invited to ' ,oo ~
this affair and large attenda ~ 40
looked for.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
DOCTOR FINED FOR
NOT REPORTING BIRTH

The State Board of Health
is determined to enforce the
laws enacted by the General
Assembly, calling upon ply
kicians to report birth and
deaths. During the past week
a physician in New Castle
county was fined for failure to
report a birth.
Conditions generally, how
ever, are good throughout the
State in this connection. Up
until about ten years ago, the
vital statistics of Delaware
were in deplorable condition
because of the failure of medi-
cal men to report births and
deaths. Since the world war,
however, there has been a con-
sistent effort made by State
officials to collect and file this
data so that now Delaware is
in a much better condition as
far as these records go than
it was a decade ago.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
lew DUAL HIGHWAY
WILL Be SHADED
"trip Between Roads May Be Set
Out With Native Trees--GOveE-
nor FavOrs Such A Project.

A tree of every variety native to
Delaware is to be planted in the
pace between the north and south
bound roads comprising the dual
highway from State Road to St.
Georges, a distance of about six
miles, according to plans of the State
Highway Department. AS much OF
the between-roads space is to be
utilized for this it will be in the
nature of a State forest. If the plan
is found feasible, the road will be
one of the most attractive in the
country.
At a recent meeting of the State
Highway Department this plan was
suggested both as means of beau
tifying the roadway and also for an
educational value. 1t was decided
to ask State Forester w. F. Taber
to map out plan and give the
commission the necessary 1ntorma-
ton. If practical, the State Forester
will be asked to undertake the WORK
Just how much space will be need
ed is not known because it is not
known exactly how many trees are
native to Delaware and how far
apart they should be planted. Inc
judgment of the forester will be
taken in this part of the work.
Governor c. Douglas Buck is sup
posed to have been the one who
made the suggestion, but when the
Governor was asked about 1t he SAID
he did not remember whether ne
made the suggestion or it was made
by some other member Of the com
mission. The Governor declared,
however, that he was heartily IN
favor of the plan.
81 think it would have marked
educational value. l do not know
how many different kinds OF trees
grow in Delaware or what they all
look like"
There is considerable space be-
tween the two roads of the double
highway and all this space will be
improved either by planting trees
or planting grass. Northbound trat-
fic takes one road and sOuthbound
the other while here and there are
lanes crossing this open space from
one line of road to the other. The
road is now in use and motorists are
huCh pleased with the plan because
In this stretch it is only necessary
% watch traffic going in one dlrec-
lion. There is no danger Of any one
attempting to buck traffic going in
the opposite direction and thus caus-
ling an accident.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
Mellon Sees Steady Progress
By ANDREW W. MELLON
(Secretary of the United States Treasury

Forecasting business be done
will be borne subsequent events
No fully appras complex which always
at work and is hazardous to attempt doing
nothing the situation that either
pessmism During the winter months
there be sackness or unemployment but hardly more
than is usual al this Of each year.
every confidence that there will be revival Of activity
spring the coming the country will
make steady
In situation the trend of rates is downward
credit available and have to expect
capital in building construction and expan
sion facilitate the promotion and accomplishment
Of undertakings.
Statements the executives of railroad public utility
and Industrial the Presidents recent conference
were almost without exception the effect that their expenditure
for new construction expansion in 1880 will be as much or
me than in 1929
The governments in sound condition which
and the government ITSELF is in posi-
its in helping the country 10 meet anu soe the
problems which ahead
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
REVOKE LICENSES OF
TWO OYSTER HOUSES
Action Taken By State Board Of
Health After BivaIves From
Banned Streams Are Found.

Because they failed to observe
state and national health laws, two
oyster shocking houses in Sussex
county have been placed under a
ban and the licenses granted pro-
prietors of these houses revoked by
the State Board of Health. The pro-
prietor of a third shocking house
that has been under suspicion claims
that he can prove that he has not
been breaking any law.
The revocation of the shucking
house licenses came about through
evidence obtained by an inspector
of the United States Public Health
Service. This inspector, happening
to be in Seaford a few days ago, dis
covered boat owned or leased by
one of the shocking houses, to be
loaded with oysters taken from one
of the streams in Delaware on which
there is a ban against the dredging
of oysters by both the State and Fed
eral officials.
The inspector reported this viola
ton to the State Board of Health
and stated that unless the licenses of
the shucking houses implicated were
revoked within a certain time that
the Government would place a ban
on all Delaware shocking houses. In
other words, every innocent and law
abiding shocking house proprietor
would have to suffer for the guilty
ones.
The licenses of these two shucking
houses were revoked on Tuesday.
Friends of the two proprietors ac-
cused are using all their influence to
straighten the matter out, but the
State Board of Health has no power
to continue these licenses when con-
taminated oysters are used.
For several years the State Board
of Health and the United States
Public Health Service has been en-
deavoring to make the shuck1ng
house proprietors realize the danger
of shipping contaminated oysters.
The proprietors have been notified
in person, by mail, by telegraph and
by signs. Their refusal in some in
stances to obey the laws is one OF the
reasons why Governor c. Douglass
Buck has named a commission to
study conditions in the oyster indus
try.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
NEW FARM PAPER FINDS
PENINSULA POOR FIELD
Publishers OF Delaware Farmer Quit
Because of Lack Of Support.

A. C. Hyde and R. B. Thompson,
who have been building a new plant
for their publication, "The Delaware
Farmer" at Dover, have announced
the suspension of publication of the
paper. Lack of interest on the part
of advertisers and farmers generally,
are given as reasons for their action.
Two issues of the paper had been
distributed. Under date of January
LIST, the publishers have sent out the
following letter, which gives their
reasons for suspension.
To Subscribers, Advertisers and
Anyone Interested:
It is with a feeling of keen regret
that we announce the suspension of
our new publication, 1.-THE Delaware
Farmer. However, our best judg-
ment dictates that it is useless to
continue.
The two recent Introductory is
sues November and December
which were given rather extensive
circulation over Delaware and in
nearby Eastern Shore counties, met
with scant support from both farm
folks and business people. Natural
ly these were expected to be our
/ principal sources of subscription
and advertising patronage.
This manifest lack of local interest
in the project convinced us that the
paper could only be continued at a
substantial loss, probably extending
over long period; in short, that it
could not be made to pay even ex-
penses for several years. Facing
such prospect, our decision is to
abandon the effort.
Just why this unexpected indif-
ference; this reluctance to support
a home farm paper for Delaware and
the Eastern Shore, we do not attempt
to explain. Very evidently such a
paper is not wanted. We thought
it was-and we made a strenuous
preliminary effort, at considerable
expense, to establish just the sort OF
farm journal we believed would be
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
MILFORD SPORTSMEN
WILL HOLD MEETING
NimrOds of America to Have Meet
ings in Milford and SeafOrd

The spOrtsmen who have joined the
Nimrods will hold a meeting in Sea-
ford on Monday evening, January
9Th, at the Hotel Sussex, and in Mil
ford on Tuesday evening, January
7th at Hotel Windsor. The objects
of the meetings will be to organize
and elect officers, and to arrange
programs for the coming year re-
garding the work of the organiza-
ton. They have already obtained
over 5000 acres of land in Delaware
to be used for sanctuaries and pre-
serves, and expect to add several
more tracts of land to this territory.
This land will be stocked with game,
and used for the pleasure of the
members.
Moving pictures will be shown at
the meetings, and prominent men
interested in the work Of game con
servation will speak on the work Of
the order.
Every sportsman is invited to at
tend, whether he is a member or
not.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1930-01-03
COMMUNITY CHORUS
TRAINING IS NOW
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
Arrangements Have Been Made
To Take Care OF All Who Want
To Join Without Charge.
WILL PRESENT CANTATA
Practice Will Start On Caravan"
Next Wednesday Evening", jan
uary Eighth.
Have Vol Joined the Milford Choir

Have you joined the Milford Choir
us yet?
All members, old and new, be on
hand at the Community Building,
Wednesday evening, January 3,
promptly at 7:45 o'clock.
Admission to the chorus is now
open to everyone free of charge. 1t
is only necessary that each member
be able to sing to be in the chorus.
No previous musical training is
necessary.
The chorus committee feel that
there are still many who sing and
enjoy music who would thoroughly
enjoy the weekly rehearsals and
they have now made it possible for
all to join.
A well directed chorus under the
leadership of an able director, is a
real asset to the community, and
the business and professional men
and women of Milford should get
back of such an organization and do
everything in their power to make
it a success and of real value. There
is nothing like music to elevate the
morale and spirit Of good citizen
ship. This we all know. For those
of us who advocate better schools,
better advantages for our young
people. and recreation for our COM
munity of high type, fail to "prac-
tice what we preach" when we fail
to support and be interested in an
oroa nization established for the
good of all.
Parties and club activities all fill
their place but why not be interest
ed in one organization which is ln-l
structive as well as recreational
Then. too, this chorus can give COZ
certs of real merit for the commT
ity to enjoy and thus vary our 10
of amusement, and possibly
develop other activities for the
such as an annual May Fest
pageant in which all organ
could take part.
The efforts of few cannot do a
The organization needs a lar
membership to make an etfectlg
chorus, and to assure its success
must continue to have new m
beers. The committee will app
ate the efforts made by the bust
and professional people of Mil
if they will help to bring -
members.
The committee would ap
If if the hostesses whenever
would try to avoid Wedne
ming. The members ell
with their friends, but fe
chorus rehearsal must be suppoAS
to assure success.
Some really lovely choruses are
to be started next Wednesday. With
the present choruses. the members
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