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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
LEAPS TO DEATH AS
PARACHUTE FAILS
Philadelphia BallOOnlSt Dies Al
Denton As Son Looks On

Walter Jewell, 95, of Philadelphia,
crashed to his death Saturday night
in the residential section of Den
ton, Md, when the parachute with
which he made a leap from a bal
loon, failed to open.
Several thousand spectators, in
cluding Jewell's Syear-old son,
watched him hurtle to his death
from a height of more than 1000
feet. Firemen, at whose carnival
Jewell made the leap, cared for the
body until it was shipped to Phila-
delphia. Residents of the town car
ed for the bereaved boy.
The dead man was in the balloon
branch of the aviation service cur
ing the World War. Since the war
he had been giving exhibitions and
was said to be expert in parachute
leaps. His wife is also a hailOonist.
1t is said that the parachute used
by Jewell was new one, and that
it did not successfully measure Up
to the standard requirements during
it's first test with a sand bag. 1t
was found clenched in his hand,
unopened. There was another para
chute in the balloon.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
GARBAGE WILL BE-
COLLECTED HERE
TWICE WEEKLY
Announcement Is Made
That Collections Will Be
Made Monday and Friday
ISSUE INSTRUCTIONS
Receptacles Must Be Set
At Convenient Place Near
Rear Of Side Door

The Milford Town Council and
local Board of Health have made
arrangements for the collection of
garbage without cost to the citizens
of the town, and the work will start
next Monday, September l. Collec-
tions will be made Monday and Fri
day in the future. In the announce
ment the Board of Health says that
to insure satisfactory collection it
will be necessary to observe the
following regulations:
"The garbage can must be set
out at a convenient place near the
rear or side door on collection days.
"All rubbish such as glass, tin
cans, papers, ETC., must not be put
into the garbage can.
"The can should be covered to
avoid fly nuisance and to keep dogs
and cats out of the garbage"
The collection of garbage by the
town has been brought about
through the cooperation of Council
and the Board of Health, and will
fill a long needed want here. Mayor
Windsor has advocated this work il
line with his several practical ideas
of bettering living conditions mere.
The Town Council has also ap-
proved regulations governing the
sanitation of public eating places
and places where foodstuffs are
manufactured, handled or exposed
for sale.
The regulations adopted are as
follows:
No person, firm or corporation
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
BEAUTIFUL NEW
FRONT ON STORE
Tile And Copper Finish Adds Much
TO<Beauty OF Business Section

Contractors who have been MAX
ing alterations to the store front of
the Thomas Davis store in Milford
tore away the scaffolding and parti-
tions back of which they have been
working on Monday and opened the
new front to the public view. The
store presents a beautiful appear
ance in it's new dress. The front is
constructed of black tile and cop
per. On the lower floor two large
windows replace the old fashioned
windows which had been in use for
years. The entire second floor has
been made of glass, adding another
display feature to the store. Other
improvements to the interior are
contemplated. When they are com
pleted the Davis store will be one of
the most attractive to be found in
Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
DR.. NELSON ADDRESSES
OPTOMETRISTS
Members OF Association From Five
States Attend Ocean City Meeting

The fifth annual convention of
the Eastern Shore of Maryland AS
sociation of Optometrists convened
at the New Atlantic Hotel at Ocean
City, Nd, last Thursday
Reservations showed that more
than 200 optometrists from Mary
land, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Dis
trict of Columbia, and the Eastern
Shore of Virginia attended the con-
vention.
The opening session convened on
Thursday afternoon at l o'clock,
with DR.. A. B. Boulden, Salisbury,
Md, head of the Shore Association,
presiding.
The afternoon session was given
over to an educational program,
with addresses by three speakers.
DR.. Clyde Nelson, head clinician
of the L. D. Caulk Laboratories of
Milford, spoke on "Oral Hygiene and
It's Relation to Visual Acuity;" DR..
J. H. Mayerburg, president of the
Maryland State Optometrists Asso-
citation, addressed the convention
on Organization" while DR.. Albert
Fitch, dean of the Pennsylvania
State College of Optometry, lectured
on "Optometric Jurisprudence" :"
Thursday evening an informal
banquet was held in the Atlantic
Hotel ballroom at which time an
address was made by lay speaker
of the association. The banquet was
followed by dancing
N. S. Hoffecker, of Laurel, was
chairman of the committee on en-
tertainment for the convention.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
GRAPE TOUR WAS
WELL ATTENDED
Growers From Maryland
And Pennsylvania Also
Study State Methods

Many sections of Delaware and
the adjoining states of Maryland
and Pennsylvania were represented
in the group of fifty growers who
attended the eighth annual grape
tour which was conducted through
the commercial grape districts in
Kent county last Thursday, under
the direction of County Agent Rus
sell E. Wilson in cooperation with
representative of the Kent County
Farm Bureau and the Grange.
The tour started early in the NOR
ming when the growers assembled
at the vineyard of C. A. Schmid,
north of Dover on the du Pont
highway, and from there the tour
proceeded to the Smyrna district
where the vineyards of R. e. Spru-
ance and George Carter were in
spected. The enjoyable features in
connection with the visit to the Car
ter farm were the customary re-
freshments of fruit punch and waf-
ers which Mr.. and Mrs. Carter al
ways serve to the visitors on these
annual grape tours.
The itinerary of the tour then d1-
rected the growers to the Dover
area where lunch was served by the
ladies of Capital Grange on the
lawn at the farm of Ed. Willim.
During the noon hour brief talks
were given by representatives of
the Delaware Experiment Station
including DR.. L. A. Stearns, Ento-
mologist, who discussed the work
which is being attempted in the
control of the berry moth and leaf
hoppers; DR.. T. +. Manns, Plant
Pathologist, who spoke on the pro-
gress which has been made in the
eradication of black rot and other
diseases in our commercial vine
yards; and Director C. A. McCue
who presented some interesting
facts in regard to the fertilization
of vineyards in this section.
Following this program the grow
ers inspected Mr.. Willim's vineyard
and those of w. S. Short and Geo.
P. Hudson which are located with
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
SUSSEX CONTAINS HALF
OF FARMS IN DELAWARE

More than half of the farms
in Delaware are in Sussex
county, which contains slight
ly less than so per cent of the
land area of the State, ac-
cording to County Agent c. R.
Snyder, who has made sur
vey. A large proportion of the
farms throughout Sussex
county are operated by the
owner, and the percentage of
farms mortgaged is smaller
than the remainder of the
State.
The average size of the low
er Delaware farms is smaller
than the remainder of the
State, and the valuations less
but the acre value is almost
equal with the remainder of
the State.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
SWIMMING TESTS
PROVED POPULAR
Report For Milford And Slaughter
Beach Shows Many We're Interested

A report submitted by Arthur Nj.
Potter, who instructed swimming
classes at Milford and Slaughter
Beach several weeks ago, shows
that much enthusiasm was mani
tested on the part of the citizens of
this community. The report fol-
lows:
Conditions: Haven Lake-Fair
beach diving board platform near
shore, gradual sandy beach, dress
ing quarters. A private beach, own
ed by Mr.. Dorenger, who rented
beach to us for week at S15.00-this
money was supplied by Milford A.
r. Cone mile from town.
Slaughter Beach - Salt water
very gradual bOttom-muddy-stOny
yet a very popular beach-nine
miles from Milford.
Classes
Haven Lake:
Z a. m.-Adults.
8 a. m.-Beginners.
10 a. m.-Adults and advance
swimming.
II a. m.-Life saving class.
Slaughter Beach:
2 p. m.-Beginners.
3 p. m.-Calisthenic drill and
adult swimming class.
p. m.-Life saving class.
Haven Lake:
6 p. m.-Beginners.
Z p. m.-Life saving class.
Results
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29

The town of Milford became ex-
ceedingly enthusiastic about swim
ming. Another week and the entire
town would have turned out.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29

The book-of-the-month for
many people this time of
the year is the road map.
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
His Hiding Place

Then he crawled upon the
slab and wriggled into the
Shroud. He drew the blanket
over him. Before he pulled it
completely over his head he
took one last look at the beam
Of moonlight that struggled
through the bars of the little
window. Then he lay down and
with his arms and head still out
he pulled the blanket over him.
With a yank he jerked it over
him, sack and all. Then, with
numbed fingers, he found the
cord inside and tied it. 1t was
Stifling in the sack. But a wave
of peace and contentment pos
Sessed him. For the first time
in days he experienced an ex-
hilaration of miAd and body.
He stretched out his aching
body at full length. Beautiful
objects began to float across his
vision the face of Anne
Marlowe flowers the
sunlight just as the first
pIaintive notes of taps reverber-
ated through the prison yard
he sank into a sweet. peaceful
opium-like sleep.
Copyright. 1880, International Film
Service Company, Inc.)
OTO BE COntinued3
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
She Played Ruthlessly the
Game of Love
BY JANE DIXON

hand, returned 1t to her blouse.
The conductor had passed on.
She was safe for the present.
so far, it had been too easy.
Men. She would have pre-
ferred to sharpen her wits on
this big BOBBY of a conductor.
The fur careSSed her cheek
again, soft and Silken.
For Raquel RojoS the rattle
trap train wheeling across the
Arizona desert ceased to exist.
In it's stead was a golden
coach skimming along on
winged wheels, drawn by gal.
Looping white horses wit h
plumes on their heads.
Past midnight.
A little while now, she
thought, and the town of Her
mosa, back there in the dark,
would be stirring uneasily un-
der the flaying whip of dawn.
Mumbling and stumbling to-
ward another day. A day drab
and brackish, like all the other
hundreds of days toward which
it mumhled and stumbled.
CurlS of smoke would be
mounting, listleSsly, from sham
bing adobe huts. yellow-pink in
the racing dawn. Drabbled
women would be slapping tor
tillas, fodder for ill-tempered
men and spindly children who
would bolt them. guttonously.
In one such hut, most sham
bling of the lot, there would be
wonder, CONSERVATION, violent
oaths that ripped through the
open door, ratified the cracked
crockery on the crazy table,
send the family covering to
cover.
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
TEA-TABLE
CHATTER

Here is consolation for the
woman who balkS against hav-
ing candles set upon her birth
day cake; the mirror magnifies!
Facial maps look their worst as
we see them reflected in the
looking glass. Wrinkles that
are scarcely noticeable to the
optic lamp appear like irrigation
bitches. Pores of the skin re-
mind one of the pin marks in
the pin cushion. Beauty blem-
isheS are seldom as terrible as
they seem. Many of them in
fact are in a woman's eye
don't exist at all.
Foolish for the short, dumpy
woman to yearn for SWanlike
neck. She couldn't get it if
she tried, and if she had it her
lines would be all out of kilter,
Her policy should be to keep the
neck from getting ring-lines.
she can do this by carrying her
figure tall" by keeping the
head erect, chin lifted.
Shoes of special design and
build are recommended for bow
legged babies. They tend to
throw the weight on the inner
side of the foot, instead of the
outer line. The next genera
ton won't include any bow.
legged girls. There won't be
any.
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
OUR RHYMING
OPTIMIST
BY Aline Michaelis,


They May Never Come True
They may never come true,
All the things I would do
To make your life joyous and
sweet;
They may prove but the gleam
OF an over-bright dream,
Instead of lamp for your feet.
Well I know hopes may wane,
Yet I cannot refrain
From this building Of castles
in air:
They may never come true,
Yet their towers touch heavens
blue,
Castles built Just for YOU,
everywhere!
There is seldom an hour
When some wish does not flower,
Some wish that is born for
your good;
They may never come true,
But my wishes for you
Would make each hour glad
If they could!
--ALINE MICHAELIS
(Our Rhyming Optimist).
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
The Escape

Pancho RojoS, her father,
would discover that she, Raquel,
had eluded him. Slipped out
from under his heavy hand as
neatly as he slipped from the
hand Of the law. which long
ago, she now knew, should
have sent him to prison. Called
himself a revolutioniSt. Fancy
name for bandit. Francisco
Rojos, Spanish gentleman by
birth. Pancho Rojos, Mexican
bandit by reason of drink and
a contract with the devil. If
they ever laid hands on Pancho
across the border in Mexico
a wall, a firing squad. They
wouldn't wait for sunrise. He
had escaped them once. Some
day they would get him. On
one of those mine-raiding, plum
dering expeditions he was for
ever plotting with greasy expa-
triates. Peons!
Lucy-her tragic American
mother. Oh. we'll
The woman is a fool" Her
lips framed the thought. ITO
slaVe--to whine to that great
brute of a Pancho."
Young Emilio, her brother?
"Guzzler! Another tortilla
and he will forget me-"
Younger Rosita, her sister?
"A lump! Simpering at boys"
Frail Jose, with the dreams
in his eyes. Her baby. Her baby
brother. Her throat frightened.
Her eyes were misty. She closed
them to shut out the thought
of little Jose.
When she opened them again
the mist was gone. A dervish
dance was going on behind
their black velvet. Transparent
velvet at this moment, because
there was no one to peer in
through the windows of her
soul.
She was picturing the ex-
preston on the face of Bill
johnson. the man she had
promised to marry, when he
found she had disappeared.
Big blundering Bill. with his
slow speech and his elephant
tine attempts at love-making.
To Bill she was a fractions
filly' which, once bridled, could
be made to go through it's
PAGES. When Bill learned she
had kicked her way out of his
corral
Raquels white teeth caught
at her underlip. She must not
laugh aloud. She would attract
attention.
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
Below Normal

Temperature below normal"
drawled. The inferno scratched
something in a pad.
Pulse CO." continued the
doctor in the same disinterest-
ed way. ..
Respiration 28."
Yes, sir"
The doctor shook his ther-
mometer violently and then
thrust it into its case. He
was about to leave the room
when he glanced at a screen
which had been placed before
a bed. He hesitated. The in
terne touched him on the arm.
Pardon, sir" he said, Il
forgot to tell you that Carter
died this afternoon"
"Oh, all right didn't think
he'd live. Have the body shifted
to the morgue pronto and buried
tonight"
He left the room. The inferno
walked over to the screen and
peered behind it as though to
reaSSure himself, and then left
also. Morgan opened his eyes
slightly, and without moving his
head looked up at the ceiling
for while. Then he began to
survey the little room, in which
the shadows of twilight already
had begun to play.
In a 9ew minutes two men
came in and, without glancing
at Morgan, walked over to the
bed behind the screen. They
pushed the screen aside and,
with one at the head and an
other at the feet, they carried
out what was left Of the con-
Vict, Carter, bed sheets and all.
Morgan smiled grimly. For a
time he lay very quiet on the
bed, listening intently. Then
he reopened his eyes. He was
familiar with the room. He had
been detailed there one month
to keep it clean. He also knew
that the morgue was just
through the door to the left in
the corridor. And next to that
was the death chair-the hot
squat" the States final courtesy
to its worst law-breakers.
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
THE BEAUTY
BOX
BY Helen Follett-

Women's feet are getting big
ger and better. Time was when
the girl who wore a triple A
felt that she had attained some
kind of social distinction. Her
she was shaped like a minia-
ture ski, and she took pride in
regarding it's sliveriike proper
tions. Women are showing
judgment in the selections of
shoes, getting them of ample
width as well as ample length.
Unless the toes can wiggle
freely, a shoe is too small.
Tight shoes produce wrinkles,
ugly faces, ugly tempers, back
ache and headache. Maybe d.
vorces, sudden death and muir
der. Who knows?
Naturalness is the beauty
note of the day. NaturalneSS
of figure, complexion, hair and
manners. It all makes for a
more glorified womanhood. The
uproar about the spinched-in
waistline was all about moth
ing; women wouldn't lace and
haven't. The new figure is
prettier than the bed slat shape
Of the boyish type with bust
laShed down. Curves are where
curves should be.
Green eye shadows are being
used by the la-la sirens who are
always chasing the latest beau
ty butterfly. They come in oily
form. The application is made
close to the lashes and does a
fade-out as it nears the eye
browS. The safest eyeshadow,
the one easiest to apply, is
rouge that is used on the
cheeks. When the face flushes
naturally the eyelids do a little
pinking on their own.
The Washington times., 1930-05-14

even more authoritative in the
way she takes charge Of the
baby as though he really be.
longed to her and as though
you yourself weren't quite
grown up enough to be trusted
with it.
Don't you think" wrote q
young mother the other Gay.
that when I carefully follow
the doctors orders nd when
my baby is a fine. healthy
child, my mother-in-law ought
not to interfere?"
do think she ought not to
interfere. I think she should
offer no advice at all unless
somebody begs her to. If some
time the baby takes cold, as
babies do. I think she should
Sternly force herself not to
look as though she thought the
baby's mother was to blame.
don't mean that this warm
hearted and officious relative
is likely to do the baby itself
any harm. She merely runs the
risk of running the young
mothers nervous system and
of destroying the harmony
between the young parents.
And that's quite a risk to run.
In fact, to play the part of
grandmother with the neceS-
sary tact one ought to be
either so busy that one has
practically no spare time, or
else Superhuman Self-control.
And if one is vigorous and
just barely middle-aged and as
warmly in love with pink-and-
white babyhood as most women
are, I'll admit it isn't easy
to play the Stand-offiSh role
I have suggested.
But there's reward in
sight.
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
Where Was Jack?

Jack Farrell. What was Jack
doing now? she wondered.
Wanting her-yes-aS she want
ed him? He seemed so close,
so real, that she might easily
reach out and touch him.
Touch his lean brown cheeks
with the hollows in them. Run
her fingers along the waves of
his hair. crisp and thick, like
fine copper wire. Reach on
tip-toe for the kiss he must
bend his head to take. Lean
brown, laughing brown, Jack
Farrell.
Farrell had not laughed
though when he had lifted her
to her horse, watched her. ride
out into the night. His hands
hurt her. His lips chung.
Remember, Raquita mia, you
you are to wait for me-"
The golden coach with the
winged wheels in which Ra-
quel had been riding jolted to a
stop. She was back on the rat
tletrap train again.
TO Be COntinued)
Copyright, 1890, Metropolitan
Newspaper Service)
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
Advice to LOvelOrn
BY Beatrice Fairfax.

1t must be that one Of the
strongest temptations in the
world, as strong perhaps as
those afforded by drinking or
dice, is the temptation to in
terfere with the bringing up OF
ones grandchildren.
Thousands of well-meaning
young mothers are in despair at
this moment, not because they
believe themselves incapable OF
keeping the baby out of draughts
or of Straining its spinach, but
because more information on
baby culture has been forced on
them than they can digest or
take care Of.
Their own mothers or their
husbands mothers, or both;
have, you see, more or less as
Sumed control ever since the
baby'S birth. These energetic,
-worshipping women, each
convinced in her heart she is
an expert, have been willing to
come at least as often as once a
day in order to leave directions,
to see that the directions have
been carried out, and to dis
agree, each of them, with the
advice of the other grandmother.
Sometimes this advice of
theirs is sensible and good.
Sometimes it's old-faShioned or
impractical. In any case. there
is almost always too much of it.
But it's really very hard,
when you've married Robert
for love. and regard him as
practically perfect, to with
stand the mother who mutually
regards Roberts perfection as
her own handiwork and per
SOnal testimonial. Shouldn't
she have a share in making
the baby perfect, too?
And it's harder still to oppose
your own mother, because she's
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
Her Thoughts

II was thinking of going to
the end of the world" she
said.
Her black eyes regarded him
quizzically. The bold curve of
her red lips bit into the pallor
Of her face. Her teeth, blue
white, gliStening, and of an
almost mechanical regularity,
were pressed together.
The conductor thought of
mountain-lion cub once left be-
hind by a passenger. 1t was
more than her coat which
brought this back to him. He
had undertaken to make
house-pet of the cub. The most
he had been able to coax from
it was a reluctant compromise
with bondage.
He pushed a battered blue
cap back from his gritty brow,
scratched his head with blunt
thumb and forefinger.
To the end of the world,
huh?" he said. Sorry, lady, but
this train only goes as far as
Phoenix, Arizona
The girl laughed. A Smothered
contralto laugh thatinvited MIN
Subtly to join in it.
Phoenix will do very we'll
for a beginning" she said. And
began rummaging in her blouse
for what the conductor supposed
would be a rectangular piece of
white pasteboard. Instead, she
drew out a roll of bills. The
outer one, he saw. was in three
figures and yellow.
II was in such a hurry to
start where I'm going" she told
him, II didn't even stop to buy
q ticket"
She unwrapped the outer bill
and extended it to him with a
quick slim hand.
II can't change this, lady" he
said. For all his conductorial
barking at other passengers,
with the girl he was patient, al
most apologetic.
The Washington times., 1930-05-14
Curtain of Dusk

Yes, the curtain of dust and
dusk hung there providentially.
These men, wits dulled. senses
logged by sleep, did not notice
her. In itself an omen OF good
report. Men always noticed
Raquel. And remembered her.
These men would not remember.
She wrapped her cloak Of
rusty black close around her
and drew still further into the
seat. Her cheek nestled against
the fur of her collar. The fur
was soft and silken and caresS-
ing. Not so long ago it had
been a young mountaln-cat,
stalking in hidden places, fur
tive, waiting for the moment
when it could give expression to
its lion heart. Even as she had
Stalked, hidden and waiting.
A hand was on her shoulders.
"Ticket, lady?"
She had expected this. 1t
was time the lion purred. She
raised her face from the collar,
but did not change her position
in the seat.
How far does this train go?"
she asked.
The conductor was a man.
As such, to Raquel, fair game.
He reacted instantly, as she
knew he would, to her intent.
His round blue eyes. watery and
chronically Redeemed by alkali
dust, stared, then wavered
under the brilliancy of her
smile.
How far is it you was
thinkin' of goin'?" he wanted
to know, his brain muddled by
a combination of the girls
question and her smile.
His round eyes widened to
their limits. Something seemed
to brush across the face of
the girl like hand. A hand
that wiped away the hard
brilliancy Of her, leaving in it's
place a steady glow. The
sparkling glow Of fire on ice.