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Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
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rHE HOME TOWN BALL TEAM

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Baseball has always been called
the national sport. 1t is still today
probably the most popular game,
though millions of folks play golf
and tennis, and those sports are run
ming the famous old game OF the
diamond a hard race. They are all
splendid games, and there is plenty
of room on our broad acres for all
three.
A good ball team furnishes splen-
did recreation for all types of people
at a small cost. The crowds that
nay anywhere from 25 and 80 cents
I'D to witness games in big cities and
smaller towns obtain an enormous
amount of benefit, with the least pos
sible exposure to harmful influences.
In the larger cities this problem
mostly solves itself, as there are peo-
ple enough to support fast teams. In
the smaller cities and towns it is Of
ten more difficult, because Of the
lack of sufficient support to hire
players who are speedy enough to
win games.
The attitude of many ball fans is
that they will support the team if it
wins. or if it seems to have a good
chance of winning, but any team
which loses much more than half its
games is jeered at, and many peo-
ple will not pay admission fees to
see it play. The fact that good ball
is played does not satisfy them.
Their home pride must be fiattered
by a team that can humiliate rivals.
But as it is not possible for every |
town to have winning town team,
the majority fail to have any.
There ought to be at least one
team in every city and town. If it is
honestly run, as most teams are,
people interested in sport should
back it up, and cheer it on, instead
of jeering at it's players from the
grand stand when they fail after try
ing to do their best. Business men
should support such team, since it
brings people to their community
and keeps people and money at
home.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
FRANKFORT

A son, Robinson, was born Mon
day to Mr.. and Mrs. Leaman Helm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Bennett and
family have returned from a motor
| trip to interesting places in Virgin
ia, North Carolina, South Carolina
and Tennessee. They covered 1900
miles and visited many places of
historic happenings.
Miss Louise Nelson, a teacher in
the high school, has been i'll for the
past week at her home in Onancock,
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Shepherd, who
have been spending the winter in
Plant City, Florida, have returned to
their home in this town.
A concrete side walk is being
placed in front of the properties of
Herman Campbell and Murrays
Sweet Shop. 1t extends from Main
street to the depot. The work is
being done by A. P. Croll, of George
town.
Harry Lewes has purchased from
Russell Jones a lot of land on the
Coleman du Pont Boulevard and OPP
posite the Orange filling station, on
which he is preparing to build
home.
Miss Yevonne Townsend, who has
been spending some time in st. Pc
tersburg, Fla, has returned home.
Mrs. Allie Davis, of Philadelphia,
spent the week here with her sister,
Mrs. Charles Parker.
MIR. and Mrs. Samuel Bennett, of
Bayville, were recent guests of Mr..
and Mrs. F. M. Gum, Jr.
Frankford is one of the towns in
Delaware which has grown since the
last census. There is an increase OF
seven persons this year over ten
years ago. The census enumerator
reported to former Governor Will
liam Denney, supervisor of census
for Delaware, that FrankfOrd now
has a population of 450, as compared
with 443 in 1920.
Clifford and Nina Esham and their
families, of Philadelphia, spent the
weekend with their mother, Mrs.
Emma Esham.
Rev. George Ashworth Burselem,
pastor of the Dover, Del, Presbyte-
rian church, will preach Sunday
morning in the Presbyterian church
of this town.
The First National Bank of Frank
ford is having installed this week
an up-to-date burglar alarm system.
1t is believed to be one of the most
complete systems on the market.
One trouble with Congress is its
sectional appeal.-The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
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CLEAN UP AS YOU GO

If people would only keep their
places neatly as they go along, they
would not have to struggle with the
disorderly back yards that mar the
appearance of a town and neighbor-
hood. People really make twice as
much work for themselves by letting
refuse accumulate. If they would
destroy combustible rubbish as they
go alongS they would only have to
handle it once, whereas if they dump
it in their back yards or easements,
and then later have to gather it up
and dispose of it, they handle it
twice.
Non-combustible rubbish should
be placed in suitable cans or con-
tainers and kept out Of sight until
properly disposed of. They should
reflect that refuse dumped in some
conspicuous place makes a blot on
the fair appearance Of their town
and neighborhood, and does some
thing to make it look cheap and
coarse.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
A CHALLENGE TO BATTLE

Baths have long since ceased to
cause public comment. But when a
cabinet minister wonders why the
lady members of the British Parlia-
ment don't take baths-at least
when they are on duty-tongues be-
gin to wag, and the incident finds its
way into newspapers on both sides
of the Atlantic.
The request was made during a
recent meeting of the House of Par
lament. George Dansbury, first
commissioner of public works, had
previously ordered the renovation OF
one of the Parliamentary bath rooms
for the exclusive use of the women
members, since the men had long had
this privilege. Soap and towels were
supplied, a bath mistress was ap-
pointed, and a notice was circulated
to announce the fact.
Nothing happened. The bath mis-
tress polished the faucets in vain
while the commissioner loudly de-
plOred the apparently useless eX-
penditure of public funds. Was
there no lady in Parliament who
wished to take a bath?
The situation was relieved by Mis7
Edith Picton-Turberville, author,
athlete, and representative of the La
Dor party. Rising promptly in an
swer to the challenge, she announced
her intention of taking bath. The
house applauded as she left the
room, and again when she returned,
refreshed and enthusiastic, to report
on her experience.
Although this incident was cOns1d-
cred worthy of special dispatch
from across the ocean, its counter
part takes place every day right here
on our own shores. There is no lack
of bathing facilities in the average
comfortable American home, and ho-
tel keepers testify to the increasing
demand for room with a bath.
Yet how often are the bath tubs
used?
A natural reticence on the part Oh
the general public makes statistics
difficult to obtain. But there is evil
dence to support the theory that peo-
pie do more boasting about taking
baths than actual bathing. While 1t
is true that cleanliness standards are
constantly, the reports or
social workers indicate that nothing
less than a public challenge would
induce some people to take baths
regularly.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
DRAWBRIDGE

The members and friends of White
Chapel Church met at the parsonage
at Nassau on Friday evening, April
rs and gave a reception for the pas
tor and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. Jas.
O'Neil. The attendance was large
and a pleasant evening was had by
all present. Refreshments consisting
of cake and ice cream were served
in abundance Among those present
we're: Rev. and Mrs. Jas. O'Neil,
Rev. VIM. D. Wilson and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Greene, Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Ritter and children, Mr..
and Mrs. DeVerne Doty, Mr.. and
Mrs. Washington Mitchell and son
James, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Little
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Hopkins,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Neff and
daughter Elva, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Davidson, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Rich
ards and son Theodore, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Warrington and children, Mr..
and Mrs. o. L. Carey and son Ro-
land, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Hitch
ems. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick john
son, Mrs. Leroy Simpler and son
Linwood, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hast
ings and family, Mr.. and Mrs. L. l..
Iockerman and son Robert, 1. A.
Mitchell and son Marshall, Mrs.
Theodore Richards, Burton Foskey,
Linford Pettyjohn, INLAND and Wal
ter Davidson, Joseph Mitchell, Clar-
ence Truitt, Warrington Vincent,
Vincent White, Joseph Downes, Carl
Davidson, Miss Perla Lynch, Mrs.
Mary Mitchell, Mrs. Virgil Dennis
and children, Mrs. George Sharp and
daughter Laura, Mrs. Henry Lank,
Mrs. Fannie Hudson, Mrs. B. F. Tru-
lit, Mrs. Margaret White, Mrs. DOUG
lass Conner, Miss Margaret Mitchell
and Miss Elsie Wells.
Miss Emma Lockerman is con-
fined to her home suffering from
tonsilitis at this writing.
G. A. Davidson of Camden, N. j.,
is spending some time with his fam
lily near here.
A surprise party was given at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. DeVerne Doty
on Saturday evening, April To- IN
honor of Mr.. Doty's birthday ami
versary. An enjoyable evening was
spent by all those present, and at
late hour the guests were served
with refreshments consisting OF
cake and ice cream. Among those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Iittleton and grandson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Hastings and children, Eliza
beth, James, David and Romert, Mr.. .
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
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CLEANUP MOVEMENTS

thousands of cities and towns now
have regular Cleanup Days, usually
IN the spring. 1t is a plan that
sbould be universal everywhere, but
-,,bether or not your community or
.,our neighbors practice it, every
householder should have his Clean
UP Day.
IF people cared for their home and
,.,,siness places as they should, they
o,,1d not let rubbish accumulate so
t',o+ a special Cleanup occasion
- lid be needed. But if people will
"o .sist in letting undesirable litter
refuse accumulate, then the
at az they can do is to have one
ie'.S "d scrimmage periodically and
- out of the way. The sense OF
ge1 ovement and self respect that
imp rs such an upheaval is ample
f0llO"d f~d for the slight effort involved.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
THE REVOLUTIONARY
DAUGHTERS

The annual congress of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution
brings together an assemblage of
women who have right to be proud
of their ancestry. If it had not been
for the grandfathers and great
grandfathers of these ladies, consdi-
tions in our country would be very
different today. Lacking the stim-
ulus of independence, it would never
have reached anything like its pres
ent development. 1t might never
have extended its territory to the
Pacific ocean.
1t is a great honor for people to
have such noble forefathers, but the
honor also carries with it an obli-
cation. We need their leadership in
many efforts to keep our country
true to the great principles of Justice
and democracy which have made our
government the most powerful on
earth.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
Milford, Friday, May 2, 1880
THE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT

People may well ask themselves if
they are obtaining the full benefit
they are entitled to gain from their
investment in their home town. They
are all the time investing their time,
their money, and their energy in
their home community. Is that in
vestment in that community, though
he does not always protect it as he
should The man who rents house,
or who works for some other person,
is not so apt to realize that he is in
vesting anything in that commun-
ity. Bue he is. AS an employe of
some person or concern, he gives his
life to the service of some producer
or distributor of merchandise or
services. When he pays rent, part
of it goes to cover the expense OF
taxes, and is thus invested in the
community welfare.
If his community thrives, his
chances for increased wages and
more comfortable living conditions
improve. He has a stake in that
community, and this stake or invest
ment should be protected.
If man owned stock in a grocery
store, it would usually seem good
Judgment for him to buy his sup
plies at that store. So if we have
made any form of investment in
town, in the form either of money,
or of efforts devoted to some busi-
ness for which we work for hire, we
should support that form of invest
ment by buying our supplies in that
community.
The family that fails to buy its
supplies at the stores of the COM
munity on which it depends for its
support, is going back on and neg
lecting it's own investment. 1t is
like the man who owns stock in
store, but refuses to buy his sup
plies at that place.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02

and Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, Giles
Doty, Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Lockerman
and son Robert, Walter Davidson,
Albert Davidson, Ralph Steele and
Misses Dorothy and Catherine
Campbell.
Eli Moore and son James spent
Sunday last with relatives in Wyom-
ing.
Samuel Lockerman spent Sunday
evening with his uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Veasey, of Redden.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Lockerman and
son Robert were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Hastings and family
on Sunday last.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
ROXANA

The Ladies Aid met at the home Of
Mrs. Lione Thursday evening of last
week with So present. After the
business hour refreshments were
served and all spent very pleasant
evening together.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harb Quillen were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harley
Bennett Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Derrick
son and son James are spending
some time with their mother and
brother.
Ward West spent the weekend
with his family here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Magee and
daughter Gertrude entertained Mr..
and Mrs. Harley Bennett Sunday af-
ternoon.
Several new telephones have been
installed in our community.
Miss Hilda Bennett and friend,
Russell Neville, of Wilmington,
spent the weekend with Miss Ben
nett's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cove
Bennett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Bennett and
family entertained Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Long and family, Mrs. Zena
Holloway, William Hudson, Jr., and
son, Mrs. Stephen Richards and
daughter Margaret, all of Selbyville,
Edgar Bennett and daughter of this
place.
Messrs. Harry Derrickson and
Charlie Richards have purchased
two registered COWS from MillsborO.
Frank Furman lost valuable COW
last week.
o. w. Derrickson and Harold
Lynch are improving their homes
with a fresh coat of paint.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
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IF PEOPLE want business pro-
motion, they usually have to tell the
boss the reason why they are worthy
of it, and if they want more trade,
they usually have to tell the people
through advertising the reasons why
their goods deserve it.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
CENSUS DIFFICULTIES

Census enumerators in some dis
tricts have been reported as tardy in
completing their returns. The CEN
sus job does not grow any easier.
People do not stay at home as much
as they used to, so that the census
takers must find many persons out
when they call. And conditions in
lodging and boarding houses and
apartments in many places, with
families and single people moving
around from one place to another,
must delay the work and make it
difficult to secure a prompt and ac-
curate count.
Many people, if requested to fill
in a blank with the required infor-
nation, would carelessily fail to do
so, and the enumeratOr would have
to keep chasing after them. The
census takers earn their money.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
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EVEN A DOG used to be supposed
to speak" before you gave him his
bone, and a business concern needs
to speak through advertising, before
it has its juicy chunk of trade.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
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WE ARE all hoping for commun-
ity progress in Milford this year, but
hope without effort never ploughed
a field nor pushed a town ahead.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
Observe Mothers Day
Sunday May Hth
-sHS8SNs-

Sunday, May 18th, 1880, will be observed
throughout the United States Mothers Day.
Men and women as we'll as boys and girls should
appreciate the full significance of Mothers Day, and
should join in this tribute to their mothers.
Every and every woman who has mother
living should write to her Mothers Day, or if pos
Sible, be at home on that day.
The churches generally and everywhere, will
have special services suitable to the occasion If your
mother is living colored flower, if she is dead,
wear a white flower on Mothers Day in honor of
your mother. Do not forget that Sunday, May 11th,
1880, is the day set apart to honor mothers.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02

Sometimes it's difficult to make a
satisfactorily imposing answer to
your wife's question, well, what did
you do at the office today?"
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
DISORDERLY HABITS

Not merely are many people very
careless about the way they throw
litter around the streets, but some
of them act almost as if they were
trying to make their home town as
ugly as possible. Some of them'
probably most of them children, will
take bits of paper, and tear them into
little pieces and then throw them out
in the streets.
Peoples lawns are sometimes no
ticed, where the only way to get out
such bits Of litter is to pick them out
one by one by hand. Such disorder
is terribly discouraging to people
who take pride in maintaining nice
appearing places. Grown up people
show their defective breeding by
such habits, and children who do
such things look as if they were
brought up in pigpen.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

The teams of the major baseball
leagues care off again on the 1880
pennant race. Their successes and
failures are the summers leading
events to some millions of people.
Favorite pitchers and batters are
heroes to millions of boys, and the
prowess of these favorites is emu
lated on every school ground.
1t is a pleasure to see any of the
games played by these super-ath-
letes. Their skill in handling a ball
is a marvel of manual dexterity. The
ouickness with which they see and
act in complicated situations reveals
the gility of the human mind. Base
ball is one of the cleanest sports the
world ever invented, and the time
spent by the American people in hol-
lering at these games is not wasted.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02

Even the vets agree that prohibi-
ton calls for sober thought.-The
Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-02

One trouble with Congress is its
sectional appeal.-The Pathfinder.
Evening star., 1930-06-15

dlherent for the Indian. He was forced TO ac-
cept another civilization, which spelled his mem
tai ana physical deterioration, for he could not
understand what 1t was all about. He simply
could not leap over the centuries during which
the white man had been building that civiliza-
ton and accept it ready-made, as it were"
Evening star., 1930-06-15

Plunged into that lethargic state it has taken
a couple of generations for the Indians to pass
through transitional period but now they are
emerging, so they themselves claim, and the
native individualiSm Of the Indian is blossom
ing forth. No longer is the youth or his sister
content to spend the days sitting beside the
Evening star., 1930-06-15

days when they wandered over the
plains and mountains of this continent before
the white man came into their ken-how can
these old men understand what has taken pos
session of the children of the reservation?
For the youth movement his struck the reser-
Vaticns, and it has struck hard. There among
nations whose children in former days never
dreamed of doing anything their fathers had
not done before them, where everything from
bathing singing was performed according to
customs established long before the dawn of
history all is changed now. Everything they
do, wear, eat and think even their language,
is different.
That strange, subtle something which has
stung the youth of the world and placed in
their blood restleSSneSs and questioning Of
all that is established and formal has not passei
the Indian by. Every phase of rebellion through
which the white boy and girl are passing is
being experienced BY the red boy and girl
And because these young people cannot fit
their new ideas in with the old way of life on
the reservation, and because the old people do
not know what their children are talking about
the children are leaving their homes and going
into the white mans cities.
White Bird, Cherokee girl, who is running
an art shop in Hollywood, to which Indians
from all tribes throughout the country send
their handiwork sees a great future for her
race-a future along individualistic lines con-
Sonant with the greatness of their past.
~'T>HE Indians contribution to modern life ia
as distinctive that of any other race
or nationality" she says, and she must know
for all the young Indians of Holywood-and
there are many, many of then-gather at her
friendly tepee," her shop for their powwows
An Italian singer sings the songs of every land
but he colors them all with the shading of his
Italian background; a Spanish artist paints a
Chinese mountain, but his canvas shows China
through the eyes Of Spaniard. 1t is thus with
the Indian. He Is singing the songs of the
world and painting pictures and writing books,
and he is bringing to his Interpretation the
uniqueness of his own people.
Those poor, broken men and women one
sees on the reservations, dazed and totally un-
comprehending the changes that have come
upon them can no more be looked upon as true
heirs OF the Indians who a few years ago
roamed this land from shore to shore and knew
no master save the Great Spirit than the mem
dicants and takers who ply their trade in the
streets Of Cairo can be thought of as the repre-
sentatives OF Pharaohs of ancient Egypt In
uians are very slow to change for they are indig-
enous to this soil; no one dares to speculate
about the time OF their first appearance here
White men, not being the natural heritors of
the soil, do not know our steady, unchanging
past; and because no two generations of our
white brothers here ever have the same environ
ment, they have versatility we lack
Never in history has there been a period of
such rapid and violent changes as are being
experienced everywhere today. The white man
can adapt himself to these changes but it Is
Evening star., 1930-06-15
BY HELEN r. CRANE.

~ LAPPERS and sheiks are the latest
things in the Indian world. The old
chiefs and warriors who can remem-
Der the great days of their people
Hov fkaary t10a
Seward daily gateway., 1930-06-10
IDE HE|DsICK suPT.
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\ There are scores of wonderful
 fellows out in the Bristol Bay coun- try but there is one especially who ranks ace high" with his fellow man, Joe Heidsick, superintendent
 for the Alaska Salmon Packing Go which plant is located on Wood river.
 Anyone who is in the fisbina game on the Pacific coast knows Doe; probably Alaskans know him the least of all.
 Joe and his son Junior chin from the old block, visited aboard Ithe 5. s. Starr while the vessel an- lchored at Dillingham; on the last voyage, and enjoyed a few hours visit with old and new friends. Deputy U. S. Marshal Frlickenstein Ia gentleman from the sole of his shoes to the top of his hat, was there, as also was John NickoIsen. pioneer resident of that region.
 With these on board the ship, a
 grand old time was had by all.
 But to get back to Joe Alert, and built like a hercules, countenance reflecting strong character, joy and health, Joe proved to be exception ally fluent, and versatile, and kept the gathering interested while re- counting stirring adventures.
 They've got a great bunch of men out Westward, from the rank and file up and among the officials, few can cut-lank Joe.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-06-10
SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY,

R. staff, is busy out there now with crew putting in two cul- verts after which the small wood en structure will be done away with.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-06-10

At the end Of the s. s. Stars Westerly run, the vessel is about TOO miles west of Honolulu and about 800 miles from the boundary line which separates Alaska from Russia. This is just beyond Attu Island the last island in the Aleu- tian group,
Seward daily gateway., 1930-06-10
GOODBYE BRIDGE,

Tn bridge as Grouse Lake which tor years has crossed the small s-ream leading into the other lake ar creek, will shortly vanish and ta it's stead will be a gravel cross ing. Henry Frost, of the B. of P.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-06-10

Railroad crews are busily en- gagged near the city limits burning certain areas near the track as a precautionary measure against possible forest fires
Seward daily gateway., 1930-06-10

The Gateway; the paper with 'It".
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