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Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
CLASS RINGS

The jolly Juniors have at last de-
cided on their class rings. OF
course they are to be in their class
colors, gold and black. The rings
this year are from the L. G. Balfour
Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
The class of 1915 was the first to
set class rings; the classes from
1906 on lad gotten pins, and prior
to that-nothing.
We get and have, for several
years, gotten our class rings in our
Junior year, because we have longer
to enjoy them and because in our
Senior year we have the expense of
getting graduating clothes.
The reason why we get and have
gotten class rings or pins is that
many of our number, we are sorry
to say, never so further than the
twelfth grade. To them, you can
easily see, their rings bring back
memories of their school days in
Milford High. The class ring or pin
also brings back memories of High
School days to the student, who
goes further in preparing himself to
meet the world. And what is bet
ter than a remembrance of our rast
to spur us on to do greater things
in the future.
-Elva Davis
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
FROM BARGES TO PLEASURE YACHTS
IS STORY OF LOCAL SHIPYARD
Capt. Vinyard Tells of Changes
And Growth of His Business
Since, He Sailed Here From
Wisconsin.

Captain Vinyard was first known
as a shipbuilder when he built a
boat named the Delaware" in the
State of Wisconsin. He later sailed
this boat through the Great Lakes
and st. Lawrence River and on
down the Atlantic Coast. When he
reached the Delaware Bay he chang
ed his course and sailed up the Mis-
pilliOn River to the town of Mil
ford.
He bought a lot at the foot of
Franklin street on the waterfront
and established a freight and pas
senger business between Milford
and Philadelphia. Later his boat
burned but was rebuilt, and named
the Emma Rice"
Captain Vinyard decided to change
his freight business into shipbuild-
ing, being located in a timber sec
tiOn. lie built some commercial
schOOners and barges. AS his bust
ness increased he bought from Cap
tain Jim" Sipple another lot ad
joining his shipyard.
Later he constructed another
large building for shipbuilding pur-
poses. Since then he has built sub
marine chasers. tug boats for the
U. s. Navy, and a large boat for the
Cuban-American Sugar Company
located at Cuba.
In 1924 he received a contract
from the U. S. Coast Guard to build
ten boats to be completed in one
year. The boats were completed in
nine months, averaging about 25
days to each boat.
The company then decided to
build pleasure yachts ranging from
so to 55 feet long. They contain all
of the modern conveniences such as.
electric lights, frigidaires, running
water, gas for cooking purposes,
staterooms accommodating seven
passengers and a crew of two.
The yachts are equipped with two
one hundred and fifty horsepower
engines; each engine when running
at top speed burns about Is gallons
of gasoline an hour.
1t is a standard made yacht and is
known all over the world.
Seventeen such yachts have been
built since 1926. The company en-
plOys about thirty experienced
wOrkmen to build these boats.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
COUNTY ATTENDANCE

The Kent County Special Districts
Attendance Contest for the month
of September resulted in the follow
ing attendance report: Dover came
first with a high school attendance
of $50 for boys and 96.1 for girls, a
grade attendance of 96.9 for boys
and 97.5 for girls, making a total of
96.6 for the school. Smyrna follow
ed with the high school boys MAX
ing 979 and the girls 96.6, while
the grade boys made 95.1 and the
girls $40. This made an average of
964. Milford held third place in the
contest with high school attend
ance of 92.6 for boys and 96.8 for
girls, and a grade attendance of 94.7
for boys and 96.9 for. girls. making
an average of 9539 for Milford
School. Harrington came fourth
with an attendance of 1888. Caesar
Rodney. fifth and last. had an aver
age of 9l.4.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
SIXTH GRADE
SETS RECORD
1907 Banking In Section 60

The thirty-fve pupils in Miss
Kitchens sections of the sixth
grade had 1OO%o banking on Octo-
Der II. Many new accounts were
opened. The officers helping with
banking are Florence Paquette, Al
ma Tease and Henry Wilkins. Miss
McCallum of the Educational Thrift
Society visited the room to give
congratulations.
AS a reward each. child received a
badge. The class will receive a new
book for the library, too.
In the sixth grade, a committee is
planning a Halloween party for the
asst Friday afternoon of the month.
The Delaware Art Club in the
sixth grade has elected for its Off
GERS: President, Alma Tease; vice
president, James Salevan; secre-
tary, Florence Paquette. Miss Shep-
hard, art director, supervised the
making of very attractive portfolios.
The children are collecting sam
pies of clay. Later in the year they
will do clay modelling.
The autumn cOlOrs furnish mater
ial for the project now in progress.
Many warm cOlOrs are foInd in the
leaves. Booklets are being made.
The boys are collecting old birds
nests, which they will classify.
Last week was Fire Prevention
Week. The sixth grade observed it
by making posters. In addition,
each child wrote a paper on How
to Prevent Fires" and took paIt in
Il general discussion about the slO-
gan, AN ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure"
The sixth grade history classes
have some interesting collections Of
old money, darts, arrow heads, and
German jewelry, which lave heen
on display.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
ATHLETICS HEAD HELPED HOSPITAL
A's Came Here Through Eff
forts Of DIR. Walter Grier.

DR.. Walter L. Grier, in an inter-
view at his Lake View avenue home
last Thursday, explained why it is
that Mr.. Connie Mack's Worlds
Champion ball players all have
their teeth cared for at the L. D.
Caulk Dental Laboratories here and
why Mr.. Mack has been good
enough to give two exhibition base
ball games in Milford within the
past four years for the benefit of
the Emergency Hospital.
DR.. Grier is well-knOwn as one of
| the heads of the l.. d. Caulk Com
pany and is very friendly with Mr..
Mack and his famous team. He has
entertained Mr.. Mack and the diff
ferent members of the team innum-
cradle times at his home and,
through the Caulk Company, has eX-
tended to them great deal of dem
tai service.
Dentistry first entered their rela-
tions about five or six years ago
when George Earnshaw was trOub-
led with an abscessed tooth. Dr..
Grier offered the Caulk COmpany's
services to Earnshaw and also to
any of the other members of the
team who should need it. When Mr..
Mack learned how easily bad teeth
may ruin ones health he decided to
be more particular about his team
in this respect. He sent all his
players down here to the labOrator-
les at various times and consider
able work was done by DR.. Clyde A.
Nelson, the head dentist.
At about that time, the Milford
Emergency Hospital was in need of
new equipment and had no money
with which to buy it. Dr. Grier
conceived the idea of having an eX-
hibition game and asked Mr.. Mack
how much it would cost for him to
bring enough of his players here
for two teams to play such a game
for the benefit of the hospital. Mr..
Mack, delighted at having an oppOr-
tunity to partly repay his Obliga-
tions, insisted on bringing his
team free. And so in the spring of
1926 the game was played and the
proceeds, $500, went to the hospi-
tai. With this money surgical sup
plies were bought for the operating
room and a tablet was placed over
the door to tell where the money
came from.
During the 1929 season Mr.. Mack
heard that the hospital was again
short of money, so he promised DR..
Grier that if the Athletics won the
American League pennant that year
he would bring them down for an
other exhibition game for the hos
pital. This he did last month, net
ting $1,000 in gate receipts. In this
game DR.. Grier's son, Garrett, play
ed as shortstop for one of the teams
and played a very good game,
knocking one home run.
Several years ago on one of Mr..
Mack's trips to Milford, he had his
own teeth examined. They were
found to be in rather bad condition,
but DR.. Nelson soon had them all in
good shape and since then Mr..
Mack has fully appreciated the high
degree of dentistry practices at our
Caulk Laboratories.
H. D. S. 81
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
VARIED FIELDS
ATTRACT NURSES
Miss BOWser Tells OF Many OppOr-
tunitieS For Graduate Nurses.

Young women of high school age
considering the future and building
toward a possible life work may
come upon the profession of nurs-
ing. Its possibilities are so many
in this year, nineteen hundred and
thirty, that it is interesting to con-
slider them.
In the business world certain
qualities are basic, and an eXecu-
tive, be he man or woman, must
possess them; but the profession of
nursing is a cOlorful thing offering
expression variously to the talents
of business ability, love or research,
the qualities which make an effici-
ent teacher, or even the old fash
ioned and valuable gift of seeing
the world through other and less
fortunate eyes than ones own.
With a good foundation of high
school and college, if practicable,
the years of training offer an excel
lent discipline of mind and body and
the graduate nurse sees spread be-
fore her a wide field from which to
make choice.
Each year adds some new phase
to a profession which has already
become very specialized, so that a
nurse of today may do little or no
private nursing.
School nursing, industrial nurs-
ing, the fascinating research work
which is offered in laboratory SER
vice, X-ray therapy, and all of the
allied therapies. anesthesia, which
is one of the most interesting spe-
cialities, public health nursing with
its broadening influences, and the
various phases of general hospital
duty are among the fields.
But it seems strangely impossible
to separate the profession of nurs-
ing from some spark which glOws
in it, or to analyZe coldly the ad-
vantages of such a live thing.
1t opens paths which grow in
creasingly interesting to those
whose love for it can find them.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
THE RIGHTS OF
PROPERTY OWNERS

Some people do not seem to be-
lieve that property owners should
have rights, at least they disregard
those rights.
This is brought to our attention
more than ever since school has be-
gun. We are trying to beautify our
school ground by sowing grass in
the front yard. But apparently
some of the pupils are not interest
ed in this as they persist in walk
ing or riding bicycles across the
grass, especially at the corners.
Whenever the rest of the yard is
green with grass, the corners will
be bare.
Another way the children espe-
cially disregard the rights of prop
erty owners is by writing with
chalk or pencil upon buildings or
furniture. We are glad that we
have not been bothered with this so
much yet as we were at the old
school building. There was not
only marking with pencil and chalk
but also cutting with knives and
other sharp instruments upon the
desks. Now that we have new,
clean desks it is up to us to keep
them So
If each individual would make it
his duty to see that no one disre-
CARDS the rights of others in any
way, we would find that this world
would be much more beautiful and
the townspeOple whose sidewalks
and lawns have been defacei would
feel more kindly toward the pupils
of Milford School.
Mildred Burlingame
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
NEW MUSIC SUPERVISOR
MISS ELIZABETH CATHCART

Miss Cathcart's home town is
WinnsbOrO, South Carolina. She has
studied music in many schools, and
is a graduate in music from the Gin
cinnati Conservatory of Music. In
the year 1929 she received her Mas
ter of Arts degree at Columbia Uni
Tersity. 1t was here also in 1929
that she gave a voice recital. For
three years she was the director of
music in the Greenville High School
at Greenville, South Carolina. Miss
Cathcart was the supervisor of mu-
sic in the city schools of Rock Hill,
South Carolina. Miss Cathcart thor
oughly enjoys her work and likes to
sing.
The Glee Clubs under her super
vision will give an Operetta entitled
Miss Cherry Blossom" which they
hope to give before Christmas or
Immediately afterwards. In the
spring the Glee Clubs will enter the
State Music Contest, which is en-
tirely new for Delaware this year.
She hopes at the end of the year to
put on a musical program which
will give a demonstration of all the
work done in the grades between
the Fourth and the Tenth.
Miss Cathcart is a fair auburn
haired young lady with a beautiful
soprano voice. With this art of hers
she is very generous in sharing
when it is possible for her to do so.
Her manner of speech Immediately
suggests the locality in which she
was born. Her pleasant manner
with all students is one to be ad
mired. AS this is her very first Wis
it in Delaware let It be a pleasant
one for Miss Cathcart.
Elizabeth James
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
HUNDRED PUPILS
SERVED DAILY
Gertrude Shew Describes High
School Cafeteria.

It is very interesting to watch the
Cafeteria staff at work. They are
busy preparing lunch for an aver
age of 100 pupils. Miss Baker ar
ranges and superintends the work
that is DONE At IL o'clock if one
could hide and watch all proceed
ings, he would see girls at work
wrapping sandwiches, making salad
and stacking cakes, crackers, and
bottles of ice cold milk on the cOun-
ter. He would also see the cook
busy making soup, crOquettes or
some other hot food; meanwhile
keeping an eye on the cocoa which
is on the stove.
or course it takes time and steady
work to be prepared to feed 100
hungry mouths whose owners come
running, pushing, and showing
through the Railways promptly at II
o'clock. Such delicious Odors come
pouring through the corridors when
that barring door is opened! And
how one has to watch his toes when
that stampede of hungry pupils
bursts into the room!
The hiding one might as well fol-
low the crowd and do as the rest do.
Grab q napkin, fork and spoon,
snatch up a tray always seeing if
you can beat the one ahead of you.
You circle the room and land at the
counter. My! What a variety of
foods. Salmon crOquettes, two kinds
of sandwiches, one choice being let
tuce and tomato, the other egg and
pickle, cups of cocoa, bottles of
milk, row upon row of cakes and
crackers, fruit salad, gelatine and
last but not least ice cream. At the
end of the counter stands a girl who
adds up the amount of your pur-
chases and hands you a slip of pa
per with the total on it. An aver
age dinner, really enough for any
one, does not cost over twenty
cents.
You pass on to the cashier, pay
your bill and then sit down to one
of the many tables and thoroughly
enjoy your dinner, talking and
laughing all the while with your
many friends around you.
When you have finished your
lunch you pick up your tray and
leave the room. You have to watch
carefully when you get up from
your chair and do so quickly for
there is always someone waiting for
your place, who does not care how
quickly he grabs your chair from
under you. AS you leave the room
you enter the hall where there
stands a high dish rack with differ
ent compartments for your dishes.
You are, of course, after such
lovely dinner, expected to clean up
and place your dishes in their pro-
per places in the rack. This makes
it much easier for the dishwashers
TO do their work for the dishes are
all stacked and ready to place in
the dishpan to wash. When this is
all finished only twenty-five min
utes of your noon hour has gone.
You have the rest of the hour to
spend at your leisure.
Gertrude Shew
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
STEEL LOCKERS
MUCH ENJOYED
Safe Place For Books And Wrap,

One of the features of the new
school well worth mentioning is the
individual lockers. They are green
metal cabinets divided into individ-
ual compartments about foot in
width and about six feet in height.
Rows of these extend along each
side of the corridors wherever there
is Il space between the doors of the
class rooms.
The inside of each has a single
shelf across the top under which are
three hooks, one on each side of the
locker, on which to hang the wraps.
Each pupil has his or her key
which insures the safety of his be-
longings.
This is certainly an improve
ment over the way of the old school.
There we had two cloak rooms on
each floor, one for the boys, and one
for the girls. In the rush after
school, coats and hats were often
knocked down and >trampled upon,
and often things were taken. On the
second floor were a few lockers f.
not enough to supply everyone
which one had to share with an
other person. No one had keys,
and, as in the case of the cloak
rooms, things were often missing.
The pupils who did not have
lockers kept their books in the
desks of their home rooms. Again
things disappeared.
Now, however, everyone has
safe place in which to keep his
books, and wraps in a convenient
and orderly way.
M. Brulatour
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
SOPHS PLANNING
CLASS PARTY
Four Committees Appointed

A very interesting Halloween
party is being planned by the Soph-
omores, to be held in the school
gymnasium on the thirtieth. The
party is intended for the Sophomores
exclusively, but the teachers and
officers of the other classes will be
invited. The committees are as fol-
lows: Decoration, John ManiOve,
Bill Stevenson, Arthur Walls,
George Vinyard; refreshment, Ethel
Collins, Thelma Beebe, Martha Nc
Cullough; entertainment, Velma
Gray, Doris Mills, Ella Morgan,
Madeline Emory; invitation, Ellen
Sipple and Marie Rogers.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
SOON TO SELECT PLAY

The Senior play committee COM
posed of Mary Vinyard, Mildred
Burlingame, Bob Yelkes, Jennie Lu
Wooten, Ruth Kitchens, Maxine
Grove and Ethel Lord have been
busy for several weeks reading
plays with the idea of choosing one
to be presented before Christmas.
The choice has narrowed down to
three, so they expect to be actually
rehearsing very soon.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
UNIQUE CLUB IN
THIRD GRADE
Tests For Membership

In an effort to have better writ
ing, a penmanship club has been
formed, in Mrs. Cordray's section,
called the Pencil Driving Club. In
order to belong to the P. D. C. each
child has to pass inspection on
three points-position arm move
ment, and neatness. Then the trial
driver gets a license and becomes a
regular driver. When his work
falls down, the driver loses his Ii
cense, so we are betting that the
penmanship in this section of the
third grade is going to improve rap
idly. Here's hoping that the P. D.
c. will soon have a hundred per
cent membership!
Clubs seem to be popular these
days. The pupils of the fourth grade
have organized a Delaware Art
Club. They have elected the follow
ing officers: President, Alice Clea-
yer; secretary, Irene French; treas
urer, Helen Kaiser. The club men,
bers have made portfolios in which
to keep their work during the year.
In the same section, the automo-
bile race to Florida is the subject of
most discussions. Each row has Sc
lected an automobile in which to
travel. At the present time, the
Studebaker is ahead in the race.
The following pupils are in the
Studebaker row: Oscar French, Vir-
dia Lynch, Charlotte Grove, and
Anna Mae Dowdy.
Both sections of the fourth grade
have eletced captains for girls and
boys dodge ball teams. The cap
tains are Alice Cleaver, Elizabeth
Elliott, Joseph Emory, and Eddie
Thomas.
Finley Mason and Virginia Hobbs
of the seventh grade are both sick
with typhoid fever.
Mrs. McGinness' section of the
first grade has organized an Art
Club. So far they have made very
attractive easels.
The captains of the spelling race
that is being held in the sixth grade
are Lucy Sharp and Virgil Wroten.
Lucy's team is ahead at present.
Both sections of the sixth grade
are making a collection of pictures
to be used in the study of geogra-.
ply.
We are sorry to report that Eliza
beth Cleaver is very ill at this time.
Section 81 has twenty-five pupils
with perfect attendance so far this
year:
Section 81 has made spelling
booklets for this month, and so far
seventeen pupils have not missed
word.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

Miss Marker is starting a shelf in
the library which is to be devoted
particularly to books which will in
terest the Junior High boys and
girls. -Four new Junior Guild books
have been added recently. They are
Blacksmith of Vilno." by Eric P.
Kelley; "Ood-le-up, the Wanderer," ,"
by Lide and .JOhansen; EARLY
Noon" by Sandburg. and THE Cold
smith of Florence" by Katherine
Gibson. ,A.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
HURT BY FALL

Miss Dorothy Shuster, former su-
pervisor of music, fell from a chair
on which she was standing to put
decorations on her blackboard last
week, and received bad cut on her
forehead. Five stitches were taken
and Miss Shuster was unable to
teach for the remainder of the week
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

The dining-room corner of the
Home Economics suite was the
scene of the first luncheon party of
the season last Friday, when Sara
McColley served lunch to Miss Rex
trew, head of the Home Economics
department at the University of Del
aware; Miss King, cooking instruc-
tor at Delaware; Miss Stone and
Mr.. Shilling. The visitors had spent
the morning inspecting the depart
ment and observing the preparation
of the cafeteria lunch. They seemed
to thoroughly enjoy the lunch which
was served to them.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

On Tuesday afternoon, Mr.. Bow
die assembled the foot ball team in
front of the school for the picture
which Mr.. Tropea was to make. The
photograph will be run on this page
next week.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

Josh" Bennett will be out of the
game for the rest of the foot ball
season as the result of a bone bruise
received in the FELTON, game last
Friday.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

Miss Hill lin English class dis
cussion-"Which would you rather
do, steal or beg?"
Glass thinks deeply and silence
reigns in the room.
Bob Yerkes lin stage whisper) -
"I'd bOrrOw!"
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

The Juniors have finally voted to
get one of the rings shown them by
the L. G. Balfour representative,
from AttleborO, Mass.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

Every member of the Junior class
has completed his book report for
the second ranking period.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

The Sophomore sewing class is
beginning work on a new project
this week. They are to make wool
en- dresses.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

The third year French class is
anXiously awaiting the arrival of
new text books. The book will be
Hugo's Les MiserabIes."
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24

Mrs. Rogers section, section 61,
is busy collecting leaves for leaf
booklet so that they can learn to
identify at least ten trees of Della
ware