Milford chronicle., 1931-04-03

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to meet So shaking hands once
more they parted apparently gooC
friends.
The boys when they knew that q
circus was coming were in high
glee, they would watch the bills
! posted on the vacant places in the
/ town, and would endeaVOr to imi-
tate in a way the men who perform
ed on the horizontal bars with some
time resulted disastrous.
! The boys in those days went many
miles to meet the show, which gem
orally came from Milford. We would
walk perhaps mile, when some one
would dig a hole in the ground and
then put his ear in the place to see
if he could hear the rumble of the
wagons, and we would go on that
way, until we had passed Carey's
Cross Roads (now Redden) and as
far north as what is now called Rob-
bins, or until we met the show
coming, when we turned back and
followed the wagons into town.
When the circus had arrived and
departed it left in its wake a crowd
of boys who were very much out of
repair, some with broken arms,
skinned heads and twisted legs, all
brought about by trying to initiate
the shOwmen who performed in the
many trapeze acts. TO the old timers
if now living, where you present
when the steam calliope first burst
forth in such a meOdiOus sound? or
perhaps you was one who ran FOR
cover.
The shows of the present day are
not satisfying to the people as the
shows of the early days. The people
living in those days did not need
much to satisfy their minds, but
today with all the glittering shows
which are exhibiting, the people are
clamOring for more of better and
nature in the way of
People have become
restless. The American people have |
become contaminated by the influx |
of the foreign element, who demand |
more at the hands IF the public than |
the shows of former days, they want |
something more spectacular, some
thing which will cause the churches
to be deserted, into an atmosphere |
which will bring about the above |
things, the American people seem to
join with willing hands.
The End
Party
A large party of relatives and
friends gathered at the home OF Mr..
md Mrs. Joseph s. Short, Sr., on
Saturday evening last to celebrate
he Goth birthday of Mr.. Short.
A large cake had been baked and
)n this Sc candles had been arrang-
I'd, and with an. abundance of ice
cream all present had a splendid
.ime. Those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. S. Short, Sr., Mr.. and Mrs.
!. S. Short, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
in all services. These sisters
'eing less than Is years of age, are
loted throughout the peninsula for
heir singing, preaching and sue
ess in revival work.
Oakley Church is located about ,
our miles west of this town on the
tone road leading from Ellendale
o Greenwood.
lone Burned
The home and outbuildings on the
arm owned and occupied by Roland
in Prime Hook Neck,
Ias burned to the ground on Mon
ay night last. The fire companies
f Milford arrived too late to save
ny of the buildings. The horses and
attle were saved but the feed in the
arms was destroyed. The furni-
IRE in the main building was also
urned. This is the farm occupied by
lr. and Mrs. N. D. Draper, deceased
0r several years before their deaths.
lr. and Mrs. Draper were the par
nts of Mrs. Roland Beauchamp.
The sympathy of their neighbors
nd friends goes out to Mr.. and Mrs.
in the loss of their
Dlendid home.
bltuaTy
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Penuel, aged
years, wife of Harvey Penuel, a
rOminent farmer residing near
Obbins Station, tE1ee miles south
Glendale, died on Saturday night
the Beebe Hospital at Lewes of
It Short and daughter Doris, Miss
lille Short, Miss Annie Short, Mr..
I'd Mrs. John DerricksOn, Mr.. and
rs. C. A .TimmOns and sons, Jun
r and Alton, e. F. Whitney, Rev.
I'd Mrs. ]. NJ. Faulkner and Mrs.
lima McKnett of Wilmington.
aiSing Chiefs
IOka Tribe, No 35, /. o. r. M, HI
i'll on Monday evening, April 6,
Use their chiefs. Great Sachem
rank W. Oliphant of Seaford will
, present not only to install the
liefs but will deliver an address
hich it would he will for all men, II
rs of the tribe to hear The ad-
ess of the Great Sachem will be of
ore than usual importance. All
embers are cordially invited to be
esent on this occasion. t.
re
On Wednesday of last week the
emen were called out to go to the
me of Harry Ainey, residing near
Illman's Cross Roads, where a
imney fire was burning. They sue N
eded in subduing it without doing
y further damage. III
lkley Church ReOpened HI
Oakley Methodist Protestant
Iurch which has been closed for Ill
me time, undergoing repairs, was
ened for services on Sunday last.
The Cherry Sisters of Rehoboth
of diseases. HI
Mrs. Penuel was a woman who