davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
KENT GRAND JURY
COMPLETES WORK
A Record for Quick Disposal Of
Business was Made OH Monday

A record of expediting business in
the Kent County Courts by both the
grand jury and the court was es-
tablished on Monday, the opening
day of the April session of County
Courts, when the grand jury con
sidered eight indictments and re-
turned seven true bills and ignored
one. After completing their work in
less than three hours, they were dis
charged by the court. The court ad-
journed until next Monday.
The indictments returned follow:
Thomas Smith and James Price,
charged with breaking and entering
with intent to commit larceny; two
indictments against Robert G.,
Banks, alias r. G. Banks, one for
false pretense and one for forgery:
Albert Collins, transporting liquor;
Willard r. Wright and Hiram Cor
don, both for issuing worthless
checks A forthwith capias was
ordered for Wright and Gordon.
In the case of Woodrow Wilson
and Harry Wilson, accused of illegal
possession of liquor, the grand jury
Turn 10 Page 8, PicdSel
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
COUNT. AGENT EXPLAIN
SEED CORN TREATMENT
Results OF Experiments Conducted
Over Five Years are Explained

For the past five years demon
stratiOns have been conducted III
Kent county to show the economic
value Of treating seed corn with dust
disinfectants for the control of root
rot and other diseases that are car
ricd on the seed, in addition to bring
ing TO the attention of the farmers
the fact that this seed treatment will
also stimulate the termination and
result in an increased yield per acre
of more solid corn.
A few farms have been selected
each year by county agent Russell
E. Wilson on which to conduct these
seed treatment demonstrations in
cooperation with DR.. J. T.. Adams,
plant pathOlOgist of the University
of Delaware and the State Board of
Agriculture. and some very interest
ing results have been obtained with
reference TO the difference in yields
in favor of the treated seed and the
general condition of the corn at
harvest.
With the exception Of one farm,
this project was conducted on the
same eight farms in 1929 as were
used for this purpose in 1923. and
previous to this period similar dem
Onstrations were established on five
other farms, two of which were used
for this work for three consecutive
years. This project in 1890, however,
was carried on with an entirely new
group of eight farmers in order that
corn growers might become inter
Cstcd in this seed treatment practice,
also as a means OF securing yield
Turn 10 Pdgc 6, Pleased
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
REV. c. |. CANDEE
NAMED president
OF PENSION BOARD
Commission To Aid Aged
Persons Effects It's
Organization
OPEN OFFICE MAY 1
Alfred |. dupont To Con-
tinue Payments Until
June 80

Members of the Old Age PPension
Commission appointed by Governor
c. Douglass Buck under an act
passed by the Legislature at it's re-
cent session, met at Dover last
Thursday and organized by electing
the Rev. Charles l.. Candee, presi-
dent, and William f. Metten, tenn
pOrary secretary.
An important feature of the meet
ing was the announcement by Alfred
! dupont that he would continue
payments of old age. pensions to
those selected by him until June 30
after which time the State will take
over the work.
Mrs. Laura Calhoun Walls, of Lin
coin, who has had charge of the
pension work for Mr.. du P0nt was
present and gave the members of the
new commission much information
concerning the operation of the
work under her direction for Mr.
DUPONT. This offer of Mr. DUPONT
was greatly appreciated by the mem
bCrs of the commission.
1t was decided to open an Office in
Wilmington about May 1 by which
time it is hoped that a secretary of
the body to be largely in charge of
its work, will be named
The commission will also select
corps of investigators who will con-
slider and report upon all the appli-
cations made. There will be an in
vestigation made of every applica-
ton which is filed. The commission
has not yet selected secretary and
the necessary number of investiga-
tors. The members have more than
200 applications for these positions
and the applications come from all
parts of the country. The employees
of the commission will be carefully
selected. The commission has been
given an appropriation of 100000
Il year for the next two years to take
care of the old age penBions
The members of the commission
arc William f. Mettcn. appointed
Turn 10 Page o. FicaScI
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
One KILLED, TWO
HURT WHEN CAR
STRIKES TREE
Mrs. C. w. Coleman Sue
cumbs; Daughter, Friend
Hurt Near Frederica
ON WAY TO PARTY
Those In Wrecked Car
Were Going To Attend A
Wedding Anniversary
ON WAY TO PARTY

One woman was killed, another
has bruises and decorations of the
face and a possible fracture of the
skull, and a daughter of the dead
woman suffered painful cuts about
the head and face as the result of an
automobile accident on the main
highway, about two miles north of
Frederick, Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Mrs. Sarah Anna Coleman, aged
As years, wife of G. w. Coleman, 81
Atlantic avenue, Richardson Park, a
detective on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, died almost instantly
when her skull was fractured and
her neck broken. Her daughter,
Alice, aged II years, and Mrs. Mary
S. Rhodes, aged AZ years, a book
keeper at the Delaware State Hos
pital, Farnhurst, were the other
victims. They were brought to the
Milford Emergency Hospital, at Mil
ford where they were given medical
attention.
Mrs. Rhodes was driving south in
a Chevrolet coupe, in which Mrs.
IOOlCllluu dlu iCi uuNAtolibSi "NAS
ing. After passing a car being oper-
ated by John Reustle of Philadel-
phia, and getting back into line, she
seemed to suddenly lose control of
the car, which plunged down an EN-
bankment and crashed into an cleo
trio pole. The impact crushed the
roof of the car and caused the in
stant death to Mrs. Coleman and the
injuries to the other occupants. Mr..
Reustle's car was forced off the road
when the car ahead of him went
over the embankment, and he ran
into a field, but his car remained
righted.
The injured were removed to the
hospital by passing motorists, and
the body Of Mrs. Coleman was taken
to the funeral parlOrs of w. A.
Berry, in Milford, where an inquest
Turn to Page 6, PicaScl
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
SUSSEX ENDEAVOR
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Frank d. Carey, OF Milton, Named
President for Ensuing Year

f3l SUSSEX ENDEAVOR GROUP
s4At the annual Sussex County
Christian Endeavor convention at
Georgetown the following officers
were elected to serve the ensuing
year:
President. Frank b. Carey, Mil
ton; vice-presdent, Roby Day. Sea-
ford: second vice-president, Clar-
cnce Welch, Milford; secretary, Miss
Anna Mae Swain, Georgetown; as
sistant secretary, Miss Mildred
Simpler, Georgetown; treasurer,
Mrs. L. C. Darby, Milton; junior and
intermediate superintendent, Mrs.
Ralph E. Nichols, Delmar; publicity
superintendent, Mrs. Harold Singer,
Milford missionary superintendent,
Mrs. w. e. Ritchie, Delmar; chair
man lookout committee, j. E. Tin
ley, Delmar: superintendent Quiet
Hour and Tenth Legion. Virgil c.
Littleton, Georgetown; chorister. the
Rev J. L. Nichols, Milford pastroal
counsellor, the Rev. l.. c. Randall,
Milton.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
Chicken Thieves
Whipped Saturday
ing Foul liz SUSSEX County. WhippingS We're
administered At NeJV Castle County WOrkhOUse

F'ifty-live lashes were given four
men at the New Castle County
Workhouse on Saturday as the re-
suit of sentences in the Court of
General Sessions at Georgetown on
charges of chicken stealing.
Fred Winder, who has served
three terms in the New Castle
County Workhouse for larceny, was
sentenced to serve IS months, pay
1928 restitution money to Elmer
Hastings, of near Laurel, from
whom he stole II chickens on the
night of April !, and whipped with
Is lashes at the workhOuse.
Oliver Deshields, an accomplice,
was sentenced to four months, or
dered to pay $2S restitution money
to Hastings, and on Saturday was
whipped with ten lashes.
Stephen Sims, of near Bridgeville,
indicted at this term of court for
stealing $4.75 from Roland Nelson,
a merchant of Northwest Fork Dis
trict, was sentenced to serve four
months in the New Castle County
WOrkhouse
One year in the New Castle Coun-
ty Workhouse, $24 as restitution
money and whipped Saturday with
ten lashes was the sentence impos-
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
FIREMEN BUSY
OVER WEEKEND
Seven Fires Keep Carlisle
Fire Company Members
On The Jump

The members of the Carlisle Fire
Company of Milford were kept busy
over the weekend, when a total of
seven fires were noted on Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. The first of the
series of blaZes was that at the home
of Roland Messick whose autmObile
had backfired and set fire to the car.
The fire was eXtinguished without
any damage. Saturday evening the
firemen were called to a vacant
house on East Front street, North
Milford, owned by William Gray.
The building was aadly burned be-
fore the flames were gotten under
control. About midnight the fire
men were called to the same place
where the smOuldering fire had
again broken out. Sunday morning
the fire company answered an alarm
which took them to a woods on the
Helen Lewis farm. Shortly after
noon the fire worked its way to the
old drying house on the farm and
the ilremen were again called to the
place. The building was destroyed.
At the height of the blaze, sparks
carried to the farm of Herman
Sharp and set fire to one of the out
buildings. The firemen were able to
eXtinguish the fire without any
great damage. The fire on. Monday
morning was on West street where
a chimney fire was burning.
The Carlisle Fire Company has re-
ceived two gifts of money this week.
The first was $500 from friend,
and the other was a gift of $500
from Herman Sharp, whose farm
buildings the fircmen saved on Sun
day afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24

cd on Walter Oney, of Laurel,
charged with stealing IL chickens
from William c. Littleton, near Lau-
rel, on the night of March IA.
Lindsay Moore, of near Bridge
vile, who was convicted of stealing
Is chickens from John E. Wiley,
near Cannon Station, on March 8,
was sentenced in the Court of Gen
eral Sessions to be whipped with
ten lashes at the New Castle County
WOrkhOuse, to serve six months in
prison and pay $13 restitution.
Pleading guilty to a charge of
stealing four chickens from the
farm of Joseph Sampson, near
Bridgeville, on March 6, Norman
Prattis was sentenced to serve four
months in the workhOuse, to pay SO
as restitution and to be whipped
with ten lashes.
So much chicken stealing has been
going on throughout Sussex county
within the past few months that the
judges have decided to break it up if
possible by imposing lashes on the
culprits.
Governor C. Douglass Buck vetoed
the bill at the recent session of the
Legislature making it mandatory
for the courts to impose lashes in
all cases of chicken stealing.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
DELEGATES ATTEND D.
A. R. RALLY AT CAPITAL
Weeks Convention End Tomorrow.
Miss Scott Reports Activities

The National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton is meeting this week in annual
session in Washington. Many Della
wareans are attending this conven-
ton and will take part in the pro-
gram.
Tho convention was called to
order Monday morning by the presi-
dent general, Mrs. Lowell Fletcher
Hobart, and sessions will continue
through Saturday afternoon. The an
hual banquet will be held Saturday
evening in the new Willard Hotel.
Mrs. Edward w. Cooch, State
regent, went to Washington over
the weekend for the sessions and
Mrs Walter Williams, regent of
Caesar Rodney Chapter, and Miss
Margaret z. Scott, president of the
Blue Hens Chickens branch arrived
on Sunday.
Miss Scott gave a report of the
activities of the Blue Hens Chick
ems Wednesday morning and at
tended a reception given by Mrs.
Samuel S. Arentz, national president
of the Children of the American
Revolution Monday afternoon.
Others attending are: Mrs. Ray
mond Frederick, Caesar Rodney
Chapter; the Misses Spruance,
Smyrna; Mrs. l. w. Belts and Mrs.
Jeanette DOdd. of the Colonel Has
let Chapter, Dover; Mrs. Charles l.
Kent Vicp State regent. and Mrs
Robert w. TOmlinson, member of
the House Committee of the National
organization.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
University Of Delaware
And Twelve Other Della
ware Schools Entered
MILFORD HIGH WILL
RUN WITH CLAYMONT
Will Take Part In Mile
Relays For High School
Teams In Event

The University Of Delaware and
twelve other Delaware schools are
entered in the thirty-seventh annual
University of Pennsylvania relay
carnival at Franklin Field, Philadel-
phia, today and Saturday, according
to the program of events, showing
pole position, etc, released on Mon
day.
The school entered are Whining
ton High, Salesianum, DUPONT High,
Ferris Industrial, Howard High,
Newark High, ClaymOnt High,
Caesar Rodney High, Middletown
High, Dover High, Milford High and
Wesley Collegiate Institute, of
Dover. ...'
Salesianum and ClaymOnt are
scheduled both Friday and Saturday
while the remainder of the Delaware
teams will compete on Saturday.
The Sallies, ClaymOnt and Univer-
sity of Delaware will compete in two
events in the carnival while the rest
of the teams will engage in one. -:
Delaware, in second pole posi-
tion, will compete in the College
Mile Relays, event No. 68 to be run
off at 2:45 o'clock along with Johns
Hopkins. Ithaca College, Northwest
ern, Elon, Amherst and Temples and
in the American Championships in
the Middle Atlantic States c. A. A.
Glass "B" One Mile Relay Champion
ship, event No. so, to be run off at
4:1O o'clock along with SwarthmOre,
Dickson, Johns Hopkins, Muhhlen-
berg, Juniata, Haverford, Alfred, st.
Joseph's and Manhattan, at the No.
6 post.
Wilmington High will compete in
the high school mile relays in event
No. So to be run off at 1:10 o'clock
along with Upper Darby, Pine Grove,
Media, Cardoya. Chester, West Ches-
ter, Allentown, OverbrOOk and Erie
at the number nine post.
Salesianum, entered in two events,
tTHrn 10 Page 8, Pleajtl
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
MILFORD GUARD
KEEN FOR ARMORY
Holland Property Talked OF as
Location if Bill is Signed

Providing Representative Van Sci
ver's bill, which passed both houses
of the State Legislature, is signed by
Governor Buck, plans which have
been considered for a new armory
for Milford would give it an ideal
location and one of the best town
armories in the State, for a town of
MilfOrd's size. The measure had not
! been signed at the time the Legisla-
ture adjourned last week but the
Governor has thirty days in which to
sign bills not given his approval be-
fore.
The measure appropriated $G5,000
for the armory. Adjutant General J.
Austin Ellison has written to town
officials in Milford suggesting that
the old Holland property, which is
about ins the center of the town and
well located, would make an ideal
site for the purpose. the town to set
aside the front of the property for
park and the armOry to be located
on the rear of the plot.
The bill provides for the appoint
ment of commission to supervise
the erection of the building. Natur-
ally no definite plans for the armory
can be made until the measure is
signed and the commission named.
Milford has one of the best equip
ped and most efficient companies of
the National Guard in the State, ac-
cording to statements made after
the recent inspection of the company
by Major Meade Wildrick, U. S. A.,
of Wilmington, and to have a suit
able armory in which to conduct
their activities has been one of the
aspirations of the members of the
company for some time back. The
present armory has long ago out
lived its usefulness for military pur-
poses.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24

The Sussex County Convention OF
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union will be held in the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Milton, next
Tuesday, April 28. The affair is un-
der the auspices of the officers of
the Milton Union.
Mrs. Almer William Karnell. of
Lansdowne, Pa, will be the speaker
for the day. The subject under dis
cussion will be Americas Prohibit
ton Problem" The program fol-
lows:
Morning Session
10:00-Convention called to order
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
STATE SCHOOLS
IN NRELAYRACES
ATPENN TODAY
5000 BOTTLES OF RUM
DESTROYED AT DOVER

Five thousand bottles of
imported liquor valued at ap-
prOximately $4,000 were de-
strOyed on the town dump at
Dover on Friday under the
supervision of Harold D. Will
son, deputy prohibition ad-
ministrator, and U. S. Marshal
Charles Hanratty.
About 100 persons gathered
to watch the destruction of
the liquor that had been the
cargo of the rum runner
Don" previous to its seizure
at Flemings Landing on the
Smyrna River, last summer.
The seizure followed a pitch
ed battle between prohibition
agents, customs officers and
cOnstables against the crew
of nine men on the boat. All
the men were arrested and
fined.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
FRACAS ENDS IN
FATAL SHOOTING
Herbert Gray Killed BY
Shot Gun In Hands Of
Paul Baynard

AS the result of an argument over
Il box of bullets and a girl Herbert
Gray, aged 20 years, negro, who
lived near Laws Church, between
FELTON, and Frederica, is dead, and
Paul Baynard, aged %, also negro,
is in the Kent County Jail. charged
with murder, awaiting the next ses-
sion of the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner The tragedy occurred Satur-
day afternoon, at 2 o'clock. At $3.50
o'clock, BaynaTd, who had disap-
pcarcd after the shooting, was cap
tured by Privates J. e. Conner and
II. NJ Moore of the Dover Station,
State Highway Police. Alfred Tat
man, John Tatman, Wilbur Allen,
James Clark and Ruth Jones were
also arrested by the State Police as
witnesses.
The story. as given by the State
Police, indicates that Baynard, who
boards at the Gray home, was en-
gagged in a heated argument with
him over a box of bullets and a
girl. Suddenly, Baynard entered the
house and came out with a double
barrelled shotgun. Gray is alleged to
have lunged at Baynard, whereupOn
Baynard fired one barrel into Gray.
Grays body was removed to the
Powders undertaking establishment
at Milford, where an autopsy was
performed Saturday night by DR.. l..
G. Ogburn, of Dover. An inquest was
conducted by Coroner Wilbur Pier
son, of Kent County on Sunday.
Baynard was found behind Il
thicket on the farm Of Louis HOlli-
day, back of Andrews Lake, between
Frederick and Viola, and only about
three miles from the scene of the
crime.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
ISSUE DEL-MAR-VA
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Booklet Containing Complete List
ing Oi Associations Members Ready

The Del-Mar-Va Business Direct
ory, issued by the Del-MarVa East
ern Shore Association, and contain
ing a complete listing of its mem
bership, has been received from the
printer and will be distributed this
week.
The directory contains sixty-six
pages and is bound in an attractive
and substantial cover with approXi-
mately 1000 names listed first under
the respective communities and in
the second section under classified
business.
AS a preface to the directory a
Turn to Page 8, PieaSel
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
Sussex White RibbOners viii
Meet. 1T Milton Next Tuesday
W. G. 7. u. Members VIII Discuss "An'ericGS Pro
hibitiOR Problem" Miss ALmer William KGTHeU
Of LGRSdOIOne Pa, VIII Be The Speaker

by the president, Mrs, Lavinia
Lynch.
Salute to the flag and singing
America"
DevOtions. Mrs. Carrie Hood,
president of local union.
Welcome, Mrs. Emma Hunter.
Greetings by the Pastors, Rev. r.
S. Hodgson, Rev. R. H. Adams
and Rev. L. C. Randall.
Response, Mrs. Fred Hudson.
Record of Last Convention, Miss
Anna Hazard.
Roll Call of officers and Presi-
Turn to Page 6, Piease
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
COOLSPRING CLASS
In LANDSCAPE WORK
Graduating Glass Has Been Largely
Attended at Community Hall

The Landscape Gardening Glass,
which has been meeting at the Cool
spring Community Hall, COolspring,
Del, for the past six weeks, has been
one of the largest and most en-
thusiastic of the classes in adult
education which have been held in
Delaware. More than one hundred
and fifty people have at various
times been a part of this interested
group and the average attendance
has been around sixty. There were
many who, finding themselves un-
able to attend all of the meetings,
arranged their business and social
affairs so that they could be present
lTurn 10 Page 6, Plcascl
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
SUSSEX PROPERTIES
SOLD FOR TAXES

That the depression has hit
Sussex county is shown by
the large number of proper
ties, urban and rural, that
have been posted for sale in
the Sussex County Court
House, by County Receiver of
Taxes John S. Isaacs. At one
time there were 166, but the
list has gradually dwindled
until only about 80 are left.
Those unable to pay their
county taxes will either have
to borrow money or allow the
o properties to be sold, later,
when they are financially able,
redeeming them by paying the
amount of the tax together
with the expenses of the sale.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
P. R. R. PREP ARES TO
MOVE STRAWBERRIES
Company Plans TO Operate Fast
Schedule TO Facilitate Delivery I

Solid strawberry trains on the
fastest schedules ever provided by
the Pennsylvania Railroad will be
operated from the strawberry pro-
ducing areas of the Delaware, Mary
land and Virginia peninsula to nor
thern, eastern New England and mid
western markets when the season
opens in about three weeks, it was
announced by local railroad officials
today.
The Pennsylvania strawberry
specials on their new fast time-ta-
bles will provide early delivery the
following morning at such impOr-
tant markets as Philadelphia, Tren
ton, Newark, Jersey City, New York,
Providence and Boston. This expe-
dited rail service will give peninsula
growers the fastest time ever made
to the market districts.
Convenient connecting trains will
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
FEARS TARIFF CUT
WILL HIT TOMATOES
Maryland Senator Writes Parkors
That Commission May Cut Duty

In a letter to f. NJ. Shook, field
secretary of the Tri-State Packers
Association, Easton, Md, Senator
Phillips Lee Goldsborough intimates
that the tomato canning industry of
Maryland is threatened by a recon-
mendation of the tariff Commission
that the duty on canned tomatoes
be reduced.
The commission has recommended
that the present fifty per cent. ad
valoreum duty on this product be
lowered to twenty-five per cent.
. The senator quoted statistics of
the commission showing that the
importation of Italian canned toma-
[TurN 10 Page 6, PieaSel
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, April Is 10 Tues
day, April 21, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller, local wea-
ther recorder, reports the following
weather conditions in Milford from
Wednesday, April IS, to Tuesday,
April 81, inclusive:
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24
Temperature Rain

The following winds and COndlS
tions prevailed during the same
periOd:
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-24

Modern woman can do most
everything with a can OPP
cner except keep a mans
love.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-13
TWO REPORTED SELECTED
FOR FIGHT COMMISSION
South Bend, Sullivan Men Believed Decided Upon by
Leslie; VeaCh May Be Third Choice.

Out of a welter of some sixty
applicants, names of three men
doomed today as exceedingly like
ly to be appointed to the new state
boxing commission by Governor
Harry G. Leslie.
They are Andrew Weisberg, South
Bend; Lee Bays, Sullivan, and James
l. Veach, indianapolis.
The first two we're reported at the
statehouse today as certain ap-
pointees, and Governor Leslie APP
peared approving when questioned
about Veach.
Veach is an employee Of the IN
dianapolis Power and Light Com
pany and some of his friends are
urging him to try for the $4,000 box
ing commission secretaryship, rath-
er than take the $40 per day COM
missioner's post.
It is understood that the Cover
nor offered a conmisSionershlp to
Norman Perry, but Perry refused
and recommended Veach. The lat
ter is a pioneer promoter of the
American Legion boxing shows
staged weekly at the Indianapolis
armory.
Others recommending him for the
boxing commission include Harry
Boggs, Michael Foley, Wallace O.