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Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
MADE IN
BOUNDARY FUSS
UNTIL OCTOBER
Rebuttal Testimony To
Be Offered When The
Hearing Resumes
CLASH MARKS FINAL

Local hearings in the Delaware
New Jersey boundary dispute ended
at noon last Thursday. A recess has
been declared until October 26
when sessions will reopen in Bal
timore before Special Master Will
liam l.. Rawls at which time rebuff
tai testimony will be offered and
additiOna maps and documents Of
fered as evidence by both sides.
On September 2, Clarence A.
Southerland, former attorney gem
eral of Delaware, associated with
Attorney General Reuben Satther-
thwaite, Jr., in the defense, sailed
for vacation in England, and while
there will attempt to establish the
authenticity of the seal on old doc
uments in the State House at Do
yer, including land grants of
Charles II to the Duke of York,
which include Delaware and Della
ware Bay. Mr.. Switzerland expects
to return to Wilmington by October
l.
Sharp verbal clashes between
Captain John A. Tarburton, veteran
Delaware oyster fisherman, and AS
sistant Attorney General Duane E.
Minard, of New Jersey, marked the
final session.
Thursday veteran fishermen in its
fight to establish the boundary line
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The best time to Gull the layers is
during the months of July, August
and September, for at this season
of the year it is easiest to read ma
ture's evidence which indicates those
hens that have been good layers and
those which have been Improbable
producers during the past year.
Those hens which start laying first
in the fall and winter months and
continue to lay longest the follow
ing summer and fall are regarded
as the best layers in the flock, and
those which stop laying early in the
season and mOlt are the ones that
lay the fewest number of eggs.
POultrymen are warned, however,
to not Gull their layers until they
have been into consideration the
manner in which the flock has been
treated during the past three
months, for regardless of how good
the layers are they will look like
culls if they have not been well fed
with proper laying ration and kept
in a good house with plenty of fresh
water. Many other factors
such as moving the birds from one
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SCHOOL VACATION
ENDS SEPT. 5 FOR
MILFORD PUPILS.
Students Will Find Many
Changes In Faculty,
Buildings, Equipment
EARLY ENROLMENT
Instructions Issued For
Children To Follow On
Opening Day

More than twelve hundred boys
and girls will end their vacations at
8 o'clock on Tuesday, September s,
when all the Milford schools will re-
open. AS is usual the fall brings
added facilities for handling these
youngsters.
This year the four hundred and
siXty-siX boys and girls in the junior
and senior high school will find that
their building is being enlarged by
the addition of five new rooms. Two
of these rooms will be completed and
ready for use by October l. The
others will not be occupied before
1882.
There are also two new tennis
courts at the new school, which are
already being enjoyed by the town
at large. Mr.. Boston says that it
will be the policy of the school to
try to make the town as well as the
school "tennis-minded," SO that flu
ture tennis teams at Milford high
may find competition at home as well
as abroad. Accordingly, everyone,
both in and out of school is being
urged to make use of the new
courts
Changes i'll the faculty and in
room assignments make it very es-
sential that all pupils report prompt
ly to the proper room ready for the
regular routine of full school day.
Mr.. Robert Shilling, superintend-
ent of schools, requests the cooper
alton of all parents in seeing that
their children report between $40
a. m. and o'clock, on Tuesday, Sep
tember 8, at the following places,
where they will be received by
teachers and assigned to rooms.
All children entering the first
grade and all others entering Mil
ford schools between the grades ,1-G
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of the state tax department are such
as to enable them to do a good job
of such an investigation into the
extent and character of unemploy-
ment in Delaware by the question
naire method.
The matter of trying to determine
these pertinent facts concerning un-
employment in Delaware, Mr.. du
Pont said, has met with the full CO.
operation of Governor Buck, who
expressed the opinion that it would
be an excellent thing to gather such
data. In place of guess work and
conjecture concerning unemplOy-
ment, this investigation Mr.. DUPONT
pointed out, would furnish concrete
facts. Both Mr.. DUPONT and the
Governor feel that the full cooper
alton of the unemployed themselves
and the public, including employees,
can be counted upon in making the
returns reliable and accurate.
viii Quiz All Adults
The questionnaires under the ten
tative plans now being formulated,
would be sent to all adults in the
state and probably to young men
and women older than 19 years, in
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Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
SINGLE MEN DEFEAT
MARRIED FELLOWS
Interesting Game Last Saturday.
Play Again Next Week.

The single men defeated the mar
ried men on Saturday, to 4, in the
first of a three-game series. The
game was hard fought and well play
ed throughout. All proceeds of this
series are to be turned over to the
Kings Daughter.
The winners took advantage of the
breaks in the second inning to score
three runs. Marvels long double,
a walk, and Wrotens single scored
two more in the fourth. The mar
ried men came back strong, but were
held in the pinches.
Sapp pitched a good game, hold
ing the hard-hitting married men to
seven hits and striking out ten.
DerricksOn and Heck Townsend
pitched for the married men and al
lowed only six hits. Two walks and
two fielder's choices that were beat
EN- out produced three runs for the
single men in the second.
The next game will be played a
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Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
LEADER TRAINING
SCHOOLS In SUSSEX
Instructors Taught How To Teach
Beginners In Home Work

During the month of August four
leader training schools have been
held in Georgetown under the direc-
tion of Laura B. Rutherford, County
Home Demonstration Agent, and
Mrs. Helen Mckinley, State Home
Demonstration Leader, for the pur-
pose of giving definite training to
appointed groups of women in GER
tain phases of Home Improvement
Work.
Two women for each subject were
appointed by the presidents of the
Home Demonstration Clubs in the
different sections of the county, to
attend these schools and receive the
instruction. They in turn are ex-
pected to give this same instruction
to as many other women in their
communities as want it.
The subjects are: Slip cover
making, refinishing of old furniture,
rug making and chair Gaming. These
are the subjects to be discussed in
relation to making our homes more
livable by utilizing materials on
hand, in the Home Demonstration
Club programs this fall, and are sub
iects that should interest every
homemaker in Sussex county.
The Home Demonstration Clubs in
the county at present are located in
the following communities: Nassau,
Harbeson, HOllyville, Ocean View,
Millville, Delmar, Columbia, Re-
lance, Georgetown, Cokesbury and
owen Station. If you live in or near
one of these communities and are
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Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
DIRT ROAD TICKET WINS
FRANKFORT ELECTION
Voters Finally Decide On Site For
New School Building

Voters of Frankford and Days
borO held an election to decide the
location of the new school that is
to be erected to serve the two towns
and rural school districts that have
consolidated with them.
The election was one of the most
spirited and bitterly fought of any
that has been held in that section of
Sussex county in many years. There
were two tickets in the field, one
known as the "dirt road" ticket and
the other as the "stone road" ticket.
The names were given to the tickets
because one crowd favored building
the new school on a dirt road, back
in the woods about mile from any
improved highway, while the others
desired that the building be con-
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AUTOS WITHOUT
STICKERS TO Be
TESTED BY COPS
State Highway PatrOlmen
To Make All Comply
With The Law
MUST HAVE LABELS

Motorists who operate their cars
without the blue windshield sticker
indicating that they have passed the
safety tests, prescribed in the Third
Annual Delaware Car Inspection
Campaign, will be stopped by mem
bers of the State Police who will
test the brakes and other safety de-
vices to determine if the vehicle is
being operated contrary to the safe
ty provisions of the state law, ac-
cording to a statement issued by w.
w. Mack. Chief Engineer of the State
Highway Department. Each state po-
liceman will be furnished with
list of the nearly one hundred mo-
torists who have had extensions
granted due to absence of cars from
the state and in the event that the
windshield sticker has been washed
off, the car inspection receipt issued
at the official inspection station will
be satisfactory evidence that the mo-
tOrist has complied with the State
Inspection Law.
However, motorists who have lost
their windshield stickers are urged
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Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
HUNTING SEASON OPENS
FOR SOME GAME
Federal Regulations Again Changed
On Duck Shooting

The Delaware Game and Fish
Commission has issued a bulletin
announcing the Federal regulations
just amended prescribing the period
November 16 to December Is inclu-
sive, as the only open season on
ducks, geese, brant and coot.
Tuesday was the opening day of
the hunting season for squirrels,
rails Except coots and gallinules)
sora and dove. The bag limit is
six squirrels, Is rails, II sOras and
IL doves.
Due to a Federal law there is no
open season on reed birds.
There is considerable difference
between the State and Federal bag
limits. In all cases the most re-
strictive limit must be observed. The
limit is no more game
or fish than can be reasonably used.
According to the State laws, every
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To Hold Regional State Convention
For Religious Education 1t Salisbury

Thursday, October Is, and Friday,
October 16, 1881, have been selected
as dates for two regional state con-
ventions of the Maryland Delaware
Council of Religious Education at
Hagerstown and Salisbury, respec-
lively. The State Council is an
nouncing some of the talent already
secured:
The Rev. C. A. Hauser, Secretary
of the Department of Home and
Church and Editor of Educational
Publications of the Board of Chris
tian Education of the Reformed
Church in the United States. DR..
Hauser has for number of years
Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
HLITERACY BEING
REDUCED IN THE
DIAMOND STATE
Relentless Fight Still Be-
ing Carried On In Every
Corner OF The State
SUSSEX LEADS STATE
Glasses Have Been Held
In Fields To Aid The
, Illiterates

Four per cent of Delaware's pop
ulation according to 1880 figures is
illiterate as compared with 6 per
cent of the population in 1920 and
y per cent in 1900.
And still the relentless fight
against illiteracy continues into eV-
cry corner of the State. The COM
bat extends particularly into the
obscure hooks of Delaware,
throughout the cities and the coun-
tryside away from the main roads,
hidden by acres of farm land. The
elimination of illiteracy has always
been one of the major ObjectiVes of
Delaware's state supported program
of adult education which began in
1919.
Men and women, from labOrers
and housewives to farmers in the
back country, struggling to master
at least the fundamentals of book
larnin' -; some attending day class
es; others gathering in the evenings
in old schools and some taking ad-
vantage of individual instruction at
State expense-this is the picture
seen behind the maze of figures,
statistics and percentage calcula-
tions gathered in the office of Miss
Marguerite Burnett, Wilmington,
State chairman of illiteracy for the
Delaware Chapter of the National
Congress of Parents and Teachers,
director of Adult Education in Will
mington and rural Delaware and
member of Governor Bucks State
Commission on Illiteracy.
Some of the classes are even held
in the open fields and stranger yet,
even in the automobile of the cir
cult teacher.
These teachers who are routing
out illiteracy are normal school or
teacher college graduates with spe-
cial training for adult work One of
the features of the program is the
instruction which is real
ly in the nature of private tutoring.
And so, there is none who can deny
that he or she is not offered the Op-
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ANNIVERSARY OF
CHURCH OBSERVED
ZOar NJ. Z. Church, Near MilIsbOrO,
Founded 129 Years Ago.

The 129th anniversary of the
founding of historic Zoar M. E..
church, between Millsboro and Har-
beson, and the fifth annual reunion
of the descendants of the late John
Salmons, for many years a widely
known farmer of Indian River sec
ton, was held at Zoar church last
Sunday. Each year there is a joint
celebration by gathering of the Sal
mons clan, who are scattered
throughout Delaware, Maryland, Vir-
ginia and New York States, as we'll
as the people throughout the Indian
River section and in the vicinity of
MillsborO who are communicates at
this old church.
There is no set program for the
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effectively carried on the educa-
tional work of the Reformed Church.
The Rev. Roy A. Burkhart, grad
uate of Otterbein College and stu
dent at Bonebrake Seminary, Co
lumbia University, and University of
Chicago. He was principal of high
school for four years, director of
young peoples work for the United
Brethren Church, and is now AssO-
ciate Director of Young Peoples
work in North American for the In
ternational Council of Religious Ed
ucation. He is one of the editors of
the International Journal, editor of
"The Akita", writes for number of
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Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
BOY CHARGED WITH
MANSLAUG GHTER
Claims He Did Not Know His Car
Had Struck Negro, Found Dead

Clifford Lee Ward, 10, son of Will
liam Ward, prominent farmer of Lit
tie Greek Hundred, was held on a
charge of manslaughter Saturday
night by Deputy Coroner Virgil B.
Isaacs after a jury gave a verdict
that Charles Adams, Negro, farm la
borer, whose dead body was found
Friday morning, came to his death
by being struck by motor vehicle.
Corporal George K. Shockley, Pa
trolman Joseph Holt, of the State
highway police, and Deputy Coroner
Isaacs who Investigated the Ne
gro's death, said they discovered
broken glass near a lane which led
up to young Wards home.
At Wards home they say they
found his car had been in an acci-
dent and bits of the glass in the car
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WHERE WHEAT RANKS

What is the most important
farm product from the stand
point of cash income? The
average urbanite, asked that
question, would answer at
once wheat" Statistics i'm
the Department of Agriculture,
however, would give a very
different answer. The crop of
most Importance in America
from the standpoint of cash
income is cotton. Cotton is
king" The old saying still
stands. But next to cotton
comes milk and next to milk
comes hogs and cattle and
calves, then comes eggs and
chickens and then comes
wheat, that far down the line.
The cash income from eggs
and chickens, 5 year, 1925-29,
Twas S.13 per cent of the cash
income from all farm cOmmOd-
tiles produced in America. The
cash income from wheat dur
ing the same year period
averaged 7.S9 per cent of the
total. Wheat is all important
to the folks who raise nothing
else. But counting everything
raised by everybody, it cuts
but a small figure.
Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
L. s. POSTAL RECEIPTS
INCREASE 3 PER CENT

Increased postal receipts
are cited by Postmaster Gen
eral Walter f. Brown as an
indication that business con-
ditions are on the upgrade.
"POstof1ice receipts for the
last two weeks in July show
ed a three per cent increase
over the corresponding period
in June" Brown said. "These
figures are, as a rule, an ex-
cellent indication of the move
ment of the business tide and,
while the percentage is not
very high, it is nevertheless a
heartening sign"
Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
LINCOLN PLAYS MILTON
AT BALL PARK SAT.
MilISbOrO And Lincoln Also Play
Here Labor Day Morning

Saturday at $3.50 Milford baseball
fans will witness a struggle be-
tween the Milton and Lincoln teams
for the Sussex League crown. Each
team is ready for the battle and
each one expects to win. The Mil
ford fans can watch a number of
their players in action as Lincoln
has George Draper and Curt Vim
yard on their team while Milton is
proud of Jess Legar, their Milford
second baseman. Savage or Whalen
will pitch for Lincoln with Lynch
catching and for Milton either Lay
ton, Gray or Belts will pitch with
Graef catching. There is no doubt
that this game will be bitterly
fought from the time the first man
is up until the last one is out. Both
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WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, August 26th, To
Tuesday, September 1, Inclusive

Charles ]. HOlzmueller, local wea-
ther recorder, reports the following
weather conditions in Milford from
Wednesday, August 26, to Tuesday,
September 1, inclusive:
Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
Temperature Rain

Total Rainfall ..... .23
Total amount of rain during the
month of August, 9.99 inches.
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
neriod:
Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04
p. s. Dupont Plans
OuestiOnnaire To
Find Number Idle
Governor C. Douglass Buck Aiding In Effort To
Determine Extent Of Unemployment In Wilmington
And The Rest Of The State And To Determine
The Measures Necessary For Relief Of Needy

Method Outlined VIII ObUiate Guess Work; Data Is
Designed To Establish Accurate List Of AU Those
Persons Lacking Work And Their Dependents;
May Use Tax Files To Ascertain Those Needy
Milford chronicle., 1931-09-04

-
There is no cureall for the ills
which afflict the United States
and the rest of the world. We
are passing through difficult
period of readjustment, out of
which will come strength and
wisdom to meet the problems Of
the future.-U. S. Senator Reed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-03

and scored three runs in the
seventh to win.
Steers And Crabs Split
The second-place Dallas Steers
trimmed Galveston 5 to 3 in the
first game when Hansen his
10th game OF the season and his
eighth straight for Dallas. In the
second combat, Dallas jumped into
a l TO 0 lead that was good for
three innings. The Buccaneers tied
it in the fourth and scored again
in the seventh to win 2 TO /,
although Lefty Minogue held Cal
weston TO three hits. Seydler for
Galveston held Dallas r. tive hits.
The Buccaneers scored the winning
run In the seventh when AL Todd's
wild throw TO second allowed Bell
TO reach third from where he
scored on Molesworth'S Single.
Elton Langford. Dallas leftfielder,
obtained at least one hit in each
game to run his consecutive game
hitting streak to twenty-seven.
BY splitting even with Galveston,
the Steers allowed Houston TO take
a six-game lead in the second half.
The Beaumont Exporters, who
tied Houston for the first half ana
are two down in the play-off, con-
tinued to have hard luck. At Fort
Worth. a double victory would have
been great tonic to the Exporters.
but the best they got was an even
break. losing the first 8 TO 0, win
ming the second 4 to !.
McCabes 18th
Dick Control McCabe white
washed the Exporters IN the first
game for his 18th victory this sea
son. Dick out-pitched Hollerson
and Malicky. limiting the Export
ers TO four hits.
Buck Marrow. holding Fort Worth
to four hits. squared accounts in
the nightcap with a 4 10 / verdict
gained in the eighth inning. Bill
Harris, hard luc twirler Of the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-03
TWIRLERS
In GOOD FORM
Pirates Have Hurled Forty
Consecutive ScoreIess
Innings
BY HUGH s. FULLERTON. JR
Associated Press SportS Writer

After doing enough bad hurting
during the early part OF the season
to get virtually all of il out OF
their systems, P~ittsburgh's pitchers
apparently have set out in pursuit
Of the major league shutout records
that a group Of Pirate hurlers set
28 years ago.
Erwin Brame BANKED the Cincin-
natl Reds with five hits yesterday.
giving the Pirates a 3 to 0 victory
and their fourth straight shutout
triumph. Before Larry French started
the shutout streak against the New
York Giants four days ago. the
Pirates had finished a game by
blanking the New Workers in the
last four innings and how have
recorded 40 successive scoreless
frames.
The major league record, set by
the Pittsburgh club Of 1903. stands
at six straight shutout games and
80 consecutive s~coreless innings.
FiucS Climbing
Pittsburgh's latest triumph, the
18th in 20 games, placed the Pr
4dLA1 0AAAN HAL a hdAAAE DI4AAi4a VIC
birthplace Boston Braves. who lost
both games Of a double header 70
the New York Giants. Old Clarence
Mitchell held the Braves TO six hits
to win the first game 4 TO 2. while
three New York hurlers gave UP
only five blows 10 complete the Job
Of shifting the Giants back into
second place with a 6 10 ? triumph.
The league leading St. Louis
Cardinals showed Chicago back 70
third place by pounding Charley
Root for five runs in two innings
and a 8 to 2 victory. Paul D~erringer
recorded his thirtieth victory Of
the season. The Phillies and Brook
lvn reached no decision In their
twin bill. the Pills taking the first
game So and Brooklyn rallying for
four runs in the seventh to win the
second 7 70 5.
Saying 1t with bats. the Wash
ington Senators served notice that
they are not vet TO be counted out
Of the American league race with
their second straight victory over
the PHILADELPHIA Athletics. Wash
ington pounded Mcdonald and
Hoyt for eight runs in the first
two innings and won 10 to 0.
Inuians Take Two
Cleveland's Indians registered
the big gain for the American
league by winning two games from
the St. Louis Browns. A five-run
rally behind Yves Terrell in the
sixth inning brought them a 9 to
4 victory in the first and they
brot-e a SO tie in the ninth inning
of the second clash 10 win IL to ..
Expert pitching enabled the New
York Yankees and Boston Red
Sox to divide their doubleheader.
Charley Ruffing pitched the Yanks
to a 4 to / victory in the first game,
sire ing out ten while an error by
Jorgens IN the eighth inning gave
Boston the only run Of the second
game as Wiley Moore and George
Pipgras allowed only three hits
each.
Detroit evened the cellar cham
pionship" series with Chicago by
taking the second game 8 TO 4.