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Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
FRANKFORT

Tie baccalaureate sermon to the
FrankfOrd-DagsbOro High School
will be held next Sunday morning
in the Presbyterian Church by the
pastor, Rev. Frederick D. Viehe.
The Ladies Auxiliary Society of
the Presbyterian Church was enter
tanned by Mrs. Emma Esham at her
home on Monday evening.
MSS Ruth Watson, a student of
N. c. l., Dover, had as weekend
guests at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton H. Watson,
Miss Betty Zane Wilson, of New
York City; Miss Davis McClintock
of Easton, Md, and Miss Louise
Brown of Dover. At dinner Sunday
she had as guests: Professors Kelso
and Carvan of w. c.. l., Mr.. VIM
brow of Salisbury, Ward Daisey and
Robert Long of this town.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Gum have
been away this week on an automO-
bile tour. They spent Sunday in
Washington, d. c., with their son,
Wolcott.
Memorial Day was observed here
Monday. There was a parade to the
cemeteries by the school children.
Mrs. Kate Thorton and her
daughter, Mrs. Mable C.. Devir, of
Philadelphia, were recent visitors
of friends in this town.
There will be excursions from
Philadelphia this Sunday and Sun
day, August 21. They are due here
at 9:14 a. m. and to leave at 8:14
p. m.
James McCabe of Philadelphia
spent a fe wdays here this week
with his father, Austin j. McCabe.
Capt. Eli Walls, formerly of
Frankford, died Friday morning at
his home in Philadelphia. Funeral
services were held Tuesday. Burial
made in Mount Moriah cemetery.
Capt. Walls was born here and
went to Philadelphia when quite a
young man and became engaged in
the steamboat business. He is sur
vived by four children: Mary, Ida,
Norman and Harry and two bro
theirs, Philip H. Walls, George Walls
and one sister, Lizzie.
Mr.. and Mrs. James f. Polk and
daughter of Philadelphia were
guests this week of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mearl Lynch.
Mrs. Mary Tingle had as visitors
this week her brother, Harry Atkins
of Wilmington and her son, Preston
Tingle, of New York City.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
CLTFTON'S CORNER
Near Lewes)

Mrs. William Clifton is not feel
ing so well this week.
Flossie King is also on the sick
list.
William Wright and family, of Har-
rington, Harry Torbert and family
of Greenwood, all called on their
sister, Mrs. VIM. Clifton, on Sunday
Most every one is busy working
in the hay field this week. We are
sure having some nice days for that
kind of work.
Herman Norwood met with a pain
full accident last week while work
ing for George ShOckley, when some
logs fell on him and hurt him real
bad. He is now in the Beebe Hos
pital at Lewes. He is improving.
Myers Vessels and family spent
the weekend with relatives here.
Miss Annie Hazard and Miss
Elizabeth Mcgee spent the weekend
with their parents.
Mrs. w. w. Clifton is now doing
part of her house work but cannot
use her arm very much yet, as it is
stillsore from a recent operation.
Miss Flossie King is on the sick
list.
Mrs. Gertie Hazard is still hav-
ing some trouble with her toe. She
had an infection in it some time ago
and it has got worse again.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Wright of
Harrington and H. w. TOrbert of
Greenwood called on their sister,
Mrs. William Clifton last Sunday a
week.
Jake Vessels entertained to din
ner Sunday Mrs. Ella Vessels and
daughter Margaret.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
BOYLESS CLASS OF
EIGHT WORE OWLS
Milford Poet Presented Diplomas 70
Class OF 1910

Reputed to have been the largest
class in high school at it's start, the
class of 1910 now has dwindled tO
what is one of the smallest classes
that ever graduated, that of eight
girls. The absence of masculine
members cannot be explained eX-
cept by the fact that girls are usu-
ally supposed to have more of the
stick-to-itiveness quality. To show
their scholarly attitude they all pur-
chased for themselves pins with the
insignia of an owl ON them.
Whenever the class came tOgeth-
er for parties, they usually borrow
ed boys to save it from being an
"Old maid" situation.
The class night program lists its
president, Caroline Hammond, as
giving the address of welcome; then
that always annoying affair, "The
advice to the Juniors" given by
Mary Welch, and so on down the
listed events the program is much
the same today.
On graduation night, Dr.. James
E. Carroll gave the main address;
and our own distinguished poet, Mr..
George B. HynsOn, who so often
participated in these exercises, pre-
sented the diplomas to Miss Caro-
line Hammond, Mrs. Myers of Mil
ford; Miss Mary Welch of Reading,
Pennsylvania; Miss Lille Truitt of
Milford; Miss Mary Wiley, Mrs.
Stormer of Slaughter Neck; Miss
Estella Bennett, Mrs. Lynn Allen,
salutatorian, of Binghamton. New
York; Miss Leila Shew and Miss
Josie Shew, of Miami, Florida.
I. Williams '33
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
Closing Exercises For
The Elementary School

The closing exercises of the Mil
ford Elementary School will be held
Friday afternoon, June 3, at 1870
o'clock in the high school auditor
ium. All friends and patrons will
be welcome.
The program follows:
Grade /
Songs and Pantomine:
(D Three Little Kittens.
(2) Little Bo-Peep.
(3) Old King Cole.
Grade ii
Toy Band:
Cd 'March" "-Hollaender.
(2) "Amaryllis"
90 "Rataplan"-D Donizetti.
Grade Ill
Songs:
(l) "Yo, Heave Ho!"
(2) "The Little Sailors Song"
Dance:
(1) Sailors Hornpipe.
Grades " and V
Song-"Who Knows?"
Minuet-Fourth Grade.
Song-"A Coming Out Party"
Virginia Reel-Fifth Grade.
Grade vi
Song-"The Village Forge"
Shadow Picture-"The Shadow
Man"
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
Warnings Being Sent Parents
Of Tagging Pupils

Within the last week or ten days
about seventeen letters have been
sent to parents of pupils at present
in. the tenth and eleventh grades.
These letters were sent by Mr.. Shil-
ling to parents of boys and girls
who are ON what a hospital would
call the danger list; that is, in
danger either of failing to become
juniors or seniors because of fail
ure to pass required subjects or
failure to have the required number
of points.
The letters were not sent with
any spirit of malice or intent of
blame, but were intended to prevent
the usual midsummer rush of par
ents to the superintendent's Office
by interpreting for them the report
cards, which they may have been
signing without examining.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
FREDERICK

Commencement exercises of the
eighth grade will be held in the new
school building, June Z. The pro-
gram follows: Sunday morning
June 5, 10:9O a. M, baccalaureate
sermon by Rev. N. c. Benson, Trim
ity NJ. E. Church. Monday evening
June 6, z to 10 o'clOc, reception Civ
en- to graduating class by Principal
F. w. Mick at Chestnut Knoll,
Milford. Tuesday evening, June z
7:45 p. M, commencement exercises
in the new school auditorium. We'd
nesday, June 8, at $3.50 a. m. school
picnic at Oak Orchard.
George Hopkins and A. r. Rob-
bins spent Monday in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Mcbride,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Woodall and
friends of Chester, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
B. Hendricks and o. P. Harrington
spent Sunday at Bowers.
Mrs. Laura Spurry of Wilmington
spent the weekend with Capt. and
Mrs. John Cunningham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry c. Harring
ton and little son of Elmira, N. j.,
and George Calvin of Jersey City,
spent several days last week with
Mrs. Annie B. Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Conner and
son of Norwood Park, Pa, spent
Memorial Day with Mr.. and Mrs.
Harfry f. Mitten.
Mrs. Perry Boone and Mrs. Will
liam Deputy of Philadelphia and
Mrs. Mary Melvin of Delaware City
spent the weekend with Mrs. Mary
A. Boone.
Mr., and Mrs. James Moore of
Philadelphia visited Mrs. A. w.
Boone this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Rogers of
New Jersey were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Asa Rogers over the weekend.
Miss Ann Raughley of Dover was
the guest of Miss Emma Campbell
on Monday. e
Arlie Lindale of Wilmington
spent the weekend with his moth
er, Mrs. Lena Lindale.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Burton have
returned from visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Gordon of Binghampton, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Patterson
and family of Palmyra, N. j., spent
Memorial Day with MIR. and Mrs.
Harry Patterson. Mr.. Patterson IS
the youngest surviving member Of
the G.. A. R. in this vicinity. He al
ways wears his uniform on Memoir
ial Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Haas of
Falcroft, Pa, were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Willard Slaughter ON Mon
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Tucker of
Philadelphia were dinner guestse of
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Bostic on Mon
day. Mrs. Tucker was formerly Miss
Pauline Salevan of this town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Tucker and
son Samuel of Perryville, Md, Mrs.
Edgar Harrington of Clayton were
weekend guests of Mrs. Mary Kel-
ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Bethards of |
Audubon, Pa, Mr.. and Mrs. George |
Fowler of Philadelphia were week
end guests of Mrs Mary Bethards.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Morris and son
Lewis Of Centerville, Md, Mrs. Jen-
lie Cook and son, Donald Cook, of
were guests of Mrs.
1oey Gross on Monday.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03

their parents than Mary was of her
old Nanny and Pappy.
On this particular day Mary SEEM
ed to sense something wrong but
what she did not know Ann had just
passed by the road and had spoken
to her. This cheered her. Then sud
denly Mary heard her Pappys voice
calling her.
What is it Pappy," answered
Mary in a frightened voice.
Your Nanny wants you. Come
in at once"
Mary made her way hurriedly to
the sitting room where her Nanny
sat, staring DULY at a letter she
held in her hand Apparently it had
just been received for the envelope
was laying at the old woman's feet.
MARY, here is a letter for you. 1t
just came. 1t is from your own mo-
ther," said the old woman with
tears slowly creeping down her
cheeks.
my own mother? What are you
talking about, Nanny, why you
two are my own mother and father,
aren't yOu?"
MARY, 1 mean what l said, the
letter is from your own mother. | am
not your mother; neither is Pappy
your father. We found you when
you were only a baby about three
months old. l should guess it was
then.
"Oh! Nanny, it can't be true,
why didn't you tell me before? You
are my mother and Pappy is my ia
ther. Pm sure of it. 1t must be"
sObbed Mary.
''No, Mary, you are not our baby
as we hoped" said the old woman.
NANNY, read me the letter and
tell me what it's all about" begged
Mary.
Its not a long story, dear, but in
stead a sad one Eight years ago
Christmas Eve your Pappy and me
were sitting near the fireplace in
our home in Georgia. 1t was a ter
rible bad night. The snow was fall
ing fast and the wind was blowing
awful
"Then we heard a soft tap at our
door. 1t was so faint we could hard-
ly hear it.
who's there?" called Pappy.
There was no answer, so Pappy
went to the door. He opened it
slowly and there was basket just
outside the door. The one who left
it there must have hurried away af-
ter knocking, 1 reckon"
what was in the basket, Mann
my?" asked Mary anXiOusly.
"You were, Mary dear, we took the
basket inside and opened it and
there you were, little tiny baby.
The cutest baby l had ever seen.
Pappy was tickled to death. He
didn't even want me to tell our old
sheriff about it, but of course had
to know if it was lawful for us to
keep you. The sheriff said it was all
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
Spelling Becomes A Game
For Second Grade Group

In Miss Breisch's section of the
second grade three days during the
month of May everybody was there.
The boys and girls are having a
race in spelling. On the board is
drawn an imaginary fish pond. Ev-
cry day the group having the high
est grade gets a fish drawn in the
pond. They each have four fish.
The reading group is divided into
three sections. Fairies, Brownies
and Elves. The group that does the
best reading receives a star. The
Brownies and Fairies have five; the
Elves four.
Gretchen Calhoun
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
Milford Pupils Go To
Brandywine For X-rays

Last week sixty-six pupils, with
their parents consent, took the tu
berculosis test from DR.. Sargent.
Thirty reacted, and only three of
them were from the colored school.
On Tuesday, the thirty-first, these
pupils went to the Brandywine San
itorium for special X-ray service.
Mrs. Farrow accompanied them.
Their trip was made possible by the
Board of Health, the Board of Edu-
cation, and the tuberculosis Socie-
ty, and everyone who went seemed
to think it was more of a picnic than
anything else. X-rays didn't scare
them a bit. The results, however,
have not yet been told.
Alice Breme '32
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
g. c." MILFORD SCHOOL NEWS
Final Exams Under Way For
Senior Class

Exams have come again for the
Seniors and a few members of other
classes. In order that the Seniors
may have plenty of time to practice
for class night, their exams start a
week before the others. Members of
other classes that include Seniors
also take their exams early.
The schedule:
Wednesday: A. M.-English ".
P. M.-Chemistry, French ii, Com
mercial Arithmetic.
Thursday: A. M.-Civics. P. M
Home Economics III, Plain GeOme-
try.
Friday: A. M.-Modern History.
P. M.-HOme Economics II, Book
keeping.
-Bunstein '3S
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
CORRIDOR COMMENTS

The few joys of prison life are
revealed in the late book "Ten
Hours on A Rock Pile" by s.
and v.
One of our high school boys was
heard to say while passing in fire.
drill at 10 a. m. on Tuesday, that he
Hoped the D. thing would
burn up!" Now isn't that gratitude?
Hazel Johnson has decided to re-
write Longs English Literature"
and her first step has been to re-
christen "Adonais," by Shelley, "Ad-
enoids!"
Heyman Roosa and George Will
liams were elected by the Junior
class last week to receive the man
tie and flag from the class of '32 in
the approaching graduation festivi-
ties.
In a fire drill on Tuesday the
high school building was cleared of
all pupils in a minute and thirty
three seconds. Mr.. Boston said he
was well pleased with that time, as
it was only three seconds over the
allotted time. Half of us knew 1t
was the Los Angeles and not fire
we were being called for anyway.
Beach parties are in order now.
Seniors on Friday night; juniors,
next Monday. More news later.
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
This Page Is Edited By Pupils
OF The Milford High School
Directing Editor
ELIZABETH +. ALDEN
Operetta Provides Fun
For Sizeable Audience
Leading Role Capably Filled

Although the dress rehearsal was
failure on Thursday the Operetta
turned out all right in the end. The
characters who had quite a lot of
trouble making love and so forth
took their parts Friday night and
went through with it drawing praise
and applause from the audience
which filled the auditorium.
1t is believed by the entire cast.
who saw the practice on Friday
morning, that Violet Greene, taking
the part of Geraldine Banks (the
leading LADY, and Charles Schel-
house, taking the part of John Bran
don (the leading mani must have
come to an understanding sometime
during Friday afternoon for, al
though he made love like hermit
during practice, he turned into il
dashing young lover and acted the
part well that night. He even put
his foot on the bench beside his
lover while sweet music spurted
forth from his lungs.
We must not forget to mention
Gerald Wilson, playing the part of
Uncle Peto (an old time Westerner).
After learning his part the night
before and practicing some he went
on the stage making no more mis-
takes and drawing more laughs than
the rest-partly because of his cos
tune. That's all right. Gerald, you
would make a good mail man.
And last but not least, in the
space before my eyes l imagine |
see "Spivis" (Townsend Parvis) in
Jerry of Jericho Road, playing the
rich man. How did he - it? Why,
fine! He did fine-that voice of
nightingale and those rolling eyes
caused Sandy virginia Simpson, to
train around after him even after
the performance. But if Spivis had
had his drum he would probably
have felt better.
Ponder Morgan
Editors Note: - Our reporter
seems to be suffering from a bad
case of bashfulness, else why on
earth has he failed to mention the
fact that as a bedragged looking
goose with one tail feather, he got
quite as many laughs as. anyone.
Moreover, the boy can really sing!
Irene Williams, too, contributed
much to the evenings laughter and
made a perfectly charming bunny
rabbit. And how she did pick on
you, Ponder! No wonder you forgot
to mention it.
AS for Arthur Walls, as Mr.. Bean
of Boston-his Interpretation of the
father of twelve was very, very
funny, but his Boston accent was
ridiculous!
Hats off to Jerry" and all her
friends and "enemies" of the cast!
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03
T H E ST A F F

'-"'N'
Editor
ROBERT REED '32
Sports Editor
JOHN MANLOVE '33
Who's Who Editor
ELLEN SIPPLE '33
Historical Editor
IRENE WILLIAMS '33'
Glass Editors
Alice Breme ............ '32
Henry Bunstein ,....... '3S
Helen Coffin ............ '34
Theodore Townsend ..... '35
Reporters
Everett KINNEY
Vim. DoeTing '32
Hyman Roosa '33
Ethel Collins '33
Ponder Morgan '33
Dorothy Joseph '35
George Williams '33
Webster EckstrOm "a
Margaret Ann Clements '32
Milford chronicle., 1932-06-03

Beach parties are in order now.
Seniors on Friday night; juniors,
next Monday. More news later.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-04

ments, issue bonds and that is mort
gage No. 2. The county decides to
build more modern court house or
meet the challenge of the state and
federal government to match them
with funds for extensive road build
ing, and to make the immediate pres
sure less felt by the taxpayers, bonds
the county and that is mortgage No.
3. The state gets ambitious to make
great display of progress or goes
into some utility or business enter
prise and bonds the state for the
funds and that Is mortgage No. on
my already thrice mortgaged prop
erty. Then the government assumes
debt obligations and sells bonds which
are nothing else but mortgage No. 5
on my property and yours.
Are we to be forbidden to check
this orgy of debt making? A mora
forum on bonds as well as taxes is
greatly needed.
Sherman Hickle.
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THE FRAZIER BILL
Fargo, N. d., Oct. 90, 1892

Fargo, N. H., Oct. ", 1857
Editor, Tribune:
The administration at Washington
and the international bankers have
led unthinking people to believe that
if the Frazier bill were passed there
would be too much money in circula-
ton. Our present miserable condi-
ton is due entirely to the fact that
there is not enough money in cir
culation to do the money work. There
ought to be $50 per capita in circula-
ton in the United States, but as
matter of fact there is not over $3.50
per capita in actual circulation.
These unreasoning people, parrot
like, use the administrations and
Wall Streets expressions and talk
glibly about soft money and fiat
money, when they have not the
faintest conception of what money is
and what it's purposes and functions
are. Parrot like they repeat these
words without knowing what they
mean.
If these critics would stop and
think and inform themselves on the
subject of money they would then
discover that our government prints
federal reserve notes and gives them
to the federal reserve bank for the
international banking clique at ITO
of one cent per bill-the cost of
printing-the bill may be for 81 or for
$1,000, and it can keep it for one year
or for thousand years. They would
discover that at present their Uncle
Sam has outstanding and printed ap-
proximately three billion dollars of
this paper money, which the inter-
national bankers get through the
federal reserve bank from Uncle Sam
for the cost of printing-7-10 of one
cent per BILL One billion 125 mil
lion of these federal reserve notes
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Peoples Forum

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comes letters on subjects OF in.
terest. Letters dealing with con.
troversiAl religious subjects, which
attack individuals unfairly, or
which offend good taste and fair
play will be returned to the
writer's. All letters MUST ba signed.
II y.u wish to use q pseudonym.
own name beneath It. We will re-
spect such requests. Wa reserve
the right to delete such parts of
letters as may be necessary to
conform to this policy,
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gone bad. # high cost of govern.
ment was due to this cause in pros.
porous times without wrecking us
why should it do so now? Wasteful.
ness and reckless expenditure in pub.
lie business is as objectionable as il
Is IN private affairs and has beer
condemned always. I bring this up
not to condone such practices but tt
,, point out that to put so much en-
phaSis on those lesser contributing
evils is to camouflage md deceive the
people as to the real causes mention
ed above.
There seems to be two distinct
schools Of economic thought with re-
ference to spending or retrenching in
times Of depression. Your attitude is
to retrench, to save at any cost. Car
.ried to extremes either policy might
be disastrous. To curtail very mate
rally the expenditures for public
works and all government activities
would surely aggravate the problem
Of unemployment which is serious
enough now as a result of retrench-
ment in all private enterprises.
One Of the laws initiated by the
North Dakota Taxpayers association
cuts the valuations for the purpose of
taxation from IS to SO per cent. This
it is claimed, will imperil our schools.
Also it will be tantamount to repu-
diation In some cases Of budgetary
obligations, since we operate on a
biennial budget. It may be impos-
sible to 60 through with plans al
ready adopted and contracted for
Such policy is contrary to the view
taken by President Hoover and our
national congress, when they increas-
ed taxes in order that the budget
may be balanced and our national
credit saved at any cost.
To reduce taxes we should first cut
our expenditures and not our tax in
come after expenditures have been
incurred. The tax clubs and associa-
tons have done excellent work in
educating and arousing the public to
the importance of wise spending of
tax monies, but nevertheless, in my
opinion. it is attacking the lesser
evil instead of getting at the root of
the matter. To expect any lasting
cure of the economic cancer we must
eradicate the growth, which means
that the privilege and power to issue
and control money and credits must
be taken away from the private
banks and financiers and given to
the government, where 1t belongs.
Why continue to fight this monster
on the wrong premises?l
Yours very truly.
S. A. OLSNESS,
Commissioner of Insurance.