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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
FELTON, MAN KILLED
AS TRAIN HITS AUTO
Fatal Accident At GOIdsbOrO, Nd,
On Monday

Charles Ross, So years old, was
killed, and Harry Kemp, 40 years
old, was severely injured when a
passenger train crashed into the
automobile in which they were rid
ing at a crossing near GOldsboro,
Md, at 1890 a. m. on Monday, Both
are from near FELTON,, Del.
The train pushed the car ten feet
before the engineer was able to
bring it to a halt.
Ross was caught beneath the
wreckage and he died about ten
minutes after the accident from a
crushed skull.
Kemp was taken to the Kent Gem
eral Hospital, Dover Both his legs
were crushed and he suffered head
and internal injuries.
The men were on their way back
to Sandtown from GoldsborQ
Ross is survived by wife, a son
and two daughters. Kemp is wild
over and has no family.
Three persons were killed in an
accident at the same crossing De-
cember II, 1928.
M. f. Gray was engineer of the
train. Samuel Elliott fireman and
j. S. Hopkins, conductor.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
RELIEF Unit TO
PROVIDE WORK
l.. L. Layton, Relief Direc-
tor, Plans Sewing Unit
For Needy Women.

Landreth L. Layton, Relief Direc-
tor for Sussex county, working un-
der the legislation passed at the
special session of the General As
sembly, has formulated plans which
will aid greatly those women in Sus-
sex county who are in need of
work. One of the plans now about
to be put in operation is the start
ing of a sewing unit. The first OF
these units will be opened at
Georgetown next Tuesday, Decem-
ber %. Needy women who desire
work at sewing and who live near
Georgetown will be given employ
ment at this unit. The wage scale
will be twenty cents per hour for
an eight hour day-making the to-
tai daily wage SLIGO for those wo-
men who take advantage of this op-
portunity to aid themselves. A
sewing room has been
secured for this work.
In conversation with the editor OF
the Milford Chronicle on Wednesday
Mr.. Layton requested that this in
formation be given full publicity so
thot those in distress may know
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
CAFETERIA MANAGERS
CONCLUDES WORK
Demonstration Supper Served Was
Enjoyed By Large Number

During the past ten weeks 10 wO-
men and one man have met for one
evening a week to study best meth
ods of managing cafeterias in the
schools of Delaware. This class has
met five times in Georgetown school
and five times in the Seaford school,
under the direction of Mrs. Charles
West, manager of the Seaford cafe
terra. The members of the class are
women who are now employed in a
school cafeteria throught Kent and
Sussex counties, or who are inter-
ested in obtaining positions in cafe
terias in new schools which are to
be opened during the year.
For the last lesson in the series,
on Thursday evening of last week,
the class members met at Seaford
school and served complete lunch,
typical of those served to the school
children in the Seaford cafeteria.
Special instruction was given in the
method of arranging the steam
table, and in efficient serving of a
large group of pupils.
A large number of visitors pres
ent were at the school during the
evening, passed along the serving
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
GRANGE URGES
ELECTION OF
SCHOOL BOARDS
Would Repeal Law Under
Which Trustees Are APP
pointed By Judge.
OFFICERS INSTALLED
Robert P. Robinson Again
Chosen To Head The
Organization.
OFFICERS INSTALLED

After considerable discussion the
Delaware State Grange at the clos
ing meeting last Wednesday after
noon adopted practically unani-
mously a resolution from a subordi-
nate Grange advocating repeal of
the law passed by the Legislature
of 1881 providing for the appoint
ment of members of Boards of Edu-
cation and School Trustees by the
Resident Judge of each county. Pre-
viously they were elected and the
grangers want to return to that sys-
TEN.
After considerable discussion, the
Grange adopted a resolution calling
for a reduction in the gasoline tax
and in automobile licenses. Through
out the discussion, the Grange men,
bers were virtually united in favor
of the resolution.
Another resolution adopted put
the Grange on record as favoring
law that would permit farmers to
kill foxes caught killing chickens
and that 81 be paid for the hide of
each fox. The resolution was adopt
ed, it was said, because of wide
spread depredations of foxes in
poultry raising communities of low
er Delaware. 1t met with some op-
position from Grange members. who
are fox hunters.
Another resolution recommends
legislation whereby dairy products
brought into Delaware from other
states shall be under the same rules
and regulations as Delaware dairy
men are compelled to observe as to
etc.
The officers were installed in the
afternoon by Frank Bancroft. Past
State Master. Those elected and
Installed were Master Robert P.
Overseer, Clarence y.
lester, of Milford; lecturer, A. Bail
ey Thomas, of Wyoming; steward, |
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that could be put in effect through
out the three states, however, as the
various cities into which milk is
shipped have the power to make
their own regulations governing
products entering their territory
and regulations made by the state
departments are not always accept
ed in these cities. The Delaware
State Board of Agriculture has also
been working through the represen-
tatives of the various milk compan-
les purchasing milk in Delaware, to
have the requirements made as lem
lent as possible at the present time,
for the farmers who are producing
clean, healthy milk.
while the general conditions of
both agriculture and most industries
during the past year would indicate
that collections from all sources
would be decreased, the funds col
lected by the State Board of Agri-
culture during the fiscal year 1881
1882, were so greatly reduced as
might have been expected. The total
amount of $17,311.79, collected from
July l, 1881 to June 80. 1882, was
only $4,133.49 less than collected
during any previous year.
1.-THE collections from the tom
mage taxes and registration fees on
feeds, fertilizers and lines amount
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P. @. OF STATE REPORT
$61,O63 DECLINE
$1,O92,447 Received From So Offices
For Year Ending June, 1882

Gross postal receipts i'll the SO
post offices of Delaware declined
SCI ,063.1O during the fiscal year of
1931-1932 as compared with the re-
ceipts from the IS post offices in the
state during the corresponding pc
riod of 1930-1931
The figures in the annual report
of Postmaster General Brown show
that the receipts from the SO Del
aware post offices during the year
ending June 80, 1882, amounted to
$1,092,44742. For the year ending
June 80, 1881, the gross receipts
were $1,153,510.53.
During the past year, two fourth
class post offices were discontinued.
The cost for city delivery service
during 1931-1932 amounted to $685.
553.46 as compared to $275,541.90
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
Lee Anderson Pleaded
Guilty To Attacking
And RObbing Man.

Judge w. w. Harrington of Kent
county believes in accommodating
prisoners, who appear in his court,
at least TO where they shall serve
their sentence.
Presiding in Plead Guilty Court at
Dover on Saturday, Ernest Juqua,
colored, who pleaded guilty to steal
ing an automobile appeared before
Judge Harrington. The Court first
sentenced him to serve Is months in
the new Kent County Jail.
Judge, Your Honor" said the
prisoner, could you send me to the
Workhouse where l can get some
exercise"
alright" replied Judge Harring-
ton. 81 will accommodate you. l will
change that sentence and make it 1S
months in the New Castle County
Workhouse." Juqua left the court
much pleased with the change in
the sentence.
Lee Anderson, aged 25 years, u
white man, who pleaded guilty to
and robbing Charles
Mears, of Milford, near garage in
this city on December 12, was sem
fenced to serve 10 years in the New
Castle County Workhouse. The
court omitted the lashes which
could also have been nart of the
sentence in this case. Judge Har-
rington explained that under the
charge this was the minimum SEN
tence that could be imposed by the
court.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
RESCUE CARETAKER
AND WIFE FROM BARGE
Raft Was Being Battered To Pieces
When Help Arrived In Storm

With a heavy northeast gale poun-
ding it to pieces against jetty in
Mispillion River, the barge Green
Cove, with a terrified elderly care
taker and his wife aboard, was res
cued late Saturday night by Coast
Guard cutter No. 236 from the Lewes
station, where the barge had been
abandoned by the tug and left with
it's occupants to the mercy of the
severe snowstorm that swept the
coast since early Saturday morning.
When the patrol boat, in conf
mand of Captain H. H. Yokes, reach
ed the scene of action, after respon-
ding to an emel gency call received
at Lewes headquarters at 2 p. M,
the stranded barge was discovered
in imminent danger of being torn
to pieces against the jetty or swept
out to sea by the gale.
The captain and crew of the pa
troll boat first made an attempt to
pull the craft to safety but several
times when a line was thrown
around it the hawsers broke under
the great strain of the dashing wa
ters. Upon going higher up the rlv-
er in search of the tug the coast
guardsmen found it safely harbor-
ed against an inner jetty and the
entire crew gone ashore.
Returning to the barge, the res
cuing party finally succeeded in ty-
ing it fast to the cutter around mid
night, when, after taking aboard the
caretaker, Michael Comes, and his
wife, colored the battered barge
was towed to a sheltered spot, af-
ter two and one half hours of
ploughing through the chopping ice
of the river, distance of only one
mile.
The barge is owned by H. E. Cox,
Philadelphia. It's estimated value is
$4,000 including its cargo of soft
coal, 397 tons consigned to the Mil
ford light plant here.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
DELAWARE RED CROSS
WANTS HELP NOW
Women Throughout State Asked To
Knit Sweaters TO Aid The Needy

The Delaware Chapter American
Red Cross is asking members of all
its branches, members of other or
ganizations, and any volunteer knit
ters to assist in making 400 sweaters
for needy school children and wo-
men, before January Is.
Mrs. Thomas w. Wilson, of Will
mington, who is the originator of
the sweater knitting idea, and who
has done much to put it into effect,
was made chairman of committee
in charge of that work at a recent
meeting of the executive committee
of the chapter, when an appropria-
ton was made with which to supply
wool for the sweaters.
This committee, consisting of Mrs.
Wilson, Miss Emily P. Bissell, sec
retary of the chapter, and Mrs. Will
lard Hall Porter. all of Wilmington,
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
/. O. o. F. DEPUTIES
NAMED FOR YEAR
Grand Master OF Order Reserves
FIRST District For Self

Henry G. Pennington, Grand Mas
ter of the Delaware Lodge. |. o. o..
T., has named the district deputy
grand masters and the various COM
lnittees to serve the ensuing year.
mir. Pennington reserved the first dis
trict which he will serve. The deputy
grand marshals and their districts
are as follows:
District Deputy Grand Masters -
District No. l, Lodges Nos. l, 2, 4, 8,
IS, u, %, 26 and "a, Henry c. PEN
ington. Grand Master, Wilmington;
District No. 2, Lodges Nos. 6, z, 10,
90, 30 and 35, Clarence Jester, Dep
uty Grand Master, Milford; District
No. 3, Lodges Nos. 0, IL, 112, 10, %,
80, 81, Al and AZ, J. Lemont Jones,
Middletown; District No 4, Lodges
Nos. 8, IA, II, 25, 27, 80 and 43, How
ard E. Russell, Laurel.
Standing Committees of the Grand
Lodge of Delaware, l. o. o. r., fol-
low:
State of the Order-George N.
Bailey. No. 4, chairman; Philip ].
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
KENT GROUP TO
OPPOSE REPEAL EFFORT
Miss May B. Macken Gives Principal
Talk At Meeting In Wyoming

At the Kent County Womans
Christian Temperance Union Insti-
tute held at Wyoming on Forday in
the M. e. Church, Mrs. Elizabeth
Bringhurst, of l0leton, presided. The
keynote of the institute and address,
es was "Advance-Not Retreat"
The welcome was extended by Mrs.
]. M. Kitchens, of Wyoming, presi-
dent of the Wyoming w. c. IT, u,
Greetings were also given by the
various pastors. The response was
made by Mrs. Catherine Porter, presi-
dent of the Camden, Del, w. c. T. U.
Five-minute talks were given by
the following: "Evangelistic and
Sabbath Day Observance" Mrs.
Ella d. Cordray. Harrington; "Medi
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
GOVERNOR GETS
COUNTY PLAN
SURVEY REPORT
Bills Will Be Offered In
Legislature To Change
County Systems.
REDUCE EMPLOYEES
Commission Report viii
Be Printed For General
Distribution.

The special survey Commission
appointed by Governor Buck under
an act of the last Legislature to stu
dy the question of county govern
ment looking to most economy in
the operating of the county govern
ments met with Governor Buck last
Friday and presented their report.
This report will be printed in PAM
phlet form and until it is ready for
publication the members of the COM
mission decline TO give ont the de-
tails of the report.
The commission has made an eX-
haustive survey of the conditions as
to county governments in Delaware
and it is understood have recon-
mended some changes and CONSOLE
dations that will greatly cut down
the total number of employees and
consequently result in saving to
the taxpayers.
The report will propose the en-
actment of acts by the State Legis-
Iature constituting a wide economy
program in county administration,
TO be effected in variety of ways,
including elimination of some offices
and combination of others.
While the details of the report,
which will be lengthy and techni-
cal, will not be made public until
the report is printed in pamphlet
form, members of the commission
said it would be safe to assume that
the economy program will include
reduction in the number of county
employees.
The commission, composed of an
equal number of Democrats and Re-
pnblicans, was authorized at the
regular session of the Legislature,
two years ago. 1t has been compil-
ing data and discussing proposals
more or less steadily for the past
year. assisted in the technical
nhases by Russell Ramsey and the
Taxpayers Research League.
j A bill, or several bills, based on
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
MILFORD STORES TO
BE CLOSED MONDAY
December 26th The Legal Day For
Observance OF Christmas

Announcement has recently been
received from the Milford Business
Mems Association that the stores of
Milford will be closed on December
26, the day following Christmas
which is the legal day of observance
for Christmas.
Several months ago a resolution
was passed by the Milford Business
Mems Association stating the holi-
days on which Milford places of
business would be closed. New
Years, Decoration Day, Independ-
ence Day, Labor Day. Thanksgiving
Day and Christmas were the legal
holidays decided upon.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
DEL. APPLE CROP
TAKES BIG DROP
100000 Bushels Below 1881 PrOduc-
tiOn, U. S. Reports Show

Apple production in Delaware for
1882 was 100000 bushels below 1881
production, the Department of Ag-
riculture reports.
The department sets the 1882 ap-
pie crop as 1,096,000 bushels, as com
pared with 100000 bushels for 1881
and 1,694,000 bushels for 1880.
Of the total for the year 242,O00
barrels represented commercial pro-
duction, as compared with 100000
barrels in 1881 and 4S9,000 barrels in
1880.
Corn production in Delaware for
1882 was 4,263,000 bushels, as COM
pared with 4,745,O00 bushels for 1881
and 2,622,0O0 bushels for 1880, the
department reports.
The average yield per acre of corn
in the State for 1882 was 20 bushels,
as compared with 1925 bushels for
1881 and 19 bushels for 1880.
Winter wheat production in Della
ware for 1882 was 908,000 bushels,
as compared with 2,1SS,O00 bushels
for 1881 and 2,048,000 bushels for
1880.
The States rye crop for 1887 was
$4,000 bushels, as compared with
$4,000 bushels for 1881 and 10000
bushels for 1880.
Potato production in Delaware for
1892 was $4,000 bushels, as COM
pared with $4,000 bushels for 1881
and 100000 bushels for 1880.
Sweet potato production for 1882
was $4,000 bushels, as compared
with 1,4O0,00O bushels for 1881 and
525,000 bushels for 1880.
The 1882 pear crop in Delaware
was $4,000 bushels, as compared
with $4,000 bushels for 1881 and 49,
900 bushels for 1880.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
Mosquito Species In Delaware
Number 28 Says C. Il. McC"e
University Research EntOmOIOgist Tells Trustees OF
Breeding Areas In State; School Of Agriculture
Enrolment ShOUUS Decline This Year.

Twenty-eight species of mosqui-
toes were found during the State
wide mosquito survey made last
summer and fall under the super
vision of Louis A. Stearns, research
entomologist of the University of
Delaware, looking to the eventual
control of the pest in this State, it
was said by Dean Charles A. McCue
in his semi-annual report to the
Board of Trustees of the University.
In this preliminary discussion of
the subject Dean McCue points out
some of the salient facts that were
revealed concerning Delaware mos
quitoes in the survey. The report in
part follows:
"A few of the salient facts
brought out by the survey are (D %
species of mosquitoes were collected
and identified. These species can
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
STATE ARCHIVIST
SUBMITS REPORT
Ryden Cites Progress In Work OF
ClasSiiling, Preserving Records N

Despite the fact that a limited
mudget has purecluded any impor-
tant expansion in the work of the
Public Archives Commission of Della
ware, spbstnatial progress has been
mode in the past year in the owrk
of preserving and classifying rec
ords entrusted to the care of the
commission, according to the annual
report of DR.. George H. Ryden, State
archiyist, submitted at the recent
annual meeting of the commission.
The archives headquarters in Do
yer were visited by $50 perOsns dur
ing the year, most of whom were
tourists and school children, accord
ing to the report. Appreciation OF
the work done by DR.. Ryden's as
sistants is included, and data on the
progress made with court papers,
Wills and administration records,
marriage records, county papers,
executive papers,, guardian accounts
of Kent county, birth, baptism, death
and burial records, historical re-
search and general activity is listed
in the report.
Much valuable source material on
L.ewes was obtained from the diar-
les. scrapbOoks and other papers
owned by Mrs Caleb Layton, DIR.
Ryden states. Delaware and New
Jersey lwayers obtained assistance
from the office in connection with
the present Delaware-New Jersey
boundary dispute.
The repo1. also tells of the prog
ross made in the collection and clas-
sification of valuable papers deal
ing with government, much OF 1t
dating from the 18th century.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
ELECT MILFORD MAN
PACKERS VICE.PRES.

Concluding their day-and-
one-half session at the Lord
Baltimore Hotel at Baltimore
on Thursday, the Tri-State
Packers Association elected
Allen 4. Stevens, Cedarsville,
N. j., to succeed F. Hall Wrig-
stson as president for the COM
ing year.
other. officers elected were:
F. o. Mitchell, Perryman, Md,
first vice-president; George Fl.
Draper, Jr., Milford, Del, sec
ond vice-president; C. M.
Dashell, Princess Anne, Md,
to serve again as secretary
treasurer, and F. Shook, Eas-
ton, Md, to serve again as field
secretary.
The organization. which is
composed of packers from
Maryland, Delaware, and New
Jersey, met here Wednesday
for its 2Sth annual convention.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23

readily be grouped into three main
groups, (a) salt marsh mosquitoes,
(b) inland mosquitoes, and (c) a
few that breed either in salt or
fresh water. (2) The principal salt
marsh types that cause the most
trouble are three in number, and a
fourth that breeds either in salt or
fresh water (3) The principal fresh
water mosquito species are two in
number an 6a third which is trou-
blesome in some localities. (4) Del
aware City is the source of danger
as far as the malaria mosquito is
concerned. The prevalence of the
malaria bearing mosquito at mil
itary post is particularly pertinent.
(5) In the coastal region and towns
the salt water mosquito predomi-
mates. (6) In the inland regions and
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TROUBLE MAKER \
HELD UNDER BAIL
John II. WOlfOrd, COIOred, OF Dover,
Alleged To Have Incited Riot

John H. Wolford, Negro, one of
the 80 persons who twice visited
Dover with the unemployed dele
cation appearing before Governor
Buck and the Welfare Commission
as well as before the Legislature in
special session at DOxer Novem-
ber, and who has remained in Dover
ever since the first delegation came
to the town in October last and who
has been working among the Ne
groes of Dover along communistic
lines, ran amuck of the law on Fri
day, when he was arrested by Off
GERS Cummins and Collins and hail
ed before Magistrate w. D. Burton
on two charges, one for disorderly
conduct and melting a riot on which
charge he was held in $500 bail for
the uprer court and on a second
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
Heaviest Snowfall Of Two
Years Plays Havoc In
Some Sections OF State.
TEN INCHES FELL
HERE; SEVERE COLD
Official Thermometer Had
A Reading Of Five De-
grees On Monday.

The heavy snowfall which blank
eted most parts of the nation last
Saturday, ranged in depth from sew
en- inches to one foot throughout
Delaware. At Milford the official
government measurement was ten
inches on the level. The storm was
accompanied by heavy gales in some
sections of the State-especially in
the northern part, and many of the
highways in New Castle county
were blocked by deep snowdrifts
which completely stopped traffic for
many hours. In Kent and Sussex
counties, while the snowfall was
heavy, drifting did not occur to any
great extent. This was due, in ell
probability to the fact that late in
the afternoon the snow turned into
rain for a short time and heavy
crust formed ON the snow. On Sum
day evening the thermometer regis
tered seven degrees early in the ev-
ening and during the night it went
down to five degrees.
The State Highway Department,
as soon as it was seen that the
storm was reaching serious proper
tions, placed snow plows at work on
the main arteries of travel, and in
this manner most of the roads were
kept open. In the several towns and
cities gangs of unemployed were
put to work removing the snow. At
Milford the city management placed
trucks at work on Monday removing
the snow from the business sections
especially along the curbs where
the sidewalks had been cleaned off.
Sleighs made their appearances
late Saturday afternoon and on
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SNOW BLANKETS
STATE; CAUSING
BUSINESS TIE-UP
U. S. ALLOTS S4113,6O3
FOR HIGHWAYS IN STATE

The allotment of Federal
emergency funds for Delaware
highway construction projects
totaled $413,609 up to Novem-
ber 80, the Bureau of Public
Roads reported yesterday.
OF the total 100000 appor-
toned the State for the fiscal
year ending next June 80,
$186,397 remained available
for the balance of the fiscal
year.
Delaware also has been al
lotted to November 80, 100000
regular Federal highway aid
funds.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
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WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, December IA, To
Tuesday, December 20, Inclusive

Charles ]. Holzmueller, the local
weather recorder, reports the fol-
lowing weather conditions for Mil
ford, from Wednesday, December
IA, to Tuesday, December 20, inclu-
sive: