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Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
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WHEAT INCREASE
WHEN. FERTILIZED
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winter. It develops a heavy root
system which is necessary for
proper stooling and vigorous growth
in the spring, states County Agricul-
tural Agent c. R. Snyder.
Finally, each bushel added to the
acre-yield cuts down the overhead
cost per bushel, and if the use of
fertilizer will add from to IL BUSH
els to the yield at cost of 20 to 25
cents per bushel, the bushel cost of
the entire crop is reduced accord
ingly. Certainly the best way out
for the Sussex county wheat grow
er is to produce a high yield per
acre at a low cost per bushel even
if fewer acres must be grown.
During the last four years tests
on wheat fertilization have been
carried on on the farm of H. NJ
Deputy, near Milford, by the De-
partment of Agronomy, of the Uni
versity of Delaware. The soil is
that of a sassafras sandy loan to
loamy sand, and the results should
apply to the lighter sandy soils of
the State. A rotation of wheat, soy
beans and corn was followed. Sew
eral different fertilizer analysis
were used in the rotation. The rate
of application for the first two years
was 300 pounds per acre, and 900
pounds per acre for the remainder
of the test, all applied at seeding
time. The average annual yield for
the four year period was as follows:
Treatment Bushels per Acre
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
SEASON FOR RAIL BIRD
HUNTING is NOW HERE
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The marshes around Delaware
City are about the best in the State,
it is said. The rail birds arrive sud
denly at night No one sees them
come and no one sees them go.
Early this week none of the birds
had been seen around the marshes.
Some day soon, however, they will
be there by the thousands where
they will remain. feeding in the
marshes, until cold weather arrives.
Just before frost they will leave as
mysteriously as they arrived.
The shooting at the start cf the
month is not expected to be SO good
for two reasons; the reeds are still
green and the growth is very rank
which makes it very diff1cult to push
a boat through the marshes, and
again, the tides will not be so high
normally until the next full moon
period.
1t takes two persons to success
fully shoot these birds, one to shove
the boat and the other to do the
shooting.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
Thirty
One
Years
Ago
Taken From September, 1901,
Files OF Milford Chronicle

Mrs. Mary Ward of Philadelphia i;
visiting friends in Milford.
il
Miss Mccoy of Odessa has been a
guest of her aunt Mrs. Sadie Will
son, this past week.
Byard P. Burn has been at home
from Washington, D. c., this week
taking a vacation.
u
Miss Serena Gilman has gone to
Fishers Island, Mass, for a visit
before beginning school work.
u
Mrs. Emma Sipple and daughters,
Emma and Hester, nave been 7isit-
ing in Philadelphia this past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John W. Short of
Philadelphia are visiting relatives
and friends in Milford and vicinity.
Mr. Charles Malseed of Philadel-
phia who has been spending his va
cation with Miss Bessie Clifton, re-
turned home last Monday.
Miss Georgia Warren who has
been visiting her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. David o. Warren, has returned
TO Philadelphia.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
ANDREWVILLE

Frances Vincent is spending e
couple of weeks in Philadelphia
with different friends.
Mrs. Lulu Dukes of Wilmington is
visiting her sister here, Mrs. Char
lie Collision.
Little Eleanor Warren Of Marcus
Hook is spending few days with
her aunt, Mrs. Earle Griffith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Short and
children of near Milford spent Sun
day evening with Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
Burris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Vincent and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Bradley and chill
dren enjoyed a big watermelon eat
ing on Sunday night at Charlie
Finkenbinder's home.
The Misses Della Ryan, Madelyn
Collision and Florence Burris spent
the weekend in Atlantic City, New
Jersey.
Little Helen Grifith has returned
from the Beebe Hospital at Lewes
after having had her tonsils remov-
ed.
Mrs. Barney and son Louis of Will
mington are spending few days
here with her daughter, Mrs. Nor
man Butler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Knox and
family of Harrington spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Paskey.
Little Roberta Outten of Marshy
Hope is visiting her grandparents
here. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ceaders.
Alice Holt of Wilmington spent
part of this week with Della Ryan
here.
This community is badly in need
Of rain.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
UNITED STATES
WILL SURVEY ON
DELAWARE Line
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monumental stations and the dis
tances and true bearings of the tri-
angle sides. The work, it was point
ed out, "is designed to furnish data
for mapping of the country, the loca-
tion of State and county boundaries,
the control for city surveys, topo-
graphic mapping and many other
engineering works"
During the extension over the
United States of the great triangula-
tion net, the State of Maryland has
not been neglected, the Coast and
Geodetic Survey explained, for some
of the earliest work of the country
was done in that state.
The work consisted of a portion of
a great arc of the first-order trian-
gulation extended from eastern
Maine, down the coast to New York,
across New Jersey and Delaware,
into Maryland and southwark along
the Appalachian Mountains to Mo
bile, Alabama. That arc was design
ed to give strength to the charting
of the Atlanic coast and the adtoin-
ing waters.
There was spur, extending from
the triangulation near the northern
end of the Chesapeake Bay eastward
to Cape May, New Jersey. One of
the important stations of the Mary
land first order triangulation is on
Sugar Loaf Mountain, near Freder-
ick, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02

Senator S. John Abbott has NOV
ed up from Slaughter Beach.
Mr.. w. E. Lank, who is i'll with
typhoid fever is getting better.
Mrs. Bessie Gillispie and son Wal
ter are guests of Mrs. Robert
Pierce.
VIM. Layton of Wilmington has
been visiting VIM. T. Vaules this
week.
Hon. Chauncey Holcomb of New
Castle has been visiting Milford
friends this week.
Mr.. J. H. Banning of Philadelphia
has been in Milford this week visit
ing friends.
Miss Minerva Sipple has been
visiting her brother, Mr.. Carlisle
Simple, at his home in Warren,
Rhode Island.
VIM. Marshall and Ex-Governor
Watson are sailing along the Della
ware Bayshore. They live on their
boat and go wherever their inclina-
lion leads them.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
HERE and THERE
By U. and l. LOoKEMOVER
uUith the Milford Baseball Boys

Harrington mistook Slaalien for
Sla-Slam.
@*1
They are still talking about that
catch down yan in DagsbOrO
which Pappy Lynch made on
Wednesday of last week. The
DagsbOrO players and fans
showed their spOrtsmanship by
applauding as vigorously as the
Milford adherantS.
@*@
Oh, well, you can't win them all
so let's be satisfied and see
what the Harrington correspon-
dent says this week about his
home town boys and Milford's
paid employees.
@*~
DagsbOrO seems TO be linked by
Milford. They have a good team
one of the best we have seen
around these diggings- but they
seem to go to pieces when Op-
posing Milford.
@*4
1t seems to us that when a team
starts hitting that the local
players go to pieces and make a
lot of errors.
90
Bob Smith, the New Castle
High School boy is only eigh-
teen years old; which goes to
prove that a young pitcher can
pitch as well as an old hand.
Ii they IOse-giye them a hand
for trying at least. Every hjg
league pitcher had to have eX-
perience before he went UP to
the big show
90
Babb had something on the ball
last Thursday night-he also
has a lot of beef.
90
Ike Warren in the Harrington
game here last Thursday made
one of the prettiest catches ever
seen on the local diamond. The
ball was a line drive and was
caught while Ike was running
at top speed a few inches from
the ground. That is, fielding,
my boy.
Holloway was hit back of the
head by one of Slaalien's fast
ones. Apparently he did not
seem to be hurt and went to
first base. Maybe his head isn't
Holloway!
~*@
The more we see of Hall Of
Harrington the more we like
him as a ball player. He is
good; but would be better If he
could curb his temper.
90
The least said about the FELTON,
game at FELTON, last Saturday
the better we will feel. Every
one knows how the game was
lost; so why rub it in.
@*%
It might be a good idea to equip
the Outfielders Of Milford with a
bushel measure.
@&@
The purpose of the writer's of
this column is to construct and
not to destroy. We just give the
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02

impression of the game as it
develops before our eyes. If we
are unjust in our criticism, we
beg to be excused.
@*%
We would like TO see Warren in
Centerfield with Legar in left;
we think this would improve the
Outfield by fifty. per cent. Try it,
"Heck."
@*1
After viewing the Harrington
and FELTON, games of last week
we have discovered why they
say "the old gray mare amt
what she used to be-"
%*3
POstles pitched a very fine game
at FELTON, last Saturday and ii
his defense had been airtight;
he would have won, 2 to 1.
~*9
In the game at Harrington this
week on Tuesday evening, Mil
ford presented a brand new out
field and the fast fielding made
by it showed the difference be-
tween defeat and victory. Legar
and Lynch were good men; but
old man time is calling.
@*@
That home run by Kerchner
on Tuesday evening at Harring-
ton was a heart-breaker for
Harrington; and it was one
sweet drive.
A funny event took place in the
first half of the sixth inning at
Harrington when Walls, the
base. umpire, called Ramsey
safe at third. After much argu-
ment, Powell, the umpire behind
the plate, decided that he was
out. What we can't understand
is: What good is a base umpire
at Harrington?
.@*~
Grier had two lucky hits at
Harrington; twice he hit the
ball on the handle of his bat
and twice they flew over third
for base hits. What a break for
Garrett.
90
Slaalien looked good in right
field and burning made some
nice catches in center. The out
field looked hundred per cent
better; so say we all.
90
Milford and Harrington VIII
play a five game series, starting
with two games on Labor Day.
90
How The Boys Are Hitting
InnIrnHisnn. n. TnnrHnr9r Gnunn
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
PLAN FOR ANNUAL
POULTRY TOUR
IN SEPTEMBER
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large commercial egg farms in Vir-
ginia near Washington, a trip to Ar
lington and Mount Vernon and an
inspection trip through the Wash
ington produce market.
All farmers and business men in
Delaware are invited to join this
tour. Whether the trip will be made
in private automobiles or in large
buses has not been decided. More
definite information about transpor-
tation, the time, the hotel rates and
the special features of the places to
be visited will be announced later in
the newspapers. Those who plan to
go on the tour should notify H. S.
Palmer, Newark, at once in order
that he may make the necessary
reservations for meals, lodging and
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
RELIEF BOARD
MEETS; STUDIES
LOCAL NEEDS
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full employment for the now unem-
ployed, also was discussed. The
work of the women's sewing unit al
Sixth and Shipley streets, Whining
ton, was contained in the report.
It was brought out that the infor-
nation on the relief situation is
pretty well in hand for Sussex and
Kent counties.
A communication from Mayor
Levinson, of Middletown, outlining
the probable needs of his town and
adjacent territory, also was received
by the commission. 1t was ordered
filed for thorough study and con-
sideration.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02

How long the people of this State
Will allow its finances to be manip-
ulated to the interests of parties re.
mains to be seen.
We seldom hear a political speak
o. er or writer refer to the interests OF
the people-but what is best fol-
the party" Do we pay taxes to
maintain office holders who repre-
sent a political organization? When
will the people wake up to their own
interests?
Offices are necessary for the
transaction of the business of the
State.
We need a citizens party compos-
ed of the farmer and the working
man-the people who produce the
wealth of our State and not the rich.
Can the people expect any redress
from an administration which has
increased the salaries of many Off
cials and imposed upon the people
a host of Office holders and employ
ees, some of them furnished with
automobiles-pay the gas and oil
DAAA13 wv AAON
does the State furnish?
mo country can squander itself
to prosperity on the ruins of its tax
payers. Herbert Hoover.
Is every office holder before elec-
tion drafted upon? For what?
l have seen in the past men CD
marched to the polls in droves.
Frederick the Great of Prussia,
who was a sympathizer with the
colonies in their revolution with
England, when asked what he would
charge England to allow hired SOL
diers to march across his Kingdom,
who were to fight our forefathers,
replied: 81 charge $3.50 per head to
march cattle across my Kingdom
and after the colonies had gained
their freedom, presented a sword to
Washington, on which he had en-
graved From the oldest general in
the world to the greatest"
Why violate the laws of our State
and use money for the purchase of
votes?
The poor debauched citizen who |
accepts it, is only tightening the
rope around his own neck which |
will eventually strangle him and !
his neighbor.
We need men in Delaware today
as great as we needed them in the
American Revolution. or the Civil
War. Men like Israel Putnam, the
farmer, who left his plow in the
field, mounted his horse and rode to
the protection of his country.
Before the Civil War a healthy
man or woman sold in the slave
market from $4,000 to 100000.
At the present day he or she
brings from $3.50, $500 or possibly
$1,000 on the political slave block
on election day. The nation who
gave the mtheir freedom, purchases
them for political purposes at a
greatly reduced price. We realize
this is year of depression-but it
Is assured the stock market in votes
will advance as it is intimated there
will be a flow of money into Della
ware few days before election.
Have you had an executive or
member of your Legislature during
the last thirty years who has not
given money to influence some one
10 vote for him, if not personally,
mis- friends may have contributed it
or that purpose. The person who
Buys a vote violates the law and ;
should be imprisoned. and the per-
;on who sells, according to law is to
,e disfranchised. How many people
n Delaware have been disfranchis- |
ID?
In little Broadkiln Hundred with s
500 voters it is estimated there are G
100 purchasable votes. What applies 2
o Broadkiln may apply to every
hundred in the State. n
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
REHOBOTH SWIM
MEET SEPT. 3RD
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girls under II; free style rescue,
for men; 100-yard free style, wo-
men; 50-yard back stroke for boys;
150-yard back stroke for men; 80
yard breast stroke for men; free
style rescue for girls; 100-yard free
style for men; 440-yard free style
for men; fancy diving for men, boys,
girls.
Judges for the races are: Daniel
G. Anderson, Mayor Ralph D. Poyn-
ter and Judge Richard S. Rodney.
Honorary referee is to be William B.
Foster, with Mr.. Wood as official
referee; starter, Joseph F. Mac
Sweeney, who is general chairman
of the weeks activities; judges of
diving, Fred Homan and Mr.. Wood;
timers, P. o. Downes and Burton
Crol1; announcer, the Rev. c. Irving
Carpenter, and clerk of the course,
Rowland B. Ingram. The meet is
scheduled to start at 1:30 p. m.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02
DIR. HOPKINS HAS
HAD A DREAM AND
HAS AWAKEN UP


Only once in my memory have ]
known a person arrested and con-
vlcted for the purchase of votes. AT
ter serving time in Jail he was re-
leased and given an ofice-a prem
ium on dishonesty.
The people would like to see an
honest election once in Delaware
but this like many others will be an
idle dream.
When you enter your courts the
crier raps and cries:
"Oh yea! oh veal! etc." and final
ly says, God save the Courts of
Delaware"
1 rap the gavel and say God
save the State of Delaware and the
/ United States~Of America from the
politicians"
am not politician, probably not
a diplomat. I may not be a Repub-
lican, a Democrat, a Socialist. l may
be classed humbug, probably l am.
There may be some good in each of
these. l am only a citizen of Della
ware, deeply interested in the well
fare of my State.
Every person owes the best in him
or her to his community, county,
state and nation.
"Owe no man anything" is a Bib
lical quotation. This does not mean
money, To be elected to an office by
the purchase of votes is a disgrace
not an honor. Why are people so
anxious to hold an office? Is it for
the good they may render, or for
their own financial interest? Good
men are sought, they are not appli-
Cants.
In the opinion of many we must
break away from party affiliations
and vote for principal and the inter-
ests of the people.
Most people are busy with their
own avocatiOns and do not take time
to think and allow a set of polite
ians to creep in and drain the life
blood out of the State.
Lives there a man with soul so
dead who has not to himself has
said this is my own, my native land |
and not the politicians
There are more farms for sale for |
taxes in Sussex county than was |
ever known. Wake up you people of |
Delaware. The high top hat man is
behind it, The man who contributes
for the purchase of votes.
Poor men do not contribute money
to buy votes.
For the sake of honesty why is it
not stopped? It is undermining the
very foundations of our country.
Who will stop 1.-THE present ad-
Allow me to lead the reader back
to the day of the battle Of Bunker
Hill. Brave men fought and died
that the people of this land should
have religious and political freedom.
Benedict Arnold sold himself for an
office and a few pieces of gold. He
always afterwards was despised-
even by the children of England
where he took refuge. They pointed
he finger of scorn and derided him
when he ventured on the street and
called him Traitor" I ask: How
many Benedict Arnolds will there be
IN election day in Delaware?
My country tbs of thee.
Sweet land of liberty?
The land of the brave,
And a. home for the knave.
Let the present administration
i've a published account of the sal
ried officials of our State. and its
expenses. Let the taxpayer known
rhere his money goes.
l believe there are enough good
onest people in Delaware to repu-
late and stamp from our State this
tigma. Are the people to be sold
very four years into political bond
ge? MOL :
ROBT. B. HOPKINS, NJ. D.
IiltOn, Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-02

Buy what you need, when you need
and use it with care.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-30
PLANTS NOW BEING SET OFT
Farmers Putting Out Strawberry
Plants in Sussex County

Farmers in many sections of
lower Delaware are putting out
their strawberry plants which will
come into bearing next year. The
acreage, it is believed, will be
about normal, despite the fact the
growers for the past two years be-
came disgusted with growing ber-
ries because of the low prices.
Two years ago many growers in
the Georgetown section stopped
picking about the middle of the
season because they were not
meeting expenses. Some of the
mid-season varieties sold as low as
rs cents per crate, exclusive of the
crate. The prevailing picking
price was about 72 cents per crate
of 36 quart boxes. Growers be-
lieve that the fields they are now
setting out will bring them in some
money next year. Another think
the paintings are to replace some
of the fields that have been in
bearing for the past two and three
seasons.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-30
Original Lead Pencil

The first allusion to the use of
pencils in the modern sense of a
solid rod of marking material used
for writing and drawing, either in
caSed in some form of holder, is
in the treatise on fossils by Conrad
Gesner of Zurich, Switzerland, in
1865. This writer describes an
article for writing formed of wood
and a piece of lead. or, as he be-
lieved. an artificial composition
called English antimony. The ia
nous Rorrowdale mine, in Cumber-
land. having been discovered about
that time. it is probable that we
have here the first allusion to that
great find of graphite. While the
supply of the Cumberland mine last
ed the material for English pencils
consisted simply of the native
graphite as taken from the mine.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-30
Tangled

A friend of the WOman's recent
ly bought a puppy at marked
down sale. Bearing her new pur-
chase in a paper shopping bag, she
boarded a street car, homeward
bound.
She took the only vacant seat,
which happened to be opposite an
elderly woman who was industrious
ly knitting and an aged gentleman
with a newspaper in his hand, just
beginning to doze off. She had been
seated scarcely five minutes when
she heard a rip, a screech and a
growl, and there was her newly
bought Fido across the aisle, slowly
winding the yarn which the old lady
hac dropped in her fright around
the sleeping gentleman's legs.
Ding! Dong! There was the con
ductor calling off her station It
took her a full 10 minutes to Olsen
tangle that yarn and make her
apologies, and when she reached
HONEYWELL, poor Fido is, fgura-
lively speaking, still swathed in
bandages and still walking on
crutches. New York Sun.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-30
RASKOB PLEDGES
TO BACK PARTY
Will Pay to Underwrite Def
icit of Smith Presidential
Campaign in 1928
ENDORSEMENT OF NOTES

John j. Raskob last Wednesday
pledged himself to make good on
my endorsement" of the $4,000 in
notes Timothy ]. Mara and Patrick
F. Kenny signed as their share of
the S1,OOO,0OO fund to underwrite
the deficit from the 1928 Demo
cratic presidential campaign. Say
ing he personally endorsed these
notes purely as a matter of ac-
commodation to these gentlemen"
Mr.. Raskob, chairman of the Dem
ocratic National Committee, said
in a statement he would pay any
amount the County Trust Com
pany is unable to collect from
them. His statement was issued
simultaneously with denial by
Supreme Court Justice Peter
Schmuck of an application of the
Trust Company for bill of par
ticuIars setting forth certain points
in the defense of Mara, sports
promoter. The company is suing
Mara for payment on a $4,000
note and Kenny on a $4,000 note.
In their answers to the suit, Mara
and Kenny, a Yonkers contractor
asserted they signed the notes as
an accommodation to the County
Trust Company in furtherance of
what they termed fraudulent
scheme by the Trust Company to
conceal contributions to the 1928
Democratic campaign fund. The
Trust Company asked the court
i to order Mara to disclose the
names of those who induced him to
make the note, with whom he
made the agreement and the time
and the place Mara's attorneys
opposed the application as an at
tempt to obtain Mara's evidence
and also on the assertion the ac-
companying affidavit was made by
the Trust Company's attorney and
not by an officer of the company.
Mr.. Raskob denied the charges,
saying the County Trust Company,
of which former Governor Smith is
chairman Of the board, knew moth
ing whatever Of the underwriting
agreement to wipe out the Demo
cratic party deficit. The company,
of which Mr.. Raskob is a director,
he said, contributed nothing to the
$1,000,000 fund
Smyrna times., 1932-03-30
Sweet Potato Not "Yam"

The yam and sweet potato are two
distinct types Of edible plants. The
sweet potato is the root Of a vine
of the morning glory family, while
the yam is the root of plant Of
a distinct family, dioscoreaceae.
The only species in this country is
dioscorea viiosa, which occurs wild
in the southern states. The yam and
sweet potato are similar except that
the latter has a much more delicate
taste and Is more suitable for food,
having been cultivated for genera
finnS
Smyrna times., 1932-03-30
Red Indian Currency"

Roanoke was one of several vari.
ants applied by the Virginia colon
lists to the shell beads employed by
the neighboring Indians as articles
of personal adornment or media of
exchange. 1t is a case of substitu.
tion of familiar word for one that
was i'll understood and probably
more difficult to pronounce. Capt
John Smith (1612 and 1924 gives
the Powhattan name for shell beads
in the form of rawrenock and raw.
ranoke, and William Strachey de.
fines rarenaw as a chain of beads
The original word may have been
rarenawok, smoOthed shells, plural
of rarenaw.