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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
c. c. c. DIRECTOR TO
SPEAK In MILFORD
Public Invited To Attend Lecture
Monday Evening

The many citizens of Milford and
surrounding community, who for
long have wondered just what the
mosquito control workers arc en-
deavoring to do, will have chance
to obtain information concerning
the same, on Monday evening, De-
cember IS, at s o'clock. AT that time,
w. S. Corkran, director of mosquito
control work at the Lewes camp
will conduct an illustrated lecture
at the community building. The lee
ture will deal with the phases of the
work now in progress, and with the
results that will come from the final
accomplishment of the many pro-
jects now being undertaken. The
public is urgently requested to at
tend.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
ICY HIGHWAYS CAUSE
TRAFFIC TIEUP In STATE
Sussex County Not SO Hard Hit As
Remainder OF State

Traffic in all parts of Delaware,
except a few sections of Sussex
county, was ALMOST completely stop
ped on Wednesday evening when
falling rain froze and made the
highways and streets mass of ice.
At Milford the rain started to. fall
shortly after noon and before late
afternoon travel was difficult. AS
the night came on conditions be-
came worse. North of Milford trav-
ell was almost impossible. Hun
dreds of automobiles were aband-
oned by their owners who found it
impossible to travel on the roads.
Overturned cars were in evidence in
all sections of the State and wreck
ing crews were kept busy. No in
juries were reported, however.
Thursday morning found conditions
no better and travel almost stopped.
The icy pavements made walking
difficult. In Milford the telephone
and electric wires were not injured
by the storm.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
one KILLED, 3
HURT ASAUTO
SKIDS IN SNOW
Mrs. James w. Wise Dies
In Crash; Judges Wife
And Son Injured.
CRASH NEAR SMYRNA
Party Was Going To Phil
adelphia When Mishap
Occurred.
CRASH NEAR SMYRNA

Mrs. James w. Wise, age AZ years,
wife of a Dover druggist, was in
stantly killed and three other per-
sons were seriously injured Monday
morning when the car in which they
were riding skidded on the snow
covered highway and crashed broad
side into a milk truck at Smyrna.
The injured are:
Mrs. Frank Hall Davis, of Dover,
vice chairman of the Kent County
Republican Committee and member
of the State Mothers Pension Com
mission, fractured left leg and lac
erations of the face and hands.
Mrs. Owen Knots, wife of Judge
Knots, of Denton, Md, fractured
jaw and decorations. Mrs. Knots is
a sister of Mrs. Wise.
James Knots, her five-year-old
son, fractured skull and decorations.
All three are at the Kent General
Hospital at Dover, where they were
taken in the Smyrna ambulance
shortly after the crash.
Mrs. Davis, who was driving the
car, said that she was going north
on the DUPONT Boulevard, at rate
of about 35 miles an hour, when she
saw the milk truck approaching
from the opposite direction. She put
on her brakes to slow down and the
car skidded on the slippery surface,
turning completely around and
smashing into the truck. The car
was demolished.
Wesley Manley, aged 35 years, of
Upper Darby, Pa, driver OF the
truck, was arrested by Private Van
SAINT, OF the State Police, and was
arraigned before Magistrate Burton
at Dover, on a charge of manslaugh-
ter. He is said not to have been at
fault. The truck is owned by c. G..
Gramer, of Menroevilie, NJ ].
The group were on their way to
Philadelphia for days shopping.
The accident occurred shortly be-
fore o'clock.
Mrs. Wise was the daughter of the
late Rev. Alfred Smith, D. D., Metho-
dist minister. She is survived by her
mother, Mrs. Alfred Smith, who has
been visiting her at Dover for the
past few weeks, her husband, three
sons and two brothers, Paul X.
Smith, of Wilmington, and Alfred
Smith, of Miami, Fla, and her sis
ter, Mrs. Knotts.
Mrs. Davis has been prominent in
Republican politics for many years.
She is a member of the Republican
State committee, former bill clerk
of the State Legislature and she has
been a delegate to State Republican
conventions and has attended sever
al national Republican conventions
as an alternate.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
WILL STRAIGHTEN DUAL
HIGHWAY In KENT co.
Department Plans TO Eliminate
Curves Between Dover And Smyrna

A straight ribbon of dual concrete
between Smyrna and Dover instead
of the present crooked, winding road
is the plan of the State Highway De-
partment as announced today by the
Chief Engineer, w. w. Mack.
The building of a north bound
road affords the opportunity to elm
mate some of the many curves on
the old highway and provide dual
road that will give the travelling
public ease and comfort in riding,
shorten the distance between the
two points and make for a greater
safety on the entire project.
In speaking of the contemplated
Strengthening of the present road,
Mr.. Mack explained that this sec
tion was the first to be built by the
Highway Department and in the
construction of this road the old
lines were followed.
The opportunity has never before
presented itself to straighten it un-
til the present dual highway was
considered. Now is the opportunity,
which if allowed to pass, will prob
ably not present itself again.
With a straighter road there will
be assurance of greater driving COM
fort and safety on the route. Several
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HOME DEMONSTRATION
GARDENING In SUSSEX
Fifty-nine Women Enroll as Special
Garden Demonstrators This Year

Vegetable gardening, for home con-
sumption, has been one OF the ma
ior projects of Home Demonstra-
tion activity for the past four years.
Each year special effort has been
made to inform the people of the
vital Importance of variety in the
daily diet and to encourage the
planting of more vegetables for daily
use.
This year SO women enrolled as
special garden demonstrators. These
women pledged themselves to mani
fest greater interest in their home
gardens throughout the year by
working toward goal for good
spring, summer and fall gardens.
Following are the tabulated results
of these demonstrations, as reported
by the women enrolled:
1. Women were required to keep a
daily record of all vegetables, taken
from their gardens, whether for
daily use, given away, sell, can or
store for winter use. These were
the records that were sent to the
home demonstration agent, who
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.MitordFolks Getting
Ready For Christmas
Customs of Century Ago May Be ReUiUed As Citizens
Enter Into Spirit OF Decorating For Holiday; Ask
AH To Aid In Christmas Lighting Of Homes.

With holly, mistletoe and candle
lights the Christmas tides return.
There is a summons to awe, sol
emn call, in doing the things our
fathers did three thousand years
ago.
The Druids, priests to the ancient
Britons, believed that the sylvan de-
tiles dwelt among trees which re-
tanned their green in the midst of
the SHOWS; and to solicit the favor
of the gods of the woods they deck
ed their barbarian novels with
sprigs and sprays. The sun was
lowest in the month of December;
the days were shortest; the nights
were longest; but in the month of
December, too, the sun, always a
god among primitive people, turned
from darkness to light. The sun, in
the language of thirty centuries ago,
was born again"
An event so notable in the career
of the sun god was celebrated fifty
with lights in the openings that SER
we'd for windows and fires in the
hearths; darkness was passing, and
the world was Frightening anew.
Ages before christmas" was the
Feast of Light. A log-the yule-was
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
M. HIS. OBSERVES
DELAWARE DAY
Interesting Program Civ
en- By Junior Class Last
Thursday.

The junior class of the Milford
High School, which forms the United
States history class in the high
school, had charge of the assembly
attended by the entire junior-senior
high school student body, last
Thursday when Delaware Day was
observed. Virginia Sockrider was
chairman of the assembly and Mr.:
Boston, the teacher, in charge. The
proclamation of Governor c. Doug
lass Buck was read by Violet Green.
The student body sang "0ur Della
ware" under the direction of Miss
Helen G. Clarke, instructor in 'nu-
sic. The high school orchestra was
present and added to the enjoyment
of the occasion. Twelve or more
boys presented a dramatization of
the ratification of the Federal Con-
stitution by the Deputies of the peo-
pie of the Delaware State in Conven-
tion met. These boys took their
names from the authentic list of
Deputies which was published in the
daily papers last week.
James Latimer, President of the
Convention, was represented by
Pierce Watson, who acted as chair
man. The Reading Clerk was rep
resented by Richard Irwin. Other
names were: Mr.. Cunning Bedford,
Sr., Charles Wilkerson; Mr.. Kensey
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ANNOUNCE SIXTH
GORGAS ESSAY CONTEST
Contest For High School Students
Deals With Mosquito Control

The sixth annual essay contest for
high school juniors and seniors spon-
sored by the Gorgas Memorial In
stitute, Washington, D. c., was an
nounced this week by Admiral Cary
T. Grayson, president of the insti-
tute.
The contest opened in all high
schools Monday, December IL, and
will close on Friday, February 16.
The subject will be Past Benefits
and Future Importance to Man of
the Control of Disease Bearing Mos
quitoes." The donor of the prizes is
Mr.. Henry L. Doherty, president of
the Henry L. Doherty Co., New York
City. Mr.. Doherty, who for years
has been interested in the control
of mosquitoes, was also the donor of
awards of the institutes previous
contests on two occasions.
High school winners will receive
Gorgas medal, and will quality for
entrance in the State contest. State
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laid to be burned, and candles set up
of common size; boar was slain
for the festival, and its head brought
in on platter.
Our customs are lost in the mists
of antiquity. They have outlived
material things. Civilization after
civilization has arisen, flourished,
and passed away; kings have con-
tended for empires; dynasty has
succeeded dynasty; the records of
the greatest deeds have we'll nigh
perished, yet our customs, fancies
woven of the flimsiest texture, are
more rugged then all else. In dig
nifty, of human reverence they are
unsurpassed in all the inheritances
of man.
The City of Milford is asked by
the Business Mems Association to
revive this year the ancient Feast of
Lanterns. Let every man set up his
lights. Let every window lodge its
candle. Let every garden illumine
its t;bee. Let these old customs, be-
loved for thirty centuries, be per-
petuated yet another three thousand
years. So long as we link ourselves
with these good usages we are not
a recent people, but old, old, old, at
one, almost, with the Neolithic Age.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
MANY H. S. GRADUATES
CONTINUE EDUCATION
FOrty-FOur Per Cent OF This Years
Graduates Go To College

Through the principals and SUPER
lntendents of twenty-five high
schools in Delaware, DR.. John Shil-
ling, assistant superintendent in
charge of these schools, has deter
mined the whereabouts of the 614
boys and girls who graduated from
these schools in June, 1888. It was
found that 449o of the graduates are
now continuing their education in
colleges or other schools requiring
high school graduation. Of this
number, So are enrolled in the Uni
versity of Delaware. This number is
$50 of the entire number gradu-
ated, and $50 of those who entered
classes this fall. AS might be ex-
pected, a large number, SS9o, were
reported as being at home, and per-
haps may be classified as unemploy-
ed. In this group there were twice
as many girls as there were boys.
Similar studies have been made
since 1926. At that time the number
of students who continued in the
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
COURT OF HONOR
HELD BY SCOUTS
Many Awards Made At
Rally Held At Dover;
DIR. Holloway Presides.

A joint Court of Honor of the
Delaware districts, Boy Scouts was
held in the auditorium of Dover
High School Saturday night at
which over two hundred scouts and
friends were present. DR.. H. v. Hol-
loway, State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction of Delaware and a
member of the Scout Executive
Board, presided.
The court was opened with bugle
call by Roland Hudson, of Seaiord,
and assembly. The salute to the flag
was given by George Voshell, scout
master of Camden-Wyoming troop.
DR.. Holloway welcomed the
scouts. A scout play, written and
coached by Ashworth Burslem, as
sistant scoutmaster of Dover Troop
No. l, portrayed the ideals of the
scouts of service to others.
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
ANNUAL FARM CROP
SHOW In JANUARY
Affair viii Be Held in Grange Hall
10th to 18th

The Delaware Crop Improvement
Association will hold their 9th An
nual Show in the Grange Hall at
Milford, January 1912, according to
H. E. Speicher, president of the as
sociation. At the meeting recently
held in Milford by the officers and
members of the ASSOCIATION, arrange
ments were completed for the an
nual show. At that time the asso-
citation invited the Delaware State
Poultry Association to hold an egg
show with them. The Poultry Asso-
citation has accepted this invitation.
The Crop Improvement Associa-
tion has opened two new classes this
year. They will offer awards for
bushel basket samples of Up River,
Big Stem Jersey, Little Stem Jer-
sey, Cederville and Nancy Hall va
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REEFS BELliylS
APOLOGY SDOE
GOVERNOR BUCK
House Democrats Acted
In DiscOurteOus Manner
Says New Castle Man.
NO ACTION MONDAY
Representatives Fail To
Attempt To Carry Out
Attempt To Meet.

Democratic majority members OF
the House of Representatives owe
Governor C. Douglass Buck an apoi-
ogy for the discourtesy they showed
him last Friday afternoon IN reIus-
ing to have read the proclamation
which the Governor sent to the
House adjourning the General AS
sembly until March 9th, 1884, ac-
cording to the declaration at Dover
on Monday by Representative Scott
w. Rees, Democrat, of New Castle.
He announced that if the Democrats
did not see fit to act as unit IN
making this apology to Governor
Buck he is going to call upon him
and offer his personal regrets for
his own part in voting to adjourn
the House until Monday and to tell
the Governor he is sorry for this
display of disrespect for the Chief
Executive of the State.
Mr.. Rees stated that he was op-
posed to the adjournment before the
proclamation was read because he
believed it should have been pre-
sented out of respect for the Cover
nor if nothing else.
Several Democratic members OF
the House gathered at Dover on
Monday pursuant to the motion to
adjourn which prevailed on Friday
but there was no session of the
House and it was agreed that the
General Assembly stands adjourned
until March 9th.
There was no evidence at Dover
on Monday that anything would be
done to reach an agreement between
the Senate and House on the financ-
ing of a public works program for
the State whereby the Governors
proclamation could be rescinded and
the two houses meet again to set up
such program and then adjourn
sine die. 1t was the belief of prac-
tically all the law makers who ap-
peared that the Legislature stands
adjourned until March 9Th and that
nothing will be done to have it re-
convened again before that date.
There was, however, much specu-
lation as to what the situation will
be when the General Assembly does
meet again next year. Whether it
will Immediately adjourn or whether
it will remain in session and attempt
to pass some of the numerous bills
that remain on the calendar of each
house was the subject of much dis
cussion. Whether the Governor
could again adjourn the Legislature
by proclamation if another deadlock
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
SAFETY COUNCIL WARNS
OF INDOOR HAZARDS
Icy Steps One of The Dangers at
This Season of Year

When cold weather comes and
forces people to spend most of their
time indoors, accidents follow them
right into the home, according to the
Delaware Safety Council.
Excluding occupational injuries,
persons are hurt in summer chiefly
on the highways, in sports, and un-
der other outdoor circumstances. AS
December draws to close the acci-
dents follow them indoors. The
change is a natural one, depending
largely on the greater number of
hours which people spend in their
homes as winter closes in. There
are, however, many hazards pecu-
liar to cold weather which help to
send the home death toll soaring.
Chief among these is the hazards
of icy steps and stairs. While this
is not an indoor danger, it is classi-
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
SIMONTON HEADS
JOINT BODY FOR
RELIEF INQUIRY
Legislative Committee Is
Now Receiving Com
plants.
ORGANIZED MONDAY
Hopes To Finish Work In
Ten Days; Lack OF
Funds Restricts Scope.
ORGANIZED MONDAY

Senator w. A. Simonton, presid-
ing officer in the upper branch OF
the General Assembly, Monday az
ternoon was elected chairman of the
Joint legislative committee created
to investigate the State Temporary
Emergency Relief Commission. The
organization meeting was held IN
the office of President Pro Tenn OF
the Senate in the legislative build
ing at Dover. Senator E. B. Grif-
fenberg, of Holly Oak, was elected
vice-chairman and Representative
William T. Bennett, of Laurel, was
elected secretary.
Senators Simonton and Griffenberg
are Republicans. Mr.. Bennett is a
Democrat. The other members of
the committee are: Senator James
H. Latchum, Milford, Democrat; Rep
resentative Clifford Pryor, Black
bird, Democrat; Alexander r. Abra-
hams, Republican, of Wilmington.
This Joint committee was authorized
by a resolution adopted by the Sem
ate and House during the special
session and which was approved by
Governor C. Douglass Buck last
Saturday.
The committee again on Wednes-
day at 10 O'Clock noon in the office
of Chairman Simonton at which time
the members were ready to hear any
one in the State who had COM
plant of any kind to make about
the State Temporary Emergency Re-
lief Commission forward complaints
must be in writing. They further
request that if anyone has evidence
of misuse of relief funds, injection
of politics into the relief administra-
tion or any violations of the act
under which the relief board was
created to send all such information
or evidence to the committee.
1t was made clear, however, that
all complaints and all letters con-
tanning evidence must be signed as
no attention will be paid to anony-
nous communications, charges or
complaints. The committee empha-
sized it is now organized and ready
to proceed to business but as yet it
has 10 evidence or complaints on
which to begin the probe.
The only evidence before the COM
mittee thus far.is the report of the
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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-15
AdjOurns Session To Mar.
Sixth After Senate And
House Disagree.
FIRST. TINE SUCH
ACTION TAKEN HERE
Governor Sees No Benefit
In Continuance Of The
General Assembly.

Governor C. Douglass Buck last
Friday afternoon, shortly before 5
o'clock, issued a proclamation ad-
journing at $50 o'clock that day
the special session Of the General
Assembly, which had been in pro-
gress since October IS, until IL
o'clock noon, on Tuesday, March s.,
1884.
The message was received and
read in the Senate and made part
of the records of that branch of the
Legislature. In the House where the
Democrats are in the majority, they
refused to receive the proclamation
or to have it read and few minutes
after it had been delivered to that
body the House adjourned to meet
at II o'clock noon, Monday.
Immediately following the deliv-
cry of the message to both houses,
Secretary of State Charles H. Grant
land posted on the doors at the main
entrance to the legislative building
large printed copies of the Cover
nor's proclamation. All of these
were signed by the Governor and by
Secretary of State Grantland and
each bore the seal of the State of
Delaware.
In his message Governor Buck
gave as his reasons for adjourning
the Assembly that he had reached
the conclusion that further continu-
ance of this special session, at least
for the immediate future, would
bring no beneficient results to the
citizens of Delaware and he express
sed as his firm belief that the inter-
ests of the State would be best sub
served by adjournment of the ses-
sion.
Unprecedented in the history Of
this State, the scenes leading up to
the issuance of Governor Bucks
proclamation, Immediately following
its receipt in the Senate and House
and Immediately following adjourn
ment were the most unusual and
dramatic ever witnessed in the leg
islative halls of Delaware. While
there had been an air of expectancy
all afternoon the proclamation came
with such suddenness that it left
most of the members more or less
stunned and bewildered and uncer-
tain as to just what their status as
members of the Legislature really
was.
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STATE EGG SHOW HERE
JANUARY 10 TO IL
Plans For Affairs Are Being Made
BY ii. $. Palmer

A statement has been issued re-
Gently by the Delaware State Poul-
try Association that the invitation
has been accepted from the Della
ware Crop Improvement Association
to hold a combined farm crop and
egg show in the Grange Hall in Mil
ford on January 10, IL and IL, and
plans are being made for an inter-
esting and educational exhibit of
these farm commodities.
In addition to H. S. Palmer, ex-
tension poultryman of the Univer-
sity of Delaware, who is the secre-
tary-treasurer of the egg show, var
ious committees have been appoint
ed throughout the State to assist in
this work, and it is expected that
large exhibit of eggs will be on dis
play at this show.
According to the rules and regu-
lations governing exhibits, an entry
in this egg show will consist of one
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MAY NEED PERMIT
TO MAKE WINES
Liquor Commission Has
Not Formulated Policy
On Home Products.

Delawareans who make their own
wines for personal and family use
may have to procure permits from
the Delaware Liquor Commission
and these permits may allow one to
make wine up to a certain quantity
with limit set on the maximum
gallons to be made in a year.
The Liquor Commission has not
yet formulated any policy regarding
home made wines or home brew.
And while the commission does rec
ognize wine making in the home as
a problem involving social and ra-
cial traits, it has not yet decided the
procedure of issuing permits.
During prohibition, the Federal
law allowed the manufacture of
home made wine, provided the maxi
er procured a permit from the U. S.
Bureau of Industrial Alcohol, pro-
vided the grapes or fruits were
grown on the makers property and
provided that the wine was for per-
sonal use.
Under the old State prohibition
laws, a person was allowed to make
wine at home. provided the grapes
or fruits were grown in Delaware.
Lawyers, familiar with the State
Liquor Control Act, state that the
making of home made wine is strict
ly speaking the manufacture of
wine," and a permit of a sort will
have to be obtained.
State Liquor Commission officials
said this week that what was being
contemplated was the issuance of
a permit, with no charge, to pros
pective homemade wine manufac-
turers, provided that none of the
wine is sold.
The commission officials are prone
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Changers Nov In Practice
For Mammoth Specially Shop
-Four TLUenty-Ninute Plays A Number Of Solos, Both
Vocal And instrumental, And Sketches In PGntO
mine Will BE Part Of The Entertainment.

Last week mention was made in
this paper of speciality show,
which the Milford Grangers will give
in their hall, on Tuesday evening,
December 10. At that time the pro-
gram had not been completed, how
ever, at their regular meeting last
Saturday evening, the final plans
were laid, casts were selected for
the plays and everything is in read
mess to put on the greatest show
for the price ever put on by local
talent in Milford.
Each of the four divisions of the
grange have agreed to furnish their
part of the entertainment, and the