Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29
CE0RGET0WN
BerrY Season Cnt Short

Berry Season Cut Short
Twenty-six carlots Of Strawberries
have been shipped from lower Della.
ware up to Tuesday morning; fifty
one from the Eastern Shore ol
Maryland and forty-four from the
Eastern Shore Of Virginia. The ban
ner day Of the season was on Mon
day, while last Saturday was the
record day for carlot shipments for
| the Eastern Shore Of Maryland. On
Monday, 1921 crates were sent out
from Sussex county by truck, 19,625
crates from the Eastern Shore OF
Maryland, and II ,455 crates from
the Eastern Shore Of Virginia. Crate
shipments by truck, between the
period OF May and 25, from lower
Delaware have amounted Ia 1903,
from the Eastern Shore Of Maryland
SO ,2sO and from the Eastern Shore
Of Virginia 1897. Between May II
and June IL, last season, truck ship
ments amounted to 223,411 crates
from Sussex county.
Prices continue to be good, and
growers who this season had q large
acreage and managed to get by
without much damage by the late
April frosts have made money.
II Is estimated that the dry wea-
ther and the early spring frOsts
have caused the crop to be about
one fourth what It normally would
have been. Many fields which under
normal conditions should have yield
ed one thousand crates have only
produced around two hundred. 1t is
estimated, however, that If the crop
has been as large as 1t was three
years ago that berries would be
selling around S2OO per 32-quart
crate as compared with $4.O0 and
$500 as they have been for the past
few days. Taken as a whole, while
It may look as If the crop is a total
failure to many of the growers, new
ertheless they probably have made
from fifty to seventy-iive per cent as
much money with only One-tenth of
the amount of work. The season
sOoh will come to an end unless
there is rain.
Visits JOppa Council
Calvin E. Afflerbach, most illus
triOus master of the Grand Council
of Delaware. Royal and Select Mas
ters, accompanied by his staff, paid
an official visit to JOppa Council No.
8, here on Tuesday night. Refresh
ments were served in the banquet
hall of the Masonic Temple.
Imprisoned For Is Days For Driving
Car without License
Arrested by Constable Charles W.
on a charge of operating a
car without license, Daniel
of LeWes. was committed
to the Sussex county jail here for
fifteen days, by Magistrate James T.
Lank, of Lsewes, in default of a fine
Of $500 and costs.
Fbenezer A. Workman, Civil War
Veteran, Dead At 80
Ebenezer Asbury Workman, Civil
War veteran and for many years a
rural mail carrier from the George
.own postofice, died at his home on
The Georgetown-Sand Hill road on
night Of last week of in
irmities at the age Of 80 years and
Xix months.
Mr.. Workman was active until a
lew weeks ago and was able to go /
about his farm and supervise the
work now being carried on.
Born on November 20, 1843, on
arm a short distance from where
le lived, he received his education
n the district school of that section.
When a young man he was a rural
IchoOl teacher. In those days the
hree "R's" were considered about
he only essentials for an aducatiOn,
md usually they were taught to the
tune of a hickory stick" Reading,
writing and arithmetic, with a little
prinkling of grammar and spelling
we're about all taught in the lower
Delaware little red school house 80
ears ago. Much stress, however.
vas placed ON spelling, reading and
Mr.. Workman, like the
verage country boy in those days
ttended school during January,
March and a part of
.pril. When the spring plowing time
anne around, all farm boys had to
elp their parents put in the crops.
rsually they did not start to school
4 the fall until after the Thanks
living holidays.
Mr.. Workman enlisted In the Del
ware Regiment for duty during the
ivil War.
When the rural mail delivery was
Established about thirty-six years
go, he was one of the first carriers
amed here. He drove the mail with
horse and carriage over the dirt