Milford chronicle., 1936-11-27
CEORCET0WN
Kiwahls Club Elects

Ouicef8 OF the GEORGETOWN Ki
wanis Club have been elected for thl
term, as follows: President. Hous
ton Wilson; vice-president, DR.
Aubrey G. Smoot; secretary an,
treasurer, Harold ID. Hatfield. Tn,
new board OF directors will be com
posed Of Prof. Franklin Butz. Leroy
Dennis. Thomas B. Pepper, Oscar
B. King, Frederick p. whitney
Everett PettyiOhn, Charles Knox.
New Hosiery Mill For County Seat
Construction work shortly Is e
start on new hosiery factory al
the corner Of Calhoun Avenue and
Rosa street. here, which will give
employment to more than one hum
dred persons. The business enter
prise was obtained throughout the
Chamber OF Commerce. The new
factory to be owned and operated by
New York capitalists, will manufac-
ture a very well known make Of full
fashioned hosiery
The site was purchased few days
ago from William B. johnson OF
Milford. The plant is expected to
be in operation before the severe
winter weather sets in, according to
II. W. T. Purnell, president Of the
Chamber of Commerce.
While the name of the firm has
not been divulged. for business rea-
sons, 1t is believed to be the same
one which tried to negotiate with
business men here last winter.
Observes Wedding Anniversary
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace ID. Joseph,
living on Albury Avenue, here, quiet
ly observed their thirty-third we'd
ding anniversary and the fifty-ffth
birthday of Mr.. Joseph, on Novem-
Der 18th. Mrs. Joseph is the daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. John
Henry Wilkins, who for many years
lived on farm between here and
Milton. He is a son of the late Mr..
and Mrs. Robert NJ. Joseph.
For twenty years he has been con-
neeted with the Sussex County
branch of the State Highway De-
partment as one of the maintenance
men. Both are members Of Wesley |
NJ. E. Church, this city.
Hog killing Time Here
Lower Delaware farmers know /
not the pangs of hunger-they have |
not known this through the seven |
years panic-because they always
are able to produce enough on the
land to supply family needs, pro-
vided they are ambitious enough to
work and provide for another day,
the blasting days of win
ter. But the happiest time of the
year is when they have harvested
their crops and slaughtered their
pen of hogs and stored the meat
away for the winter.
It's again hog-killin' time in old
Sussex. This Is the time Of the year
when they store away those famous
lower Delaware hams and strings of Z
sausage on poles in the smokehOuse
or famous breakfasts and O'Clock
iinners. The sausage goes very well
with buckwheat cakes in the morn
ng. While that Old-fashiOned lower
Delaware ham will go we'll with al
most any meal. Does your mouth
yater"? Well it might There's
lOthing like them except the famous
'irginia sugar-cured and smoked
Iams! Then the Sussex County
armer is a close rival even at that
is festive event in the
ural sections. Farmers gather and
elp each other butcher their pork
rs. The women folk try the lard"
that is to say, place the fat in large
Ots and boil out the grease. This
lrnishes them with the frying fat"
Or the winter. In other words, it's
lain lard to the average person.
he lard trying" usually is held in
he yard of the farm house or back
some wind-break. The crack
lgs"-the residue after the grease
as been boiled Out-gO very well
18th pot of hominy during January
nd February. And how the rural
Dix enjoy it. This may go for the
rban folk as well, who have been
sed to farm customs.
Methods of cleaning the hogs after
ltchering are far different from
lose employed in a modern packing
liant. Fodder knives and butcher
nives are used to "scrape" the hogs.
hat is to say, clean them of the .
rat of hair.
AuA olACh luElAla uDAHE
sharp butcher knife; while others
loot them. The latter method is
fought to be the more humane way.
Orty years ago. yes, even twenty
re years ago, lower Delaware folk
member what hog killin'" days
cant. It was a frolic of the first
der. Back in the SOS and early
's it meant plenty of distilled ZAP
G Jack apples and peaches pro-
iced in Sussex County orchards
inverted into cider or wine and
en- distilled. In those days distil-
ries we're only a few miles apart.
ley knew how to distill the Juice,
ID those attending the ''hog-kill-
gs" knew how to drink it and keep
cir wits. There was not a head
he in a gallon. and they all knew
len to stop participating. Not so
ese days!
How different the "hog- killings"
these modern times from those
thirty or forty years ago. They
owe to the neighbOrs home in OK
rts, gigs, covered wagons, and on
rse back. Nowadays they go in
tomObiles. Nevertheless, taking
ay some of the modern improve L
ints ''hog killings" on the Sussex
ms are but little different than