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Milford chronicle., 1936-05-08
ASSESSMENT FOR
SCHOOL PURPOSES
MADE IN SUSSEX
[Continned from First fagcl

general, $2,245,6S1; capitation, LAPS.
Fourth Representative District
The election district. special, 1884,
534; capitation. 25O; general. 1852
Gal; capitatiOn, 1,4S7.
Fifth Representative District:
First election district, special, $780,
427; capitation. 647; general, $780,
94S; capitatiOn. 1927; second, general,
$1.846.11S; capitatiOn, 1881; third
special. 8$OO.896; capitatiOn, 1922;
general. $5O9,355: capitation. 1884;
totals. special. S1,975,S57; capitatiOn.
1927; general. S2.S95, ,421; capitatiOn
1912.
Sixth Representative District:
First election district, general. ST.
4O2. .3O6; capitatiOn. 1.15O; second.
general. $1,000. .454; capitation. 1.17S:
third, general. $457.2O2: capitation.
465: totals. general. $3,16S,962; Capi-
tatiOn. 2.793.
Seventh Representative District:
First election district. general, ST. /
400, ,73O; capitation, 1,256; second,
general. $1.759.713: capitatiOn. 1883;
totals, general. $3,259,4i3; capitation.
2 800.
Eighth Representative District:
The election district. general, 81,
317847: caDitation. 99i.
Ninth Representative District:
rhe election district. special ST.
~. .4O6: capitatiOn. l.456; general.
,721.715: capitation. SAP
Tenth Representative District:
1irst election district, general, So
az. .O6O; caDitatiOn. 1.153: second.
nPcial. S1.595.2S6 canitatinn. So;
bird general S4.595 222: capitation,
800: totals. general. S7019.112;
apitatinn. 2.11f: special. 81 .595 1856:
aDitatiOn. | $50.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-08
KENT RESIDENTS
SEEK DRAINAGE
AT DOVER MEET
[ConfinNed Ion ~ Paqel

work of the WPA and CCC. Mayor
WOOdfOrd was introduced by James
Behan.
Jesse Cooper. WPA director Of
finances, announced 429 persons
we're employed on drainage work for
which the WPA has spent $751;
711.73. He praised the levy courts
of the two counties for cooperation.
Other speakers, all of whom pTais-
ed the work and urged its continu-
ance, we're: James H. Hughes, Dover
attorney; James B. Bice. WPA pro-
ject director; James NJ. Tunnell.
Georgetown attorney; Horace H.
Richter. Philadelphia. inspector of
the U. S. Engineers, and l. Lee Lay
ton, of Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-08
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

All persons indebted to the estate
of JObe S. Cordrey. deceased, are
hereby notified to settle same on or
before the first day of June. 1886;
and all persons having claim against
the estate to present the same, duly
attested. on or before June list. 1896
WALTER G. CORDREY,
JOHN A. CORDREY.
J-S-3t Executors
For JObe S. COrdrey deceased.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-08

The United States Steel Corpora
tiOn last year. for the first time
since 1881. made a prOit-S1, ,OS4,-
917, In 1894. It lost s2L667. .7SO.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-08

An Arkansas man the other day
was found to have married is wives.
This sure is bringing the "16-to-one"
principle right home.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-08

Rust, the kind that eats iron and
steel and other metals, causes an
annual loss in the United States of
over $1,O09,0OO,O 900.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-08
WANTED

-NVatchman. Must be hon
est and steady. London Mills. Green
wood. Del 1t
WANTED-Practical nursing. Willing
to do housework Good cook and neat
housekeeper. Mrs. S. f. Ritter. Lewes.
Del. 1tp
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-08
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-GOod farm work mare,
cheap. Also sweet potato sprouts, ready
next week. c. r. Bethard. Milford. itp
FOR SALE-I.ot OF chicken wire. also
coal oil brooder stove. good as new.
Rebecca Eaton, Nutter Farm. Milford.
ltp
FOR SALE-Rhubarb and asparagus
roots. Pepper and egg plants. Also
Buists and Burpee's garden seed. Fresh
stock. J. H. Humes and Son. Milford
1t
FOR SALETfrGiFseeraa Electric ! CO. re- ft.
Majestic, $25.00; Gu. IT, Copeland. S45:
Gu. It. Frigldaire. all porcelain, $50:
: GU. f.. Norge, $75. Peterman's. Mil
ford. Del. mS-tf
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-08

For Jobe S. Cordrey deceased.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
All-American Defense

Rio de Janeiro has been sort Of front
door to the peace conference at Buenos
Aires, and in the Portuguese capital it
was revealed that Brazil is thinking OF
mutual defense pact for all nations OF
this hemisphere.
The Monroe Doctrine, the Brazilian
statesmen think, is outmoded. It's pur-
pose and spirit remain; the free Ameri-
can republics are to continue free, and
Old World conquest or aggression is not
to be tolerated. But they think the DOC
trine needs a restatement, so as to bind
together more definitely the nations OF
these two continents, enabling us all to
act together in case any of us are attacked
by outsiders
Something of the sort perhaps can be
arranged, though it is delicate business.
But there may be more promise in clear,
all-round agreement of American nations
themselves not to fight each other, and
in the establishment of machinery to
settle their quarrels. If we Americans
can keep the peace among ourselves and
cooperate effectively in our life and work,
there will be more security for us and a
powerful example for the rest of the
world
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Smart Business

Steel and various other industries are
planning liberal increases of wages to
become effective soon.
This is not only generous thing to do
it is a smart thing. And it may be
called smart without any reference to
politics or government.
Higher wages mean higher purchasing
power for the public 1t Is now generally
agreed among economists that the chief
cause of the great depression was the
failure of public buying power.
1t is useless to produce more and more
things unless the consuming public Is
enabled to buy them. 1t is shrewd bust
ness policy to keep wages as high as
possible and prices as low as possible.
That tends to give everybody the benefit
of improved machinery and cheaper pro-
duction, and at the same time tends to
keep the business system operating con-
tinuously at profitable level. Thus it is
the way, if there is any way, to avoid wild
booms and disastrous busts.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Too Many Santas

A TOW maker in small eastern city
says he'd like to start Santa Claus
school to train men for playing the role
in church and civic functions. He is
moved to this sentimental step by the
Santas he sees on street corners and in
department stores. They simply don't
measure up to childhood expectations"
he SAYS.
Isn't it possible that childhood expec-
tations have changed good deal of late?
There are so many Santas visible in every
community every year. They come weeks
ahead of time, instead of waiting for
Christmas Eve And many of them lack
the inspiration to be really good in the
part, even with training.
A school for Santas looks too much like
mass production of something that needs
to develop individuality and spontaneous
ly. When nothing is left to child's own
imagination the tradition becomes forced
and meaningless.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

the whole varied system q national trans
portation, including airlhes, waterways,
interstate buses and trucks, and so on.
Many Americans have rather expected
that our railroads would be nationalized
sooner or later, as they were long ago III
nearly all other countries. They Will be,
no doubt, If the American public becomes
convinced that private enterprise can't
make success Of them.
They seemed for some years to be SLOW
ly drifting into the hands Of the govern
ment, for lack Of ability to earn a living.
Lately, though, their owners and opera
tors have shown new signs of life, well
coming modern ideas and going ahead
with promising experiments. They may
still triumph in private hands, but they
suffer heavy handicap Of debt and over
Capitalization.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Oman Toys

A safe and sane Christmas idea, meant
to keep little angels from growing up out
laws, Is attributed to the boss Oman at
Washington, J. Edward Hoover, who Is
parent himself.
Like many another father, Mr.. Hoover
doesn't like to see youngsters rampaging
quiring the vocabulary of gangdom, even
if they do regard themselves as young G.
men. There is really very little violence
in the work of the government agents, he
says. In not more than one out of SO cap
lures is there any bloodshed. Nearly all
of the work of rounding up dangerous
criminals is scientific.
So he wants parents to give their hero
worshipping kids toys like fingerprinting
sets, microscopes and card indexes. That
will be fine for boys scientifically inclined
But most boys will still prefer to shoot and
yell.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

It has always been the boast OF the ad-
yOcate of aerial warfare that the alrplane
makes old methods of defense obsolete,
and that swift, Gripping blows from the
sky will bring speedy victory to the SIDE
that launches them. The argument over
this ragged in a vacuum for long time,
because there was no way to try the thing
out and see who was right. But the war
in Spain is beginning to provide an
actual laboratory test and it looks as II
aerial warfare people had considerably
overstated their case.
This is of direct interest for two rea-
sons; first, for the light it sheds on
modern military tactics, and second, Tor
the way in which it leaves the inherent
savagery of the air raid without any
saving excuse of military necessity. NO
one has ever pretended that an air RAID
on populous city could be anything but
cruel. The argument has been mace.
however, that since such raids would
mean a short and decisive war, to use
them would in the long run cause less
suffering on the part of noncombatants
than would the old-style war of attrition.
To blow that argument sky-high you need
do no more than consider recent events
in and around Madrid. The rebel army
drew near to the city. Tanks and air
planes harried the governments outposts,
threw government troops into a panic,
and cleared the way for the rebel ad-
vance. Day by day the lines drew IN
closer and closer.
Then, after the government forces had
rallied, the rebels launched an air attack
on Madrid ITSELF Bombs came raining
down on helpless noncombatantS. A few
words from a news dispatch describe the
scene: Mothers who sat summing them
selves in public park saw their children,
PLAYING under their observation, ripped
horribly by shrapnel. i. The greatest
loss, police said, was among lines OF
women waiting for milk distribution in
the streets" Altogether, more than 100
OF these innocent people, young and old,
were killed, and at least as many more
were wounded.
Now the point of all this is that the raid
brought the rebels no whit nearer to the
capture of Madrid. 1t did not disable
the capitals communication system, its
water supply, or its power network, or IN
, any other way paralyze the city and
make it's defense impotent. 1t was OF no
military value whatever. One need not
know anything of military tactics to
see that the rebels would have been
DEUEL. OIL Ildu Cllcy oliOWCiCO Il4ooS
bombs on the military outposts rather
than on the city itself.
All that one can say, then, is that this
raid was piece of unmitigated savagery.
1t was murder in the guise of warfare:
It was as out of place in civilized world
as the tactics of ATLAS Huns. And the
same must be true of all air raids on
cities. The man who talks about descent
on London, Berlin, Toxic, or any other
capital is talking about nothing more
or less than inhuman murder
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Horoscope

BY OCTAVINE
For persons who believe that
human destiny Is guided by the
planets, the daily horoscope is
outlined by o noted astrOl0ger. I'm
addition 20 information OF general
interest, Il outlines information Of
speclal interest 20 persons born
ON the designated dates.
DECEMBER 2
Affected by the vibrations today
are those born from July 81
through Aug. az. and all others In
more or less degree.
General Indications
Morning-Co Confusing.
oon--Accidental.
Evening-Treacherouls.
The whole day Is adverse and
confusing.
Birthdate
II you were born ON Dec. 2 you
should beware Of becoming involved
In quarrels or disputes.
Guard your health. employment
and relations with interiors during
May, 1887. Changes may occuT.
Dangcr-Aug. ~ through sept. !.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Weather Peril

The approach of colder weather or
should we say the arrival? - brings back
to motoring the greatest hazard driver
can face: Icy streets.
An almost imperceptible drizzel of sleet
can make street as slippery as the side
of glacier. The slipperiness can arrive,
these fall days, before the motorist real
ICES anything is happening. Unless unus-
ual care is taken, each spell of cold
weather will send traffic fatalities sky
rocketing all over the nation.
OF course, if all motorists could be
persuaded to use unusual care" in their
driving at all times, the traffic toll could
be reduced to fraction of it's present
total.
But even if it seems to be impossible to
do that, we ought at least to be able to
impress on all drivers the fact that cold
weather driving is business full of risks.
In other words - when sleet or snow is
coming down, watch yourself!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Railroad Ownership

Members of the Academy of Political
Science, meeting in New York the other
day, were worried about the fate of the
railroads. One member, President Virgil
Jordan of the National Industrial Con-
ference Board, thought there would soon
be demand for the government to take
them over, and 1t might become a political
issue In 1910.
Thomas w. Lamont, a partner of ]. p.
Morgan, hoped that would not happen,
and thought private enterprise could still
solve the railroad problem II 1t had q
fair chance. II the government once
started with the railroads, he suggested,
II might have 10 60 ahead and take over
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

net officers should not be work.
ing against each other. You can
tell them what to do. After all,
you're the President"
Roosevelt gave the young lady
a very quizzical look, and re-
piled: YOU'D BE SUR
PRISED."
Far East
At this point, Congregation
alist preacher expressed the fear
that the Navy might get into
trouble in the Far East.
Don't worry about that" the
President replied, I'VE are not
going to get into war with
Japan, no matter what hap
pens"
Then why do we need such
a big navy?" one delegate per-
sisted. I'VE have the benefit
of your good neighbor policy, and
your neutrality policy, and there
is peace on the western hemi-
sphere.
Latin America
Here the President launched
the most significant exposition
of his entire interview. He point
ed out that Italy was annexing
Ethiopia, which meant that all
Of Africa except for Liberia
was now undner European rule.
The Japanese, he also said, were
going to take over all Of China.
That left South America as
the only unexpected region in
the world where Europe could
expand, he continued, and ex-
planned he was afraid that was
where Europe was going to turn
next.
Il am determined" he said,
"that not one inch more Of
Latin American soil shall fall
into European hands"
He also added that he was OPP
posed to any trade agreements
between Latin American coun-
tries and Europe which should
be discriminatory against the
United States.
II am believer in the Mon
roe Doctrine" the President
concluded, land when I say
that / mean the Monroe Doc
trine in its pristine purity"
NOTE: Roosevelt's definition of
the Monroe Doctrine makes 1t an
enlarged policy under which all
Pan-American nations, not the
United States alone, guarantee to
protect one another against ag-
gression from Europe or Asia. At
the Buenos Aires conference a
treaty to this effect will be pro-
posed by Brazil.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Answers To
Questions
o 1895. MA
BY Frederick M. KERRY

@. How many Polish immigrants
are in the United States?
A. The 1880 census enumerated
1888, 583 persons Of Polish birth.
@. Where was the movie actress,
jeanette Macdonald, born?
A. Philadelphia, Pa.
@. When was the Boer war
fought?
A. 1t was conflict for suprem-
acy in South Africa between Great
Britain and the Boer. republics of
the Transvaal and the Orange Free
State, fought between 1899 and 1902.
@. Should good luck" horse
shoes be hung with the points up
or down?
A. The superstitious believe that
with the points up the luck cannot
run out.
@. If sentence ends with an
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

They can say all they want about the
WPA and charge democrats with making
a political football out of it, but it has
accomplished lot of good. We presume
this project we will speak about would
be ranked as boon-doggling, but some
people will regard 1t as otherwise. Down
In Portchester N. Y, a WPA crew Is
engaged in an unusual task. long
stone-wall must be pushed back so that Q
sidewalk bordering the Boston Post Road
will afford more protection to pedestrians.
The wall is $50 feet long and has been built
for years. It will be taken down stone
by stone, each one marked, sections pho
tographed, then the wall regretted ten
feet back from where It now stands. Call
1t what you will, it's work to be
appreciated.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

abbreviation is it necessary to use
two periodsP
A. No.
@. What does it cost to send an
air mail letter from the United
States to New Zealand?
A. The postage rate Is rs cents
for each one-haH ounce.
If you want copy Of our book
let ON Bible Facts write The Water
bury Democrats Washington Bureau
1912 Thirteenth st., Northwest,
Washington, ID. C. Enclose 4 cents
In postage.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

dWAIOCuS nay VA
zeal All : AM
erican elevens
are being Sc
lected all over
the country;
contestants for
the games to be
played in the
Rose Bow, the
Sugar Bowl, the
Orange Bowl,
t h e Finger
Bowl, and the
Soup Bowl are
being chosen by
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
T st Y o u r
knowledge

Can you answer seven OF
these test questions? Turn TO
last page for the answers.
!. Who was President Of the u. 8.
at the time of the Missouri Com
promise?"
2. In which city is the University
Of Florida?
3. Who took the championship IT,
tie away from John L. Sullivan?
4. What is a blizzard?
S. Who was Robert Planquette?
6. On what island In the Pacific
did the mutineers of the ship
Bounty" settle with their Tahitian
wives?
z. What is a sun-dog?
8. Name the chief seaport Of the
Fiji Islands.
8. What Is manganese?
10. In what war was the Battle Of
Five Forks?
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Silly Season

All thu signs that the winter
silly season Is here are apparent
on every side. Mythical national
football championships are being
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
Daily
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Monroe Doctrine Justifies
Big Navy Policy, Says FDR
- ~ DREW PEARSON and ROBERT =. ALLEN

WASHINGTON, Dec = Fully to understand the
presidents visit to Buenos Aires and his speech before
the PanAmerican Conference it is necessary to know
something about the very deep conviction he etertans
that nations of the Western Hemisphere must stick
knnofh thar
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

II 1t were not for football games, poiit-
ical fans would have cracked under the
strain.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
Never say, 1.-THE directors
agreed to limiting the OUT
putt" say, agreed on"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
BY WAY of NO HARM
BY
James William Fitzpatrick J.

e conclusions appearing below are
those Of the necesaFi these q the
editors THE DEMOCRAT they TO be construed
invariably, ? reflection Of their viewpoint.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01
A Thought for Today

Husbands, love your wives, even IS Christ
also loved the church and gave Himself for IT.
Ephesians 5:25.
God has set the type Of marriage everywhere
throughout the creation. Every creature seeks
its nerfection in another The very heavens
and earth picture it to us.-Luther.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-01

O. If a sentence ends with al
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-12-19
DISCOVERY
WELL makes
100 BARRELS

Montana this Christmas finds q
new oil field I'm It's stocking, after
having practically given up hope for
such a present in 1890.
Acting as Santa Clans Is n. C..
TarFant, successful Cut Bank In-
dependent operator. who gave Mon
tana les new OH field By conpIet.
ing q well that will make 100 bar
reis or better ON Mosser dome. rs
miles southeast OF Billings, along
tle Frognberg fault.
The oil Is "a gravity and finds in
slant market at Billings, In the
Yale refinery. OH will be moving
TO the refinery within the next three
days and drilling Of another well
will be under way by next Monday,
as part of a systematic campaign
to drill out the new field.
The producing well was drilled
In December 10, on the Sayres
farm, $50 feet south OF the discoY-
cry well on the MOsser farm, in
NWM SEA 26-3S-24E. The Sayres
wsll was pumped for IS hours
Sunday 1t made 100 barrels in
that time. II was shut down while
work Of removing the rig was in
progress. In a later S-hour test II
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-12-19
WELLS
COMPLETED
Ar CUT BANK

One oil well and one gas well
Were the only developments OF the
past week in Cut Bank field where
winter operations are at a mini
mum at abe close OF the 1885 seas
on
Glacier Production company, sue
cessors TO Montana Power Gas Co.
completed a small oil well in the
Big Ben area and a 1850, 0,0O-foOt
gasser IN the west side OF the gas
field, northeast Of Cut Bank.
The oil well h con1pany's Wal
lace No. i, CIVIL NEh sEA 5-32-
5W, which had Cut Bank sand
from 2915 to 1892, drilling into
the Ellis from 2932 10 1897. OH
rose 100 feet and Il swabbed SO
barrels in the first "a hours.
Continued on Pags FOUR
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-12-19

pumped an average OF eight barrels
per hour. II Is rated at 100 barrels
or better in settled production
Fluid comes up but 900 feet but
stands at that level within a few
hours after being pumped off. A
pump jack and individual pumping
unit Is being installed today.
Oil is coming from the Dakota
sand at 1910 20 1895. Most OF the
OH came from 1920 20 1885 but It
was not drilled deeper for feaw OF
water. Although IL checked rs feet
higher than the discovery well.
Tarrant recalled that the bottom
half Of the e5-foot sand Ia the Mos
ser farm carried water, running the
discovery we'll.
The new location, where the rig
now stands, Is midway between the
discOvey we'll and the Sayres pro-
Queer, on the Mosser farm. II will
be completed within two or three
weeks. barring unforeseen delays.
The pool Is a small one: cover
ing a maximum of 100 acres un-
less additional prospecting proves
extensions along the Fromberg fault.
Two other tests on highs" along
the fault have failed 20 find pro-
ductious but Tarrant will continue
prospecting In the spring.