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Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
MILFORD GRANGE NEWS

Milford Grange No. 6 held its reg
ular meeting Saturday evening at
1880 O'Clock with a good attendance
and guests from Capitol and Fruit
land Oranges.
The degree team will visit PEN
cader Grange in the near future and
the entire membership is invited to
join them.
Pyramid parties are still going
full sway. Mrs. A. E. Num- enter
tanned a group Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Willis Hammond and Mrs.
Wilbur Simpson take this means to
invite all members to the farm
house of Mr.. Hammond, near Chest
nut Knoll, for a pyramid party. Fri
day evening, January %. There will
be an Edgar A. Guest program, con-
Quoted by rms. wilkins, Saturday
evening.
Next Friday, January 20. turkey
supper will be given at the hall.
Price SO cents for turkey and all the
fixings.
January 30 will be Ladies' Night
and Lincoln Division will entertain.
Mrs. Henry Cook, Mrs. Jennie Mes
sick and Mrs. Jay Abbott compose
the committee in charge.
Remember the party this Friday
and the turkey supper next Friday.
Get your tickets.
The Milford Juvenile Grange OPEN
ed their meeting with the master,
Wilbur Hammond, conducts
ing the meeting in regular form.
The worthy lecturer, Miss Buelah
Armour, had very nice program
which consisted of song by the
group. Miss Rosana Messick read
The Popcorn Man" The lectursr
read a musical contest and the ans
wers were given by the grange.
Charles w. Hammond read Only
! Farmer Boy" Group singing and
Norma Gillespie conducted flower
guessing contest Games followed
ind meeting closed In regular FORM
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
COLLINS : YEASEY

Miss Ann Collins. attractive daugh-
ter of MFR. and Mrs. Bemuel Collins.
of Bishopville, Md. was married to
J. Hammond Veasey. OF Harbeson,
Del, at Bel Air, Md. Sunday evening.
January 10. 1887. The Rev. Dillon B.
Crosses. pastor of the Bel Air M. E.
Church officiated. The bride was
dressed in Navy blue with blue swede
accessories. and carried a bouquet
of white lilies. Attendants at the
wedding ceremony, friends of the
bride and groom. were Miss Helena
Walters. II. Vincent Ayres. Of Will
mington. and Miss Virginia Dodd
and Edward Veasey. of Harbeson.
Del Following their wedding the
happy couple motored to Wilmington
for a brief stay. They will make
their future home in Georgetown.
Del. where Mr.. Veasey is employed.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

A particularly delightful party
was that given by Mrs. Mary
Hall and Miss Elizabeth Stidham
at Hotel Windsor on Friday eve
ming of last week. Tables were
placed in the spacious dining
room. where cards were played
and refreshments was served at
the end OF the evening. Each
guest felt the courtesy of Mr..
and Mrs. Shreffler of the hotel.
back OF the warm hospitality of
the co-hostesses. II was a fine
affair for Mrs. Joseph Gerow.
Mrs. John Darby, Mrs. Lollis
Mcqueen. Mrs. Burton Hen
dricks, of Frederica, Mrs. Elisha
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

More plans have been made
this week for the Presidents
Birthday Ball which will be
given on the thirtieth in varney
Auditorium, with the dancing be-
ginning at eight and continuing
until midnight. After that re-
freshments will be served. The
executive officers of the Welfare
Federation of Milford. are acting
as patronesses. They are Mrs.
Stephen Toadvine. Mrs. Robert
Griffith, Mrs. Conner Mitten.
Mrs. Bayard Wharton and Mrs.
G. Marshall Townsend, with the
past and present presidents of
the Kings Daughters. Mrs.
Charles E. Varney and Mrs. Wal
lace McFaul. This affair is spon-
sored by the Welfare Federation
which will receive 40 per cent of
the receipts from the sale of
tickets which will be $3.50 for
each couple. The Federation is
made up of the several organiza-
tions of Milford who have a rep
resentation on the board of di-
rectors. This assured the CO.
operation of the several orders
who are interested in public
welfare.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

Communications are being re-
ceived from Mrs. George Mont
gomery and Mrs. John r. Giles
pie. who are spending several
months in California. There is
sunshine. but they are seeing
some of the disagreeable wealth
er that is Delaware's portion as
well.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
WEDDINGS
HALL = KINNEY

HALL htMMbI
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse KINNEY of
Milford. announce the marriage of
their daughter, Mildred Pearl Kim
mey, a graduate nurse of the Mil
ford Emergency Hospital, to Clinton
Wilson Hall. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hall, of Milford. The cere-
mony took place at Elkton. Md, on
December 26. 1886. Rev. W. H. Cald-
well tied the nuptial knot.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
HOUSTON AID TO HOLD SUPPER

The Ladies Aid Society Of the
Houston NJ. E. Church will hold
turkey supper in the Firemen's Hall
on Friday evening. February IL.
Roast turkey, filling, gravy. cram
berries, peas. white potatoes, sweet
potatoes. cole slaw, pickles. rolls,
butter. coffee and pie will be serv-
ed
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

The w. C. T. U. will. meet with
Mrs. Georgia Pierce, Tuesday even
ing. January rs, at 1880 o'clock. All
members are urged to be present.
Bingo party at Red Mems Hall
Monday evening. Jan. rs. Prizes.
Refreshments. Price Is cents. Civ
en- by Daughters of Pocahontas at
o'clock.
The January group of the Mizpah
Circle will give a Backward Party
at the home of Mrs. Imly Abbott,
216 Washington street, on Wednes-
day evening, January %. This will
be benefit party, the admission for
which will be 25 cents. There will
be much for all who attend and It
is hoped a neat sum will be real
ized for the Circles treasury.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

The passing on Friday of Mrs.
Frank d. Welcome brought to
the minds of those boys and girls
who attended her kindergarten
a few years ago many tender
memories. Dearly beloved by
her tiny pupils for her kindness
and understanding. hers is a
memory that will grow with the
years.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

At the home of the president.
Miss Margaret Hammond. the
Senior Girl Reserves enjoyed a
covered dish supper at $50 p. m.
Wednesday. Mrs. Snowberger.
the advisor. Mrs. C. NJ. Nutter.
Mrs. @. Marshall Townsend the
advisor Of the Junior Girl Re-
serves were guests. Miss Ham
mond was assisted by her moth
er. Mrs. Willis Hammond. A
business meeting followed the
supper.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
PERSONAL

Miss Margaret Higman of near
Milford has returned home after
spending the past month on Staten
Island. Miss Higman was accom-
panied home by her sister, Mrs.
Marion e. Durkin also Of Statsn
Island.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
HOME DEMONSTRATION NOTES

The meeting of the Sussex County
Homemakers Market Association
has been postponed until Wednes-
day. January %. at 1870 p. M. ac-
cording to Mrs. Marian G. Severance,
Home Demonstration Agent. This
meeting is for the purpose of dis
cussing plans and demonstrations
for the Rehoboth market at Reho-
both Beach.
Mrs. Helen v. Mckinley will at
tend this meeting to assist in max
ing plans for the 1887 market.
The membership Of the Market
Association is not limited to Home
Demonstration Club members. and
anyone, interested may attend this
meeting which will be held a. the
Office of the Home Demonstration
Agent. Postofice Building, George
town
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
SHOOTING MATCH

There will be a shooting match at
Hurd's Filling Station, near Milford.
tomorrow morning. Saturday. Janu-
airy % at 10 a. m. There will be spe-
cial prizes for winners.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
BISHOP COOK TO VISIT MILFORD

The Rt. Rev. Philip Cook, DID,.
LID. Bishop of Delaware. will
visit Christ Church, Milford, on Sum
day morning, January "a. Services
at II a. m. The bishop will preach.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

VIE has been. Two inaug-
AxM urations, instead of
"A the usual one. was the
=. - order for the week,
and an inaugural ball. A flag
presentation for the Boy Scouts,
a covered dish supper for the
Senior Girl Reserves, basket
ball game Tuesday evening. "Ro-
meo and Juliet" for a few who
had a day in Wilmington. for
those who stayed at home Gold
diggers of 1897" and STOW
away" and a number of social
affairs. are some of the things
that keep society in Milford in
. terested. And through most of
1t the rain kept pouring down.
One felt sorry that the new Gov
ernor could not have had a bet
ter day to start his administra-
ton and that the President might
have had nothing to mar
the otherwise brilliant parade
which marks any inaugural day.
BY this time next week we may
be deep in snow. There is al
ways a happy aspect to such
forecasts-the children will be in
their element.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

Mrs. William C. Smith enter
tanned a small group of friends
on Wednesday for luncheon at
the Pratt Guest House. Mrs.
Smiths honor guest was Mrs.
Ida Sippie Bromley. of Sarasota.
Florida.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
Thirty Years Ago
Taken from the 1907 Files of
the Milford Chronicle

Miss Eva Salmons of Lewes Wis
tied Milford this week.
This week the unusual sight of
wild geese feeding in Delaware
wheat fields has been witnessed by
residents of Sussex county. This is
not uncommon In Virginia and
points South, but it is the first case
of the kind ever reported in this
section.
Chicken salad. chicken croquettes,
Delaware biscuits. soup. cocoanut
pie, candy, cinnamon buns, cake and
ice cream will be offered for sale
this Saturday by the Ushers' Union
at their bake to be held in the Ii
brary room.
Captain Hevelow went to Phila-
delphia on Wednesday to be exam
ined for a government position.
A genuine warm wave of weather
commenced in Delaware on Friday
last and on Sunday the homes OF
EcSCHlOtCu
dows and doors were open. porches
used for comfort and fires were per
mitted to go out. The thermometer
got up above 20 and some report
temperatures of so. but the mer-
curry was where the suns rays were
directly on the thermometer. The
warm spell has continued for a
week, and the yellow spring flowers
have been blooming in the south ex-
posed gardens.
A special meeting of the members
of the Milford Volunteer Fire Com
pany is requested for this evening in
the Ffremen's Hall. At this meeting
there will be business. of import
ance so that each member should
make an effort to be present.
A meeting of the directors of the
Milford and Philadelphia Transpor-
tation Company will be held this af7
ternoon. The object of the meeting
it is understood, is to elect officers
for the Steamer City of Milford.
The Winter Stock Company will
be at the Armory Hall all of next
week with a splendid group Of plays
for the benefit of the local folk.
The sale of Colonel Theodore
which took place IN
last was well attended
and the bidding was such that 1t
should inspire cash sales.
George c. Abbott has just closed
4 contract with John B. Medford to
-ehnild his ChOptank Mills.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

Mrs. John G. Sharp is home
again after several weeks visit
in Woonsocket, r. l., and on
Monday she had as luncheon
guests Mrs. Harry Brakeley. Mrs.
Herman johnson and Mrs. Clyde
Nelson.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

Captain Hevelow went to Phila-
delphia on Wednesday to he exam
ined for a government position.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

HAT a busy week this
has been. Two inaug-
urations. instead OF
the usual one. was the
ordar for tho uraaL
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

George C. Abbott has just closed
a contract with John B. Medford to
rebuild his Choptank Mills.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

The sale of Colonel Theodore
Townsend's which took place In
Saturday last was well attended
and the bidding was such that 1t
should inspire cash sales.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22

Miss Eva Salmons of Lewes Wis
tied Milford this week.
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prompted to volunteer their infor-
nation because of the security Of
fered them and the knowledge that
many others were prepared to tes-
tify.
In addition to protests from bust
ness men that they were being shak-
en- down, Ness also had numerous
complaints from rank and file union
men that their leaders had obtained
dictatorial control of the unions and
had used it for racketeering pur-
poses.
This resulted in hundreds of men
being thrown out of work, impeded
legitimate business, and kept hum
dreds of thousands of dollars in new
industries out of the city, the Ness
report was said to have stated.
At meeting of the Cleveland
Federation of Labor, Don A. Camp
bell, president of the Painters Dis
trict council, who had been men,
toned in connection with the inves-
tigation, called the entire case "a
lot of newspaper propaganda which
has been passed around since the
labor movement began" and added
that sits high time this stuff was
stopped"
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the income tax base or by a gen.
eral manufacturers sales tax.
Mention of a sales tax aroused
Senator Borah and others, and the
Idahoan prodded Harrison until he
backed down and said he did not
quite mean what he had said.
eff, in the revision of the tax
laws, we should lose some revenue,
l do not believe, with the spending
program that is now going on, that
we would help business" Harrison
told the senate. 81 think the goal
should be to try to balance the
budget at the first opportunity
believe the wise way to do it is to
curtail some of the emergency ex-
penditures."
Harrison proposed return to the
old normal income tax on corpora
tions and, if necessary, to increase
the rate to 18 or 20 per cent instead
of the former maximum of 1914 per
cent.
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Uncle WIG
Says: -
Of Her Own Makinq

Sometimes when woman reck-
lessly debunks her husband to his
face, she breaks his spirit and
finds she is linked to a worthless
man.
The man whose faults are the
kind everyone can talk openly
about-and dOes-is generally be-
loved.
Nothing much comes of a man
preserving his old love letters, but
when woman does, look out.
Good Deed Is Never Lost
He who sows courtesy, reaps
friendship; and he who plants
kindness, gathers love.
He who goes with wolves learns
to howl.
Human nature doesn't change
and ought not to; else we wouldn't
know how to handle it.
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fering from nervous exhaustion,
wrecked vocal chords, violent rush
of loud words to the mouth, COM
plete collapse, even madness.
You'll be passing the rest cure
sanitarium, and, as the windows
burst outward, you'll hear pouring
forth something like this:
"Oh boy, boy! with one tremen-
dous burst, Irish Goldberg is JAM
ming his way from the red back
line right through the black inter
ference! Nothing can stop him!"
But don't get worked up. What
you hear is merely convalescent
microphone orator mentioning a
checker game between two fellow
inmates and reverting to form.
Virtues in Snakes.
COMETHING / said recently about
y the folly of killing every snake
on sight, without investigating the
snakes character, brought flock
of letters from readers who don't
like snakes.
Even a so-called venomous snake
may have his better side. In Kan
sas, in the old local option days,
you could get a drink only on doc
tors prescription, excepting in case
of dire emergency, such as a snake
bite. So every properly run drug
store kept a rattlesnake on the
premises to serve the citizenry. And
the only time drug store RATHER
ever refused to bite a thirsty stran-
ger was when he was all worn out
from accommodating the regular
local trade.
And what though it was a snake
that led Eve astray in the garden of
Eden? He may have brought sin
into the world, but wouldn't we have
missed lot of spicy reading mat
ter in newspapers if he hadn't?
Yep, 1 plead guilty to thinking an
occasional charitable thought for
any decimated and vanishing group.
I feel that way about old line Re-
publicans and mustache cups and
red wooden pulse-warmers.
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China, however, was far from Civ.
ing up the fight. 1t was reported in
Shanghai that Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-Shek had resigned as pres
ident of the executive council in or
der to lead his troops in a final eff
fort to stop the japanese and win
the war. H. H. Kung, it was said,
would succeed Chang in the presi-
dency. He is finance minister.
Thousands of civilians and for
eigners were fleeing from Marking.
But military authorities remained
there and declared the city would
not be surrendered to the Japanese
without desperate fight,
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Britain Woos Hitler
vyTcroIrnrr uAJrnnv

" lSCOUNT HALIFAX, lord presi.
dent of the council in the British
cabinet, was in Germany ostensibly
for the purpose of visiting a hunting
exhibition but actually to negotiate
with Hitler and other Nazi chiefs
for the establishment of more
friendly relations between Great
Britain and Germany. Public be-
lief was that he was authorized to
hint to Hitler that there was hope
Germany might regain some of its
lost colonies if. Germany would
abandon its economic isolation and
cooperate with other European
powers in revised League of Ma
tions.
The British want to detach Ger
many, and Italy, too. if possible,
from their alliance with Japan. Hal
flax was a fitting messenger to send
to Berlin, for he is an outstanding
friend of Germany among British
officials.
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Goodyear, Discoverer of
INFLAMMATION Methods

Visions of a rubber civilization
haunted the brain of a debt
burdened inventor in 1853. The man
was Charles Goodyear, discoverer
of the INFLAMMATION process for rub
Der, and he wrote a book about his
struggles, his triumphs and his
dreams which today is among the
rarest of Americana. One of the
very few extant copies is in the divi-
sion of rare books of the Library
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of Congress and is among the rari-
ties of mechanical literature, says
writer in the Washington Star.
Goodyear specifically did not adj
wise eating rubber, nor wearing it
next to the skin, but otherwise he
proposed using it as the chief mate
rial in about anything man could
need. He foresaw rubber books,
rubber roofs, rubber streets, rubber
sails and rubber ships, rubber pi-
amos, rubber bridges, rubber vio-
Inns, rubber boxing gloves, rubber
saddles, rubber shoes, rubber har-
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f Oh C e S. Officials
were being scattered
in several cities, the
central point being
Hankow, on the
Yangtse 300 miles
west of Marking.
One army of the in
vaders was moving
from Shanghai on
Marking, and anoth-
er was about to at
tack Tsinan, capital
of Shantung prov
ince in North China.
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Peace Prize for Cecil

NISCOUNT CECIL of Chelwood
has been awarded the Nobel
peace prize for 1887. 1t is worth
$40,600. Lord Cecil was selected be-
cause of his work in behalf of the
League of Nations, of which he was
one of the founders. When informed
of the honor he was in New York
city receiving an honorary degree Of
doctor of laws from Columbia uni
versity. He had just attended a
conference of the World Alliance
for International Erie n d h i o
Through Churches in Washington
and was weekend guest of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Twelve years ago
Lord Cecil, who is seventy-three
years old, won the Woodrow Wilson
peace prize.
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nesses, rubber canes, rubber dishes
and rubber furniture of various
sorts. The mans extreme enthu-
siasm might have been expected,
for he had devoted his life to devils
ing means for hardening the 'sgum
elastic" whose strange properties
first had attracted him as a small
boy. His health had been broken,
he was loaded with debts, neighbors
looked on him as harmless luna
tic, his family had lived on char
ity-au In the pursuance of his
dream.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-02
Another Judge Wanted

CENATOR MINTURN of Indiana
y introduced bill authorizing the
President to appoint an additional
judge to the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals at Chicago. That
court has jurisdiction over The sew
enth circuit, Wisconsin, Illinois and
Indiana, and has had one vacancy
since the retirement of Judge Sam
uel Alschuler last year.
Both Senators Lewis and Dieterich
of Illinois said they had no candi-
date for the place.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-02
utMt Q
Thinks about
Sports Broadcastcrs.

CANTA MONICA, CALF
- Somebody said that there
were always two big sporting
events-the one Graham Nc
Nance saw and the one that
actually took place.
But, alongside the present sports
broadcasters, Graham's widest
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senate engaged IN a
lot of talk about tax
revision. Pat Har-
rison, chairman of
the senate finance
committee, a f t e r
comforting with Sec
rotary Morgenthau,
declared that addi-
tional revenue to
compensate f o r
modification of the
undistributed profits
tax could be raised
onlv by broadening
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PIotters Alarm France

FRANCE was in great other
l over an alleged plot of the Cagou-
lards or hooded ones" and other
rightist groups to overthrow the re-
publican government. The secret po-
lice have been making many ar
rests and have uncovered secret
arsenals and depots of the conspira-
tors. Among the men they seized
was Jean de la Mouse, wealthy tex
tile manufacturer of Paris. In their
pursuit of the plotters the police
went as far as Switzerland, per-
suading the government of that
country to GUST the count of Paris,
who would be heir apparent of the
throne of France if there were any
longer such an institution. He had
been holding conferences with roy
alists.
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may lead to COM
mercial union of all English-speak-
ing peoples and will be a powerful
influence in preserving world peace.
London looks upon it as an in
strument to form a front which all
nations may enter later on condi-
tons of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. reci-
procity, and therefore as an indi-
rect reply to the new German
I.alian-Japanese alliance.
Principles said to be already
agreed upon provide that Great
Britain would receive reduced
American tariffs on textiles and
coal.
In return she would grant the
United States lower tariffs on food
stuffs, certain raw materials, iron
and steel and other essentials of a
rearmament program.
Immediate opposition to the pro-
posed pact developed among the
statesmen in Washington. Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois,
Democratic whip, protested against
any British accord until the Eng
1ish pay off their defaulted war
debt to the United States. He called
the proposed pact "trade treason "
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
Massachusetts, Republican, served
notice he would sponsor a resolu-
ton hating negotiation of all new
trade treaties until congress can
determine whether they are respon-
sible for the current business re-
ceSsion.
Representative Allen Treadway,
Massachusetts, Republican, de-
nounced the proposed treaty as GER
tain to prove disastrous to Amer
lean business. He warned it would
throw more Americans out of their
jobs
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-02
Governors Ask Tax Repeal

GOVERNORS OF the SIX New
~ England states, in conference
in Boston, adopted resolutions Sc
verely criticizing the tax and tariff
policies of the administration. They
demanded repeal of the capital
gains tax and the tax on undistrib-
uted corporate profits, and de-
nounced the pending reciprocal
trade agreement with Czechoslo-
vakia as imperiling the jobs of
thousands of American citizens.
The governors who took this ac-
ton were Lewis o. Barrows, Re-
publican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Re-
publican, New Hampshire; George
D. Aiken, Republican, Vermont;
Charles F. Hurley, Democrat,
Massachusetts,; Wilbur L. Cross,
Democrat, Connecticut, and Robert
E. Quinn, Democrat, Rhode Island.
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New Land Speed Record

CAPT. GEORGE EYSTON of Eng
~ land set new world record for
speed on land when he drove his "a
cylinder automobile, Thunderbolt,
two miles on the salt bed speedway
in Utah at an average speed of
311.42 miles per hour. This is the
fastest man has ever travelled in
a motor car.