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Milford chronicle., 1939-03-10
GREENWOOD

William HOuseman of Ellendalt
spent Saturday in town.
Alexander Sadowski entertained
relatives from Philadelphia Sunday
Max Guzinski entertained guests
on Sunday from Philadelphia.
Paul Keen, and sister Ann spent
the weekend in West Chester with
their parents.
Wallace Turner spent the week
end In Philadelphia with his par
ents.
Joseph McNulty spent the week
end in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Klemm spent
the weekend In Philadelphia.
AL Joneic spent the weekend in
Philadelphia with his family.
Richard Keschner spent the week
end in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Groves of
Wilmington spent the weekend with
Mrs. Groves mother. Mrs. Mayme
Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bellas had as
callers on Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Echles OF Harrington, Mr..
and Mrs. Laurence Porter, DR.. VIII
liam Johnson. Mr.. Bellas has been
on the sick list but is slowly i'm
proving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Collision Of
Wilmington spent the weekend with
Mr.. Collisions parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Collision.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hurd of Har-
rington spent the weekend with
Mrs. Hurd's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Rogers.
Mrs. Lottie Johnson had as call
ers on Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Johnson and son Charles. Jr.. of
Easton; Arthur Johnson OF the U.
Milford chronicle., 1939-03-10

Beacon College. and is now employ.
ed in office of the Delaware State
Employment Service at Dover. and
Miss Hill is a graduate of the FELTON,
High School and Goldey College and
is now employed at the Delaware
State Board of Charities at Dover
The wedding will take place in the
early summer
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union held their regular month
ly meeting at the home of Mrs.
Cynthia Mensch and Mrs. Ethel Col
Inns on Thursday afternoon. Devo-
tons were led by the evangelistic
director. Mrs. Margaret Marvel, with
Prayer" as the text word. The bus
mess session followed; Union Signal
day was observed. with selections
from the paper. During the social
Lour games were enjoyed and re-
freshments served. Faith will be the
text word of the next meeting.
Charles Andrews met with a pain
ful accident on Saturday when he
had the misfortune to fall in a ce-
ment mixer at the sand-pit in Dover
where he was employed. He had
several stitches taken at Kent Gen.
Hospital and sustained bruises and
minor injuries.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Short of
Georgetown were recent dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Quill
len.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Dukes spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel Butler of Bridgeville.
the occasion being the wedding ami
yersary of Mr.. and Mrs. Butler.
Mrs. C. c. McIlvaine returned to
her home on Friday after having
spent some time with her parents.
Her father f. V. Hearn, has returned
from the hospital and is convalescing.
Mrs. c. F. Johnson and c. C. Nell
vaine accompanied Mr.. and Mrs. T.
B. Spurry to Wilmington on Monday
evening.
Mrs ]. B. Wharton spent the week
end with her daughter and son-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wilson, of
Dover.
Rev. and Mrs. William Coke and
their son Paul left on Thursday for
N. Y, after having spent
three weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. A. ].
Coke.
Miss Hazel Wright spent Saturday
with her cousin, Miss Edith Bullock,
Of Dover, attending the Saturday
session of Dover High School.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barrett Jackson and
Peggy, of Lancaster. Pa.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Milliard Jackson |
IF Wilmington. were weekend guests |
If their pparents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. P.
Jackson.
Milford chronicle., 1939-03-10
CcOntinned from Puss Page,

the theatre will open at $3.50 p. m.
and the program will begin prompt
ly at o'clock, with Hugh G. Gal
lagher presiding. A memorial pray
er in memory of last years $4,000
automobile victims will be offered
by the Rev. Park W. Huntington,
pastor Of St. Stephens Lutheran
Church. The color guard and bug
lers of Delaware Post No. l of the
American Legion will play to the
cOlors and the buglers will sound
taps at the conclusion of Rev. Hunt
ington's memorial prayer. Safety
motion pictures will be projected to-
gether with several other motion
picture features.
The safety rally is part of the
Statewide educational program pro-
NOTED to reduce accidents and to in
crease safety consciousness in the
minds of Delawareans. Last year,
the United States cut its accidental
Milford chronicle., 1939-03-10

S. Army. stationed at Fort dupont
and MIR. Packard of Syracuse. n. Z
The Home Demonstration Club
will meet at the home of Mrs. James
Smith on Thursday. March l6 at 1880
o. m. Wise Family Planning--Know
Your Foods" will be the subject.
Miss Melendy, our county agent,
will be with us. There were Is mem-
bers and three visitors at the all
day meeting in February at the
home of Mrs. NJ. Webb. Mrs. James
Smith and Mrs. r. l.. Tucker gave
the demonstration on "Oyen Meals" ."
Grange News
Do you believe 13 Is unlucky?
Well, just change your mind about
that and don't fail to attend the
Grange March 13. If you miss this
meeting you will think "the jinXs"
has got you for sure. It's going to
be a wet year as we farmers say.
but stop worrying about the wealth
er and come have a jolly good time
with us. If you have a cold you had
better go to a doctor right now be-
cause we want everybody to be able
to join in the song fest. A very in
teresting program has been planned.
so Changers. don't forget the date
March IL. Time. s p. m. Where ?
Grange Hall.
Milford chronicle., 1939-03-10

Saturday night. The car in which
Miss Short was riding skidded near
Love Creek and hit an abutment.
Three other occupants of the car are
also in the hospital.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF the
NJ. T.. Church held business meet
ing at the home OF Mrs, Jefferies on
Market street. on Monday evening.
DIR. ANNA X. GREGoRIUS
Chiropractor
204 East Front st.. Milford f3-tf
Milford chronicle., 1939-03-10
ZION

The Zion Ladies Aid will meet at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Dickerson on Wednesday evening,
March Is. The ladies are planning a
very pleasant evening, it being St.
Patrick's Day; and for those who
like fishing. Mrs. Plaford Russell
will instruct you. Ice cream and
cake will he for sale. Please be pres
ent and help the good cause along.
Milford chronicle., 1939-03-10
DIR. ANNA X. GREGORIUS
Chiropractor
204 East Front St., Milford fS-tf

The newly extended ocean Boule-
vard," from Rehoboth Beach to Ocean
City. Md. will be opened to traffic in
the spring or early summer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29
Old Shells Recovered

Unexploded shells are still being
found in the war zone of France 10
years after the World war. A pri7
.vate company which was engaged
six years ago to hunt and destroy
them is still actively operating with
quarters in Coucy-le- Chateau near
the emplacement of the "Big Ber-
tha," which shelled Paris. Besides
doing its own hunting, the company
is informed of the accidental finding,
Of shells. 1t sends its special trucks,
fitted for handling explosives, and
the shell is taken to the exploding
ground. It has responded to 1920
reports of found shells, which have
led to its trucks bringing in l ,450, 600
tons of "duds." During the same
period it has destroyed where they
were found over 10000 tons Of
shells considered non-transportable.
And still undestroyed at its two
fields are 2S6, 794 tons Of shells. The
company has not lost man.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29
PENINSULA HOLLY CROP

An industry that brings about
100000 to homes on the Del-Mar
Peninsula is the gathering Of holly
and mistletoe.
For many years holly has attained
great significance and this year
promises to be one of the largest on
record, with holly going to practice
ally every point on the Atlantic sea.
board.
Brokers estimate that LOO
cases of box holly were shipped
from Seaford. Other towns on the
peninsula and the approximate
amount of holly shipments are:
Bridgeville, 5000 cases; Laurel, 500
cases; Millsboro. 5000 cases; Fed
ersburg, 100 cases; Bishopville.
$500 cases, and Dagsboro, 1000
cases.
On top of this the sale of wreathes
and mistletoe and evergreens will
swell farmers funds many more
thousands of dollars.
Artificial berries are used for the
wreaths instead of natural berries.
However, this year about thirty per
cent. of the holly crop has natural
berries and an increased demand for
wreaths in the old-time style is ex-
pected.
Large department stores and
municipalities are the biggest users
of holly and laurel, and there is be-
ing built up steady demand for
processed wreaths, new type Of
holly wreath that Is processed loc-
ally and made to last for several
years. One such plant, at Blades.
is now active with Christmas orders.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29
Modern Beach Footwear
Designed by Japanese

From the south of France has
spread to Miami beach and Malibu
a fashion of footwear with light
weight soles three inches thick to
keep the feet off the hot sands. A
new vogue in the West, it is CEN
turtles old in Japan. The geta, as
Japan's stilted clog is called, dates
back to the Eighth century in lit
erature, but first achieved wide
spread popularity in the Toku-
gawa period, which began in the
Seventeenth century.
Nowadays it takes big shop to
contain anything like fair selection
of the many kinds of geta. The fine
weather geta, called koma-geta, is
carved from a single block of
wood, and for sole and heel has two
thick, square supports called ha
('teeth"). Taka-geta ("high"
geta) have thin wood insoles to
make the wearer appear taller.
These are for bad weather. Then
for small girls. are pokkuri (also
called koppori). These, as is inn
plleo Dy tne very SOUND OF thelr
names, make sound like trotting
horse as the child runs along the
sidewalk.
A geta has two straps, which
radiate from peg between the big
toe and its neighbor to two points
on either side of the heel. This
calls for the sort of sock worn by
the sandaled races of north Africa
and manufactured in the United
States by health concerns-that is,
one that has separate compart-
ment for the big toe. These socks,
called tabi, may be of cotton, wool,
silk or other material, are ankle
high only, and are worn by persons
of either sex.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29

The Carnegie institution of WASH
ington was founded on January 28,
1902, by Andrew Carnegie, when he
gave to a board Of trustees an en-
dowment Of registered bonds Of the
par value Of $40, 900, 900. To this
fund he added $4,000, 900 on Decem-
Der 10, 1907. and $4,000. 900 on Jam
uary 10, 1911. In addition, the in
come Of q reserve fund Of about
$4,000, 900, accumulated In accord
anes with the founders specifica-
tons In 1911, is now available for
general use, and there has been q
recent addition of $5,000,0o0 to the
endowment fund by grant from the
Carnegie corporation of New York.
The institution was originally or.
ganized as the Carnegie institution
but was reincorporated as the Car
negie Institution Of Washington by
an act Of congress approved April
20. 1904.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29
REPORTS FROM CHRISTMAS
SEAL SALE

Reports from the county seal sale
chairmen drought the state indi-
cate that this years sale has started
we'll and IL the returns continue to
come In as they have to date, last
years total may be exceeded. the
Maryland tuberculosis Association
reported.
Many of the county chairmen
have reported gains have been made
over the sale OF Christmas Seals
during former years. 1t Is too early
to make any positive predictions as
to the eventual result, the associa-
ton stated, but indications point to
successful sale. A few counties
have not yet reported and few fell
behind last years total for a corre-
spending period.
Montgomery County led all coun-
ties during the 1888 sale in total re-
turns and Worcester County made
the greatest improvement. All coun-
ties are earnestly contesting these
two this year in an effort to break
their last years records.
Good Christmas Seal sales insure
each county of an efficient anti
tuberculosis program as 70 percent
Of the money raised in a county is
used for work in that county. The
remainder, excepting percent
which goes to the National Tuber-
culosis Association, is used in state
wide work, the state Office said.
William B. Matthews, managing
director of the association, said
Maryland has an excellent anti-tuber-
culosis program, which, If continued
without curtailment, should event
ually eliminate this disease as a
public menace A steady decrease
in the number of tuberculosis deaths
and illnesses has resulted ever since
the organized fight against the dis
ease was begun in 1904.
Tuberculosis, even though 1t no
longer is the leading cause of death,
is still threat to everyone.
ut is within the power of the
people to wipe out this disease. One
way in which everyone can help is
by buying and using Christmas
Seals. Buying Christmas Seals is
helping to insure the health of your
community" Mr.. Matthews said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29
Natural Gas Less Toxic
Than Artificial Product

Natural gas in general is not con-
sidered as toxic as the manufac-
tured gas, which has a higher per-
centage of carbon monoxide. 1.-THE
American Cyclopedia" tabulates the
constituents of various natural gases
and compares them with coal gas.
1t shows from 80 to SO per cent
marsh gas (methane) up to IA per
cent other hydrocarbons, 04 to 4.6
per cent nitrogen, up to or per cent
carbon dioxide, 0.4 to OBS per cent
carbon monoxide, up to is per cent
hydrogen.
Coal gas is given an average Of
40 per cent marsh gas, 4 per cent
hydrocarbons, 2 per cent nitrogen,
0.4 per cent carbon dioxide, 6 per
cent carbon monoxide, As per cent
hydrogen.
The first gas company in this
country was the Gas Light company
of Baltimore, incorporated February
5, 1917; it made and distributed coal
gas and the first street in Baltimore
was lighted with the gas on Febru-
airy II. The first natural gas COM
pany was the Fredonia Gas Light
and Water Works company, organ
lied in Fredonia, N. Y, in 1865.
Natural gas had, however. been
used as an illuminant in Fredonia
as early as 1924, pipe line having
been led from well to the hall
where General Lafayette was given
a reception. A few years later nat
ural gas was being used for fuel
and light in Findlay, Ohio.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29
Pillars Of Hercules
Located in Morocco

One of the smallest and northern
most of African subdivisions, Span
ish Morocco, is a narrow strip sliced
off the top of the continent at the
western entrance to the Mediterra-
mean. 1t lies directly across the
strait from Gibraltar and contains
the southern end of the two rocky
eninences called the Pillars of Her
cules, which the legendary hero is
supposed to have created by Sitting
q mountain in two.
The Spanish zone of influence in
the Sultanate of Morocco is only
about one sixteenth of the whole
country. Most of the Sultan's terri
tory is under French protection,
with the thin layer of Spanish Mo-
rocco on top and the tiny interna-
tional zone of Tangier Clipped off
the upper left corner. The area of
Spain's zone is a little larger than
Maryland, with half that states pop
ulation. Texas could swallow up
ten Spanish Moroccos.
Most of it is wild mountain coun-
try, with rim of coastal plain that
is fairly broad and fertile along the
Atlantic, but rather narrow along
the 200 miles of Mediterranean
shoreline. The few important cities
are widely spaced along the coast.
Starting at the southwestern cor
ner of the country, one comes upon
the port of Larache, on the Atlantic
coast, and its neighbor, the fishing
village of Arzila; then Ceuta, at the
country's northern tip, and the Med
iterranean mineral port of Melilla
near the eastern end.
Tetuan, the capital and largest
city, is comparable in size to Lo-
rain, Ohio, a baby metropolis Of
$4,000 people. 1t lies just inland
from the undeveloped port of Rio
Martin, and has developed small in
dustries in morocco leather, tiles
and pottery.
The second and third largest cities
do not belong to the Protectorate at
all, but are Spain's own territory.
Ceuta, governed as part of Cadiz,
was taken by Spain in 1880, and
Melilla has been Spanish since the
days of Columbus.
Ceuta lures many visitors, and its
crowded oriental. bazaars attract
them with rare brassware priced in
Europe since the Middle ages. This
ancient city, once a slave market,
was the first in Africa to have trans
Atlantic telephone service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29
Hot Mediterranean Wind
Aids in Cork Formation

The wind blows fierce and hot in
the Mediterranean during the dry
season, and that is why most Of
the worlds cork comes from Por-
tugal, Spain and north Africa. For
the cork trees there, getting the full
hot blasts, in self-defense thicken
the outer bark as insulation. And
the result is cork, used in linoleum,
insulation board, baseball centers,
badminton balls, floats, fishing bob
bers and life preservers.
Cork is industrially important be-
cause it can be compressed like no
other solid. A cubic inch, under
$4,000 pounds pressure in q press,
spreads sidewise only quarter
inch. Remove the pressure and it
will regain 95 per cent of its height.
The secret is in its remarkable eel
lular structure, which makes cork
different from most other fibrous
vegetable material. The cells of
cork are built in the form Of IA cells
surrounding one cell. Each cell is
filled with air, and the thin walls
are cemented together with natural
gum or resin. A cubic inch of cork
has about 300,000,OO0 such cells.
Compress cork, and the air in the
cells resist. Because Of the air,
cork is light. Because Of the sealing
between each cell, cork does not
transfer heat, so is good for insu-
lating and sound-proofing; because
it is resilient, it mininizes vibra-
ton, hence it is useful in machinery.
In 20 years a cork tree has an
outer bark an inch thick. It cam
not be stripped again for nine years.
The quality improves with each
stripping, and the average tree is
good for IA strippings, nine years
apart.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29

The Western Electric Company
through line Of direct descent, has
just celebrated its SEVENTEEN birthday
It was in November of 1869 that
Elisha Gray and Enos M. Barton
formed the partnership from which
has evolved the great manufacturing
purchasing, and distributing arm OF
the Bell System, Familiarity known as
western Electric"
In 1869, when Alexander Graham
Bell, inventor of the telephone, was
in London college studying anatomy
and physiology, Gray and Barton had
embarked upon a partnership in
Cleveland, Ohio, for the manufacture
Of electrical equipment. Each had in
vested $1,000 in the enterprise. Their
manufactured products in those early
days consisted chiefly of telegraph in
struments, electric bells, signal boxes
batteries and fire alarms.
Later Gray and Barton moved their
factory to Chicago, ILL.,, changing the
name of the firm to Western Electric
Manufacturing Company and in 1871
it was one of six shops which Alex
ander Graham Bell and his associates
engaged to manufacture telephone
equipment for the subscribers first
privileged to enjoy this now indispens-
able communication service.
In 1881 Theodore N. Vail, general
manager of the American Bell Tele-
phone Company and its predecessors
since 1878, took the great forward
stride of consolidating certain of these
manufacturing plants, with the Wes-
tern Electric Manufacturing Company
as the backbone of the organization
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29

| The new business then took the name
it bears today. With this consolida-
ton, only five years after the success
full demonstration Of the telephone,
came the assurance to the operating
licensees of the American Bell Of the
best in apparatus design and quality.
Elisha Gray died in 1901. Enos M.
Barton, who remained at the head Of
the business until his death in 1915,
saw the company he helped found
grow into worldwide enterprise. He
hired, as a lad, Harry B. Thayer, who
became president of Western Electric
and then of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company. Mr.. Thayer
said Of Mr.. Barton, che gave the bust
ness a spirit of progress, striving al
ways for better methods and greater
efficiency and, still more, he gave it
high standard Of business integrity,
of justice, and Of fairness to all"
President Walter S. Clifford of the
A. T. & T. Co., who began his Bell
System career as a clerk with the
Western Electric Company 35 years
ago, recently said Of Western Elec-
trio, "the Bell System has done it's
own pioneering in the development of
physical things, and has manufac-
tured what was wanted instead Of re-
lying for progress entirely ON such
developments as manufacturers, over
whom it had no control, might pro-
duce. The Bell Systems central pur-
chasing and supply department per-
forms function of great benefit to
all. A word should be said of the inn
mense value in time of emergency of
this Capitalization of manufacturing
and supply"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29
Birds Show Preference
To Islands for Nesting

Birds have a strange preference
for islands. In stormy Lake Supe-
rior, miles beyond Passage Light,
gulls build their nests on the huge
rock masses which poke their heads
above the waves. In shallow Lake
Erie, terms nest by the hundreds on
pebbly island near Put-in-Bay.
In Saginaw bay, ducks make their
nests on Lone Tree island and the
Charities. Wherever land is entire
ly surrounded by water, it seems
that birds like to congregate.
This preference for island breed
ing grounds is found in many Of our
waterfowl: cormorants, pelicans,
gulls, terms, avocets, phalaropes and
other shorebirds. Behind the birds
preference for islands is perhaps
the fact that islands provide protec-
ton from some Of the predatory ami
mails that take heavy toll of nest
ing birds. Sometimes birds select
only slight elevations along lake
shore for their nesting sites. Musk
rat houses scarcely can be called
islands, yet they seem to qualify
with the birds. At bird sanctuary,
near Battle Creek, one may see
numerous duck and goose nests on
deserted muskrat houses. In the
Bear river in Oregon, four-fifths Of
the Canada geese nests had their
foundations provided by muskrats.
Men who are trying to restore
areas for waterfowl may take adj
vantage Of this trait. E. A. Nell
benny, whose bird city on Avery
island, Louisiana, is q famous sane
tuary, was among the first to make
island-building an important part Of
attracting birds. He has built more
than 80 islands especially for herons.
The United States bureau Of bio
logical survey had made island
building one Of It's specialties in the
development Of refuge areas. Is
lands are formed when areas are
flooded. Results Of this sort may
be seen on the new Seney Refuge
in the Upper Peninsula. On the
Bear river refuge, machinery was
being used to finish up the end Of a
1,000-foot island when birds began
nesting on the other end. This
seems to be q good illustration Of
the value Of nesting islands on bird
refugees.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-29
Game Conseryationists

The maternal instinct in dogs APP
parently knows no bounds, says the
Country Home Magazine. If you
don't believe this, witness the cases
Of two canine mothers-one, q
springer spaniel on the j. J. Cald-
well farm in lWyandotte county,
Kansas, and the other, collie on
the Ted Konsteri farm, near Duluth,
MINI. The collie is raising three
tiny beavers, born to trapped
mother which later died, and the
spaniel is mothering an equal mum.
Der Of small cottontail rabbits,
which she stole from their, nest
and brought home with her. Both
mothers and infants are doing well.