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Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
CHILDREVS HOME
SOCIETY GROUP
PLANSF FOR CRISIS
Special Session Called For
Today To S eek Aid
Against Closing.
TO PREPARE APPEAL
Board Must Provide For
100 Children, No Other
Agency Able.
TO PREPARE APPEAL

The Board of Directors of the Del
aware ChildTen's Home Society viii
meet today friday, June 30. In
continuance of the Legislature tC
make any appropriations for Its
work created crisis of such serious
proportions that it was feared the
society might have to close its doors
and turn over to the State the chill
dren under care.
A survey of the situation in the
State reveals that no other private
agency is financially able to assume
the responsibility for the children
under the care of the society A mum
ber of cases had to be turned over to
the State because funds were not
available to care for the children
properly. However. the Legislature
amount requested for Child Welfare
Work by the State Board of Chari-
ties. The society is reluctant to place
the care of nearly 100 boys and girls
in the hands of the State when no
financial provision was made to en-
able the State Board of Charities to
assume such a large additional bur-
den.
The society is preparing a special
financial appeal TO citizens of the
State to enable the society to con-
tinue its work. Mrs. A. A. Hearn of
Dover, a new member of the board,
who has had experience in the field of
social work and child welfare. is SER
wing as chairman of the finance COM
mittee.
At this meeting the board will con-
slider plans presented by the finance
and legislative committees for secur-
ing contributions from individuals
and an appropriation from the Leg
islature at its August session.
The society has served the State
and its unfortunate children for, Al
years. II is now in the process of
developing plans for work that will
not duplicate or conflict with the ac-
tivities of any other agencies. Some
State aid is essential while this re-
adjustment ia being carried out. The
society is in urgent need of greatly
increased contributions from individ-
uals. Immediate response in this f.
nancial crisis will make it possible
for the Delaware Children's Home
Society to continue the care of chill
dren who would be left without ade-
quate care or supervision otherwise.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
DETAIL TO LEAVE
FOR CAMP JULY 27
Advance Guard Will Pre-
pare Bethany Beach Site
For Arrival Of Troops.
PLANS BEING MADE

An advance detail of two officers
and 80 enlisted men will arrive at
Camp Weller E. Slower. Bethany
Beach. Thursday. July 81. to prepare
the camp for the 800 enlisted men
and officers of the 19Sth Coast Ar
tillery. A. A. Delaware National
Guard. who will hold their annual
encampment there, July 20 to Aug.
12. Gov. Richard C. McMullen has
issued orders for the encampment.
which this year is named after Brig
Gen Weller E. Slower. the adjutant
general of Delaware, in recognition
Of his 35 years continuous service
with the national guard.
The guardsmen will be transported
TO Bethany Beach in station wagons
and trucks. Mai. Henry C. Ray
will command the First Battalion.
composed of units from Wilmington,
while Mai. John w. Davis commands
the Second Battalion, consisting Of
Newark. New Castle. Dover and Mil
ford units.
Training plans are being prepared
by Col. George J. Schulz, command
ing officer; Lieut.-Col. S. B. l. Dun
can. regimental executive officer;
Capt W. A. F. Pyle. re egimental plans
and training officer. and other men,
hers of the staff.
The principal activity of the camp
will include firing of three-inch anti
aircraft guns by Batteries B. C, and
d. of Wilmington; searchlight prac-
ice by Battery A. Wilmington. and
firing of machine guns by Batteries
E. F, G. and H. of Newark. Milford.
Dover and New Castle.
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Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
DELAWARE FARMERS
RECEIVE $597,694
Subsidies Paid Over II Months For
Cooperating In Crop Control

Delaware farmers received s597.-
694 in subsidies for cooperating with
crop control programs during the
IL months ending June 1. according
to figures made public this week by
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration in Washington.
Maryland got $1.6S6.S47. New Jer-
sey. $1.1s6,s71. and Pennsylvania,
$3,9O7.416.
The AAA paid out a total of
$685., ,491, ,95S for the period.
The benefits included $121. 1.34S,422
in adjustment payments on the 1887
cotton crop; $5S,O30,952 in sugar
payments for 1887 and 1888 crops; !;
$37S,616,711 in soil conservation pay
ments, and $13,S01. All in parity pay
ments for 1888 crops.
Operating expense of the AAA ex-
elusive of local farmer committees,
were $1s.156.14S.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
Soft Ball League Gets Under
Nay In Milford With Six Teams

The newly formed Milford Softball
League opened the season on Monday
when six teams swung into action in
their initial games. Each team car
ried full roster of is men.
Interest in these games is on the
increase and while we have no fig
ures on the number who actually
watched the games, an unofficial
count OF the cars parked showed a
total Of SO.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
+SEN. TOWNSEND
wins FIGHT ON
FOREIGN SILVER
Presidents Power To
Devalue Dollar Further
Is Ended By Vote.
IDEAL" rs DENIED
Odd Alliance Boosts Price
OF Domestic Metal;
Townsend In Limelight.
IDEAL" IS DENIED

Senator John G. Townsend. Jr..
(R-DeD on Monday saw his long fight
against foreign silver purchases car
ried to a successful ending az he join
ed with hard-money Republicans
from the East and silverites and cur
rency expansionists from the West
merged into a strange Senate ali-
ance-to riddle the administrations
monetary bill with amendments high
ly unpopular at the White House and
Treasury.
The drastically altered bill was
passed on a voice vote late in the
day. 1t now goes to conference.
When the confusion of a hectic
days session had subsided and Sen
ator Barkley CD-Ky). the Democratic
leader, had wiped the last drop of
perspiration from his brow after
three merciless defeats. this unusual
coalition had:
Stripped the monetary bill of all
authorization for a further devalu-
alton of the dollar by President
Roosevelt
Price Boosted
Added an amendment to require
that the Treasury pay 1857 cents an
ounce for the product of the Western
silver mines. giving the silver bloc
a stunning victory in it's fight for an
increase over the present rate of
64.64 cents.
Written in a provision forbidding
any continuation of the administra-
tion's policy of buying foreign silver.
About all that remained of the
original bill was its authority for the
Treasury to continue for two years
the life of the $4,000 900 900 interna-
tional exchange stabilization fund.
T0wnsend's Victory Big
Active in the days proceedings was
Senator Townsend. When he called
up his amendment to end the foreign
buying, it carried on a voice vote. so
overwhelming that the administra-
tion did not ask for a roll-caIl vote
Townsend voted. too, for the
to end Roosevelt's au-
thority to devalue the dollar fur
ther. But when the Adams amend
ment for a statutory silver price
came to a vote he said that, as au-
thor of the anti-foreign purchase
he felt he could not go
along, and voted against fixing the
price of newly-mined domestic silver
at 1857 cents an ounce.
Delaware's other Senator. Demo-
CTurn 70 Page 7. Pleased
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
NATIONAL BANK TO
CLOSE SAT. AT NOON
Early Closing VIII Continue During
July And August

Following a meeting of the Board
of Directors of the First National
Bank and Trust Company. of Milford,
held in that institution on Tuesday
morning. President Daniel Hirsch an
nounced that the bank will be closed
each Saturday at IL o'clock noon
during the months of July and Au-
gust.
The new schedule will go into eff
feet tomorrow. Saturday. July 1.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
NEW LUNCH-ROOM TO
OPEN IN MILFORD
Well Equipped Lunch Counter And
Dining Room WIN Open Saturday

Saturday. July 1, will be the open
ing day for the Palace Lunchroom
in Milford. Situated at 6 East Front
street. next to AL Dyers barber shop.
it holds promise of becoming fav-
orite dining spot The cafe will be
furnished with new. up-to-date equip
ment, and modern fixtures. having a
long cushion-seated lunch counter
and coy booths in front. with larger
tables in the rear. Its proprietor.
Pete Chourus. has announced that
half of the receipts taken in on the
opening day will go to the benefit of
the Milford Memorial Hospital.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
HISTORIC CAREY'S CAMP
WILL REOPEN AUGUST IL
Old Wesleyan Ideas StIIl Prevail ;
No Gate Charge

Historic Carey's Camp. located on
the highway leading from Phillips
Hill to loves Cross Roads will open
August IL and close on August 21
under direction of the Rev. Edmund
W. Henvis. pastor of Grace Methodist
Church. at Millsboro. and also of
Carey's Methodist Church.
Carey's Camp is about fifty years
old and is the second most popular
camp in lower Delaware. the largest
and most popular camp being the
Delmarva Camp. located near Laurel
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Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
261st Coast Artillery Returns
Home From Fort Hancock, N. !.

The heavy artillery battalion of
the Delaware National Guard has
completed its two weeks of field
training. Last Saturday a convoy of
military trucks and private cars,
moving steadily across New Jer-
sey and down through Delaware,
brought officers and men of the 261st
Coast Artillery from their Fort Han
cock encampment to their respec-
tive home bases. There, after stor-
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
STATE BEEKEEPERS TO
HOLD THREE MEETINGS
First Session will Be Held At Nit
chell Apiary Near Laurel

Delaware beekeepers will be busy
catching bees the last day of the
three-day series of beekeepers' meet
ings which will begin at the r. B.
Mitchell apiary near Laurel on July
6; at the F. Y Golden apiary at Vio-
la, July z, and at the home of Charles
A Liedlich on Iron Hill. south of
Newark. on July s.
The series of meetings which are
being held by the Delaware State
Beekeepers' Association. was an
rounced recently by John NJ. Amos,
secretary of the association and as
sistant extension entomologist at the
University of Delaware.
The first two meetings are schedul-
CTuru 70 Page ,, Pleased
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30

All games are played at the high
school ground and everyone is in
vited to attend and enjoy this recre-
ational sport.
Mondays Results
J. B. Poore's Hotpoints, 8; Busi-
ness Men. z.
Odd Fellows, IA: Ryder's Club, 8.
Palm Beach, z; Pearce Oil. 1.
Games Next Week
CTru 70 Page ?. Pisasel
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30

ing away equipment and uniforms,
the artillerymen turned back again
to civilian pursuits.
Their two week tour of duty at
Fort Hancock had been a success
full one. Both batteries, "A" from
Laurel and "B" from Georgetown,
had fired the ten inch, disappearing
carriage coast defense gun; each
battery had made highly satisfac-
Cruru 10 Pass I. Piesye)
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
SALISBURY STORES TO
CLOSE AT IL WEDN'YS.
Beginning July ~ And Continuing
Through July And August

Beginning Wednesday. July IL and
all through the month of August the
leading stores and the dentists of
Salisbury will close at o'clock on
Wednesday afternoons.
This is being done to give the en-
ployees more time for fun under sum-
mer's healthful sun.
In planning your shopping trip to
Salisbury on Wednesdays during July
and August. the merchants suggest
that you shop in the morning.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
CONNIE MACK DAY
AT FEDERALSBURG
Exhibition Game To Be Played Be-
tween Philadelphia And fredericksburg

Monday. July 8, will be Connie
Mack Day at fredericksburg. Md.
when the Grand Old Man of baseball
will appear with his team, the Phil
adelphia Athletics. in a game against
the fredericksburg AS of the Eastern
Shore League. Lovers of baseball all
over the Peninsula. who know and
honor this truly great baseball play
er and manager. will be on hand for
this occasion.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, June 21 To Tues.
day, June "a, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller weather
recorder for Milford, reports the fol-
lowing atmospheric conditions in this
vicinity from Wednesday. June 81 to
Tuesday. June q, inclusive:
Tonanorofuro
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-30
enperature

Total Rainfall ... OF
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
period:
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30
BPW Contest Interest
Grows Toward Close
Winners To Be Poroded
On Stage At Dixie On
Monday Night. Apr.

An candidates for the title of Little
Miss Duranl and Master DulaIlt WI
be on the stage on Friday night
April Z, at the Dixie Theatre when
the contest closes and the cups viii
be awarded at that time.
Members of the Business and Pro
fessional' Women's Club, sponsors OF
the contest, are selling tickets to
the show that night and ask the
public to attend. The club will get
a share of the proceeds of the show
that night.
AN money raised during the con-
test and for the show that night will
go into the Community House build.
ing fund started by the club last
week.
Following are the votes cast for
entrants in the Baby Popularity Con
test. This includes all votes cast up
to date.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30

worlds of them, and entertaining
them in royal style.
Spacious homes were built becaus,
families were large and there wal
lots OF company all the time. Tht
best in fine linens, silver, china, fur
niture draperies were imported from
abroad and put in these beautiful
homes.
Today those same homes and fur
nishings stand to show the world
what life was like before the WA
Between the States. Nowhere else
Is there such a wonderfully COM
plete record of such life.
That is Tire :~nlrcatarce Of Nat
chez-a comple.e, authentic picture OF
the past.
Melrose, Ravenna. Edgewood, EDome-
wood, The Briers, E.mscorrt, Rosa
lie, Inglewood, Oakland, MA'mount
Mount Repose, Pleasant Hi, the very
names breathe the atmosphere they
hold.
Priceless antiques, marble mantels,
medallions, French mirrors, oil
paintings, portraits. rosewood and
mahogany furniture, Royal Worches-
ter, Crown Derby and Wjedgewood
china, original Sheraton and Hepple-
white pieces. many of them dat
ing back over 200 years all on dis
play in these old homes. 1t is no
wonder Natchez is a story book town
a fit setting for $50 Red the
Rose"
The Natchez Garden Club has done
itself proud in this the efghth annual
pilgrimage. Thousands of visitors
from all over the United States and
many other countries have made the
tour of the homes. With each visi-
tor ito fame viii spread until all
the world world knows Natchez.
The 1889 Pilgrimage closes April 2
The 1910 Pilgrimage will be held
March Oath until April 7th. It will
be a grand privilege to see Natchez
again.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30
W. A Montgomery Passes
|Awoy At Home In Pickens

MIR. d. A. Montgomery passed away
at his home in Harltown Thursday,
March %, after a short dllness. Mr.,
Montgomery was born in C~enterville
! n Wilkinson County, June IL, 1850
He was in the cotton business here
at Lexington, in the Delta and IN
YazOo City until his retirement in
1914. He was preceded to the grave
by his wife, Mrs. Sara Elizabeth
(Waner) Montgomery in September
1924. He is survived by the follow
ing children: Edward and Felix Mont
gomery, Greenvdlle, s. c.; Vdcton
Montgomery, Belzoni; Malcolm Mont
gomery, Yazoo City; Miss Una Mont.
gomery, and Mrs. Hugh Varnado,
Pickens.
Funeral services were conducted al
the home Friday at 2 O'Clock by Rev
E. w. Ford, assisted by DIR. w. F
Marlborough. Interment was made in
Yazoo City. Maxwell and Owen were
in charge.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30

Architects drawing of the $272,-
10000 World War Memorial Build
ing now under construction just
north of the Old Capitol Building,
jackson, Mississippi. To be con-
structed principally of granite and
limestone, the building will be 100
feet wide and the two wings 80
feet from front to rear The CEN
ter section including the Audito-
rum in the rear, is ITS feet from
front to rear. 1t win be two and
one-half stories high, plus a base
ment, and win face North State
Street.
The name Of every Legion mem
Der who pays his 1889 dues before
May LIST Will BE inscribed on a scroT
Of honor under the name Of his
Post and placed in the Legion Hall
of Fame in the South Wing OF the
Building. A similar Homer Rodl
will be- scaled IN the corner stone
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30
John Mcbride Announces
For Constable Of Beut z

John E. Mcbride. local gas sta
ton operator, and long time resident
of Durant, is announcing his candida
cy for Constable OF Beat Two, Hol-
mes County. Mr.. Mcbride was born
and reared in this county, and in
offering his candidacy says hat he
would make as good a constable as
any other candidate that has so far
announced. He has a wife and four
children. MFR. Mcbride states that II
elected he will adher strictly to a
policy of enforcing law and order
and states that he Is in a position
to run down and catch all fragrant
law viodators and d~isturbers of the
peace.
Mr.. Mcbride has been a life long
member Of the Richland Baptist
Church and has always engaged in
public spirited movements. and has
membership in other worthwhile or.
CARNATIONS.
HE states that he intends to see
each and every voter df possible be-
fore the August primaries, and earn
estiy soiictts your vote and influence
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30
Bunkheod Drone Passes
Flying School Exoms

Richard Bankhead Drane, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Drane, Durant,
has successfully passed the examana-
ton board for air corps flying cadets
at sN1axwet3 Field. Montgomery, Ala
bama, according to reports here
1t will be late May before young
Drane receives formal notice of. an
pointment and he expects to be in the
July class of Flying Cadets which
will begin training at that time at
Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.
The examination given prospective
cadets is said to be the most thorough
and a total of only seven cadets have
been accepted out OF the five which
have been examined each week since
February /.
Bankhead will receive his B. B..
degree from State College in May.
His many friends will be glad to
learn of his successful start in the
field of his choice.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30
Palm Sunday Service
HeId,,By Methodists
Special Program To Be
Given; Public Invited;
Numbers Rendered

The observation OF Palm Sunday
will be observed at the Methodist
Church Sunday, April /, In an ap-
propriate program carefully arrang-
ed for the morning service by the
pastor and the choir. A special fea-
ture of the morning service will be
q choir composed entirely of men
who will replace the regular mixed
choir and will render the ever
popular and appropriate Jerusalem"
The program for Sunday is as
fellows:
Sunday School 9:45 A. M.
Prelude 10.55 A. M. 20 Sacred
Head Once Bled" by Bach-Mrs
Madge Lipsey, organist.
A chorus by the choir composed
of men, rendering Jerusalem" de-
(scribing the triumphant entry of
Christ into Jerusalem on Palm Sun
day set to music will be one Of the
special musical features of the morn
ing hour.
MIR. Malcolm Carter will precede
the Mems Chorus using as a trumpet
soho the immortal 1.-THE Palms by
Faure.
Mrs. Lipsey will use as her offertory
Consolation" by Morrison.
Immediately following the church
service, tie pastor has requested the
membership to remain for a very
short church conference.
Epworth League meets at 6:15 p.
M.
Night worship hour 7:30 p. M.
The public is cordially invited to
these services.
Extensive plans are under way for
a Sacred Cantata to be given next
Sunday by the combined choirs of
the city at 800 A. M. which will
feature the best voices of the city
and a complete program for Easter
Sunday will appear in next weeks
announcement column.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30
Editor Lexington Pepper
Circuit Clerk Candidate

The News is authorized to announce
the candidacy of Tom Shepherd OF
Lexington as candidate for the of
flee Of circuit clerk, subject to the
action of the Democratic primary in
August.
Mr.. Shepherd was born and has
lived all his life in Lexington and
for he past nine years has been
editor OF the Lexington Advertiser.
Prior to that time he was connected
with the old Merchants and Farmers
Bank at Lexington.
lHe has a wide group Of friends over
the county who will be interested to
learn of his candidacy.
HDe respectfully solicits your influ-
ence and support.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30

BY Hazel Bnannon
Every person owes 1T to hamsel
to see Natchez sometime before h,
dies. The most outstanding and his
tordcaly interesting homes in Amer
Yea stand here. a fitting symbol t.
a mode Of living long since passed
but not forgotten.
Watcher Is the embodiment Of
southern culture and gracious living
as practiced in the days before the
war and in visiting these romantic
and beautiful homes one finds one
self in another world, a world where
hurry had no part and where liv
ing was a tine art.
AZ fine and elegant as were those
days there was no place therein for
the lazy and h laggard. No, in
deed! The mistress Of the big plan.
tation did not dance by the light
Of the moo all night and sleep dur
ing the long hot days. Far from it!
There was the work Of the house to
be oveTseen. the slaves work
. .une meQlc1ne mixed
at home . the sick to be taken
care of . in short the work of
h mistress of the house was fan
buster than that of the master who
leisurely rode his crops.
The beauty of life as lived in those
days was that of it's great self-suf-
ficiency. Each big plantation was a
community Within itself and the mas.
ter kord over all of it.
Rolling acres of fertile land brought
forth from Mother Nature a bounti.
full crop that brought material riches
to its masters and their subjects
There was no such thing as govern
ment subsidies and curtailment OF
crops. The cry was for more cotton
all that could be raised.
This formed the base of the south
elm planters life. The very ease oil
that wealth went to make up his
easy-going nature and his delightful
flair for living and having friends
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30

of the building and Legion Posts
throughout the State have been
notified to give every Veteran in
their area an opportunity to pay
his dues before May 1st, in order
that his name may appear on both
rolls.
Commander B. F. Friedman of
the Preston Hudson Post, and Com
mander Howell Warner, Of the
Lexington Post, say the Roll for
the Holmes County area is now
being made up and that: ut is
important that every Veteran with
in the jurisdiction of this Post be
given an opportunity to have hts
name placed thereon by Joining up
before April 30th. In the years to
come descendants OF the men whose
na1ne appear on THESE rolls VIII
point with pride to the names In
scribed in Memory of the part play
ed in THE Great Legion Program"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30
WPA Releases Durunt
Street Project

Roland B. Wall, Deputy Admins
TRAITOR in Charge. today announced
the release of a city-wide project fol-
Durant in Holmes County. The pro-
jecb Calls for a total expenditure OF
$22,4S0 of which $5,751 rs to be con
tributed by the City.
The streets will be improved through
out Durant including paving, sur
facing, constructing cuiverts and
storm sewers, clearing bitches, and
other incidental work.
Approximately SO ~men will be EN-
ptoyed or this project for a period
Of II months and work is expected
to begin April S.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30
Square Donce To Be Given
At Schrock's In TchuIo

An Did fashioned square dance viii
be held at Schrock's an Tchula next
Wednesday night from nine until
two O'Clock and the public is in
vited to attend.
The Jewel Cowboys, heard over
WREC at 1890 O'Clock on Mondays
Tuesdays and Wednesdays will fur
nish the music and the Tchula Rotary
Club is sponsoring the affair.
Modern dancing will be enjoyed
later in the evening and everyone is
invited to join in the fun.