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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-29
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
~ tAS Assssisssl Press

BLAST
BECKLEY, W. va.-From 4
Radford, Va, powder plant
comes this tale:
A plant engineer went fishing
in the New River and hooked .
catfish, which he took home,
cleaned and placed In q fry
ing pan. In a moment an ex-
plosion blew Ash, skillet and
hot grease all ever the kitchen.
The engineer concluded that
the fish, living in the stream
below the powder plant be-
came so impregnated with nitro
cotton 1t exploded in the heat.
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HIGH DIVING
PHILADELPHIA, - Closing
Of the city's swimming pools to
prevent spread Of infantile pa.
Ialysis led four l6-year-old boys
to high adventGre-and Jail.
Police found them swimming
In q reservoir tank 125 feet In
the air which they reached by
climbing the outside of thu
three. story plant, walking acros3
q narrow plank and scamperinR
UP q ladder to the top.
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PRECIOUS FLUID
WATERBURY, Conn. - And
now police report the case OF
q burglar who valued gasoline
above money.
He broke into q filling station,
helped himself to the key that
unlocks the pumps and pre-
sumably filled er up. A small
amount Of money IN the cash
drawer was untouched.
o.
THE TEAM COMES THROUGH
STCWARTVuLE, Min n
Horse sense displayed by both
man and beast proved helpful
for farmer Robert Beach.
Beach was blowing when the
implement overturned on him
and broke his leg Beach tied
q note to q bride and sent the
team home. Members OF the
family saw the horses return,
found the note and took Beach
TO q hospital.
o.
CHANGE YOUR
SNAKKS, MlSTERf
KEARNEY, Neb. - Wiping
buss from windshields was old
stuff for q gasoline hlling sta
tion attendant but removing .
six-foot rock phython from the
Gas tank was another thing.
When . carnival trooper drove
into the station for . grease Job.
the attendant spotted The ply
ton coifed around the tank. The
snake had escaped from it. cage
during . Storm . week beforp
end Gpporenlly had ben riding
~ - tank dncA 1870
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-29
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891

50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
The new officers OF the new
crowd are as follows: Pres
Thos. Reep; Treas.-Henry Boil
Jensen; Sec.-Martin Croker;
Elk. COM. A. Welts, G. II.
Medium, Richard Mcmillan.
Mrs. Edgar Weeks advertises
for q competent girl for general
housework.
60 YEARS AGO TODAY
1851 :. !.
A Mt. Clemens girl received
q letter thu week one yard long
and q quai>sr q . yard wide: :
Allen Whitney b up ths Lakes.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS.

Very few people realize what a
range of activities are directed from
the American Red Cross national
headquarters in Washington. There
is no method of human service that
is overlooked, no kind of trouble
in the human family which is not
met. Recently there was a signifi-
cant ceremony at the Walter Reed
Hospital in Washington, where
Brigadier General Shelley U. Mar
ietta, Commandant of the Army
Medical Center, delivered an infor-
native address explaining the part
of the Gray Lady Unit, whose ac-
tiVities were a feature Of the an
ual Red Cross convention held in
Washington. A large and impress
sive gathering witnessed the pre-
sentatioH of certificates by General
Marietta, and the presentation of
pins by Mrs. Henry r. Rae, honor
ary chairman of Gray Ladies of the
Red Cross. The famous
u. S. Army Band was present and
upheld its high musical standards.
Mrs. Ella Burt Qaussen of New
York City, one of the twenty-one
Gray Ladies to receive graduate
honors, explained to the writer of
this item, the distinctive character
of service performed by the Gray
Ladies'. This exceptionally high
class unit undertakes to sustain the
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06
Shorter College Courses

Probably nearly 800 colleges are
going to offer a shorter course this
year, enabling a student to obtain
his Bachelor of Arts degree in
three years instead Of four. The
idea is mainly to give a boy a
chance to graduate before begin
ming his military service.
The three year plan will prob
ably call for extended summer
terms of study. There may be lit
tie time for the whirl of social and
athletic gaiety and glory in which
many students have stepped high
and felt at the top of the world.
Many students who go to coll
lege to work rather than to play,
and who would like to get their
studying done. will probably say
they can get along with less high
jinks if they can save year. Also
Father at home, paying the bills
at the cost of some sweat, will
cheer. Some boys and girls who
want to get married early, will say
it is fine scheme.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06
MEDICAL SCIENCE
FINDS NEW WORLDS

Science, in its endless search for
weapons with which to fight dis.
ease, is forever discovering new
worlds. Such an achievement was
recently described before the Am
lean Chemical Society by two doc
tors connected with great private
research laboratories.
Ever since scientists discovered
that the human body can build up
immunity against disease, they
have been working to find precise
ly how the process works. The new
discovery involves a further use
of the electron miscroscope which
employs electrons in place of Wis
ible light and gives a hundred
times more detail than the best
optical miscroscope. With this in
strument, the doctors were able
not only to see the large MOLE
mules in the body, but could even
watch reactions between MOLE
eules of various types. 1t is these
reactions which produce immun-
ity to disease.
AS a basis for their studies, the
doctors produced in rabbits an
artificial immunity to tobacco
mosaic virus. They then succeed
ed in photographing the virus
which had been attacked by anti
bodies (the disease-fighting organ
isms in the blood from the rab-
bits blood stream. So clear were
the photographs that the actual
manner and extent of the attack
could be determined.
So science takes another step
step fraught with pcs
sibilities for improved health and
greater freedom from disease.
Here in America private medicine
is leading the world in the fight
against the greatest of killers
bacteria.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06
PERIL TO OUR CONTINENT

President Roosevelt's recent
fireside talk was addressed not
merely to our own people, but to
all 21 republics of the American
continent. 1t is warning that they
will all be in danger If Adolf Hitler
conquers Europe and Africa.
There are ways Of obtaining the
mastery over a country, without
sending any army to invade its
borders. The South American
countries after the war will be
keen to sell their products to Eu-
rope. The Nazis might tell them
that they would not buy their goods
unless they put Nazi sympathizers
at the head of their governments,
and in control of their armies. In.
that way most of South America
might become Nazi back yard,
without firing a shot.
This is one of the reasons why
the United States needs war equip
ment equal to that possessed by any
nation.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06
MILLsBORO


Mrs. Wood, the mother of DR.. Geo.
Vincent Wood and Frank M. Wood
died at the home of DIR. Wood,
where she spent the winter months
last Sunday night after an illness
of almost four months. The last
two weeks Mrs. Wood lived she was
very i'll and under the care of two
nurses.
On Monday Mrs. Woods remains
were taken to her home near Rich
mond, Va, and funeral services
were held there on Tuesday after
noon.
By spending so much Of her time
here, Mrs. Wood had made many
warm friends, who will long cher
ish the memory of her beautiful
character.
Miss Madalyn Rose came home
on Monday to spend the summer
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
]. Rose. Madalyn has just complet-
ed her sophomore year at the col
lege of William and Mary, in Rich
mond.
Mr.: and Mrs. Millard Monroe
spent part of last week in New
York City.
George Nichols has been very i'll
from an attack of pneumonia, but
is improved enough to be out again.
Harley P. White was on a bust
ness trip in North Carolina a part
Of last week.
Mrs. Lawrence Wardrop enter
tanned the Ever Faithful Auxiliary
at her cottage at Riverdale last
Tuesday, Mrs. Wardrop is a most
gracious hostess and the afternoon
was a delightful one for her guests.
Mrs. Matte Shockley is having
the interior of her home redecor-
ated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Donoway are
having the outside of their home
painted white,
The new home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Gordy is nearly completed. 1t
is next door to Mrs. Gordy's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Adkins on
the Boulevard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Goodwin and
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris Goodwin spent
last Sunday a week on a trip in
Virginia. They drove as far south
as Petersburg.
Rev. Charles W. Spry of Bethel
was a visitor OF friends in town
last Thursday.
Ralph Brittingham has accepted
a position in the furniture store of
Collins and Ryan and Edward Out
ten is working in the store of Lar
ry Timmons.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Black visit
ed relatives in Wilmington last
week.
William Clendaniel is visiting
friends in Prime Hook this week.
Mrs. Nora Massey and son, Bur-
ton, visited Mrs. Vernon Burton in
Long Neck on Thursday.
Mrs. Horace Pettyjohn and chill
dren, Miss Sarah Donovan and
Ralston Webb, of near George
town, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Marvin Wiley.
Mrs. Lester Short spent the
weekend with relatives in Hur-
lock, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper Green and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Ambustin
and son, of Wilmington, Mr.. and
Mrs. Willard Clifton and Mr.. John
Brittingham, of Milton, spent Sum
day on Breadkiln Beach.
Mrs. Anna Manship Boyce and
sister, Mrs. George Weidemann
have been spending few days in
Milton and Rehoboth.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06
BLANCHARD'S STATION

Mrs. Bertha Farley and mother,
Mrs. Martin, and Richard Owens of
Philadelphia, have been recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Elwell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Mcdowell of
Philadelphia, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
]. e. Lloyd here over Decoration
Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jenson and
son of Merchantville, N. j., were
here from Decoration Day until
Sunday as guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fritz Zott and family, also Mr.. and
Mrs. Darwin Savage and children
of fredericksburg, Md, were guests
OF their parents during the week.
end.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Scott and
children of Chester, visited their
parents on Decoration Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Zott visited
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Zott last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Elwell and
mother spent Sunday afternoon at
Rehoboth Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Harmon and
son motored up to Barratt's Chapel
last Sunday.
Walter Duke, a national guards
man of Fort DUPONT, spent the week
end here with his mother.
Several of our folks of the COM
attended Greenwood class
night exercises of the 1941 gradu-
ates in the school auditorium on
Tuesday evening, June 8, at 5
o'clock.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06

Sunday evening in the school au-
ditorium with DIR. Hallman of Mt.
Olive Church, delivering the SER
mon on Nursery Rhymes" Rev.
Lawrence A. Thomas of the First
Baptist Church, Rev. John L. John
son and Rev. r. Y. Barber of All
Saints Episcopal Church, assisted.
Commencement exercises for the
Maryland school will be held on
Thursday evening in the Delmar
Theatre, with DR.. VIM. B. Lower,
pastor of the Holy Trinity Presby-
terian Church of Philadelphia, de-
livering the address.
The Delaware schools commence
ment will be held on Friday eve
ming in the school auditorium, with
Bishop Arthur r. .McKinstry, of
Wilmington, Bishop of the Delaware
Diocese of the P. e. Church, as the
principal speaker.
The new bridge across Leonard's
Pond, 3 miles south of Delmar, on
u. S. Route 13 is almost completed
and work has been started on the
approaches. Each lane will be 30
feet wide. When the two spans are
completed, one of the most dang
erous 3-S of a mile section on the
route from Wilmington to Cape
Charles will have been eliminated,
including four dangerous curves
and a narrow 20 foot bridge over
the dam.
The congregation of the First
Methodist Church rendered their
new pastor. Rev. John L. Johnson
and Mrs. Johnson reception on
evening in the social hall
of the church.
Miss Clara Belle Hearn who has
been seriously ill in the Peninsula
General Hospital, Salisbury for
several weeks, has returned home,
greatly improved.
Mrs. w. Henry Draper spent the |
past week with her son, William
Draper and family at White Plains,
N. Y.
Franklin Waller has accepted a
position with the. Newport News
Furniture Company. in Newport
News, Va. and will move their on
July l. |
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06
DELMAR

Students in the senior class oi
the Delaware High School, spent
three days of last week in Wash
ington, d. c. They were accompan-
led by Francis E. Nunvar, history
instructor and Mrs. Nunvar.
Seventy-five students in the Del
mar (Delaware) school, who have
had perfect attendance during the
past school year were guests of the
Delmar Theatre Saturday after
noon to see western Union"
Carroll Scott Barr of Wilmington
spent the weekend here with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Barr,
Sr.
Twenty-four students in the Del
mar (Maryland) High School have
been awarded certificates for hav-
ing completed the Safety Through
Education Course that has been
taught in the school by Maryland
State Police Sergeant Charles =.
Minnick.
Mrs. George Parsons, who has
been visiting relatives here for
some time, has returned to her
home at Port Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. Leslie Barker and Mrs. Car.
rie Kitchens have gone to Rehoboth
for the summer.
Marian B. Sherwood is suffering
with an infected leg.
All local stores in Delmar will
close, every Wednesday afternoon
at one o'clock during June, July
and August.
The marriage of Miss Leila May
Jones of Stanton, to Preston Mills,
foster son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. =.
Wootten of this town, which took
place on May % at the home of Rev.
Lawrence A. Thomas, pastor of the
Delmar First Baptist Church, has
just been announced. Mr.. Mills is
a graduate of the Maryland High
School and is professional jockey.
The newly-weds will make their
home in Chicago.
Miss Eugenia Ann Venables,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Venables, of this town, and Norman
e. Hancock, of Portsmouth, Va, son
of Mrs. Cleora Hancock and the
late ]. M. Hancock, of Salisbury,
were married last Friday evening
in the First Methodist parsonage in
Delmar, with the Rev. John L.
johnson, pastor, officiating.
Miss Doris Venables, sister of
the bride, and Walter A. Long, of
Portsmouth, were the only attend
ants. Mr.. and Mrs. Hancock are
graduates of the Maryland High
School and Mr.. Hancock is associ-
ated with Proctor and Gamble Com
pany in Portsmouth. Following a
wedding trip they will reside at
1888 Broad street, Portsmouth.
Baccalaureate services for the
21 graduates of the Maryland
school were held in the First Meth
odist Church Sunday morning with
Rev. John L. johnson, pastor, de-
lIvering the sermon, True Great
ness"
Services for the 10 graduates of
the Delaware School were held on |
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06
Choral Society
To Give Concert
june Tenth
tcOntInued from first Fasei

NON@st.tN~A
Fifty per cent of the proceeds OF
this concert will be given to the
ffremen raising funds for rural
water tank truck. Tickets are be-
ing sold by firemcn, members OF
Choral Society, at Stidham's s
Store, Garrett GTier's store and
Humes Hardware and at the door
at soc each.
Members of the fire company will
usher, and acting as hostesses will
be: Mrs G. Marshall Townsend
Mrs. John B. Baker, Mrs. Thomas
Davis, Mrs. James Humes, Miss
Sara e. Grier, Mrs. Frank NAPLES,
Miss Cornelia Cannon. Miss Doro-
thy DerTickson, Mrs. Lester Ad-
kins.
The purchase of ticket will not
only give the purchaser pleasure
but will assist the worthy efforts
of both firemen and choral group.
The program follows:
salutation fchoral Prolegue)
Gaines
The Heavens Are Telling, Beetho-
ven
Milford Choral Society
Dawn .........,....... CuIrdh
Shortenin' Bread .......... Wolfe
Robert w. Rudolph
Beautiful Dreamer ...... Foster
Soon-a VIII Be Done Negro
Spiritually ........ Dawson
Milford Choral Society
Sc Quidilla from Carmen, Bizet
Whilst Du Dein Herr Mir Schenken,
Bach
Mattinata ........... Leoncauaho
Joseph Lanzillotti, violinist
Miss Jane Terry, Accompanist
The Chudder Weaver =. Robinson
My Lady Walks in LONELINESS,
Charles
Mrs. Irene Nelson
Psalm $50 ................ Franck
Group Singing:
a. Carry Me Back to Old Virgfnny
b. The Bells of St. Marys
America Marches On" Anonymous
a. Columbia the Gem ef.the Ocean
b. Reading, America" from
Symphony America" by
Block
c. Color Guard of United States
Army
d. God Bless America, Berlin
e. Reading, Americas Greed,
Browning
(. The Star-Spangled Banner,
Key
Milford Choral Society
The members of Choral Society
participating are as follows:
First Sopranes: Mrs. Wallace
Burn, Mrs. Irwin Bowman, Miss
Betty Cox, Mrs. James Deputy,
Mrs. Alfonso Humes, Miss Florence
Horn, Mrs. Postles Hammond, Mrs.
Francis Short, Mrs. George Smith,
Mrs. John Tease, Miss Florence
Tease, Mrs. A. C. Houston, Mrs.
Curtis Vinyard, Miss Margaret Hart,
Miss Isabelle Kinks, Miss Eleanor
Mcknight, Mrs. Sadie Wright, Mrs
Watson Shew, Mrs. Ruth Nemish,
Miss Charlotte Ryder, Miss Marie
Rogers. Miss Dorothy Kitchens,
Mrs. Joseph Gerow.
Second Sopranos-Miss Sarah
Short, Mrs. Floyd Williams, Mrs.
Dallas Dennes, Mrs. Chester Straup,
Mrs. Davis Grier.
Tenors-Wallace McFaul, Alton
SO Humes, Edward Trice, William
Everheart, Edward Everheart. Cur
tis williams, Robert Kinsley, Floyd
Williams, Howard Galloway.
Bassos-Herbert Nichols, James
Cresson, Douglas Fry, Irwin Bow
man, Edward Salevan, John Ham
mond, Oscar D. Nemish, Kennerly
Lambert, Roland Dunn, Chester
Straup, Joseph Thomas.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06

morale of patients in hospitals, and
at other posts of duty. This is a
task that was undertaken during
the World War in 1918, and which
has been developed until 1t is a
very important part of the volun-
teer responsibilities of the Red
Cross at home and in foreign fields.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06
ELLENDALE MAN JAILED
ONER. TIPSY DRIVING FINE

Lee Rogers. Of Ellendale. was
arrested Sunday by Highway Off
Ger Raymond Keelins on a charge
of driving car while under influ-
ence of liquor. Given hearing be-
fore Magistrate w. Elwood Wright
at Georgetown, he was committed
to the Sussex county Jail for 80
days in default of payment of a
fine of 500 and costs.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-06

The people are willing to holler
for the home town when it is rep
resented by a ball team, but are
they willing to holler for it when
it comes to persuading people that
it is a good place to live in?
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-20

the present emergency as rubber
blanket that 1t stretches to cover
all sorts of projects. The Florida
ship canal has bobbed up again,
this time as defense project. 1t
was generally believed that when
Congress several years back attach
ed a rider to an appropriation bill
prohibiting the further wasting of
money on this impractical scheme
the ghost had been laid for all time,
after spending seven million dollars
on It.
This particular project is not
popular in that part of Florida
through which it would run. The
people down there fear that If the
canal is cut through 1t will ruin the
water tables for the southern port
ion of the state and bring ruin to
the thousands in that area who de-
pend upon the soil for a livelihood.
The joke of the whole thing Is
that it would take almost as long
for big ship to pass through the
proposed canal as to travel around
the Keys. Surely the President can
find projects upon which to spend
money that are much more necess-
ary and worthwhile.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-20
Announces Crop and
Feed Loans Available

Edward I. Rucki, the local Coun-
ty Field Supervisor for the Elmer
gency Crop and Feed Loan Office
Of the Farm Credit Administra-
ton, announces crop and feed loans
are now available to all farmers in
the State of Minnesota. Mr.. Rue
XII has just returned to his terri
tory after having spent few days
at his Regional Office in Saint
Paul, where he attended a joint
meeting of all Field Supervisors
in the States of North Dakota,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan. According to Mr.. Rucki, the
Saint Paul office of the Emergency
Crop and Feed Loan Office Of the
Farm Credit Administration serves
these four states and has made
more than 100000 loans to farm
ers since crop and feed loans were
authorized. Applications for these
loans can now be made at the
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan
Office.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-20
Thursday, February 20, 1941

Mr.. Rucki Is quoted as saying
that crop and feed loans for 1871
are now available to all eligible
farmers in Stearns County and that
applications for these loans can
now be made at the Court House
in st. Cloud. As In former years,
funds appropriated for the Emer-
gency Crop and Feed Loan Office
Of the Farm Credit Administrator
are available for crop production
purposes, including the purchase Of
seed, gas and oil, feed for work
stock, and minor repairs to ma
chinery, to all farmers who cannot
obtain a loan from other sources
and who meet the requirements by
giving a first lien on the 1941 crops
financed. Loans are also available
for the purchase or production Of
feed for livestock. AS security for
this type Of loan, a first lien on
the livestock to be fed is required.
In order to speed up the taking
Of applications, Mr.. Rucki requests
that farmers go to the Soil Con-
servation Office or the County
treasurer's office prepared to give
the following information:
Cd Description Of land farmed.
ca Proposed 1941 planting pro-
gram.
1941 crop and feed loans will
bear interest at the rate Of per-
cent from the date of disburse-
ment.
Applications are also being taken
at the present time in all counties
of Minnesota, and, according to Mr..
Rucki, in order to be eligible to
make an application for loan in
Stearns County, an applicant must
be of legal age and farm in Stearns
County.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-20
"HELLO" GIRLS
DON UNIFORMS

Military influence, expected to
affect much of feminine wear this
year, stalked into the offices of
the Northwestern Bell Telephone
Company this week. The operators,
known in their own bailiwick as
the "hello" girls, came to work on
Monday morning in uniforms. They
FASTENED to assure questioners that
they had not been indicted into
army training. The uniform dress,
tailored in the blue of the sys-
TENS traffic department, sports a
pocket of the Bell system emblem
Night operators, by mutual consent
and planning, wear them. Chief
operator Lulu Kriesel said she be-
lieved there were few If any other
exchanges where operators were
uniformly dressed. Proud Of their
acquisition of a possible first
in the company, girls quipped they
were in the Service"