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Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
OVERLOOK

Mrs. Clara Sharp and Miss Bes
sic Ellingsworth called ON Mr.. ant
Mrs. William Warren in Rehobotl
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Sharp il
Lewes on Wednesday.
Mrs. Minnie Alexander of Ches.
ter spent the past week with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wash Nit.
chell. Mrs. Mitchell has been SER
iously ill, but is improving at this
writing.
Don't forget the quarterly meet
ing at the Nassau parsonage on
Saturday morning at 10 a. m. A
good attendance is desired.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Chapel en-
tertained to turkey dinner on Sat
urday, December 27, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Hastings and three sons,
James, David and Robert, Mr.. and
Mrs. Coral Davidson and daugh-
ter, Miss Dorothy and Thelma Dodd
of near Lewes, Mrs. Stella johnson
and Mrs. Minnie Davidson.
Elisha Campbell and son Lee of
Wilmington called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Campbell on Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Coral Davidson and
daughter, Mary Virginia, were dim
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent
White on Sunday, December rs.
Mrs. Maggie White spent a few
days in Lewes with her sister, Mrs.
Fredona Lofland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Campbell
entertained to a turkey dinner OH
December 2S, George Rust. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Mason. all of Har-
beson, Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilson
and Mrs. Susie Stokley of near
Lewes, Mr.. and Mrs. Minos Como
way, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy King and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hitch of this
place.
Sunday school next Sunday NOR
ming at 10 a. M, followed by class
meeting at II o'clock by the lead
er, Mr.. Brittingham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Kitchens
to turkey dinner on
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Hit
chens and daughter Jean of Phila-
delphia, Mrs. Hettie Jester of
GtOlSClOhnS WI anu MA o. liCOdOlC
Wilson and son Gerald, Mrs. Doro-
thy Kitchens and two children, Jun
ior and Mary Ann, all of Milford.
Rev: and Mrs. Richard Green of
spent Monday with Mr..
and Mrs. Nina Green,
INLAND Davidson who has en-
pIoyment in shipyard in Phila-
ielphia. spent few days in Christ
mas with his family here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Warrington
to a turkey dinner on
Day, Mrs. Rattle Lofiand
and Mrs. Alta Bearr of Milford, Mr..
and Mrs. Clinton Lofiand of Will
nington and Paul Vincent and Mrs. /
Della Hazard of Milton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hill and .
laughter of York, Pa, spent Mon
lay in Christmas with the for
ner's mother, Mrs. Matilda Hill.
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
DELMAR

Mr.. and Mrs. George Short of
Lowell, Mass, are visiting rela-
tives here.
At special installation service
held Sunday evening, the officers
of the Fellowship Bible Glass of
the First Methodist Church, Del
mar, were installed by F. E. Nehf,
president of the State Federation of
Mems Bible Glasses. Those INSTALL
ed were: President, G. M. Nelson;
vice presidents, j. w. Slacum and
P. X. Ellis; secretary, M. B. Sher-
wood; assistant secretary, ]. H.
Hastings; treasurer, J. E. Sturgis;
assistant treasurer, A. w. Ellis; Ii
brarian, c. v. Steininger.
A special program had been ar
ranged by A. A. Waller, chairman
of program committee.
R. B. Wilkinson, song leader, and
a special committee consisting of
F. M. Wright, and v. ]. Carmine.
The main address was delivered
by Carroll E. Bounds of Salisbury,
prominent layman of Trinity
Church, Of Salisbury, and an at
torney-at-law. S. N. Phillips, out
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
The. Nation Of Kickers

Kicking has always been favor
ite sport of the American people
1t seems to give them solid COM
fort to get together and declaim
about the alleged abuses from
which they suffer. Having got
these grievances off their chests
they throw themselves into their
enjoyments with zest which sug-
gests that they are as a whole a
happy lpeople.
Foreevery one who really does
something about the real or alleged
wrongs, and tries 10 remove them,
there are probably so who never
take any active steps themselves. to
right the conditions of which they
complain.
Kicking is not wholly futile.
Some countries need to do more
kicking. In Germany the people
blindly accept whatever outrages
the government puts over on them.
Circles of kickers gathered in
every haunt and home would create
public sentiment against such
things, and many of these wrongs
would be righted. So our nation
of kickers in America produce
some result with their groaning.
Public officials make efforts to re-
lieve the troubles with which peo-
pie find fault. .
In a time like the present. when
the leaders of the nation have a
task laid on them demanding al
most superhuman ability, kicking
is overdone:: 1t has the effect to
spread encouragement and pessi-
mism. A country where these emo
tions spread is not so likely to be a
victorious nation.
So the American people would
do well to adjourn their chronic
kicking until after the war. They
have the right to criticize when
things are wrong. but such COM
plants should be made in a reason- ,
able manner, and not so as to dis
courage the nation. What we want |
in war time is hope. optimism, and
energy. If people feel they should
kick, let them make their COM
plants ina constructive way, in
quarters where they will do good,
and not where they will spread any
of defeatism.
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
Marriage in War Time

Life is far from easy and simple
for the young people in these times.
gaAfter 10years of worrying whether
the world would shut its doors of
opportunity to them, they now find
Fmany new doors opening. But one
of those doors is the dark, forbid
ding, and sinister entrance to war
Many of the young men have to go
in that door. The girls who are left
behind have many pangs.
In Europe the effect on many
was to induce them to get married
right away quick. Many of them
felt they wanted some taste of the
fun and happiness of marriage,
and they would better make sure
of that for a few days or weeks,
and let the future take care of
itself. In many cases the future
was not able to take care of itself,
and some of these hasty unions
came to grief.
A hasty marriage is usually a
doubtful one. There are many peo-
pie who seem very bright and nice
on first acquaintance, as you see
them at the parties and in loving
scenes of courtship, but some
harsh claws can be concealed
Under soft kitteny fur.
The girl whose suitor is called
for military service should ask her.
self how it will be, in case they are
married, if a baby is born to them.
Will she be able to continue work
ing, or can the husband support
them from his pay as a soldier, or
will government aid be sufficient?
There may be days of poverty
ahead, with inadequate care of the
wife and the little one, if these
resources are not sufficient.
Wars do not last many years.
The clouds will roll away. The
young people would better wait
few years than make a match if
they feel any doubt about it. If
their love has proved itself deep
and lasting, the world will give
them its heartiest good wishes, if
they say the fateful VOWS.
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
CANNON

Miss Stella Hudson, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. E. w.
Short and family, has returned to
her home in Philadelphia.
James Wootten and family, of
Delmar, visited his mother, Mrs.
Verda Wootten, on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Holt and Mrs.
Lea Allen visited Mr.. Joe Allen,
who is in the Delaware Hospital,
Wilmington. On Sunday Mrs. Holt
has been staying with Mrs. Allen
a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Russell
visited Mr.. and Mrs. John Cannon
Saturday evening. Mr.. Claudel
Cannon, of Washington, and Mr..
and Mrs. Ed. Williams, near Wes-
ley, visited Edw. Cannon on Fri
day evening.
Charles Trivitts spent a few days
in Wilmington last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Trivitts en-
tertained at family dinner on
Thursday.
Sewell Noble visited friends in
Cannon on Thursday afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
Making Business Grow

There are many factors which
make business grow, such as the
offering of good values and service,
honest dealing, and so on. To give
business real push, it is also de-
sirable to advertise. A business
may be ever so faithful and reliable
but if it is not brought before pub
lie attention by advertising. it does
not get the recognition it might
have. Newcomers do not know
about its old reputation, and it
constantly loses out by the rivalry
of more aggressive competitors.
If a business advertises regu-
larly, everyone knows about its
offerings, and people arei constant
ly running to such a Store to see
what it has to sell, and what the
advertised goods look like. A we'll
advertised store should grow three
times as fast as one that is not
advertised. t...tt o"t
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
Love For The Home Town

The people are urged to love
their country. They should do so.
They should also feel a deep love
for their home town. There they
have received many benefits, they
have profited by its advantages and
institutions, and its business enter
prise. The things done for the
town by present and former resi-
dents have given us all pleasure
and satisfaction, and the comforts
of home and a chance to work.
We should feel grateful to the COM
munity that has done these things
for us.
If we have a proper feeling of
gratitude, we shall want to make
some return for these benefits. A
good way to make that return is
to buy our things at home, and to
join and work in the organizations
formed to promote useful purposes
in our community.
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
ANNOUNCEMENT

am taking this manner in announcing my
Candidacy for the Mayor of Milford.
have assumed this position by being impOr-
tuned by many who have the real welfare of this
Commonwealth at heart
II, elected, I will try to serve as have done in
the past the interest of the Taxpayers, and Public,
as whole.
My only purpose is to give Milford to the best
of my ability an administration such as the ma jOr-
ity Of its citizens desire.
Pressed by the present great demands for
Emergency Defense Work. it will be impossible for
me to engage in an Elective Campaign, and am
leaving my cause with those, who l believe, are
interested in Clean, Honest and Sound Government.
EDWARD C.. EVANS
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
LINCOLN

Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Morris held
"Open house" Saturday evening
when relatives and friends visited
them and helped celebrate the
Christmas season and also Mrs.
Morris birthday. Those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Friedel, of
Seaford; Miss Floss Milbourne,
Bethel; Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Isaacs
and family, Mr.. Minos Isaacs and
family. Mr.. and Mrs. R. d. Isaacs
and family, Miss Mahala Isaacs of
Greenwood, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ham,
mOnd Bennett and daughter, of
Milford.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Donovan
entertained their family at dinner
on Sunday. Those partaking of the
feast were Mrs. A. B. Donovan, Mr..
and Mrs. William Donovan, Mrs.
Birdie Truitt, Mrs. Jay Abbott,
Mrs. Virgie Isaacs. Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Coverdale, Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald Morgan, Miss Myrtle Cow
erdale, Eleanor Nailor, Donald
Coverdale. Ernest Fitzgerald, Mar
vim, Alvin and Leon Transeau.
William Martin, Jr., spent a
part of last week with relatives i'm
Baltimore, Md.
Recent dinner guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Coverdale
were Mrs. Roy Deats and children,
Barbara, Ralph and Shirley, of
Smyrna; Mrs. Nan Cooper and Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Coverdale.
Mrs. Matte Greenly and grand
daughter, Natalie Turpin. attended
the New Years celebration in
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Swain and
children, Walter and Joan, and
George Morrison visited the lat
ter's daughter and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. David Maull, at Lewes, OH
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eurie NJ. Donovan
entertained the following. guests at
a dinner ON Sunday: Mr.. and Mrs.
Davis Donovan and children, Billy
and Bobby, of Louisville, KY; Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Cardwell and
children, Roland and Edith, of
Wilmington. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Donovan.
Mrs. Cora Weatherly, of Oneonta,
N. Y, is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Weatherly.
Congratulations are being eX-
tended to Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Benson on the birth of a. son, born
in the Milford Memorial Hospital,
Thursday, January 1. The new ar
rival has been named Martin. Both
mother and son are doing fine.
Mrs. Matte Roach has returned
home from a two weeks visit with
relatives in Camden and Woodbury.,
N. J.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. C. Brenneman
spent the weekend holidays with
relatives in York, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Shockley, |
of Lincoln, entertained at a turkey
dinner on Sunday, December 2S,
the following guests: Mr.. and Mrs.
Davis Farens, Daniel Shockley, of |
Slaughter Neck; Mr.. and Mrs. Veirl
Webb and children. Charlotte and |
Milton Fletcher, Mr.. and Mrs. |
Evans Morgan and son Elwood, Mr.. |
and Mrs. Dias Spicer and son Ray
mond, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Webb,
Walter Webb and children, Jessie
and Jeanette of Glendale; Mr.. |
and Mrs. Harold Shockley and
children, Davis and Mabel Ann, Or
vile and Harvey Shockley, of Lin
coin.
Following the school session on
Sunday morning, the annual cleo .
tion of officers for ensuing year
will take place.
Services for Sunday, Jan. II:
Morning Worship 10 o'clock.
Church School II A. M.
Epworth League 7:30 P. M.
Preaching at 500 P. M.
NECK
Church School 2 P. M.
Afternoon Worship 8 o'clock.
Rev. ThOS b. RrintOn nastOr
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09

A TOWN HAS TO USE its own
resources if it is to make progress.
One of its principal resources is
the purchasing power of its peo-
pie. When the people go away
from home to buy things, a good
part of the towns resources and
possible development is lost.
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09

Mr.. and Mrs. John Wolfe called on
MIR. and Mrs. John Macklin on Sat-
urday afternoon.
Mrs lTrisby Kirby was A. guest OF
Mrs George Bond on Wednesday eve
Have you read some in your Bible
today?
"Thy word is lamp unto my feet"
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
MILFORD NECK
Milford Neck Methodist Church
Rev. Harry II. connor, Pastor
Sunday Innt1nrV II

8ouiiutys .JunutiIy II
1880 p. m. Sunday school II. \.
Thompson. superintendent. Come and
enjoy the study of the lesson under
competent teaching.
2:30 y. IN. Sermon hy the pastor
Gladness i'm Service: Serve the Lord
with gladness. Enter into His gates
with thanksgiving, and into His courts
with praise: be thankful unto Him. and
bless His name, For the Lord is good. "
Psalm 1902. T..
All the churches in the conference
are asked to contribute toward the
reopening of the Dover College for
Youth. The quota being determined
ON basis. according to pastors sal
ary. The amount specified for Milford
Neck Church is 50. They ask that this
amount he raised this Sunday. January
II. Please give as the Lord enables
you.
The Ladies' Aid will meet in the
church this Friday evening. January
., at 1880 o'clock. A good attendance
is desired. Mrs. James Webb. presi-
dent, presiding. go
Mrs. Edwin Short spent Friday af-
ternoon with her mother, Mrs. Wilbur
Galloway of Frederica.
. Mrs. G. Fl. Nutter and daughter
Sara of Milford. visited Mrs. George
Bond on Monday evening.
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
ANNOUNCEMENT

l am a candidate for councilman
from the Third Ward. The support
of all voters in this ward VIII pc
greatly appreciated.
j9-2tp EARLE F. WORTHlNGTON
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09

A PERSON WHO DOES not work
fairly hard to build up his own
business, is not likely to have any
great success. So if we put in NO
solid work on building up the
home town, it will not probably &c
ahead very fast.
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09
DICED T7f7OOG6
A RETRACTION

The Chronicle is in receipt o.
the following letter from Daniel ]
Layton, Jr., Attorney General fol
Sussex county, relative to an ar.
ticle appearing in the January Enc
issue of the Chronicle pertaining
to the police investigation of Dora
Tyndall of Rehoboth:
Georgetown, Delaware
January 6, 1912
The Milford Chronicle
Milford, Delaware
Gentlemen
My attention has recently been
called to an article contained in
your January issue relative to
the police investigation of Dora
Tyndall of Rehoboth. l have care
fully read the quotation, alleged to
be mine, which commences with the
fifth paragraph of your article and
continues through the ninth para
graph. / do not know where you
got the information contained in
this quotation, but l am sure that
no reporter representing the Mil
ford Chronicle has ever been given
a quotation by me, nor has any
other reporter or representative of
a newspaper been given this or any
similar quotation by me, and mas
much as the facts set out in this
quotation contains hardly a par
ticle of truth, herewith call upon
you to publish a retractment not
only of the quotation but of the
fact that it is supposed to be a
quotation.
Very truly yours,
DANIEL J. LAYTON, JR.
The Chronicle is only too glad to
publish the retractment of the quo
tation and of the fact that it is sup
posed to be a quotation.
Milford chronicle., 1942-01-09

DtA1NIIL j. LII O1Nl j N.
The Chronicle is only too glad to
publish the retractment of the quo
tation and of the fact that it is sup
posed to be a quotation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01

pccpStOnc. The missionary and the stone both
agreed she'd find husband too.
She was the next boatload of Mormon con-
NertS that sailed for America and -notonC after
she landed she married one of the Mormon elders
stephen Hunter and rolled across the plains in an
OX-train TO her new home in Salt Lake CITY. A
short time later she discovered her husband had
three other wives besides her.
Now Eilley hadn't seen anything in her peep
stone about playing second fiddle in household of
wives SO she pulled out and got a divorce She
wasn't footloOse long. Her next husband was Alex
Cowan. He was Mormon, too but so poor he
couldn't afford more than one wife Eillev figured
he was pretty safe gamble.
When Brigham Young the leader of the Nor
mons, decided TO set up a colony in the western
part Of his domain the section that later became
Nevada, the Cowans were in the bunch chosen to
90. That suited Eillcy. The pccpstonc still showed
alg pile OF gold somcplace in her life She figured
tins was a move in the right direction.
In a couple of years the Mormon settlers were
called back home again
Go right ahead. Alex she told her husband
I'm stayn here He'd been a washout as a hus-
band anyway
About that time Old Pancake. Pete O'Rilev.
Pat Mclaughlin, and Old Virginia the fellows I
told you about last week were digging from one
spot TO another up the mountainsde getting traces
of color here and there, like dog tracking Jack
rabbit.
There were lot of other fellows prospecting.
too, so Eley opened up cook shack to feed them.
They all liked her She was plain as an old spade
out mighty good cook. And she had heart as
big as the mountain they were digging in. | reckon
that why she queen of the lode to all of them
Nobody ever went away from Eilley DRUMS rough
table hungry II she could scrape up anything for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01
EilIcy Drum and the Pccpston

I'h'N OTTuIn ana the IcCpStOnc,
TlLLEY ORRUM cut swath through the Old
West that it didn't forget for long time. She
started out in life squirting into a pcepstone
and spent her last days doing the same thing. Be
fore she took her last look she saw a lot.
Now peepstone is very ancient thing used in
dlVlnaton. The old Gaels priced them highly pass
ing them down from mother TO daughter or from
lather TO son, as the might be
A peepstone is a chunk of quartz or agate or
crystal-Sometmes roughly shaped and polished
ana lhe SoothSaycr, or server as they used to be
called looked INTO 1t and saw visions like the mod
ern crystaga looks into crystal ball The
ancents believed the ability TO see the future in
pcepstonc was partly due To the magic properties
OF the stone and partly TO the peculiar gift of the
soothsaycr
The first time Eillcy Drum pccrcd into the
peepstone she Just slip of girl skipping
over the moorS of Scotland She always said she
could see her future in it. She saw a great noun
tam OF gold for one thing and that she was going
10 be great lady and rich one. too, honorcd by
kings and kowtoWcd 90 by lot of common folks
sure enough, before Eillcy Orrum looked into it for
the last time Just about everything she saw came
true, but there were some mighty tough DAYS the
stone didn't show
Soon after Old Pancake and his cronies pried
the Id of the COmstock Lode. the biggest pile of
silver and gold the country eve. had seen Fillev
Orrum, scooplng up money SO fast she couldn't
count IT. was the Queen of the Comstock" Eillev
had jumped onto her whirng wheel of fortune and
spun TO the top But the next turn took her down
with 1t Just Ike II did plenty OF others in those DAYS
OF round-trlp rides from poverty 20 riches
About all she had left out of the wreckage was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01

TUST about eighty-two years ago the first of
j the daring Pony Express riders put spurs to
his horse and dashed away in a cloud of alkali
dust on the first lap of the gruellng 1000 miles Of
wild and woody West with it's bad Indians out
laws, mountain Billiards, raging streams sitting
deserts and wilderness that lay between the Missis-
sippi and California
1t was the beginning of the era OF the gambler
and the hurdy gurdy girl, the badman and the gun
fighting marshal who biazed their way with six
shooters through the hell-roaring frontier camps
About the only law was coiled in a rope on Vigi-
lante's saddle
The story of those coorful, dramatic days has
been written for readers of The American Weekly
by Frank Murphy, who roamed our last frontier
TOR more than half century cowboy. Indian
scout freighter and buffalo hunter when there
was no Sunday west of Kansas City and no God
west OF Fort Smith"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01

mat S all right, Eli
ley used to say. II amt turnin' nobody away.
know you'll pay when you get it,"
or course, every time prospector found little
gold in the bottom of his pan he staked out
claim. Everybody had claims all over the place.
One day miner who'd been down on his luck
for quite awhile came to her
Mrs Cowan," he said, I'm pullin out Coin
back to Caforny. Can't pay what l owe yuh for
board but I'll give yuh tn ten feet l staked out
up tn canyon"
'Thatll square it in full" Eey smiled 'but
wouldn't go way. | been lookn in my pcepstone
Th boys are gittin' closer to it every day"
The hard-luck boarder went on his way. never
theless, wondering what anybody could see looking
into a chunk of glass.
But most Of the miners were supcrstitious A
lot of them would follow voices listen TO the wild
est sort of tales about places where you could scoop
up gold with a shovel. When they heard about
Eiley's peepstone they started asking her for adj
vice
Il can see you're gittin' closer" she'd tell EN-.
Then after long squirt in the stone: I'D work
little more to tn north"
They took her advice and a few days later they
hit the rich ledge.
Now one of Eilleys star boarders was Sandy
Bowers, a Scotchman of about her own age He
was red-bearded bull-whacker who'd driven an
oX-team across the Overland Trail and caught the
gold fever when he hit Nevada Sandy owned the
ten feet next to the claim Elcy took for the board
bill
He began to hang around the cook shack, chin
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01

Then spake the miner from the East.
Il am a wretChcd man.
For lust of gold hath Iurcd me 10
The shovel and the pan
/ saw, in dreams, a pile of gold
It's dazzling radiance pour:
No more my-visions are of gold,
Alas! my hopes are ore.
Thrice have left this cursed spot,
Bur mine is was 10 learn
The fatal truth, that dust we are.
To dust we shall return.
SO, here condemned. by Fares unkird,
rock elusive sand.
And dream of waiting babes at home,
Unrocked, an orphan band"
The Miner Progress.