Milford chronicle., 1948-12-03
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Taken from the 1918 Files Of
the Milford Chrpnicle

The Milford Public Schools start
ed out with a full complement Of
teachers, but Prof. Nickle was Offer
ed several hundred dollars per wear
more by a school in New Jersey. and
so he resigned his position in Mil
ford and took the better paving
place. 1t is the same old story everv-
Where throughout the country. Rev.
n. L. Bunstein, the president of the
Board of Education in Milford. Is
nlIing the position at the present
time and will continue to do SO until
another principal can be secured.
he school question is one which
must engross public attention. and
especially the attention of the Iegis-
lature during its. session during this
winter
MlltOnians ought to have cause
tOr rejoicing, not only on account OF
the happy termination of the war
out because we have electric lights
burning by day as we'll as by night.
Obstacles in the way Of the build
ing OF the I. Coleman dupont BOuIe-
ward in Delaware were wiped ont
last week when the Supreme Court
OF the United States dismissed the
suit OF Paul Appentzeller. who
sought to prevent the condemnation
OF land by the road corporation.
1t has been announced that the
pennsylvania Railroad Companv
mas purchased ten acres of land. ad-
joining the tract secured by them
some time ago at Gordon Heights al
wilmington, for their proposed coal
piers, which are to be removed
from Greenwich Point.
The land purchased will enabIc
the company to construct miles of
tracks adjoining the piers and runs
parallel with their present main
line from Gordon Heights to EDGE
moor, where the freight yards are
located. The purchase price was not
announced but the average price per
foot was $12.
There was an alarm IOf fire last
Saturday, which was caused bv a
boy setting fire to some old rags IN
a closet at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. B. Peet, near the Odd Fellows
Cemetery.
Mrs. S. NJ. D. Marshall received a
cable from her husband, Capt. S. NJ.
D. Marshall, to the effect that he had
arrived safely in France. Capt. Mar
shall is with the Base Hospital De-
tachment No. 123.
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Charles D. Stansill, the superin-
tendent Of construction at Fort
Salisbury, left for a ten-day gun
ming trip through Virginia and
South Carolina. A big game supper.
IS expected at the Fort on his re-
turn.
The first airship that ever stopped
at Milford so that the people could
get a closeup view of it, fell lust
east of the home of John Nav
SmOOt, who resides in sight of Mil
ford, on the eastern boundary of the
town on Friday morning last. It was
a visit that the Lieutenant and
Sergeant who were in the airship
do not care to repeat, but who left
Milford expressing appreciation of
the cOurtesies shown them by the
people and with a promise that
should opportunity offer that they
will make call at a later date.
The airship came from Aberdeen.
Nd, and it had gone up for an alti-
tude observation as part Of the days
work. But, after ascending about
l4,6O9 feet into the heavens, the
weather turned cold and engine
trouble followed. This caused them
to descend, but the clouds prevented
them from seeing the earth and in
trying to get a location they drifted
over Milford. In making the landing
what appeared to them to be an
open field the left wing of the ma
chine struck a telephone pole.
breaking the pole off even with the
ground and Wrecking the wing OF
the airship. The Lieutenant was
thrown out and bruised but no
bones were broken. The Sergeant
was scratched about the face and
slightly cut his nose. They notified
the home station at Aberdeen and
on Saturday an auto truck came to
Milford and loaded the airship
upon and left for that nlaee inonna-