Milford chronicle., 1953-09-25
CENTURY MARK

CENTURY MARK
With this issue the Milford Chronicle
closes its seventy-ffth year of continuous
publication as a local newspaper in the City
of Milford. In the three-quarters of Cen
turv lust closed the Chronicle has been under
the direct management and control Of
father and son combination From it's found
ing in October 1878 to February 1910, the
late Colonel Theodore Townsend guided its
deStinieS. On LincOn's Birthday 1910, &.
Marshall Townsend took over the manage
ment of this newspaper and printing buSi-
ness. A third generation of TOWnsends en-
tered the picture in 1889 when Theodore
Townsend, 2nd upon his graduation from
the University of Delaware, affiliated with
the organization. He is now in charge of
the plant and the business management OF
the Milford Chronicle Publishing Company,
of which he is Secretary and Treasurer.
From a fOur-page paper IN October 4,
1878, the Chronicle has grown in 1858 to
be one of the Nations largest ard leading
rural newspapers. 1t has attained this posi-
ton among the 10000 weekly newspapers
through persistent effort and hard work to
give our readers the best newspaper pOss-
ibe for Milford, Kent and Sussex Counties.
The announced aim of the management
of the Chronicle in 1878 was to supply as
much as possible of the local news of Mil
ford, Kent and Sussex Counties and the
State of Delaware This pledge of seventy
five years ago has been faithfully followed
each issue 1t has been the aim of the pub
fishers during the three-quarters of a CEN
tury just passed to produce newspaper
which can be accepted into every home at
all times. 1t has been our policy to play
down crime, and to ignore gossip and vision
ary or misleading statements, dozens of
which we receive each week. 1t has been
our continuous effort to give truthful re-
ports of the happenings Of our community
and those communities which we serve.
Starting with few more than one
thousand subscribers on the first Friday of
October 1878, the Chronicles circulation has
steadily increased until at the present over
5000 copies are delivered throughout our
territory each issue. The news and adver-
tising coverage has kept pace with the cir
culation growth Within recent years the
Milford Chronicle has been rated high
among the Nations leading weekly news
papers.
The Chronicle has given increasingly bet
ter service for business interests, for moral
welfare, for higher standard of civic con-
duct, both in Milford and throughout the
state. We take pride in our part in making
Milford better place in which to live, enjoy
peace, happiness and prosperity. The ChrOn-
icle ends the three-quarterS of a century
with the knowledge that we have done much
for our community. A very large share of
the credit goes to each and every one of our
loyal employees who have worked hard over
the years to produce worthwhile newSpa-
per. We start the last quarter of the cen
tury next week with the hope that this per-
iod will be one of wonderful developments
that the terrifying world tensions may ease
quickly and that this newspaper shall con.
tinue to fill it's niche in Delaware with honor
to itself and benefit to all our citizens
With malice towards none and a desire
that the future shall see the great mora
questions solved for the welfare of all, we
look confidently to the future. In all hu
man probability the writer will not b.
around to enjoy our One Hundredth Ami
VerSary. But we are sure that the younger
men now in positions of trust and respOn
Sibility with the Chronicle will look will
pleasure and satisfaction on their accom-
plishments during the next twenty-five
years. just as does the writer as he near
the fOrty-fOurth anniversary Of his steward
ship.
AS we end our Three Quarters of a Cen
tury, we thank each and every reader am
advertiser, whose loyalty over the years ha
made our growth possible.
, G. Marshall Townsend, Editor of the Nil
ford Chronicle and President of the Mif6r
Chronicle Publishing Company; Robert H
Yerkes, Managing Editor of the MifOr
Chronicle; Theodore Townsend, Bushes
Manager and Plant Superintendent, and Sec
retary and Treasurer of the Company
and Virginia Salevan Townsend, Society Ed
tor of the Milford Chronicle and Vice Pres
dent of the Milford Chronicle Publishin
Company, join in pledging their continue
efforts to give Milford the best newspape
possible. 1t is our hope that when jaime
Marshall Townsend, who was christened las
Sunday at the Avenue Methodist ChurcI
attains manhood he will be thoroughly pr