Milford chronicle., 1914-02-27
CHRONICLE CARD BASKET
Personal and Social Functions
During the Week

Isaac White of North Walnut Street,
is very i'll with pneumonia.
Miss Jennie Stanton has returned from
a visit to Lewes, Delaware.
Miss Cora Shepherd, of Philadelphia,
visited friends here this week.
Mrs. Mary o. Caulk, of Camden,
Delaware. visited Milford this week.
Miss Minerva Sipple is in Philadelphia
this week buying new spring millinery.
Mrs. William Rathell and children
have been visiting in Denton, Md, this
week.
Miss Lulu Collins spent Monday in
Lincoln as the guest of Miss Mildred
lie Compte.
Mrs. Anna Williams and Mrs. Allan
Jones have been the guests of friends
in OverbrOok. Penna., for the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Denney. of
Harrington, spent Sunday as the guests
Of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Denney.
Miss f. G. Stidham and assistant,
Miss Virginia Henderson, have gone to
Philadelphia and New York for spring
millinery.
Miss Sara Banning is visiting her
cousin, John Mayhem, at Clayton, and
also her cousin, Mrs. Ernest Johnson,
in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Martin, John
H. Bennett, Edward Carpenter and Miss
Alice Marvel were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. E. Hall on Sunday last
Lieutenant William Pierce. son of
Senator George F. Pierce, was given a
birthday dinner an Sunday last by his
parents at their home on SouthsWalnut
Street.
Miss Betty Joseph. of Smyrna, has
been the guest of Mrs. John e. Truitt,
of Railroad Avenue. On last Saturday
Mrs. Truitt entertained at a tango tea
for her guest.
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Pierce, of Lake
View, have been visiting their rdaughter,
Mrs. George Macklin, in Brooklyn
Mr.. Pierce has been i'll with a serve cold
for the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Draper have
gone to New Orleans. and from there
they will go Texas, where Mr.. Draper
has property interests. Before return
ing thev will visit southern Florida.
Announcement has been received Of
the wedding of David B. Warren of
Camden N. j., but formally of Glendale,
Delaware. to Miss Mary Matthias, of
Mount Holly, N. j., on February 25th,
at the home of Samuel Matthias in Mount
Holly. IN
Mrs. Arthur Benbow Gilman, of New
Brighton, Staten Island, announces the |
engagement of her daughter, Miss |
Marion Hale Gilman, to Thomas Cleve- |
land Assheton, of Rock Spring Farm, |
Warrenton. Virginia. Both Mrs Gilman |
and her daughter are well known here.
The home of Senator and Mrs. S. John
Abbott was the scene of a gay gathering |
on Tuesday evening last when Mrs. |
Abbott entertained a number of her
friends at Auction Bridge. For several |
years past it has been the custom of |
Mrs. Abbott to entertain at Bridge the |
evening of Shrove Tuesday, and the af- /
fair of this week was in accordance with |
her annual custom The ladies' PLAYED .
cards until late hour, after which re-
freshments were served.
Mrs. C. z. jefferson celebrated her
iftieth birthday anniversary on last
evening, at her home in Prime
Hook Neck. Her many friends shower
ed upon her many handsome and use-
full gifts. At ten o'clock the guests
about one hundred and fifty in number,
we're invited to the dining room where
where served, after which
games were played until a late hour,
when the guests departed, wishing their
hostess many more happy birthdays.
Justice-of- the peace and Mrs. E. V.
1endrixson on Sunday last celebrated
he fifty fifth anniversary of their we'd
ling. when some of their children and
/ number of their friends were present.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. HendrixsOn are en-
Dying excellent health and anticipate
many more happy celebrations of th,i
Mr.. Hendrixson was re-
emily appointed Justice-of- the-peace
or South Milford and is performing the
uties of his Office in a creditable
manner.
Miss Sara Bennett, Of Milford, Della
7are, a member of the 1915 class of >
Western Maryland College, appeared
4 Smith Hall auditorium, Friday Feb !
uary, goth, with an essay entitled +
Breaking from the Old into the New. " !
he essay which was her composition, 7
ealt with the progress of science in {
he last so years. Her introduction was :
specially well written and spoke of the K
nanges in Nature in the spring time. s
lat is the breaking from the old into i
le new life. Miss Bennett is one of
ie members of Phiomathean Literary
Ociety who has the honor of taking
art in the Preliminary Literary Contest
stween the socities. Old Philo is ex-
scting splendid work and good delivery q
ON her. She is to be Congratulated y