Milford chronicle., 1915-08-13
GEORGETOWN.

Mr.. Stork has been quite busy around
| Georgetown this week, Mr.. and MRS;
w. C. Pelton have fine baby boy, and
the Assistant Postmaster and Mrs.
Harry 7. Swain are the proud parents
of their first baby girl which was born
on Monday of this week. ,
The Cokesbury Sunday School held its
picnic Saturday afternoon, and Satur-
day night festival was held for the
| benefit of the cemetery fence.
| Last week new nineteen hundred
dollar pipe organ was installed in the
st. Paurs Episcopal Church at George
town.
Chautauqua will be held at George
town from September 9TH to 18th.
Robert G. Houston, Esq, of George
town, delivered an address at the Ocean
View Homecoming on Wednesday,.
George S. Williams. of Stantonsburg,
N. c., spent few days at Georgetown
this week.
A Maxwell automobile was purchased
last week by County Constable Hiram
E. Short.
In charge of Scout Master DR.. Page
P. A. Chesser, of Georgetown Patrol OF
Boy Scouts left Georgetown for Oak
Orchard on Wednesday for their annual
ten DAYS encampment. They will make
the trip in automobiles.
John R. Wilkins has sold his property
on East Market Street to Obey Parker.
L. P. Faucet has sold the Stewart
cottage at Oak Orchard to George L.
Lynch, who will erect a new cottage on
the site of the present building.
John H. Knowles has awarded the
contract for placing the heating plant
in his new residence on North Bedford
Street to William r. Snyder.
On Monday Larry Birmingham, son
of William Birmingham, while working
in WagamOn's basket and crate factory,
near the railroad station, was knocked
against a revolving shaft and had two
ribs fractured when struck by flying
belt.
While at the annual pony penning at
Chincoteague, Thomas r. Purnell pur-
Making the trip in w. ]. Thorough
goods Studebaker touring car, Charles I
L. Moore, ESQ.,, Dr. W. F. Blackstone, |
DR.. Page P. A. Chesser, W. ]. Thorough |
good and G. w. Bennun, Jr., attended
the fair at Tasley, Va, Friday.
George Workman and family, Horace
Joseph and family and John King and
family are occupying a cottage at Oak |
Orchard this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burdell Hudson, of |
Georgetown, are grieved at the death |
of one of their twin babies, which died
on Monday.
E. Workman, a rural mail driver, and |
family are occupying a cottage at Broad |
kiln Beach for ten days.
Ernest Palmer, a contractor of Wal |
lingford, Pa, was the lowest bidder for |
the first six miles of the du Pont Boule-
ward from Selbyville to Frankford, and |
he was awarded the contract, his bid |
being $4,000 a mile. The contractors |
will have until November the first to
finish the job. The specifications are /:
IA feet wide concrete with a road p feet |
at the narrOwest point and 81 feet at
widest. All culverts to be guarded with |
iron and all cuts with wooden fences.
Miss Lillian Morgan, formerly of |
Georgetown, now of ChincOteague, Va, |
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harold Purnell. |
Eugene Johnson, of Philadelphia, is |
visiting his cousin, Basil Perry, of near
st. Johns M. E. Church.
George H. Harris, of Georgetown,
was retired from active service on Mon
day by the Pennsylvania Railroad and |
placed upon the pension list OF that
corporation.
On Thursday of this week Edgar
Simpler, Mr.. and Mrs. William Wyatt
and daughter, Ruth, Miss Alva Wilson,
and Albert Donovan mOtored to Bowers
Beach and spent the day.
There was quite large attendance at
Carey's Camp on Sunday night, despite
the severe storm which passed over that
section about $50 in the evening.
Master Walter Wyatt, son of Mr.. and ,
Mrs. William Wyatt, of Georgetown, is /
spending two weeks with his uncle, w.
w. Crouch, and family, in Milford.