Milford chronicle., 1915-04-02
GEORGETOWN.

John NJ. Snyder of Onancock, Va,
has purchased fine fifty acre farm about
two miles from Georgetown, through H.
c. Stewart, Georgetown agent for E. A.
Strout Farm Agency.
A silver ten cent piece was found
Thursday by William Wimble, janitor of
the Georgetown High School, while dig
ging in the garden of T. J. Pyle, of
Georgetown. The piece of money bears
the date of 1914.
Harry Conoway, a small boy of George
town, while playing Thursday, stepped
on nail and ran it through his foot.
Over twenty dollars was cleared by
the Ladies Aid Society of the NJ. P.
Church of Georgetown at a Shadow
Social given at the home of Harvey Cal
houn, Saturday night.
Providence Protestant Church, near
Georgetown has organized its Sunday
School with Charles L. Ennis, ,superinten-
dent and Greensbury Pepper, assistant.
A revival which has just closed at
| Providence Protestant Church, near
| Georgetown, has resulted in thirty mine
nine conversions.
A tract of land has been purchased
from Mrs. w. A. Faucet, by the Union
Cemetery Company, of Georgetown, to
EHldIRG LuE OELlGLGly at dEOA ECNOWhs
The Methodist Sunday School in |
Georgetown by the will of the late
Charles P. Tunnell who was superinten- |
dent of the school for over forty years,
will receive his handsome piano.
The blacksmith business of Dutton
and Carey, has been bought out by
William j. Dutton, of Georgetown.
HUT Carey, the other member of the
firm has removed to his farm near
Georgetown.
N. B. Warrington, Grand Chief of
Delaware Knights of the Golden Eagle
whose home is in Wilmington, will pre-
side over the deliberations of the Grand
Castel of Delaware, which meets at
Rehoboth Beach next Monday.
V. c. Truitt, a prominent Millsboro ,
fruit broker, leaves Saturday for North
Carolina from which state he works
north, buying strawberries until he +;
reaches New Jersey.
Joseph Hall, of Frankford has flock :
Of forty two ducks from which he re- :
,eives from thirty to forty eggs day :
County School Superintendent E. J. a
dardesty and County School Commits .
iioner Charles L. Moore are making =
yisit of inspection to all the schools of :
sussex County.
Mrs John J0saph, of near Georgetown, :.
Who left for the Methodist Hospital at !;
Saturday, is rapidly i'm )
proving and according to present cOndi. =
ions will be at home in a few weeks. {
The Vesper Glee Club, of Georgetown, =
las elected Mahoney Denning, president; 3
:. Cathral Smith, vice president; Charles \
'orbert, secretary; Halstead Layton, =
reasurer and DR.. {. R. Layton, direc- n
or. IL
While saving wood at the home of i
William Wilson. Levin Day, a middle 3,
ged man of Georgetown dropped dead h
With heart disease. 7
Sussex County fruit growers are pre-
letting bumper crops cf peaches and o.
ears, because the cool weather has
ept the fruit buds back from blossom -,
lg. W
Prof Firman Thompson. delivered "
ublic lecture on the Hawaiian Islands, 4.
t Milsboro, Monday evening.
County agricultural agent, w. c. se
elton, of Georgetown. held corn show N
t Millsboro, Saturday and delivered an
ddress on "CCn."
With the Grace Methodist Church a
rec from debt, the Rev. G. R. Ellis has -
cen invited to return for another year =.
HIS h4AiiobuAO NOhBAC BaNAOAs
Revival services have closed at Harbe- %
1n, with over sixty conversions in four bs
eeks. s
While throwing a stack of hay up in Sn q,
ft near Georgetown. William HinsOn ~
st his balance and fell, breaking his at at
ght arm. e.
Farmers at Redden have Joined to- nT rT
ether and are purchasing lime in car ~ ~
ads at greatly reduced prices over en-
'rmer years. -,
Fred Magee, a Georgetown printer, A.
As purchased the grocery store and G;,
staurant formerly owned by Sylvester ;hnt
ukes. -,
Georgetown will respect Good Friday 10,
7 closing all its stores and places OF
lsiness between the hours of noon and of'
rec o'clock in the afternoon. o.
While riding the horse out of the pas
re, George Donovan, an eleven year 81
! boy of Robbins, fell and broke his on
m. -
At the regular election of Union Lodge Nc, ,"u
Odd Fellows. in Georgetown, last RI
Onday eve ing. Benjamin Ableman on,
,a alaafad MOhlo Grand oA'