Milford chronicle., 1918-10-18
BRIDGEV1LLE.
Is a Credit to Uniform He Wears

1 Richards. of 81 Poultney Place, Bui
= falO. n. Y, formerly of Bridgevill'
] mas ample reason to be proud OF he
3 husband. She is in receipt Of lei
= ter from Long Islands Congressiona
RepresentatiYe Frederick C. Hicks
The letter follows:
Dear Friend: During my recen
trip to the battlefront from which
have lust returned, had the pleasur
of seeing Private Richards. l wan
to write TO you, to tell you that he i
well and happy and doing his duty Il
a way to reflect credit on himself an'
the uniform he wears.
Cordially,
FREDERICK c. HICKS.
Private Richards has been overseas
seven months, and is serving as a Di'
visional Dispatch Bearer.
Edward Relf Mullett, formerly OF
Bridgeville, is at Columbus, o., where
he is doing government work.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. r. Hubbard, OF
Wilmington, who have been at their
home here for few days, expect TO
leave this week.
Edward Cordray Millard Reed Har-
old Kinder and the Misses Mary Led
enham. of Washington, D. G.; Sallie
Harris. and Esther Smith Of Whining
ton, spent the week end with their
parents here.
Tie telephone company here has
had considerable trouble getting oper-
ators and at this time all the oper-
ators are oil suffering with the flu.
None OF the cases are serious, howev-
er. Misses Katherine Wiley and Eliz-
abeth Curry are taking care of the
office at this time. Temple HinsOn,
also connected with the company has
been confined to his home.
P, p. Jacobs is suffering from a
sprained knee as the result of step
ping in a hole.
Word has been received here of the
death of the recent principal of our
High School, John /. WentZ. Mr..
Wentz left in the spring TO get en-
ployment in the city and was work
ing at Hog Island shipyard when he
contracted the influenza, which de-
velOped into pneumonia, causing his
death on Monday.
EX-Levy Courtman Harry Johnson |
and wife are the happy parents of a |
baby boy.
The influenza seems to be getting 1
better here at this time; still a great /
many are sick and a few new cases
are being reported.
Wood Lynch of Chester is spending
/ few days with his mother on Broad
street.
Joseph Marquitz returned from Phil
Inplnnfa tho Of
lorts his family slowly improving.
Quite a number of strawberries are
N the local market this week and
we're very good. Some producers had
nough to ship and realized fancy pro-
-3. The ones sold in Bridgeville re-
allied for twenty-five cents.
William Banning, Il young farmer
/ near town, died on Sunday morning
I Spanish influenza, which developed
ltO the pneumonia. Marvel Phillip,
I near town, recently employed at
died on Sunday.
Messrs. Harlan Lemmonr and Paul
arrott spent Sunday with friends
ear town
Chester Cox, formerly of Greenwood
ut now employed out in Ohio. spent
tfs+- "a AAAN wen Win AA4EnuS i'll
)wn
Miss Ida May Calhoun of George
'wn, spent the week with relatives
ere.
Ira Lewis was appointed as the ad-
Illustrator of the estate of Miss Sal
e Parvis here and will dispose Of it
the near future.
Our town has been abundantly sup
led with Delaware Bay oysters this
eek. selling for so cts. per basket.
Russell and ID. Lee Short We're call
to Vineiand, n. J. on Wednesday
attend the funeral Of their cousin.
ISIS Mary Sawyer.
The government train carrying the
ptured war material that was to
we been here last week, and was
He'd OH ON account OF the SPANISH ,
fuenza, was here on Wednesday.