Milford chronicle., 1919-06-20
GEORGETOWN

Miss Edna Barr has accepted a po-
sitiOn in the branch Office of the East
ern Shore Gas and Electric Company.
News. was received here last week
of the death of Reginald Culver in
Wilmington from tuberculosis. Mr..
Culver was formerly an employee of
the Diamond State Telephone Company
and for many years had his headquar-
ters in this town.
Oscar B. King has accepted the
( agency for the Singer Sewing MachiTJ
Company with headquarters in this
town.
Hildren Green, who recently re-
turned from France, has accepted a
position in the meat and grocery store
of William H. Short, at the corner of
Laurel and Bedford streets.
Harry Joseph is suffering from a
broken wrist, caused by cranking his
car.
Through the untiring efforts of Dr.
SGwell N. Pilchard and the official
board of Wesley NJ. E. Church, the
Centenary quota of S254S has been
raised and the Indebtedness against
the parsonage, amounting to s31OO, has
been liquidated. The Centenary cam
paign has 5eeT. underway but a short
time and this church is one of the
first in lower Delaware to announce
the raising of the quota.
A deer was sighted by several young
men last week along the dupont Road,
near the town limits, and after giving
chase for more than an hour il was
lost in wood about a mile from where
it was first discovered. The deer was
the first that has ever been seen run
ming at large in this section of the
State, and it is believed that it either
escaped from some amusement COM
pany or got away from a reservation. /
Georgetown high school defeated the /
Dagsboro baseball club last Saturday
on the local diamond by the score of (
13 to 2.
Next Friday afternoon the P. B. &
". r. R. Club will cross bats With the
strong railroad team of Clayton on
the local grounds at the Wye" Both
clubs will have some of the best play
ers obtainable from the railroad league
and good game is expected. 1t is
likely that Hudson from Stockton,
Nd, will do the twirling for the local
team.
Members of the Christian Endeavor
Society of the N. P. Church will give
a shadow social at the home of Sam
uel Locates, Cedar street, on Thurs
day night, June 26. The proceeds will
likely be applied 10 az indebtedness
that will soon be incurred by the con-
struction of a basement under the
church in which social functions are
to be held and in which a heating plant
will be installed.
Miss Elizabeth Quicker of Chestnut
Hill, Philadelphia, is visiting her
grandfather William w. Rawlins, for
the summer
The Bible class and officers and
teachers of Wesley NJ. E. Church were
Friday evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Jones, at the
edge of town.
Mrs. Bertha NJ. Donovan, aged 81
years, wife of Reuben R. Donovan. of
Jersey City, N. j., and daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John R. Cooper of this town,
died at her home Friday morning from
the results of an operation performed
some time ago for the removal of the
tonsils. Her remains were brought to
the home of her parents here Satur-
day and funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at McColley's Chap
the adjoining cemetery, Rev. S. N.
Pilchard officiating. Besides her hus-
band and parents she leaves four chill
dren and eight brothers and sisters.
There are ten prisoners confined in
the county Jail at the present time.
The blackberry crop in this section
is large this year. The vines are all
loaded with berries. We only have
a small acreage.
Clerk of the Peace Frank w. Lawson
has issued the following marriage Ii
censes the past week: To William D.
Lank and Elsie c. Palmer, both of
Milton; Herschel D. Bennett of Mil
ford and Margaret E. Simpler of Mil
ton; Larry w. Moore and Ella May
both of Georgetown.
Register of Wills William ]. Mus
tard has issued the following letters
the past week: On the estate of Annie
James of Baltimore hundred to Hiram
James; on the estate of Mollie E. Nor
gan of Seaford hundred to James A. ]
on the estate of Bertha May
Donovan Of Jersey City, N. j., to Reu- 1
ben R. Donovan. II