Milford chronicle., 1920-03-19
LEWES

Miss Edna NJ Ennis, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Z. Ennis and
. William S. Walls, son of the late Wal
! ter H. Walls, were married March 8
1920 at o'clock in the Lewes Pres
, byterian church by the Rev. l. Mench
Chambers. Miss Elizabeth Griffith OF
: Philadelphia attended the bride and
, William Orr Nelson was best man
the ushers were, William o. Martin
and William Hooker. The happy cou-
pie took the north bound train i'm
mediately after the ceremony. After
two weeks honeymoon they will re-
side in Elizabethtown, Pa, where the
groom has been employed for some
time.
Funeral services of Amelia A. Short,
aged so years, were held at her late
residence on MeFee street Tuesday
afternoon. Interment was made in
the Lewes NJ. E. cemetery. Rev. Omar
K. Jones conducted the services. The
deceased is survived by one son, Will
lard C. Short of this town.
The roads which have been almost
1 impossible for the past three months
| in this section for automobiles have
shown considerable improvement dur
ing the pasi three days which have al
most seemed like summer weather,
many people have been cleaning their
yards and gardens and gettrg ready
for the 'eCG us sea- On.
Some of the Rehoboth fishermen
still continue to make large catches
of fine rock and black perch and sell
them very readily in the local market
at 25c pound.
The Home Missionary Society met
at the home of Mrs. William F. Mar
shall last week.
Louis Wolfe and wife of Philadel-
phia, formerly of this town, have NOV
ed to the Register property on Market
street in this town where he has Sc
cured employment at one of the fish
ing plants.
Green C. Short has purchased a
house and lot on Market st. from Thos
W. Johnston and will move his family
there from the George c. Prettyman
property on the same street.
Stephen G. Pierce who recently
purchased the Hotel Rodney is hav-
ing extensive repairs made to it both /
inside and outside and expects to
build an addition to it consisting of
dance hall and eighteen bedrooms. he |
expects to have it in readiness for |
boarders by the first of April.
William E. Walsh has returned from /
Philadelphia with a fine Buick coupe I
for L. Finley Ross.
Pilot John E. Maull is confined to /
his home on account of illness.
Mrs. James R. Kelly has sold her
property on Mulberry street now ten
anted by Joseph Marvel to Frederick
G. Clifton, conductor on the Queen
Anne railroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Virden Burton are
receiving congratulations upon the
arrival of fine baby boy.
Mary c. Burton, an aged colOred
woman, died last week. She had for
more than fifty years been working
at the nome vi Mre Martha Mustard
who died a few weeks ago.
]. Stockley Ingram has opened
grocery store at the corner of Jeffer
son Avenue and King street in the
Blizzard property.
The law on trapping muskrats went
into effect March 10th and many of
the trappers who have been making
from $500 to $500 a day are forced
to stop trapping. Although the winter
has been a very severe one and the
marshes have been frOZe up most of
TIC liAlS NAS II AdppOlS nave b0Cn cal
izing such high prices for their fur
that they have made an unusual sea-
son out of it.
Mrs Benjamin R. Chamberlain of
Philadelphia has opened a millinery
store in the Arthur L. Lynch proper .
ty on Second street which she recent :
Iy purchased.
The Rev. I. Mench Chambers D. D.
was installed last week as pastor of ,
he Lewes Presbyterian church. He is I
he founder of the Syndicate of Love I
and a well known author of prose and !
poetry. Until his call to Lewes he i
was twenty-five years pastor Of Mer- j
,hantville, n. ]. Presbyterian Church !
He succeeds Rev. Frederick A. Kull- /
mar.
Dr. Richard Beebe took Mrs. Ell
ner Davidson to a Philadelphia hos
)ital on Friday where she will under
20 an operation.