Milford chronicle., 1921-09-30
LEWES NEWS

l. were pISSSuIs AluOlS luOS6 WHO IIldu
v short addresses aside from the Stat
s Vice Councillor were Past State Coun
q cilOr Napoleon B. Register and EdsO
d C. Lodge. After the evenings enter
J. tainment refreshments were served.
/ Contractor Joseph E. Virden ha
just completed the erection of a neV
bungalow on Lewes Beach for c. L
Burton of Chester, Pa.
= David Birmingham who was recent
. ly married to Miss Sara Elaine At
= kins of Millsboro has returned Will
2 his bride after spending ten days OF
= honeymoon. Some of the young meI
gave them the usual serenade.
Some of the local sportsmen are
making good catches of large trout in
the canal down toward the Greenhil
lighthouse. This is something unusual
, for trout to bite in the canal, although
it has been connected with the hay
for number of years. Local fisher
men are also making some good
catches of the largest crOkers that
have been seen here for years. Some
of them weigh more than a pound.
Only a very few are being salted for
winter use owing to the high price
for which they are selling. Namely
soc a dozen.
Cornelius NJ. Eriksen, general man
! ager of the Chincoteague Fish, Oil &
J Quano Co., of ChincOteague, Va, is
spending a few days with his family
here at their home in Pilottown. Mr..
Eriksen has been quite ill for the
past six weeks but is very much i'm
proved now and expects to return to
his work in few days.
The fall and winter schedule SER
vice at the Lewes M. E. Church goes
into effect next Sunday, changing
preaching service in the morning
from ten to ten-thirty, and Sunday
school service from eleven in the NOR
ming until two in the afternoon. Next
Sunday is also rally day in the Sun
day School. A prominent out of town
speaker will address the Sunday
school.
Howard M. Long, a prominent law
yer, of Philadelphia, who has been
confined to his bed on account of ill |
ness for several weeks here, is slow
ly improving.
of Philadelphia spent the weekend
u
Joseph, near COolspring.
Hance c. Phillips, of Wilmington, is
spending a few days vacation with
his mother, Mrs. Charles H. Phillips,
near Rehoboth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred W. McIlvaine
are receiving congratulations upon
the arrival of fine baby boy.
Members of Lewes Council No. IA,
Jr. o. U. A. NJ. are making a drive
for an increase in membership and
propose to have a class initiation
some time in the near future with the
dea of having a goodly number of
candidates lined up for the occasion
They have recently purchased two sets
If rubber quOits which have aroused
great enthusiasm. A number of good
luOit pitchers have developed. Some g.
# the younger members of the cOun-
ii propose to organize a basket ball T.
cam, strictly Juniors, and challenge
ny other team in the town for a SER
es of games.
The local base ball team defeated
he Ellendale team here on Wednes-
ay of last week by a score of 4 to 1. !,
efty Brittingham was on the mound /
)r the locals and held the visitors to {
lree hits. {
President of the Board of Education G
apoleon B. Register and the other t
embers, Thomas R. Ingram and Dr.. ]
lmes Beebe, went to Wilmington to l
,lect the furniture for the new school S
Hiding one day last week. e
Mrs. Bessie D. Taylor, of Tampa; /
orida, formerly of this town, is hay I
g house erected on her vacant lot U
Fourth street, adjoining the JOS a
n e. Virden property.
Ernest E. Magee has rented the I
illiam H. Virden farm, consisting of !
er two hundred acres which is now :.
nanted by ]. Orton Marshall who :
poets to move in town and engage
the storage battery business in
TT of William e. Walsh's garage on
nth street.
Rowland B. Ingram of Wilmington,
presenting Laird & Company brok-
), was in town on Thursday.
Cyrus Mitchell has moved his fam
on Lewes Beach from Slaughter m
ach.
William M. Loves has moved his
nily from the George H. Orton
,perty in PilOttown to the Richard
DerricksOn property on Jefferson N
'nue. Mr.. Derrickson has moved to ~
farm on the. road leading from
OttOwn to Nassau.
he Lewes Hall Association is hav-
hot water heat installed in their
wing picture hall on South street. -
n w. Marshall is doing the work.
he four fishing steamers of the M,
yes Oil g. Chemical NoyoDo,,1, AVA
1ed over six thousand barrels of
lhaden at their plant on Tuesday
ut OF last week. The fish were
ght off the Jersey coast, near At Tg77z
ic City. This is considered very
catch for four boats in one day.
fishermen report plenty of fish
season.
lverson W. Ingram and wife of M
nington are spending a few days Z
the formers parents here, Mr.. Z
Mrs. Edgar w. Ingram. -
1Ward S. Wolfe will move from
fathers farm near Midway which
ow occupies to one of Thomas C.
and's farms, near Rehoboth.
wood L. Wescoat of the Wescoat -
Co., made a trip to Philadel-
last week and brought home two VIII
Hupmobiles. for
e DUPONT Engineering Company,
ractors, who are building the
school building are making rapid Mondi
ress and in a few weeks will Thurs thurs
1t shut in. A large number of Thurs
are employed there daily. Monde
raham Gutowitz left last week Mnnd. NhIrs.
Newark to spend another year Thursc