Milford chronicle., 1923-08-10
Georgetown

Inef6 were ninety tickets sold at
this station for the excursion to Ocean
City Md, last Thursday.
The Georgetown fremen took in
about twenty-five hundred dollars at
their carnival held week before last.
They will hold another carnival from
September 9Th to the 18th.
The new cement road from this town
! to Lewes will soon be completed,
making a through road from this town
| to LeWes.
Roland G. West is suffering from
blood poisoning, caused by cutting his
hand, while working on an automo-
bile.
Mrs. Josephine Faucet and sister,
Clara R. Short, have purchased from
Mrs. George McNatt, her property on
South Race street.
Norman Purnell has been appointed
mail carrier for Route No. 1, from this
Office, in place of Jehu F. Hudson, the
new postmaster, who has taken charge
Of the Office.
Marriages are going slow in Sussex
Iounty. Clerk of the Peace William J.
Quillen has not issued a license the
past week.
Register of Wills Isaac E. Jones has
issued the following letters the past
week: On the estate of John S. Hud-
son, of Seaford hundred, to Alice j.
Truitt; on the estate of Ananias D.
Derrickson, of Baltimore hundred, to
David H. Derrickson; on the estate OF
Annie M. Marsh, of Lewes and Reho-
both hundred, to the Delaware Trust
Company.
There are five prisoners confined in
the county Jail here at the present
time.
The Georgetown NJ. E. circuit par
sonage on East Pine street, has been
neatly painted the past week.
The many friends in this town OF
Daniel Burton are sorry to hear that
he is seriously i'll at his home in Will
mington and hope for his speedy re-
cOVery.
Miss Annie Moore, leader Of the
Boys and Girls Clubs of this county,
is in Newark, at the University of
Delaware, with the boys and girls who
are taking the annual short course,
held for the boys and girls who are
doing club work. There are about
forty boys and girls from this county,
there being six from this town, Misses
Mary Jones, Flora Swain, Emma
Swain, Marguerite Wilson, Dorothy
Pepper and Alice Pepper.
Mrs. Joseph Warrington, of near
town, formerly Miss Florence Abbott,
of this town, was among those who
took first prizes in embroidery and
fancy needle work at the Kent and
Sussex Fair, held recently.
improvements are being made to
the old Robinson homestead, on North
Bedford street, which will soon be oc-
cupied by Professor Albert Early,
county rural school supervisor, who
with his family will move here from
Rehoboth.
The grape crop in this section is
large this year. All the vines are load
ed and looking fine.
Thomas A. West is quite i'll at his
home near town, in the Springfield
Cross Roads section.
Walter L. Long, of Wilmington who
on July 3rd was convicted in the
courts here of numbering his step
grandfather, Elisha w. Hudson, at
Selbyville, this county, on April 18th,
by beating him to death with ham
mer, was sentenced by the court here
on Saturday noon, August 4th, to life
imprisonment. He was convicted of
murder in the first degree, but in re-
turning the verdict the jury recon-
mended him to the mercy of the court
James Earnest Wilkins of this town
and Miss Gladys lone Murray, of
Lewes, were married at the parson-
age of the First M. P. Church, of this
town, by the Rev. J. T. Bailey, Satur-
day evening.
Miss Sallie Cooper of this town last
Thursday attended the Cooper family
reunion that was held near Columbia,
this county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Workman, of
Baltimore, Md, are the guests of his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs Joshua
Workman, here.
Mrs. Lloyd Stoeckels and son are
spending week in Wilmington and
Messrs. John Johnson, Edward Rus
sell, William Dutton, Oscar Pepper
and Gardner Calhoon, took a motor
trip to Ocean City, Md, on Sunday.
Miss Helen West is spending week
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mington.
Howard J. Cooke, Esq, and family
spent the weekend at Kits Hammock.
James NJ Tunnel, Esq, and Mrs.
are on trip to Niagara
Falls.
Rev. William Gibson, pastor of the
Church, is on his vaca-
ton, visiting Northfield, Mass.
Mrs. J. T. Wagamon and Mrs. A. F.
Wilgus spent part of last week at
The Wagamon cottage at Oak Orchard
Earl Goodwin of Wilmington, N. c.,
was the guest last week of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. Rowland Messick, here.
Samuel Taylor, of Philadelphia, is
The guest of his aunt, Mrs. Edward c.
Norris, here.
Leander Warrington Of Harbeson
was among friends here Saturday.
Quite number of our citizens at
ended the base ball game at Dover
IN Thursday