Milford chronicle., 1923-03-09

was elected lay delegate to the COLI
ing conference and William A. LyncL
alternate. After the usual routine o.
business the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
WE. the Official Board of LeWes
Methodist Episcopal Church in FourtL
Quarterly Conference met, having
learned that it is the pleasure OF Dr,
William R. Mowbray with the consent
of the Bishop to retire at the coming
session of the Wilmington conference
from the Superintendency of the DO
yer District and resume the pastoraIei
are anxious of expressing our appre-
citation of the friendly and cordlal re-
latiOns that have existed between our
church membership, officials ana pas
tors and DR.. Mowbray during ms N
cumbency as Superintendent OF Dover
District, therefore be 1t
RESOLVED, That the officials OF
T,ewes Church feel themselves pecu-
liarlv competent to resolve themselves
in commendatiOn of Dr.. MoWbray py
virtue of the fact that he mas not Only
been their District Superintendent IoI
a period of seven years but ne was was
also their pastor for i've years. we
feel that intimate contact with man
for that span of time is sufhclenI 10
Drettv well "size him UP" and we SIN
cerelv believe that ne comes much
nearer than the average among us 10
"neasuring I'D to the full stature Oh a
man in Christ Jesus our Lord in his
work as pastor and superintendent as
well as in his contact with men IN
matters pertaining to the things OF the
world.
Lewes Church loves him and heart
ilv commends him to any congregation
within the bounds of Wilmington Con-
ference or elsewhere, bidding him Coo
speed in his new location to be.
A meeting Of the citizens Of Lewes
and RehOboth hundred was held last
Friday night at the Hotel Rodney to
find out where we stood in reference
to the change in the State Highway
Commission at this time. A resolu-
tion was unanimously passed before
a gathering of about one hundred Vo-
ters to be presented to the General AS
sembly by Senator Jacob Prettyman
and Representative Ward H. Short TO
the effect that they are not IN favor
of any radical changes in the state
Highway Commission at this time as
it might have a tendency to hold up
our badly needed road from Harbeson
to Lewes. A rising vote was also TAX
en- on the gasoline bill, the result of
which was unanimously in favor or,
and a petition was also circulated
which was signed by all present to be
presented by Senator Jacob Pretty
man in the Senate when the bill comes
up.
These ushers have been appointed
at the LeWes M. e. Church for the
month of March: Morning, Charles w.
Palmer, Martin L. Webb, James L.
Lank, William G. Paynter; evening,
goseph H. Holland, Napoleon B. Regis
ter, John P. Warrington and James r.
Wiley.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Wilson Of
Milford who have been visiting his
sister here, Mrs. Jennie Coleman,
have returned home.
The boys basketball team Of Laur-
ell defeated the local basketball team
here last Thursday night by score
of so to %, and the Laurel girls also
won by a score Of q to z.
Rev. G. H. B. Turner, rector OF ST. |
Peters P. E. Church who has been
on a months vacation in Georgia, re-
turned this week and will resume his
work.Du ring his absence no Lenten
services have been held during the /
week days.
Miss Ruth Pierce is visiting in Phil /
adelphia and Ocean Gate, N. ].
Funeral services of Margaret F. Po-
lite were held at the Ebenezer M. b.
Church last Thursday afternoon and |
interment made in the adjoining Gem
etery.
Mrs. Bessie Wilson disposed of her
household effects last week at her
home on King street and will move to
Cape May, where Mr.. Wilson is en-
ployed as engineer on the North East
End lightvessel. This will make va
cant house in town which is the only
one that is vacant in town and it will
not be very long.
Miss Katherine Morris has accept
ed a position in the ice cream parlors
of Mrs. Maude E. Lubker.
Mrs. Alfred B. Nelson is suffering
with an attack of the grip.
Captain Thomas p. Lynch who for
some time has been trading as mas
ter on a barge out of southern ports,
Is SpGuuluS d lew uety0 AG1S
Mrs. Eugene C. Kelly and baby boy,
James R., have gone from the Beebe
Hospital, to their home in PilottOwn.
George H. Orton who has been con-
fined to his home for several weeks on
account of illness is able TO be out
again. |!
H J. Quirk of RehobOth Beach who
was recently operated upon at the JEFF
ferson Hospital, Philadelphia, was a {
town visitor last week and is very ]
much improved since his operation. ]
J. Roland Tindall is managing the
pool rooms for Mrs. Maud f. Lubker
Of evenings, which she recently pur-
chased at the administrators sale of J
Harry e. Lubker, deceased.
j. The roads from Lewes to Harbeson
since the rains we had recently are
almost impossible. They are thawing /.
out and the ruts are very deep, @nd
when one gets down in the deep ruts
with their machine the axles drag the
ground.
Roland D. J. Raught who has been
confined to his home here for some
time, suffering with whooping cough,
has returned to his duties at the Uni
versity of Delaware.
Blanchards Station