Milford chronicle., 1924-02-08

The law went on wild ducks Frida,
last and many local sportsmen ar,
disappointed, as they have been en-
jOying the fine duck shooting for tht
past two weeks. The ducks have beer
more plentiful than in the first part
of the season.
Mrs. Edward Lynch of near Lewes
who has been visiting her son, Spen-
Ger Lynch, at Drexel Hill, Philadel-
rhia, has returned.
Rev. DR.. Little, pastor of the Mid
way Presbyterian Church, successor
% Rev. William E. Phifer has organ
lied Bible study class, which meets
every Tuesday evening at the church.
DR.. Richard c. Beebe who has been
confined at the Beebe Hospital here
with an infected arm is very much
improved.
Clifford M. NAPLES, a Coolspring
merchant, loaded car with white po-
tatoes this week at Coolspring which
he purchased from the farmers in this
vicinity. The price still hangs around
Coo bushel; many of the farmers are
holding them with the idea of getting
a better price later in the spring.
Many of the farmers in and around
Lewes attended the meeting of the
Farm Bureau in Georgetown. Among
the speakers were William H. Yox of
Philadelphia, who has settled here to
promote the new project on Lewes
Beach; namely grain elevators, coal
pockets and making the Delaware
Breakwater a port for all vessels,
which now come and go to Whining
ton and Philadelphia to load and I'M
load their cargOes.
Mrs. Thomas R. Norman expects to
open her beauty parlors in the prop
erty recently vacated by Arthur w.
Maull on Second street.
Walter E. Wyatt who fell down
stairs several days ago and sustained
some broken ribs and sprained his
back, is improving rapidly and is able
to attend his duties in his store.
Coal is getting very scarce in town
again. Marshall Cough and Company
received one carload last week. This
is the first carload that has come to
town for some time.
Justice of the Peace William P. Car
ter, William J. Thompson, Joseph E.
Virden and Frank S. Carter spent
Monday and Tuesday at Rehoboth Bay
on a ducking trip. They returned with
a bag of twenty-five ducks.
Funeral services of Miss Ida West,
aged about IS years, daughter Of
Charles C. West, were held last week
at the home of her father on Market
street and interment made in the
Lewes M. E. cemetery.
Pilot Frank Maull who is spending
the winter months in Philadelphia was
a town visitor here last week from the
pilot boat Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Poisson are re-
ceiving congratulations upon the ar
rival of a fine baby boy. Mrs. Poisson
Is at the Beebe Hospital.
Mrs. Bessie Wilson of Cape May, N.
J., formerly of this town is here with |
her mother, Mrs. Lemuel Palmer, Sr.
who has been suffering for several
weeks from a stroke of paralysis.
These Ushers have been appointed
at the Lewes Methodist Episcopal
Church for the month of February:
Morning, William C. Paynter, Eras-
nus M. Joseph, Harry H. Palmer, Carl
B. Baylis; evening, ]. Edward Wiley,
David Birmingham, William J. Carson
md Walter e. Wyatt.
Mrs. William Leishman, wife of the
pastor of the Lewes Presbyterian
Church is seriously i'll, suffering with
Mrs. w. F. Burton is seriously i'll at
he Beebe Hospital, following a major
,peration this week.
Joseph 3. Lekites, contracting car
,enter, is making some extensive i'm
to the Wesley M. e.
,hurch (coIored) in Belltown.