Milford chronicle., 1924-05-16
GEORGETOWN
Georgetown Fire Company MinstreIs
Closes Season

OF Delaware during the winter and
spring, closed the season at home. in
Ryon's Theatre, on Thursday night.
In all of the town visited, if has
Deen for the benefit of the fire DEPART
: ments of those towns. A certain Der
cent of the receipts were given to the
minstrels.
The proceeds of the series of enter
talnments throughout lower Delaware
VIII be applied to equipment for the
Georgetown Fire Company.
The minstrels will take the road
during the early fall under a new
name and with an entire change of
program and features as well as much
new equipment
Restocking Sussex Ponds With Bass
and Pike
In order to furnish anglers a good
seasons sport in the fresh water
streams Of lower Delaware. Denutv
tame Warden Fred Marvil. of Tanrei
| Is Dusly engaged at this time in re-
| stocking several of the ponds ana
streams with plymouth bass and nike
winch are being taken from some of
Ihe ponds in the vicinity Of Laurel.
Obituary
John Wingate ConaWay, aged abont
5| years, died at his home on Host
CEDAR street, this city, on Sunday
morning, of cancer of the throat af-
ter DeIng a sufferer from the disease
Ior more than a year.
lie was a son of the late .Tobn and
Sarah Ellen COnaway and was horn
near Robbins, this county.
For several Upgre NJ. Co..--
employed in the Georgetown car
shops. car
Funeral services were conducted IN
the First NJ. P. Church. NTorl,ot go -
MS MS streeIs, thls city, on Tuesday af-
r9I nooH at z O'Clock. Burial will take
pace IN Union cemetery, this city.
neslues the widow, he is survived
Dy Two children, Charles Conawav.
WHO WHO IS employed as a telegraph oper-
SToI uere' ana Mrs. Nellie Conaway
MAJ Marvel OF Marcus Hook, Pa. S. J.
wilson & Son had charge of the fu-
neral.
Mothers Day In Georgetown
Mothers Day was fttfngIy observed
N the church of Georgetown on SIM ..
lay' and despite a drizly rain from I
-he northeast most of the day, GOOD J
cIoWus were IN attendance at both
lit ne morning and evening services
Inc churches We're elaborately dec
'rated with dogwood blossoms and
)ther white flowers taken from tbe
Woodland in commemoration of the
occasion.
In Wesley Methodist EpiscopaI
Jhurch on Sunday morning. Rev
Teorge White Dawson, the pastor. had
or his theme the "High Calling of
lotherhood" and in the evening his
was on Charity and Evil
linking"
Al The morning service in First
lethodlst Protestant Church, Rev.
ohn T. Bailey preached on Mothers
rejection and Prayer for Her Child"
nd IN the evening his theme was
Mothers Love-"
grIcultural Students Make Study If
Sussex Farms
Prof George L. Shuster, agronomist
the Delaware Experimental Station.
nlVersity of Delaware, accompanfed
fifteen students of the University
5rlcultural Department, made trim
inspection through Kent and Sus-
Y counties on Monday for the DIR
se of making a study of cron rota-
'n' cost of growing different crops
r acre and methods of handling.
The class, in company with County
enI russell Wilson, of Dover, visit
some OF the farms in the central
;Ilon OF Kent county during the
,IHlhg' and IN the afternoon they
re accompanied by County Agent
IIOy Z. Vaughn of Sussex county to
Iarm OF Coroner Elmer Dickerson,
II Milton, and the Virden Farm,
anted by Ernest Mcgee, near
YES.
complete survey of the farms
made and a careful study of the
ps planted and method of cultiva-
were noted. The farm owned by
oner DickersOn and the Virden
m, in Lewes and Rehoboth district.
Two of the most up to date in the
tern section of Sussex county.
ords are kept on the farms as to
cost of production and the net in 44--9@- 4-9-
les from each crop produced.
Two Auto MiShaDs
urIng the binding rain storm on
day night, the automobile of Cole
of Dover, got off the du
Highway, near Sbarp's Hill, and
ed turtle, but fortunately no one
hurt and the machine only slight
lmug ed.
le Ford coupe of George w. Ed +
Is, of Rehoboth Beach, ran into
sign ut the railroad
rs at CoOlspring, between here
Lewea and badly damaged the
hine. Fortunately no one was in
l.
| Lay Cornerstone and Dedirafe
ndian River Mission on May 25
ans are being completed for the
lg OF the cornerstone and dedica
of the Indian River Mission on
lay, May 25.
e new church is located in Indian
District and is being construct
the descendants of the Nanti-
Tribe of In1ilns who reside in
section of lower Delaware.
" Dorsey Blake, one of the prom
ministers in the Maryland An
Conference of the Methodist Pro-
1T Church, who for the past
years has been residing at
wood, this county, where he has
living almost 4 retired life with
ope of regalning his health, is
linister in charge of the Indian