Milford chronicle., 1925-06-12
Georgetown

Former Sheriff James II. Phillips
is improving his residence on hi
farm that he purchased on the LeWe:
road, near this town, by the addi'
ton of a back building and other re-
pairs, making quite an improvement
to the looks of the place. Jim now
has one of the best looking places
in that section/
William H./DoWns has erected a
new front porch in front Of his store
on Market street, to replace the one
lately torn down by a large truck.
The law Offices of Andrew j.
Lynch, on Market street, have been
newly painted.
Track foreman Joseph z. Walls Of
this town, has been transferred by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
to Mt. Pleasant, where he will have
charge of the section gang from
that station.
Mrs. Lavinia Adams, Mrs. It. F.
Beauchamp and Mrs. Fred Walls at
tended the district meeting of the
w. H. M. S. held in Seaford last
Thursday.
The out Of town teachers il the
Georgetown schools left Wednesday
for their respective homes. FL
W. o. McCabe has sold his prop
erty in Dagsboro and has rented the
property Of the late Jacob Short on
North Bedford street and will make
his future home here. He will move
his family here in few days.
Conway and Green, plumbers of
this town, have been awarded the
contract to do the plumbing work
on the Y. W. G. A. building which
is being constructed by Senator T.
c. du Pont, at Sandy Landing, on
Indian River. It is expected that the
new building will be ready for Oc-
cupancy this summer.
At the first quarterly meeting of
the official board of Wesley NJ. E.
Church of this town, held last Fri
day evening, by an unanimous vote
the salary of Rev. T. F. Beauchamp,
the pastor was increased from $2,-
200 to $2,50O.
All of the Offices in the court
house will close at noon Saturdays,
during the months of June, July and
August, the same as was done last
year.
The Firemens Carnival will start
in this town Monday night, June Is,
and run for two weeks.
The Christian Endeavor County
Union will hold services at the coun-
ty almshouse each Sunday afternoon
during June and July at 2:30 o.
clock.
While playing with matches last |
week Eta, the three year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Jerread,
of this town, was badly burned about
the right side, arm and face, when
her clothing caught on fire. She is
making out fine at this time and
rapidly improving.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
First M. P. Church of this town,
will hold a bake on Saturday, June
18th, at IL a. m. at the home Of Mrs.
Lavinia Johnson, on South Bedford
street. Bread, cake, pies and other
good things will be on sale.
The many friends of Elton r.
Wood, superintendent of Sussex
County Almshouse, are glad to hear
that he is improving from his in
juries that he recently received
while endeavoring to impound an
angry bull at the farm, which had
broken loose.
Jesse Herman, formerly employed
as head baker in Hudson's bakery, of
this town, has accepted like posi-
ton in Pettyjohn's bakery, in Mil
ford.
Register of Wills Isaac E. Jones
has issued the following letters the
past week:
On the estate of Walter A. Lingo,
of Indian River hundred, to Elisha
9. Lingo.
on the estate Of George W. Boyce,
# Seaford hundred, to the Delaware
Trust Company.