Milford chronicle., 1926-05-14
Lewes

The Chamber of Commerce din /
ner at Rehoboth Beach last Thurs
day evening was the formal open
ing of the famous summer resort at
the Belhaven Hotel, about 200 rep
resentative men from Maryland,
Virginia and Delaware were pres
ent. Thomas r. Ingram, cashier Of
The Sussex Trust Company at Lew
es. was POSTMASTER of the evening.
Speeches were made by Governor
Robert P. Robinson, 1t. Governor
]. Hall Anderson, Secretary OF
State S. d. Townsend, Jr., Repre-
sentative l.. A. DreXler, David Dali
las. president of the Chamber of
the Chamber of Commerce. Sails
bury, Md; F. W. Marloe, executive
secretary of the Del-Mar-Na. Eas-
tern Shore Association, Salisbury,
Md: Gerrish Gassaway, manager
of the Chamber of Commerce of
| Wilmington; William f. Metten,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce of Wilmington; Mayor J.
| Harry Satterfeld. of Rehoboth
/ Beach. The committee on enter
tainment are to be congratulated
on the way they entertained the
guests after the speech making was
over. it was enjoyed by all present
and everybody had a good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Norris of
near Frederica, formerly of near
Lewes. spent the weekend at the
home of their son here, J. Bateman
Norris.
A. f. Anderson of Havre de Grace
Md. was in town last week con-
tracing for a small acreage of to-
matOes. he expects to operate his
plant this season on small scale.
DR.. George w. Cooke, evangelist
and his assistant, Harold Nlgnuelle
who have been conducting evange-
listic services here in the Nj. h.
Church for the past two weeks are
meeting with wonderful success.
prayer meetings are being held
everyday at noon in some business
place in town, especially for the
business men. Las Sunday after
noon he had a mems meeting in the
churcn and the VhacCh WIS filled
tC it's capacity VITA men from all
sections of the country, his sub
iects were throwing bolnerangs,
which he handled very nicely. In
the evening service, people We're
turned away because they were I'M
ableable to get inside the church
it. was filled at six thirty o'clock
people attending from Berlin, Md.
to Middletown, Del.
Pilot John w. Joseph and family
who have been spending the win
, /, ter months in Philadelphia, have
returned to their home mere or
Fourth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis B. Graves are
receiving congratulations upon the
arrival of a fine baby boy, Mrs
l Graves is at the Beebe Hospital.
j Funeral services of Thomas Viii
liam Turner, aged 55 years, whC
5 died last Tuesday evening after {
long illness, were held at his home
near Coolspring on the Georgetown
< Lewes road on Friday afternoon
Interment was made in White!
f Chapel NJ. E. Cemetery, Rev. Val
. Loan of Georgetown, conducted The
services. The deceased was a mem
= ber of Jefferson Lodge No. Is, A. F
,. e A. NJ, of Lewes, the lodge turned
s out in a body and administered theil
/ usual ceremonies at the grove. Mr.
4 Turner was a staunch demOcra
4 and served his party as Represen
tative of the Tenth Representative
, District some years ago. He is SUI
vived by wife.
- Mrs. William H. Virden who ha
been here several weeks with he.
daughter, Mrs. Lillian d. V. Smitl
! in JOhnstown, Pa, arrived at he
home in Rehoboth Beach last Tues
day evening for the summer.
n Mrs. James A. Wolfe of Philadel
S phia, formerly of this town, is visit
e ing friends here.
II w. Virden Burton has moved hi
q family from near Philadelphia t.
Lewes and has accepted position
n with w. Virden Marshall, Inc.
DR.. Richard G. Beebe, surgeon a
o the Beebe Hospital here has pur
chased the Roy H. King propert
. in RehobOth Beach.
= The farmers in this section ar
complaining of the drought as ther
u has not been a good rain for sew
'' eral days and almost everything
e that is growing is in need of rain
the clover crop will be cut short
/ rain doesn't come along in a shor
II time.
VI The regular meeting of the Lew
n es Chamber of Commerce was he'll
on Monday evening, the member
IS have decided to wake-up and ge
1t something going, it was unanimous
| 1rr dnaidn6 fn T1annf Monde
a night instead of once a month an
. in the future a regular meeting vii
k be held every Monday evening i
e the Town Hail. a number of i'm
d pOrtant projects were brought be
Il fore the meeting and several com
o mittees were appointed. A lette