Milford chronicle., 1926-07-02
Lewes

George NJ. Register and wife and
daughter of Bismark, North Dakota
are spending a few days here with
his brother and sisters.
Arthur Mason, of Vineland, N. j,
is visiting here at the home OF LOUIS
Lauritsen on South street.
Mrs. Helen Wiltbank Manning IS
sDending few days here at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward w. Wiltbank on Third street.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles G. Green, OF
GEORGETOWN, have purchased the Fer
ris Wharton property on Market
street, and will occupy it in short
time. Mrs. Greenwas formerly Miss
Elizabeth Lynch, daughter Of Captain
John S. Lynch.
Clayton II. Nelson of Florence, n.
]. formerly of Lewes, is here for the
summer months at the home OF MS
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Z. Nelson, near Midway.
Charles c. KINNEY OF MiddletoWn'
formerly OF Lewes, spent Sunday
with friends and relatives here.
MIR. and Mrs. Clifford n. Fields OF
Wilmington, spent the weekend with
the formers parents here, Mr.. ana
Mrs. William II. Fields.
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Mills VINO
have been living in Wilmington 1or
the past two or three years, have
moved back to Lewes.
A committee of progressive cltl-
zens appointed by the Chamber OF
Commerce to build a road from
South street, LeWes Beach, to cape
HenIopen, began work on the road
the first of last week. They now have
completed about eight hundred teet
and rapid progress is being made.
The Chamber of Commerce donated
$4,000 towards the road, the bal
ance is being done by public sub
scription. The present working force
will be augmented this week by sew
eral men from the Lewes Coast
Guard Station. When this road is
completed, it will make nice ride
to Cape Henlopen, where thousands
of automobiles will drive to see the
remains of the old Henlopen Light
house.
Sunday afternoon nearly one hun
dred automobiles were parked on
Lewes Beach at one time; the park
ing space made by Captain Collins
last summer was all filled and more
parking space is now needed for the
visiting autoists, who drive to the
beach on Sunday to see the Delaware
Breakwater and enjoy the fine Dath-
ing.
Henry w. Conant, president OF the
Rehoboth Heights Development Com
panv. which corporation has been
largely responsible for the boom
which Rehoboth Beach is now enjoy
ing. has gone to Florida to procure
the plans for a hotel, which he saw
there last spring. 1t is understood
that capitalists are working IN con-
junction with Mr.. Conant to erect a
large modern hotel on the ocean
front near Silver Lake. The opera
ton will be started in very snort
time and will be completed in every
detail for next season. With hne
hotel at one end of the heights ana
the golf club at the other end, 1t IS
proposed to get an act of the leglsla-
ture to incorporate Rehoboth !
Heights with the town of Rehoboth |
Beach: with its lighted streets ana
all improvements, RehOboth Beach |
will then be a first class summer re-
sort.
A number of local base ball fans
attended the Athletics game held at
Milford last Friday afternoon for the
benefit of the Milford Emergency |
Hospital. -,
Mrs. Charles H. Mason and chill
dren of Kennett Square, Pa, spent
the weekend here at the home OF
her father, Louis Lauritsen.
The boy preacher, Hastings, from
Salisbury, Md, preached in the
Methodist Protestant Church on Sun
day afternoon and evening. The
church was filled to its capacity both
services.
Thomas J. Virden, president of the
Pilots Association for the Bay ana
River Delaware, with Offices IN
Philadelphia, spent the weekend
with his family here.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Rout OF WASH
ington, D. c., are spending a few
days with the latter's mother here,
Mrs Maria Morris in Pilottown.
The first menhadden fish OF the
season we're landed at the Consoh-
dated Fisheries COmpanys docks
here on Friday evening, about lSOO
barrels were caught that day.
| lanes A. Breeding who has been
Conductor on the Maryland, Della
ware Coast Railway Company, here'
has been transferred to Greenwood
and Benjamin Bradley of this town
will succeed him. Mr.. Breeding VIII
move his family to Greenwood this
week.
Home grown string beans appear
ed in the local market last week Tor
the first time this season. I