Milford chronicle., 1927-09-30
HAPPENINGS IN
II AND ABOUT TOWN

Does your porch, beach cottoge or
home need new rug? Over so on
sale at Milford Grange.
Dinner at noon Friday at Grange
Hall. All prices from 15c up. Fancy
work on sale at same time.
The Slaughter Neck Ladies Aid
will meet with Mrs. Foster Pierce on
Tuesday evening, October 4th.
Tickets are now on sale for the
Hospital Card Party to be held in
the Nurses Home on October 18th.
The residence of Mrs. McAIichael,
opposite the public schools on North
street, has been repainted this week,
and it is very attractive.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M.
e. Church will resume their meet
ings next Wednesday, October 9TH, at
the chapel. We are anxious for
large attendance and hope to have
every member present.
A rummage sale will be held in
the Simpson store on East Front
street, Saturday, October 8th, under
the auspices of w. c. T. U. Will the
members kindly contribute articles
of any kind to this sale?
Rally day services will be held at
Milford Neck NJ. E. Church on Sun
day, October 2, beginning at 2 o.
clock. There will be extra music and
very interesting program has been
arranged. Everybody welcome.
A delegation of members of the
wholesale section of the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce will entertain
a number of Milford business men at
dinner at the Windsor Hotel here
next Monday evening at 6:3O o'clock.
The Faithful Circle of Kings
Daughters will hold a very impor-
tant meeting on Thursday, October
9Th, at p. m. at the community
building. All members are urgently
requested to be present as there is a
surprise in store for you.
There will be a meeting of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Carlisle
Fire Company in the community
building on Monday evening, October
9rd, at 7:3O o'clock. All ladies of the
community interested in the fire
company are requested to attend.
The two tenament houses owned
by w. S. Wroten on Second street,
opposite the public schools, have
been painted a bright canary with
white trimmings, and when the
pavements are relaid that part of the
block will be much more good to
look at.
On Thursday evening, October 9Th,
at 1880 there will be given in the M.
P. Church lecture on "The Holy
Land" by Rev. c. E. Dryden, a for
mer pastor. Rev. Dryden has visited
the Holy Land and promises a very
interesting lecture. Silver offering at
the door,
The Town of Milford is having
Roy Fowler build the curb and gut
ter along the entire block on the
south side of Second street, and
when this is completed the pave
ments in front of the properties will
be brought to grade and paved with
concrete by each owner.
Trampled beneath a runaway horse
/ last Saturday, Robert Lingel, 2, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, is dead and his mo-
ther, Mrs. Edna Lingel, %, is seri-
ously injured. Mrs. Lingel is well
known in Milford having spent her
vacation during the summer months
with the Warrington family here.
| She is the daughter of William B.
Warrington, formerly of Milford.
The porch party" given on Fri
day afternoon by the Ladies' Auxil-
iary for the benefit of the Emergen-
cy Hospital, at the home of Mrs. G.
Layton Grier, was forced to be held
| indoors on account of the weather.
Mrs. Clyde Nelson entertained the
guests with several beautiful vocal
the piano, and about 35 women thor
oughly enjoyed the afternoon.
Inspired by last weeks carnival,
with all its music, lights, color, and
alluring wheels of chance, a few
children in North Milford determined
to have a carnival of their own. Ac-
cordingly, carnival in miniature,
with booths festooned in crepe paper,
candy, apples, board to be knock
ed down, and the necessary number
ed wheels, has been attracting the
amused passerby every night this
week.
Secretary of State Charles H.
Grantland has sent out letters of in
struction to all justices of the peace
and notaries public in Delaware rel
ative to the issuing of motor vehicle
licenses, in which he states that all
applicants for registration, title or
reassignment must sign their own
name to their application and take
oath to the signature. The same ap-
plies to drivers or chauffeurs' appli-
cations.
On Tuesday evening, October 4, at
the home of Mrs. Potter Coffin, the
Fellowship class will have it's first
social of the season. Each member
of this class is expected to be pres
ent when the roll is called, to give
an account of the talent money made
during the past five months, as was
agreed at the last meeting in May.
1t is requested that every member
come or send her report by some
other member. This is important.
About so people attended the card
party for the benefit of the Century
Club, given at the home of Mrs. S.
C. Evans on Thursday night. The
prize winners were: Mrs. George H.
Baynum, ladies' first bridge prize;
Miss Betty Lank, ladies' consolation
prize IN bridge; Mrs. E. ]. Lewis,
ladies' first prize in 500; Mrs. Hig-
man, ladies' low prize in 500; E. N.
Metzinger, gentlemen's first prize in
bridge; and C. D. Abbott, low gentle
mems prize.
By a curious coincidence, both the
car of DIR. 6. M. d. Marshall, parked