Milford chronicle., 1927-09-16
HAPPENINGS IN
Il AND ABOUT TOWN

DOH lOISGL llC OelhAS OCPbN@AAN~~
22nd, opposite the show grounds,
held at Mrs. Ida Bennett Johnson's
home.
The Loyal Circle Sunday school
class will hold a bake at the nome OI
Mrs. Ida johnson, North walnut
street. next Thursday, September zz'
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Nil
ford Emergency Hospital will hold
a card party in the Nurses Home on
Tuasdav evening, October 1lth'
watch this paper for further partlc-
ulars concerning this affair.
School Days! Our streets are fill
ed once more with children, arounu
the hours of nine, twelve ana Iour'
vacation DAYS are over and the new
school year, with its more serious
aspects of life, is demanding the aI-
tention of us all.
Mrs. Anna Adkins Sunday school
class. the Loyal Circle, will have
bake on September 22nd, to be heIu
onnosite the show grounds IN Mrs:
Ida Bennett Johnson's home. All
GOOD things to eat, home made PIES
cakes. rolls, nut bread, gem cakes
and jumbles.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Mil
ford Emergency Hospital Will holu
a tea on the porch of Mrs. q. Lay
ton Grier on Friday afternoon, sep
tember 23rd, from three until hve'
EVERYONE is cordially invited to pe
present and spend a social hour with
your friends.
An automobile belonging to ne
gro named Macklin, the son OF Laura
Nacklin of Glendale, burned up Oh
Fridav. The Ellendale Fire Company
was called and finally eXtingulsheu
tbe fire. but the machine was prac-
tically destroyed. The origin Oh me
fire was unknown.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Avenue NJ. E. Church
will meet in the chapel on Wednes-
dav. September 21st at 3 p. m. BE
in vour place in this first meeting OIL
tbe fall if you would strengthen the
hands of your missionary and make
the years work a success. Program
suggestions for the year.
Ambrose Harmon, colored, was ar
rested on a warrant charging MN
with driving an automobile Whlle
under the influence of liquor, ana
also on the charge of disOrderly con-
duct. It is alleged that witnesses
reversed their statements while tes-
tifying at the hearing, and he was
acquitted of the first charge and i'm
ed SIS and cost for the second Oh
fense.
On Sunday Judge John F. Lynn,
Charles J. Coleman, DR.. George Il.
Foulke and Jesse Green, all of VIII
mington, stopped over in Milford TO
nay their respects to a friend, and
while here Judge Lynn announced
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for the office of attorney
general of Delaware. Judge Lynn is
now deputy judge of the municipal
court of Wilmington.
On Saturday a collision occurred
at the corner of Walnut and Front
streets, North Milford, between
car driven by James Sammons OF
Milford and a Mr.. Raleigh of Har-
rington. SammOns was coming from
the phosphate factory, making a left
hand turn around the sign pole, and
Raleigh was going east on West
Front street. Raleigh hit the running
board of Sammon's car. Both cars
were damaged by the collision but
no one was injured.
Roy Stevenson barely escaped a
very serious accident last week when
crossing the railroad tracks at the
PENNSYLVANIA station in his car. Fol-
lowing an automobile which safely
crossed the tracks in front of him,
Mr.. Stevenson failed to notice an
oncoming train, until it was almost
upon him. Fortunately he saw it in
the nick of time, and had the pres
ence of mind to turn sharply to the
left, running his car down the en-
bankment of Silver Lake.
An appeal to the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Association to direct it's
support to a project for an inland
waterway between Prime Hook, Del, |
and Chincoteague, Va, was received
ny LuG dSSOC4dl4On w GulAGohdy etI 4Io !
convention in Baltimore from +. w. |
Truitt, of Ocean City, Md. The need |
for such a waterway is imperative, |
Mr.. Truitt said. Only nine miles of
actual dredging at a cost of about |
$4,000, would be necessary, it was
stated. A government survey has
been made.
Twenty of the leading merchants
and business houses in the town of
Laurel are uniting to make their +
semi-annual Dollar Day one of the |
biggest events ever held in that
town. The fall Dollar Day this year
is being held on two days, Wednes-
day and Thursday, September 21st
and 22nd, instead of one day only as
has been the custom in past years.
The affair is being more extensively
than ever before and the
biggest crowd ever to attend such an
event is expected in Laurel on We'd
nesday and Thursday Of next week.
Joseph Barney, who has been the
guest Of Henry Wilkins on South
Walnut street, barely escaped being
knocked unconscious and having his
car stolen on Friday night of last
week. Mr.. wilkins being sick in bed,
Mr.: Barney went downstairs to in
vestigate what sounded like the eau
tious turning of the knob of the kit
chen door. Finding no one there, he
walked out to his car, which was
standing in the back yard, to see if
it had been disturbed. AS he took
hold of the motor meter, he glanced
up, in time to see a man striking at
him with a large board. He threw up
his arm to ward off the blow, so the
board only grazed his eye, failing to
knock him unconscious. The assail-
ant seeing he had not accomplished