Milford chronicle., 1927-09-23
HAPPENINGS IN
II AND ABOUT TOWN

Meet your friends at the Grange
Fair next Friday and Saturday, Sep
tember 80 and October 1.
Christ Church Guild will hold a
bake at the parish house on the NOR
ming of Saturday, October 8.
Meet the Dutch twins at the
Grange Fair next Friday and Satur-
day, September 80 and October 1.
Don't forget the bake at the Pierce
Hardware on Saturday, September
"a. given by the Shawnee Sunday
school.
The Cannon Methodist Protestant
Church rally day service will be
held Sunday, September 25, begin
ming at 8 p. m. The public is cordl-
ally invited.
Members of the W. c. T. u, at our
next meeting at the home of Mrs.
Vreeland, Tuesday evening, Septem-
her 27th, kindly bear in mind the
payment of dues.
The many friends of Alderman E.
v HENDERSON are glad to see him
hack in his Office once more, appar-
emily feeling very fit after his le-
cent short illness.
Revival services are still in FRO
eress at the Pilgrim Holiness Church
of Milford, with interest increasing.
Services every evening and all day
Sunday, September 25.
> Everybody says the Grange Fair
this year is the best ever. Don't miss
Visiting the fancy work booth, as 1t
is a good place to get Christmas
Gifts as well as other things.
Invitations have been issued to a
marty to be held in the parish house
of Christ Church on Wednesday eve
ming. September %. A very interest
ing program is being planned.
The Shawnee Sunday school will
hold a bake at the Pierce Hardware
on Saturday morning, September "a
There will be cakes, pies, rolls,
dressed chickens, and chicken salad
on sale.
DIR. Willard R. Pierce's attractive
and conveniently located new office
building, next to the Emergency
Hospital, is going up in short order
and DR.. Pierce expects to move into
his new quarters around the first OF
October.
Farmers expect one of the largest
white potato crops that was ever
harvested in this vicinity. The sum-
mer. like weather of the past week
with the occasional rains, has set
the crop and if frost holds off for
two weeks more, there will be
bumper yield of tubers.
DR.. G. Layton Grier is anticipating
much pleasure with his handsome,
new, recently purchased yacht, built
by the Consolidated Shipbuilding
Company. 1t is a well equipped, sea-
worthy boat, with two engines each
of $50 horse power, and is so feet
long. It is at present lying at the
Vinyard wharf, but DR.. Grier later
expects to build boat house.
Mrs. Stephen Toadvine and Mrs.
John c. Truitt, chairman of team
for the Milford Emergency Hospital
to raise $4,000, will hold a rummage
sale about the middle of October.
When housecleaning, please save all
your old clothes and rummage. Eth
er leave it at their homes or get in
touch with them .and they will call
at your home for your donation.
The Ladies Aid of the M. P.
Church will hold rummage sale
Saturday afternoon and evening"
October 1st in the store recently oc-
cupied by Simpson Bros. on East
Front street. Will the members of
the church please look up all the
articles that they can spare, and
either send them to the store that
dav or let any one of the Ladies Aid
know and we will gladly send for
them.
An interesting service will be
held at the Avenue Methodist Epls-
copal Church next Sunday at IL a.
m. when the children of the Sunday
School will be promoted from the
classes of which they have been
members, to the classes above. This
will be accompanied by the award
ing of diplomas, various exercises,
some of them to show the type OF
work that has been done during the
past year, and interspersed with
music. Mr.. Wallace McFaul, Super
intendent of the Cradle Roll, will
have 12 members to be promoted;
Miss Catherine Hickman, Superin-
tendent of the Beginners depart
ment, will have % to be promoted;
Mrs. Sallie R. Davis, Superintendent
of the Primary department, 18; and
Mrs. Frank Jones, superintendent
of the Juniors department, will have
% members of three grades to be
promoted.
Miss Louise Anne Nelson, a Har-
rington girl, has left for the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, where she has a
position in the department Of Eng
Iish. Miss Nelson is a graduate of
the Harrington High School and of
the University of Delaware, where
she held a four-year Single Tax
Scholarship. She received her Mas
ter of Arts degree in English from
the University of Pennsylvania and
she has completed all her units for
a doctors degree in English. AS
soon as she completes her thesis, |
she will receive her Phi. D. degree. |
During the past year, she has been
writing for magazines and newspa-
pers. Miss Nelson taught in the Mil
ford High School in the French de-
partment three years ago. She at
tended the high school as student
in the fall and winter of 1915 and
1916. At that time Harrington had
only three years of high and she
took her diploma from Milford High
School in order to attend the Univer-
sity of Delaware.