Milford chronicle., 1927-08-12
HAPPENINGS IN
II AND ABOUT TOWN

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The Ladies Aid of Milford Mech
will meet Friday, August 18th at the
Milford Neck Church. A special pro
gram will be rendered.
The Ladies Aid of New Marke1
Church will meet at the home OF MI
and Mrs. Herman l.. West TUESDAY
evening, August 18th. Everybody IN
vited.
Tom Walls, son of Captain anC
Mrs. w. E. Walls, who is spendins
the summer at Slaughter Beach
while walking on the beach, step
ned on the sharp tail of a hlne
Crab, and cut his foot badly. H'
was brought home to Milford fol
treatment.
Edward M. Davis, formerly oi
Milford, but now a resident of VIII
mington, was elected Vice Presiden1
of the st. Georges Trust Company
of ST Georges, Delaware, at a meet
ing of the Directors last Thursday
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director in the company.
Some people in Milford are find
ing the fish vendors early morning
visits very annoying. To be awak'
ened at $50 a. M, by harsh voice
screaching "fish, fish, fresh fish
is sharp ending to pleasant
dreams, and enough to put one II
bad humor for the entire day, some
Milford residents think.
Miss Dorothy Beck, daughter o1
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Smith Beck, dis
located her knee while at Rehobott
last Sunday Miss Beck was
lounging on the beach with some
friends, the waves dashing over hel
foot covered with sand, and rising
very suddenly without realizing
how deeply her foot was buried
her knee was pulled out of place
She has been forced to remain al
home and not walk since the ac-
cident occurred
On last Thursday uight the auto
mobile of Charles Parker, of Lin
coin and William Jones, of Chester
Pa, both negroes, collided at the
intersection of North Street and
West Front Street. Parker was go
ing East and Jones, West. Parker
claims that a car backing out from
North Street into West Front Street
caused him to swerve to the left
and strike the Chester machine
The tenders on both cars were bad
ly bent and the axles also damaged
Parker admitted the accident was
his fault.
In addition to the program an
nounced in last weeks Chronicle
for last Sunday evening at the Ave
Methodist Episcopal Church, there
was from 7.15 to 7.30 a beautiful
musical program furnished by the
Epworth League and the Sunday
School. Miss Margaret Miller gave
short talk thanking the Officers
of the church and her helpers in the
classes for their assistance and sup
port during the school. The large
number who attended the service
found the articles on exhibition
very interesting.
On Tuesday evening a meeting
was held at the Methodist Protest
ant Church, to pave the way for the
State convention to be held in the
fall. Miss Dorothy Krause (Dela-
ware State Christian Endeavor
President) and Mr.. Willard Rice,
the Field Secretary, and a number
of other State Officers, together
with members of all the Christian
Endeavor societies of Sussex
County, were present. During the
course of the program they talked
briefly about some of the features
that particularly appealed to them
while they were attending the
World. c. E. Convention in Cleye-
land last month
A large crowd attended the boxing
bouts in the Milford arena on We'd
nesday night. The wind-up was a
very tame four round bout to draw
between Billy Bent of Atlantic City
and Chick Laddell of Wilmington.
Kid Dunn of Milford and Harry Mar
tin of Dover fought the best bout of
the evening in their four rounds
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between frankie Mack of Atlantic
City and Kid Pickles of Wilmington
Substituting for Terrible Ike) Mack
outweighed Pickles, and had the
best of the bout. There was an inter-
esting little exhibition given by the
two Rice brothers, young boys of
Harrington. The crowd was quite
impressed by the younger of these
two boys particularly. frankie Nell
son of Wilmington outclassed Billy
O'Neill of Atlantic City in four
rounds. The management promises
an especially good program next
week, in which popular Kid Malin
will be featured in the main bout.
The Ushers' Union of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church, and the
Bible class of the Sunday school held
a novel outing at Slaughter Beach on
Wednesday evening. About $50
members were present. Exercises
were held in the dancing pavilion
which was filled to capacity. There
was a musical program given by a
large orchestra composed of men,
bers of the church. A prayer and ad-
dress were given by Rev. J. Frank
lin Bryan, pastor of the church. A
vocal solo was rendered by Miss
Sara Alexander and George Hall
gave a reading. Raymond Bennett
gave a vocal solo. After the exer-
cises in the dance pavilion, fires
were built along the beach and a
hot dog roast was held. Music was
furnished on the beach by double
male quartet. The full moon added to
the picturesqueness of the scene.
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