Milford chronicle., 1927-10-14
HAPPENINGS IN
III AND ABOUT TOWN

the store of the Pierce Hardware
Company.
A rummage sale will be held by
the Fellowship Bible Glass in Simp-
sons store, East Front street, Sat
urday, October 18th, beginning at 2
in the afternoon.
Pies, soup good and hot, cake,
bread at the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Emergency Hospital bake at Pierce
Hardware store. Don't forget the
date, October goth.
The Ladies Aid Society of New
Market Church will meet at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. John P. johnson on
Thursday evening, October goth. Ev-
erybody is cordially invited.
Remember the Ladies Auxiliary of
the Milford Emergency Hospital will
hold a bake where you can buy ev-
erything good on October goth at 10
a. m. in the Pierce Hardware store.
The ladies of the W. C. T. U. will
continue their rummage sale in the
Simpson store on East Front street,
Saturday, October 22nd. Clothing of
all kinds and also other articles on
sale at that time.
While sharpening a saw, small
filings of steel were blown into the
eye of Reedy Rogers, mechanic, caus-
ing acute Inflammation of the eye.
The steel was extracted from the eye
by DR.. John Prettyman.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Mil
ford Emergency Hospital will hold
a bake in the Pierce Hardware store
at 10 a. m. on Thursday, October 20.
Cakes, pies, rolls and all good pastry.
Soup will also be for SALE.
The Ladies Aid of the M. P. Church
will hold their annual bazaar and
supper November 3rd and 4th in the
dining room of the church. All the
good things they usually have will
be served on those dates. Don't for
get the time.
The Ladies of the Auxiliary of the
Milford Emergency Hospital will
hold a rummage sale on Saturday,
October Is, in Coopersmith's store.
Hot vegetable soup will be on sale,
also, and everything will be ready
by ten o'clock.
A card party will be held at the
parish house on Tuesday, October 25,
for the raising of money toward the
debt of the building fund. The tick
cts, at the usual cost of 25 cents,
can be purchased from any member
of the church or at the door.
There will be a special meeting of
the Kings Daughters next Thursday,
October 20, in the Community Build
ing at p. nj. 1t is the presidents
desire that every member be there,
as the question to be decided should
have the sanction of every member.
The house of I. w. Belts, on Wood
ruff Corner, caught fire on Monday
at about 1890 p. m, and hole was
burned in the shingles of the roof,
but the Carlisle Company being sum-
moned at once, the fire was very
quickly eXtinguished. 1t is thought
that the fire was caused by a defec-
tive fue.
Prof. Clarence A. Short, noted
educator, soldier, and lodge man, Tor /
many years head Of the department
of mathematics in the University OF
Delaware will speak at a rally OF the
Ushers Union in the chapel on Fri
day evening at 8 o'clock. Prof Short
is a Sussex county product and is
now head master of the wesley COL +
legiate Institute at Dover.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Avenue M. j. Churcn
will meet in the chapel on Wednes-
day, October 10Th, at p. m. Mrs.
Davis Grier will give the first chap
ter in the new study book. Each
member is asked to bring to the
meeting her missionary Friend.
There will be the annual peanut
planting to be harvested in Novem-
Der.
Rev. C. E. Dryden, a former pas
tor of the First Methodist Protestant
Church of Milford, gave an interest
ing talk before large audience In
the First Methodist Protestant
Church on Thursday night of last
week. Taking as his subject "The
Holy Land" Rev. Mr.. Dryden gave
a CRATIC account of his recent jour-
ney there. This talk has met with
much enthusiasm everywhere. At
one place a gentleman, impressed
with his lecture, gave him check I
for $4,000 for him to use for another
trip to the Holy Land, this time TAX
ing Mrs. Dryden. {
Are we living in 1927 or 1907?
Runaway horses are unheard of in /!
this day and generation. Noverthe-
less, a pair of horses hitched to a
wagon actually did run away, in the =
thick of traffic on last Monday after :
noon, humping recklessly into auto :
alarming pedestrians,
over all sorts of objects,
and finally overturning the wagon. {
These two fiery steeds belonged to :
Goldie Isoacs, and it was on North =
Front street that they became so OBJ c
turning the traffic pole, :
and racing down North Walnut :
street between rows of closely park T
ed cars, to which very little damage !
was done, however. =
A class adoption of the Degree of
Pocahontas was held in the Com
munity Building on last Saturday
evening by this order, which is
Women's Auxiliary of the order of
Red Men. The initiation of ten new
members was performed by Poca-
lontas Lodge No. l of Wilmington.
There were about 200 present, in
:luding Great Sachem Robert C. o
Iantler, Great Chief of Records, Ed o
ward McIntire; Deputy Great Poca- d
lontas, Agatha Faulkner, of Will n
nington; Great Prophet, Harvey J. v
Davis, of Newark; Great Junior Sag y
more, George H. Hall, of Milford,
md other great chiefs. After the g