Milford chronicle., 1927-05-20
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Beacon always brings a good
team here. Don't fail to see the
game on Saturday.
Christ Church Guild will have a
rummage sale in the parish house
Saturday, May 2Sth, $3.50 a. m.
Saturday, May 2Sth, Christ Church
Guild will hold rummage sale in
| the parish house, beginning at 10 a.
m.
Robert Hobbs was fined $40 and
costs by Alderman Hendrixson for
: being drunk and disorderly ON Sat
! urday.
The "4-H" own your own room
club, will meet with Louise Higman
Saturday, May 28th, at 2 p. m. Full
/ attendance is desired.
The mems adult classes of Cannon
Sunday school will have play at
the Cannon school house Friday, be-
ginning at 8 p. m. The title of the
/ play is "The Womanless Wedding" +"
! Mrs. Collel's "4-H" club girls will
hold bake in the Pierce hardware
store, Saturday, June 4th, at 10 a. m.
Proceeds to help defray expenses to
short course held at Delaware Uni
versity.
All the Rangers of Evergreen For
est, No. 40, accompanied by Ever
green's Band will leave today by spe-
cial train for Harrisburg, Pa, where
they will attend Tall Cedars' Con-
Vention.
Robert Martz, white, was arrested
on Saturday by officers Courtney and
Davis for driving an automobile
while intoxicated and was fined $100
and costs, which automatically re-
vokes his license.
Charles Peet, son of Ambrose Peet,
who has been on furlough at the
home of his father, near Milford, will
return to duty to the navy on the
26th of this month. Charles has been
in the navy for about two years and
is a musician on the ship Melville.
Among the many sent with planes
to the flood regions is Lieutenant j.
Lockwood Pratt, son of DR.. and Mrs.
J. Lynn Pratt of Milford, who is as
sisting in the relief of flood suffer-
ers at Vicksburg, Miss. Lieutenant
Pratt was until recently in Pensa-
cola, Fla.
On June and z scenes of the
World War will be produced in the
Plaza Theatre, given under the aus
pices of the American Legion. There
has been a demand for these pic
lures in Milford, and the American
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get them here.
The Tuesday Afternoon Bridge
Club met at the home of Miss Eliz-
abeth Collins. There were only two
tables this week, and Mrs. James
Davis the only substitute. Mrs. l. d.
Short won the prize, very pretty
hemstitched linen towel. Delicious
refreshments were served.
On Decoration Day the American
Legion will decorate the graves in
the various cemeteries in the morn
ing. At nine a. mfi the parade with
the American Legion, Boy Scouts,
Battery F and the anti-aircraft reg
iment will march to Odd Fellows
cemetery, where they will fire sa-
lutte to the dead.
The Wednesday Night Bridge Club
met this week at the home of Miss
Lena Short. Miss Burdella Davis was
the recipient of the prize. There
were special refreshments, contrary
to their custom, in honor of the de-
parture soon of Mrs. Robert Davis.
The club will meet next week at the
home of Mrs. Anna V. Carlisle.
I Someone with a very rusty" and
battered" sence of humor dragged
a car minus tires or engine, bearing
a trademark, '"Dort, Flint, Michigan"
into Second street last Thursday
night and parked it uncertainty op-
posite the nearby residences, letting
it rest with several to dispute the
ownership. Almost anyone should be
glad to own such a genuine antique.
On last Sunday at about p. m.
the Carlisle Fire Company was call
ed to the home of Walter Warning
ton at the intersection of the du
Pont Boulevard and Shawnee road.
Warrington was lighting a gasoline
lantern in his kitchen when it ex-
ploded and set fire to the building.
The flames were soon extinguished
by the firemen, and the damage to
the house was slight.
The town of Selbyville, in Sussex
county, held a special election last
Saturday for the purpose of deter
mining whether to issue bonds in the
sum of 100000 to be applied for
street improvements in that town. A
total of 218 votes were case, 155 be-
ing in favor of the bond issue and
So against it. The election was held
under the provisions of an act of the
General Assembly of the State, ap-
proved by Governor Robinson on
April 27, this year.
A beautiful loving cup offered by
Seaford Kiwanis Club to encourage
debating in all the high schools OF
Sussex county, will be claimed by
one of two high schools who debate
in the final elimination contest, to be
held at Georgetown, Friday evening
May 20. This cup will be the prize
in a debate in Sussex county next
year, the team winning the debate
receiving the trophy. If a team wins
this trophy three years in succession
that team will become permanent
owners of the cup.
On Friday evening, May goth, at
O'Clock, the Willing Workers Sunday
school class of the Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church, have arranged for
an interesting program to be given
to raise money for the Red Cross
fnod relief fund The meeting will he
held in the Sunday school room. A
silver collection will be taken at the
door. Music, vocal and instrumental
and readings, both serious and hui
morous, will make the evening a
pleasant one. Come, be entertained
and help a good cause.