Milford chronicle., 1928-03-16
HAPPENINGS IN
II AND ABOUT TOWN

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Christ Church Guild will hold
bake -on Saturday, March "a, at tn
Pierce Hardware store.
$72.1S was deposited by the pupil
of the Milford school to their say
ings accounts last week.
All parents interested in havini
their children enroll in aesthetic
dancing class conducted by Mis-
Camp of Wilmington, please cal
Mrs. G.. Marshall Townsend or Mrs
Davis r. Grier before March 10.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Avenue M. e
Church will meet in the Chapel OF
Wednesday, March 21st, at 2.S0 p
m. Mrs. L. Matthews and Miss
Paul Willis will give the lesson.
A supper will be held in Wildwood
Community Hall Friday night, March
%, beginning at 5 o'clock. The fol.
lowing menu will be given: Chicken
salad, fried oysters, French fried
potatoes, pickles, rolls and jelly.
For the benefit of the Loyal Sun
day school class, a three act play
called Clarence Decides" will be
given at the chapel beautiful on
Wednesday evening, MarcE %. Ut
O'Clock. Admission rs cents. No re-
serve seats. Come help good cause
-Chul CHI Building Fund.
Last Sunday night was "Old
Hymn Night" at the First Methodist
Protestant Church. The topic OF the
pastors sermon was "Divine Melo-
dies" and the choir sang several old
familiar choir selections, there was
a quartet and a duet and all the
singing by the congregation was the
old, well-known songs.
Stepping out from behind a school
bus directly in the path of an auto
mobile driven by Silas Layton OF
near Harrington, Alexander Dill, son
of Noble Dill of Hollandville, Del,
was knocked down and both legs
were broken. He was attended by DR..
Chapman of Harrington, and was re-
moved to the Milford Emergency
Hospital.
On last Friday evening the Girl
Reserves held their bi-weekly meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Davis Grier.
There were % present out of 80 on
the roll, including five new men,
bers. The girls seemed more en-
thusiastic than at any previous meet
ing, being particularly interested In
aesthetic dancing and on the ques-
ton of "How can be attractive? 2
After the business meeting a tafty
pull was very much enjoyed by eV-
eryone.
On Saturday afternoon, March TO-
a little party was given in honor OF
Elizabeth Brulatour's tenth birth
day at her home, 112 West street
She received many pretty and use
full gifts. After enjoying a number OF
games refreshments were served
Those present were: Jane Harring-
ton, Vivian Shute, Frances Shockley,
Virginia Sockrider, Grace Jester
Mabelle Draper, her aunt, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Evans and her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Wooters.
The Mite Society of the Presby-
terrain Church held meeting at the
church on Tuesday at 2:30 in the
afternoon. Following the business
meeting which was opened with a
prayer by Rev. Humphreys, and the
writing of letter of sympathy sign
ed by each member, to Mrs. Eliza
Bennett who is ill in a New York
hospital, the members enjoyed a
contest of "glimpsing into the past. "
Everyone tried to guess the identity
of about so amusing old photo
graphs, and the prize was won by
Mrs. Harold Salmons.
The Milford Library has recently
acquired a number of very fine
books, including the very latest edi-
ton of the New International En-
cyclopedia, and also the latest edi-
ton of the Standard Dictionary. A
number of new fiction and biography
have been added to the shelves also.
The library is well equipped now
with reference books of every kind,
with history, biography, fiction, old
and new, and books on every sub
iect. The one need seems to be a set
of Trollope and one of Jane Austin
and they would be very glad If any
one who has a set and would care
to donate it to the library would do
so.
All organizations and departments
of the church and Sunday school of
the First Methodist Protestant
Church are taking part in the Lent
and Loyalty Crusade, securing new
members. Next Sunday will be the
fourth Sunday in this crusade, and
the service at IL a. m. will be called
"Roll Call Day." when the names of
all the members of the church will
be called and the pastor of the
church will preach on 1.-THE Last
Great Roll Call" The evening ser
vice at 1880 will be visitors Night"
everybody being invited to attend,
and every member expected to bring
a visitor. Old hymns will be sung
also at this service.
The study classes being held at
the home of Mrs. ]. Lynn Pratt at
2:3O every Friday afternoon during
Lent are being well attended. Last
week Mrs. Henry Higgins, State
President of the Women's Auxiliary
and Mrs. Kenney, State Vice Presi-
dent, both of Rehoboth, were pres
ent. Mrs. Higgins explained the
Bishop Lee Memorial Fund which is
sent every year to a boys school IN
Mexico, and Mrs. Tomlinson gave a
very interesting talk about Lincoln,
with a graphic description Of his as
having harsaIf lived in |