Milford chronicle., 1928-09-21
Harrington
Wilbur Jacobs Wins
Senatorial Nomination


held here Saturday, Wilbur E. JAG
: obs, prominent business man. cas-
lily won the nomination for Senator
!. over his opponent, w. B. Tharp, OF
Pennington. In this district q
nomination is almost equivalent to
: election. Mr.. Jacobs is a local mer-
chant and is connected with the
! Harrington Chamber of Commerce;
is also actively connected with the
! M. P. Church of this town. He has
only held one political Office-that
( of bill clerk in the law making body
of Delaware. At the primaries two
years ago he was defeated for repre-
sentative by former Senator John
w. Sheldrake by a small margin.
With the death of Senator Charles
D. Murphy, the recognized leader OF
the Ninth district and of the Sauls-
bury faction, this wing of the Demo-
cratic party seemed to be without a
leader, and the result brought be-
wilderment, and so the WOlcott fac
ton with many workers in the field
put their candidates across. MIR.
Jacobs stated he was very grateful
to his many friends for their etti-
cient work. The results of the cleo
ton at this point is a complete re-
buke for the Salisbury crowd, be-
cause in nearly every instance their
candidates lost the nominations. AS
has already been stated, Jacobs was
over Tharp, while Ray Cannon de-
feated S. o. Bailey. George W.
Brown, the present incumbent, at
one time during the evening gave
up and thought his opponent, Fred
P. Parker, had secured the nomina-
ton, but the latest check-up con-
cedes the nomination to Mr.. Brown.
William E. "Huck" Palmer, was
badly beaten for the nomination of
sheriff.
News Notes
With the opening of colleges and
business schools, most all of the
graduates of Harrington High have
made decisions as to what they ex-
pect to do. Ruth Stubbs and Will
liam Louder Masten are attending
Goldey College; Emma Derrickson
and George Taylor, Beacon Col
lege; Virginia Griffith, Lucille
Tharp and Emma Minner will enter
the University of Delaware; William
Taylor and William Moore, Wesley
Collegiate Institute, and Ada Rich
ards and Ellen Colbourn will start
training at the Jefferson Hospital
for nurses.
Mrs. Mary Waller has been a re-
cent Wilmington visitor.
Miss Loretta Paskey spent the
weekend at New York. While there
she attended the funeral of an uncle.
Joseph Doyle.
J. o. Smith, of Philadelphia, spent
a few days recently with his mother,
Mrs. Theo. Smith.
Miss Louise Layton, of near town,
was one of the successful winners of
a trip to Springfield, Mass, in the
national contest of the All Club
work. She is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Layton, and has |
carried off several State honors in !
years past.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Wix, of Bakers !
field, California, are spending ten |
day vacation with the formers par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Wix.
Work on the new fire house is
progressing nicely. The concrete
footings and part of the foundations
were poured Saturday and are now
being allowed to harden. Wix and
Harrington are the local contract
Ors and they expect to start laying
brick about the latter part of this
week.
Mrs. Harold Babbitt and son
Reynolds, of Thompson, Connecticut,
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. William G.
Wechtenhiser.
Rumor has been circulated around
that effective after the first of the
year the present railroad restaurant
will be closed, and the space in the
station occupied by the restaurant
will be converted into an express
office. The other portion of the
building will be used as a train
masters Office, in charge of Train
master J. B. White, who has been
transferred from Georgetown. A. F.
Shears, a former Harrington boy, is !
a clerk in the office and will also 10
cate here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenzo Jones are ,
spending a vacation with relatives
in the New England States.
Miss Emma Downes entertained
her niece, Miss Eleanor Downes, of !
Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brinton Raughley, of
Phila., spent the weekend with the
formers mother, Mrs. Matte
Mr.. and Mrs. John Masten have
been entertaining Mrs. Jacob Wood
ruff, of Glenolden, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford Bailey, of :
Georgetown, called upon Mr.. and ! !
Mrs. H. c. Tee on Sunday: A.
DR.. Howard Clymer, of Philadel-
phia, spent the weekend with his !
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Clymer. l
Algier Smith, of Wilmington, {
spent the weekend with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Smith.
Harrington Now Has Jail
Ever since the old fire house was .
demolished TO make room for the +
new fire house, this town has been r
without place to lock up prisoners 7
Tor safe keeping until given trial. r
During the past week Town Council A
purchased one all-steel cell and in r
he near future will place an order Z
or two more. The cell has been as r
iembled and portion of the Pass =
more building will be used until the Z
lew fire house is completed. =
A special meeting of the Harring- r
on Fire Company was held last g
evening at which time matters per-
aiming to the construction of the
lew building were discussed. 1t was c
Iecided to name a building superin- y
endent to look after the construc- Z T
ion. Frank H. Van Gesel, financial .
ecretarY of the company and a =