Milford chronicle., 1928-12-07
| HAPPENINGS IN
II AND ABOUT TOWN

It's two weeks before Christina:
Day.
Anybody ever hear a dapper sins
Home, Sweet Homer
Nobody can see a man who is all
wrapped up in himself.
Grandad may have been a sod bus
ter, but not on the golf links.
Who remembers when girl with
an unattractive face had to let it go
at that?
College girls are taking up boxing.
They wrestle, also, but it is called
dancing.
About 75O,OOO,00O pencils are sold
in America yearly, but we can't
learn who buys them.
The reformer should be patient
with us. After all, the worlds wick
edness keeps him in job.
The W. C. T. U. will meet with
Miss Elizabeth Hammond, Tuesday
evening, December IL. Text word
Gift"
The Friendship Bible Glass will
hold a rummage sale at Armory
Hall. Saturday, December Sth, after
noon and night.
The distinction is this: A realist
believes what he sees. A visionary
is convinced he will eventually see
what he believes.
There are fewer self-made men
now than formerly, observes an ecu
Gator. Also, they've stopped putting
boot-straps on boots.
The Ladies Auxiliary Of the Mil
ford Emergency Hospital will hold a
card party in the nurses home On
Friday evening, December Z.
The Boys Band is going to have
their picture taken on Sunday in
front of the .Caulk Laboratory. These
pictures will be on sale at 81 each.
Don't forget the bake on Saturday,
December Is, next door to D. G.
Collins grocery store, under the aus
.pices of the Ladies Aid Society of the
M. E. Church.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Avenue M. E. Church will hold a
bake in the American Hat Store on
Saturday, December 18th. Don't
forget the date.
In the last generation, says a med
ical writer, man has learned to put
off death an additional 10 years, thus
marking another distinction between
death and taxes.
There is a good hearty laugh about
every ten seconds in "Take My Ad-
vice." and unusually good parts fall
to each member of the company.
Take my advice and see it. n
The collectors for the Red Cross
have done splendid work, having at
the present time turned in $422 and
there are still a few districts to be
heard from. This money has been
collected from Milford, Ellendale,
Houston and Lincoln. !
Something just little different is
promised at the Plaza Theatre on !
December 1S, when the offering will !
be the new comedy success "Take ]
MY Advice" which boasts Of run i
of several months at the Belmont
Theatre in New York. \
Col. Theo. Townsend, president of !
the Milford Chronicle Publishing v
Co., who has been confined to his r
home for the past three weeks fol- n
lowing a severe attack of acute IN +
digestion, is again able to be out q
and is spending a short time each
day at his office. =
The Firemen of Magnolia will 7
hold a supper on Thursday and Fri =
Law. December 6 and Z, from four to =
sight D. m. in the Red Mems Hall. :,
The menu will be ham, chicken sal q
Id, fried oysters, sweet potatoes, a
yravy, potato salad, rolls, butter, ~
ely, coffee, pickles, for seventy
i've cents. Ice cream and cake ex- Il
ra. 8
The revival services at the First T
Methodist Protestant Church Of Mil 4
ord closed on Sunday with big T
attendance at all three services. T
With about 300 people present at -.
10Th the morning and afternoon ser !"
ices. in the evening there was a
.rowd that overfowed the church. q
7our were received into the church el
asst Sunday and others will be re- a.
,eived next Sunday, when there Will W
10 holy communion. The subject OF W
he pastors address will be "A Re- u u
Iewal of Our Covenant With Christ" y
It 1880 D. m. his subject will be ~ ~
WinningH or "The Souls Longing y
iatisfied." 81