Milford chronicle., 1928-12-14
HAPPENINGS IN
AND ABOUT TOWN

$4S7 has been received by the so
licitors for the Red Cross, with TIVE
districts still to report
A meeting of the Advisory BoarC
of the Girl Reserves was held OF
Monday night at the Communit!
Building.
There will be a meeting of the
Business and Professional Girls il
the Community Building, Monday
December H. at 1880.
The Boys Band had their pictures
taken in the Community Building on
Monday night. These pictures may
be bought for 81 apiece.
The Girl Reserves held a Christ
mas party on Monday night at the
Community Building, playing games,
and each girl received a gift.
The annual Presbyterian Christ
mas Sunday school entertainment
will be held in the church on Sun
day evening, December %, at eight
o'clock.
A rummage sale will be held Sat
urday afternoon and evening in Ar
mory Hall by the Epworth League of
the Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The Kings Daughters held a meet
ing last Thursday afternoon to plan
their Christmas work. They are fill
ing 1876 stockings for the inmates of
Stockley SanatOrium.
The postoffice windows, beginning
Monday, will open at a. III. ana
close at p. NJ, lasting until Satur-
day evening. This is done to ac-
commOdate the public.
The Ladies Aid of Milford Neck
will meet this Friday evening, De-
cember IA. Entertainment commit
tee, Elmer Bennett and Raymond |
Bennett Everybody welcome.
The Ladies' Aid OF the Avenue |
M. E. Church will hold a bake on |
Saturday, December 18th, in the |
American Hat Shop. Save yourself
the trouble OF Saturdays baking and
buy your cakes, pies, bread and
other good things from this bake.
The Chummy Circle Club will give
a Christmas entertainment on We'd
nesday evening, December 19, in the
Shawnee M. P. Church at 7:45.
There will be two interesting plays
called Christmas in Skeeter's Cor
ner" and Christmas in Finnegan's
Flat" Everyone will enjoy them.
zoe.
The Milford Rotary Club had as
it's guests at its regular weekly
meeting on last Friday evening the
members of the Dover Rotary Club.
A very fine musical program was /,
given by the Dover Club. Milford
Will go to Dover in the near future,
1t which time the Milford Club will :
provide entertainment for the Dover
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University of Delaware students b
will have a longer Christmas vaca-
ion this year than usual. The Vaca- v
ion will start at noon on Friday, S
December q and will last until 1 "
iclock Wednesday, January 4. On F
heir return, however, the students p
will have the busiest month Of the Il
ear ahead of them as the mid-year b
start on January 25 II
nd end February 1. The second v
erm will start on Monday, February
Ic
There were about forty people
resent at the hospital party given tc
l the Nurses Home of the Milford 81
Hospital on Friday night df
{ last week. Prize winners we're
RS. Edwin p Messick, Mrs. James :
cNiven, Mrs. Wallace Burn, Mrs. -
arl Adkins, Mrs. William Watson, Sf
r NJ. Joseph and Harry Pierce. Mrs. &
r. R. Pierce was chairman of the rs
lrty. Mrs. G. Layton Grier, chair II
an of the cake sale. Mrs. Evans ~
oberts, chairman of the aprons and M
iss Edith Simpson of the candy. rs
was sold. g
On next Sunday morning at II o. gls
ock Rev. J. Franklin Bryan's sub &N
ct for his sermon will be "a Cloud &S
Witnesses of the Christian Race" BS
the evening his subject will be W
'urposes of the Incarnation. On ~
nday, December %, there will be E
Christmas service at the Methodist g4gss
CHURCH, with special mu- On
;, and in the evening there will be MS
pageant entitled "To All People," Ss
e Christmas treat and entertain GN
mt will be on Wednesday evening, "a
cember 26. An early Christmas IS
vice will be held at this church GG
Christmas morning at $50 $N
IN Wednesday night of last week AN
American Legion held meeting KS
the Community Building for the III
tallatiOn of officers for the ensu-I }.lS
term. They are as follows: 83
nes D. Abbott. Jr., commander; t2e a;
Y E. Wroten, vice commander; ~
lner Mitten, adjutant and treasur- S8
Samuel J. AIilman, sergeant-at-
rs; DR.. E. n. Matsinger, histor- 5ss
; Alonzo J. Deputy, chaplain. rs
st State Commander Earl Sylves- IN
of Harrington, installed the new S&
elected officers. There were about KS
members present. Following the ~
citing, the Legion had a supper at i9
Green and Rose Shoppe. S
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