Milford chronicle., 1928-11-09
HAPPENINGS IN
II AND ABOUT TOWN

You have to cultivate good habits.
The bad ones grow wild.
Loves blind, but that shouldn't
make a girl kiss everybody.
The bottom rungs of the social
ladder have been kicked out.
It's a great life if you don't believe
in everything you see, hear, think or
know.
There are people who never lose
an opportunity to enjoy being mis-
cradle.
The man with six children knows
more about shoes than the man who
makes shoes.
The incest thing about neighbor's
children is they never turn out as
badly as you expect.
Be ready for the taggers on NO
vember 10. They are out for the
Alumni Scholarship Fund.
About the only debating a man
can get away with now is what he
pays the stenographer to take.
One of the needs of the times is to
impress on many persons the I'M
portance of slowing up at curves.
Saturday, November 10, is Alumni
Scholarship Fund tag day. Meet the
"Taggers" with smile and open
pocketbook.
The Ladies Aid of Milford Neck
will meet this Friday evening, NO
vember 8. Special program by the
committee, Mrs. Anna May and Ida
Bennett.
The regular meeting of the W. c. !
T. U. will be held at the home OF
Mrs. Clara R. Pierce, East Front
street, Tuesday evening, November
19. Text word "Rejoice."
The Epworth League, with Miss
Elizabeth Hammond as leader, will
have an Armistice Day program on
Sunday evening. The League begins
at GAS. Everybody is welcome.
Harvey Maloney, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Maloney, of Milford
Neck, who is a patient at Brandy
wine Sanatorium, received 1O1
birthday greetings from Milford
friends on his recent birthday.
Rev. ]. Franklin Bryan's subject
at the morning service at the Meth
odist Protestant Church next Sunday
will be "The Glory of Autumn" In
the evening the subject will be Tn
slant Decision Urged" or "The OPP
perfume Time-Now."
Revival services will commence at
DrnfnCf1nf
Church on Sunday, November Is.
Prof. Charles A. Burkett, song lead
er, of New Jersey, will assist and
will have an augmented choir. The
pastor will do the preaching.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Avenue NJ. E. Church,
will meet in the chapel next Tues
day afternoon, November 19, at 2:SO
o'clock sharp. We will have as our
guest, Miss StouffeT, returned mis-
sionary from Burma. The ladies of
the auxiliary who would like to
meet Miss Stouffer more intimately,
are invited to join us in a box lun-
cheon in the chapel at l p. m. 1t will
also be the day for our annual pea
nut gathering.
On next Monday afternoon, No I
vember II, a tea will be held in the
home of Mrs. George w. Marshall for
the Red Cross workers of Milford
and vicinity and their friends. Miss
Marjorie carp, the executive secre-
tary, will be present and will give
an interesting talk. Due to an error,
it was published in last weeks
that Shawnee Methodist
Protestant Church donated So to the !
Red Cross. 1t was StaytOnsville I
Church which donated the money. {
The Milford Basketball Team
has re-organized this year, and they r
will play any town, club or fraternal c
.eam within a radius of 35 miles. At .
he first practice the boys showed
form, with Capt. Frank
e Sapp and WoOten, an ex-high
captain, at guards; Griffith and LET
v Wroten, last years high school r
forwards, at the basket positions,
md Thomas and Holleger, two new r
.omers, fighting it for the pivot box.
Any teams wishing games write
Roland de Walls, Milford, Del, man
lger.
Captain Ethel Bernard, prison mis- F
,ionary for the State of Delaware,
of America, has just c
completed a very successful cam
)aign in Milford and wishes to take N
his means of thanking Mayor Kirby,
Chief Johnson, the management of
he theatre and the Boy Scouts for a
heir kind cooperation, as well as o
Ill business houses for their cheer Ii
ul and liberal response. Captain n
3enard feels the community has il
-erv substantially aided her cause s.
n the great time of need and the CT
Jolunteers will be most willing at d
nv time to serve the community in W
nv way needed. The headquarters a
or this State are at Ill East 4th c
treet, Wilmington. Phone 7279M. B