Milford chronicle., 1929-08-09
Georgetown

Miss Helen Pittard entertained
twelve guests at dinner at Seasid,
Inn, Bethany Beach, on Sunday.
Mrs. E. w. Goodwin, Sr., Mr.. ant
Mrs. Earl Goodwin, of Wilmington
N. c., Mr.. and Mrs. G. Roland Mes.
sick, Misses Elizabeth and SaraI
Messick, of Milford, Miss Catherine
Rose, of Westmont, N. J., Miss Elsie
Rose, of this town, were entertain.
ed at dinner at Rosedale Clubhouse
Warwick, by Miss Sallie E. Messick
Wednesday evening.
George Asa Gray has opened a
new service station at the North end
of Bedford street, on the point of the
Milford and Bridgeville roads, and
will handle the Texaco products.
Letters on Estates
Register of Wills G. Vannie Mes
sick has issued the following letters
the past week: On the estate of
Carrie T. Bullock, of Northwest
Fork Hundred, to George w. Bull
lock; on estate of Carl P. Long, of
Baltimore Hundred, to Myrtle L.
Long.
This section the past week has
experienced some real hot weather.
The thermometer has registered
from 80 to 100.
Harvey G. Jones, a member of the
Georgetown Fire Company, lost his
spectacles last Wednesday while
riding on the truck to a woods fire
which started along the DUPONT
Boulevard, south of Stoeckelville.
Any one finding the glasses please
return to owner.
Elias r. Wilson, aged 33 years, 10
months and 26 days, son of Josiah
S. and the late Mary Wilson of this
town, died last Monday near Stock
ley. Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon in st. Johns
M. E. Church, Springfield, Rev.
Carr officiating, and interment made
in the adjoining cemetery. J. T.
Carey, funeral director.
There was preaching in Wesley
M. E. Church Sunday morning at
10:30 o'clock by the pastor, Rev. T.
F. Beauchamp. Preceding the SER
mon he gave to the children brief |
illustrated object lesson talk. Dur
ing the rest of August there will |
be no other service in the church,
unless notice to the contrary is |
given, the pastor having been grant
ed months vacation.
About $50 was realized from the |
bake held last Saturday by ladies |
of the M. P. Church.
Lima beans, tomatoes and late po-
tatoes are showing effects of a lack |
of rain in this section.
Lorenzo G. Wingate, 80 years old,
a Pennsylvania Railroad employee,
employed at Seaford, as assistant |
section foreman, died Tuesday
morning in the Salisbury Hospital,
where he was taken a week ago.
Mr.. Wingate was seriously injured
July 6, when a power car used by
the section men, jumped the track,
on the railroad at Seaford. He was
thrown from the car and dragged
some distance, suffering a fracture
Of the skull and other serious in
juries. Previous to moving to Sea-
ford he was employed in a similar
position in this town, where he was
born and reared. He was a son of
he late John G. and Julia Wingate,
If Georgetown, and had resided here ]
LII his life previous to moving to
Seaford. He is survived by his t
wife, who before marriage was Miss I
Minnie Rust, daughter of Mr.. and
drs. Rufus Rust, of Redden; two c
hildren, Helen and John; also two i
rothers, Major William H. Wingate
+ the Ferris Industrial School, Will Il
1ington, and Elijah Wingate, of n
Ianburg, Iowa, and two sisters, Mrs.
2. r, CaIlaway and Mrs. Isaiah E
ampbell, of Salisbury, Md. Funer- n
services were held at Hebron
hurch, near this town, on Thurs a