Milford chronicle., 1930-12-12
HARRINGTON
Harrington Firemepy Elect
0ficerS-COnteSt For Chief

4 AS the result OF the annual cleo
ton OF officers of the Harrington
Fire Company held Monday evening,
the business of the company will be
transacted by a new set of officers.
George w. Swain presided over the
meeting. The treasurer reported a
balance of $1,031.67y He was in
structed to place one thousand dol
lars in a separate fund toward the
purchase of new equipment. The
Ladies' Auxiliary at one of their re-
cent meetings also placed five hun
dred dollars in an equipment fund.
The report of the fire recorder
showed one alarm during the month
of November. John Pitlick, Jr., was
unanimously elected to membership
in the company. Acknowledgment
was made of the receipt of two cash
donations from Tharp Galloway and
Mrs. Laura Rust, of Pennington.
Following the regular business of
the evening, election of officers took
place and in some cases the election
was very close. At the November
meeting it was discovered that some
of the members were not satisfied
with the personnel of the company
and could not reach an agreement
on the nomination. The matter was
finally settled when a nominating
committee was named to select can
didates for office. They named two
tickets with the result that Stanley
#. Massey was elected Chief over
George w. Cain, who has held the
Go, l,o fhVno Mac
sey defeated Cain by one vote. Chief
Cain succeeded George B. Potter
three years ago and has a record
that he should be proud of. He
missed but one call during the first
year and only two calls in 1929 and
has missed but two calls this year.
Since the result of the election has
become known, some little discord
ha sarisen in the ranks of the COM
pany and no one envies the job that
will go to Chief-elect Massey. The
new chief will select his two assist
ants at later date. The next Of
flee of importance was that of chief
engineer, former Chief Cain was
first named for the office and re-
fused to serve. David Harrington,
the present chief engineer, stood the
next highest on the list and was
named for the office. Mr.. Harring-
ton was not present at the meeting
and rumOrs are curren that he would
not serve. Some of the present
drivers should they be named next
year will not serve if certain parties
happen to be selected for Chief En-
nrd n
president of the company, succeeds
George w. Swain. w. r. Massey
was elected to the office of vice
president, the other officers were
reelected as follows: recording sec
retary, Randall Knox; financial sec
retary, Frank H. Van Gesel; treas
urer, Theodore r.. harrington fire
recorder, Harry c. Tee. In accord
ance with the new bylaws adopted
some time ago, they specify that a
a board of directors of nine MEM
bers shall have control of much of
the work of the company. They are
elected for one, two and three years.
The result was as follows: directors
for one year, Randall Knox, W. T. !
Moore and W. r. Massey; directors
for two years, D. B. Tharp, L. T.
Jones, and Harry S. Harrington; di-
rectors for three years, H. E. Quill
len, Lewis Clymer and w. W. Sharp.
They are required to meet as soon
as practical and organize and then
meet once a month thereafter.
Harrington Century
Club Notes
The Harrington Century Club held |
its regular meeting Tuesday after
noon with Mrs. ]. L. Harmstead in |
the chair. The Club Collect was
read by Mrs. Fred Bailey. Mrs. Mary |
Sweegan and Mrs. Charles Murray |
were unanimously elected to MEM
bership in the club. The club de-
cided to place iron hand rails along
each side of the front steps. A let
ter of thanks was read from Mrs.
W. o. Finch, a member of the club,
who was sent flowers during her re-
cent illness.
New rules have been adopted in
regards to the library books, the Ii
brarian spoke briefly about the
rules and then advised the members
that books were now available. The
program committee, Mrs. Harriet
5. Harrington, Mrs. Elizabeth Bar
ow and Mrs. Ezekiel Anderson then
.ook charge of the meeting. Their
.opic being, Delaware Colony Day.
The club was indeed fortunate in
having as speaker for the afternoon,
Howard Ennis, Superintendent of
Delaware Colony. He spoke at
ength on the work there, giving
lrief history of the buildings at the
colony. He also outlined the vari-
)us parts of the work and play of
he children confined there. He also
brought for display some carpet
and some needlework done
)y the inmates of the colony. The
,lub is deeply indebted to Mr.. Ennis
will be only one more meeting be-
ore the holidays, that will be held
leXt week and the topic will be
Christmas" The committee in
.harge will be Mrs. Ralph Butler,
Mrs. Howard Thistlewood, Mrs. Her.
nan Johnson and Mrs. Harrington
Truitt. A large attendance is de-
ired.
Harrington Notes
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson enter
aimed a number of friends at their
lome on Weiner avenue this week, {
When the hostess served a three
ourse dinner at 6:3O p. m. Follow
ng the dinner the following guests
njoyed bridge: DR.. and Mrs. w. T.
Jhipman, Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. Jones, j
Ir. and Mrs. James Cahall, Mr.. and
frs. John w. Sheldrake and Mr.. and ]