Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
GEORGETOWN

sex Trust Company.
On the estate of William H. Will
son of Georgetown hundred to An
drew J. Lynch.
On the estate of Annie D. Frame
of Northwest Fork hundred to Will
son Reynolds.
Clerk of the Peace John S. Cooper
has the past week issued a marriage
license to Charles w. Winborne of
North Carolina and Margaret E.
Kelley of GumborO.
Several Japanese beetle traps
have been placed on the lawn in
this town, the past week, by the
State Department; although so far
very few beetles have been found IN
this section.
Mrs. w. G. Harris with her Sunday
school class of twenty-seven girls
enjoyed their supper at RehObOth on
last Saturday evening. Later in the
evening they had hot dogs and
toasted marshmallOws on the beach,
with good music furnished by the
young men with banjos, guitars and
ukes.
Mrs. Walter Johnson of this town,
residing on South Railroad avenue
met with a painful accident Thurs
day afternoon while crossing Mar
ket street near the railroad. She was
hit by an automobile and Knocked
down, and received a severe cut on
the head and was cut and bruised in
several other places on her body;
fortunately no bones were broken.
She is doing as well as can be eX-
pected at this time.
There are now twenty prisoners
stopping with Sheriff Coy at the
county Jail here at the present
time.
Misses Charlotte King, Gertrude
Ennis, Elizabeth Scotten, Frances
McGinnis, Marian, Edna and John
Parker spent the past weekend at
Oak Orchard. They were chaperoned
by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank King.
James Baker of near ShOrtley
while on his way to the Beebe Hos
pital at Lewes to visit his wife, had
his arm broken in an automobile ac-
cident.
County Comptroller Eben A.
Townsend and deputy, Mrs. Roberta
A. Brasure, are making an audit OF
the different officials accounts in
order that they may make the semi
annual report to the Levy Court
Commissioners.
Edward johnson of Philadelphia
} is spending a few days with his
niece, Mrs. Lulu Wimbles, and other
relatives in this vicinity.
L. P. Faucet is having repaired
= and improved the 1. 1. Smith prop
erty. on South Frant street, which
was recently badly damaged by fire.
A stray dog visited the home of
! Clarence King, near town, the first
of last week and killed nearly 3OO
! chickens large enough for market.
Lemuel w. Swain, highly re-
spected citizen of this town, is SER
iously i'll from paralysis at his home
on North Front street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles P. Green
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Rogers, Miss
Anita Tyndall, Miss Betty Joseph,
Howard Green, Irwin Green, Lee
Booth, Cove Campbell and Miss
Lena Saxon, the latter of Dover, en-
joyed a delightful auto trip to At
lantic City on Sunday last.
Rev. M. E. Hungerford, pastor oi
GEORGETOWN M. P. Church, is assi5-
ting Rev. L. w. Gordon in revival
services at Burgess Store, "a. Mr..
Hungerford's pulpit was occupied on
Sunday morning by Rev. John A.
Wright, a former pastor of the
church, and in the evening by Rev
H. NJ. Ralph, pastor of the George
town M. E. Circuit.
The members of the Georgetown
Volunteer Fire Company and the
Ladies' Auxiliary wish to thank the
trustees of the Methodist Protest
ant and the Methodist Episcopa
Churches for their hearty cooper
alton during the Firemen's Con
vention. Also E. G. RyOn for the
use of his theatre and all other!
who so generously contributed ol
helped in any way.
The summer meeting of the Coun
ty Highway Officials Association o
Delaware was held Thursday at tht
Belhaven Hotel, Rehoboth; the Sus
sex county members of the associa
ton being the hosts. Charles e
Grubb, whose resignation as high
way engineer of New Castle count!
became effective on Tuesday, was a
the meeting in his new capacity al
engineer-executive of the count.
highway officials division of tn
American Road Builders AssOcia
tion.
The condition of Mrs. Andrew Mar
vel who last week underwent a sur
gical operation in Jefferson Hospi
tai, Philadelphia, is quite encour
aging and she is expected to be abl
to return to her home here in
few days.
Mrs. Joanna Vickers, aged 8
years, widow of Captain Washington
A. Vickers, died last Friday at tn
home of her sister, Mrs. Anna Else
in Altoona, Pa. Mrs. Vickers wa
we'll known and had many friends il
Georgetown, having resided her
for a number of years with her hus
band, who died the 23rd of last Feb
ruary.
Official inspection stations TO
testing the safety factors, of Della
ware automobile have been announc
ed for Sussex county as follows:-
, Hoch Brothers, Bridgeville; ].
Bryan, Seaford; G. T. Purnell, Lau
rel; A. Brewington, Delmar; Frank
; ford Garage, Frankford; Wright