Milford chronicle., 1930-05-09
GEORGETOWN

OAl lllG COAdAC VI uoAACo Ns ~ -
OF Baltimore hundred, to Maggie r.
Gray.
On the estate of: DR.. George
Frank Jones, of Georgetown hun
dred, to Frances J. NAPLES.
There are ten prisoners stopping
with Sheriff Coy at the county jail
at the present time.
The Georgetown Firemen were
called to the home of Franvel Betts,
near town, on the Milford road, to
extinguish a chimney fire, which
they did in a quick time. They have
also been called out several times
during the past week to forest fires,
which owing to the dry weather, are
causing much uneasiness to timber
owners.
Members of the new P. T. A., or
ganized last month, numbering about
25, were given banquet in the Cen
tury Club Room, on Wednesday eve
ming. The officers are: Miss Laura
Richards, president; Harold w. T..
Purnell, vice-president; Mrs. Nellie
Lynch, secretary; Mrs. Flora T. Jo-
seph, treasurer.
An order of Daughters of Rebecca,
Ladies' Auxiliary of the order of Odd
Fellows, will be organized for MEM
bers of Georgetown next month by
the officials of Wilmington who have
been here this past week for cOu-
pie of days getting the members
ready.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank M. Jones, Har-
old w. T. Purnell, and George E.
Swain, were the Rotarians from
Georgetown who attended banquet
in Philadelphia, where there 1900
guests at one sitting. 1t must have
been a beautiful sight.
will sit in the office of the State
Tax Department, in the old Eagle
Hotel, on the Public Square, to ac-
cept and receive taxes, on the fol-
lowing dates: Monday, May 18th;
Tuesday. May 18th; and Wednesday,
May 14th, at the following hours,
from a. m. to II noon, from p. m.
to 6 p. m. and from Z p. M to p. IN.
An abatement of per centum will
be allowed. Howard J. Cooke, treas
urer of Georgetown, Delaware.
Midland Grange will hold a bake
on Saturday, May 10, at the home of
MIS- buu OOy AOA bShNAN ~ NA'N
Grange Building Fund.
MISS Carrie Henderson has pur-
chased the property on South Bed
ford street which formerly belonged
to the late Joseph G. Phillips.
Mrs. Catherine G. Walls observed
her 91st birthday anniversary on last
Wednesday at her home on Pine
street, and attended prayer meeting
in Wesley church at night. She was
recipient of many birthday cards,
flowers and other remembrances.
At a recent meeting of the George
twn Fire Company, a Ladies' AuXll-
iary was formed with the following
officers: president, Mrs. Walter
Townsend vice-president, Mrs. Har-
ry L. HolsOn; secretary, Mrs. How
ard wilkins; assistant secretary,
Mrs. Julius Green; treasurer, Mrs.
James Devin; executive committee,
Mrs. Bud Coy, Mrs. Charles Short
Mrs. Lavinia Johnson.
Cyrus Hatfield, Jr., has returned
from Wilmington and accepted po-
sltion in the office of Prof Allan
Hulsizer, director of the local Home
Demonstration School.
Announcement has been made OF
the marriage of Miss Verna Rogers,
daughter of Alfred Rogers of near
Millsboro, and Floyd j. Kitchens,
son of Noah Kitchens, of this town.
The ceremony was performed April
l8, in Salisbury, Md, by Rev. G. l.
Humphreys.
A mosquito parlor is an added i'm
provement to the residence of Mrs.
Mary Tunnel Robinson, on West
Market street.
Mrs. Annie Evans made mistep
and fell from the porch of Wesley
NJ. E. parsonage a few evenings ago.
Fortunately she sustained only some
minor bruises.
Mrs. J. Samuel Carey, of East
Market street, was on Monday taken
in the Sussex Post Ambulance to the
Peninsula General Hospital, at Sails
bury, Md, for medical treatment.
The firm of Jacob West & Son,
Cedar street merchants, has been
dissolved and the business taken
over by James A. West, the junior
member of the firm. All persons ow-
ing Jacob West & Son on book ac-
count or otherwise are hereby nOti-
fled to come forward and settle same
without further notice.
Teachers of the Georgetown High
School have been elected for the next
term as follows: Prof. Norman J.
Bond, superintendent; Prof Donald
]. Richey, English and physical edu-
cation; Miss Rosalie r. Martin, Eng
lish, French and history; Mrs. Naomi
Pepper Townsend, home economics
and science; Miss Lulu Moore, COM
mercial department; Miss Mary ID. |
Kiess, mathematics and science;
Miss Edith A. Nye, Latin and history; |
Miss Susie Collins, eight grade; Mrs. !
John Edward Dickerson, and Miss |
Elberta Lynch, seventh grade.
The first six grades of the school |
have become the new Demonstration |
School and are under the supervision |
of Prof. Allan HulsiZer for the next |
three years, according to an arrange |
men made some weeks ago between |
the Georgetown Board of Education,
State Department of Public Instruc-
tion and the Delaware Auxiliary AS
sOciation.
The new demonstration school is
the only one of it's kind in Delaware
and one of a few in the United
States.
Already three lower Delaware
teachers-Anita George, this town;
Mildred E. Warren, of Ellendale, and
Myrtle jefferson, living near here,
are away attending school to pre-
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