Milford chronicle., 1930-02-28
Georgetown

boarding with Sheriff Coy at the
county Jail here at the present time.
register of Wills G. Vannie Mes
s;ck has issued the following letters
The past week:
On the estate of Erasmus D. John
con of Indian River Hundred to
frank P. Johnson.
On the estate of Annie Catherine
Tingle of Baltimore hundred to Ed
car J. Tingle.
On the estate of Annie B Long Of
baltimore hundred to Ollie B. Nor
On the estate of William H. Hick-
man of Little Greek hundred to Har-
ley o. Riggin.
On the estate of John H. Bowden
of Baltimore hundred to Rosie NJ.
Moore.
The bake that was to have been
held by the ladies of st. Paul's
Parish has been postponed until Sat
urday, March 1.
Repairs have been made to the
property of the late Louisa J. An
derson on Laurel street, which is
now owned by John H. Joseph and
at this time is unoccupied.
A silver tea for the benefit of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society
will be given at the home of Mrs.
W. D. Adams, on Tuesday afternoon,
March 4, from to five o'clock. Ev-
I erybody welcome.
The Georgetown High School bas-
ket ball teams played Lord Balti-
more Saturday night, the former
winning both games the boys score
= being 1910; the girls 1911. Tues
day night in the Villa M. Jones
Memorial Hall the County Seaters
lost to the Bellanca Aircraft Field
team by score of 1920.
This section has been visited the
past few days by variety of wea-
ther. Monday was the coolest day of
the winter, the thermometer regis
, tering down to 6, and the latter part
of the week was spring or summer,
during which the thermometer went
up to 20 degrees.
DR.. Caleb R. Layton has returned
from the Beebe Hospital, Lewes,
much improved.
Mrs. Edward King was taken to
the Beebe Hospital, Lewes, for med
ical treatment last Tuesday night.
The Sussex County Levy Court on
Tuesday fixed the county's capita
ton tax at $1.00.
Frank M. Jones, Esq, Of this town,
has been elected secretary of the
Death Benefit Association, Jr. o. U.
A. NJ, for the thirtieth consecutive
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. LOran Ellis have mo-
we'd from Georgetown to Laurel
where the former is employed as a
mechanic. Mrs. Ellis, formerly Miss
Edna Donahoue, will continue to
hold her position as bOokkeeper for
the Georgetown Lumber Company,
driving here and returning to Lau-
rel daily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel ]. Layton of
this town left Wednesday for sever
al weeks visit to Florida.
Mrs. John Nelson of Washington,
D. c., is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Seymour Macklin, with
Mrs. George Nelson, who has been
in Door health for some time.
Thomas Conaway, aged rs years,
son of the late Thomas COnaway,
died last Friday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Charles Hickman, at
Marcus Hook, Pa, of heart trouble.
He is survived by his wife and sew
eraI children. Funeral and inter-
ment took place Sunday afternoon
at Providence M. P. Church, near
here. Rev. Gallagher officiating. The
deceased formerly resided near
Georgetown.
William H. Hurley, son of Daniel
II. Hurley, of this town, figures that
in the ten years that he has been
employed in the offices of the Penn
sylvania Railroad at Harrington and
Clayton he has Travelled between his
home here and those towns, making
the trip daily excepting Sundays,
total distance of 1896 miles, or
more than six times the distance
around the earth.
Engineer John R. Kitchens, Ed
ward Rose, William Kitchens, Ben
iamin Hammond, Walter Conaway,
Lloyd Stoeckel, Lloyd Short, How
ard Wilkens, George Barr and Har-
vey Wilson of the State Highway
Department, left Tuesday for Syra-
cuse, N. Y, to attend the sixth an
nual convention of the Association
of Highway officials of the North |
Atlantic States. In Wilmington they |
were joined by Gov. G. Douglass |
Buck, a former president of the AS
sociation, State Highway Engineer
W. w. Mack and other State High
way officials. They returned on Sat
urday.
Miss Edna Barr is spending few
days in Philadelphia.
Mrs. E. F. Pride has returned
from a brief visit in Wilmington.
George E. Hill was home from
New York a part Of the week.
Mrs. John r. Whaley is visiting
in wilmington and Philadelphia.
MRS. E. E. Wilson is spending a
few DAYS in Philadelphia with her
DAUGHTER, Mrs. Joseph B. Baker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Lambert, OF
Ticonderoga, N. z, are visiting the
latter's mother, Mrs. Anna Beach
and uncle, the Rev. S. D. Van Loan.
Mrs. Howard ]. Cooke is on Wis
It in Baltimore and Washington. she
left Sunday, being accompanied as
far as Claibourne, by Mr.. Cooke and
children and Mrs. Sallie Wagamon.
]. Samuel Carey, Of East Market
street. has been suffering for sever
al days from an abscess Of the head
and was under treatment in the
Marshall Hospital, Milford. She is
nom TnYIch imurOVed.
- T-L- m TovI0P and sister.