Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19

Death occurred to Beniah Ander-
son, aged rs years, early Tuesday
morning, August 8, following the
paralystic stroke which effected him
while in the First National Bank on
Monday. The first stroke struck Mr..
Anderson eight years ago. Mr.. An
derson was a widower and resided
whit two of his children. He was
born on the Anderson Homestead,
near town, and has been a farmer
for number of years. In later years
the farm was managed by his sons.
Funeral services were held from the
M. P. Church last Friday afternoon
at 2 o'clock the services being in
charge of Rev. c. c. Day, of Phila-
delphia, former pastor, assisted
by Rev. R. w. Sapp. The deceased
is survived by four children, Beniah
Anderson, Jr., Philadelphia; Mrs.
Mary Williams, near Greenwood;
William Anderson, a rural mail car
rier, and Miss Myrtle Anderson, Har-
rington. Three brothers also sur
vive: Ezekiel Anderson, Milford;
George Anderson, ,Keensburg, N, J.;
Charles Anderson, Springfield, Ill.
There are also three half sisters and
one half brother surviving. Mr.. An
derson had just returned from a
visit to his son in Philadelphia. IN
terment in Hollywood cemetery, near
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert X. Jones are
occupying a cottage at Rehoboth for
the balance of August and until La
Dor Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Shockley
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Tee will
spend next week at Ook Orchard.
Elbert Thawley has returned to
Jacksonville, Texas, after spending
two weeks with his parents, Mr.. and {
Mrs. E. F. Thawley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Donovan
have moved from the Townsend |
property on Dorman street, to the |
Jester property on Wolcott street.
The mercantile section of the Har-
rington Chamber of Commerce met |
at the store of Smith & Raughley
last evening and made preliminary
plans for their annual dollar day to
be held in the near future. /
\ John P. Masten is making altera-
tions to the store room recently oc-
cupied by the A. & P. Tea Company
1t is reported that the store has
been leased to a party from Centre
vile for a general store. Among the
improvements will be the lowering
of the floor to street level doing away
with two steps to enter the store.
Harrington now has two dentists,
DR.. ]. R. Willis of Dover, who has
office hours here twice a week, and
DIR. Emory, of Maryland, who will
open an office in the Reese Theatre
Building next week.
The Harrington firemen respond
ed to their first call in six weeks,
when they were called out to exiting
uish grass fire at the home of Mrs.
G. Hearn Laws. The fire was eXtin-
guished before the firemen arrived ]
any damage to property.
Mrs. Isacc Hurd, of Chester, Pa, is
spending this week with her parents, {
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Billings. II
Mrs. Carrie Irons, of Dover, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. R. F. Thomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. ]. King are spend
ing some time at Rehoboth. I
Every baseball fan in this town is !
happy because the local ball tossers
met FELTON,, their old rivals, on the
local diamond Saturday afternoon, {
and administered a coat of white !
wash. Downes, who usually has the
indian sign ON Harrington, slipped g
4 cog and permitted eleven hits, One
Of the main features of the game was
he wonderful hurting of Yam" Le-
Gates, who permitted but five wide j
y scattered hits, only one visitor t
reached second and then not until {
he ninth, when Johnson singled over
second, the next hitter walked. Le- S
Gates famed ten and won his own S
game with two screaming triples and
/ single out of three trips to the n
)late, scoring three runs. Lord also v
shares the hero honors when he a
mote a Downes pitch over the new
eft field fence, he was the first to n
accomplish this feat. The ball was n