Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
BRIDGEVILLE


John Kern. president of the Local
Parent-Teacher Association, pre-
sided at the second meeting of the
year with about two hundred in at
tendance. Mrs. Dawson Todd, Jun
ior High School English teacher
was chairman of the program COM
mittee. She presented dramatiza-
tions of the first Thanksgiving Boys
and girls of the Eighth grade ap-
peared on the stage in the costumes
of that period, representing the out
standing characters of the first
Puritan settlement. as we'll as In
CLANS.
Music TYPICAL of he period fur
nisted by the east. under the GirrC-
ton of the music teacher. Miss Irma
Simpler.
An interesting paper was read by
Professor George 7. Macklin, super
intendent of the school, in which he
pointed out the aim of the school
for the month of December.
( The work of the Manual Training
Home Economics and vocational aS-
riculture departments were review
ed and the parents given an oppcr-
tunity to famiiiariEe themselves
with the produces OF these depart
ments by a display which was plac-
ed i'm the corridor ana the lobby Of
the school,
The next meeting will be held
January 16 under the direction of
Miss May Belts
The annual Senior Class play,
College Cut-Ups" was given Friday
evening in the school auditorium,
with a paid attendance of about 400
people.
The play had a cast of thirty boys
and girls and included the whole
Senior class. The affair went over
in a splendid manner and was much
enjoyed by everyone present.
The directors for the play were
Miss Irma Simpler, Thomas J. Gray
and Martin DoOrdan.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sallie /
A. Lewis. Sc years of age, widow of !
the late Charles r. Lewis, were held |
from her late residence on Broad |
street, Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Lewis suffered a stroke in
June and had been confined to her
bed since then. She was a member
of the Union NJ. e. Church and a
regular attendant until her illness.
She is survived by six sons, S. J.
Lewis, Delmar; c. c. Lewis. Lau-
rel; Joseph lewis, Wilmington; w.
C. Lewis, Ira Lewis and c. Victor
Lewis, of BridgeVille.
The brick work on the new addi-
tion to the Bridgeville schools is
about completed
Mrs. Elkton G. Adams returned
the first of the week from visit
with friends in Philadelphia and
Camden, N. J.
The Thursday Night Contract
Bridge Club met with Mrs. Joseph
Wiley this week.
Mrs. Leuetta Layton has returned
from a visit with her daughter, Mrs.
Hugh Breiden of LansdOwne. Mrs.
Layton will leave the last of the
month for California, where she will
spend the winter.
Sol Kline is erecting a filling sta
lion on the lot next to his store. The
Gulf Refining Company is leasing
The property and George Tuck will
be the manager.
The first basketball game of. the
season was played with FELTON, High
School on Tuesday evening of this
week.
Mrs. Lena Messick and Mrs. Eta
Gray Jones were in Dover on Sat
.rday where they attended the win
.er meeting of the Women's Auxil-
ary to the Commission of the Stock
ey Home for Feeble Minded. Plans
we're made for the making of cloth
ng for the girls of the Colony. The J
Home Economics girls in the diff
erent schools procured the meas
Irements of the girls at Stockley
md made garments for them as
heir spring project. Mrs. T. Cole
nan du POnt furnishes the funds