Milford chronicle., 1933-07-07
AFFAIRS OF HARRINGTON
Fire Company Affairs

portant business of the Harrington
Fire Company was the only business
transacted at their regular monthly
meeting held in the fire house oil
Monday evening. II. c. Tee acted al
secretary. The report of the treas
urer disclosed a balance of about
$3.50. During the past month the
fremen renewed notes and reduced
indebtedness on their engine to $3.50
They have also ordered more rubber
coats and with their arrival, each
man in the company will be provid-
ed with his own individual coat and
hat. Each garment will carry a
small identification tag and he will
be assigned a certain place for his
own equipment.
During the month of June the
company responded to three alarms
according to the report of the Fire
Recorder. One call to Lincoln City,
one call for a truck of produce on
the highway and one chimney fire in
town.
The application for membership
of c. Tharp, Harrington, was accept
ed and referred to a committee;
they Immediately reported favorable
and the candidate was unanimously
elected to active membership.
All outstanding bills against the
company were ordered paid. The
company decided to cooperate with
Delmar, and will at least send one
engine to Delmar next week for their
parade, and as many men as can go.
The equipment will be in charge of
Second Assistant Chief, Claude Ca
hall.
Union s. s. Picnic
Preliminary plans for the annual
outing of the NJ. P. Sunday school
were made last Sunday when the
superintendent announced the names
of different committees to arrange
for the affair. The school voted to
make the picnic a union affair with
the M. E. Sunday schools. The COM
mittees of both schools will get to-
gether in a short time and announce
the date. Committee on arrange
ments. ]. E. Warren, Robert Sipple
and Harry Boyer; sports committee
Harry Holloway, Earl Greenhaugh
and Willard Lynch. Refreshment
committee. Clifford Raughley.
Boy Scouts Camp
&. Troop No. AS, Boy Scouts, one of
several troops from Wilmington out
on Good Will tours of lower Della
ware. left home Monday going direct
to Delmar. Tuesday they spent in
Seaford and arrived here Wednes-
day afternoon for a twenty-four
hour stay. The boys made their
camp in Del-Mar-Va Park just north
of Harrington along the State High
way. They were met by members
of the local troop who arranged to
entertain them while here. Each
night they hold camp fire councils
in which the local troops partici-
pate. The purpose of the visit to
lower Delaware is to stimulate in
terest in the Scout movement. Dur
ing their stay they demonstrate
scouting and camp craft. The boys
Of Troop As are full of life and visit
points Of interest in each town. They
seemed to be amused to find the To-
cal Jail in the basement of the fire
house. They also said they were
ably protected in the different COM
munities by local police. Troop AZ
is in command of Patrol Leader Bill
Daudt, assisted by Glen Miller, as
sistant patrol leader. The other
members of the patrol include: Bill
Josephs, John Clark, Bill Perkins,
Tom Barnes, Leroy Phillips, and
Eugene Baker. Yesterday afternoon
the troop moved on to Camden
Wyoming for the night and today
they head for Port Deposit, Md, be-
fore returning home.
Mrs. Scott Passes
This community mourns the death
of one of its oldest citizens, Mrs.
Isabel Scott, who would have been
"a years old in about two months.
Mrs. Scott had made her home with
a daughter for many years and was
very feeble for some time. She died
wednesday. June, 2Sth, from the in
firmities of old age. She is sur
Yived by two daughters, Mrs. Annie
Cooper, Harrington, and Mrs. Emma
Wyatt, Greensboro, Md; two grand
children, Mark Cooper. Harrington,
and Betty Abbott, Hobbs, Md, also
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Baseball News
Harrington made it three in a row
when they nosed out fredericksburg
on the local diamond yesterday af-
ternoon. The locals hold a slight
edge in a to 1 score up until the
9Th. Shaw erred on a ground ball
that would have retired the side.
fredericksburg forged ahead when
two runs crossed the pan. The
breaks came to the locals in the 9Th.
Holloway first up tripled and scored
a moment later when a play at third
went wild, later the locals scored
another. In the 9th the visitors
were held scoreless. Yam" Le-
Gates was pitted against Fountain
allowing the visitors seven widely
scattered hits, while the locals
leaned on the ball for thirteen hits.
'.'Yam" Locates led with the stick,
getting three singles in three trips
to the plate. Masten and Morris
also collected two hits apiece. Long
led the visitors at bat with two
singles.
Harrington played at FELTON, last
Saturday and lost a thirteen inning
game by the score of 6 to 4. FELTON,
will play at Harrington Saturday,
July 8th.
A balk by Truitt in the 7th in
ming of the morning game saved Wy
oming from two white washings in |
a double bill played Tuesday be-
fore a record breaking crowd of |
holiday baseball fans. At Wyoming |
Holloway crossed the pan for the
first run when hit to deep right |
field was misjudged by Jackson. Lol-