Milford chronicle., 1934-12-21
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y her mother, Mrs. Edith Lupton.
4 Mrs. o. H, Connolly is confined to
4 her home due to illness.
y The Lewes Rotary Club gave a
Christmas party for the old folks
4 OF Lewes, at the Caesar Rodney
Y Hotel, Monday evening. About 100
persons. between the ages of 90 and
> 81 years were present. The guests
z were entertained. by the singing of
Christmas carols and the recitation
E, OF appropriate pieces. A Christmas
& play was given by Miss Maurice
Holt, and old-time music on the
: banjo furnished by Mr.. Charles Lee
Aiken and Richardson Roberts, and
Christmas songs sung by the
y Rev. Irving Carpenter helped to
a make the evening an enjoyable one
4 by everyone.
= Wallace Hudson spent part OF this
e week here with his parents. Mr.. and
4 Mrs. Charles Hudson.
Mrs. ]. c. Burton and daughter,
Miss Mae, have returned home after
{ spending three weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. c. w. Bowser, at
Penn's Grove, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S. Morris
have left for Boston, Mass, where
. they will spend couple of months.
) Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Prettyman
: are spending few weeks in Smyrna
with their daughter and son-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hynson.
Jack and Rodney Evans are spend
ing their Christmas vacations in
Evanston, ILL.,, with their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald II. Evans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Graves and
I family spent Friday in Philadel-
phia, doing their Christmas shop
( ping.
Howard Teal spent the weekend
, here with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
/ William Teal. Sr.
Mrs. Fred Clifton and daughter, |
& Miss Nellie Clifton and Archie Brit |
tingham, motOred to Wilmington |
and West Chester. Pa. on Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Stevens spent
the weekend at Atlantic City with
friends.
The members of the Lewes Volun-
teer Fire Company will hold their
annual Christmas treat for the kid
dies on December gath, at o'clock
In the evening. The committee in
charge of arrangements for the treat
is composed of Edward. j. Suthard
and Harold Birmingham. All the
children are urged to be present and
enjoy the fun.
Edward j. Suthard has been elect
ed president of the Lewes Fire Com
pany succeeding William Walls and
MIR. Hall was elected fire chief sue
ceeding Theodore w. Bryan.
The Lewes Christmas formal dance 7
will be held in the Municipal Build
ing on Friday evening, Dec. 2Sth,
from $50 to 1.3O.
Music for the occasion will be
furnished by Ted Brownagle's pop
ular orchestra from Harrisburg, Pa. I
clayton II. Nelson is dance chair
man and his committee consists of
Miss Helene Carter, Miss Thelma
Chambers. Miss Hilda Chambers,
Miss Louise WescOat and Nellie
Clifton.
Family subscription is $500, which | (
entities admittance of members of
that family and includes five invt- Z
tations for out-Of-town guests. |,
Members Of the committee in 4
charge are: Miss Helen Carter z
SUBSCRIPTIONS; Miss Thelma Cham \
Ders' invitations and programs; B
ROBERT U. Hayes. decorations; Mrs. III
ralph Rust, out-of-town invitations; i 1.
MRS. Charles Aiken, refreshments; b
jackson Lynch, music. If
That Lewes and the surrounding 4
has been saved from an Y
epidemic of typhoid, by the mosqui- 7,
10 control draining of nearby1 L
slOughs and branches, is the belief u
expressed by Willis A. Russell, of n
Lewes, in letter received by the Z
executive officer of the MOSQUITO Is
control commission. I'D
Twelve to fifteen hundred acres r.
Of land from away back in the coun-
try drained on my twenty-five acres Y
Df marsh land, through a system of n
branches and lowlands. Before the x
control workers ditched Y
this and cleaned out the culverts, lIs
here were cesspools and ponds of B
stagnant water, eight inches TO a <
DOT deep all over the area; where =
Ill kinds of disease germs and mos q
luitoes bred. fully believe that r.
his drainage work has saved this Il
section from an epidemic that vas II
sure to come some day." n
The Delaware Mosquito Control X
Commission has for the last year u
,een utilizing the labor of two CCC r.
camps, 1924 and 1926, located at L.
ewes and. Slaughter Beach -espec- "
lively, cutting millions of feet of IA
iitches in the salt marshes of cas- kS
ern Sussex county, and cleaning the "
I'D natural bitches that wind m
through the higher ground 10 drain rs
rom far back inland. ~
Mr.. Russell states in his letter IA
hat he believes that large part of b
he mosquitoes that infested Lewes {
nd the surrounding countryside. kJ
red in the stagnant lowland that ~
Onstituted the western extremity of III
is farm land, which faces on his ~
Drie Pilot Town road, out OF LeWes, IN
nd extends about a mile TO the AS
outhwest along the Nassau-Lewes E
Dad iE,
I'm places that formerly constant ~
, held stagnant water eight inches M
, a foot deep, before the mosquito ~
Dntrol bitches were dug, l have H
nee walked dry footed" lie con- M
uded. ik%
Thomas Scott Pierce, 2o-year-old M|
ewes youth who is to be decorated hV
: General John J.. Pershing for kSSl