Milford chronicle., 1935-07-12
GE0RGET0WN
Rotary CIdb Needing

DR.. W Blaine Atkins, Of Millsboro,
was Id charge Of the program OF the
Georgetown Rotary Club last Fri
day night. The speakers of the eve
ming were his wife, and Mrs. Helen
WeBt. the latter living near here,
who spoke on their recent trip to
Mexico City where they attended the
sessions Of Rotary International.
Extensive Street Improvements
Work Of widening, paving, cnrbing
and guttering Market street, here. a
distance OF nearly two miles, Is be-
ing pushed to completion by the
State Highway Department. In some
sections the sidewalks. have been re-
dueed in width 50 as to allow more
room for traffic. Fireplugs have
been moved in so to allow the lay
ing Of eurbs. New gas lines have
been laid from Front street to King,
a distance 0f about five blocks,
Cables are being put down so that
lamp-posts may be installed from the
Sussex County Court House to South
KINNEY street, and lights used in
the business section having 400
candle-pOwer. When the new lights
are installed, there will be an in
crease Of 4,1O0 candle-pOwer from
the Public Square and Court House
to King street. City Councilmen are /
planning to make Market street, in
the business area, the best lighted |
of any in lower Delaware. Large /
gangs OF men are at work, and II I
would appear from the activities that I
the depression never hit this section |
nf .FnnIaWnFn MOaf ,f kha Ioh tas ]
being furnished through the Federal /
Employment Office here. The work /
is a Federal aid project
Jury Dlsagrees In SubOrnatlOn OF |
Perjury Case
Carl w. Lauer, of near BridgeVille,
indicted for subOrnatiOn OF perjury, /
was placed on trial on Friday, June
2Sth. The case was concluded on
Tuesday afternoon, July 2nd. and the
jury disagreed. Ten were for ac-
Quittal and two for conviction. Lauer,
on March 11th, while returning from
the Old Mill Inn, near Preston, Nd, II
was placed under arrest by High
way Officers Joseph, H. Holt and K
George E. Minner, Of the Bridgeville
Police Station, on the highway lead
ing from Wainwright's garage to
Bridgeville, on a charge of operating
a car while under the influence OF
liquor At hearing before Megis-
trate William II. Hewes, at Bridge
vile, Miss Alice West and brother
Elmer, and Clark Baker, all Of near
Bridgeville, are alleged to have
sworn that Lauer was drunk. Lauer
took an appeal, and on April 4th the
nVtnna1 T. !
Of General Sessions here. Miss West,
her brother Elmer, and Baker testi-
ned in the appeal case and surprised {
Attorney-General P. Warren Green I
by giving different testimony from {
that which they are alleged to have
given in the office of Magistrate I
Hewes on March 18th. They all tes- {
titled that he was not intoxicated and
was capable of operating the ma
chine. At the trial on Friday of last |
week and on Tuesday of this week, ]
they admitted that they had testified
falsely at THE trial on April 4th. Fol- '
lowing the trial on April 4th they I
were arrested on charge4of perjury (
and held in S5O0.OO bail by Magistrate {
W. Frank Sharp here. At the same A
time a sister of Lauer, Catherine, was
arrested and held in $500 bail. It a
was claimed that she also had testi- a
fed falsely. At the trial on April S
4th the jury, disagreed in the appeal 3
case. ]
Dies At Age OF SO Years c
Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Tunnel, aged I,
SO, widow Of Wilbur F. Tunnel, died G
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. b
Mary Lee Robinson, on West Market L
street, here, Tuesday afternoon of
last week, after an illness Of six N
years. Mrs. Tunnel was born on o
April 7th, 1916. in Nassau, Bahama P
Islands, and came to this country O
when a young woman. Her husband. F
the late Wilbur F. Tunnel, who died K
in 1917, was for many years cashier T
of the Farmers Bank Of the State of d
Delaware, here, part owner of the Il
Georgetown Water Company and the 81
Georgetown Ice Company. Since the ct
death of her husband she had been A
living with her daughter. For half
century she was one of the leading S;
members of Wesley M. E. Church tn
Funeral services were held private Oh
ly at the home of Mrs. Robinson on df
Friday morning at 10 o'clock, in b
charge of the Rev. Omar E. Jones. Fl
pastor of Wesley M. E. Church. In M
terment was made in Union Gene bu
terry, on South Race street, here. Be- Ii
sides her daughter. with whom she
lived, she is survived by one son. Of
Harry E. Tunnel, an engineer con- OF
nected with the Delaware State We
Board Of Health, an adopted daugh- We
Ter, Mrs. Hugh T. Downing, OF Pal mi
nyra, N j., two grandsons. John S. to-
and Asbury X. Tunnel. Of Philadel- Ea
Dhia. ia
DAILY Vacation Bible school A Great 50
Success Z
The Georgetown-Milton Daily Va Re
,ation Bible School has closed for tri
hi sseason. Last Sunday night a ma
service was held in Wes- too
ey M. E. Church. The, exercises con- Tn
listed mainly of the presentation by thC
he children Of the work Of the the
chpol. Handwork was on display An
n the Jones Memorial Hall, near
he church. an
This is the sixth school Of this kind n.
o be held in Georgetown, and the Mr.
fifth as a community school shared Ne
y Milton. This year was the most I'd
ever held. The enroll 4
1ent was 176 children and 43 teach Pei
RS and helpers. Twenty-three chill Gel
rem and eight teachers came from Jul
Hilton. All churches of Georgetown wit
nd Nflfns4 r.tor1 ,.ar,,s,c sa1ffod IN fhn wa