Milford chronicle., 1935-09-13
SELBYVILLE
Church News


Minerva Pepper, Mrs. Alberta Wat
son and. Mrs. Roberta Morris filling
their respective places. After the
:. business meeting had adjourned the
entertainment chairman, Mrs. Del
phia Davis then took charge and rem
dered a solo For Christ And The
Church." after which the program
varied from the usual order and the
remainder of the evening was taken
up with an experience meeting
each one present giving an account
of how they had spent the summer,
since the last meeting in May. A
nice collection of varied and widely
/, different experiences were related,
and thoroughly enjoyed.
Mrs. Madeline Holloway was chair
man of refreshments and with Mrs.
Davis and Mrs. Catherine Brown
served delicious lemonade, nabiscos,
chocolate and vanilla waters.
Due to the rain and electrical
storm on Thursday evening several
of our church people were detained
from attending the convention of the
Baltimore Hundred Council of Re
ligious Education, held at ROxana
/ Church. However a few did attend
in the afternoon.
The Rev. E. NJ. Shockley preached
as usual on Sunday morning. his text
being Isiah q and 12-"The watch
man said. The morning cOmeth."
At o'clock in the evening DR.. j.
]. Bunting, superintendent of Sails
bury District, preached his first Of
fetal sermon from the text, Let
double portion of thy spirit be upon
me-taken from the 9Th verse of the
second chapter of second Kings.
Immediately following the close of
the sermon. Dr.. Bunting presided
over the second and third Quarterly
Conference at which time the Rev. T.
and Mrs. Shockley were unanimously /
invited to return for another confer (
ence year, the motion for the invi- /.
tatiOn having been made by Mr.. w /
A. Tubbs and seconded by Mr. IRA
Long.
We were pleased to have our Or
ganist, Mrs. Hester Dunn back on
Sunday, both morning and evening
after an absence of a few weeks due
to illness.
Mrs. ShOckley was hostess to the
WOmen's Home Missionary Society I
noon, with the president and secre-
tary, Mrs Ida McCabe and Mrs. Ethel
Long in their places tor the first
meeting of the fall
News Items In General
The rainy weather of last week
reached its Climax on Friday morn
ing. when the rain continued to fall
in torrents flooding the town, doing
serious damage to growing vege-
tables, drowning chickens, aDd MAX
ing travel impossible for pedestrians
to go dry shod and in many places .
of the surrounding community driv-
ers of motor vehicles found, travel
very difficult due TO wash-Outs. and
the depth of water on the highways. I
A wash-out occurred on the side of
the concrete bridge over Bunting's
mill pond near town. but was soon
made safe for passing by the State F.
Highway Department. MIR. and Mrs.
Robert Hosier had several chickens
drowned at their home on North
Main street. and in the office of the
lumber plant of the Messrs. l. w.
and Ura Long on Railroad Avenue
the water reached a depth Of several
inches and lime and cement in the
warehouse was damaged to some ex-
tent. This is said to be the heaviest
rainfall ever known in lower Della
ware, trains having been delayed for
several days and delivery of the L.
S mail was delayed until Saturday
afternoon, when the same came in
by truck. At the time of this writ
ing on Tuesday, the weather is still
quite unsettled.
Miss May Caffay of Baltimore. was
a guest of Mrs. |. Lafeld Long on J
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Jarvis and 7
Norman, Jr.. of town and Mr.. and !
Mrs. Samuel Layton of near town at
Tended surprise party on Saturday /
evening, given by Mrs. Elisha Hud- Il
son of FrankfOrd, in honor of her 4
husbands birthday anniversary. q
Mrs. Beulah McCaDe had the mis- I
ortune to fall down flight of steps p
asst week sustaining very painful
INJURIES, but fortunately no bones Il
we're broken. She is now up and ;,
Ible to perform her duties, though 4
lot fully recovered from the effects :.
Mrs Maggie Davis with her son !
Tesse and her son-in-law, DR.. James }.
dartin of Magnolia, all former resi- I
lents of this town were recent visit !
rs at their former home here and +
pent a short while calling on old L
riends.
Mrs. Allie Thompson of Brooklyn, h
I. Y, is spending a few days with II
Ter mother. Mrs. Arabelle Murr9v
nd other relatives here. t
Mr.. c. Fl. Pepper spent the week b
nd in Claymont as the guest of his
laughter, Mrs WoOdburn James and d
amily. "
Mrs. Frank A. Holloway took her a
on Charles Dukes, To Georgetown
N Monday where he is spending a ct
ew days with his grandmother, Mrs.
ames P. Dukes. u
After an absence of two weeks, r.
1r and Mrs. Charles W. Wilgus re-
urned to their home here on Friday -
light, Mrs. Wilgus having undergone \,
series of ten very trying but sue ',
essful treatments for the restOra- s'
ion of the lost vision of her left
ye, at the Jefferson Hospital in u
The treatments were II
I the form of sweat baths" forcing u
temperature of 106 degrees and al
-ere very trying Ordeals. but the re-
ults have been quite satisfactory. di
Ir. Wilgus stayed with his wife in p
le hospital during the day and G
Dent the nights at the home of M. W
nd Mrs. Carl Pepper Mrs. Wilgus
ill return for an examination in tn
bout four weeks. Is
Mr.. Frank A. Long who also en- an
red Jefferson Hospital as patient