Milford chronicle., 1936-12-18
LEWES

Marsh, president Of the Delawar
hurai Electric Association, to sui
tnit bid to furnish current for an
proximately 1000 dwellings in Sus
sex ard Kent counties. In order \
service the associations proieet
mas been estimated that $4,000
worth Of addition equipment woul,
be needed here. In addition, IN,
charter would have to be altered an,
the organization enlarged. Tn,
Board OF Public Works is giving III,
proposition consideration, Il ba,
been announced by the secretary, G
Z. Marshall and will announce IL.
decision after the first Of the year.
The 1853 enrollees Of Compapv 1924
OF the Lewes CCC Camp will be Civ
en- hve day leave, It has been an
nounced by the commanding officer
Captain Earle +. Ewing. Half Of the
camp personnel will begin their
leave on Tuesday, December %. and
return on December %. and the re-
naming half will begin their yaca-
uon on December 20 and return on
January 3. The annual Christmas
dinner of the camp will be held un-
der the direction of Mess Sergeant
Henry Peigh of Delmar, in the mess
hall on December 21. The music will
be In charge of Edward Andrews of
Wilmington.
The Lewes Chamber of Commerce
will hold its last meeting of the cur
rent year on Wednesday at the Caes-
ar Rodney Hotel. it has been an
nounced by the president. Capt.
Thomas J. Virden. A nominating
committee will be appointed for the
selection of officers for 1887, to be
voted upon at the January meeting.
The RehObOth Beach Volunteer Fire
Department will hold a bingo party,
Friday evening to raise funds for
the annual children's Christmas
treat.
Mrs. Albert NJ. Lupton of Lewes
announces the engagement Of her |
daughter, Miss Virginia Louise Lup- |
ton, to Albert D. Keller, son of Mr.. !
and Mrs. Horace D. Keller of York.
Pa. Miss LuptOn is the daughter of |
the late Albert NJ. LuDtOn and the |
granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
P Tunnell of Lewes. Mr.. Keller
graduated from Swarthmore in 1928.
He is a member of the firm of the
York Hoover Body Corporation.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Justus B. NaylOr
spent Thursday and Friday in West
Chester and Philadelphia. On Sum
day, Lieut.. and Mrs. Naylor were the
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
yey Allen at their home "BOniield
Manor" in Oxford, Md.
Tales of pirate gold were retOld
around the firesides of the seafaring
towns of Lewes and RehobOth Beach
this week following finding of six |
British coins, 155 years old, near the
Indian River Inlet on Sunday. The
coins, three of which were in a re-
fine state of preservation,
we're discovered by Joseph Shek of !
Lewes, and Henry Carlisle, of Re-
hobOth, as they were strOlling along G
the ocean front between the dunes
and the inlet Declaring he believed n
.he money to be part of the Teputed L
lost on the British d
sloop of war, De Braak, which sank c
near Cape HenlOpen in May, 1898, b
Nr. Shek told of finding other coins Il
Turing the past few years near the Z
iame spot. All the coins were of q
inform size and bore on one side p
head of George III and the words n
iHibernia Georgius III, Rex" On the s.
,acks of two of them was a harp b
With a crown resting on top, while T.
n the third was the figure of a wO-
nan, seated, and carrying what ap- v
ears to be a sceptre in one hand 81
nd a branch of leaves in the other. m
he dates are 1871 and 1882. di
Mr.. and Mrs. DOdsOn West and
amily of Wilmington are visiting te
is parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel y
rest at their home on Mulberry ~
treet. IN
Mrs. James Brittingham, Mrs. Ed E.
ard Palmer, Miss Elizabeth Pal es
Ter mOtored to Wilmington on Sat
rday. til
Mrs. Harry V. Lyons and Miss WI
nne Nichols spent the weekend in su
tn
Mrs. Clifford Trader made a bus pa
ess trip to Wilmington on Mon tic
". gr
Misses Thelma and Hilda Cham On
RS gave a bridal shower at the wi
me of Mrs. Hance Chambers on
Onday evening in honor of Miss
elem Ryland, librarian Of the Lewes to
hOol. Those who attended were Kid
e Misses Pauline Graves, Lu Lam =
nberg, Helene Carter, Thelma
ambers, Hilda Chambers, and Mrs. 4
bert Lynch.
Arthur Russell of Glendale. for
,rly of this town, is confined to the
stOn Hospital with an injured leg
Iich he received from a fall while
scending from train several
rs ago.
Howard Marshall and George
WINS left on Monday on a three
nths' cruise to the Far East on
East India Ford Motor Ship.
lawrence Messick. accompanied
his wife, and Jackson B. Lyneh,
tOred to Philadelphia on Tuesday
make arrangements for the or
stra for the Lewes CotililOn Club
ice to be held in the Municipal
lding on December 20.
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