Milford chronicle., 1937-11-12
HARRINGTON

# company is expected to be an inter
:. esting place this fall and winter
e President Frank G. O'Neal preside,
over the regular monthly meeting o
r the company held on Tuesday night
being deferred one night for the Hal
5 lowe'en celebration. The meeting
/. was interrupted while the firemeI
responded to an automobile fire OF
Commerce street, slight damage re-
suited. The car belonged to a party
from Dover. The application of Mar
tin Grier was received and referred
to a committee. Working in cooper
alton with the auxiliary benefit card
parties are planned during the win
ter. The chair named committees to
arrange pool tournament to estab-
lish the champion among the fire.
men. All firemen who think they are
good with a cue can enter the tour
nament by paying a registration fee
of 25c. Several of them not quite so
hot are practicing hard for the COM
ing games. For the final champion
ship games a small charge will prob
ably be made to the public. Brinton
Holloway, Leonard Horleman and G..
T. Harrington will arrange for the
| tournament.
The fire recorder reported three
rural calls during the month of Oc-
tober. Prize check for Elizabeth
Scheers and Billy Davis, winners in
the fire prevention essays, were Cr-
dered paid.
The firemen also reduced their in
debtedness on the club rooms by
$400 with the funds recently rGceiv-
ed from the Kent County Levy Court.
Nomination of officers resulted as
follows: President. Brinton HOllo-
way; vice president. Clarence S.
Shockley; recording secretary, Ed
ward Harriet; financial secretary.
C. Douglass Mills; treasurer. c.
Tharp Harrington: fire recorder.
Harry c. Tee; chief. George w. Cain.
The Harrington Vocational Agri-
cultural and Home Economics De-
partments are planning their annual
vocational fair which is to be held on |
November IL and 13 in the high |
school auditorium. The program Will !
start each evening at z O'Clock.
The fair will consist of farm pro-
duets. poultry. educational exhibits |
and demonstrations of household ar
ticles and products. Quite a large
exhibit is expected this year.
The entertainment feature of the
program will consist of a first aid |
demonstration. full length motion
picture and comedy, different pic
lures will be shown each night.
Refreshments consisting of sand
wiches. ice cream. soft drinks and
peanuts will be sold by the home &C.
onomics girls and the F. F. A. boys.
A pure bred calf will be awarded to
the holder of the lucky ticket on Sat
uTday night.
Private Joseph Holt of the Bridge
Vile Station and State Detective u.
D Wharton of Dover quickly round
ed I'D band of chicken thieves IN
this vicinity. Two southern negroes,
James Broadwater of Ashville. n. C.,
and Jerome Dew of Chattanooga
Tenn, residing in shack on the
Vernon Hood farm, which is near the |
George Downes property in Mispil-
Iio1 Hundred, were arraigned betore !
Magistrate w. H. Cahall on Saturday |
afternoon on the charge OF larceny /
of twelve chickens from George /
Downes. At the preliminary hearing
they were held for General Sessions
Court under $500 bail. In default OF
bail they were lodged in Kent county
iail. When questioned at the herring,
Rroadwater admitted the theft and
insisted that Dew was not with h'm.
The officers, however. found two oif-
ferent sets of footprints indicating
that Broadwater had an accompiice.
Four of the chickens were recovered.
The regular monthly meeting OF
the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Harring-
ton Fire Company was held IN the
fire house on Monday evening.
Miss Sally Wiltse OF Wilmington
snent the weekend with Miss Rutn
Mrs. L. r. Beauchamp entertained
her Wednesday afternoon bridge cluD
last week.
Mrs. L. c. Jones, Mrs. Lorenzo
Jones. Mrs. Fred Wilson and Mrs.
W. w. Sharp we're guests Of Miss
Nan Lewis at Denton last week.
Mrs. Reba Johnson of Cambridge.
Md. spent a part of the past week
with her sister, Mrs. Fred W. Har-
rington. -,
Charles Lane of Parsonsburg. Nd.
spent the weekend with former
friends here.
Mrs. Elmer Barrett spent Friday
with her husband at Salisbury. Md.
Willis Nicholas of Delmar is sub
stituting for Miss Margaret Cooper
at the high school while she is un-
dergoing treatment at the Union
Memorial Hospital in Baltimore.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lambkin OF Balti-
more, Md, has been visiting W. D.
Scott. /,
Miss Charlotte Beauchamp of New l
ark spent the weekend with her
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. R. Beau '.
champ.
Through the generosity of the La
dies Auxiliary to the Harrington lire I,
Company in making donation of u
S250.O0 to the Fire Company, the
company will now be able to retire u
he balance of its debt against the e
club rooms. Mrs. +. G. O'Neal pre- .
sided over the meeting of the auXil-
airy on Monday night, at which time II
Mrs. w. G. LeKites and Mrs. John o. q
Dayton were elected to membership. Ill
rhe auxiliary heard a report of the y"
of the State Auxiliary