Milford chronicle., 1937-11-12
GEORGETOWN
Herace Lee Downs Dead

Horace lie Downs, aged SO, retired
Philadelphia policeman, died at his
home here on Saturday morning oi
paralysis. Funeral services were
held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
In the First M. p. Church, in charge
Of the Rev. Russell Sapn. lnterment
was made in st. Johns churchyard
an Springfield Cross Roads.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Laura y.
Downs, he is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. John X. Whaley; living here and
Mrs. Horace Carmean, living at
Knowles Cross Roads; two brothers,
Philip o. Downs, of Rehoboth- Beach
and Delbert Downs. living here.
Noah ]. Hudson Dies @ts
The funeral of Noah J. Hudson. age
75 years. who died on Friday Of last
week at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Walter Rogers on Pine street,
were held on Sunday afternoon. Mr..
Hudson is survived by several chill
dren.
Gets Sentence OF $50 Days In
County Prison.
Willie Parker, of Exmore, Va, was
arrested while driving down the du-
Pont highway Monday by Officer
Russell ID. Jones ON q charge'Of hav-
ing In his possession the car of An
drew Selby. OF ExmOre. which he had
taken without consent of the owner.
AS this was Parker's second offense
of driving off cars without consent of
the owners, Magistrate W. Frank
Sharp committed him, to the county
jail for ninety days in default ofpa
flne of $1Oo and costs. A charge of
operating without license was also
placed against him and upon inves-
tigation this was found to be the Sc
cond time he had been arrested on
such charge. Magistrate Sharp
gave him an additional prison sem
tence of Sky days when unable to
pay fine OF $500 and costs. On
the two charges he will serve 150
days In default of fines amounting
TO SI25.00a. si,sst p iis'lS ssattfa
Civics Club Rack OF kindergarten
Members OF the Georgetown XII
wants and Rotary Clubs. co -operat-
ing with the Sussex County Levy
Court Commissioners, are giving their
support to the kindergarten OF pre-
school age children. set up under the
WPA, in order to maintain it here.
These groups feel that the work has
been admirable and are deslrous
for its continuance. At the present
time there are thifty-three children
registered. The Federal government
does not furnish finds for transpor-
tation of the children, between and
5 years, who must be carried TO and
from the school, Therefore. il be-
came necessary for the civic organi- |
cations and the Levy Court Commis-
sioneIs to supply the cost of trans
pOrtation. That the work may be |
carried on this winter, it has been de-
cided by the two civic organizations |
and the Levy Court Commissioners |
to furnish the funds.
MiIteH Boy Placed on Faculty OF
PeFdHe University. ~
Joseph Lingo, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert d. Lingo, of Milton, and for
merly connected with the Sussex
County branch of the Motor Vehicle
Department, has been appointed pro-
fessor of safety engineering at Per-
due University, in Lafayette, Ind.
He left on Saturday to assume his
new duties. For the past year he. Z
had been assistant field man for the
National Safety Council in Chicago.
He is a graduate of the Milton High
School and st. Johns College, Anna
polls, Md, Mr.. Lingo for several
years was connected with the State
Motor Vehicle Department with
headquarters here. He distinguish
ed himself in safety work and won
scholarship for advanced studies L
along this line.
Soy Bean Crop Being Harvested
Lower Delaware farmers are busy Z
threshing their sop bean crop, which |
in many sections is somewhat be-
low normal. The acreage, however, /
this year was increased by many of
the growers and ON the Who'll ethe
crop will, no doubt be beyond the !
Overage turnout. Beans for seed cost
them in some instances $500 per
bushel. At the present time it is 6
said, the market price is about $l.00.
Many of the growers are storing them '
for an advance in price. Twelve Z
years ago Sussex County was the e
banner section for the Wilson var /
Iety of soy beans. Eventually. other d
sections took up growing the crop a
and sent here for seed with the re-
sult that there are several states i
producing annually thousands of v
However. this county is Il
,ald to still maintain the record pro- b
iucing annually many thousands of a
bushels.
Fair Big Success. I
Outstanding features. in the COM a
nunity fair in Georgetown recently II
Ield and Just announced was the v
wonderful display of corn, accord N
ng to F.. Thadeus Warrington, voco- j.
ional agricultural teacher in the u
Public Schools. Olive ID
won tw ofirst places in T.
he group. ol
The sweepstakes which were COM bl
uted by giving special number OF
olnts for |, 2, and 4 places and III
multiplied by the number of entries
/ the class, were won by Wilbur M
.eynolds and jesse Dodd in the STU III
efit group, and by Mrs. William
and Granville Marvel in ~
ie adult group. The corn husking 81
ontest was won by John Hudson. NJ
no husked 2S pounds in five min =
tes. In the Commute contest for
iults. Fred Culver won by husking w
I3 pounds. OF