Milford chronicle., 1937-12-03
GEORGETOWN
Cotillion Club Organized

organized last week, thus malSir
the second club of its kind her
Officers of the newly-formed eli
are: President, Alexander Braun
field; vice president, Albert 4
Croll; secretary, John Casper Jones
treasurer, Edward B. Green. La
year an exclusive" club was form
ed, with a limited membership. TIL
new club is expected to be recogni2
ed throughout lower Delaware, an
"bids" during the winter will be re
ceived from at least four other &C
tive clubs.
The membership quota, it is un
derstood, is about filled and it ma,
be necessary to extend the quota O.
seventy, as originally fived, to sev.
enty-five.
The first dance is to be held dur
ing the Christmas holidays in the
auditorium of the Georgetown High
School. No definite date has been
fixed, but it may be on Monday
night, December 81. The date is to
be decided at meeting within a
few days.
Christmas Street Lighting
To Be More Elaborate
Plans have been made by the mer-
camille section of the Georgetown
Chamber of Commerce to make the
county seat of Sussex one of the
most elaborately decorated commun-
tiles in the State during the Christ
mas holidays. Vari-colored lights
will be one of the outstanding fea-
lures. The strings of. lights, orna-
mented with laurel roping, will ex-
tend from the Public Square to
Railroad avenue, for two blocks; on
North and South Bedford street for
one block and on East and West
market street for one block. In the
center of the circle in the Public
Square will be a large community
Christmas tree, decorated with hun
dreds of vari-colored lights. Four
streamers of more than 1000 lights
will extend from the community tree
to the intersections of North and
South Bedford streets and to East
and West Market streets. In addition
many of the trees which ornament
the Public Square will be decorated /
AS an added attraction this year,
strings Of vari-colored lights, Prob !
ably arch-ways, will be erected at |
the five main highways from differ
ent parts of the county which con-
verge at the Public Square.
Attend Wedding OF Son;
Injured On Way Home
Miss Katherine McAfee, daughter
Of Mr. and AIrc Tbop,oe NTahfao
of Mercersburg, Pa, and Deputy
Attorney General Caleb NJ. Wright,
son of former Clerk of the Peace
and Mrs. w. Elwood Wright, this
city, were married on Monday in the
Mermersburg Presbyterian Church
oy the Rev. James Gray Rose.
The brides attendant was Miss
Dorothy Daub, of Mercersburg, while
he bridegroom's best man was his
ather.
The bride is a graduate of the
iercersburg High School and also
tudied in st. Mary's, in Raleigh, N.
=; Fairmont, in Washington, D. c., ,
md the college in Wooster, Ohio.
Mr.. Wright graduated from the
Georgetown High School in 1926; y
he University of Delaware in 1880,
nd Yale Law School in 1888. He
egistered under former Congress-
ian Robert G. Houston and spent s
is clerkship with Chief Justice y
laniel ]. Layton. He was admitted
} the Delaware Bar in October, 1888 :,
nd appointed Deputy Attorney Gen. y y
raj for Sussex county on December :
3. 1884.
He is a member of the Kappa AL
ha Fraternity and various honor Il Il
ocieties. For three years he was a l
ember of the debating team of the E
University of Delaware and also a
ember of the track team. They ',
ill live on West Pine street, here. =
While returning from the wedding (
their son that evening, Mr.. and +;
rs. Wright figured in an automo- ~ ~
lie accident at Summit Bridge 81
hen their car crashed into a truck
irked on the right of way. The u
uck had been left standing on the pc
ehway while the driver went a III
ort distance away to watch a
Yelling burn. Mr.. Wright did not ia
e the truck until he was upon it, 81
yerving his car, he avoided a head vi
! crash. but the impact was so NJ
eat that Mrs. Wright sustained a -
oxen shoulder blade and bruises. Si'
: escaped injury. The car was De
dly damaged about the top but we
rs able to proceed to Georgetown. te[
Announced MT
Mr.. and Mrs. Nehemiah P. Marvel,
est Market street, this city an
unce the engagement of their :
Miss Edna Mae Marvel, to
lniel ]. ORourke, 3rd, son of Mr.. y
d Mrs. Daniel J. O'Rourke, End, of rI'
Islewood, N. J. The wedding is :
1eduled for New Years Day. 90
Miss Marvel is a graduate of the
orgetown High School, class of
'6, and played on the basketball
m her last two years in school.
o Brothers Die Within Ten Days
Edward F. Stevenson, age SO r.
lrs, widely known Indian River L
trict farmer and active Demo-
t, died at his home, near Angola,
Sunday night, following a heart
ack. Nine days ago his brother,
hur, age AZ years, of Hollyville,
of pneumonia, in the Beebe
ipital at Lewes. Funeral services X
e held on Wednesday afternoon very
o'clock in Conley's Chapel, a Oh n
miles from his home. Inter- Sna
t was made in the adjoining Inc