Milford chronicle., 1937-01-22
MILLSBORO

being congratulated on the birth oi
a baby son. born early Monday NOR
ming.
Mrs. Edwin Sirman of Delmar Wis
tied her mother. Mrs. Kate Burton
and her sister, Mrs. J. A. Burton,
last Thursday.
Several from here attended the in
augurai ceremonies for Governor
Richard C. McMullen in Dover on
Tuesday. Many also went to Wash
ington on Wednesday for the Presi-
dents inauguration.
Mrs. Frank P. Carmine and little
son Terry of Millington, Md, have
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. William
Carmine and Mr.. and Mrs. George
H. Dodd.
There will be the annual election
of oficiers for Grace NJ. e. Sunday
school next Sunday morning.
The fourth quarterly conference
will be held on Thursday evening in
the Methodist Church with District
Superintendent ]. j. Bunting. pre-
siding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles R. Godfrey
were in Baltimore last Sunday and
Monday.
Mrs. Matte Dodd is spending
some time in Philadelphia with her
sister, Mrs. Bertha Matthes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Thompson and
baby son, Ernest of Rehoboth, and
Mrs. w. o. Nelson of Midway have
been visiting State Treasurer and
Mrs. E. C. Blackstone.
DR.. and Mrs. Virgil Hudson en-
tertained a number of guests from
Philadelphia over the weekend.
DR.. and Mrs. W. B. Atkins enter
tanned their bridge club last Friday
night.
Mrs. C. E. Wharton spent a few
days recently in Wilmington with
her mother, Mrs. Ida Waller.
Mrs. L. w. Washburn spent day
last week with Mrs. Robert White in
Laurel, whose daughter, Katherine
May, is quite Ill with rheumatic fe-
yer.
Robert Hudson, 15-year old son of
MFR. and Mrs Arthur Hudson, has
been very ill with rheumatic fever
and is in the Milford Emergency
Hospital for treatment.
Miss Blanche Steele and Dram
Shockley are recovering from ILL
nesses.
There was delightful Father and
Son meeting in Mechanics Hall ON
Tuesday night, sponsored by the
Gideonites.
MilIsborO Sponsors A
Broad Activities Program
In order that every pupil who de-
sires may participate in some ac-
tivity in which he or she Is funda-
mentally interested, the students OF |
Millsboro High School have been
given an opportunity to group them
selves according to their major in
terests.
Enough interest was shown in the
following subjects to justify appoint
ing faculty counselors as follows:
Mathematics Leslie E. Timmons;
automobile safety, ST. Darden;
fsbeffffig, rMrs.sEotta McCabe; music.
III. M. Payne; calisthenics, A. w.
Burton; gymnastics. Miss Fannie
Steele; cooking (boys), Mrs. Ollie I.
Atkins; handicraft (girls), Miss
Katharine Eastburn; puppetry, G. T.
Adams; dramatics, Mrs. Anne OAR
den.
Again the Millsboro basketball
leans won a double victory hyde
feating the Lord Baltimore teams .
here last Friday evening. Our boys
won over their opponents by score
,f t9 to is, while our girls won by
a score of 54 to Al.
Last week the health department,
under the direction of DR.. Floyd
Hudson, came to the Millsboro
School and gave the diphtheria in
oculation to all the pupils whose
parents had requested 1t. More than
25O pupils took the treatment, which
was given gratis. Since the toxin >
is complete in one dose,
these children who took 1t will not :
be given further incubation this
year. A good many pre-school chill
dren also took advantage of this op-
portunity.
Every effort Is being made to keep
and other serious CON- !
nunicable diseases out of the school.
Parents, officials, teachers, and pu- 1
pills are cooperating in this impor-
ant task. T
Miss Eastburn, Mrs. McCabe and !
Mrs. Jones are back in school again
lfter missing several days on ac-
,ount of illness. Prof. Adams, in
tructor in Goldey College, substi- =.
uted for Miss Eastburn; Clarence e, .
Wharton substituted for Mrs. Nc L
abe and Mrs. Kendall Hudson took
are of Mrs. Jones' work. II
Several children are out Of school A
nth cold and grippe. Y
From time to time motion pictures
re shown to the children OF the F.
fiIIsboro school and on Friday the A
rst talkie motion picture will be o
hown in the auditorium at one
clock. U