Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1938-10-07
GEORGETOWN
County Convention Of
Sunday schools

) Sunday schools
5 The annual convention OF the Sus
sex County Council of Religious Ed
ucation will be held in the MethO-
dist Episcopal Church at Milton, OF
Wednesday, October II.
! The morning session with DIT
Preston A. West OF Georgetown and
Millsboro, presiding, will open at 10
o'clock with a worship service in
charge Of the Rev. G. s. Ross, pas
tor of the Milton Methodist Protes-
tant Church, followed at 1915 o.
clock by an address by the Rev.
Abram NJ. Vivien, member OF the
Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal
Conference, now stationed at Can
non, this county, whose subject will
be What Have Nerves to do With
Character Following this address
there will be reports Of officers and
district secretaries and appointment
Of committees.
At 11;25 o'clock an address will
be delivered by the Rev. J. w.
Harms, executive secretary of the
Maryland and Delaware Council of
Churches and Christian Education,
Of Baltimore, Nd, on the subject of
"cornerstones Of Confidence in the
Church"
DR.. West will also preside at the
afternoon session. The worship ser
vice will start at 1880 O'Clock, IN
charge Of the Rev. H. w. Ewig, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian Church,
this city, which will be followed by
an address by Miss Lillian E. Nc
Cormick, of Baltimore, Children's
Division Worker of the Maryland |
and Delaware Council of Churches
and Christian Education. Her sub
ject will be Lowering the Level of /
Spiritual Illiteracy." Following her
address there will be conferences. /
Miss Mccormick will have charge of
the Children's Division Workers;
Rev. Otis P. jefferson. pastor of the
Lewes NJ. E. Church, the Young Peo-
pies Division Workers; Rev. J. W.
Harms, the Adult Division Workers.
The session will close with an ad-
dress by the Rev Mr.. Harms on
Next Steps in Cooperative Chris
tianity."
Reckless Driver
William r. Allison, of Salisbury,
charged by Highway Officer Edward
McCabe with reckless driving on the
DUPONT Highway, was released by
Magistrate w. Frank Sharp, of this
city. upon payment OF a fine of so
and costs.
Gets Nine Months
Horace Wright, of near Lewes,
charged with assault and battery on
Augustus Ward on July 3. was SEN
fenced by. Judge W. w. Harrington
on Tuesday afternoon to serve nine
months in the Sussex county Jail.
Wright. under the influence Of liquor
and possessed Of a pistol. tried to
play smart" although he had, ac-
cording to the evidence, no inten-
tiOns to doing harm to any person.
in a house at Belltown, !
near Lewes, and almost exclusively =
by colored people. Wright.
pulled a pistol and be- :
gan to shoot wildly. One of the stray
bullets struck his friend, Augustus :
Ward and from it's effect he came
near dying in the Beebe Hospital. He
had no grudge against Ward and had
40 quarrel. John Barleycorn," it
seems. was working and he wanted
hem to know that he had protection {
With pistol in his possession. Judge
severely reprimanded $
lin. telling him Of the possibilities
# killing many people by the free /
Use of the pistol. Wright was very 1
pologetic, but all OF the apologies =
e might offer did not, in the opinion a
f Judge Harrington, mitigate the $
He was given a pris-
n sentence Of six months. and in h
the sentence Judge Har- S
ingtOn warned him, that with the
rec use of the pistol, he might have c
illed some in the house and be in I
icted for murder. In view of the
the general opinion 81
as that the sentence was much Ie
ghter than was anticipated.
Ia Not Believe His Story; e.
cts Five Months y
Howard Goodwin. who claims his
1me in Charlotte. N. c., and who d.
IS been in Delaware three months, -
Gated the latter part OF July in the :.
lurel section with the expectation ~ -
getting some easy money" lur- =
by the talk. as most southerners
e, chat there is ~pickin's" in the q,
nth. Goodwin found 1t was a differ :
Il story and that he would have -,
en- much better. financially, to re- N
aimed in his native state. He came =;
Delaware. ran out of money, and 30
gan to forge checks to make both He
DIS meet. AS a result he finds him =;
If in the Sussex county Jail, near ~,
re. for five months when. in q Co
unken stage. he permitted himself =,
d a crowd of undesirable pals oil
had met to lead him into forging Ap
September 6. check for $500 on =
! employer. Roy Holloway, A sec gu,