Milford chronicle., 1939-12-22
GEORGETOWN
Mr.. and Mrs. Hammond =. Rust
Married Fifty Years

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Married Fifty Years
MIR and Mrs Hammond r. Rust.
living near here. on Tuesday ObSer
we'd their 51th wedding anniversary.
They were married in Georgetown on
December ~, 1889 by the Rev. X,
ID Kemp, the pastor of the George
town Methodist Circuit.
They have two children, William
c. Rust and Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth
Pettyjohn, wife of Coda A. Petty
John. both living near here. and three
grandchildren. William q. Rust. Jr.,
Ralston and Coda A. PettyjOhn. Jr.
Basketball Schedule Announced
Georgetown High School will open
its basketball season, interschOlasti-
cally. with RehOboth Beach High on
January on the local court. On
Thursday night OF this week there
was game with the alumni. Former
stars. including Paul DerricksOn. of
Michigan State; Charles Cole. of
Western Maryland College; Leroy
Cook, of American University. Wash
ington. d. c.; Lee Baer, University
of Delaware: William Reed Hudson
of CranbrOOk School. Mich: j. ID.
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Sherman Hudson, Jack Thorough
good. Charles Morris. Raylyn HOyt.
Joel Braunfeld. Harold King James
Rogers and Elwood Tingle. who were
home from their respective colleges
for the holidays, were expected 10
participate in the game.
Coach George Keen has twenty
boys out to make the team. He will
have four letter men. Harley James
/ Conaway. Edward COnaway. William
Faucet. Jr. and James Walls are
expected to be regulars. William
Royal Edward Booth. Smoky Rog-
ers. Fritz Booth. Gene Short. Danny
Steppi and Samuel Hastings are try
in ghard for place. All are expert
enced Coach Keen states that all are
showing up well and he expects to
have a cage team that will compare
favOrably with those throughout the
county Although he lost some of his
best players by graduation last June.
nevertheless he is busily engaged in
building Il quintet which will take
their place
Schedule for the season is as fol J
lows:
December
2l-Ammni. home.
January
5-Delaware City. away. j
l9-Milford, home. !
26-Lewes. home.
30-Delmar. home.
February
Milford. away
g Middletown. home.
l3-Dover, home.
l6-Delaware City, home.
20-Selbyville. away.
2S-Rehoboth Beach. away,
March
Selbyville. home
5-Dover, away.
Sleeves, away.
An Old Pipe Causes Him Trouble
Because lie Takes A "Dry" Smoke
John A. Truitt. widely known car /
penter. living near here. formerly of !
Cedar Greek District, sustained
painful injury late Friday afternoon
OF last week when he fell from a
scafrold while working on the new
garage and display room being erect
ed on Market street. between Race
street and Railroad avenue. by Theo-
dore Burton. Jr. Mr. Truitt was
smoking pipe at the time and when
he fell the pipe stem was driven
through the roof of his mouth and
could not be dislodged. He had to be
taken to the Beebe Hospital at
Lewes TO receive medical treatment
IL is reported that the pipe stem
went through the bones of the roof
of the mouth and had not prompt at
tention been rendered he might have
hled to death.
Mrs. Edna (AIarVeD Warrington Dead
Funeral services for Mrs. Edna NJ.
Warrington. age 81, formerly of the
Stockley section and later of New
York City and Brooklyn. who died at
the nome of her sister, Mrs. Gertrude I
COrbett, on Chestnut street, here,
Thursday morning of last week. af-
ter several weeks illness, from a
of diseases, were held
on Saturday afternoon from the
home of her sister. Interment was
made in Union cemetery here. ID
Mrs. Warrington was a daughter {
of the late Peter and Kate Marvel
and was born near Stockley, four
miles south of here.
She is survived by two daughters, ;
Miss Alma M. Warrington. of Brook
lyn, n Y, with whom she formerly .
resided, and Mrs. Catherine Perry,
also of Brooklyn: one son, DR.. Har-
ry C. Warrington, of New York City.
Two sisters, Mrs. Corbett, of George
town, and Mrs. Burton, wife OF Levy ,
Court Commissioner William d. Bur-
ton of Angola, and two brothers.
Marvel, of Philadelphia. and
Leroy Marvel of near Stockley.
P. O. Receipts Increase
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