Milford chronicle., 1939-09-15
LEWES

town Road, where he will make
plans for renovation of the house
which has been unoccupied since
early spring.
Miss Kathleen Russell Wiltbank
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Gilbert M
Wiltbanik, is attending the Marjorie
Webster School for Girls in Wash
ipgton, d. c., this year.
Byron Fillmore Clifton. who has
accepted a position at Caesar Rod
ney School, Wyoming, where he will
teach junior business training and
typing, also assistant athletic coach,
left on Monday. He is the son of Mrs.
Cora nj. Clifton and the late Fred
erick G. Clifton, of Lewes. Mr.. Cliff
ton is graduate of the Teachers
State College, of West Chester, Pa,
and Beacon Business College in
Wilmington.
Miss Shirley Virginia Cullen,
daughter of Mrs. Virginia F. Cullen,
Of ,Lewes, and ]. Frank Cullen, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was married on
Saturday. September 6, at 10 a. m,
in the rectory of Christ Our King
Church, to Thomas John Ryan, Jr.,
son of Mrs. Margaret C. Ryan, of
Belmar. N. j., and the late Thomas J.
Ryan. Only a few friends and mem
beE3 of the immediate families at
tended the ceremony, followed by
wedding breakfast at the home of
the brides uncle and aunt, DR.. and
Mrs. Lewis Booker. in New Castle.
Miss Carolyn Leishman, of Lewes,
-
tended the couple. Miss Cullen re-
ceiVed her early education in a con-
vent boarding school in Columbia,
S. c., and at Chatham Academy in
Savannah, Ga, and was graduated
from the Lewes High School with
the class of "a. She is a great-great-
granddaughter of the late Charles
Goodyear, U. S. Representative from
New York. Mr. Ryan graduated from
Columbia High School at South Or
ange. N. j., and attended Carteret
Academy. Last June he received his
B. "A. degree from the University of
Delaware. where he was member
of Theta Chi fraternity and the Blue
Key Society, and was president of
the student council and co-captain
of the football team in his senior
year.
John B. Wine, of Philadelphia and
Lewes, has been elected the new
Yacht Club commodore; Sinclair c.
Campbell. Milton. vice commodore;
Harland w. Knowles, Angola, rear
Mrs. William D. Col
Inns, Lewes, secretary, and Mrs. ID. |
Potter, Lewes. treasurer. |
The last two were reelected. Direc-
tors chosen are Leslie Knapp and !
Frank S. Carter, reelected, both of
Lewes.
Mrs. John w. Joseph. who has
been ill in the Milford Memorial
Hospital, following a fall several |
weeks ago, has returned to her
home on Fourth street. Mrs. Joseph's
son. Allen Joseph. of Philadelphia,
is here for an extended visit.
Lieut. and Mrs. Justus B. Naylor
to Dover on Saturday.
Douglass Fleming has accepted a
position at the DUPONT plant in Sea-
ford.
Miss Margaret Sterck, who has
been at her cottage on the beach for
the summer. has returned to Will
where she conducts a school
for deaf children.
Harry Ellis attended a Poultry
mans Convention at Cleveland. o.,
as the guest of the Purina Feed
Company. Mr.. Ellis is one of only
.hree men selected from among the
entire county, as being representa-
i've of the finest type of poultry rails
ers. Mr.. Ellis, a former engineer on
tugs, has only had one
year's experience at poultry raising
It his farm near Dagsboro, where he
low has 10000 chicks.
Miss Edna Moore will enter Madi-
ION College, in Harrisonburg, Va,
he middle of this month.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond r. Atkins
md family are occupying their cot
age on the beach during the month
# September.
Miss Elsie Moore has accepted a
POSITION with the Coca Cola Com
'any, at their business Office in Will
nington.
Miss Emily Murphy. of Philadel-
'hia, spent the weekend here with
Ter parents. who are occupying one
f the Lodge cottages on the beach
ntil late fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry G. Ewing, of
lehoboth Beach, announce the en-
agement of their daughter, Miss
larry E. Ewing, to John Edgar In
ram, of Atlanta, Ca. son of Will
on Ingram, of Front Royal, Va, and |:
lrs. Ruth c. Ingram of Wilmington, !:
nd grandson of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed !:
ar Ingram of Lewes. (:
Miss Ewing is a graduate of the !:
.ehoboth Beach High School. class |:
{ 1887. and attended Drake College |:
! Newark, N. J. Mr.. Ingram was
raduated from the Lewes High I
chool with the class of '35 and from
luke University at Durham, N. c.,
lst June He is now employed in
tlanta.
Jack Lewis. of Georgetown, was
town visitor last Friday. !:
Captain Curtis w. Atkins. age 76 !:
ears, beloved Lewes citizen and an !:
nployee of the U. S. Lighthouse !:
ervice for fifty years, died sudden
: last Wednesday morning of !:
cart attack at his residence on Sa-
annah Road. Besides his wife, he !:
survived by two daughters. Mrs. :
thel A. Rowland. who made her (:
ONE with them. Mrs. Robert l.. Pat
'rson, of Trenton, N. j.; two grand
ms, members of the Pilots Associa-
on for the Bay and River Delaware,
aptain J. Wright Rowland and Cap
in Harry II. Rowland, of Lewes,
nd three great-grandchildren, Jay