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Milford chronicle., 1940-05-10
MAGNOLIA


Mothers Day program viii be put
on in the different departments OF
the Sunday school with a Mothers
Day message at II a. M. by Rev.
w. L. Becllwilh; a baptismal service
will follow at which time all who
wish may Oring their children. The
young people will have a service ap-
propriate to the day in the evening.
Mrs. Elizabeth Boone entertained
on Tuesday at dinner, Rev. and Mrs.
w. l. Beckwith and son Walter. w.
&. Anderson Miss Elizabeth Roe,
Mrs. Esteila Roe, Messrs Martin
Wilcutts and Herman Roe.
Mr.. and Mrs J. d. Keller and Mr.
and Mrs. T. f. Moore attended the
Masonic Banquet In the Dover School
last Friday evening.
Mrs. Laura Wyatt of Newark is
visiting Mrs. Sallie Stout for several
weeks and in the mean time will
visit among her many friends in this
vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. William jackson, of
Philadelphia, spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. ID. Keller.
Mrs Beulah Wright and Miss
Frances Wright, Mr.. and Mrs. HON.
er Wright and daughter Hazel spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Newman OF Massey. Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Hill and daugh-
ter Barbara Ann. of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. A.
J. Coke.
Mrs. Kathryn Hyland OF Galena,
Nd, is visiting Mrs. Kathryn Kuight
and Mrs. Edna Davis
Mr.. and Mrs G. NJ Reed and fam
lily were guests on Sunday of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Hughes, of FELTON,.
Mr.. and Mrs John Houston and
William Marvel, OF Wilmington,
were guests on Sunday Of Mr. and
Mrs. Watson Marvel.
Magnolia girls baseball team
played Caesar Rodney on Wednesday
afternoon Of last week, with the
score resulting in a l5 TO II victory
for Magnolia. The boys were not
so lucky.
Mrs. Elizabeth Boone and Mrs.
Harry Wilcutts visited Mr.. and Mrs
Francis Meredith of Denton, Md. on
Monday.
Misses Doris McIlvaine Of the
WOmen's College. Newark, and Max
Inc Smith of Beacon, spent the
weekend wit htheir respective par
ents.
Mr.. and Mrs. MeClintOck and son
Billie. Of Virginia. spent the week |
end with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ruble.
Mrs. George ChaTshee is visiting !
Mr. and Mrs ]. e. Speake Of Phila- !.
Watch the Milford Giants take the !
lead in 40! I
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-10
ROxANA

A special Mothers Day service
will be held Sunday morning at ROX-
ana Methodist Church. Sunday school
will be held at the usual hour, fol
lowed by the special service arrang-
ed by the pastor. Rev. J. T.. Jones
assisted by the EpwOrth League. The
committee in charge is composed OI
Mrs. Hugh Stevens, Mrs. Chester VIII
kins, Miss Kathleen McCabe, and
Miss Wilma Lynch. A section will
be reserved for the mothers. If there
should be any aged mother who does
not have a way to the church, kindly
get. in touch with one OF the COM
mittee, and she will arrange trans
p0rtatiOn. Flowers will also be pro-
vided at the door.
Mrs. Belinda Hickman observed
her 97th birthday anniversary on
Tuesday, April 20. at the home of her
daughter. Mrs John Wilgus, near
town. Mrs. Hickman is active de-
spite her advanced age.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Stevens were
dinner guests last Sunday of MIR. and
Mrs. Louis Hickman.
Mrs. James tickards spent the
weekend with her husband in Phil
adelphia. During her trip Jimmie
stayed with his. grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Everett Richards. near
town.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond DericksOn
and son, OF Philadelphia, spent the
weekend with Harry DerlcksOn.
Norman Lynch has purchased
new Buick sedan
A girl was born TO Mr.. and Mrs.
William McCabe last week at the
home OF Mr.. McCabe's mother. Mrs.
Lille MeCabe.
Mrs. Edith FarlOw and son John
of Selbyville, were dinner
guests Sunday OF Mrs. DOna McCabe.
MIR. and Mrs. Walter Quillen and
son Roger, of Philadelphia, spent
the weekend with their parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Harb Qulllen. at their cot
Iage al FenWick's Island.
Capt and Mrs. Frank Quillen are
enjoying a stay at their cottage at
Fenwick's Island.
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-10
LINcoLN

Alex MeColley. highly respected
citizen OF this town, died on Friday
| May 3, 1910. at his late residence
here, following an illness OF three
weeks, age ~ years, months and
IL days. Funeral services were held
from Calvary Methodist Church al
Milford, on Monday at 2 O'Clock, con-
Quoted by Rev. M =. Hungerford
with interment In Barratts Chapel
cemetery Mr.. McColley is survived
\ by his widow, and one son and three
daughters, Charles and May McCOl-
ley, at home; Mrs. Mary Porter and
Mrs Ella Warren, OF Milford; two
brothers, and three sisters, Mrs. An
ME Holden, Of Philadelphia, Albert
McC0lley Of Magnolia, Mrs. William
Stevenson Of Shawnee. Mrs. Sallie
Bennett and Robert McColley Of
Milford; three grandchildren, and a
host Of relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Prettyman spent
last Thursday In Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Burton OF
Long Neck and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Rust and daughter Joyce were call
ers at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Rust and family on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. clifford Donovan,
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Morgan, MRS
William Truitt and Ernest Fitzger-
aid were SeafOrd visitors on Sum
day.
Rev s. L. Hhnby of Brandywine
Hundred, former pastor on this
charge. arrived here on Thursday 20
be the guest OF Mrs. J. H. Benson
and son Marshall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert G. POstles
attended the graduation exercises OF
their daughter, Miss Florence Pos
ties from the Hahnemann Hospital
School of Nursing, Philadelphia. on
Saturday, May T. Several other rela-
tiVes and friends from Milford at
tended the graduation also.
Mr.. and Mrs C. F. Reed Of Brook
line, Pa, were weekend guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Paynter Collins.
The residence Of John II. Glen
daniel on Johnson avenue has been
newly rooted and all necessary re-
pairs made.
Paris johnson has recently moved
his family to their property near
Brick Granary.
William Walls who has been con-
fined to his room for the past three
months with a fractured hip is
slowly improving.
William Warrington is erecting a
dwelling on a plot of ground he re-
Gently purchased from William Hig
man near town.
The marriage of Harry s. Shew.
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. p. Shew to
Miss Ann Schwartz, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Schwartz, of near HarTing-
ton, took place at the NJ f. parsOn-
age ut FELTON, on Saturday, May 4, at
8 o'clock. The Rev. Willard Everett
OfIlciated Following a wedding trip,
Mr.. Shew and his bride will live at
West Pine street, Georgetown.
A special Mothers Day program !
under the direction Of Mrs George
Warren. teacher of the Friendship !
Bible Glass will be presented Sun
day evening at 1880 O'Clock.
On Saturday fourteen Of our young |
folks attended the Youth Confer !
ence of the Sussex County Council Of
Churches ana Christian Education at
Lewes.
Services for Sunday. May 12:
Church school II a m Hubbard +
superintendent Mothers
Day program at 1880 p. m.
Slaughter Neck: Church school 10 !
4. IN. Morning worship II a. m.
Cedar Neck; Church school 2 p. /
m. Preaching p. m.
Rev. Melvin Wheatley, pastor.
Go 10 bat with Milford in 40!
Watch the ''Giants" take the lead
IN 40!
Milford chronicle., 1940-05-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Wix have
moved into Miss Tabitha Grier's
property on David street. Miss Grier
has been III in hospital for some
time. but expects to come to Fred
erica when her health permits. Mrs.
Wix is a trained nurse and will take
care OF her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Van Hoy
entertained friends at a party on Sat
nrday evening In honor OF their
weekend guests. Mr.. and Mrs John
Enright aud Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Wright Of Wilmington.
Mrs May Short. Mrs. Ernest Cou-
bright, Mrs. J. c. Darby and Mrs,
Jack Wilcutts were Wilmington Wis
itors one afternoon last week. Mrs.
COudright visited her mother, who is
very IN.
Go TO bat with Milford In 40!
Watch the Giants" take the lead
in '40i
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-21

it's bigger than we are. IL SHOWS up
all our noble little resolves, the high
sounding Thou shalt nots' we set up
to scare ourselves with, for what they
are. All it takes to knock them down
like so many ten-pins is good breath
of human feeling" His voice was
husky, shaken. He said, II thought
marriage wasn't for me, that it was
no good. Having someone marry you
for your money at nineteen is pretty
hard on illusions. But knowing you
has changed all that. It's changed
me, March. We should have met long
ago, when you were free. Since we
didn't, there's divorce"
March cut in sharply, divorce!
You must be mad, Griff. I love my
husband. I'm sorry you feel as you
do. Please believe that. thought
we were--friends. I thought you
looked upon me as I did you, some
one who was congenial, someone to
dance with and joke with, nothing
more than that"
Griff said hoarsely, his hands creep
ing upward to her shoulders so that
she WINGED little under his hurting
grip, "You can't mean that, March!
You aren't serious. Surely you
care"
"Not for you, Griff," March said
clearly, unequivocally. "Not like that.
I love Brent. love him so complete
ly it must have blinded me to what
was happening" Her voice was gen.
tie again, mere thread of sound
there in the dark, the stiffness. I'm
sorry :"
Griff said thickly, "Sorry!" He
pulled her to him roughly, his mouth
seeking hers. March struggled a.
gainst that memorable embrace, beg
ging, "Griff, let me go!"
Panic gripped her and then, as his
lips met hers in sheer conquest by
strength, she ceased abruptly to strug
gle. She lay limp and quiescent in
his arms while he kissed her hair
and her warm throat where the quick
pulse throbbed and then her mouth
again, eliciting no response.
He gasped, putting her from him.
"I can't reach you. I can't get near
you." And then, accusingly, "What
are you made off"
March stood there, still and straight
in the moonlight, a kind of terrible
white finality in her face. She said
her voice level, low, "Of course you
can't reach me. I don't love you
Griff. And now you've destroyed
even the liking / felt for you. I'm
going now and I don't want you to
come with me. I don't want to see
you again. Ever, do you undertand
ever!"
She left him standing there by the
terrace rail, staring blankly after her
1t was scarcely twenty-four hours
later that March stepped off the trair
at Kenoqua. Her decision to return
so suddenly had been engendereo
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-21

equally by that scare with Griff and
her sharp longing to be with Brent
again. 1t was like a golden thread,
that longing, tenuous and strong,
drawing her back along the miles that
separated them. And she was glad
to be so drawn, reveling in the pros
pect of Brent's arms holding her
close, his lips pressing hers, effacing
the bitter memory of other kisses.
She hadn't notified him of her ar
rival. AS on the winter night when
she first came to Wisconsin, no one
met her. But there the resemblance
ceased. Tonight there were other
passengers alighting, there were 9TH
er people all about and Main Street
was ablaze with lights. March got
into one of the nondescript cars that
served as taxis and asked to be driv-
en- to Abigail Randolph's house.
The lighted windows shining square
and yellow through the pines, SEEM
ed to beckon her. They seemed to
say, Here is home. Here are all the
things important to your happiness.
Here are the people who matter.
Here love lives. Here is work to be
done, dreams to be dreamed.
In this moment and for the first
time, March was consciously aware
of these truths. And the memory of
the slightly hectic gayety of the days
just passed slipped from her like a
willingly discarded garment. She
thought, her heart singing, Why, I've
changed. Pm different. l must tell
Brent.
1t was her going away and coming
back again that had made her aware
! of the change within, that had open
ed her eyes to the quiet charm of this
place, this mode of living. She must
tell Brent that, too. A great i'm
patience swelled in her, so that she
sat forward on the extreme edge of
the seat as the car swung onto the
drive, halted. She pressed money in
to the drivers hand.
: "Just set the bags on the walk.
Thank you"
She was out of the car, up the steps
quickly. Her hand was on the door
knob, the door was open. But the
glad words on her lips were never
spoken.
Brent sat there, alone, his back to-
ward her. He hadn't heard the faint
sounds of her coming. He was slump
ed forward, his dark head in his
hands, desolation in every line of his
long form.
March whispered, suddenly afraid,
Brent Darling, what's wrong
Pm home"
Brent turned slowly, kind of ter
rible incredulity in his face. Then he
was on his feet, looming above her,
his hands clenched at his Sides. And
there was hate in his black gaze, the
awful, vulnerable hate that springs
from betrayed love. His voice shook,
saying, $50 you did come back"
Mdrch's words fell like pebbles in
to the pool of his silence. "You knew
I'd come back, Brent"
She could see that he was fighting
for control over the emotions that
seethed in him. A feeling of utter
unreality gripped her. This couldn't
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-21

be happening! 1t was senseless, cause
less =. Brent was like some figure
of vengeance, terrifying in his wrath,
infinitely removed from her. Futilely
she CROPPED for understanding.
Brent said, his voice sarcastic,
cruel, That's right. You couldn't
know I'd find out about your plans
to meet Griff Morgan in Chicago!
You couldn't know the same blind fool
who kissed you goodbye wouldn't be
waiting to welcome you with open
arms"
March caught his wrist, but he
flung her off, as though her very
touch sickened her. She said desper-
ately, Brent, I don't know what
you've heard or who told you these
lies-but you must listen to me! You
must believe" his brief laugh was
like slap, but March went on, "you
must believe the truth. Griff was in
Chicago. He followed me there.
hadn't the faintest idea he was COM
ing"
"Will you deny you called him the
morning you left?" Brent demanded.
March felt as though she were
struggling through nightmare. She
said, II called him, but not about that.
Oh, Brent, why should lie when I've
done nothing wrong, nothing of which
Pm ashamed? I've never lied to you.
I never shall. You mustn't doubt
me" her voice broke wretchedly.
cts unspeakable that these things
should have to be said-between
us"
From the depths of his private hell
of disbelief and torturing suspicion,
Brent said bitterly, "You have more
courage than he, at least. He didn't
dare come back, he wouldn't face me.
When I went there his sister told me
ned changed his plans, that he wasn't
coming back for awhile" Brent's
voice rose. "Did you imagine we
could go on, that things could be the
same between US after this? 2"
March began, ''But, Brent, nothing
has happened, nothing is changed"
She saw then that it wasn't any
use. He wouldn't believe her. Dimly,
she became aware of Abigail stand
ing in the doorway beyond. She
couldn't see Abigail clearly for the
tears in her eyes. But it didn't mat
ter. Nothing mattered but Brent.
And he was lost to her A sob
caught in March's throat and bleak
hopelessness closed around her. She
was drowning in the dark torrent, bat
tered and swept along by it. Of what
use was struggle?
March said duly, her chin high,
clinging to her tattered shreds of
pride, "I'm going now, Brent. But
these things you accuse me of, these
things you accept as true, are lies.
All lies. Built up out of jealousy
and lack of faith"
For a moment she thought that he
would strike her; then his hands fell
to his sides. Silently she turned from
him and let herself out into the night
Continued next week
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-21
7 BELONG TO YOU By B 80 9ASS1R

she shivered little, mounting her
horse once more, gaToping off down
the winding road.
She thought, her heart pounding.
He could do anything, anything! Moth
ing is beyond him, caring as he does,
disillusioned as he is.
For a moment pity stirred in her
and a kind of fear clutched at her
throat. Pity for this man she had
hurt so deliberately. Fear for the
possible far-reaching consequences of
her deed. But she shook off fear and
pity, summoning up the false courage
of cynicism, eluding the devils of
conscience that pricked at her.
And she said, speaking aloud there
in the brooding quiet of the forest,
"She had it coming. She deserves
whatever she gets. A woman like
that =. :"
On the last night of his stay in
Chicago, Griff took March to dinner
at the penthouse of friend. 1t was
gay party, not large, but composed
of congenial people. The food was
excellent, there was dancing to the
music of a radio and the conversation
was stimulating. March was enjoy
ing herself thoroughly when Griff sug
gested that she permit him to show
her the view from the terrace.
There was nothing wrong with the
view. Lights below and stars above
all about the terrace the vague forms
snG fragrance of an exquisitely syn
thetic garden, infinitely removed from
earth. The flashing lights made
March think of Brent and of the night
they had stood in the window of Clay
Saunders office, the night they had
decided to marry. A rather romantic
melancholy settled over her, think
ing of Brent, missing him with all
the fervor of her love. At first she
was scarcely aware of what Griff Nor
gan was saying. 1t was the touch
of his hand, laid over hers, that
brought her abruptly back to the
present, that made her concentrate
with growing uneasiness on Griff's
impassioned words and the shaken,
unnatural tones of his voice, uttering
them.
This wasn't the Griff she knew at
all, the cynical, amusing person who
took nothing seriously, least of all
himself. It was as though stranger
stood beside her, saying incredible
things. Not quite stranger, though.
nor were his words wholly incredible,
For Griff had been changing all this
last week. Belatedly March faced the
fact and, facing it, looked back with
sharp sense of self-blame at all the
little signs she had ignored so lightly
A word here, look there, Griff's
hands lingering on her shoulders as
he held her wrap. And she had been
too smugly intent on her own affairs
too secure in her love for Brent, to
notice what was happening.
1t was this troubling sense of hel
own responsibility that made her voice
gentle, breaking in on the hot flow of
his words, begging, "Griff Griff,
you mustn't say such things, you
mustn't even think them :"
But Griff demanded, "Why not, my
darling, when they're true? I've new
er been in love before. Once, a year
ago, I thought was. Now l know
the difference. Pm mad about you.
You're inside me, like flame, warm
ing me, making me alive"
March said, "No, Griff. Mol"
But he didn't hear her. He said,
Don't think l haven't fought against
this-just as you're fighting. But
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-21

We have one of the finest eQuippet
plants ION the Shore for turning Ou
high class prInlin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
Calling All Commissars

The political commissar, that peculiar feature of the Russian army, has been junked The position arose in revolu- tionary days. Then the only trained of- ficers were Czarists. The revolution had to use them because of their training But it did not trust them. So over each was placed civilian political commissar, a Communist party member, to keep watch on the officer and make political speeches to the troops.
 Divided authority; no authority. In Spain, in Finland the system didn't work too well. The political commissars were always in the hair of the military com manders, and usually of the men, too. Now they have been abolished, or defi- nitely subordinated to the military. That ought to make for better army. But 1t also makes it more like other large con- script armies in tending to create an officer class In such setup as Russia's this is always dangerous, Such a body tends to become a power in itself, one to be reckoned with in time of emergency. Stalin must have pondered this decision long and earnestly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
Cause For Comment

Waterbury should be very much inter- ested In the plan to be adopted at Leav- enworth High School next fall A class of Freshmen, restricted to 400 members, will be admitted at the technical school. This is probably the first time in the history of Waterbury's public schools that it has been found necessary to set defl- nite figure for an incoming class of pupils It calls for more than mere com ment which has been given in varying degree by all and sundry. It calls for very thorough study.
 One is apt to jump to the conclusion that this arbitrary establishment ot figure for a high school class is more or less trespass on the rights of com munity to set up and conduct such an ln- stitution for all the children and not just for some of them. The theory of the public school system is that they are established for all and not just for few the ones who may choose to attend or the ones who are chosen to attend.
 The situation, however, locally is an unusual one and the authorities seem to have found the best way out Of diffl- culty. And all of us must recognize the fact that natural sequence of events may in the next year or so remove the need ol such steps as we're now taking. The decline in school attendance in the grades of our grammar schools is pro- nounced Eventually this will be carried into the high schools. How soon the peak in high school attendance is due to arrive, if 1t isn't already here, is for school authorities to point out But for the pres ent we must make the best of trying position.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-16
Proper Attitude

Mayor Vincent Scully will find plenty of approval for the attitude he takes with regard to the Harper Ferry Road Bridge The city does not find itself obligated to pay for any of the cost of constructing new span where the old and danger ous one now stands, Everyone is more or less familiar with this bridge and has given tacit approval to the move to re- place 1t with more modern and safer one. But action has been lacking be- cause of the fact that the concerned par ties never agreed on procedure,
 Acting on advice from the Corporation Counsel's office, however, the mayor now assumes the position that while the old bridge should be replaced, it should be done at the expense of the railroad com pany. Whether or not this will ever result in a new bridge for Harper's Ferry Road, we don't know. But it's encourag- ing to see that the city can take firm stand on such matter as this, Too often in the past this city has been willing to share any and all expenses with public utilities whether or not they were justified.