Milford chronicle., 1940-05-24
FREDERIcA

Il is the custom Of the Veterans
Of Foreign Wars to hold memorial
services each year on the Sunday
preceding Memorial Day. This year
the services will be held in Trinity
Methodist Church Sunday morning,
May 26. The services win be con-
Quoted by Rev. James Bishop Of
Dover, assisted by the Rev. r. S.
Gauit. Mrs. Joseph Gerow will sing
q soprano solo, Great Peace Have
They Who Love the Lord"
The baecalaureate services win be
held Sunday evening Ia the church
on May 26, for the eighth grade
gratiuates OF the F,rederica school
On Friday evening at 7:45 O'Clock,
May 81, commencement exercises
will be held in the auditorium Of
the Frederica school. DR.. Frank
Hefson of Milford viii deliver the
address to the graduates. The pub
lie is invited to attend all the exer-'
cises of the school.
A reunion OF campers and leaders
of the American Youth Foundation
was held in Frederica on Saturday
and Sunday. Forty persons from
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washing
ton, D. c., and Delaware were in at
tendance. The group attended the
Presbyterian Church in Dover Sun
day morning. Among those enter
tanned in Frederica by Mrs. Annie
Harrington, Mr.. and Mrs. David M.
Green, Mrs. j. d. Walstrom were
Mrs. George Watson, Mise Alyce
Hitchner, Of Pitman, NJ j., Bob Sid
ner, Albert Gremse, AL Atherten, of
East Orange, N. j.; Joan Brown and
Whit Cheston. of Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Charles Matlack, who has |
been at the BrandyWine Sanitorium
since last October, died there. on /
Thursday of last week. The body |
was brought here at the Rogers fu
neral home where il was viewed by l
friends on Saturday evening before
being taken to Thorofare, N, j., on
Sunday, where the funeral services
were held in the church she for
merly attended, and interment made
in the cemetery there Mrs. Matlack
was a member of Trinity Methodist
Church here. A consistent Chris
tian whose life was one of beautiful
service and conservation to her
Saviour.
She will always be remembered
for her virtues and kindness. "The
righteous shall be in everlasting
remembrance" CXII,6. She
was 50 years of age, and is sur
vived by her husband and five
daughters, Mrs. Merton Honey, Mrs.
Louder Belts and Mrs William Sea-
cord, all of Frederick; Mrs. Reba
Ryan and Miss Mae Matlack, of
Camden, N. j.; two sons, Edward
Matlack of Thorofare, N. j., and
Benjamin Matlack of Philadelphia;
a brother, Charles Morgan, of West
vile, N. ].
Mrs. Watson Green and daughter
Dorothy spent the weekend in Will
mington.
Thomas B. Spurry has moved into
his house recently purchased of /
Gordon L. Counselman, who moved /
out to his farm where he has made |
many improvements. /
The Frederica Volunteer Fire Co. /
was called out early on Monday
morning to help extinguish a fire at
Russell NDore's filling stationy near
town. The Magnolia and Bowers
companies were also there. The
damage was considerable.
Mrs. Ethel Miltiades and three
children of Baltimore, Md, moved
into the Patterson property last
Saturday.
In the absence of Rev E. S. Gault
last Sunday morning, Rev. Hadaway
was sent from the conference in ses-
sion at Wilmington, to fill the pull
pit. On Sunday evening the Junior
Choir, under the leadership of Miss
Elizabeth WalstrOm, had a fine pro- {
gram of recitations and songs. This I
is good training for the young peo-
pie and is certainly appreciated by {
the parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Beebe and {