Milford chronicle., 1940-01-12
HARRINGTON

ana MS company were summoned z
FELTON, for the first fire OF the year
Frederica Fire Company and Cam
Wyoming Fire Company wer
already there. 50 the local eompan,
was recalled before reaching thl
fire.
Chief c. w. ShOckley who serve,
as president OF the company las
year opened the business session
and later turned the garel over t,
C. d. Mills, the new president. Tn,
company received a donation from
the W. 7. Grant Company for the
recent fire in Milford The fire re.
corder reported nine alarms during
the month Of December and at the
close Of the year had answered Sc
alarms which was IL less than in
1888.
A committee on the application
for membership OF r. w. Vane re-
ported favorable and later the can
didate was elected, while another
candidate was rejected. A commit
tee IS working out plans to place
an alarm switch in the home of Dr..
II. w. Smith, who lives near the fire
house. and who has agreed TO turn
in the alarms during the night when
il is almost impossible for the tele-
phone operator to locate any one.
The company has purchased some
new equipment including hats,
gloves, smoke masks. copper hose
jacket and Indian pumps. Plans are
being made to open a fire school
here in short time-members of
Houston Fire Company will attend
the school.
The new president named his first
committee, H. {. Tee, Frank O'Neal
and Warren T. Moore to arrange
suitable recognition for the oldest
active members of the company. The
new officers Installed by past pres
idUnt. George w. Swain. are as fol-
lows: President, Mr.. Mills; vice
president. Milton Welch; recording
secretary, Leonard Horleman; finan-
cial secretary, Grover G. Lord; treas
urer, c. Tharp Harrington; fire re-
cOrler, Eugene Nelson; chief, c. w.
Shockley; first assistant chief,
Claude NJ Cahall; second assistant
chief, Lewis r. Clymer; chief engi-
neer. David Harrington; drivers
truck No. 1, Milton Welch, Norris
Graham and Jack Pitlick; drivers
truck No. 2, Ben Emory and Frank
c. O'Neal; plugmen. AL Long, Brin-
ton Holloway, Charles Peek and
Charles Griffith; linemen, Preston
jackson. George Cain, Isaac Nor
ris, Granville Hill, Roy Cain, Sam
uel Short and Harry c. Tee; ladder
man, Frank Morgan; foreman. Caleb
Langrell, George Graham and C. T.
Harrington; nOzzlemen, G. ID. Mills,
foreman, George Wyatt, Jack Mack
lin, Curtis Rash. and Wallace Will
son; salvage crew, Grover Lord. Ed
ward Harriet, Clarence Kemp, Gar
rett Harrington, Leonard HOrleman
and Eugene Nelson.
The annual dinner the Murphy and
Hayes Lumber Company served to |
the employees in the fire house last
week was voted n great success |
The ladies' auxiliary of the fire COM
pahy prepared the dinner with the
firemen doing the dining room act !
with Ben Emory as head chef. Near
ly fifty attended Besides the en-
ployees other guests included: May
or J. Harry Raughley. City Manager
Charles Hopkins. Chief of Police
Charles Tatman, Police Officer Fred
Marvel, George Paskey, manager of
Peoples Service Station: Theodore
Harrington, Haywood CULLEN, /,
Frank Langrell and j. Harvey Bur-
CESS The employees present in Il
clnded: Ralph POOre. Raymond
Poore, Edward Hill. John Griffith,
Herman Brown, Walter Draper,
John Hudson. Ernest Moore, Fred
Sharp, George A. Collins, Eddie
-hambers, William Chambers. Thos.
Jr., Thomas Minner, Horace
Quillen, president of the company;
Harry Quillon. treasurer; Homer
Vincent, Paul Porter and Theodore
RifCnberg, COlored employees, Rob-
,rt Townsend. Emanuel Jordan, Le- ]
Roy Tharp, sNorman SOrdcn, Loren {
20 Collins. Ward Russ, Lee jackson, q
ames Hill, Ernest Hicks, Elwood
,lorris, William Morris and Johnny /
Waters. Music was furnished by the S
Slaughter Beach TTOubledoers. {
II was announced last week by I
Carl Sylvester, general chairman of @
he Christmas fund committee that 7
he contributions made to the fund I
Exceeded the expenditures by near i
y one hundred dollars. This sur =
lus in the fund was brought about +
Then orders arrived from the At q
OTney General declaring the gift of t
tickets with purchases c
'asr6 lottery and must be discoutin- II
ed. The first nights drawings were N
eld as per schedule. The cOntribu-
prs were notified OF the surplus and u
agreed to place the h
loney in the hands of the local Red l.
ross Chapter for use in emergency G
elief work during the coming year o.
he committee advises that the Il
program sponsored joint a
] by the Chamber of Commerce and al
ity Council, was quite successful. a.
/ addition to decorations, street
ghting, two motion picture pro- p
rams were presented for Children, I'll
wen hundred Christmas packages In
fruit and candy were dis pl
ibuted. Sixty baskets Of food v;
uffs placed in the hands OF the in
sedy. es
Four fire calls in six days, kept 81
e aew chief, Clarence w, Shockley to
I'd his company pretty much on the 81
mp. The FIRE at the home of ]. 90
'ilbur Hurd. about two miles west
this city. Saturday afternoon, tn
owed the most serious entailing Gu
loss estimated at $3.50 The fire was de
used by a defective chimney. Mr.. te
urd said he carried on insurance dI
the property OF furniture which in
Bre both damaged. Fireman Jack OF
pclfiin can consider hfnself iuckv fir