Milford chronicle., 1940-05-17
MILTON
AIumnl AssoeIaLIon

The Milton High School Alumn
Association will hold its eleventh
annual reunion and banquet on Wed
nesday evening, May %, for the grad
uating class Of 1910. President Ar
thur Wagamon has appointed the
following ehairmen. who will havi
charge OF the various activities: Pro
gram, Misses Mary King and Ruth
Warren, Layton Reed and I. &c, King
Jr. dinner. Miss Katherine Gray
Miss Jane Lingo, Mrs David Shiv.
elhood, Mrs. George Larke. Mrs, Da-
vid Donovan, Mrs. Daniel Wagamoni
Jr., and Mrs. Harry Draper; deco
rations Miss Sarah Atkins; AIRS.
Lester Radke and Miss Clara Walls;
nominating, Daniel WagaIaon, Jf.,
Layton Reed, Miss Martha Wilson,
Miss Phyllis Wilson, Miss Sarah Al
kins end n Harold Palmer: dance,
Russell Bennett, Nelson Bennett,
Robert Black, Jr., Pierce Russell
and Miss Beatrice Wells The ban
quet will be served at z. p. m. E. S. T.
Mrs. Katherine Belts will be toast
mistress.
Mrs, Jnmes H. Palmer Dies
Mrs. James H. Palmer died at her
nOme, on Chestnut street, on Mon
day. afternoon after long illness.
Mrs. Palmer had been suffering from
a heart condition for several months,
yet her death came suddenly and
quietly as her physician sat beside
her. She leaves, beside her husband,
six daughters, Mrs. Amy Smith, Mrs.
Melvina Fhackery, Mrs. Annie White,
of Milton; MIS-. Eva Tompkins. of
New Haven, Conn; Mrs. Elsie Davis
and Mrs. Carolyn Reed, of Milton.
Funeral arrangements had not been
made when this was written.
JuniOr.SeaiOr Prom Tonight
The JuniOr-Senior Prom Of the
Milton High School will be held to-
night, at o'clock, in the school
auditorium. The Stan Hastings Or
chestra will furnish the music.
Anniversary
In celebration of its first anniver-
sary Inc new Milton Theatre will
give gala performances during the
week of May 20. The affair will be
opened by hand concert the first |
night and other extra entertaining
features for each succeeding night |
AOUS dAulatsAlts- al aAE A4AG AAHlAA-
ager, E. II. Scott, Jr., for his Ahor- |
Ough efforts to give the public clean, !
interesting and entertaining pic |
lures for the past twelve months.
Blossom Time fh
1t is apple blossom time in Sus-
sex and large number of visitors are
daily Viewing the gorgeous display |
on The W. II. Chandler orchards, |
north of Milton.
BrOiIer Growers Are Happy
The broiler producers in this To-
cality has about completed the sale |
Of their first 1940 crop at prices |
which showed a very substantial |
profit. The houses are again being |
rapidly filled up for the next crop !
to come off IN August.
Hay Crop Hurt
The dry weather Of the past few
weeks has resulted in the curtail- !
men of the hay crop in this section
with serious loss to the daiTymen.
Many fields, grown for seed, are, not
maturing and will be plowed under
for otGer crops.
G. OF o. Meeting ss''ss-sei
The monthly meeting of the
Chamber OF Commerce TO be held on
Monday evening promises to be the
most interesting one since the Or
ganizauon was started. A full stem
ographic report of the entire pro- !
ceedings of the hearing held by the |
Board of Engineers for Rivers and /
HaFboFs in Washington last week, |
regarding the improvement of the
Broadkiil River, will be presented. /
Other matters of real Importance to
the weil-5eing Of Milton will be
presented and discussed. A fUQ at
tendance is earnestly requested.
Convention EighllghtS
Cooperation, unity OF effort and
hard work on the part Of the fire
department and the progressive bus
mess men of Milton all served to
make the convention OF the Del
mary1 Firemens Association held
here last week one of the most sue
cessful in the history of the assO-
citation.
Local politicians took the oppor-
tunity to look over Mayor Bacon OF :
and were pleased TO l
find evidences OF very considerable I
good guDerlatorial timber in the I
mayors personality and general
After viewing the number of ladies'
in the auXiliaries from Cape Charles
and Selbyville in the line of parade
It caused one to wonder who did 4
the cooking in those towns last We'd c.
nesday p
The people of Milton are grateful a
to the state troopers who assisted 80 Il
ably in handling the crowd of 1000 L
who thronged the streets during the ts
lay and night.
The president of the local depart t.
nent, Charles S. Barker. came as o.
lear as is humanity possible for a Il
nan to be in TWO or three places at L
he same time @
About one-half ton of turkey was o.
consumed by the visitors while no il
can be made of the huge p
Quantities of hot dogs and ham iC
iurgers that disappeared from the Ia
cod stands. c'
Sheriff Ed Suthard established =
ONE sort of a nonstop eating rec =
rd at the smoker" given by the
Tuesday evening. Bystand-
rs watched him eat for two hours
nd left-the sheriff still eating
Robert G. Houston, Esq, of GeOge-
own, was an interested onlooker.
'ol Houston is a native son of
and the lapse of years
way has apparently not 1essened his
ffection for the folks back home,
or, ours for him.
The Rescue Fire Company. of