Milford chronicle., 1941-04-25
LEWEs


who is working in a shipyard.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Carey O
Seaford are receiving congratu
i lations upon the birth of a fine son
born in the Beebe Hospital las
Saturday. Mrs. Carey may be re
membered as the former Miss Pau
line Graves, daughter of Mr.. ant
Mrs. w. E. Graves Of Lewes.
4 Mrs. Frederick G. Clifton, Sr
and son, Byron Fillmore Clifton
motored to Fort dupont on Sunda,
to visit Lieut.. and Mrs. Gustus q
Naylor. Mrs. Naylor returned will
her mother, Mrs. Clifton for a tw.
weeks viist, while Lieut.. Nayloi
was away to school in Troy, N. Y
Members of the senior auxiliary
of the Beebe Hospital, held a bus
mess meeting at the nurses home
on Thursday afternoon, April "a
at 2 p. m.
On Saturday, April 26, there will
be a bake for the benefit of the
Groome's Methodist Church.
A rummage sale is now being
held by the Bethel Cleaners, r. r.
Ingram's Sunday school class OF
the Bethel Methodist Church, in
Lewes, in the Ableman's building
on Second street. Miss Marie Scott
is chairman in charge. Assisting on
the committee are Mrs. Richard A.
Shields. Mrs. Richard C. Beebe,
Mrs. Theodore Simpler and Mrs.
Thomas Morris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virden Bryan spent
Sunday in Seaford visiting friends.
Rabbi Stephen Sherman, refu-
gee from Germany, who was once
confined in a concentration camp,
will be the speaker at the May
meeting of the Lewes Parent-Tea-
cher Association ON May 5 in the
Lewes school. Rabbi Sherman is
now in charge of the congregation
Of Israel Church in Salisbury, Md
Mrs. William Ackerman of Wash
ington. d. c., is spending a few
days here visiting her parents,
Captain and Mrs. Thomas S. Brown
at their residence on Mulberry
street.
The Lewes CotilIion Club will
hold dance in the Lewes Fire
Hall tonight.
Seven members of the Henlopen
Grange have been awarded silver
stars for 25 years of service. Those
honored are Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey
Maull, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
A. Hart and 7. C. Donovan.
William Dorsey Graves, infant
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Maffi0n II.
Graves, was baptized on Easter
Sunday at the Bethel Methodist
Church by the Rev. Harry v. Bran
ford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter +. Smith,
Jr., and daughter Ann, spent the
weekend in Pennington with Mr..
Smiths parents, Mr.. and Mrs W.
F. Smith. Sr.
Mrs. l.. G. Warrington has re-
turned home after spending tile
winter in Philadelphia with friends
and relatives.
Mrs. A. Alexander OF Houston is
the guest of her son-in-law and
daughter, MIR. and Mrs. Livy c.
Rogers at their home on Savannah
Road
Members of the Youth Fellow
ship OF the Bethel Methodist
Church win hold a covered dish
luncheon in the Sunday school
room on Thursday, May l. Mrs.
Elizabeth Dodd Bryan is general
chairman, assisted by Mrs. Minna
Lord and Mrs. Frank DickersOn.
Reese .Hirons Clifton who has
been confined TO his home because
Of a throat infection, is able 10
be out again.
Miss Marion Hooker, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. u. S. Hooker, OF
Lewes Beach, has accepted po-
sition with the DUPONT Company in
Seaford.
Announcement has been made
Of the marriage OF Miss Charlotte
Walton, daughter of Mrs. Marga-
ret Burbage Walton, of Rehoboth
Beach. and Robert J. Walton, Jr.,
of Pennsylvania, to John C. Geld
er, son of Mrs. Charles C. Gelder
and the late Mr.. Gelder of Princess
Anne, Md. /
The ceremony took place Febru-
ary s in Trinity Episcopal Church
at Elkton, Nd, performed by the
Rev. G. w. Atkinson, rector of the |
The brides brother, Rob 4
ert James Walton, 3rd, accompan-
led the couple.
Mrs. Gelder, a former Whining
ton girl, attended Friends School +
IN Wilmington and was graduated |
from Chatham Hall, Chatham, Va.
She is the granddaughter of the I
late Mayor David w. Cubbage OF (
Lewes, and Mrs. Anne C. Burbage |
Of Rehoboth. She is editor OF the
Delaware Pilot, weekly newspaper (
Of Lewes. in which position she !
will continue for the present
Mr.. Gelder is graduate of Free
hold Military Academy OF Free [
hold, N. j., and attended the Uni |
versity of Pennsylvania. He is now .
serving under the U. S. Army
draft in the Engineering School, |
Provisional Battalion, at Fort Bel
voir, Va.
A vertigo attack while walking
along pier was blamed on Mon |
day for the drowning Of James
Farrell. As years old, fireman of q |
New York wrecking tug, engaged |
i'll salvage operations on the Brit
ish freighter Ramon de Lawinaga
Farrell fell into the water on Sun
day, April 90.
The historic home of Mr. and
Mrs. Marshall Coverdale in Quak-
ertown, near Lewes. the only re-
manning house in the nripinnl viii /