Milford chronicle., 1942-10-02
BRIDGEVILLE

MRS. Hugh Collins and son lett OF
Monday evening to join Mr.. Collin
at East Orange, N. j., where the!
will make their home. She wal
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Sher
man Todd who will remain will
the Collins for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy B. Truiti
were in Philadelphia several day.
last week.
T. S. Smith received painful in,
juries to his left arm last weeH
when it became entangled in the
apple washing. machine at h {
Smith packing house.
Mrs. Edward A. MiIlar has re.
turned to her home in Cleveland
Ohio, after visiting Mrs. Jefferys
Ashe,
Mr.. and Mrs. Mace Allen an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Jean Anne Allen, to
Mr.. Ernest H. Ellis, son of Mrs.
Gladys H. Ellis of Salisbury, Md.
Both are graduates of the Univer-
sity of Delaware. Miss Allen is
instructor in Home Economics in
the Bridgeville High School, and
Mr.. Ellis is with the Bellanca Air
craft Corporation at New Castle. ,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Newton
were in Philadelphia last Thursday
and Friday.
Charles Willin left from Dover on
Monday morning, for Fort Dix, N.
j., following his enlistment last
week in the clerical department of
the Signal Corps.
Mrs. Robert Hopkins is visiting
relatives at Sudlersville, Md.
Little Miss Larlin Purnell spent
the weekend in Milford with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. John B.
Purnell.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Conway, of
Riverton, N. j., and Fred Conway,
Jr., of Philadelphia, spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Davis.
Mrs. Conway remained to spend
several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sterling Smith, of
Washington, D. c., speent the week
end with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. Walton Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Swain were
among the guests at the wedding
of Miss Blanche Lee of Townsend,
to Robert Berry of Wilmington, on
Saturday, in the Methodist Church
at Townsend. A reception followed
at the Wayside Inn in Smyrna.
Mrs. Hugh Collins was hostess
to the members of her card club on
Wednesday evening of last week.
Second Lieut.. Charles Noble (j.g.)
is spending a weeks furlough here
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Kinder. Having just COM
pleted his training at the Officers
School, Quartermaster's
Corps, at Camp Lee, Va, he will
report the last of this week to
Fort Bragg, N. c.
Mrs. Ida Parker left on Friday of
last week for a visit with her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Parker, in Baltimore.
DR.. and Mrs. L. F. Hoch and Mr..
and Mrs. ]. Burton Purnell spent
the weekend at Oak Orchard.
Mrs. Elizabeth Adams Jones was
badly cut and bruised on Tuesday
Of last week in an automobile acci-
lent near her home on the Bridge
road.
Miss Louise Mong, of Belwood,
Pa, was a weekend guest at the
lome of Mrs. Mary Ellingsworth.
. Machine shops all over the eoan-s
ry are calling for skilled and semi
Ikilled machinists. The Bridgeville |
War Production Training School,
ocated at the Brenner Machine |
shop, has trained and placed into
many semi-skilled ma
.hinists and welders. Some of the
War Production Industries now
Isking for men are: Delaware Air
raft Industries in Greenwood;
bravo, Harlans, Pusey and Jones,
Idgefoor Iron Company, in Will
nington, and many others.
Bridgeville War Prod u ton
Training School gives training in
athe operations, milling machine
perators, shaper operators, drill
'ress operators, tool-makers, gas
nd electric welding. Three classes
day are held, each class three
our period for a five-day week.
lime of classes, 9 A. M. to IL noon;
2 noon to P. M; P. M. to 10
;. M. Usual length of training is
hree months.
This school is sponsored by the
and there is no charge
Dr. the training given. To qualify
s a student you must be over 16 :
ears of age and an American citi-
en-. If you are interested in be-
oming a student contact either =
irgil B. Wiley, principal Bridge
lille High School. or ]. Burton
urnell, industrial arts teacher of 3
lie same school and coordinator of
War Production Train
lg School.