Milford chronicle., 1942-03-20
FRANKFORT

of Bayard. Mrs. Gray served cake
and fruit punch.
Curtis Youngblood, of Atlanta,
Ca, was recent guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Marshall Seay, of Frankford.
Mr. Youngblood is a graduate of
the C. P. A. School and is now en-
ployed at the Macon City Airport,
Macon, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond P. Long,
of Frankford, announce the engage
mertt of their daughter, Miss Emma
Howard Long, to Mr.. Herbert Arr
mold Trucksess, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert A. Trucksess of Bala-
Cynwyd, Pa.
The above caption, accompanied
by an attractive portrait of the
bride-to-be, appeared in the Will
mington papers last Saturday
evening. Miss Long is librarian at
the Bala-Cynwyd Memorial Lii
brary.
William S. Long, III, was the
leader at the regular weekly meet
ing of the Young Peoples Society
on Sunday evening at the Manse.
Miss Gertrude E. CrOcker, who is
now employed in Philadelphia, Wis
tied her parents here last Tuesday
night.
Last Thursday morning a good
number of patrons of the John NJ.
Clayton School enjoyed the show
ing Of the interesting movie depict
ing the Delaware State Music Fes-
tival as held in Wilmington in
April, 1871. The local school
band was a credit to the home dis
triet in the fine showing it made
among the bands from the entire
state. The assembly program was
enlivened by several well rendered
selections by the j. M. C. band
After the close of the program, the
adult visitors spent the morning
observing regular classroom ac-
tivities, and lunched at the cafe
terra. .a-
Mrs. Luvenia Derrickson-D -Disha-
room returned to her home ON
Knox street, Thursday evening, /
after having spent several weeks
visiting her son, Lacy Derrickson,
in Georgetown.
John Mitchell, while working in |
a last years soybean field on the
farm of Horace J. Hickman here, |
last Friday, found a U. S. govern
ment balloon and parachute wea-
ther recorder which had left the .
Washington, D. C., weather bureau
on February 13. The instrument |
has been duly forwarded to its
destination.
Edwin G. Crocker, who is em-
ployed in defense work at College
Park, Md, spent a part of Sunday
with his parents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis NJ. Gum,
3rd, were Sunday guests of Mr.. |
and Mrs. Vollie G. Gray at Omar.
The Girl Scouts, under the lead
ership of their sponsors Mrs. Leon
ard Jamison, held a st. Patrick's .
Day tea on Tuesday afternoon at
the John M. Clayton School.
The illustriOus Tom Dingle,
John NJ. Clayton's star athlete until
graduation last May, and now do
ing collegiate work at William and |
Mary College in williamsburg, |
Va has the honor Of f1aving been
placed on the deans list. This
scholastic achievement is unusual
for a freshman. Congratulations
Tom
Mordecai H. Hudson, Jr., met
with a painful injury while riding
home last Tuesday afternoon from
his classes as a junior high school
student at the John M. Clayton
School. 1t is not definitely known
what caused the accident but
marks and red paint on q light
pole near the Brasure and Lynch
feed warehouse. indicate that the
lads bicycle collided with the pole.
In so doing the boys head evident
ly struck the pole with sufficient
force to render him unconscious.
Junior was confined to his home
for several days under the care of
a doctor, but now has resumed his
classes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Earl Wright
moved on Monday from one of
William II. Truitt's tenant houses
ON Reed street, to one of the new
McNeal bungalows on Knox street.
Capt. William ID. Hudson is still
seriously i'll at his home on Thatch-
er street
Mr.. and Mrs. BOatwright have
moved from the apartment in the
residence of Mrs. Alice II. Gum, ON
Carey street, to a bungalow across
the street, formerly occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Bunting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Long and
family were recent guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Clifton Long and family,
at Hudsom's Cross Roads.
BABY CLINlC-A clinic for well
babies and other pre-school age
children was started last Wednes-
day morning in the teachers room
of the John NJ. Clayton school and
will continue to be held on the first
and third Wednesdays of each
month from ten until eleven in the
morning. DR.. Marion Hottop and a.
state nurse, Miss Coles, are in
charge of this movement.
Announcement is made of the
marriage of Miss Lula Mae Evans,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest J.
Evans of Frankford, and Albert ].
Daisey, son Of'Mr. and Mrs. Irwin
F. Daisey, also of Frankford. The
wedding took place on the night of
February IA at Roxana, the Rev.
II. Grier Baker, pastor of the Pill
grim Holiness Church. officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hudson, of
Philadelphia, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles II. Lockwood on
Clayton avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norwood Chamber
lain entertained at Sunday dinner
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