Milford chronicle., 1943-01-29
GEORGETOWN

: liz, a. r. q a. M.s ODSeffeu 4 ues
day night as memorial might fo
the late postmaster, Harry +
: Nichols. There will be a presents
= tion to the lodge of a memorial {
his memory. Wives, daughters an
friends of the members have bee
: invited.
, Local and Personal
Fritz Booth. stationed at Cam
i Davis N. c., is spending ten day
with relatives.
, Robert Lynch, who has beel
, with the armed ferces in Icelanl
for several months, has returned t
the States and is on a ten-day fur
Tough visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Carol
Parsons, near here.
William B. Smith, employe of thi
State Highway Department here
is confined to the Beebe Hospital.
James Walls, son of Mr.. and Mrs
George E. Walls, will leave thii
week for Fort Dix where he will
enter the army. The young man il
student of the University of Della
ware and last year was on the foot
ball team.
Mrs. Carlyn Leishman Massey
who for several months has been
connected with the State Board oi
Charities as social worker, has
resigned. Mrs. Massey has taken ]
position in the personnel depart
ment at Fort Miles.
Miss Anne Catherine Burton
daughter of former-Levy Court
Commissioner and Mrs. William D.
Burton, near Angola. Indian River
section, and Lieutenant Arthur
Wagamon. son of Mr.. and Mrs
William B. Wagamon. Sr.. of Mil
ton. were married last Friday at
the home of the bride by the Rev. F.
H. Truitt, pastor of the Nassau
charge.
The bride is a graduate of the
Lewes High School and Beacon
College. Wilmington. For some
time she has been associated with
the DUPONT Company in Whining
ton. Mr.. Wagamon on Monday of
last week graduated from the ad
vanced flying training school at
Columbus. Miss, as a lieutenant.
He is a graduate of the Milton High
School and attended Drexel Insti-
tute in Philadelphia. They are on
short wedding trip after which
he will be stationed at Tampa,
Floriad.
G. II. =. Faculty Selected
After working under all kinds of
handicaps since the opening of
school on September 8. the George
town Board of Education and Su-
perintendent Franklin j. Butz this
week succeeded in completing the
faculty. There have been six va
cancies since the Christmas holi-
days. This week three new teach
ers started their work. Miss Cath
crime p. Shaffer, of Mercersburg,
Pa, fills the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Miss Rosalie Martin
who for nearly thirty years was
English teacher in the high school.
Miss Shaffer is a graduate of Penn
State in the arts and science course
and obtained her masters degree
from Gettysburg College. Having
worked for two years on the staff
of the Mercersburg Journal, she
will have charge of the school pa
per. the Golden Herald" For the
past few years she las been secre-
Iary and assistant anthrOpOlOgist
of the Carnegie Institution in
Washington, ID. c.
William H. GodOski. graduate
of the Carnegie Institute of Fine
Arts. in Pittsburgh. Pa. is the new
director of the schools art depart |
and portrait painter. For a time |
he conducted a school of art in his |
home town. Pittston. Pa. and was
studio teacher at the Y. NJ. c. A.
there and at the Community House |
in Dupont. Pa.
Prof Walter BensOn's position is |
being filled by Miss Ellen Lathers, !
who comes here from Duluth. Miss. !
She is graduate of Macalister /
College wherfe she majored in So
ciology and economics. Part of the
line she teaches i'm Milford where
she is living. She has not had
much teaching experience, but has
lad considerable business exper-
ence in Duluth where she was a
luyer in large department store.
Fire Damages Lawyers Home
Fire. believed to have originated
rom a wood stove in the laundry
It the home of Howard w. Bran
lall. on Race street, Wednesday of
asst week, gutted the rear portion
# the building and caused a loss
# many hundreds of dollars. Fire
men. rushing to the scene, with
he aid of the crowd' which had
,athered, carried most of the furni-
ure from the house to a safe
lace. The exact loss has not as
et been determined. p
There was meeting of the
New Century Club
cheduled to be held in the after
Don. but because of the fire. it was
hanged to the home of one of the
lub's oldest members, Mrs. La
inia Adams
Records show that within the !
asst forty years three fires have
ccurred on the plot of land upon
rhich the Bramhall home stands. ,,
he site is known as the Charles b.
aylor tract and during four de-
ldes when ii was owned by Mr..