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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
COvernOrBacOn
Sussex Women
Chief Executive, Rep.
Wiley, C. A. Bunting
Urge Workers To
Boost Registration.

Remember October 21 the final
registration day" This slogan for
Republican campaign, workers try
ing to get out the vote was stressed
by Governor Walter w. Bacon. u.
S. Representative. Earle D. Wiley,
and other speakers last Friday
night at a dinner given by Mrs.
Frank G. Tallman OF. Wilmington,
Republican national cOmmitteewo-
men, for the committeewomen of
Sussex County in the Dinner Bell
Inn, Rehoboth.
The Governor pointed out that
every voter in the state should be
registered and cast his or her bal
lot on November z. Mrs. Tallman
suggested that the women make a
practice of voting early in the day
so that the polls would be available
to men in the later hours.
Governor Bacon opened his brief
address with a personal tribute to
Captain Harry V. Lyons, who is
critically i'll in the Beebe HOSPITAL.
He urged each worker to concen-
trate on his or her own district in
getting voters registered and then
seeing to it that they cast their
ballots.
Wiley Praises Governor
Representative Wiley praised the
Governors past record and said
that he had proved he was a man of
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Red Cross Area
No. 6 Has Been
Organized Here
George T. Macklin Elect
ed Chairman At Re-
cent Meeting; Plan To
Open Permanent Of
flee Here.

AT a recent meeting of the di-
rectors and workers of Area No. 6,
Delaware Chapter of the American
Red Cross, George T. Macklin.
prominent Milford business man,
was elected chairman of that
group. Other officers and chair
men elected were vice chairmen.
Horace e. CULLEN of Harrington
and Mrs. George DerricksOn of Lin
coin; secretary, Miss Ida Draper,
Milford; treasurer, Miss Bessie
Warren. Glendale. Chairmen fol-
low: Production. Mrs. Robert B.
Smith, Harrington; Nurses Aides.
Mrs. Martha Benson, Houston;
Publicity, Mrs. G. Marshall Town
send. Milford; Blood Donors, Mrs.
Robert Kirby. Milford; Junior Red
Cross. Mrs. W. Nelson Hall, Ellen
dale; Canteen, Mrs. Jonothan s.
Willis, Milford; Motor Corps, Miss
Dorothy Derrickson. Milford; Home
Service, August F. Fax. Milford;
Miss Madelyn Tharp. Harrington.
Tie group will meet every other
and is planning the estab-
lishment of a permanent office in
this city, with a paid secretary in
The Office daily.
Area No. comprises, Milford.
Frederick. Farming
ION, Glendale, Lincoln and Hous-
ON.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06

here: E. c. Evans, general chair
man; publicity directors. John p.
Steward and Senator Robert H.
Yerkes; special gift committee,
Clarence NJ. Welch. Jr.; service
clubs, William r. Burke and w.
Shockley Daugherty; schools, Rob-
ert +. Shilling; banks. George T.
Reed, Jr., and Wallace F., McFaul:
American Legion. August F. Faix;
fraternal organizations, NJ. Haswell
Pierce. ]. Lewis Wright. Clarence
+. Jester. Mrs. G.. VanNuis Wilker-
son. Miss Alice Brown: hospital,
August F.. Faix; churches. Avenue
Methodist. Miss Elizabeth Ham
mOnd; Presbyterian, Mrs. Ruth
Humes; Calvary Methodist. Miss
Catherine Downing and Rev. NJ. E.
HungerfOrd; Episcopal, Mrs JOS
eph $. Kinks; st. Johns r. C..
Father John Powers; Baptist, Rev.
Leon c. Nelson: Church of God,
Rev. Robert +. Newton; Indepen-
dent. Rev. c. W. Taylor: Pilgrim
Holiness, Rev. Charles W. Baker:
Century club. Mrs. John w. Fry;
city council, fire company, mer-
chants and industries. Mayor Ev-
ans.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Anniversary At
COOIspring Sunday
Rev. ]. M. DeChant Will
Preside At Services In
Historic Church

The 21Sth anniversary of the
founding of Coolspring Presbyter-
ian Church, a short distance from
the Georgetown-Lewes highway,
near Coolspring, will be observed
at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon,
October s.
The sermon will be delivered by
the Reverend John NJ. DeChant.
who recently was called to First
Presbyterian Church in Milford to
succeed the Reverend John Jack
son Brown. Special music will be
furnished.
Historic Coolspring Presbyterian
Church is one Of the four oldest in
lower Delaware, the others being
st. Georges Chapel, Indian River
District; st Peters Protestant
Lewes; Old Christ Epis--
copal Church, near Laurel, and
Prince Georges Chapel. near Days
boro.
1t is impossible to fix the date
when the doors of old Coolspring
first were opened because early
records are missing. However, the
date of the organization is placed
some time in 1926.
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]. Fenton Daugherty
Is Acting Dean
Appointment Is First To Be Made
Under New Set-up

Announcement of the first major
appointment under the new admin
istrative program of the University
of Delaware was made last Friday
as the executive committee named
Prof. J. FentOn Daugherty, pro-
lessor of physics for Is years, as
acting dean of men for the current
school year.
officials stated that the selection
OF Professor Daugherty has al
ready met with very general ap-
prevail from people on the campus
who know him as a scholar, teach
er, and a Christian gentleman, a
man greatly interested i'm the well
fare of young men. The appoint
ment fills a long felt need in the
individual cOunseling for men in
order that they can gain the most
from their university academic ex-
perience and also develop as men
In a society of men,"
The office of the dean of men will
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State Teachers VIII
Meet In Wilmington
Education Association To Held
Annual COnclave October 1890

Education AssOefatiOn 10 neia
Annual COnclaVe October 1890
Education for Tolerance" will be
theme of the twenty-sixth annual
convention of the Delaware State
Education Association to be held in
Wilmington October 10 and 20.
More than $4,000 Delaware educa-
tors are expected to attend. Schools
will be closed during the two-day
meeting.
Prominent speakers will address
a series of meetings. including Hal
lett Abend, chief Far Eastern cor
respondent of the New YORK Times
Dr. Mel Carruthers, McFarlane
professor of economics and dean of
the College of Business Administra-
ton, Lehigh University; and DR..
Lyman BrysOn, educational direct
or of the Columbia BrOadcasting
System.
Greetings by Bacon
Governor Walter W. Bacon and
Mayor Albert w. James will ex-
tend greetings at the first general
session at 8 a. M, Thursday, 0cto-
Der 10, in the Warner Theatre. DIR.
w. II. Lemmel, superintendent Of
Wilmington Public Schools, will al
so greet the association.
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Century Club Begins
New Year Monday
Mrs. John W. Fry. New President,
VIII Preside

The Milford New Century Club.
which has stood through the years
for civic betterment. public well
fare, and general advancement of
citizenship, will begin it's 10th year
on Monday. Mrs. John W. Fry. is
the new president. Mrs. Fry, with
her board of directors were guests
of DIR. VI. Delema Draper on Tues
day planning for the years policy
and discussing last minute things
tor the opening on Monday. Mrs.
Elizabeth ID. Riggs, chairmen of
program. will present the calendar
for the coming months. Reports of
the annual convention and of the
work conference will be given as
we'll as a library report given by
Miss Edith Simpson. Mrs. Joseph
J. Pearce and MrsT M. Haswell
Pierce will make the convention
report and Mrs. G. Marshall Town
send will give the conference one.
There are new departments in club
work this year. Four new chair
men have been appointed by Mrs.
Fry. They are as follows: Emblems
Mrs David N. Stills, Historian, Mrs.
Alfred C. Houston. Mothercraft and
recreation. Mrs. Remsen {. Bar
hard. Bird and War service, Mrs.
Bernard Shortall. Members attend
ing the meeting on Moday will be
present for the outlining of the
years work as contained in the
calendar A social hour will follow
the meeting.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Cedars Will State Youth
Hold Meeting Offered Prizes
On October L For Work
Awards Are Offered To
Stimulate Interest Of
Youth In Poultry
Records.

To stimulate the interest of Della
Sare youth In record keeping, a
poultry record contest has been
announced by G. NJ. WorrilOw. act
ing associate director of the Della
ware Agricultural Extension Ser
vice.
Awards will be as follows: For
three winners from each county,
% a trip to the University of
Delaware. including tours of the
Experimental Farm and the Poul-
try Department, and ~ a football
game at the University of Della
ware or some other college; and in
addition, for the three highest scOr-
ing contestants in the State. ire
spective of counties. cash awards
of SO, $3.50. and SIS.
The contest is based on keeping
of a Delaware Poultry Record Cal
endar on the contestants or his
family's flock. These record calen-
dars have been prepared by the EX-
tension Service for poultrymen to
provide a convenient place for re-
cOrding the business transactions
of their poultry enterprises. They
are available to the boys and girls
from vocational agriculture teach
ers. All club agents. or county
agricultural agents.
To be eligible to enter the con-
test. the boy or girl must be
Delawarean who has not reached
his 18th birthday before January l,
1915. and his poultry accounts
must cover at least nine cOnsecu-
tive months.
Contestants will be judged on
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United War Fund
Drive Opens Here
Plea For Funds Is Greeted With Enthusiasm; Spe-
ciGI Solicitations And Cards viii Be Made By
Milford Motor Corps, Business Girls, Senior
Class, Girl Scouts And Boy Scouts, Both White
And COLOred.

The United War Fund Drive for
Delaware started enthusiastically
In Milford this week.
Announcement of the drive was
made in the churches, here. Sun
day. and the Kiwanis and Rotary
Clubs of this city made special do.
nations as clubs, and the members
will contribute separately as in
dividuals.
Special solicitations will be made
and the cards will be collected by
the Milford Motor Corps. OCD. the
senior class of the Milford High
School, Business Girls OF this city.
Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. both
white and cOlOTed.
1t is proposed to have n confer
ence of managers of Industrial
plants and for the INTO devise some
plan for the employees of the
plants to contribute 10 the drive.
For the benefit of those who
missed the list in last weeks
Chronicle we reprint the names of
the committees carrying on this
all important drive.
The following committees were
appointed to carry on the drive
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Crystal Fount
New
Officers Oct. 9
Donald Donovan Will Be
Installed AS Noble
Grand Of Local Odd
Fellows Lodge.

Crystal Fount Lodge. No. 10, /
o. o. F., of Milford, will begin q
new year on Monday, October o
when its new officers are installed
for the half-year term.
Donald Donovan, vice grand. re-
Gently elected to the highest posi-
ton the lodge can bestow, will be
installed noble grand by District
Deputy Grand Master Paris Kirby,
of the Grand Lodge OF Delaware.
Noble Grand Donovan is a we'll
known business man of this sec
ton. Formerly of Grants, but now
associated with the Vineyard Ship
building Company, he fits into the
position exceptionally well. He Is
married and resides In South Mil
ford. A successful term is predict
ed for him. James A. Hall is the
new vice grand. with Walter HOey
assuming the recording secretary's
position. Past Grand Henry Wiki
ms was again elected financial
secretary. a position formerly held
by him. Past Grand George A.
Swain is the new treasurer. Trus-
tees elected for the One-year term
of William V. Sipple. Paris Kirby
and Willard Hall.
Major James w. Cannon. w. F.
McFaul and John LeCompt were
reelected to the cemetery board
for the three-year term. Paris Kir-
by was elected to fill the unexpired
term of the late Augustus HOlstOn
on the cemetery board.
The installation ceremonies will
begin at eight o'clock and are open
to any Odd Fellow. J. Lewis Wright
the retiring noble grand has re-
quested every member Of Crystal
Fount to make a special effort to
attend this meeting.
The refreshment committee will
serve a buffet luncheon during the
evening.
Visitors are expected and will be
welcomed by the reception COM
mittee.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Opening Ceremonial OF
Season Will Be Held
In The Milford Com
munity Building.

Taking time out from the war
effort in which the entire menther-
ship is devoted to the one object
of winning the war, Evergreen
Forest, No. 40, Tall Cedars of Leb-
anon is staging its opening cere-
moniel on Thursday evening. Oc-
tober II, in the community build
ing. Milford. This first meeting of
the year will be in the nature of
an old fashioned party. embodying
all the fundamentals of past cere-
monials including ample time for
the members to greet their buddies
they haven't seen since the meet
ing in Lewes last May.
Edward B. Green, Grand Tall
Cedar of Georgetown. will preside.
Chaplain Joseph Lank will open
the meeting with a prayer, asking
divine blessing on our armed forces
and the fraternity. James B. Car
ey. attorney of Georgetown. will
lead the assembly in singing Am
erica" Routine business will be
rushed through permitting the fes-
tivities to get an early start
A large number of Master Ma
sons will be presented to the For
est as candidates and indicted by
The Rangers who have dug down
deep into their bag of stunts and
brought out an old one that was
a favOrite in years gone by. This
phase of the evenings program
goes over big and is enjoyed by
everyone.
District Representative Warren
T. Moore will give an account of the
Supreme Tall Cedar's conference
held in Atlantic City and
his plans for a district meeting of
Eastern ShO', Chesapeake and Ev-
argreen Forests to be held in some
centrally located place.
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Sergeant Deputy Tells
or Romania Drop
Tried To EVade PurSuerS After
Parachuting Into Wheat Field

Staff Sergeant George V. Deputy,
Clio West Sixth Street, Wilmington,
son of James l.. Deputy of Lincoln
a former prisoner of Romania, ar
rived home early Saturday morning
to tell how he parachuted from a
flaming bomber while suffering
from a fractured skull and made
an unsuccessful attempt to elude
his ROmanian pursuers before laps
ing into Inconsistencies in a wheat
field along the Danube River.
The 22-year-Old air gunner ar
rived in New York last Thursday
morning and the following day he
telephOned his wife to learn that he
had become the father of three
week-Old daughter, GeOrgianna NJ.
Deputy.
Happy with his newly discovered
family at their home. Sergeant
Deputy recalled some of his ex-
periences since leaving this coun-
try last May for Italy.
THE flax over Romania was the
worst | had ever seen when we
headed our bomber toward Ploesti,"
he said.
"A piece of flax struck me in the
head and at the same time three of
our motors were hit and stopped. A
stabilizer was also damaged.
I'VE limped along for about IS
miles trying to nurse the bomber
back to our base or at least where
we would have a chance to make
Allied territory.
I'VE were just a few miles from
the Danube River when one of the
motors that had been knocked out
started to blaze and we thought our
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Service
Have
Fine Meetings
ROtarians Addressed By
DIR. Clyde Nelson, XII
wanians Announce
Garden Prizes.

The local service clubs. Rotary
and Kiwanis, had presented before
their respective memberships this
week. programs of more than pass
ing interest.
On Monday evening the Rotar-
ians, meeting at the community
building, were given an Opportun-
ity TO see how modern dentists,
with exacting care. treat diseased
teeth. through the courtesy of
member. DR.. Clyde A. Nelson, an
executive of The l.. d. Caulk Com
pany. in charge of dental research.
Using a film to illustrate his talk,
DR.. Nelson demonstrated all of the
steps used in restoring a tooth with
the use of Caulk manufactured
amalgam filling material.
On Tuesday evening the Kiwan-
ians meeting at Grange Hall. en-
joyed an interesting program pre-
pared by their Agriculture commit
tee. The names of the persons win
ming the Kiwanis Victory Garden
contest were announced. They are:
First prize, William Clendaniel,
Kings Highway. $500 War Bond;
second prize. Vernon Kerr, Seabury
avenue. $1,000 in War Savings
stamps: third prize, A. B. Coli
son. THE Aletta," $500 in War
Savings Stamps. Marvin Calls.
director of Vocational Agriculture
in the Milford Schools. a judge in
the contest, was present and told
how the judges arrived at their de-
cisiOns.
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Vice President
To Address
DelnOcratsHere
Wallace Will Head List
OF Speakers at Gather
ing On Saturday, No
vember Fourth.

Vice-President Henry A. Wallace
will address the rally to be held at
Milford on November by the
Democratic Party as one of the
features of the campaign, a Demo-
cratic leader revealed this week.
The Vice-President will head the
list Of speakers at the rally, also to
include DR.. Isaac J. MacCOllum,
candidate for Governor, and DR..
Philip A. TraynOr. candidate for
u. S. representative. Other candi-
dates will also appear at the rally.
expected to be the largest of the
campaign.
U. S. Senator James NJ. Tunnel
will address the Milford rally and
will appear at several of the other
meetings throughout the state.
- The Milford rally, coming on the
Saturday before election, will be
one of the final events in a cam
paign calendar on which nine pub
lie meetings and - radio addresses
have been listed DR.. Henry George
Ill. of Wilmington campaign mana
ger. said that other items will be
added to- the schedule later.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Capt. Harry Y. Lyons
Is Critically W
State Pilot Board President
Retired From Service
In 1888

Captain Harry Virden Lyons. rs
years old, president. Of the State
Board of Pilot Commissioners is in
a serious condition at the Beebe
Hospital. suffering from heart di-
sease.
Retiring in 1888 after 81 years of
service as a pilot. Captain Lyons
las maintained his interest in mari
time and civic affairs. He was one
of the organizers of the Pilots AS
sOciation of the Bay and River
Delaware. When Is years old he
became the first apprentice under
the Delaware pilot law which went
into effect in 1881.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Kent County Oil Men
Elect Officers
Jesse Harmon OF Dover Heads TO-
operative Organization

The Kent county division of the
Associated Petroleum Industries of
Delaware. met last Saturday at the
Richardson Hotel i'm Dover, to
elect officers and to discuss prob
lens of special interest to highway
users of the county.
THE oil men of this county have
been organized for several years
as a unit of the statewide organi-
cation" stated J. A. Hartman.
chairman of the county group. I'VE
have always acted in the interest
of our automotive customers who
pay a staggering load of taxes.
state and federal. Today our in
terest in highways is greater than
ever. for war has brought home 10
America how vital highway trans
portation is to our economic well
being.
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Goal For Cadet
Nurses Is Thirty
Mounting Casualties Makes
Need Greater Than Ever,
Recruiter Says

A goal of 100 cadet nurses has
been set for membership in the
nurses training classes in Delaware
hospitals beginning In February.
Mrs. Elizabeth w. Lyons, cOllab-
borating and recruiting officer of
the u. s. Cadet Nurse Corps, Is al
ready setting up a program to Sc
cure the needed number OF new
student nurses.
In discussing the need for the
large cadet nurse, class, Mrs. Ly-
nam pointed out that 1t is a para
dox of victory that we are winning
because more of our forces are
fighting and forging ahead in the
face of enemy fire and lombard
ment so that inevitably the casual
ties are mounting. Mounting
casualties bring the need of more
and more nurses for the Army and
Navy.
During this month the Army
Nurse Corps has asked for the re-
cruitment of more nurses than
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
New Poultry Record
Calendars Available
Material Has Been Prepared By
Extension Service

During the past few weeks. many
local poultrymen have received
new Delaware Poultry Record Cal
endars supplied by the Delaware
Agricultural Extension Service so
that they could begin their new
record keeping this year as usual
on October l. There is still time to
start using this convenient record
form. however, according to J.
Frank Gordy, Extension poultry
man. and other poultrymen can OBJ
tain copies from their county
agricultural agents.
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Guard, Odd Fellows
Attend Dover Service
Guests OF Chaplain LandtrOOp Al
Air Base Last Sunday

One hundred and fifty citizens of
Milford. members of Company {,
Delaware State Guard. and the
Crystal Fount lodge of Odd Eel
lows. with their families were
guests of Dover Army Air Field on
Sunday last at special religious
service in the base chapel.
Chaplain Earle X. L. Landtroop
presided at the service which in
cluded special music by soloists
and choir composed of enlisted
men and their wives. The chapel
was prettily appointed with tall
candlebras and ferns.
The chaplain's sermon was on
the subject, THE GUTTER" in
which he emphasized the vital need
of following ones job through to
the finish. regardless of how I'M
important or unrelated to the over
all picture the task may seem.
Prelude and accompaniment were
by Private First Glass Stanley
Hummel, accomplished Albany,
New York. concert pianist. Vocal
solos were by Staff Sergeant Lewis
A. Wells and Private Theodore H.
Lawlis. Hymns were led by Private
First Glass John V. Moxon.
The uniformed State Guard COM
pany attended the service in body
with Captain ]. Holland Prettyman
and Lieutenant l.. C. Lapetina in
charge. Noble Grand Lewis Wright
and Wallace F. McFall. arrange
ments chairman, headed the large
representation of I. o. o. f. mem
bers. Special guests included Mr..
Wright's son, Fireman &c Joseph,
who was home on a leave from the
Navy.
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-10-06
Winter Barley Is
Important Grain Crop
Many Sussex Farmers Preparing
To Switch From Wheat

Many farmers in Sussex County
would find it profitable to grow
more winter barley, according to,
c. E.. Phillips, agronomist for the
Delaware Agricultural Extension
Service. Mr.. Phillips SAYS that Il
can be used successfully as a par
tial substitute for corn ia livestock
rations, and usually will yield more
pounds Of grain per acre than
wheat.
Good yields of barley require
sound cultural practices and pro-
ductive varieties. Barley does not
do we'll on poorly drained soils,
and it is more sensitive to soil aci-
dity and low fertility than any Of
the other small grains. To obtain
maximum yields, grow barley on
soils that are mildly acid to neutral
and fertilize it we'll 300 to 400
pounds per acre of a 2-12-12 or o.
1912 is recommended.
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