Milford chronicle., 1944-03-31
HARRINGTON


presided over the meeting will
Harry c. Tee being selected for sec.
retary. Several of the STANDING
committees made their annual re.
ports including the finance commit
tee which recommended an increase
in salary to the pastor. The pastor
relations committee reported a un-
animous vote for the return of Rev
Jones for the fifth year. The Wo-
mems Society of Christian Service
reported new rugs for the paTsOn-
age and as having paid the insur-
ance on the parsonage. The nomi-
mating committee made a report
and after few slight changes, the
report was adopted. The meeting
was recessed during the evening
while Pfc. Samuel Davidson Welch
and Mrs. Welch had their small son,
Wayne Davidson Welch, baptized,
In addition to its grandmother, the
boy had plenty of witnesses to the
baptismal rites. The board of stew
ards, headed by Mr.. Tee, is now
making a canvass of the members
who have not yet met their obli-
cations and those still holding
birthday calendars will be asked
to turn them i'm by the last of the
conference year. The church has
had a most successful year and
will meet all obligations in full
Plans are already being discussed
to paint the interior of the church
during the next year. DR.. Walter
Hearn, district superintendent, con-
Quoted the fourth quarterly confer
ence on Wednesday night of this
week, at which time the action TAX
en- at the meeting last week was
confirmed.
Seaman Fred r. Parks, in train
ing at cambridge, Md, spent the
weekend with his mother, Mrs.
Lena Parks.
Corporal Maurice Harrington, his
mother, Mrs. Philip Harrington,
and Mrs. Maggie Minner and Geo.
Cannon spent Wednesday with Mrs.
Martin Grier at Delmar.
Corporal John Truitt of Camp
Davis, N. c., has been spending a
furlough with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. II. Truitt here and with his
wife in Easton, Md.
A rummage sale will be held on
March 81 and April l, sponsored by
the Harrington New Century Club.
J. Harry Atkinson, age 80 years,
died last Thursday afternoon at the
home of his niece, Mrs. Wilma Jory
of heart trouble He was stricken
after short illness. The son of
the late Elizabeth Carroll Atkin-
son, he was born and also died in
the same home near TOdd's Chapel.
Funeral services were held from
the Boyer Funeral Home in this
city on Sunday afternoon at p. m.
The services were in charge of the
Rev. E. c. Graham, pastor of Bethel
Methodist Church, with interment
at Concord, Md. The deceased is
survived by but one niece with
whom he lived.
The social nights being held
here twice month during the win
ter and sponsored by the Harring-
ton firemen and the Ladies Auxil-
iary have been a source of much
pleasure. Despite the bad night,
the party last week had II tables
of five hundred besides many play
ing bingo. 1t was announced that
two more will be held this season
during the month of April. Plans
are now being made to make the
last party the best as a climax for
the season.
A special feature of the service
in Trinity Methodist Church last
Sunday morning was the dedica-
ton of two candlesticks presented
to the church by Mrs. A. C. Cread-
fck and Edgar T. Hall in memory
of the formers husband, A. c.
Creadick, and Mrs. Alice Hall, wife
of the latter. The communion table
in the church, also memorial,
now contains two gold vases dedi-
Gated to the service men who have
gone out from the church and an
electric cross given in memory of
the late Charles A. Smith in addi-
tion to the two candlesticks which
have been properly engraved.
Mrs. Thomas Moore of New York,
Mrs. Agatha Voshell and daughter.
George Ann, of Camden, Mrs. Nora
Melvin, Will Hughes and Wilson
Hughes of FELTON, were dinner
guests of Mrs. Agatha Noble on
Saturday
Mrs. Adele Workman of Balti-
more spent the weekend with her
aunt, MEs Jennie Creadick.
Sergeant William Wechtenhiser
of New York spent the weekend
with his wife. Mrs. Josephine WeGh-
tenhiser'
Mrs. Dorothy Chism and Miss
Nellie Emory were Wilmington Wis
itOrs ON Saturday.
Sergeant Augustus Raughley of
is spending a furlough
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Au-
gustus Raughley.
Private Joseph l.. Gray of Bal
timore. has been visiting his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gray.
Mrs. William Mischlich of Will
mington was the guest of Rev and
Mrs. T. C.. Jones on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Gruewell
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis
Owens and Mrs. Widerman Shep-
perd and son, all Of Annapolis, on
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Roach of
spent Sunday with Mr.. Y
and Mrs. Harry C. Tee.
The regular monthly meeting of :
he w. c. T. u was held at the
nome of Mrs. Wilbur E. Jacobs last /
week.
The weekly Lenten service of a
Trinity Methodist Church was held
a A. I,a,,,o Of AHro IOcanh Eian-