Milford chronicle., 1949-08-12
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

Mrs. Clarence E. Jester and Mrs.
Charles Lacy left Wednesday to
attend a three-day Middle Atlantic
Grange Lecturers Conference to
be held in Indiana, Pa.
They are a part of a delegation
of 21 lecturers from the State of
Delaware.
Mrs. Jester will represent Sus-
sex County Pomona Grange of
which she is lecturer; Mrs. Lacy is
the representative of the local
grange. While at the conference
the Delaware group will dramatize
the poem written by George B.
Hynsoil entitled 'The Blue Hens
Brood the same being appropriate
from historical and financial
standpoint.
Colonel Edgar S. Slayer was ap-
pointed head of a committee of the
Rehoboth Volunteer Fire Company
at its August meeting last Satur-
day night to arrange for the formal
dedication later this month of the
new $4,000 fire hall, erected the
past year. The firemen reported
that all but $500 of the cost has
already been cleared. Theodore w.
Palmer, Jr., who headed the build
ing committee, was presented with
a gold watch in appreciation of his
work in securing the new fire hall
for Rehoboth Beach. Four firemen
will be appointed to attend the
Fire School at the University of
Delaware August 16, II, IS, and
19. The selection will be made
later.
Dover City Manager Charles C.
Brown has urged citizens to con-
; tinue their cooperation in the con-
serving of water, explaining that
while recent rain has helped to
some extent the city is anxious to
avert any serious shortage.
While consumption of water was
increasing, especially the sprink-
ling of sidewalks, lawns, porches,
and other places, because of the
lack of rain, the city's water sup
ply was shrinking appreeiably, the
, city manager said.
1t was because of this that he
inagurated a week ago city-wide
water conservation campaign in
. which he placed a taboo on use of
water for unessential purposes and
citizens gave their cooperation.
%
The condition of Private George
Donahue of Philadelphia, member
of Headquarters Battery, 709th Bat
talon, Pennsylvania Nationa
= Guard, encamped at Camp Carvel
!, Fort Miles, with the 19Sth AAA
= Group Delaware National Guard
was reported good on Wednesday
at the Beebe Hospital at Lewes
+ Donahue was burned about the
body while working over a field
= range which fiared up and igniteC
J his clothing.
4 A member of the mess staff Of
4 the battery, Donahue was attempt
ing to pump air into the range
o when the range back-fired ant
p flared. A member of the Medica
o Detachment of Camp Carvel hear,
4 Donahue's shouts for help and bea
q out the flames.
J. Edward ]. Winder, we'll know
e Seaford banker and church officia
observed his ninety-irst birthda,
anniversary at his home in Wes
Seaford on Tuesday of this week.
. Despite his advanced years MI
% Winder is in good health and dali,
ie attends his duties as president o
8 the Seaford Trust Company, whicl
he has headed since it's organiza
y tion in 1927. He is believed to b
II II Delaware's Oldest bank president.
81 He is a former president of thu
e Seaford Building and Loan Asso
'e citation, an active official of ST
3 Johns Methodist Church.; a char
. ter member and past president o
o the Seaford Kiwanis Club, a for
q mer member of the State Board o
Health and a former member o
Ie the Sussex County Almshouse Com
mittee.
Mr.. Winder was born in Oman
" COShY fass OUL llcAo DCCn AlNinS
IN Seaford since 1901.
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We The motor vehicle accident dealt
ry toll for Delaware for this yea
lp was raised to AZ, four more thal
re the corresponding period of las
a year, by the death of Walter {
e. ireland, 81, of near Dover, las
IL. Sunday afternoon.
ey Struck by an automobile drive
by Joseph Ruthberg, 35, of 600
no Clifford street, Philadelphia, as h
C. was riding bicycle on Route IL,
ey ireland, an employee of the Inter
1T, national Latex Corporation at Dc
m. yer, died in the Kent General Ho!
p pital, Dover, four hours later H
had sustained a fracture of IL
skull and numerous other inju
"a les.
he Ruthberg was arrested by sta
,i- police at Dover on a charge +,
M negligent homicide. Troopers sa
AZ both Ireland and Ruthberg wei
as going north on the Dover cut-ot
just south of LaPore's Restauran
m at the time of the accident.
% Ireland was thrown several fe
nj and the bicycle smashed.
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