Milford chronicle., 1949-11-11
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware


Shop at the fancy work booth at
the bazaar Of the Calvary Methodist
Church on November IL.
Farm income totalling $50 ,644. 900
in Delaware for the first nine
months Of this year placed the state
in a group Of only 10 states show
ing an increase over the same per-
iod Of last year, the u S. Depart
ment of Agriculture announced re-
Gently. Delaware farmers, accord
ing to the Agriculture Department,
made approximately $7,O00,0OO more
from January to September than
the $75,572,000 recorded for the
nine-month period in 1948.
Rugs for your kitchen, bath room
or bed room at the Calvary Metho-.
dist Church Bazaar on November
! IL.
Governor Carvel has announced
the appointment OF former Lieu
tenant-GOvernor Edward w. Cooch
OF near Newark, and the reappoint-
ment of David G. Aspril of Will
mington as members of the State
Tax Board.
The appointments are for four
: year terms, expiring November 1,
1868.
The third member of the board
} is Charles L. Harmonson of Do
yer.
Circle No. 8 Of Calvary Methodist
Church. Leader, Mrs. Mae Thomas,
met on Friday evening, October 21,
, at the home Of Mrs. Reba Porter,
with co-hostess, Mrs. Mary e. PoP-
ter. Devotional services were led
by Mrs. Mary Porter. There were
IA members and three visitors pres
ent. After the business meeting a
t Halloween party was held. Re-
). freshments were served. The eve
h ming was enjoyed by all. The No
= Vember meeting will be held at
= the church The hostess will be
Mrs. Mary w. Porter.
t Fellowship Supper on November
e IL, at 900 p. m, at the Baptist
:, Church. After the supper, Pastor
e Omar Barth of Newtown Square.
I. Pennsylvania, will show his beau
tiful travelOgue film taken this
summer of Death Valley, Grand
@ Canyon, Yosemite, the Arizona Des-
r ert, Mexico, the Gallup Indian and
l. the Mission work among the Hopi
q Indians-ends at 4 corners where
# 4 states come together! Let us
make this a great night in our
Church. The community is invited
n to the Travelogue at 8 P. M.
n
" Tuesday evening of this week,
l. John H. MulhOlland of Milford, re-
ceived phone call from San Fran
cisco, California, advising him that
i he should stand by to receive a call
/. from the S. S. Lorraine, five nun
ne dred miles out of San Francisco in
q the Pacific, enroute to Honolulu.
es The call coming from his son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
ry H. Mulholland. Mr.. Mulholland
!, Immediately contacted the men,
90 90 bers Of former Senator Mulhol-
in lands family, and at seven o'clock
no all were ready to receive the call
11 via ship to shore radio from the
% vessel five hundred miles from
shore.
G. Between 10000 and $4,000 appli-
.b cations for the bonus for Delaware
w veterans of World War II have al
n ready been received, Paul POdol-
h sky, chairman of the Veteran Mil
f. itary Pay Commission, said re-
" Gently.
The number is more than one
third of the estimated $4,000 Della
wareans who served in the war,
~ Mr.. POdolsky pointed out.
~ The work of processing the ap-
~ ~ plicatiOns will start today at the
Nc Nc commissions headquarters at the
ne bravo shipyard
l. The commission expects to mail
out the first batch of checks on
ch Friday
ng
10 Edward Johnson, %, one of three
H prisoners who walked off the Kent
County Jail farm in recent weeks
was apprehended by state police of
~ the Dover troop early last Sunday
u, IL at the home of his father near
II Dover
nc no State police said they took john
% son into custody without difficulty.
al He was asleep when the police
uy walked into the home at about 5
a. m.
Last Saturday Delaware state po-
OF lice captured John w. Wiggens, 26,
Try another of the Kent County pris-
St on farm walkaways near Middle
m town. A third, James F'lamer, %,
M is still being sought.
MT
ns The Circles of Avenue Methodist
III Church will meet Tuesday evening,
November Is, at the following
for homes and at seven-thirty unless
No designated at another hour: No. 1,
ch, Miss Cordelia Carter on Seabury
md avenue, Mrs. George Wells, cO-hos-
es- tess; No. 2, Mrs. Fred Burton on
ell Seabury avenue, at 8 o'clock, with
l61 Mrs. Broddus Jones and Mrs.
IL Thomas Simpson, co-hostesses; No,
3, Mrs. Harry E. Vinyard, Mrs. L.
j. Matthews, co-hostess; No. 4,
AL Mrs. Alfred Houston, with Mrs,
on George Manlove, co-hostess; No. 5,
cry Mrs. I. d. Short, with Mrs. William