Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07


spoke Tuesday evening be-
fore the Women's Association Of
First Presbyterian Church on APP
piled Christianity as CLEANED from
summer school studies at Hood Col
lege. Devotions were given by Mrs.
John Toker, Mrs. J. Raymond Ben
nett sang, accompanied by Miss
Adele Nepley and Mrs. Wilbur Ben
nett presided at the meeting.
A retirement plan described as
one of the key attractions in the
enlistment program which calls for
900 additional men before next
summer was announced this week
by the Delaware National Guard.
AS explained by Col. John B.
Moore, commanding officer Of the
19Sth AAA Group, the man who rCs
tires as master sergeant after 90
years of service will receive $50 a
month for the rest of his life when
he reaches so. "An insurance policy
to achieve this" said the colonel
would cost him almost 10000"
A man enlisting II the Gu
Colonel Moore explained, receives
$157.5O a year for training two
hours a week and taking part in
/ the annual encampment. Each year
/ the man automatically Qualities for
4 promotion, while it is possible for
the individual to go to the top
grade of master sergeant within
three to five years. This grade will
bring him $34e.50 annually.
-
Mrs. Oscar NJ. Thomas club vice
president of Sussex County, has
announced the speakers for the
Sussex County Forum which will
convene at the New Century Club
of Delmar on Nov. 4.
Mrs. Floy e. Booth, state parlia-
mentarian, will direct a parlimen-
tartan procedure drill at the morn
ing meeting.
The afternoon speakers will be
= DR.. Robert Lee Durkee, executive
. secretary of the Delaware State
= Board of Education, and he will dis
= cuss Delaware School Legislation
to Date" Another speaker will be
8 DR.. Stanley r. Ostrom, superin-
tendent of guidance services in the
State Department of Public In
, struction. His subject will be
+, Guidance Service in the School of
j Today"
i Mrs. Thomas has invited the club
= women Of Kent and New Castle
. Counties to attend the forum, as
well as the members of the Delmar
> New Century Club.
l. The burned wreckage Of an
n abandoned tenant house on a farm
Il near BridgeYille revealed the char
red remains of 7O-year-old man
Sunday.
State police said the victim was
d identified as Henry Price, who came
AZ to the BridgeYille area only sew
n eral days ago.
~ A passing motOrist, who noticed
the flames, called the Bridgevill,
a Fire Company When the fire ha,
n been extinguished, a search of tn
aC gutted One-and-a-half story struc
III ture revealed the body, state po
Sc lice said.
OF Identification was establishe
c through remains of coat the vic
TC tim had been wearing after receiV
ing it fr0m~-a--Tesident of Laure
last week. ~
Sc State police said two Bridgevill
m farm hands toll, them they had beer
RI with Price last Saturday night ant
G" they directed him to the abandon
tie ed house, which stood on farn
"a owned by Roland Elliott.
The fire, state police said, prob
er, ably occurred when Price fel
he asleep with a cigarette still burn
-as ing.
vas -
lrd According to the monthly repol
no of Sussex County Fire Recorde
en- Granville T. White, the fire loss
ms the county during August amount
Ihe ed to $4,000 which was covered b
$20,555 in fire insurance. OF the tC
tai, only $5,400 wasin towns, the n
ca mainder- of $34,5OO being in rurI
M sections. The loss in the Laur
hat area amounted to $8,015.
ISL. Four towns, Milton, GeorgetOw
re- Blades and Glendale, did not hay
nen any loses during August. The r
hOboth Beach Fire Department r
he sponded to the most alarms duriI
that month.
ded Charles G. Allen was among
.oes group of students to receive bach
We lor of science diploma from Il
fer University of North Carolina T
,ch Gently. No formal exercises we
1ne held and the diplomas we're mail
he directly to those who had eompl
7ar- ted the required work.
ing Fire Chief Andrew j. Ellis a
Pusey attended a meeting duri
are the past week in Philadelph
afc sponsored by the Lumbermal
anne Mutual Casualty Company on f
Oct, prevention and safe driving
lean those under Is years of age.
- ~ The parishioners of Prir
va,, Georges Chapel, Dagsboro-
80 Delaware's oldest Episcopal shriT
J,,,Ss will hold their annual meetii
~. ~ this coming Sunday, at 3 p.
,oSs with their pastor, the Rev. Gl
aT5s Walter, in charge of the ceremoi
- The little chapel as it stands
"a day was erected in the early 180
~ ,sa.o but prior to that there was fra
: ~ chapel on the site dating back
I,,tE. the early 18th century. A chronic
"' of that period writes of a "R
George Ross visiting a small, fra
building that year (1717), where
1tive baptized IL children" The pres