Milford chronicle., 1949-03-25
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

ford New Century Clubs Hollywood
Supper in the Community Building.
Save that date for a good time with
food, fun and friends.
The Delaware Chiropractor,s
Association will hold their conven-
ton in the Dupont Hotel, April
End and Srd. The banquet will be
held Saturday evening, at the Rod
ney Hotel.
The Millwood Sunshine Society
will meet March Both, at the Mill
wood Hall. Captain Lynch will be
the speaker for the afternoon. All
members please be present and
bring a guest. A good attendance
is desired. Mrs. Barrett is in charge
Of the meeting.
In the interest of promoting new
industrial plants for the Lewes
area, the Chamber of Commerce
will invite J. Huber Dem, indus
trial commissioner of the Cham
Der of Commerce Of Delaware, Inc,
to give a talk on the topic Indus
try and the Means of Obtaining
Same" in Lewes, on April 20.
The Milford Council of Church
Women will meet at the Presbyte-
rian Church on Friday, April 1,
when the State President, Mrs. L.
Mulford Taylor, of Wilmington,
will be present. The speaker for
the occasion win be Mrs. Virgil
4 E. Sease, the Leadership training
chairman for the United Council of
Church Women.
! Mrs. John w. Fry, chairman of
Area for the Red Cross roll call
campaign, announces that the mon
ey in has fallen far short of the
$4,000 quota. Only about half of
that amount has been turned in.
Mrs. Fry is anxious that the quota
be met and hopes there will be a
generous response in the few re-
naming days of the campaign.
Have you your tickets yet for
the Hollywood SUPPER, sponsored
by the New Century Club? Don't
miss it! More fun, more food and
! lots Of friends. You may win some
OF the prizes, like having the fun
d niest hat, the baldest head, the
! woman who is boss, the most hen
: pecked man, the tallest person or
: the shortest one. These and many
things will be sources of merri-
0 ment at the supper on March 25.
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Installation of modern kitchen
is being completed in st. Philips
e Episcopal rectory in Laurel, the
Il gift of Mrs. Walter S. Carpenter,
y who is a native of Laurel and a
II former communicate of this church
IL before moving to Wilmington. Be
* fore installing the new equipment
the room was completely done over
ss with new rubber floor tile, mono
III tile on the walls, and all wood
d work newly painted. The equip
e ment includes an electric range
automatic dish washer and laun
dry machine. New venetian blind
of were contributed by Lieutenant
or Colonel Nan Fooks Campbell.
tie -
$ Interest is mounting in Bridge.
ed vile on the referendum on the pro,
at posed school tax to be held in the
Bridgeville School this coming
er Saturday between 2 and p. m.
e The proposed tax of 20 cents Oh
n each 500 of assessed property val
ny uation in the school district, plus
a 81 capitation tax on each adul
white citizen in the district al
g ready has been approved in meet
OF ings of the Bridgeville Board O.
as Education, Kiwanis Club, Ameri
re can Legion, Woman's Society o
n Christian Service, Volunteer Fir,
on Company, Lighthouse Glass of I'm
OF ion Methodist Church, P. T. A. ant
on other groups.
oI The State Advisory Committee o
i0e Trades and Industries, which
serves the State Department o
Public Instruction, has approve,
olo four trade groups for apprenticinI
I'll in rural Delaware.
Cer The groups approved and tn
nj trades included in each were
me Trowel trades: Bricklayer, ston
nj mason, stone setter, cement finish
IRA er, plasterer, marble setter, terazz
e" workers; carpentry: Carpenterin
lather. and floor covering workers
ass painting: Painter and paper hang
the er; iron workers: Structural iro
trl- worker, rigger, and welder. Th
committee approved a combinatio
of any two of these trades.
are -s-
OF The library of the Delawar
on Academy of Medicine, Whining
au- ton, has come into possession (
I'M copy of a Dover, Del, newsp;
per, dated 1890, which is expecte
as to lead to the revision of currel
T. Delaware histories concerning FIR
lme newspaper publications.
'un- The latter statement is based {
NIT the fact that the two recognize
OF authoritative histories on ear
Delaware, namely Scharf's, and Il
late Henry C. Conrad's credit Il
lnce Federal Ark" an organ of the o
paid Federalist Party in Delaware,
ring having been the first newspap
BEN printed in Dover, beginning
resi- 1902.
re- The latest "find,v the origin
which is now subject to search
port the librarian at the medical aca
sing emy, Miss Frances M. Elliott, is e
ers; titled aye Federal Ark" Under Il
re- heading, the newspaper, confn
S of to one page about IL inches by
lold- inches reads: eVol. /, No. 1, Dow
nelaware. Nav 4. 1890. Price D