Milford chronicle., 1949-04-15
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

Get your dessert for Sunday din
ner at the American Legion Auxili-
airy Bake. April Both.
The Millwood Church Aid viii
meet on Friday night; April Is. The
committee consists of Mrs. Alverds
Maloney, Mrs. Mildred Sharp and
Mrs. Mary Robbins
-o-
On Sunday evening, April 18th.
in the Calvary Methodist Church.
an Easter Musical will be present
ed. The choirs Of the Presbyterian.
Avenue Methodist, Baptist, Episco-
pal and Calvary Methodist Church.
es in town will participate. Easter
selection will be presented by each
group. The closing part Of the mu-
sical viii be the combination of all
the singers in presenting two num-
bers: Christ The Lord Is Risen
Today" and 'The Hallelujah Choir
us. Plan to attend this service.
N 49,
One Of the largest sales Of timber )
. lands to take place in Seaford re-
Gently was held last Saturday after
noon to settle the estate Of the late
Mrs. Mary H. Short. The property
eight miles east of Laurel. and in
/ cluded two tracts. The first was
known as the promised land" and
! included 1884 acres with both land
I and timber being sold for $4,000.
The second tract included 183
acres, known as sthe Ezekial Tim
mons farm, with timber only being
sold for $15,600. William H. Par
sons of Seaford was the high bid
der on both tracts, Mrs. Mala B.
Jones of Georgetown and George F.
L. Buchanan Of Oak Orchard heirs
OF the Short estate are executors.
The get-rieh-quick Pyramid Club
craze has hit Delaware and the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, and
with four arrests already made.
authorities are studying their gam
bling laws carefully to see what can
be done to check it.
, Clubs are forming throughout the
entire area with charts and direc-
tions on how to join and continue
the chain are circulating with
speed. The police are aware of it.
BUT they aren't sure what, if any
thing, they can do about it.
Four arrests were made in Cam
bridge, Nd, last week. Police there
said they were from Milford and
j. each posted $3.50 on lottery charges
5 made by Cambridge police.
e A hearing for them has been
: scheduled for May IL.
Mrs. Mary v. Daily, Wyoming.
will start making personal visits
about the middle of this month as
e Dover. hostess of Welcome Wagon,
: Inc, under the sponsorship of the
e Dover Chamber of Commerce.
). Her duties include visits to
IS mothers with new babies, teen-ags
st girls, newly-engaged girls, those
l. moving from one home to anothe,
Ig in the community, and newcomer.
ID to the city. She also serves as al
1r information bureau" on commun
D. lLy services.
r Mrs. DAILY is graduate of Dover
E. High School and attended the Uni.
versity of Delaware Last month
she completed a course of instruc-
n tion in New York to represent
# Welcome Wagon in Dover and vi
le cinity.
N Governor Carvel last Friday
n night became the states first chief
pc executive to receive the honorary
III Diamond Farmer degree of the
le Delaware Future Farmers of Am
a erica.
q. Governor Carvel was presented
en the award at the annual dinner
ne meeting of the organization in the
al Caesar Rodney School He receiv.
". ed it on the basis Of his interest ii
OF Deiaware's agriculture and farm
p youth.
Jack Webb of Camden, past ma
tional vice president, presented tn,
Star Diamond Farmer award Il
e. Harold Brown of Harrington.
d Winners and their topics in
2 public speaking contest held dur
Iei :, ing the program follow: Firsi
Henry Tatnall, Jr., Conrad School
+. "A New Kind of Insurance." sec
III ond, Jesse Trotta, Greenwood, "Soi
Oh Improvement; third, Lester Radke
~ Milton, Future Farmers Part Il
A Democracy" fourth. Georg
Simpson, Caesar Rodney, Selection
his of Dairy Cattle"
o. Contest judges were Prof. Miltol
I'll Valentine of the University of Del
ate aware and r. w. Helm, state diree
nj tor of vocational agricultural edu
ed cation.
laS Among the dinner guests wer
Paul Mitchell, state master of tn
II Grange, and Frank Richar6son Q
'ss ' the Federal Land Bank.
Miss Louise Adele Murph!
daughter of Mrs. James Gordo
Smith of Dover, and the late Cha
er- Dure Murphy of Harrington,
vas completing plans for her marriag
wn to Frank Martin Taylor, son of Mr.
II Harry Vandom Taylor and the lal
yor Mr.. Taylor of Wilmington at 4
alt M, Saturday, April go, in Chri.
ect Church, Dover.
Jay The Rev. Paul A. Kellogg wi
.sa officiate
IL Mr.. Smith will give his daughts
fer in marriage, Mrs. Charles Dul
ha Murphy, Jr., sister-in-law Of Il
bride will be matron of honor TT