Milford chronicle., 1949-12-16
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

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robe displayed in Coopersmith's
Store window. This doll is being
given away by the Milford NJ Chap
Ler Of Beta Sigma Phi. It will be
given away at the Shore Theatre
Christmas Party on December IL.
49,
Joseph 2. Lipsky Of Wilmington
last Saturday purchased the Hotel
Henlopen in Rehoboth for $4,000
at sheriff's sale on the boardwalk.
Mr.. Lipsky has operated the hotel,
the largest on the boardwalk, for
the past three summer seasons.
Less than 200 people attended the
auction and bidding was slow. The
entire sale took less than 20 min
utes. The scheduled additional sale
of hotel equipment was cancelled
by the attorney representing the
Baltimore Trust Company Of Sell
byville, the mortgage holder.
The hotel represents an original
investment Of $4,000.
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Captain G. Clifton Maull, Della
ware River pilot. has been elected
president of newly-Organized
Mems Club" at st. Peters Episco-
pal Church, Lewes. John E. Feas-
ter is vice president and B. Wilson
Price is secretary-treasurer.
The club held supper which
was served entirely by the men of
the parish in the Parish House
yesterday, as a pre-Christmas par
ty. The supper was under the
Craftsmanship of Henry F. Hill, yes
tryman, assisted by Senior Warden
William o. Martin and Justus B.
NaylOr. The men not only cooked
and served the food but had charge
of all decorating Of the tables and
hall.
A nine-month-Old baby died from
suffOcation while alone in a car
parked on, LOockerman street in
Dover Saturday night about 10
O'Clock. The mother, Mrs. Dorothy
Hutson, of Goldsboro, Nd, and a
twO-year-old daughter, Dorothy,
were in a nearby restaurant.
Coroner John r. Rogers, Jr., said
his investigation showed the baby,
Thomas James HutsOn, apparently
became tangled in a blanket. Mrs.
Hutson told police she was waiting
to pick up her husband, Thomas
HutsOn, from his work at the In
ternatiOnal Latex plant. When she
returned to the car after an alb
sence of about ten minutes she no
ticed something was wrong with
the child. A policeman was sum-
moned and a bystander, Stanley
Foraker, drove the car to the Kent
General Hospital where the baby
was pronounced dead.
Coroner Rogers issued a certifi-
cate of accidental death.
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Mrs. Amanda B. Hill, S6, wife Of
Edward B. Hill, a pioneer in the
bathing beach business at RehO-
both, died at RehObOth on Sunday
at her home on Virginia avenue. A
native of Kent County, Nd, she was
the daughter of the late Richard
and Frances Fortner Boone. She
had been bedridden since last June.
Besides her husband she is sur
vived by five daughters, Miss Ruth
Hill of Tucson, Ariz.; Mrs. William
]. Byrd of JOppa, Md; Mrs. Harry
Frazer of Lewes; Mrs. Andrew Mac
Donald of Pikesville, Md, and Mrs.
George Wilhelm of Enfield, Pa, and
four sons, Fred c. Hill Of Reho-
BOTH. John w. Hill of Tucson, Ariz. !;
Edward r. Hill, manager of the
RehObOth Office of the Delaware
Power and Light Company, and
William p Hill of Baltimore. Md.
Funeral services were held on
Tuesday at 1 D. m. at the Atkins
Funeral Home, Lewes, conducted
by the Rev. Clarence Strickland of
RehOboth. Burial was made in the
Rehobotb Methodist Cemetery.
Overheated brakes set fire to the
chassis of a hearse of the Atkins
Funeral home around noon on Sun
> day that contained the body of
former Pennsylvania Railroad em
ployee at the Philadelphia Office be
ing taken to Lewes for burial fror
Florida. The Lewes undertake
Raymond R. Atkins, and his assis
r tant, Edison Lodge, Jr.. had gon
, to Philadelphia to meet the trail
with the body of George A. Salmon
6S who died last Thursday in s.
, Anthony's Hospital in st. Peters
/ burg. Fla.
hearse caught afire underneath. TIL
, drivers first thought was to remov
the casket to safety and then tur
= in an alarm. Fire companies {
Lewes and RehObOth Beach fougi
the blaze but the hearse was total
l wrecked.
1 Mr.. Salmon was the husband O
: the former Miss Mary Bohm o
Lewes, now a resident of Ceilings
: wood, N. ]. The funeral was he'll
$ at the Atkins Funeral Home yes
terday afternoon, conducted by tn
Rev. DR.. William Leishman o
Lewes. Burial was made in tn
2 Lewes Presbyterian Cemetery.
-Four men of the Dover area, az
= cused of getting unemplOymer
compensation on the misrepresef
!, tatiOn that they were unemploye,
I found themselves targets of ster
censure and punishment befor
: Judge Ernest v. Keith in Court {
}, Common Pleas.
Judge Keith sentenced each
+ pay fine of $50 and costs and t
; serve 80 days in the Kent Count
e Jail along with his condemnation q