Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1950-10-13
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

nUNUMA - WISH the bake on
Saturday morning, October 81,
starting at o'clock in Argos Lin
lleum Store on N E. Front street,
Milford. The Legion Auxiliary will
nave all kinds Of good things for
you to buy.
JUST PLAYING - Mrs. August
Albert Roseen, who was shot in the
arm by her husband in their farm
home between here and Millsboro
several months ago said in the
Court Of General Sessions last Fri
day they were just playing" and
that her mate didn't mean to shoot
her. Both Of them are past 90
Deputy Attorney General d. j.
Layton, JF., entered a nolle prose-
qui in the husbands case. He had
been indicted on a charge Of as
sault with intent to kill in June.
REHOBOTH w. U.-William L.
Williams has taken over the man
agement Of the Rehoboth Beach
Western Union Telegraph Office
from J. G. Stamper, who has oper-
ated it several years at his jewell
ry store on Rehoboth avenue.
The new location for the Office
is in the new managers insurance
Office in the Surf Shop Building,
adjacent to the bus terminal on
Rehoboth avenue. New hours for
the winter months are from 9 a. m.
to p. m. daily, excepting Sundays.
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SCOTTISH RITE CLUB - The
Kent-Susser Scottish-Rite Club will
enter its fifth year at the annual
meeting to be held on Friday, Octo-
Der ID, in the Laurel Community
Building at 1900 p. M. In four years
the club has continually increased
its membership until it now num-
bers over 600.
j. Henry Mcdonnell will pre-
side and ]. Wallace Woodford, 33rd
degree and deputy for Delaware,
will act as POSTMASTER plus"
Governor Ebert N. Carvel and
the Delaware members of Congress,
Senator John ]. Williams, Senator
j. Allen Frear, Jr., AID q. S. Rep
| resentative J. Caleb B0ggs have
been invited to speak.
JOINT CHURCH SERVICE - All
church congregations of Lewes at
| tended a union church service last
Sunday night in st. Peters Episco-
pal Church when the sermon was
delivered by the Rev. A. Edward
Dougherty, pastor of the Bethel
Methodist Church. The churches of
the town are rotating in holding
these joint services every other
month during the winner.
| The Rev. DR.. William Leishman
pastor of the Lewes Presbyterian
Church for more than a quarter o
a century, was reelected state,
clerk and treasurer of the New
Castle Presbytery for a three-yea
term, at the October meeting of tn
New Castle Presbytery.
FIRE PREVENTION - Obsery
ance of Fire Prevention Week wa
the subject discussed at this week
meeting Of the Dover Kiwanis Club
held at the Kent Gun and Rod Club
near Kits Hammock. Vice Presi
dent Benjamin F. Johnson was il
charge of the program.
The speakers were Ellis Kyttle
president Of the Sussex County Vol
unteer Firemen's Association, ant
a member of the Governors Fir,
Prevention Council, and Chief RalpI
H. Boyer Of the Robbins Hose Com
pany, Dover.
Mr.. Kyttle stressed the need O.
building codes to prevent the con
struction of improper buildings a:
well as the use of the proper ma
terials according to the location o.
the building.
DOVER BYPASS - The Stat,
Highway Department will receiv,
bids on November 1 for the con.
struction of the Dover bypass dua
highway, according to an announce
ment by ]. Gordon Smith of Dover
chairman of the department.
The new highway will extend
from point north Of Dover, a
the end Of the present dual high
way Route Is, to the Camden Camp
Injecting Woods, just north of Cam
den. It will have two lanes, eacl
"a feet in width.
M. Allan Wilson, chief engines
. of the department, describes thi
project as one of the largest un
dertaken by the department during
the present year. In addition t,
the highway proper there will ais,
be bridge erected across the 81
Jones River.
DOVER SOROPTIMISTS - Tn
Soroptimist Club of Dover, at it
meeting Monday evening at the Din
ner Bell Inn, observed the 29th an
niversary Of the founding of tn
first Soroptimist Club. Mrs. Owe
A. Evans is president Of the Dove
I, : Club.
3. Preston Rutter, director of tn
state department OF development
was the guest speaker and outline
some of the work of his depart
O ment. Also participating in tn
Q program we're some of the charte
t members Of the Dover Club who re
g lated their experiences in the form
It ing of the Dover Club. They are
q Miss Nan 1owber, Mrs. Bernie
Hammons, Mrs Leonard Schwart;
o Mrs. Irene Luff, Mrs. Wilbert Raw
2. ley, Mrs. Fannie Harrington an
:. Mrs. Bernard A. Behen.
e WILL CALL WACS-Four WA
: reservists from Delaware will b