Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1951-08-24
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

Division will hold their fourth an
nual reunion in Philadelphia Sep
TENDER 10 at the Benjamin Frank
lin Hotel
Principal guests will be General
Wade H. Haislip (retired) Vice
Chief of staff; and Maj, Gen. With !
ers A. Burress, present commander
of the 9TH Corps at Fl. Meade, Md. |
and the wartime leader of tho
Tooth from 1912 through the cam
paigns in France and Germany I'M
til the wars end in 1916.
Albert L. Bisaccia, P. o. Box No. |
S6, Hartford 1, Connecticut, is Sec
rotary of The Century Association. !
FRACTURED SKULL Charles
Burton Scott, Is, is in Milford
Memorial Hospital, suffering a |
skull fracture received last Friday
night when he was struck by a |
car while crossing the Melvin Jo- |
seph race track during the weekly
stock car races.
The driver of the car, Paul Wal (
ker of Lewes, said he applied the |
brakes when he saw the boy in his /
path but it was too late to avoid !
hitting him. The rear end of the |
vehicle struck young Scott, hurting
him a distance of 30 feet.
AT the hospital his condition is |
listed as fair. The boy, employed as !
Ia score card seller at the track. is |
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Scott. |
of near Georgetown, and is a stu
dent in Georgetown High School.
THE VERICT-A coroner's iurv
las held that DR.. Ira Downes died
as a result of a fight with Burton
Wilcutts in Harrington Sunday, Au-
gust IL.
The 7O-year-old druggist, died
Monday in the Milford Memorial
Hospital. The 65-year-old Wilcutts
has been released on $500 bail and
will face Grand Jury action on an
open charge.
The verdict, disclosed last Fri
day by Coroner William Morvil of
Delmar, said that ''Dr. DOwnes
came to mis- death on August Is at
1888 a. m, 1851, in the Milford
Memorial Hospital from results of
injuries sustained in a fight be-
tween Burton Wilcutts and DR..
DOwnes at $3.50 D. m. August IL,
1851, on Fleming Street in Harring-
ton"
SPORTS QUIZ-A sports quiz at
the dinner meeting of the Dover
Kiwanis Club in Club Is on We'd
nesday night was won by Harold
L. Baker. Benjamin F. Johnson,
president, was second best with the
answers, and George Bringhurst
was third.
The quiz was conducted by Err
nest F. Smith, Jr., chairman of the
program committee, which was in
charge of the program for the
meeting.
The Dover Kiwanians will be
by delegates at a meet
ing of the seventh division of the
Capital Kiwanis District at Delmar
on Sent. 6. The division meeting
has been allied by William Hen
derson, lieutenant governor for the
division. Guests we're Robert Jack
son, Oreland, Pa, guest of John
Burger, and G. Przywana, Runne- !
mede, N. j., guest of Kenneth
Pfister.
HAY FEVER-An estimated 25,-
600 Delawareans have begun their
annual bout with the exhausting
shifting, red eyes and
discomfort of the ragweed I
type hay fever. The pOllinatiOn of
this plant, including tall and short
Tagweed, which causes the discom- !
fort to millions in nearly all parts
of the nation, began in this area a
few days ago.
The only successful medical meth
cd Of relief for hay fever to date
is through pre-seasOnaI and CO.
injections with ragweed
antigen, together with the use Of
various newly developed anti-hista-
mine drugs. Some sufferers take the
injections and drugs, others use
one or the other.
Allergy specialists agree that
there is no cure for hay fever;
merely relief through treatment
which usually must be repeated an
nually.
DROPS DEAD-Reynolds Fred !
erick Hassenfus, SO. of 1923 North 7
S he dwick Street, PHILADELPHIA, !
dropped dead Monday of this week ]
at ! p. m. while pulling in a fishing
net at Lingo's Greek, six miles east :
Of MillsborC on Route "a. b
Mr.. Hassenfus, his wife and Mrs !
Elsie Tillberg of Philadelphia, were \
guests at the summer home of Fred
W. Johnson at Riverdale and had
gone on a fishing trip. DR.. Virgil
Hudson of Millsboro was summoned
and said death was due to a heart !
attack. Coroner William Marvel Of J
Delmar released the h0dy to the
Carey Funeral Home, Georgetown. :
who later removed it to Philadel- :
Dhia where funeral arrangements !
are pending.
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Herman Hassenfus NJ Philadelphia :
and the late Mr. Hassenfus. Be )
sides his wife. he Is survived bv s
three children and FIVE grandchil- {
iren.
OAR UNIT-A Rehoboth Beach q
chapter Of the Daughters Of the s
american Revolution. with men, 9
oers drawn from the Lewes and q
Rehoboth section is under con- {
iideration n
At a recen meeting at the home
De Mrs Richard u enit,,on "a h