Milford chronicle., 1951-03-09
GEORGETOWN

Clarence Jester, Of Milford past
Worthy Master Of the Delaware
State Grange and his stan Tuesday
night conferred the Ist and End de-
grees on a class of "a candidates.
Nineteen of the new Grangers are
now members of Midland Grange in
Georgetown and the other six are
members Of Broad Creek, Grange
at Laurel
There were 175 in attendance, re-
presenting Henlopen, Milford,
Broad Greek and Midland Oranges.
OtWell PettyjOhn Master of Mid
land Grange presided. He present
ed a Past Masters pin to Joseph
MegginsOn, who served as master
Of the local Grange last year.
Refreshments were served to the
group by a committee comprised
of Mr.. and Mrs. MegginsOn, Mrs.
Clara HolsOn, Mrs. Mabel Minor,
Mrs. Clara Isaacs and Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl Pepper. Among the visitors
was Harry johnson, Of Smyrna,
Worthy Master Of Delaware State
Grange.
In observance Of the 32nd ami
leersary of the American Legion,
members of Sussex Unit no. 8, the
American Legion served a covered
dish supper to members Of Sussex (
Post no. 8 and their guests.
Mrs. Martin Givens presided over
the business session of the Auxili-
ary Members voted contributions
to the March of dimes and the Red
Cross campaigns. The unit voted
unanimously approving House Bill
no. 81, providing for a sufficient /
appropriation for education of the I
handicapped children.
Two new members were inducted /
Mrs. Howard Morris and Mrs. Har- +
Yey Donovan.
On Tuesday, March Is, Sussex +
Unit no. will be host to a county
wide meeting Of American Legion
Auxiliary Units. Alas. John Malar-
key, Of Seaford, County president
viii presided. The meeting will be
held in the Log Cabin, American
Legion headquarters and will be
attended by State Department Of
ficers, committee chairman and
members from the II units COM
prising the auxiliaries in Sussex
County
The annual meeting of the Board
of Directors of Area no. 8, Ameri-
can Red Cross was held in Old
Bell tea room Thursday night with
with Howard S. Abbott, area chair
man presiding Mr.. Abbott gave a
brief resume Of Red Cross service (
and introduced Mr.. John DeLuca,
of Wilmington, who is heading the 4
annual Red Cross campaign in
Delaware for 1851
Mr.. De LUca discussed ways in j
which the campaign may be car
ried out successfully and pointed {
Out that the quota had been raised
because of greater needs. He des-
el1bed details of the mobilization for
defense program.
A movie entitled Mobilization
.or defense" was exhibited by Sam Z
3alfOur Of Red Cross Chapter s
Headquarters in Wilmington. The t
lin gave a comprehensive view of I
I'll Red Cross services, including I
first Aid, Home Nursing, Disaster I
services, the Blood program, etc. t
In attendance were chairmen {
rom the area together with work
sfs in the towns comprising Area
10. 8, Milton, Georgetown, Cool
pring, HarbesOn and Stocklev.
hartman for the campaign now
2 progress are as follows: Milton
irs. Ruth Warren; HarbesOn-AIrs. :
F. George; COolspring-AIrs. Mol :
y c. Waugh; StOckley-AIrs. Ho- ;
ara 7. Ennis and Georgetown :
awrence c. Elliott and Harvey b. :
plecer. The campaign is due to I
Id on March goth. =
Mrs, John J. Williams. wife of IT l
Senator Williams, and chairman 3
the Special Events committee Of II
le Congressional Club in Wash is
Lgton, was the speaker at the re- IL
INT meeting of the Georgetown II
eW Century Club. Presented nv 5
rs. J. Paul Pepper, program chair
ian. Mrs. Williams used for her IL
lpic Congressional Wives Acti- ;
Ties" Mrs. Williams is also a
Iember Of the Georgetown New S
entury Club.
Mrs. Wilbur Mumford. presidept
the club read a letter from Mrs
ames G. Davis, of Georgia. wbo II
president of the Congressional k