Milford chronicle., 1953-04-17
LEWES

N.N y y 49,
Two Of the only three livin,
charter members of the T.ewo,
AWaanendael Club. that was or. y
ganlzed on February 7. 1908 To.
celVed at the door Tuesday after.
? noon, April Sth, at an inter-cInt
reciprocity Day" Observance ~
saTy. 'iiiii'eI-
They were Mrs. William =, A.
kins and Mrs. Thomas j. Virdan
Inc tnlrd charter member. Mrs
Lena Tammany, the clubs FIRST
president, was unable to attend
because of illness. '0'iu u
Ihe celebration was held in the
parish house of st. Peters Enisco~
pal Church. Special guests were
| nye other Sussex County cIubs in
Lme state Federation of Women's
CluDs' Milford New Century
Georgetown New Century. Ronnd
IaDIe Club of Camden and Wv0m-
lng' FrankfOrd New Centurv and
the village Improvement Associa-
tlOn or RehObOth Beach. Mrs Tr-
win S. Maull of Lewes Beach, was
program chairman and presented
Mrs. Olive Parks of Laurel who
save demonstration of interior
decorating. -0-
A tea followed Mrs. Parks talk
MISS Phyllis Rush was Chairman
OF refreshments, and Mrs. Tustus
D. NaylOr headed the committee IN
decorations. '''e Oil
Pourlng at the tea tables were
MRS. John Cannon. Mrs. Mamie
Suthard, Mrs. JEstus B. Navlor and
Mrs. Howard n Green - ''--N
The Zwaanendael Club Of Tewos
was the tenth in organization in
the state. and eighth in line of fed
Grafton, having chosen a name to
perpetuate the original name of
tnelr town back in 1881. The Iafe
Mrs. Virginia Mustard. mother oP
Mrs. Caleb S. Layton of WiIminS-
ton' became its original vice pres |
lGent and was prominent in the
clubs early days.
MRS. Virden and Mrs. Atkins are
Doth former presidents. Mrs. At
klns recently served a second time
!n relating the clubs long histOrv
MRS, Maull recalled: 1--WE didn;t /
nave a club house in those davs AZ
years ago. One of our first gather
ny ny places was the old William
Blnghham house, on which the
owns comfort station now
After that we rented the Odd
Fellows Hall on Second street ]
loWn town. But that was dnrino ]
me First World War and we gave
i up IN a patriotic effort to he
lserul and turned it over tn SER
,lcenen ,unen stationed at the old Naval ]
8ase on Cape Henlopen.
Mrs. Mustard instigated a move Il
nent to give LeWes a Town Hail S
inoer our clubs sponsorship and
ms evolved into the present Lewes t
AUDITORIUM, where all town affairs n
we're held including concerts and r
ven dances, as the seats were re- n
Movable. The auditorium was la /
er bought as moving picture J
Ouse Dy private interests and the N
iuD sold their share and bought q Z
iuD mouse in February, 1929. N
Ihe Zwaanendael Club estab- v
shed the present Village Green 1
the triangular plot back of the 81
.ate's memorial to the Dutch sett- a'
RS, which is used for patriotic on
4 air gatherings, and has aIwavs "A
orked to rehabilitate the towns Sc
lstOric landmarks" Sc
mrs Edwin Custis is the current ~ ~
resident of the club. OIL
Mrs. Raymond R. Atkins. Of &C
ewes, the former Miss Elizabeth u
daughter of Mrs. Samuel -
. russell, Sr., of Wawaset Park .
'lImlngtOn, was the guest speak It
at the annual luncheon of The di
lssex Gardeners on Tuesday af-
held in the social hall of d
iltOn. ~ al
Mrs. Atkins, one of Delaware's N N
sst known expOnents Of the art of ~
)Wer arrangement, gave a demon
ration using blooms indigenous to
thls area. She has presented be
cture-demonstratiOns in MANY ca
WINS in lower Delaware, as well to
conducting highly successful LIE
asses and Writing a garden COL re
nm.
One of the highlights of the re
ring social season of interest to CT
Essex County women will be a tu
lge Fashion Show-Luncheon to w
sponsored by the Women's Aux- tn
ary OF Historic st. Peters Epis-
pal Church of Lewes, in the SPA tn
)us auditorium of the Lewes Vol mi
-teer F1ie Departments Building as
Savannah Road. wi
Luncheon will be served st ono Da
m. on Friday, May /, followed his
tn summer fashions from Rem va
Minis of Salisbury, Nd, for Mi
.dy to be displayed on manikens Wi
cured from various down-state en-
Wns. OF
The general chairman of this mi
ent, for which nearly three hun =
ed tickets are being sold at S15O =
ch, is Mrs. Donald Rodney Ev- 2
S, Jr.; Mrs. Harry Hickman Row