Milford chronicle., 1953-07-31
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

PICNIC - The Millwood Home
Demonstration Club picnic, which
was scheduled for August 5, at the
home Of the president, Mrs. Edward
Salevan, has been postponed until
further notice.
HEADS WELFARE BOARD-The
election of Francis V. J. Haggerty
of 27O5 North Broom street, Will
mingtOn, to the Craftsmanship Of the
board of the State Department Of
Public Welfare was announced this
week. He succeeds MollOy C.
Vaughn. of LeWes, who has served
in the top position since 1851.
Mr.. Haggerty, whose term of Of
/ nee is Tor one year, is an official
OF the Warner Company in Will
mington. He previously served as
vice chairman, of the welfare board.
Governor ]. Caleb BOggs attended
the meeting in the Dinner Bell Inn.
Dover, when Mr.. Haggerty was
elected Tuesday night. It was the
Governors first attendance at a
welfare board meeting as chief ex-
ecutive of the state.
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CANCER CLINICS - The STATE
Board of Health has announced the
August schedule of cancer detection
clinics beginning August 4 and con-
tinuing to August %. The hours
will be 10 a. m. to noon and l D. m.
to ) p. m, excepting at Lewes
where they will be 8 a. m. to noon.
and at Georgetown where the hours
Will be l p. m. to 3 D. m.
The schedule, together with tele-
phone numbers which may be call
ed for appointments, follows:
August 4, Nanticoke Hospital
Seaford, SeafOrd 4944. August &
Beebe Hospital, Lewes, Lewes 5311,
August II, Student Health Center.
Newark, Newark 1861. August 13,
Health Center, Dover, Dover 1922,
August IA, Health Unit, George
town, Georgetown 2319. August 18.
Health Unit, Frankford, Rodney
1898. August 20, Old Academy
Building, Middletown, Middletown
27l1. August q, Health Unit. Mil
ford, Milford 1859. August 28
Health Unit, Georgetown, George
town 2319.
GUTTED - Fire of undetermin-
ed origin caused damage in excess
OF $4,000 to the storage building in
the rear of the limbo Drive-In
restaurant, on East Market street |
Georgetown, on Monday afternoon. |
The restaurant is owned and oper-
ated by Francis Short.
The building was Quilted, only the |
walls and part of the roof remain |
ing. Equipment in the building in |
cluded two electric refrigerators. a
deepfreeze, an ice crushing ma
chine, electric meat slicer and a
large ice cream freezing cabinet
just installed that morning. All the !
restaurant supplies were lost.
Ihe building was located near a !
large service station, but the
Georgetown Volunteer Fire Com |
pany confined the blaze to the one
building. The fire was discovered
ny helShDOrS VINO saw smoke pour
ing from Nthe rear of the building
and notified Mr.. Short.
HUCkLEBERRIES - To heat |
the high cost of living, farmers in
this vicinity are now gathering
huckleberries by the bucketful in
the woodlands around Milford. free
for the picking.
Parties go into the woods with a
picnic spirit, returning with buck
cts loaded with crop that means
so much in winter diets.
There are two types of huckle-
berries in this section; the high
bush berries that grow in local
swamp lands, and the low bush ber-
ries that grow in high woodlands.
The fruit is canned for winter.
when they can be made into many
Loothsome delicacies, including
pancakes, cObblers. pies
and shOrtcake.
This year there seems to be an
abundance of huckleberries in both
Milford Neck and Slaughter Neck
sections, where many are beine