Milford chronicle., 1953-11-27
LEWES

AT the regular monthly dinner
meeting of the Lewes Chamber Of
Commerce held in the Ocean House
on the Beach, with President We'll
don BTittingham presiding, the
nominating committee proposed a
new slate of officers for 1854, who
were duly elected to Office, to be
installed. at the January meeting.
Walter S. Howard was elected the
new president; Homer B. Ingram,
vice president; Mrs Katherine Ellis,
secretary; and William S. Jefferson,
treasurer. New directors elected
included: d H. c. LittletOn, Alton
Brittingham, c. c. Marshall and
Frank Shapiro, who will serve with
the holdOver-directors MahlOn H.
Graves, Clifford L. Trader, Howard
]. DerricksOn, G. Edward Wyatt,
E. Wilson Ingram, and Otis Smith.
One other director will be elected
to fill the expiring term of Homer
B. Ingram, who will assume the
duties of vice-president on the ex-
piratiOn of his dictatorship the end
of the year.
The Chamber has arranged for
Santa Claus to visit in Lewes on
Saturday, December 5th, and
parade is being planned. The Christ
mas program will be under the
general craftsmanship of G. Edward
Wyatt. MahlOn Graves heads the
finance committee; gifts of candy
will be under the craftsmanship OF
Frank Shapiro; and special gifts
are being arranged for by Louis
Ingram, Alton Brittingham and
William Jefferson. Floats will be
in charge of Winfield Brittingham.
Mrs. Myrtle Emory of Rehoboth
Beach has been appointed to
second grade teaching position by
the Board of Education of the Lewes
Special School District. Mrs. Emory
has several years teaching expert
ence and has done considerable
amount of substituting in Lewes and
RehObOth. Mrs. Ernestine LaBar
who formerly taught a section of
the sec md grade in addition to her
administrative duties will now
devote full time to administration
and remedial reading. 1t is felt that
this move will strengthen the whole
elementary program.
Mrs. Charlotte Moss of RehObOth
Beach has assumed her duties as
IOOqOS saM9I 9ql u! AIB49I09s
Mrs. Moss was formerly secretary
to the executive Director of the
Delaware Society for Crippled
Children and Adults.
Mrs. Treva Hanky has been en-
plOyed as cashier in the cafeteria.
Mrs. Hanky is a former member of
the Lewes School cafeteria staff.
Mrs. E. Gould MacIntire, Chair
man of the recent fund drive for the
Peninsula Girl Scout Council Inc,
wishes to take this opportunity to
thank the solicitors for their fine
efforts in the drive and to also
thank all those who so generously
supported the drive.
The total amount raised to date is
$525.16 which represents cOntri-
buttons for about four hundred
people from Lewes, QuakertOwn,
Five Points and Nassau.
The date of the flower arrange
ment demonstration to be given by
Mrs. Raymond B. Atkins under the
auspices of the Zwaanendael Club
has been changed to Monday even
ing, Nov. 3Oth. This outstanding
event will be of enormous interest
to everyone who'd like to learn how
to fashion not only Christmas ar
rangements of our native evergreens
but the unusual in Yuletide decor
atiOns, information about which
Mrs. Atkins has available, and will
display in her program titled Make
Your Own Merry Christmas" The
demonstration will be held at 8
p. m. in the Social Hall of the
Lewes Presbyterian Church, and
the public is invited to attend.
Tickets will be one dollar ($10O)
each. Mrs. Raymond E. Hall is
chairman of tickets.
Mrs. G.. Herbert OrtOn, Sr., is
spending the winter months in
Florida as the guest of Mrs. Bessie
OrtOn Taylor at her home in Tampa.
The Beebe Hospital Auxiliary
will hold a Christmas Bazaar on
December End in the reception room
of the Mary Wilson Thompson
Annex of the hospital. Mrs. Willard
S. Yarnall. Auxiliary, president, and
Mrs. William T. Atkins of Lewes