Milford chronicle., 1953-04-17
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

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}. GUILD PARTY-The Child 30
e st. Mary's Episcopal Church. If
J, Brldgeville, is sponsoring a Des-
: sert Card Party at the Parish House
t from 8 to IL p. m. on April "a
There will be a prize for each
table and door prizes.
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HONORED BY PRR-AIlen n
Parker, a brakeman with the penn.
I sylvania Railroad Company. for
l merry of Delmar but now of Pbila-
: deiphia, was presented with a 40
year service pin by the PennsvI-
Vanla Railroad Company at q Te-
cent safety meeting in Delmar Mr.
, Farker is brakeman on passen-
ger trains between PHILADELPHIA and
Delmar. The award was made bv
n. e. KohOut, trainmaster of Cane
> Charles, Va.
NEW VAULT-Part of the now
plans for the new Farmers Rank
OI the state Of Delaware Building
call for reconstruction of Vault
IN the basement for the customers
In doing this, the contractors had
10 cut an opening with a mower
orlll. This took one man working
4z hours to cut out the Opening
The new Vault Department Of the
Farmers Bank of the State of Del
aware will be on the lower floor
with coupon booths, conference
rooms and meeting rooms for the
convenience of the Safe Deposit
customers.
NEW PHONE EQUIPMENT-Tbe
Diamond State Telephone ComDanv
has completed an addition to the
dlal equipment in the Milton Cen
tral office which will improve Mil
ten service and enable the office
to serve nearly 100 additional sub
scribers.
Mr.. H. Allen Horton, Milton
manager, in announcing completion
OF the work, said the project cost
around $4,000 and the company will
be able to serve the SO persons now
waiting for service in the Milton
area. He also pointed out, however.
that some of the places are located
where there is no existing cable or
wire lines available to connect with
the central office. These places will
receive service as new line con-
structrOn progresses. The cOmpanv
plans to spend $32 900 this year in
line construction i'll Milton area. /
RED CROSS - The endeavor to
have the citizens of the Dover area.
be well informed as to the Red
Cross activities throughout the
world is causing a great deal of
attention by articles received from
outstanding men of the Dover area.
The plan was started off by Gov |
ernor ]. Caleb Boggs with an ar
ticle on why I Give to the 1859
Red Cross Campaign" and on each
sheet of the local paper was an
article by an outstanding citizen.
William K. Patton, drive chair
man, had a very prominent article
as well as William J. Storey, Area
chairman; Governor J. Caleb
Boggs, and Reverend Paul A. KeI- !
Iogg.
Last weeks articles were written
by Reverend Robert w. Duke. Rev
erend John A. Trader, Reverend
Lawrence T. Slaght, Reverend G.
Leonard Taylor, and Father Paul
Taggert. Il
OPEN HOUSE - Wesley Junior
College, Dover, Delaware, is hav- :
ing open house for business stu
dents, business teachers, and coun- ;
Sellors OF the various high schools
In Delaware and Eastern Maryland
during the afternoon of Thursday. !
April 23rd.
A high light H. the afternoon will =
be a demonstration and lecture by +!
Mr.. George L. Hossfield, director !,
1f Underwood Corporations Teach
9rs Advisory Service and ten times 7
winner Of the Worlds Professional :
Typewriting Championship. The
official speed record of Mr.. Hoss
field is 139 net words a minute for
1ne hours typing. b
Mr.. Hossfield will speak on "Mod- t
ern Training and Teaching Meth il
IDS to Develop Typing Skill" This
and lecture will take Il
place in the CDDllege Chapel at
1870 p. m, and the public is invited j
o attend. c
ART FESTIVAL - Many new ti
in Sussex County, now y
associated with the Delaware Fes- =
ival of Arts, will participate in the 1
estival this year and town chair 4
nen are now compiling information y
special events, pro- 3
,rams, meetings, concerts, and ex-
libits. =,
Mrs. Madeline Arnold Dunn of
4aurel is Sussex County chairman, \
With Miss Margaret Fitzpatrick of :
tehOboth as co-chairman. !,
Town chairmen already named !,
include Mrs. c. e. Ochletree. of =
GREENWOOD; Jack Lewis, Mrs. Cod .
rey Metzler and Mis-. Joseph Vim z,
ent, of Bridgeville; Mrs. Charles .
Vest, of SeafOrd Miss Helen Hut 2
hinson, of Bethel; Miss Mary c. =,
'homas and Witold WOiciechowski. !,
+ Laurel; Miss Adele Chambers of -
ewes; Mrs. Raymond Wilkinson. :,
r., of Delmar; Mrs. Severson Coo n,
ng of RehobOth, and Mrs. Jay ~
linch, of Selbyville. =, -
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