Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05

Avery Ellis, Wire Chief foE the
Diamond State Telephone Company,
here, was the speaker in the meet
ing Of the Georgetown Kiwanis
Club, held in Grace Church Hall.
Tuesday evening. Mr.. Ellis dis
cussed details Of the telephone
service to subscribers; facts on
equipment and installations as well
as Operational details. He also gave
an interesting resume Of the history
Of the telephone and it's growth to
its present widespread use and
necessity.
The committee for the annual
Ladies Night and Inter Club meet
ing discussed plans for the event
which will be in the form of a
valentine Party to be held February
16, in Grace Church Hall, William
H. Henderson and N. Eugene Camp
bell are heading the committee on
arrangements.
The U. S.-Canada Week program
on February s, will have Louis e.
Cober as chairman. Next Tuesday
night, will be observed as Boy Scout
night and Edwin L. Smith, Boy
Scout chairman will be in charge
Of the program.
Julius c. Green gave a report on
the Board of Directors meeting
held last week and Melvin Hearn
reported on attendance figures.
Dallas A. Dennis gave a report of
the ChincOteague Kiwanis Club an
nual sea-foOd dinner and Inter-
Club meeting which was attended
by the following Kiwanians: Mr..
Dennis, Glen Grain, president;
Charles Steiner, Louis E. Cober,
Howard Warren, Charles P. Greene,
Martin S. Petit, Henry Vogt, Henry
Schmidt and Julius G. Green, secre-
tary.'
The local club also represented
in the Laurel Ladies Night and
anniversary celebration by DR.. and
Mrs. Preston E. West and Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Schmidt The George
town Kiwanis Club and the Seaford
KiWanians were the sponsors Of the
Laurel Club.
Guests of the local club this week
were George Murray, Of SeafOrd and
William Haines, of the Arrow
Safety Device Co., here. Glen Grain
president of the club presided.
Music was directed by Edward
Serman and Philip Taylor with Miss
Joyce ConOway as accompanist.
Col. Ralph S. Baker gave the invo-
cation.
Mrs. Iva Short Booth, chairman
for the March of Dimes in George !
town stated that returns on the
campaign are now coming in and
solicitors are hard at work on the
Mrs. Howard Morris has
been named to take charge of the |
in the local school and /
the PTA.
A special event will be the Bene-
fit Basketball game to be played in /
the local high school between
the Georgetown County Seaters and !
the Fort John Gusts team from
Cape Charles, Va. The game will be !
played on February 4. Another spe- /
cial event is the Polio Bake to be I
held Saturday morning of this week. /
in the Burton Show Rooms, on
Market Street. Also on Saturday, /
beginning at 400 p. m, Midland
Grange will serve a chicken and .
dinner in Grange Hall, /
the proceeds to go to the Polio /
Fund.
Col. Baker, Sussex Polio chairman
has informed community chairman
that the campaign time has been
through the first two
weeks of February. This has been
made necessary due to the recent
snow storm which blocked so
much of the rural areas it was inn
possible to solicit there. Harbeson,
reported that it had reached it's {
assigned quota as of Tuesday,
January 10. with all the territory
lot covered and work will continue.
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The farm population Of the U. S.