Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-06

HOBBY FAIR - On Saturday
and Sunday, May and s, the aux
Hilary of st. Mary's Episcopal
Church in Bridgeville will sponsor
a Hobby Fair in the Tuesday Night
Club House on Market Street. All
types of hobbies will be on display.
The entries include paintings, vari-
Gus types of weaving. ceramics,
lamp shades, many different col
iections and great variety of ham
dicraft. Mrs. Donald Crawford is
Chairman of the show
SCOTTISH RITES CLUB - The
Kent and Sussex Scottish Rites
Club will hold meeting in Dover
Grange Hall, Friday evening, May
FL, starting at seven o'clock. 1t
will be ladies' night and the speak
er will be Professor Amos E. Ney-
hart. administrative head of the
institute of public safety of Penn
sylvania State University. The
POSTMASTER for the affair will be
j. Wallace Woodford of Dover.
Dinner chairman is ]. Henry Nc
Donnell of Dover.
FIRST BERRIES-Eastern Shore
strawberries appeared for the first
time this week in the Sussex Coun-
ty markets, and high prices were
predicted.
Victor B. Adams, of Bridgeville
prominent dealer, said the late
freeze in the Carolinas and Louis
lana cut production there some sc
per cent.
The berries on the local market
however, came from Exmore, Va.
with prices of from $3.50 to $13.75
a 24-quart crate, selling out here
at 60c to Csc per quart, tasty, but
expensive eating.
CANCER CENTERS = This ser.
vice for women 25 years of age an6
over. Hours of operation-9:45
11:45 a. IN. and 12:45-2:45 p. m.
May 11-Felton, Community Hall
Call FELTON, 1898 for appointments
May 12-Dover, Health Unit, 414
S. State Street. Call Dover 1922 fol
appointments.
May 18-Felton, Community Hall
Call FELTON, 4993 for appointments
May .19-Dover, Health Unit, Ala
S. State Street. Call Dover 1922 fol-
appointments.
May 20-Smyrna, Health Unit, E
Commerce Street. Call Smyrna 3091
for appointments.
May 26-Milford, Health Unit
Shore Theater Building. Call Mil.
ford 1859 for appointments.
METHODIST CAMP-There will
be a Laymen's Work Day at CamI
Pe-Co-Meth, near Centreville, Md.
this Saturday, May z. The camp
purchased by the Peninsula Con.
ference of the Methodist Church
in 1916, will open for it's nintf
camping season in June. Since
much work needs to be done in
preparation for the camping sea.
son, the Methodist Mems organi-
cation decided to have the Work
Day as one of their projects. The
men are asked to bring along ham.
mers and paint brushes. Dinner
will be served at noon in the camp
dining hall. All Methodist men who
can possibly do it are urged to
come to Camp Pe-Co-Meth to share
in this day of work, fun and fell
lowship.
HEART WARMING-A hearten.
ing story of kindness and cooper
alton among group of SUSSEX
County farmers has come out OF
Bridgeville.
approximately % friends of q
bed-ridden farmer, Matt Kossegi
so, rose at dawn on Tuesday AND
did the entire spring planting anc
cultivation chores on the i'll mans
farm. They plowed and planted
around SO acres in soybeans, and
IA acres in corn.
This voluntary service for theil
neighbor was instigated by Franz
Webb, and three brothers, Edmund
Dewitt, and Darce Dickerson, al
farmers of the Bridgeville region
who Immediately got willing coop
Grafton from others when theil
plans were revealed.
Mr.. Kossegi recently returned tt
his home in Bridgeville from the
Delaware Hospital in Wilmington
where he underwent an operation
for brain tumor.
Unmarried, he makes his home
there with his 76-year-old mother
Mrs. Agnes Kossegi. They came tt
Bridgeville from New York in 1918
Mr.. Kossegi has been farmer al
of his life. Neighbors planned theil
Good Samaritan work for him wher
they learned on his arrival home
that he may be bedridden the resi-