Milford chronicle., 1956-06-15


Happy Homemakers Home DEM
onstration Club met Thursday eve
ming, June z, at the home of Mrs.
Fred Watts with Mrs. Richard
Mills, co-hostess. The topic for dis
cussion was Foods That Don't
Add Pounds.
ON PROBATION = Mrs. Virginia
Taylor, Seaford, was fined $50 and
costs and placed ON probation for
a year by Judge Isaac ID. Short in
Court of Common Pleas yesterday
for obtaining money under false
pretenses.
She was also ordered to make
restitution in the amount of 5000
to the State Unemployment Com
mission for sums she was charged
with receiving while she was en-
ployed.
TRAFFIC VIOLATOR = Levin
]. W. Harmon, Harbeson, was fin
ed total of SIS by Judge Isaac ID.
Short in Court of Common Pleas
Tuesday afternoon for traffic vio-
lations.
He was charged by Rehoboth po-
lice with leaving the scene of an
accident and driving with an i'm
proper license. He pleaded guilty.
He was arrested after the car he
was driving struck two cars park
ed in Rehoboth early on the morn
! ing of June 2.
SPEECH CLINICS = DR.. Harold
Westlake, Director of the Speech
and Hearing Clinic at Northwest
ern University, will conduct clinics
for children whose speech problems
are associated with cerebral palsy
ON June IA and Is through the pro-
gram of Crippled Children's Ser
vices of the Delaware State Board
of Health The children whom he
will see are selected by the speech
therapiSts and audiologiSt and are
examined by appointment only. The
clinic on Thursday, June IA, will
be held at the Alfred I. dupont In
stitute on Rockland Road, begin
ming at 900 a. m. On Friday, June
Is, the clinic will be conducted at
the Governor Bacon Health Cen
ter, beginning at 900 a. m.
CHAlrITY BALL - A highlight
on the L idsummer social calendar
this season at Lewes will be the
second annual charity ball, spon-
sored by the Beebe Hospital Aux
Hilary of Lewes.
Mrs. Frank L. Moon, newly elect
ed president of the auxiliary, has
set July Is for the gala affair, to
be held that evening ON the open
terrace of the Rehoboth Beach
Country Club.
She has appointed Mrs. Edward
Gillespie and Mr.. William ].
Thompson, Jr., as co-chairmen
They will be in charge of publicity
in Lewes, and Mrs. Moon will take
care of outlying districts. In RehO-
both Beach, Miss Mary Messick
will be chairman of advertising.
The rain date has been set for
July 20.
ABBOTT REUNION - The 18th
annual reunion of the descendants
of John Wesley Abbott and Louisa
Johnson Abbott of Camden, will
be held at Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughan
Ginn's Buttonwood Farm, Middle
town, which is located 21a miles
south of St Georges Bridge, on
Sunday, June "a.
Each member is requested to be
present with basket lunch. The
committee in charge has arranged
an enjoyable program for all ages.
This reunion will be held, rain or
shine
Relatives and guests are expect
ed from Delaware, Pennsylvania,
and New Jersey.
Officers of the reunion are: Per
cy Haughey, Milford, president;
George Bennett of Wilmington, vice
president; Mrs. Harry S. Marker,
Ralph Carey of Dover, treasurer,
and Mrs. Harry Paris of Whining
ton, general chairman.
SCHOLARSHIP G. Estelle
Wheeless Scholarship, established
in 1851 in memory of Miss Whee-
less, assistant librarian of the du-
Pont Technical Library, has been
awarded this year to Mrs. Virginia
F. King Messick of the State Lii
brary Commission, Dover. Mrs.
Messick, a graduate of Wilson Col
lege, is continuing graduate work
in library science at Rutgers Uni
versity, New Brunswick, N. j.
The presentation was made by
Mrs. Marian NJ. Foulk, president of
the Delaware Library Association.
The scholarship is awarded annu-
ally to a resident of Delaware who
has been graduated from an ac-
credited college, and who has been
accepted by, or enrolled in, an ac-
credited library school.
Anyone desiring information
concerning the scholarship may
contact Miss DOrcas Cheavens,
chairman, Scholarship Committee,
Delaware Library Association, co
dupont Technical Library, Room
3155 DUPONT Building, Wilmington,
Delaware.