Milford chronicle., 1956-04-13
LEWE.S

The Town of Lewes Commits
sioners have filed suit in the Court
of Chancery at Georgetown against
county officials asking for a judg
ment declaring that their property
is exempt from county taxation and
asking for the money back that
has been collected in taxes for
the past five years. Lewes claims
that they have been unlawfully as
sessed and taxed through the years
/. They quote the state law to prove
/. 1t. Papers were filed for the Town
Z by Samuel r.. Russell, through Tun-
nell and Tunnell
I The defendants are Norman
/ Jester, Joseph Kollock and Frank
i Dawson, members of the Sussex
: County Board of Assessment: Louis
I, v. Spencer, receiver of taxes and
/. county treasurer and Clarence Lin
/ go. Levi Warrington and Victor
I. Adams, the members of the Levy
I Court
: Lewes has set forth in it's COM
! plant that they had appeared to
I the Board of Assessments on Feb.
81 and had been turned down. The
{, town sets It's total taxes to be re-
bated at s2,2S5.95.
Mrs. Frank L. Moon, wife of the
rector of the St. Peters Episcopal
Church of Lewes, has been elected
) president of the Beebe Auxiliary
! She succeeds Mrs. Stevenson B.
Cooling, Jr., of Rehoboth Beach.
All officers are elected for two
year terms. Miss Mary Messick of
Rehoboth has been chosen vice
s president: Mrs. Paul c. Trickett,
! wife of DR.. Trickett OF the Beebe
+. Hospital staff, is the new recording
( secretary; and Mrs. Franklin c.
? Maull. of Lewes, the corresponding
secretary. The treasurer is Mrs.
Willard S. Yarnall Of Kehoboth
> Beach.
The auxiliary, the senior women's
organization of the hospital, draws
{ its membership from both the
{ Lewes and Rehoboth communities
Installations will be on May /.
The annual Country Fair spon-
sored by the auxiliary will be held
on the hospital grounds June 2
and the annual Charity Ball will
be July 13.
! The County Fair and the Charity
Ball are the two major fundrais
ing events of the auxiliary.
Arthur H. Morris and Cornelius
! c. Marshall were reelected Sat-
urday to two-year terms on the
Lewes Board of Public Works
Services for Ernest S. Ratledge.
! 50-year-old businessman, civic lead
er and sportman, who died Friday
night at Beebe Hospital following
heart attack at his Lewes home.
were held at St Peters Episcopal
Church here at 2 p. M, Monday
with the Rev. Frank L. Moon, rec
tor officiating.
Burial was in st. Peters Gene
terry on Pilot Town Road 1t marked
the second modern burial in the
cid cemetery since it was decided
to the church in 1880
Friday was his 18th wedding
anniversary, and he was watching
television at his home with his
family when he suffered a heart
dtldch- Inc beeDe ffOSpltal amDu-
lance was called and he died at
she hospital less than an hour
later.
Mr. Ratledge was the founder Of
the Henlopen Motor Company
here in 1887. Two years ago he
received citation from the Buick
Motor Company as Quarter Cen
tury Dealer. He had started in
the automobile business in the
town back in 1929
He was active in the Lewas
Chamber of Commerce. and a for
mer president of the Lewes Lions
Club and was a leader in the
Lions drive for funds to secure an
ambulance for Lewes, and in the
Lions annual minstrel shows for