Milford chronicle., 1957-10-04

his flanceo, Miss Eva De-la-Crux,
of San Antonio. Texas.
DR.. Virgil Hudson is receiving
treatment in Beebe Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter NJ Belts
spent two days last week with Mr..
and Mrs. Jesse Jones at their cot
tage on Rehoboth Bay.
MIR. and Mrs. George Adkins have
moved from their cottage at Fraim' S
Point to their Millsboro home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Decker have
returned from a Bermuda cruise on
an agency leaders convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arville Hall spent
Sunday in Washington with Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Clifton.
Douglas AXE, of Pittsville, visit
ed his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Wayne Burton. over the week
end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Shockley, of
Bala-Cynwyd, Pa, spent the week
end at their home, in Millsboro.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Hall en-
tertained at dinner, Sunday, Mrs.
Clara Young, of Philadelphia. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Egil Garthe.
Messrs. Rhey and Irving Hill, of
Wallingford, Conn, are visiting
their cousin, Mrs. H. B. Mitchell,
and Mr.. Mitchell
Mrs. Fred Hudson is a patient in
Beebe Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Rishel. of
Philadelphia, who have been spend
ing two weeks vacation in Reho-
both, were visitors of Mrs. j. A.
Burton, last Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. A. Stein and
daughter, Patricia, formerly OF
Church Street, Mi1isboro, have re-
Gently moved to Lambertville, n. J.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Hudson, of
New Bedford, Conn, spent last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Hud-
son.
DR.. and Mrs. w. B. Atkins visit
ed friends in Coatesyille, Pa, Sun
day.
Mrs. Julie Nichols is patient in
Beebe Hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Reese White, Sr.,
and Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ayres spent
last week in Atlantic City.
Funeral services for DR.. Otto
Rain, Professor of Bacteriology, at
Cornell University from 1927 to
1949, were held Saturday, Septem-
Der %, in Wilmington. DR.. Rain
died Thursday in the Cedar-Croft
Nursing Home, Millsboro, after an
illness of six months. His age was
rs.
He was born in Tiegenhof, Ger
many, and received a Phi. ID. degree
in chemistry from Goettingen Uni
versity IN 1902. He was an assistant
in dairy science there. from 1902
to 1906, assistant Professor of Bac-
teriology, at Michigan State Col
lege from 1907 to 1912 and at the
University of Illinois from 1912 to
1914.
Following service in the German
Army during World War /. DR..
Rain taught at Berlin Agricultural
College in 1890 and was Pro-
fessor of Dairy Physics, and head
of the experimental station of Kiel
University from 1920 to 1926. In
1892 he became an American citi-
zen.
DR.. Rain reported to the Ameri-
can Association for the Advance
ment of Science in 1882 that parts
of the human body emitted rays OF
baneful influence; such as, rays
from the fingertips kill yeast in
five minutes.
The same year he noted a ''moh
psychology among bacteria. He
stated that when old bateria were
transferred to a fresh place they
did not grow at a fast rate, but
when a larger number was intro
duced there was less delay in their
rapid growth.
A former lecturer for the Rookie
feller Foundation, DR.. Rain was
a member of the American Associ-
alton for the Advancement of
Science, the Society for the Study
of Growth and Development, the
Society of Bacteriology, and the
Society for the Study of Evolution.
Among his specialties were the
physiology of fermentation, growth
and death of taxOnomy, biological
radiations, disinfectants, dairy ply
sizes, dairy soil and food bacteri-
ology, theory of cream-rising and
the churning process, physiology
of bacteria, kinetics of fermenta-
ton and growth mechanism.
DR.. Rain was the author of nine
books on science, including Mi
crobes of Merit, and numerous
scientific papers. He taught for
four years at the University Of Ida
no after retiring from the Cornell
faculty.
Surviving are his wife; two sons.
Otto, Jr., of Newark, N. Y, and
Herman of Buffalo: two daughters,
Mrs. Margaret Cosgrove, Millsboro,
and Mrs. Marie Wohlman, Ham
burg, Germany; a brother; two
sisters and eight grandchildren.