Milford chronicle., 1959-03-06

Mrs. Norman B. BayllS chairman
of the sale of u. s. Savings Stamps,
to the elementary school children,
announces that she has received
S90.5O.
! Four parcels of the land bought
by Hercules Powder Company from
residents of the Lewes area have
been leased back for the next year.
This was done in order for the
facilities and the producing Farm
on the Hercules property to con-
tinue to perform useful purposes
until such time as they may be
needed for company use.
All ti1lable land on the 5O0-acre
farm bought from William F. Ritter
has been leased back to Mr.. Ritter
/ for farm USE In addition the Ritter
family continues to occupy the
house on the property as part of
the lease.
Tillable lands on the Grace r.
Brittingham farm also have been
leased for farming purposes to the
j. G. Townsend, Jr., Company, of
Georgetown, who have operated the
farm in recent years
Roosevelt Inlet Yacht Basin, Inc,
will continues through a lease
granted by Hercules, to operate
their business as usual for the next
year.
Likewise, a concrete block build
ing 25 K rs feet formerly used as a
pistol range, on the Emory B. Britt
iGgham property has been leased
by Hercules to Delbert Wilson, of
Rehoboth Beach for use as cabi-
net shop.
Hercules officials had announced
when the lands were acquired last
fall that the company had no plans
at present to build a plant on the
site but acquired it as an Outstand-
ing location for possible future ex-
pansiOn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mervyn L. Lafferty,
Jr., spent the weekend in Bronx
vile, N. Y, as guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. William T. Gilliander. Mrs.
Gilliander will be remembered as
the former Miss Mary Ellen Teal,
daughter of Captain and Mrs. Will
liam Teal, Jr.
Mrs. James P. Prettyman, ST., is
spending several days in Whining
ton, Delaware, with her Son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Haverbeck and daughter, Mary Joe,
and her son, James, Jr., and family.
Miss Adelaide Atkins, who tea
ches school in Baltimore County.
Nd, is here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond R. Atkins at
their Pilot Town Road home recu-
perating from pneumonia.
Mrs. Mervyn L. Lafferty, Sr., of
Five Points" will leave this Fri
day, March 9Th, for Winter Park,
Fla, where she will be the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard LedOux
for about a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Halsey G. Knapp
and their oldest children, Debbie
and Halsey George, of Nassau, are
vacationing at Fort Lauderdale,
Fla, for a few weeks.
DR.. and Mrs. ]. A. Giles and
family of Wilmington, spent the
weekend at their cottage on Lewes
Beach.
Sterling Jones who has been a
patient at the Veterans Hospital,
Wilmington, for several months,
has returned to his home, here, on
Mulberry ST., where he is now re-
cuperating.
Mrs Frederick G. Clifton, Jr-, is
confined to her home on Savan-
nah Road and Front Street, with
a broken bone in her foot which
she received from fall last Fri
day.
Mrs. Ella M. Ross, 92, widow of
John C. Ross, died Sunday, March l.,
at Cedarcroft Nursing Home, Mills
boro. She was the daughter of the
late. Elijah M. Register and Cor
nelia Jarvis Register, of Maryland.
Mrs. Ross had been an active
member of the Methodist Church
for S3 years, joining when she was
10. She was a charter member or
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union for so years, and also the
Woman's Society of Christian Ser
xyioo