Milford chronicle., 1959-12-18


known Christmas carols will be
presented by the Bridgeville High
School Band this Friday evening,
December IS, in the school audi
torium. Starting at s, the concert
will be directed by Michael Zav-
achy, high school music teacher.
There will be nominal admission.
NEW CHAIRMAN = James H.
Baxter, Jr., Georgetown, president
of the Delaware State Farm Bureau,
has been selected chairman of the
R l u t j on Subcommittee on
Budget and Taxation for the Am
erican Farm Bureau Federation
which recently met in Chicago.
This committee had the job of
studying the various resolutions
submitted from all the states in the
country prior to presenting them
to the voting delegates this week.
ACUTE ALCOHOLISM - State
police at Bridgeville, investigating
the death of Ethel May Barnett,
so, of the 700 block Clarence Street,
Seaford, said that she had died ap-
parently of acute alcoholism.
She was admitted to the Nanti-
coke Memorial Hospital, Seaford,
at 1920 p. M, last Thursday and
died at 2:05 p. m.
She had recently come from Kent
Island, Md, and had been living at
the Seaford address.
LAUREL DIRECTORS - The
Laurel Chamber of Commerce elect
ed directors for the coming year
at a meeting in the Rigbie Hotel
last Thursday evening. The off,
GERS for the coming year will be
elected later this month.
The directors are: w Robert
Williams, W. Monroe Taylor, Mar
vel L. Lynch, Leroy Mitchell, Al
win West, Charles A. Turner, Wal
ter ]. Slatcher, Clayton Fuller,
Frank Gallo, Jr., and Howard r.
Elliott.
CANDLE SERVICE-A Carol and
Candle Lighting Service will be
held at the Cokesbury Methodist
Church, this Sunday, December 27.
The service will start at 1880 D. m.
Special selections will be. sung by
both, the Senior and Junior Choirs.
The Rev. William P. Chappell will
read the Christmas Story and de-
liver the sermon. The congregation
will sing Carols and the service
will close with the lighting of the
candles.
The MYAF of the church is in
charge of the service, and extends
this invitation for you to attend
The Cokesbury Methodist Church is
located on the Georgetown-Bridg
vile Highway.
CHRISTMAS NARRATION-Th
Greenwood School Music Depart
ment will present christmas
Around the World on December
21, at 7:30 p. m. The program will
be designed to tell in narration
and song, the Christmas customs
of countries around the world
Students from the elementary
grades will tell of the customs of
such countries as Norway, France,
Germany, and Mexico. The High
School Chorus, under the direction
of H. Eugene Bovine, will present
the first Christmas with songs such
as "Gloria en- Excelsis Deo", ar
ranged by Carlyle Duncan; "Jos-
eph Dearest, Joseph Nine, by Carl
LIGHT; "Slumber Song of the Infant
Jesus" and "a Joyous Christmas
Song from the Collection De Cho-
eurs" of F. A. Gevaert.
OWN Midway Presby-
terian Church on the Rehoboth
Highway has its first resident pas
tor Until the death nearly two
years ago of the Rev. DR.. William
Leishman of Lewes, he had served
the Midway Church as well as the
historic Lewes Presbyterian
Church.
The resident pastor of Midway
Church is the Rev. John Hays, for
merly of the Parkhurst Memorial
Presbyterian Church at Elkland,
Pa.
A manse has been provided. 1t
is the former residence of William
e. Thompson, Jr., who sold it to
the New Castle Presbytery when
he went to Kentucky recently to
study for the ministry.
92nd ANNIVERSARY - William
T.. Atkins, the states oldest fune-
raj director, celebrated his 92nd
birthday Tuesday.
Born in Milton in 1867, he has
been in business in Lewes since
1895. He has two children, four
grandchildren, and five great
grandchildren.
He is a 32nd degree Mason, a
member of Jefferson Lodge of
Lewes, Nur Temple of Wilmington,
and Tall Cedars of Lebanon of
Milford. He is an elder of Lewes
Presbyterian Church and a char
ter member of the Rotary Club of
Lewes.
December 21 he will be an honor
guest at the annual old folks din
ner sponsored by the Rotary Club.
He and Mrs. Atkins will observe
their 64th wedding anniversary on
Christmas Eve.
MEANEST THIEF-A thief riff
ed three pocketbooks in the Christ
Episcopal Church choir room last
Sunday while services were going
on, Dover police have reported.