Milford chronicle., 1962-04-06
LEWES

After 80 years of continuous
duty as Lewes' senior mail carrier,
without losing one day on sick
leave, William H. Jefferson, sc,
has retired from active service.
never had a serious illness all that
time, he says, and when 1 left the
LeWes Post office on March 16
had accumulated 1,450 hOus of sick
leave. I turned these hours back
to the postmaster with my COM
pliments.
The tall, lanky postman remem-
bers his early days in the old
Breakwater Town when he first
went into service in 1882. He es-
Inmates that he pounded the side
walks approximately 16 hours a
day in making his deliveries. He
not only covered Lewes proper but
the beachfrOnt across the highway
bridge. At that time pOstmen were
only allowed to make their rounds
on foot. Then one day postal in
spector went along with him and
noticed the postman was nearly
freezing to death along his route
to the beach. The inspector then
recommended mounted route,
permitting him to use a car.
"In those days" he recalls, Lew
es Beach had only forty houses.
There are now 440 beach cottages,
mostly occupied as year round
homes. The farthest cottage on the
west end was built by the late Har-
ry Maull. and is now occupied as
a summer home by his son, II. Ed
ward Maull, Lewes attorney and
former mayor.
He remembers when a man who
owned telephone was known as
a man of distinction. All monthly
telephone bills to be delivered then
could be held in one hand. With
the steady increase in mail volume
these bills are now placed in a
special pouch as today's Man of
Distinction does not permit his
telephone to be listed. In those
early days beach dwellers could
only be served three months of the
year.
Two more candidates for men,
bership on the Lewes Board of
Public Works filed at the deadline
Friday at midnight. This makes
a total of five aspirants for two
vacanies. The annual election will
be this Saturday, in the new Lew
es Town Hall. Voting hours are
from l to pm. Two of the can
didates on the five man board are
retiring incumbents, William T.
Manning and Thomas B. Morris.
They filed first for reelection. The
other three have never before SER
we'd on the board of the public util-
tiles plant. Perry T. Burton, one
of the newcomers, filed his can
didacy early last week. Those who
registered Friday night at the
deadline were Henry P. Marshall
Jr., assistant Lewes postmaster,
and Harry Lyons Fisher, a clerk
III the post office. Holdovers are
DR.. Gilbert M. Wiltbank, Daniel H.
c. Littleton, and Clayton H. Ellis,
Bayard V. Coulter is general man
ager of the public works board and
secretary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B. Cook, Sr.,
of Kings Highway, Lewes, an
nounce the engagement of t h e i +
daughter, Molly Ann, to Earl w.
Wyckoff of Cherry Hill, New Jer-
sey.
Miss Cook is a graduate of Lew
es High School and is now en-
ployed at the Sussex Trust Com
pany in Lewes. Mr. Wyckoff is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl W.
Wyckoff Sr., and is employed by
the American Stores Company. No
date has been set for the wedding
The unemployed father of eight
children boarded freighter bound
for South America Sunday only to
wind up in Jail as a stowaway
Monday after the ship docked in
Wilmington, Del.
Coney, who is Al and whose chill
dren range from to 19 years is
charged with breaking federal
law in secrating himself aboard a
ship in US. territorial waters,
without the consent of the master.
HEARTS AND FLOWERS