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1949 MILTON STORY SEPTEMBER 13TH


A MILTON STORY
THE DAY IS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1949



Wilmington News Journal, Tuesday September 13, 1949


The first grade enrollment for Milton school this year is sixty two and sets an all time high.
This class will need to be divided into two groups, one to be taught by Mrs. Elizabeth
Shivelhood and the other by Miss Ruth Hudson.

Total Milton School enrollment for this year, both elementary and high school grades, is
430 , one for the record..

Thirty one boys of high school are candidates for the newly organized football team, being
coached by Mr. Chambers and Mr. Smith. They have six weeks to practice before they face
Delmar on October 21st.

There is a new sixth grade teacher, Ray Kip, a graduate of the Millersburg State Teachers
College in Pennsylvania. Kip is native of Elizabethtown in Pennsylvania and has done 17
months service with the Coast Guard.

The Lions Club resumed their regular dinner meetings last Monday at Goshen Hall served
by the WSCS, Rev Harold Davis is president, Howard Carey, secretary and Ken Douglas,
treasurer.

Martha Clendaniel, a last year graduate of Milton High entered West Chester Teachers College
and will be active in all athletic activities and major in elementary education the next four
years. Martha's sister, Emily, is also at the same school and will graduate next spring.
Wanda, another sister, graduated last May and teaches English and French at Milton High
School. They are daughters of Mr. & Mrs Lester Clendaniel of Broad Street, Milton.

Russell Bennett, stock car racer of Milton, was qualified at Langhorn Raceway this last
Sunday and came in seventh place, with his 1946 model car. Asher Campell also of Milton
accompanied Bennett to Langhorn.

Clara Reed, who Dorsey Morgan ran over with his motorcycle last Sunday evening as she\
was crossing Federal Street on her way to evening church service, is improving at Milford

Hospital from severe lacerations and a fractured knee.  

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