Smyrna times., 1877-04-11
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

L ROts JAS. H. ORONESg OF lLllS IOW0J was |
yesterday Second Tuesday in April) reap
pointed Estate Superintendent of Free |
Schools of Delaware" by the Governor.
G. w. BRADFORD, our Photographer, has
gone to Lewes, at the request of friends, to
spend about two weeks in photographing.
AS good an artist never visited Lewes be-
fore, we feel sure.
AT the school election in this town, last
Saturday, Horace r. Mustard was elected
commissioner in the upper Districts and
Geo. w. Taylor was reelected in the lower
Districts. Mr.. Mustard succeeds VIM. A.
Cummins.
FRANK BELL, one of our youths, having
gone to San Francisco to live, has sent us
an account of his trip via the ocean route.
We will publish it next week. We know
that his friends and school mates here will
find it entertaining.
On Easter Monday the following gentle
men were elected Vestrymen of st. Peters
Church, this town: Geo. w. Cummins, DR..
VIM. Cummns, VIM. A. Cummins, Alex. G.
Cummins, j. C. Bailey, Wilson T. Cavender,
Jos. Wright, Robt. Hill, and Jos. Kennedy.
THE steamer Pierrepont was hauled up
last week in Philadelphia and thoroughly
repaired and is again on her route between
Smyrna and that city. She has a new and
larger propeller wheel now which increases
her speed considerably. She is now on for
the whole season right through the Messrs
Tygert say.
Mr.. MANCHA sold two farms last week,
one a farm of 304 acres, two miles east of
Dover, belong to Mrs. C. II. B. Day, to Mr..
L. l. Holt, of New Jersey, for $500; the
other farm of Henry Rowe, on the Mary
land and Delaware Railroad, near Hills
borough, Md, 100 acres, to Mrs. Amanda
Boyle, of Pennsylvania, for 81, 200.
THE Smyrna Building and Loan Associa-
ton held its annual meeting last evening
and elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, John H. Hoffecker; Vice Pres, A.
P. Griffith; Sec'ry, j. B. Cooper; Treas,
James P. Hoffecker; Directors, John H.
Cathcart, Jos. r. FAIRIES, A. G.. Wick
Auditors, Jos. Wright, j. w. Flick, VIM. P.
Legg.
LAST Monday, during the high wind, the
chimney of the house occupied by Garrett
Redman, nearly opposite the old Metho-
dist grave yard in this town, took fire and
the flames communicated to the roof. A
considerable hole was burned through the
shingles before the fire could be extin-
guished. The affair, which occurred about
noon, created lively scare.
LAST Friday evening, about twenty of the
young people of this town, wrapped in
sheets and masked in pillow cases, marched
! from the residence of Jos. FAIRIES to that of
VIM. Worden, after dark. The whited
procession had rather ghostly aspect. At
the latter residence the party unmasked
| an1 for pioh rofrac f0h1 -,
the liveliest manner possible.
| ADvERTIsERs.-Dr R. D. Dashiell, Homeo-
pathic Physician, has located in this town.
S. j. Tolson has received his spring stock
of goods. J. B. Cooper has commenced the
sale of sheet music-all the new songs and
instrumental music issued. Mrs. Lydia
Mcdowell is selling the popular sewing
machine, the Davis; Frank Raymond is
selling paper patterns and picture frames
the Messrs. johnson have supplied Wanna
maker with an invoice of their shoes.
j. HENRY JEFFERSON, of this town, and
Caleb j. Smthers, of Frederick, the execu.
tors named in the will Of the late John
West (they are sonsin-law) have declined
to act, by advice of counsel, and John Har
! rington, of Mispillion HG., has been ap
pointed administrator. The estate is
valued at $4,000. The provisions of the
will made the duties of the executor:
rather complicated, and Hon. \. B. Smither:
advised the selection of an administrator
A CASE OF FoRGERY.-Wm. T. Beck
young man of this town, has surprised anc
panied our community by forging the
names Of responsible citizens and leaving
for parts unknown. The affair came tC
l.uIR Holl
stances A check for 1926 came to thu
Fruit Growers National Bank here, for col
lection, from the First National of Will
mington. The check purported to be from
]. f. Tygert & Co. to J. c. Bowers. Tn,
, check was endorsed on the back by w. T
! Beck, John Merrick and the lst Nationa
Bank of Wilmington. The officers of tn,
new Bank here at once suspicioned tha
the signature of Tygert & Co. was no
genuine, and upon inquiry were assured o
the fact by Mr.. T. 1t seems that BecI
forged the check and went to Merrick's il
Wilmington, and offered it in payment 70
a cheap carriage. Mr.. Merrick declined t.
, accept the check unless young Beck woult
get some responsible person to identify him
q This Beck succeeded in doing-a Mr.. PaI
dee, formerly of Sudlersville, Md, who
knowing the young mans father, at ono
expressed full confidence in the characte
4 of the youth and the genuineness of tn
I check. So Mr.. Merrick gave the carriag
and 1925 in money Tor about that) for tn
check. But Beck left the carriage an
went on to Philadelphia. In fact he di
n not want the carriage; his object wa
f meerly to realize what money he could O
the check. The next day check for 81
also came to the new Bank here from Phils
o delphia for collection. 1t perported to b
i from Henry P. Massey to VIM. T. BecE
d and Beck bought suit of clothing with
i from Yates G. Co., the large establishment
in the Ledger building. Robt. S. Wilds
/ former Smyrnian) one of the head salesme
y for the clothing house, very natural
# accepted the check, as he knew both tn
: holder and giver of it, and believed tn
former to be as square a man as the latte
II But Mr.. Massey's name was forgery, an
it Yates's clothing, like Merricks carrial
it and money, were obtained by forged sign
. lures. The losses, of course fall on thei
{. parties, and not upon the parties hel
70 whose names were forged.
Beck has not since been heard iron
,e Detective Legg, of Wilmington, was hei
!, on Monday looking for him. Yesterda
n | Hiram Tt1fz ha ,,on1cat