Smyrna times., 1897-09-22
PERSONAL.


will be filed in the church here by
Rev. John II. Beauchamp. Presiding
Elder Corkran and Rev. G. I. Stengle,
will leave Friday to join the Peninsula
Press Association on a visit to Nash
vile. Rev. William Hirons, of Dover,
will fill the NJ. E. pulpit in Mr.. STEM
gle's absence, both in Leipsic and at
RaymOnd's.
Mrs. and Rev. T. H. Haynes, Mrs.
Clifton and Miss Clara Bewley at
tended the funeral of Mrs. Jennie Bax-
ter, of FELTON,, at Barratt's Chapel, on
Friday.
Miss Nettie Tschudy, who met with
painful accident while visiting in
Chicago, came home Friday evening.
She is improving and hopes soon to be
herself again.
Francis N. Buck, Esq, U. S. Bank
Inspector, was in Smyrna on Thurs
day.
Francis H. HOffecker, Esq, of Will
mingtOn, was the guest of John H.
HOffecker on Sunday.
Miss Florence G. HAZEL has gone to
JOhnstown, Pa, to take a business po-
sition.
Mr.. VIM. Ryder, who mas been Wis
iting his daughter, Mrs. Clark
Franklin, for the past SIX weeks, re-
turned to Cortland, N. Y, on Mon
day. His daughter accompanied him
as far as Philadelphia.
Mrs. L. Irving Handy, and son,
Irving, of Newark, were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Jas. P. Hoffecker, Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr. W. G. Anthony left on Monday
to enter Drexel Institute, Philadelphia,
to take up a course in mechanic arts.
1t speaks well for the thorough
ness of our High School, when it can
be said he took the rigid entrance ex-
animation without any special prep
Grafton and passed creditably. The
course is three years.
Miss Helen Waters left Monday for
Philadelphia, where she will remain
until to-day, leaving there to enter
upon a course of study at "Bishop-
thorpe" an Episcopal school in South
Bethlehem, Pa.
Herman Pierce left Monday to ac-
cept a position with Strawbridge &
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Mrs. Harry T. Foster and son, of
Philadelphia, are visiting Mrs. Geo.
M. Stevenson.
Rev. Hugh McCaully, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Freehold, n.
j., is visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh McCaulley, at their home
"Fairview," near town.
Miss Bessie Allen, of Wilmington,
is visiting Miss Hettie Megear.
Miss Elizabeth Frazier, of Chester,
Pa, is being entertained by Miss Mary
Anthony.
Mr.. j. Gardner Mariner, accompa-
MED by his friend, DR.. Coperthwait,
of Philadelphia, joined Joseph l..
Beckett, E. Harry Beck and J. E.
Carter on a fishing trip last Wednes-
day. They took a sail in one of
StOkesberry's crafts from Woodland
Beach to Ship John Light. Owing to
the lateness in getting down they
found the tide was not right for fishing
and they didn't find them plentiful
until nearly the time of leaving. They
brought home AZ large bay trout.
Another party, composed of Messrs.
Abel S. FAIRIES, George Goldsborough,
Aaron Marvel, Walter Stokesberry and
Charles Jones, went down to Ship
John the day before and caught 40
fine trout,
The Misses Lille and Sallie Pratt
are on ten days visit to relatives in
Dover.
Mrs. w. F. Dunn and daughter,
Margaret, are at Lewes, Del.
Mr.. W. NJ. Bell and family and Mr..
Ralph G. Hoffecker, who have been
summering at Rehoboth, have re-
turned.
Miss Bertha Smithers leaves to-day
for a visit to Centreville, Md.
Mrs. E. r. FAIRIES and daughter,
Miss May, are visiting in Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. W. B. Megear and family are
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Jacob Leinberger has returned from
a visit to Philadelphia.
Luther Truax, of Philadelphia, has
been visiting his grandmother, Mrs.
Mary Truax.
Mrs. Annie Cummins is visiting in
Philadelphia.
G. Reynolds Stevenson, of Phila-
delphia, spent Sunday with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. M. Stevenson.
Miss S. G. Kreemer, who has been
making an extended visit with Mrs. A..
E. Jardine, has left for Ocean Grove,
New Jersey.
Miss Ella Swinney and neice, Miss
Edith, are visiting in Shiloh, N. J.
Miss Cornelia Refs, who left here
last week to enter Pierce's Busi-
ness College, Philadelphia, passed so
good an examination, as to be put in
the graduating class.
Miss Annie johnson, and Messrs.
Walter Bush, Jr., and Paul McCurdy,
of Wilmington, visited Miss Lottie
Smith last week.
Mrs. Kate Smithers, Mrs. M. e.
Smithers, Miss Emma Wilds, Mrs.
Hervey p. Hall, John A. Hoffecker
and Robert ID. Hoffecker, went
to Dover to-day, to attend the
funeral of DR.. Robert Crockett Hof-
fecker, which takes place this after
noon. The deceased was the youngest
child of the late Daniel @. Hoffecker,
and had graduated in both Pharmacy
and Medicine. He was engaged at his
profession at Cony Island, when taken
sick he started for. the home Of his
sister, Mrs. J. w. Casson, in Dover,
but died at the residence of Mrs. Reg
lister, in Philadelphia, where he had
stopped TO rest He was about thirty
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