Smyrna times., 1897-09-29
PERSONAL.

Miss Adelaide V. Cooke, of Phila-
delphia, came a week ago on visit to
Smyrna friends, guest of Miss Sue r.
Colt. She goes to Dover to-day on a
visit to friends there, returning Sat
urday.
Rev. DR.. John A. Roche and daugh-
ter, Miss Sallie Roche, of New York,
are spending a week in Smyrna, guests
of his niece, Mrs. Mary r. Hoffecker.
He is compelled to return on Saturday,
having important duties to perform at
the Preachers Meeting on Monday in
reference to the recent death of DIR.
Abel Stevens. He has just completed
the life of Mrs. Palmer, so noted for
her religious work, which is now going
through the press. When able to be
out among the people, DIR. Roche has
had many hearty greetings.
The Peninsular Press Association
left on Friday for Washington, where,
near noon on Saturday they started
for Nashville and the exposition there,
stopping over Sunday at Ashville, N.
G. The TIMES was represented by
Miss Bertha L. Hoffecker and Mrs. J.
W. Clifton. There were also from
Smyrna Mrs. Laura V. Temple, DR..
and Mrs. W. F. Corkran, VIM. F.
Dunn, B. A. HAZEL, Franklin Temple
and Rev. G. 1. Stengle, who repre-
sented other publications.
Rev. and Mrs. A. Stengle and Miss
Bertha Stengle were guests of Middle
town friends Saturday and Sunday.
Edgar L. and Ernest Haynes spent
Sunday with their parents.
Roland w. Bell, of the U. S. S. Fern,
was in town from Saturday until Mon
day, guests of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. M. Bell.
r. d. HOffecker, Jr. left this morning
for Brooklyn, N. Y, enrOute via the
Hudson River line to Albany and
thence to Schoharie, N. Y, among the
Catskill Mountains, where he will
visit his old school friend, Joseph B.
Handy.
DIR. Harry Roche Spruance, of Will
mingtOn, was in town yesterday, to see
his uncle DR.. Roche, and daughter.
Being a bright and bracing day, they
took a ride to Dover.
Rev. H. G. Budd, of Perryville, Md,
is the guest of his parents here.
Mrs. Hannah Appleton and daughter,
Miss Belle J. Appleton, of fMiddletown,
are on visit to Smyrna relatives.
Miss Eva COrkran spent from Satur-
day until yesterday with friends in Sea-
ford. Master Sherman Corkran, re-
mains until the return of his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Jefferson.
of ChestertOwn, have been guests OF
Mrs. A. L. Hudson, Jr.
Miss Mary Cahoon has been in Phil
adelphia purchasing her fall stock OF
millinery.
Miss Ella Buckmaster has arrived
home from the Orthopmdic Hospital
and shows aigns of much improvement
being able now to walk around hel
room.
Miss Alice Beck gave a party last
Friday night in honor of her guest
Miss Beatrice Graham, of Washington.
ID. G. The evening was most socially
spent in music and pastimes. The per
forming of mesmerism and the telling
OF ghost stories by dim lamp light was
a thrilling feature of the entertainment
Those present were: Miss Beatrice
Graham, Hettie Richards, Edith Beck
the Misses Katherine and Anna Beck
ett, the Misses Lulu and Alice Beck,
and Messrs. G. Davis Brown, Isaac
Beatty, William Diehl, C. H. LeFevre
Gilbert Jones and DIR. J. Allen John.
son.
Howard r. Jones has been on a few
days trip to Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington.
Mr.. George Jones and sister, Mrs
Lydia Cole, of Wilmington, are guests
of Mrs. NJ. F. Smith at the Chester
House.
J. Frank Denney, of Philadelphia, is
in town to-day.
Miss Beatrice Graham, of Washing.
ton, d. c., who has been making a six
weeks visit in town, left Monday fol
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. FAIRIES have is.
sued invitations to the wedding Of
their daughter, Miss Margaret Sar.
geant, to Henry Virgil Pyle, Tuesday
afternoon, Oct. 18th at one O'Clock.
The wedding will take place at the res.
idence of the parents of the bride
elect.
Mr.. M. Refs, who has been running
a clothing store here for several years.
has quit business and is packing up to
leave for Philadelphia in few DAYS.
Mr.. Refs has shown himself to be q
man of superior qualities and we re-
greet to see him leave the town, and he
and his family have the best wishes OF
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