Smyrna times., 1898-11-02
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.
People Who Come and Go and Their Social
DOings.

John b. Wharton, the Republican
candidate for Sheriff of Kent county,
spent yesterday in Smyrna, the first
visit since his nomination, and it so
happened that David H. Knots, the
candidate for Coroner, neither know
ing nothing of the movements of
the other, was also in Smyrna
yesterday. They were both cheerful
and bright as to the prospects of cleo
ton, and think there will be some as
tonishing revelations in places in the
county as to the ballot, and say ''vic-
tory is in the air.
Of the several hundred people of this
vicinity who put in last week in Phila-
delphia, were Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. H.
Baggs, the only ones we believe, who
attended the reception of President
Mckinley on Thursday evening at the
Academy of Music. Mr.. and Mrs.
W. o. Hoffecker did not return until
Monday night. Among the above not
heretofore named were, f. E. Postles
and wife, John p. Collins and daugh-
ter, Fannie, Miss Maggie Collins, Mrs.
Annie Cummins, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. III.
Register and Baynard Fowler, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. G.. Pierce, Mr.. and Mrs. l..
p. Campbell, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Slaughter, Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Truax.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Stevens, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. E. Carter, Mr.. and Mrs. Jos.
r. Jefferson and son, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
q. Jardine, Mrs. A. H. Smith, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jos. HI. Primrose, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Fl. Sithens and daughter. John
LeFevre, Harvey FAIRIES and others.
Mrs. Emma Myers, of Philadelphia,
is on a week or twO's visit to her sis
ters.
Mrs. Alice Bailey is visiting Mrs.
Laura Temple.
Miss Dora Wilds, of Dover, stopped
over with Miss Bertha Smithers Mon
day evening, on her return from Phila-
delphia, where she had been attending
the Peace Jubilee.
Miss Maie FAIRIES, who is assisting
her brother, DIR. Clarence II. FAIRIES,
at Narbeth, Pa, is home on a short
visit.
Roland W. Bell spent Sunday with
his sister, Mrs. l.. Irving Handy, at
Newark, Del.
DR.. W. F. Goodwin and daughter,
Mamie made the family of r. d. Hof-
fecker a short visit last week, while
en- route from Milford to their home at
ReistertOwn, near Baltimore, Nd.
Mr.. Abel Taylor, one of our we'll
known citizens, has accepted a posi-
ton IN the Clarksville, Tenn. Branch
OF the Atlantic Snuff Co., of which Mr..
B. A. HAZEL is manager, and left on
Monday to enter upon his duties. He
will be followed by his wife in a few
weeks.
Cards are out announcing the mar
rlage of Miss Eta Lusby Benson and
Mr.. Thomas Hubert Wood, at the
home of the bride, 619 North Eigh-
teenth street, Philadelphia, on We'd
nesday evening, Nov. 10Th. These
parties are we'll known, former resi-
dents of this vicinity. The bride is
the daughter of Capt. Joseph Benson,
OF the Bombay Hook Light House and
the groom, a son of the late William
Wood, of Blackbird Hundred.
Mrs. Robert Stott and Miss Eva
Bitter have been elected delegates by
the Presbyterian Christian Endeavor
Society to represent them at the State
Convention to be held in Wilmington
this month The alternates to the above
delegates were elected as follows: Mrs.
S. j. Reynolds aud Miss Lucy Taylor.
John W. Causey, of Milford, VIM.
Denney, of Dover, and W. A. FAIRIES,
of Smyrna, of the Kent County Mu-
tual Insurance Company, have been
this week examining the property of
this town and vicinity.
Mrs. Katherine Deakyne and son
Oscar, of Brooklyn, N. Y, ,'came last
week, guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Cosgriff. Mr.. Oscar Deakyne returned
Monday morning and left his mother
here to make n visit
Ralph Waldo Emerson, editor of the
american Union, of Denton, Nd, ac-
companied by his wife, spent Sunday
in Smyrna, guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Pennewill.
H. B. Grieves, G. B. Raymond, Ben
ton n. Weldon, Hirons Denney and
George M. Stevenson, members of
Harmony Lodge No. 13, A. f. and A.
M, accompanied by G. H. LeFevre, a
Pennsylvania Mason visited Union
Lodge, No. z, of Dover last evening,
to witness the raising of their friend,
DIR. Frank Layton Grier, formerly of
Smyrna. After the meeting of the
lodge, the Smyrna contingency were
entertained at Smiths restaurant.
j. Nelson Patton, Chief Quarter
Master on the U. S. Steamship Sat
urn stopped in Smyrna last week,
guest of the family of DIR. G. o. Swim
ney on a short furlough en- route to
New York where he will spend week
or so with his parents. The Saturn
is now in dock at Norfolk, Va.