Smyrna times., 1899-12-13
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL,
People Who Come and Go
- and their Social Doings

Mrs. Ella Griffith received telegram
from California stating that Miss Mary
W. Thompson and Rev. S. L. Gracey,
had arrived safely on the Pacific Coast
and are now on their way to Smyrna.
They will probably reach here ON Sat-
urday.
Rev. J. L. Estlin, pastor of the Pres
byterian church, attended banquet at
West Chester, Pa, Monday night,
given under the auspices of the West
Chester, Lodge, A. F. and A. NJ, No.
240, and presumably made them an ad-
dress. Mrs. Estlin and daughter, Miss
Marie, are visiting in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Thomas Cruikshank, of Cecil
county, Md, and Misses Elizabeth
Ford and Ellen Ford, of Camden, n.
j., are guests of Rev. and Mrs. G. A.
Hill at the NJ. E. Parsonage.
W. L. Collins, of Camden, n. j..
formerly a resident of this vicinity,
and uncle of VIM F. Collins, of Ches-
void, has been on a visit to friends in
this section and Dover the past week.
Elder E. Rittenhouse, of State Road,
who will reach his 80th anniversary be-
tween now and the Christmas holidays,
filled his regular monthly appointment
at Bryn Zion church on the 3rd of this
month.
In addition to the regular music at
the Methodist church Sunday evening,
were two solos by visitors-Ernest
Haynes, of Wilmington, singing bass
solo before the second hymn, and Miss
Elizabeth Ford, of Camden, n. j., the
23rd Psalm, set to music-'"The Lord
is My Shepherd.
Misses Margaret and Bessie Hance,
of Philadelphia, have returned home
from a week or two's visit to their
aunt, Mrs. w. o. Hoffecker.
Miss Blanch Layfeld and Miss Agnes
Carrow have been elected members OF
the NJ. E. choir.
Congressman Hoffecker came home
Saturday, but returned to Washington
on the first train Monday. There are
nearly dozen congressman boarding
at the hotel where he is making his
home-The Cochran.
Mrs. Elizabeth II. johnson aud
daughters, Blanche and Mary, will
leave tomorrow afternoon for Mem
phis, Tenn, on a visit to her sister,
Mrs. j. Harry Jefferson. where they
will spend the winter and probably
the spring, until the approach of warm
weather.
Miss Louise E. Baldwin, of Brook.
lyn, N. Y, is being entertained by heI
aunt, Mrs. John H. Hoffecker.
Mrs. j. l.. Beckett is visiting hel
Germantown, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Virginia Culbertson, of Will
mington, has been entertained the pas
week by Mrs. E. H. Hynson and Mrs
Joseph Smithers.
Mrs. Mary J. Cosden and Miss Annie
Miffiin, of Wilmington, are guests o
Mrs. Geo. NJ. Stevenson.
The wedding of Miss Mary F. Boye
and Mr.. H AIRY David is announced t
take place next Wednesday, Dec. 20tl
at the residence of her sister, Mrs. W
IL. Carey, near Leipsic.
Mr.. Thomas Wallace, of Canterbury
| Ia brother of Mrs. Moses Price,, ant
W. E. Waters and daughters Estell
and Helen, of Philadelphia, were pres
ent yesterday at the funeral of Mrs
Price.
Mr.. Ross E. Counselman has change,
his residence to Houston, where hi
wife has been sick for several months
Miss Margaret Stockly is visiting il
Washington, d. G.
Miss Ethel Cooper is in Philadel
phia.
Miss Carrie Counselman is visitini
in New York.
Miss Margaret Ferguson of Dover
has been entertained by Miss Ari
Hynson.
The Tuesday Club was entertaine
last evening by the Misses Tschudy.
W. M. Lewis of this town, and e. R
Sipple of Clayton. are enjoying a gun
ming trip in the lower part of Dels
ware.
Miss Nan Start has accepted pos
ton in Chester, Pa.
Mr.. Fred 1. Spencer of Oxford Va
ley, it visiting Mrs. Alex FAIRIES.