Smyrna times., 1902-02-26
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL,
People Who Come and Go
= and their Social Doings.

tor of the Ell Dorado Republican.
Kansas City, Mo-, well-known by
many IN Smyrna, who some twenty
years ago came here and married Miss
Nettie Culbreth, of Dover, is now one
OF the leading public men and iufuen-
tial editors of the middle west. Just
now he is in the public eye for sug-
gestlng ticket for the next Presiden-
tial campaign with Roosevelt and
Funston as the standard bearers: ''For
President-Ted; for Vice President
Fred; Platform-spread."
Mrs. Margaret FAIRIES Pyle, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. FAIRIES of
this town, will change her residence
the first of the week from Wilmington
to Camden, N. J. Her husband, MIR.
Harry Virgil Pyle, who has been a
trustworthy bookkeeper at the Edge
Moor Iron Works for several years, has
accepted better and more lucrative
position with a large ship building firm
of Camden, N. J.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard D. Taylor, of |
Camden, N. j., have been visiting his |
mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Taylor. He |
returned Monday morning, but his
wife remained for longer visit
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Fawley,
(nee Miss Nellie Legg) of Chester, Pa,
were guests over Washlngton's Birth
day and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
w. P. Legg.
Mr.. Charles Burgess, of Centreville,
Nd, has returned from a short visit
to DR.. and Mrs. J. W. Clifton.
M. Thomas Jones, of Wilmington.
is home on sick leave with his parents,
Constable and Mrs Charles Jones.
Captain Joshua Davis and wife, of
Camden, N. j., have been visitors in
Smyrna the past week.
, Henry G. Conrad, Esq, of Whining
? ton, who is we'll known in Smyrna
2 and has been a frequent visitor at
8 belmont Hail." the home of Mrs.
Caroline Peterson-Speakman had
miraculous escape from cremation in
the Park Avenue Hotel in New York
= City early Saturday morning. Crawl
ing inch by inch on cOrnice fifteen
e inches wide and about one hundred
feet in the air, thence down a scaling
ladder twelve feet to another ladder,
: and then down to the ground, was his
thrilling and terrifying experience.
l Mr.. Conrad considers himself very
e fortunate to have escaped with his life
T for his cousin and room mate, Lee c.
: Conrad, of New York, lost his life.
He lay burning in a room while Mr..
Conrad was making his escape down
> the scaling ladder held by brave fire.
y men. Mr.. Conrad had been attending
r the meeting and dinner of the Del
y aware Society in New York, and he
N went with his cousin to the Park Ave
y nue. Hotel to spend the night. They
were assigned to a room on the fftl
floor.
to Messrs. Gilbert s. Jones, ROLAND
y Carr and Charles Williams of Whining
D. ton, were home WashingtOn's Birth
N day and Sunday.
s. DIR. l.. o. Waller, formerly a well
k. known jeweler of this town, but now
g dentist in Philadelphia, has beel
elected school director in the Mint
Ward. He was the only Democrat AM
=. ran ahead of his ticket. The term O
" ~. Office is three years.
VI Mrs. W. H. Money, and Mrs Isaa
''' Stats, of Townsend, returned thi
~ morning after visit to Mrs. Mary Z
% Voshell.
on Miss Gertrude o. Smith, attende
~ with her brother, Mr.. A. Homer Smitl
~ 1u a brilliant Assembly Dance in Philt
al deIphia, last evening, given by tn
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
The Literary Society of the Smyrr
High School, met Friday Afternoon
E. and rendered short but interestin
nd program. Mr.. Oswald Denney res
of the Minutes Miss May York res
of a selection entitled ga Baby in IL
of Church." Miss Daisy Sutton recitt
ff- "At the Crossing" and the Scho
Ir. Journal, was edited by Master Baynal
eat Fowler, assisted by Miss Julia Weldo
has Miss Jessie Ackerman, missionar
is and temperance worker, well-known
cad Smyrna, is to marry Russian nobl
man and live in Russia. The engag
ment is said to be the outcome of
hot romance, the nobleman having saw
,f,1 her from murder at the hands of mt
nd of Russian peasants.
~ Colonel Napoleon Bonapart Knigf
oan who recently visited his half broth
oaa H. L. Knight of Dover and was
,ars Smyrna, one day, guest of the Miss
e-h Commins at "Woodlawn," died su
denly in his hotel room in Sale
and Oregon, on last Monday, the 18th ins
- aged GA years. Colonel Knight,