Smyrna times., 1904-01-27
CLAYTON DEPARTMENT.
CLAYTON.
Items Of Interest Cleaned From the DOings
In and About Town:

ltemS Ol Interest uledne0 FROM tne UOlngs
In and About Town:
Mr.. John L. Shortall Jr. of Phila-
delphIa is visiting his parents.
A party was held at the home of Miss
Ethel Woolford, Friday evening, Jan.
%. The evening was spent in games
and other delightful pastimes. At a
late hour refreshments were served.
State Counsellor Elligood of Ellen
dale visited the Jr. Order United
American Mechanics of this town Mon
day evening and installed the officers
recently elected. The meeting was a
very enjoyable one.
Mr.. W. D. Hudson of near this
place has announced his candidacy for
the Office of Register of Wills of Kent
County at the coming election. He is
a well-known farmer and is popular
with nearly everybody. He has the
promised support and backing of the
leaders and will make lively fight.
Mrs. Mollie Sewell who with her
family of children were all strickn
with measles, and who had the mis-
fortune of losing her son Oliver as a
result of the epidemic, is now lying at
the point of death with an abcess of
the lungs. She has been given assist
ance by the good people of Clayton
who are attending to her comforts as
well as possible,
Owing to the illness of Rev. V. P.
Northrup, pastor, the pulpit of st.
Pau's M. E. Church was filled Sun
day morning and evening by the Rev.
Mr.. Banks, a student of Conference
Academy, Dover, who preached accep.
table to the congregations. Pastor
Northrup has recovered from the mea-
sles but has been threatened since
with pneumonia and is not able to
leave the parsonage. His many
friends are anxious to see him out
again.
Mr.. James Longfellew the we'll
known clerk employed IN Super1nten-
dent Holidays Office in this town.
received the sad intelligence of the
death of his mother Mrs. William
Longfellow of Wyoming which occur
red Monday evening. Mrs. Longfel-
low was stricken with paralysis last
Thursday from which she never recov-
cred. She was aged about seventy
years. Three children, two daughters
and one son survive her Mrs. G. H.
Rawlins, Oxford, Md; Mrs. Laura
MINIS, y J'oolihf1hg, and Mr.. James
Longfellow, Clayton.
Frank Moore, postal clerk on the
Delaware Railroad, was brought to
Clayton Monday to be given medical
attention by DIR. Grier the railroad
surgeon. Clerk Moore was in a mail
car on a siding at State Road when
Train No. SO came laundering by and
struck the mail coach which had not
been pulled far enough up on the sid 4
ing to allow the train a clear passage.
The mail coach was completely demol-
ished and Mr.. Moore was thrown out
and seriously cut. After his wounds
were dressed at Clayton he left for his
home in Philadelphia.
A check of $4S belonging to one Of
the agents on the Delaware Division.
of the P. B. & W. railroad, was stolen
from the safe of the railroad company
at Clayton on Thursday last, and was
not discovered until Friday morning.
Paymaster Robert Clifton, at once not
flied the Dover and Smyrna banks To
keep watch for the check. Friday.
one of the banks in Smyrna notified
Mr.. Clifton that the check had been
presented, but payment withheld. II
was presented by negro giving the
name of William Moore A warrant
mas been issued for his arrest. Moore
when questioned by the bank officers
as to how he came in possession of it.
replied that it had been given him bv
another party, but refused to disclose
VINO the party was.- Wilmington Star.
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impossible to foresee an accident
Not impossible to be prepared for If
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Little Colds" neglected-thousands
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colds-cures big colds too, down to the
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