Smyrna times., 1905-06-21
NEWS Of THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEwSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH.
Erred FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Cleaning Gathered From all Parts OF the State
About Your Friends and NeigbbOrs and
Their Doing During the Week.

About Your Friends and NeigbbOrs and
Their Doing During the Week.
G. Benjamin Hoey, who graduated
at the Conference Academy last week,
having been appointed second alter.
nate for entrance in the U. S. Navy,
went to Annapolis, Nd, Monday
20 take the examination.
The Board of Education of the Do
yer Public Schools has decided to
close the schools one week earlier than
was anticipated. The schools will now
close Friday, June23, and the gradu-
ating exercises will be held in the
Dover Opera House, June %.
The engagement has just been an
nounced of Miss Augusta Friedman,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Friedman, to Jacob W. Goodman. MIR.
Goodman is one of the leading cloth
ing merchants of Dover and Miss
Friedman has large circle of friends
here.
A Philadelphia concern has been
chartered at Dover for the purpose of
exterminating rats, mice and insects.
1t is the Youells Exterminating Com
pany, with a capital stock of 5000,
to manufacture chemical compounds
for the determination of these pests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Roehm have is
sued cards for the marriage of their
daughter, Theresa W., to Mr.. Harry
J. Downey, of Middletown. The GER
anony will take place at the residence
of the brides parents, 2O6 North Van
Buren Street, Wilmington, on Thurs
day evening, June 22d, at eight o'clock.
Among the graduates OF the Goldey
College this week were the following
from Kent County: Ernest D. Oldfeld,
Dover; Anna Brooke Wilcutts and Jo-
seph A. Kilcoyne, Frederick; j. Bay
ard Cook, FELTON,; G. Huesman, Mag
nolia; Hay Tune Bald and B. T. Gallo
way, Harrington.
Lillian, the little adopted daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Scott Forbes, of
Dover, was badly bitten Wednesday
by dog owned by Robert Carty. The
little girl went into Mr.. Carty's yard
to play with the baby and was attacked
by the dog in the presence of the fam
lily. 1t leaped at the child and made q
bad wound on her cheek.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ellsworth
Field, of Media, Pa, have issued an
nouncements of the marriage of their
daughter, Grace Belle to Mr.. r. Louis
Naudain, of near Middletown. The
marriage took place on June 5th. The
young couple will be at home 1923 Tat
nall Street, Wilmington, after the 18th
instant.
At the reopening of the bids fol
printing the laws Thursday, the con
tract was awarded to the Delawareal
Printing Co., of Dover, at $f.7O pc
page or 1885 for the entire book, esti
mated at $50 pages. Bids for printing
the General Corporation lawss ant
other bids which were not submitted
at the opening of the regular bids oil
May Goth. will be opened on Tuesds.
next.
The 200th anniversary of st. Anne
P. E. Church near Middletown, vii
be celebrated on June 25. The churc
was built in 1905, in the reign of Queel
Anne. The latter worked her initial
in an altar cloth for the church. Thes
initials have been preserved and adorI
the present altar covering. An inter
esting program of exercises is bein
arranged for the occasion.
Greenbaum Brothers, Gamers, G
Seaford, have had one of the most sue
cessful seasons for the packing OF pea
in the history of their plant. Durin
one days pack they put up 255,OO
cans. The highest days pack pre-
vious to that was 231, 900 cans. L
four days they put up nearly 1,OOO,OC
cans, which eclipses anything in pach
ing pass. Four hundred hands al
employed during the busiest season.
Among the graduates of Deli
ware College this year are t"
well known young men OF Dove
who have pursued an electrical el
gineering course. They are Thomi
Marvel Gooden, Jr., and Manlo'
Hayes Wilson. Linfred L. Cooper an
George NJ. Fisher, Jr., of Wyoming
are graduates in the Latin scientif
course. Harry W. Lyndall, Wyomir
graduate in the civil engineerir
course. J. Leonard Soper Of Ma
nolia, graduates in the agricultur
course.