Smyrna times., 1909-02-10


Monday and Tuesday, February 15
and 16. The session of the State
Council will meet on Monday night.
Miss Jennie Buell., daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Buell., and
Jonathan Willis Hall, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Hall, both of Milford,
were quietly married by the Rev.
James Carroll, at his home in North
Milford, on Saturday evening, Janu-
ary 3Oth, 1909. Mr.. and Mrs. Hall
make their home in Milford.
The Beeks farm of 1876 acres, i'm
proved by a brick mansion house,
frame tenant house, barn, ETC., on
the road from CeciltOn to Warwick,
was sold in Middletown, Thursday,
by Jesse L. Shepherd, execOtor Of
Mary E. Beeks, deceased, to Mary |
w. Caulk wife of J. Fletcher Caulk,
for $11, 025.
Dover Masons have completed ar
rangements for their Washington S
Birthday celebration, which will be
held at the Hotel Richardson Monday
evening, February 22nd. The reception
committee will be composed of Mrs.
Henry l. Beers, Mrs. Cecil C. Fulton,
Mrs. Robert Stott, Mrs. Frank c.
Bancroft, Mrs. George NJ. Jones, Mrs.
William P. Satterfeld, Mrs. George
w. Tebo, Miss Ida Hope and Miss
Mary H. Pritchett. A company of
musical performers have been secured
as entertainers.
When the battleship Delaware
Participates in State occasions or eX-
changes compliments with foreign
powers she will have a handsome
stand of colors to display, the gift OF
the State D. A. r. The Secretary of
the Navy will of course, be asked II
he will accept the gift, but the re-
quest is likely to be merely cour-
tesy, as other battleships have been
> presented with colors by the D. A.
| R. of the States for which they were
named The Delaware will receive
three flags, Old Glory, the naval
battalion ensign, and flag bearing
8 the coats of arms of Delaware. The
, last named was the suggestion OF
, Mrs. George c. Hall, regent 'ot
i Caesar Rodney Chapter, who said
i, that she wanted the State represented
by it's arms when the battleship is OF
! dress parade. The flags will cos
q S175.
ST. Michaels and All Angels Epis
copal Church. Baltimore was the sceu
of a very quiet and pretty weddin
er Saturday afternoon at o'clock whe
r, Miss Katharine May Alton and Prof
ne Oliver Clark Short were united i
ay marriage by the Rector, Rev. job
Y. G.. Muarry. The ceremony was so
IS emnized i'll the presence of a fe
OF witnesses only, friends and relative
at of the bride Miss Alton is Il
Id youngest daughter of Mr.. and Mr.
at Walter H. Alton, of Parran, Md
and for the past three years hi
h been the primary teacher in Dow
ed Public Schools. Mr.. Short is 81
in of Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Short
NO Georgetown and three years ago W
ID high school teacher at Dover; at pr
,ho sent he is mathematics and scien
NO instructor of the high school at Saye
list Pa. After the young couple left Ba
ill imore for their future home at SayC
ce, After several weeks illness M
on Martha Finley, the widely know
er- author, died at her home in ElktC
Md, aged 80 years. Miss Finley v
D of Irish ancestry, her father bel
Roo DIR. James Brown Finley. She Y
,h;o born at ChiHicothe, Ohio, on Ar
80 26th, 1928. Her girlhood was sp
- at South Blend, Ind, where she
aii ceived an excellent education in I
Lo+ vate schools. In her younger d
'on she taught in private schools and
auently entertained the little pul
: - with stories which were doubtless
oa5 nucleus of tales published in Ia
- years. The Elsie books made N
Finley famous and in later years
dictated her terms to the publish
lave of all her works. She waspa mem
and of the Authors Club of New Y
on City and liberal giver to the P
and byterian Church of Elkton and
anna poor of the town.
the Tho Do1oworo Fire Insurance G
'ne pany has decided to discontinue b
anu ness and has reinsured all its
'r'Sl standing premiums with the Hart
'wuS Fire Insurance Company, of H
ans ford, Conn. Agents have been
al ~ structed to return theirpolicies,
,ueu missions of authority, and sAate
lea"' censes, and render their acco
'Si"s current for all premiums wri
since the last report. The Della
D., has is retiring with unimpaired cal
Com and the above is necessary in (