Smyrna times., 1909-02-10

Miss Mamie GllllS, daughter OF |
Mr.. and Mrs. Allison A. Gillis, and
Frederick A. Grier, Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick A. Grier, all res
idents of Salisbury, were married at
noon on Wednesday. January 9th, at
the home of the BRIDES parents by
the Rev. Mr.. Beale. After a we'd
ding breakfast the bride and groom
left for a bridal tour. The groom
is a grandson of the late George S.
Grisr of Milford, and the bride is
niece of B. E. Gillis of Salisbury.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Foulk. the wife
of Charles T. Foulk of New York |
City, eldest son of Mrs. Walter Par
doe of Milford, Delaware, died at |
their home in that city at an early |
hour on Wednesday morning, Febru- |
ary 3rd. 1903 of pneumonia. The re-
mains were taken to Milford and
funeral services held at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Pardoe on Thursday
evening, Rev. H. l.. Bustein officiat
ing. Interment was made in Odd Eel
lows Cemetery Friday morning.
A very quiet wedding took place
at the home of Mrs. Susan M. Wright
who resides near Frederick, Della
ware. on Wednesday January 9th,
1909, at high noon when her daughter
Mary Marble, became the bride of
David Cannon, Jr., of near FELTON,,
Delaware. Rev. D. F. McFaul of
Wyoming, performed the ceremony,
while the wedding march was played
bv her sister, Mrs. John H. Briggs.
The bride wore a suit of blue cloth
e with a waist of white net, beautiful
= lv trimmed with lace and lace inser-
! tion, and was unattended Following
the ceremony all repaired to the din
f ing room where a dinner was served.
f Rev. Henry K. Miller, pastor OF
= the Urbana Baptist Church, Bath, N,
: Y while preaching last Sunday
, called on the organist to give hin
some quick music and illustrated his
o subject with the square and rounC
Q dance. Shouting, he said, had become
Il obsolete and did not fit in the new
o. theory of the twentieth century; th'
,e church was dying from inactivity
# The pastor did all the talking ant
If praying. The choir did all the sing
d ing while the congregation sat still
,d and died spiritual death. Relegat
m the seats to the gallery where tn
st mourners' bench has preceded them
wax the floor, displace the choir TO
: an orchestra, and let the childre
dance. as they had danced around tn
golden calf when Moses came off {
= Mt. SIM, and in doing this we onl
e anticipate the condition of the Chris
- - tian chrch a generation or so. Rev
- Mr.. Miller is we'll known in KeI
- | County Maryland. d.-Kent News.
ew In the conference on education he
yes under the auspices of the State Fe
the Grafton of Women's Clubs, in Dow
RS. on Thursday last, it developed tn
d. compulsory education is accomplis
mas ing wonders in Delaware. The e
yer rollment of colored schools has
son creased fifteen and two-thirds per ce
of tum, while the total daily attendan
vas in all schools white and colored,
re- from twenty-five to forty per cent?
nee greater than heretofore. This sho
-er. ing is particularly gratifying to t
alt- State educators. when it is rememb,
rer. ed that the negro schools are mu
a.. fewer than the white schools and
- nobody Living more than two mi
from school house is compelled
-' 90. the result would be astonishl
-. we're there better negro school fac
80 ties. Delaware educators have cha
III under the recent arrangement of st
lnI4 - - as to literacy, wherein Delaware
peared twenty-third on the list, e.
behind the half-wild Oklahoma, W
r. all her Indian population. "We '
10y s-s remedy that with compulsory edu
.n;1. -. tion in ten years, said Profes
Pc tnS Spaid, superintendent of New Ca
.4a. ~ county. "By that time this new G
80 80 Grafton of students who are now c
~ - PEELED to attend will be grown
1 the old generation of illiterates
,ISor L., be greatly reduced by father time.
III. - Delaware will go way up in literac
Pres -'--
the An Old Saw Strikes a Nail.
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