Smyrna times., 1910-06-08
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Counties of Delaware About Your
Friends and Neighbors.
The excursion steamer Thomas
Clyde that run fom Philadelphia to
Woodland Beach for years, will run
this season to Augustine Pier.
Edwin H. Salisbury, of Dover,
who sold his farm near Dover, to MIR. |
Anderson, a retired Naval officer of |
Freeport, Long Island, has purchased !
a farm near Viola and moved to it.
At a meeting of Dover Camp,
Modern Woodmen of America, held |
in Dover, it was decided to take
over the membership and property of |
the Wyoming Camp, which was about !
to disband.
A severe electrical storm visited
Dover on last Tuesday evening.
Lightning struck the weather vane
on the Hotel Richardson also the
barn on the farm of Frank Ames,
west of Dover.
W. Edward German, of Delmar,
drank carbolic acid by mistake Mon
day and died shortly after reaching
a drug store. He was 81 years of
age and member of the A. o. U.
W. and P. o. S. of A.
A. G. Wolcott, of Dover, has sold
the Lockerman street property, he
recently purchased Of T. K. Jones,
to Edward j. Scanlon, and has pur-
chased of T. L. Hardesty the vacant
Cahoon lot upon which he will erect
storehouse for himself.
Ex-senator j. Frank Alice, and
party composed of Postmaster D. c.
Alice, Messrs. William P. Satterfeld
and ]. S. Burton, all of Dover, made
a trip to Washington in the Sena-
tr's automobile last week.
Milford's s new delivery of mail was
inaugurated Wednesday morning. The
carriers, Roy Bennett and Charles
Kespert, are now becoming used to
their new duties. 1t is noticed now
that there is not such large crowd
at the postoffice during the distribu-
tion of mail.
At a meeting of the vestry of St.
Likes Episcopal Church at Seaford,
Rev. Ethebert H. j. Andrews was
unanimously elected to the vacant
rectorship of the church. 1t is not
known whether Mr.. Andrews, who is
now filling the temporary rectorship
at Milford, will accept.
The Pennsylvania Railroad reports
that during the month of April an
average of more than $4,000 day was
paid to members unable to work,
and the families of members who
died On the lines east of Pitts
burg and Erie, payments to the amount
of $l42, 344 were made by the Relief
Fund.
The managers of Wye Camp have
fixed the date of July 1925 for the
encampment this year. Arrange
ments are being made TO have many
new faces among the ministers who
will preach during the ten days.
Rev. John Clark, the N. Y. P. and
n. railroad evangelist will conduct
the evangelistic services.
Stiles o. Clements, we'll known
young architect, of Dover, sailed
from Philadelphia Saturday last on
the Merton. He will spend six or
eight months abroad, during which
time he win visit England, Belgium,
France, Spain, Italy and Switzer-
land, studying the architecture Of
these countries ard gathering new
ideas.
DR.. Homer j. Smith, of the Ma
tional Light and Power Company, o1
Cleveland, Ohio, is in Maryland, max
ing arrangements for gas plants fol
Chestercown and Centreville. Ht
has secured a franchise from thu
commissioners and will give an in
demnity bond when the company i
organized. Gas will be made from
crude petroleum and sell for 81. so pc
thousand feet. He expects to begi
at once.
Edgar Charles Maloney, son 0
Sheriff William E. Maloney, o
Dover, and Miss Lena Collins Wilson
daughter of the late Robert H. Viii
son, were married at the residenc
of her brother, R. Harry Wilson. o
the Bay Road, at noon Wednesday
The ceremony was performed in tn
presence of the two immediate fan
lilies by the Rev. w. F. Dawson
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