Smyrna times., 1910-11-09
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Counties of Delaware About Your
Friends and Neighbors.
The funeral of Jacob Rambo. a re-
tired contractor was held at Elkton
NJ. E. Church Friday afternoon.
James P. Aron has bought James
Wse's residence on north Governor 8
avenue, Dover, for SO, 500.
Oliver Leedum, aged 20 years. of
Bozeman, while tanging for oysters.
off Peck Point lost his balance, fell
off the boat and was drowned.
Hague and Hackett, hardware deal
ers of Still Pond, have applied for
benefit of bankrupt act. Liabilities,
S6452; assets, $4,000.
Kent County School Board has
awarded Grace DeCourse the scholar
ship at st. Mary's Seminary, now
held by her sister Emma.
Bishop W. F. Evans, of the Dio
cese of Easton, visited st. Stephens
Episcopal Church and administered
the rite of confirmation to a class
from Cecilton.
Joseph Berger and Joseph Worm,
Caroline county duck farmers, have
this season shipped IL, 900 ducks to
the New York market, for which they
have received $l2, 000'
George P. Rhoades, one of the
most prominent men in the lower
section of Cecil county, was stricken
with paralysis at his country home,
Locust Hill, and died several hour
iaters.
Frederick Shapleigh, district rep
resentative of the Young Mems
Christian Association, is in Elkton
this week looking into the feasibility
of organizing branch of the asso-
citation in that town.
Edward Tyson Hinsley, a son of
the late Charles E. Hinsley, of Dover,
was married in Washington, D. c.,
TO Miss Bessie Jackson Haley, daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Dallas Haley, of Fauquier county,
Virginia.
George Benn, son of Mrs. Sarah
Benn, of Dover, who left Dover a
few years ago for North Dakota, is
the Democratic nominee for county
judge, and Raymond Robinson of
Charlson, North Dakota, is nor inee
on the same ticket, for county treas
urer.
a number of the friends of Third
Baseman Frank Baker, of the victor
ious Philadelphia Athletic baseball
team, have made arrangements to
give him banquet one evening this
week. Baker and his wife are spend
ing sometime visiting Mrs. Baker s
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Tsch-
antre and Clifford Reynolds, son OF
Tyson Reynolds, of East Cambridge:
Mrs. Agnes S. Shockley, wife ot
William Penn Shockley, of Dover,
died sud lenly Sunday morning, Octo-
Der 30, after an illness which was
treated for some time both at home
and in Philadelphia, and which was
not thought to have been of a fata
nature by many of her friends. The
announcement of her death came as
a shock to her friends of Dover anC
Milford. Deceased was AZ years ole
and leaves three small children, two
boys and a girl. Funeral service:
were held at her late residence, Nortl
Academy square, Tuesday Afternoon
at 2 O'Clock Interment took pl CT
at Milford on Wednesday.
David R. Merritt, known as Della
wares new potato king, was seriousl.
though not fatally injured Monday o
last week when his driving hors'
ran away and wrecked his carriag'
against a tree on State street Dover
Mr.. Merritt recently fell from
wagon and broke his leg. 1t was tn
effort to save the knitting leg an
get from the wagon without injurinI
it that caused his severe injuries
He landed on the good leg and fel
heavily on his head. He was take
to the office of DR.. j. H. Wilso
where under the surgeons treatmen
he recovered sufficiently to be take
home.
Mrs. Emily C. Clark, died at he
home, Main street, Denton, aged
yeas. Mrs. Clark was the daughte
Of the late Thomas M. and Ann CooI
er of Willow Grove, Del. In lSt
she married Peter Truitt Clark,