Smyrna times., 1910-05-18
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Best News CuIled From the Three
Counties of Delaware About Your
Friends and Neighbors.
Mrs. Annie E. Smith, mother of
Mrs. j. A. Buckson, died at the
home of her daughter, at Ridgely, on
Monday.
The stables and outbuildings of
John A. Lewis at Cambridge, Md,
were burned Tuesday morning, in
Guiding 81 horses and mules.
Edwin H. Salisbury has sold his
eleven hundred acre farm, near
Dover, for 81, 300, also his farm in
West Dover to Norman Willis, for
$4, $50, and will move to Dover.
Francis S. Downs, of Dover, is
member of this years graduating class
of Princeton Theological Seminary,
at PricetOn, which had its commence
ment on Tuesday.
Simeon Pennewill. of Greenwood
the aged father of Governor Simeon
S. Pennewill and of Chief Justice
Pennewill, of Dover, is growing
weaker from the infrmities of age
and is now confined to his room.
DR.. J. E. Carroll, of Dover, County
Superintendent of Public Schools,
goes to Lansford, Carbon County,
Pa, June Gath, to deliver an address
before the graduating class of the
High School of that town.
Mrs. James Pennewill, Mrs Robert
J. Ferguson, Mrs. Clarence D. Syp-
herd and Mrs. William J. Benson, of
Dover, attended the Bordentown,
N. j., Glass Reunion at the Bellevue
Stratford, Philadelphia, May 18th.
Decoration Day, Monday, May 80,
has been fixed for the formal open-
ing of the new race track belonging
to the Dover Racing Association, and
in which horsemen from all parts of
Kent County are interested and will
participate.
Walter Morris and wife have pre-
sened the Peoples Church, at Dover,
with an individual communion set to
be used in connection with the dedica-
tory services of the church on June
5. The service consists of a silver
pitcher, 240 glases, six trays and two
silver bread plates.
Three carloads of foreigners from
- Philadelphia arrived at Bfidgeville
on Wednesday in anticipation of the
ripening strawberry crops, in the
picking of which they enjoy the fresh
country air in a vacation as we'll as
reap a considerable pecuniary reward
Mr.. and Mrs. James Wise, of
Dover, were in New York last week
to attend the graduation of their son,
James W., Jr., from Columbia
Wise is now associated with the W.
B. Riker wholesale drug firm where
he has been employed for two years.
Mrs. Mariah Sipple, in the goth
year of her age. died on Wednesday
near Dover, after a useful life spent
entirely in Kent county. She was the
widow of Uriah Sipple and a sister
of Mayor Enoch Clark, of Dover
Mrs. Sipple is survive by ten child
en-, living principally in Delaware
and Maryland.
The commencement exercises 0.
the Dover High School will be helc
in the Dover Opera House, Thurs
day evening, June %. Presiden
Swain, of Swarthmore College will
preach the baccaaureate sermon t.
the school at the First Baptis
Church, Sunday morning, June 10.
An officer of the State Fish Com.
mission emptied two cans of shad fir!
in the Nanticoke river at Federals
burg one day last week. Each cal
contained in the heighborhood o
Us, 600 shad, and so, 900 shad in
school at the river bank presented
novel sight to those who witnesse
it.
Government sleuths in Caroline ar
trying to find the trail of thieve
who entered the postoffice at Greens
boro Friday by breaking open tn
back door of the building. destroying
the door of the iron safe by usin
nitro -glycerine and carrying ava
about 5000 in cash and about $4O0 i
stamps.
In making the excavation for
cellar on the premises of Miss Bell
Woolford on Locust street, Cam
bridge, Mr.. Joseph Bell found a skel