Smyrna times., 1910-06-22

FTienuS ana NeIghbOrS.
Nathaniel B. Smithers. son of Mrs
Walter Morris, of Dover, graduated
in law at the George Washington
University at Washington, D. c.,
last week.
The official board of Snow Hill,
Md, NJ. E. Church, has extended
an invitation to the Wilmington NJ.
f. Conference to hold its next ses-
sion there.
Mr., Romulus Hokpins, of Dover,
went to Sharptown, Md. Wednesday
TO attend the funeral of Letha, the
three-year- old daughter of her sister,
Mrs. John Smith.
Loadman Honey, Jr.. was shot by
Henry Harris, colored, Saturday
at Dover, while quarreling over a
crap game. The bullet was removed
from Honey's head by DR.. Davis.
Governor Pennewill has commuted
the death sentence to life imprison-
ment for Carmen Riesso, the Italian
slayer of William Kidd, Jr., as
recommended by the Board of Pard-
ons.
Eugene Raughley has purchased
hundred foot building lot of ex-Chan-
cellor John R. Nicholson and will
build a residence on North State
Street, Dover, and move his family
from Philadelphia.
Governor Pennewill has appointed
Mrs. Henry Ridgely and Alexander
NJ. DAILY, Dover; Mrs. James
Anthony, Smyrna; Alexander P
Corbit, Odessa and Arthur L. Bailey.
Wilmington. members of the State
Library Commission.
Oyster Revenue Collector J. Burt
on Wharton and Thomas P. Davis
went out on the guard boat Monday
and caught 3O6 trout fish that
averaged % pounds each. One day
last week William H. Reed and
Captain Thomas Muncey caught $50
that averaged pounds each. This
surely is fine fishing.
Ex-senator and Mrs. Richard R.
Kenney, of Dover, attended the COM
mencement exercises of Lehigh
University, at Bethlehem, Pa,
where their son, Caleb, graduated
last week. By a vote, Caleb was
honored as the most popular man of
mis- class.
Mrs. John Behen, Sr., and Miss
Katherine Kirsch, of Dover, attended
th4 commencement exercises last
Tuesday at ST. Gertrude's Academy,
Ridgely, Md, where Miss Anna
Behen was awarded as prize a gold
medal for composition.
After terrible suffering, Addie,
the 14-year-old daughter of John L.
Stevens of Denton. Md, died of
ockjaw on Friday, June 10. She
was riding in a carriage with her
father when a stick in the road was
caught in one of the wheels of the
carriage and hurled against her A
painful injury was inflicted. Despite
prompt and careful surgical treat
ment, tetanus developed late in the
week
J. Lawrence Freeman and Mrs.
Bessie James, of Dover. the BRIDE
groom a well-known business man
were married Wednesday afternoon
Of last week at the home of the
bridegroom 8 uncle, the Rev. Harry
Taylor, at St. Georges parsonage.
The new Catholic Church at Mil
ford, known as st. Johns Church,
will be dedicated on Sunday June 26.
Father Waldron the pastor, is now
planning the program for the cere-
monies and it is expected that the
Bishop of the diocese and the vicar
general will attend.
= " Lue DeB llliiillS VI tii0 "0SN
the strawberry shipments over the
Delaware Railroad amounted to
over eighteen million quarts, which
indicates that the total shipments
this year will exceed twenty millions
Of quarts. The average cash price
to the growers at the railroad station
will be nearly seven cents per quart,
which will amount to 81, 400, 900.
There has been a number of remark
able yields and among them is that
Of J. B. Aiken, whose farm adjoins
the State College, near Dover.
From his patch of one acre and one
perch he has cleared s218.50. The
entire crop was sold through the local
branch Of the Delaware Produce Ex-