Smyrna times., 1912-11-27
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
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Interesting Items from all Parts of the
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NeIghbors and their Doings.


Miss Virginia L. Roe has accept
ed a position as principal of the
Townsend High School. She was
formerly principal of the Seaford
High School. q ........
The Delaware Red Cross Society
has been asked by the national body for
assistance in carrying on work in
foreign countries where war is in pro-
gress.
Mrs. L. M. Josephs, formerly of
FELTON,, daughter of the late John
Downham, died at her home in Los
Angeles, California, Sunday, Novem-
Der 10th. Deceased leaves husband
and two daughters.
Arson is suspected in the destruc-
tiOn of a threshing machine outfit,
owned by Hinson Cole, of Church
Hill. The State Fire Marshall has
taken charge of the case and arrest
will soon follow.
B. B. Killman, agent for the
Adams Express Company at Havre
de Grace, has been transferred to
the general Office of the company in
Philadelphia, and j. w. Derrickson
will succeed him.
At an oyster supper held at Allen
Neck, near Elkton, recently, Samuel
Saunders was shot in the arm and
Augustus Green shot in the shoulder
by corlored man named Ross, of
Baltimore, who Immediately made
good his escape.
Mrs. Eben Frazer, fifty Years old,
of Port Deposit, died Sunday, the
18th, in New York. In October,
1911, her son, Joseph, died in South
America leaving a large fortune. In
May last her youngest son, Malcolm,
was killed near Sharon Hill, Pa, in
an automobile accident. Her husband
and an only son, Stanley Frazer,
survive.
A large sanitary cannery, to cost
more than 500, 900, is to be built at
Fruitland, small village near Sails
bury and work will begin at once.
The promoters are Jeff Station, of
Salisbury. William S. Moore, of
Fruitland, Durand Fooks and Clay
ton Dykes, of Nutter district. 1t is
proposed to male this the largest
cannery or the Eastern Shore.
There is movement on foot all
over the country to break up rats !;
farmers lose large sums each year
through them; they are recognized
as the most dangerous carriers of
disease and everyone should make an
effort to exterminate them.
Horse racing and book making at
the Havre de Grace, Md, race track,
is legal, according to the Court of
Appeals of Maryland, which handed
down decision on Monday upholding
the validity of the liberal racing law
passed by the last Legislature.
A crate of strawberries was ship
ped last week by Delaware farmer
to a New York commission merchant,
and the returns netted him 35 cents
quart. They were of the Mission
variety and were as bright and pretty
as they were in strawberry season
last June.
Announcements have been received
for the wedding of Miss Ruth Har-
desty, sister of County Superintend-
ent of Schools, E. ]. Hardesty, of
Georgetown, to Eugene Hardesty,
young lawyer and assistant court
stenographer of Wilmington, at
Georgetown.
Mrs. Minnie E. Douglass, widow of
Col. James E. Douglass, died at
Preston, Md, Monday, November
18th, aged 79 years. She was the
daughter of the late Joseph Mowbray.
Her first husband was Stephen Clark.
She leaves two sons.
AS a result of genuine old fash
ioned gathering of calithumpians and
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the hands of ore of the serenaders,
at Greenwood, last Monday night,
Martin Wiley, aged AZ years, was
seriously shot.
The Hanies Dwelling at the north
west corner of 4Sth street and Spring
field avenue, Philadelphia, which cost
its builder $38, 900, has been pur-
chased for the Philadelphia Methodist
Conference as residence for Bishop
F. Berry, for $25, 900, and it will be
occupied by him and his wife.
That the s34, 600, 600 mark was
passed last month by the disburse-
ments of the relief funds of the
Pennsylvania Railroad System was an
nounced this week. Exactly $34,
119, TIC. II has been paid in benefits
to employees and their families in the