Smyrna times., 1916-10-04
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES

NeignporS and ! heir DongS.
The Hon. John Bassatt Moore and
wife arrived in Dover, Friday. He
was called there by the serious illness
of his sister, Mrs. Thomas c. Roe.
Miss Louise Morris, Miss Cora Lee
Moore and Mise Frances Hope. all of |
Dover left Saturday for Syracuse to
enter Syracuse University.
Miss Frances L. Gooden, who has
been in Noyia Scotia, Canada, for the !
past To months. has heen visiting her
sisters, Mrs. Samuel S. Sarde and
Mrs. ]. Evans Cook, IN Camden, this
county, and after hrief stay, will
go to Savannah, Ga. for the winter.
A Wilson democratic Club was or
ganized at Hazlettville, Wednesday
night, with these officers: President,
G. R. Comegys; vice-president, Wes-
ton Smith; secretary. Fred Williams.
Speeches were made by James H.
Hughes, James Lord, Robert Hazlett,
John B. Hutton and Frank Vansant of
Dover.
DR.. William Twilley, of Malaga,
Spain, visited his brother, DR.. ]. M.
Twilley. in Dover recently. He has
been abroad sometime, and has prac-
ticed dentistry in Honolulu, Philippine
Islands and different parts of Spain.
He came back to visit his son, who
is attending school at Chester, Pa.
Most Eminent Sir Knight Lee S.
Smith. grand master of the Grand
Encampment of Knights Templar of
the United States, has been visiting
his brother DR.. Homer J. Smith and
family at Wyoming. He is the high
est Masonic official in the United
States and also has the thirty third
degree in the Ancient Accepted Scot
tish Rite.
Magistrate John B. Wharton has
issued marriage licenses to the FOL
lowing couples during the past week:
Robert j. Raughley. of Wyoming, and
Miss Gladys Johnson, Of FELTON,; And
rev ]. Price and Miss Harriet Waters,
both of Dover; Earl Davis and Miss
Lillian Gourley, both of Dover; Ray
mond P Legar. of Townsend, and Miss
Mary V. Carrow. of Delaware City.
A conference was held on Wednes-
day of last week, of the three county
superintendents of public schools,
Prof. j. E. Carroll, E. ]. Hardesty
and E. Cross, with State Commissioner
of Education Charles A. Wagner and
H. w. Foght, of the Department of
Education at Washington, about school
conditions. Work in this connection
will be taken up in one county, be-
ginning October 5.
Announcements have been received
here of the marriage of Miss Ethel
Gertrude Seward to Mr.. David Thomas
M1rphey, Monday, September 25
1916, at the Church of st. Paul Vim
cent de Paul, Germantown, Pa. The
wedding is announced by Mr.. Emer-
son Seward. brother of the bride.
Miss Seward is we'll known in Dover,
she having been born and lived the
greater part of her life at Cowgirl S
Corner, this county.
Minos Allen, farmer near Bridge
Vile, slipped and fell into a fodder
shredder, which was in operation last
week. His foot is cut entirely off
below the ankle and he received
several cuts and bruises, and one arm
badly lacerated. He was sent tt
Salisbury Hospital as soon as possible
Mr.. Allen and his family were very
unfortunate, as his son has been seri
ously i'll, and his wife in the hospita
most of last year.
After a prolonged illness. Lev
= Scott. of Dover, who formerly con
Quoted a Loockernan street druj
store, died at the home of his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. George M. Scott, Nortl
Bradford street, Friday morning
September %. Mr.. Scott was in hi
10th year of age, and was a membe
of Waneta Tribe, Improved Orde
Red Men and Union Lodge of Masons
both of Dover. The funeral was hel
Sunday afternoon, when intermen
was made at Lakeside Cemetery.
The shortage of paper and the re
sultant increased demand on the fac
tories and mills that are supplying
have almost doubled and trebled thei
former business. That being parti
cularly true of the mills that suppl
the raw material, naturally the Jessu
& Moore Paper Co., Wilmington, Del.
has it's share of the work. AS an ez
ample of the way the mills have bee
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