Smyrna times., 1917-07-25
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Inte resting Items from all Partsof the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
NeIghbors and Their Doings.

lnte resting Items from all Partsof the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
NeIghbors and Their Doings.
Bishop John w. Hamilton, of Was
hington, D. c., will be the principal
speaker at the anniversary services of !
Epworth Church, at Rehoboth Beach,
August 5.
DIR. and Mrs. james Carroll of
Dover, expect to leave next Tuesday
for the Blue Ridge mountains, where
they will probably spend some time,
if the change proves beneficial to DR..
Carroll's health.
Mrs. George Cordrey, aged 46
years, of Laurel, died from blood
poisoning caused by sticking fin in
her finger while cleaning fish a week
ago. Her husband was paralyzed
few weeks ago and is helpless.
Wilmington Lodge of Elks will be
called upon to contribute $500 as it's
share of the $1,000, 900 war fund to
be raised by the Elks in accord with
a resolution adopted by the Grand
Lodge in Boston recently.
Joseph D. Humphrey and Louis A.
Drexler, Jr. s., have passed examination
and have gone to Annapolis. Mr..
Drexler is a son of former State Sem
atOr Louis A. Drexler, of Bethany
Beach.
Mrs. E. B. Londerbough, of Dover,
has received announcement of the
marriage on June II at Junea, Alaska,
of Miss Elizabeth Alice Boyle the
youngest daughter of Col. and Mrs.
A. R. Boyle, formerly of Dover. The
groom is Louis Hawthorne Metzgar
and, they will be at home in Tread
well, Alaska, after August l.
The Board of Pardons, by a vote of
3 to e. refused to recommend COM
mutation of sentence for three negroes
convicted of murder. They will,
therefore, be hanged at Georgetown
on July 27. The condemned men are
William H. Prettyman, Webster Pur-
nell and Adam Harris, and they are
accused of killing Harry Parker, also
colored, at Lewes on September %,
1916.
Captain Andrew j. Dunn, aged sc
years died Saturday night, July IA,
he is survived by his wife and three
children. Captain Dunn was one Of
the last of the old bay dredge cap
tains. Captain Dunn went into the
mercantile buiness first at Cokeland
this county, but later he removed tt
Cambridge, where he was a merchan
until a short time ago when failing
health caused him to retire.
II Robert D. Simmons, of the clerica
= force of the Dover Postoffice, and VIII
| served in the Spanish American Wa
| as First Lieutenant of the Natlona
Guard of Delaware was notified Thurs
| day by Governor Townsend that
n commission of First Lieutenant woul
be rendered him if he would accep
the same. The offer has been &C
| cepted by Mr.. Simmons. 1t is pro
| bable that Lieutenant Simmons wi
n be assigned to the new Kent Count
II Militia in the Third Battalion.
Ill Wesley Webb represented the Stat
| Board of Agriculture at a meeting {
= the Executive Committee of the M
| tional Association of Agriculture
II Commissioners in Washington on MOI
day of last week. The Committe
| made plans for it's annual meeting
n be held in Washington on October IL
| and adopted resolutions assuring Pre-
| ident Wilson, Secretary Houston al
Food Commissioner Hoover of the
approval and active support of Il
n program of food production, conse
walton and distribution. At thr
O'Clock by appointment the membe
Of the committee called upon Il
President at the White House.
Dover Council, No 81, Jr. o.
A. M. has elected the following off
ers for the ensuing SIX months: Cou
cilor, Walter W. Rash; viee-cou
cilor, Robert E. Lewis; recordi
secretary, H. C. Taylor, Zone year
assistant recording secretary, Robe
]. Ferguson; financial secretary.
E. Palmatary. Zone year;) treasure
w. Ross Jones, Zone year,; condu
tpr, Walter l.. Stewart; warden, W
lard M. Hinkle; inside sentinel, Y
C. Boyer; outside sentinel, Geor
Holt; Jr. Past Councillor, 7. DraI
Gruwell; trustee for eighteen month
w. G.. Boyer; Chaplain. L. E. Ph
lips.
l.. At Senator Wolcott's new re
dence, in Dover is being
stalled by MIR. Allen ]. Good, fo
noan for Raird- Oaterhourt Co al,