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Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
HOME FOR COLLEGE PRESIDENT

Board of Trustees of Delaware College
Considering Buying the Curtis Property
A special meeting of the trustees
of Delaware College will be held next
Saturday in the Hotel DUPONT, Will
mington, to consider the purchase OF
the Walter c. Curtis property, Ihe
Knoll" corner of Depot Road ana
Delaware avenue, Newark, as home
of the president Of the college, Dr'
Samuel C. Mitchell. The committee
on grounds and buildings, OF wnicn
H Rodney Sharp is chairman Will
recommend the purchase of the pro-
perty. The committee has an option
ON the place, and the price is said TO
he SIG. 600. "The Knoll, q" which
for MANY years was the home of the
late Minot C. Curtis, a members OF
the Curtis and Brother Paper Company
and father of the present owner is
one of the finest estates 10 Newark
The house is surrounded by beauti-
full lawn and grounds comprising TWO
and a quarter acres. 1t overlook'
Wolf Hall, recently erected. and tn'
new campus. purchased two years
AGO. If it is bought by the college
IL Is probable President Mitchell vii
occupy il in few weeks after som
minor improvements are made.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
SMYRNA HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Freshmen Given a Reception Friday
Night-PIaY Ground Innovations

Freshmen Given a Reception Friday
Night-Play Ground Innovations
Friday afternoon the High School
held its first literary society meeting
for the year A fine program consist
ing of debates, piano solos, readings,
recitations and essays was rendered.
The next meeting of the society will
be held in the Club House Friday
evening, October II. To this the
public is given a special invitation.
A patriotic Columbus Day program
will be given. One feature of the
program will be a debate for and
against the Ford A tableau.
"Wrap- the Flag Around Me Boys, "
and the singing of ''HarK America, "
will be among the other features.
Parents will please keep in mind that
this program is given first as an edu-
cational training and second as enter
tainment. Friday evening the MEM
bers Of the Sophomore. Junior and
Senior classes gave a reception to the
Freshmen class. A very pleasant time
was enjoyed. The third grade had
the highest per cent of attendance fol
the first month, an average OF ~. 70
per cent, The fifth grade was second
average 90. 81 per cent. 1t is hopec
now that most of the work for the
: pupils at home is finished that the pei
centage of attendance will be SO pc
! cent for the school. Miss HUM tool
charge of the music yesterday and tn
children were all very much please'
with her splendid work. SeVera
swings are now being made for tn
play ground which the children VIII
] soon enjoy. Two volley balls hav
: been purchased by the Parent-Teach
ers' association also.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
SCHOOL BOARD ADDS NEW
COURSES TO CURRICULUM
AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECON
OMICs TO BE TAUGHT HERE
Board of Education Takes Advantage
of the Smith-Hughes Federal Act
Along With Other Towns

At a meeting of the Smyrna School
Board last week it was decided to in
troduce a course in agriculture and
home economics as provided in the
Smith Hughes Act of Congress. The
action was in line with a number of
other public schools of the state who
have voted for the same courses. Re
Gently the State Board of Education
had the act explained to them by
Commissioner of Education Arthur K.
Spaid and DR.. H. Il. Hayward of Del
aware College, and Charles H. Le-
Fevre, Esq. 1t was pointed out that
for the agricultural course prescribed
work for six months developing 30
hours q week and all school work, one
half time actual work on farm in car
rying out projects and experiments.
This time may be shortened by the
federal boards for towns with less
than 25, 900 population. Those schools
choosing manual training and home
economics must work nine months
in the year with 80 hours a week and
one-half of time devoted to practical
work. The principals made report
as fully as possible last week when
the data submitted by them was put
in proper style by the commissioners
of education and forwarded to the fed
eral board for its approval. All
schools whose plans are accepted may
receive federal and state aid. but how
much cannot be determined at this
time. The hurry is to get on the pay
list of the federal board. as well as
state aid. The following named
schools signifed their intention OF
taking advantage of the three courses
, or a part of same: Alexis l. dupont,
all three courses; Bridgeville, manua
and home economics; Caesar Rodney
agriculture and home economies
Dover, all three; Georgetown, not ye
decided; Greenwood. home economics
Harring ton, agriculture and home eco
nomics; Smyrna, agriculture and hom
economics; Milford, agriculture an
= home economies Several of th
> schools have not yet been heard froI
i by Commissioner Spaid.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
DAN CUPID BUSY IN KENT

Several Marriages Performed and En-
gagements Announced the Past Week
Dan Cupid has been very busy in
Kent county during the past few days,
several marriages and engagements
having been announced during the
period. The marriages announced are
as follows: Miss Mary E. Argo,
daughter of John H. Argo, of Dover,
and John Armour, of Houston; Miss
Virginia Mae Coverdale. daughter of
Mrs. C. A. Smith, of Harrington, and
Howard F. Koontz, Of Westminster,
Md. i; Miss Minnie Gertrude Girard.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph E.
Girard, of FELTON,, and Irving James
Pausin, Of Brooklyn, N. Y. Engage
ments announched are as follows
Miss Dolly Myers and Harry Har.
grove, both of Dover; Miss Laura Il.
Vincent and Charles E. Griffith, Of
Harrington; Miss Mae L. Schrader,
of Summit Bridge, and Clarence Ray
mond voshell of near Summit Bridge
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
FORMER SMYRNA BOY MARRIED

j. Benton Counselman Son of the Late
Ross CounseIman Weds Miss Langdon
A very pretty wedding was solemn
lied at Houston on Monday, Septem-
Der twenty-fourth, at twelve-thirty
O. clock, at the home of the BRIDES
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Pearce,
when their only daughter, Blanche
Langdon. became the bride of John
Benton Counselman, only son of the
late Ross E. Counselman and Mrs.
Cora E. Counselman, of Houston,
formerly of Smyran, the ceremony
being permformed by Rev. W. S.
Grant, pastor of the Houtson M. E.
Church, in the presence Of immediate
relatives of the contracting parties.
After the ceremony was performed
the bridal couple motored to Milford,
where a fine luncheon was served q
the New Windsor Hotel, after which
the entire party drove to Harrington
to see the happy couple leave, amid
showers of rice and confetti, on the
Norfolk Express for Baltimore anC
Philadelphia. On their return from
their wedding trip they will reside ir
Houston, where the groom is engaged
with his mother in the mercantile
business.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
FROM AUTO. INJURED
Joseph Il. Hossinger of Newark. Has
Two Bones in His Ankle Fractured

Joseph Il. Hossinger of Newark, Has
Two Bones in His Ankle Fractured
Former Mayor Joseph H. Hossinger
of Newark, is a patient in Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md,
with two bones in one of his ankles
fractured. He received the injury
bv jumping from an automobile in
which he was riding. and which was
about to collide with another car.
The accident happened last Friday
morning. Mr.. Hossinger, who is a
director and treasurer Of the Balti-
more branch of the Federal Farm
Loan Bank, was on his way to the
station to take train for Baltimore,
Friday morning, when an automobilist
in Packard car stopped him to in
ouire the way to Baltimore, Mr..
Hossinger told the stranger the route
and remarked that he was also on his
way to Baltimore. On learning this
the automobilist invited him to make
ttbe trip with him, which invitation
was accepted. When between Belair
and Baltimore the car in which MIR.
Hossinger had been riding collided
with another machine, but just before
the crash he jumped from the auts,
with the result as stated. Both cars
were badly damaged, but none of the
occupants except MIR. Hossinger was
seriously injured. He was taken tC
the hospital, but by the time he ar
rived there his ankle was swollen tC
such an extent that the broken bones
could not be set at that time.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
COMING BEAGLE FIELD TRIALS
Big Event of the Field Trials and Bench
Show Promised Eastern Beagle As
sociation When They Meet Here

Smyrna will have some valuable
thoroughbred dogs when the Eastern
Beagle Club holds its annual meet
here on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes'
day, October Is, 16 and II, this be-
ing the third annual trials of the club.
Favorable weather conditions is all
that is needed to make the event
success for judged by the number of
entries, the field trials and bench show
promise to be the best ever held. The
show and trials are both licensed by
the A. K. C. The ''run" will be
made on the Rothwell, johnson and
Grieves farms near Smyrna. T. Gill
pin Massey, of Wilmington, is super
inteudent of the show. James d.
Shuster, of Wilmington, is chairman
of the Field Trial Committee, and is
assisted locally by Glenn E. Sapp and
Geo. w. Robinson. l.. Rollin Moore
and William Norris are the local mem
bers of the Bench Show Committee.
DIR. Frank Gardner is the official yet
erinarisn, and the Judge of both the
| field trials and the bench show il
Thomas Shallcross of Providence, R. l,
Judge Shallcross has the reputation o.
being one of the most expert judge
in the country. Already there is
good list of entries, which is growing
Included in this are number of high
class dogs whose owners are no
members of the E. B. c. Notabl
listed are the Charmion Kennel
owned by Fred T. Horns of Newark
N. j., the wealthy sportsman. G.F
Flammer, a professional handler, wi
have charge of the Charmion string {
dogs and is expected in Smyrna ne1
week. On Monday evening, the 18th
there will be the Bench Show, an innC
vation that promises to be most inte
esting, which will probably be he
at the Smyrna Opera House and fro
prospects thirty or more dogs will
q benched. Admission to the show wi
I be free. Smyrna merchants and bu
. mess men have shown lively inte
a est in the event by offering premium
= for the different classes.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
Il. c. TSCHUDY LEAVES SMYRNA
Resigns From Bank of Smyrna to Be
Treasurer Ziegler Bros, Philadelphia

Resigns From Bank of Smyrna to Be
Treasurer Ziegler Bros, Philadelphia
Mr.. Harry C. Tschudy, who for
several years has been a director and
president of the National Bank
of Smyrna, as we'll as regularly en-
ployed in said bank, rendered his re-
signatIon at a meeting of the Board
Thursday last. Mr.. Tschudy left for
Philadelphia this morning where he
has accepted a position as secretary
and treasurer of the well-known
and old established wholesale shoe
firm of Ziegler Brothers, Inc. III
121 North Fifth street, of which
his father-in-law, Mr.. William E.
Waters is now one of the owners
and president of the corporation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tschudy have taken
apartments at ''The Rittenhouse"
and leave to take up residence
in Philadelphia with the regret but
best wishes of their friends.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
STATE FARMERS SEE PRESIDENT

Confer With Chief Executive Over
Exemption of Farm Labor Now Needed
A delegation of Delaware farmers
has returned from Washington, where.
on Tuesday. they had a conference
with President Wilson relative to the
drafting for military service of per-
sons employed on farms. The confer
ence, which took place in the White
House, was on invitation of the Presi-
dent and those in attendance, about
oO in all, represented the agricultural
interests of practically all the States.
The Delawareans in the party were
Horace L. Dilworth, master of the
State Grange; George L. Townsend,
Dr.. attorney and granger; Darlington
Finn, farmer, and P. P. Robinson,
also member of the State Grange.
The delegation told the President that
II exemption could not be granted
men employed on farms, it would
nelp the country if their drafting
could be delayed until after this years
crops are harvested. The Presiden
gave the farmers a very cordial re
eeption. He told them that the mat
Ter had been discussed with his cabi
net and other government official ant
II 1t is found that anything can b
done in the matter it will be done
Inc same delegation, also by appoint
ment, on the same day, conferred wit
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, il
the Treasury Building. Mr.. Meade
impressed upon his auditors the desir
mat the farmers subscribe Iiberall
10 the next Liberty bond issue.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
CLUB WOMEN TO RESUME WORK
New Club Year Begins Friday With an
Open Meeting to be Addressed by
Mrs. Lucille Ross Jones

After a recess of four or more
the Twentieth Century Club
of Smyrna will resume it's meetings
next Friday for the Fall and Winter
term. The officers of the year are
President. Mrs. H. D. Boyer; First
Vice. President, Miss Helen P. Start;
Second Vice-President, Mrs. T. Getz
Hill; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Harvey W. FAIRIES: Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. S. Gilbert Wilds;
Treasurer, Mrs. ]. P. Hoffecker;
Hostess. Mrs. ] Frank Webb: Chair
men-Program, Miss Laura A. Bell;
Education, Mrs. C. H. LeFevre; Lit.
erature, Mrs. F. F. Evans; History,
Mrs. E. S. Dwight; Social Service,
Mrs. E. Nj. Fowler; Civics and House.
hold Economics, Mrs. C. Leland Har-
monson: Arts and Crafts, Mrs. Thomas
Johnson; Music, Mrs. L. L. Arts.
Mrs. Lucille Ross Jones to be Here
At the opening meeting next Friday
afternoon at 3. 80 o'clock Mrs. Lucille
Ross Jones, formerly of Seaford, will
be present and relate her experiences
as a Red Cross Nurse in France. 1t
is an open meeting and the public is
most cordially invited to be present
There will be no charge for admission
but an opportunity will be given those
who wish to contribute to the cause.
Mrs. Jones represents a hospital in
| France doing valiant work.
Executive Committee Fills Vacancie:
At the first meeting of the new cluE
year of the Executive Committee Of
the Twentieth Century Club Monda.
afternoon, Mrs. Harvey w. FAIRIES wa
elected recording secretary in plac
of Mrs. Lay Phillips resigned; an
Mrs. J. Frank Webb hostess, in plac
of Mrs. Howard r. Jones. resigned
Other matters of business were dis
cussed looking to the preparation o
an interesting club year.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
ST. PETERS CHURCH NOTES

Rev. Thomas Getz Hill. Rector. An
nounces Services for Week and Sunday
The regular Friday evening service
of Evensong has been reumed for the
winter at 7.30 o'lcock. Choir re-
hearsal will follow Immediately after
the service each Friday night, and
full attendance is especially desired
this week. Although October 7th will
be the First Sunday in the month, the
Services will consist of Mathis and
Sermon at 1870 a. M, Sunday
School at IL noon, and Evensong at
7.30 p. m. October 7th will be
Rally Day, and reference will be made
to it at all the services. Let every
one .'Rally."
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
TROOPS GO SOUTH TOMORROW
Long Expected Orders Came Yester-
day-Will Entrain at New Castle
Sometime Tomorrow Afternoon

Sometime Tomorrow Afternoon
Some time tomorrow afternoon the
First Delaware. Infantry will march
from Camp Townsend, State Rife
Range, to New Castle and there en-
train for Camp Mcclellan, Admission,
Ala. Orders to this effect were re-
ceived by Colonel ]. Warner Reed,
commanding officer, at O'Clock yes
terday afternoon, from the Depart
ment of the East, via Sea Girt, n. j.
Although there was no definite opin-
ion on the matter, none of the officers
thought the troops would move before
October 9. This feeling prevailed
because of the order closing the rail-
roads to all National Guard units while
the third section of the National
Army, $50. 900 strong, was being
transported to its camps. In order to
facilitate the movement of the large
body of men, these contingents were
to be given the right of way over all
other military bodies from October l,
to October 9. Owing, it is believed,
to the fact that all the other units of
the Twenty ninth Division, with the
exception of the Delaware regiment,
are already in training at Camp Nc
Clellan, the War Department broke
the rule for the transportation of the
National Guard, in favor of the local
soldiers. 1t is understood that the
War Department communicated with
the Department of the East, in order
to ascertain if it would be possible to
move the Delaware troops. The De-
partment of the East in turn commun-
icated with the railroad companies, in
order to learn if they could accom-
modate 145O troops and equipment on
October 4. The answer being favor
able Colonel Reed received the order.
1t came by way of Sea Girt as this is
the provisional headquarters of the
Twenty ninth Division of which Major
General Morton is in command.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
DEATH OF MRS. HESTER J. DAVIS
Mrs. Norman Coleman's Mother Dies
at Delaware Hospital, Wilmington

Mrs. Norman Coleman's Mother Dies
at Delaware Hospital. Wilmington
Mrs. Hester j. Davis, aged 81,
widow of D. S. Davis, of Chesterville,
Md, who made her home with her
daughter, Mrs. Norman S. Coleman,
died at the Delaware Hospital, Will
mington, Saturday, after few hours
illness. She had been operated upon
for a minor operation and was get
ting along nicely when she was
stricken with apoplexy and died al
most without warning. Her death
was a shock to her relatives in Smyrna.
Deceased spent most of her life over
in Maryland. After the death of her
husband, who was q well-known Ches-
terville farmer, six years ago, she
moved to Smyrna and has been max
ing her home with her daughter. She
is survived by three children: Mrs.
Norman Coleman, of Smyrna; George
w. Davis, tenant of Belmont Hall
farm near Smyrna and Linwood Davis,
of Wilmington. Funeral services
were held yesterday, her remains
being taken to Chesterville, Md. where
services were held in the M. E. Church,
and interment being made in Crump-
ton, Md, cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
STATE W. c. T. U. AT sEAFoRD

38th Annual Session to be Held Oc-
tober 10, u and IL in Seaford Church
The thirty-eighth annual convention
of the Delaware Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will be held IN st.
Johns Methodist Episcopal Church,
Seaford, on October 10, IL and IL.
The convention will open on Wednes-
day, at 10 O'Clock. At 1.30 o'clock
there will be greetings from the pas
tors, mayor, president of Ladies'
Club entertaining union, and Mrs.
Victor l. and Coleman DUPONT. Fran
els Willard Anderson will address the
young peoples branch. There will be
evening greetings by Governor John
G. Townsend, Jr., and address by DR..
Clarence True Wilson. On Thursday
afternoon, the Hon. George Crabbe,
secretary of the Anti-Salcou League
for Delaware and Maryland will speak.
! Mrs. Charles R. Miller, chairman OF
the Delaware branch of the Woman s
Council of the National Defense
League and Professor Spaid, Della
ware Commissioner of Education will
come before the convention. In the
evening, Mrs. Walter Powell, presi'
dent of the State Federation of Wo
mans Clubs brings greeting anC
Daniel A. Polling, general secretary
of the Christian Endeavor Society viii
speak. Names of delegates should b.
sent to Mrs. T. N. Rawlins, at Seaford
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
TOMATO GROWERS AROUSED
OVER SOME SUITS ENTERED
GAMERS IN LOWER PART OF
STATE MAKING TEST CASE
In Two Gases Heard at Milford Last
Week, Gamers Win Although One
Was Appealed to Sussex Court


While the proprietors of canneries
in and around Smyrna have made no
test cases of those who have been
breaking their tomato contracts, down
in Dover and Milford, there has been
entered several suits in nearly all of
which the Gamers have come out VIC
torious. That growers have been
breaking their contracts, is a we'll
known fact to Gamers of Smyrna,
Clayton, Cheswold, Kenton. Townsend
and other nearby places. Growers
have simply fallen to the temptation
of dollar market and have engineered
all kinds of schemes to forgo their 25
cent contract and get some of the
'big money" offered. Interest in
suits brought by Gamers against farm
ers throughout the two lower counties
of Delaware is at fever heat. In al
most all sections of the two counties
the Gamers have sued for breach of
contract. With but very few excep-
tions, in the cases so far heard the
verdicts have been favorable to the
Gamers.
Interesting Cases Heard at Milford
Before Justice Hendrixson of South
Milford a case wherein F. A. TOrsch.
through his local agent Lee o. Truitt
had brought suit against Joseph Fl
, Shockley, a farmer living near Mil
ford, for breach of contract, was heart
, last week. Shockley contended thai
while a contract Rad been made Ant
signed by him with the Torsch in
I terests, he had later withdrawn tn
contract verbally and that same ha
been accepted. After the evidenc
in the case had heen heard, Justic
Hendrixson awarded the amount fo
v which Torsch was suing, SIPS, t
him. Last Tuesday morning, befor
the same official, a suit wherein Car
i tain William Murphy sued B. Fran
3 NAPLES for damages was trieC
Murphy had witness to show that
> verbal contract had been made b'
!. tween himself and NAPLES. r
II claimed that no tomatoes had bee
y delivered to him from the four acr'
e for which he had contracted.
L further claimed that seventy-one ba
ID kets of tomatoes had been brought
Ie Milford by NAPLES and sold at
"a cents per basket. He was suing f
!, the difference between the contra
price of 25 cents per basket and t
83 cents for which NAPLES sold t
.. tomatoes.
u Case Finally Appealed to Sussex Coz
r After hearing the evidence in
n case, Justice Hendrixson award
nd damages for the amount sued Throu
he his attorney, Charles Cullen, Wap
ne took an appeal and will take the CT
ad before the court of Sussex conr
or where legal battle will ensue.
75 is understood several tests will
I'd. made in Kent county.
Smyrna times., 1917-10-03
EUGENE ATTN BUYS A FARM

ACQUIRES the 1876 Acre Farm of Harry
r. Stevens near Blackiston's
F. C. LeCompte, real estate broker,
has sold to Eugene c. Attix, the farm
of Harry F. Stevens, located near
Blackstone Cross Roads and contain
ing 135 acres. Consideration $40,
600. Mr.. Attix intends making this
farm bis home after first of the year.