Smyrna times., 1917-03-21
vFNS Of THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
,swsy ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ou6 STATE EXCHANGES

. peninsula About Your Friends and
Ne,ehbors and Their Ooings.
Tho Parent-Teachers Association of
c.a.o, Rodney School will be ad-
,'.s,p4 nv John Hall Anderson, Esq,
Tsrr.day evening, March %, at 7.45
o'clock.
The members of Washington Camp
M 1O.P. 0. S. of A., Magnolia,
iii Give a banquet and entertain
mort TO their wives and friends Thurs
5.v evening, March D.
Mrs. P. E. Clements of Camden,
nel who is visiting her daughter,
vrs Carrie G. Wolley, at Seaford,
,ocently had a fall which fractured
bsr ankle. She is reported quite i'll.
nroiect is on foot to drain Cedar
Swsmp in lower Sussex county and it
!. estimated that $4,000 acres can
no made tillable at cost of one dollar
per acre.
Miss Anne B. Sarde, of Camden,
!. the guest of Mrs. Robert P. Will
am of Buffalo, N. Y, who is spend
ing the early spring in Washington.
Miss Sarde returns to Columbia Col
sqe at the end of her visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen w. Miller,
If Camden. announced the coming
marriage of their dughter, Miss
Beatrice Alice Evans. to Mr.. Albert
Burgess Carter, also of Camden. on
Saturday next, March the seven
tenth. They will reside in Whining
Ton.
Four more years of Edwin F. Wood
as Justice of the Peace and Notary
Public at Dover. Governor Townsend
rsappointed him last Monday for {
term of four years. This is MIR.
Woods fifth successive appointment,
hsving been first appointed by Cover
nor John Hum.
In the General Sessions of Court a
Wilmington last week, James E. John
son was convicted of larency of a robe
and driving off an automobile. H,
was sentenced to two and a half year
in each case, five years in all, also h,
must pay S535 restitution money t.
Whitaker and $3.50 to Black, as wei
as the costs of prosecution. Lashe
we're not imposed.
Benjamin T. Biggs, of Middletown
= was admitted to the New Castl
county bar on Thursday afternoon j
Superior Court on motion Of job
Biggs, attorney. The new membe
Oi the bar is a son of Willard L
Biggs, a well known hofseman {
Aiddletown and grandson of formt
Governor Benjamin T. Biggs, He
graduate of Princeton and An
AfbOr Universities.
Miss Elizabeth Ross, daughter {
Co., and Mrs. E c. Ross, of Seafor
who for the past year has been
France where she went with her co
sin, Mrs. Lucille Ross Jones will ss
from France about April l for Ca
gary, Canada, accompanied by h
cousin where she will remain a ye
before coming home. Mrs. Jones b
been doing hospital work in Franc
Under the Red Cross, since the enlis
nent Of her husband, Lieutena
Stanley R. Jones who was killed
battle more than a year ago.
Senator Josiah o. Wnlcott was Civ
bis committee assignments by t
Democratic Caucus on Monday,
list being later confirmed by the Sc
ae' Delaware's new Senator is
member of the committees on
judiciary, civil service and retrenC
nent, privileges and elections, CLAIM
coast defense, fisheries and Expen
Iufes in the Department of Commer'
ne has been given the chairmans
a the last-named committee, VIII
Gas only nominal duties, but VIII
Affords the Senator the services of
IA clerks. Senator Wolcott is I
VI the youngest members of the
s. Senate.
At a meeting held in Dover
GENTLY, it was decided to make
celebration of the 20Oth annivers
VI the town State event, with an
Walton to other towns toparticips
as lar back as 1858, the secretary
ue meeting stated William P'
gave an order that the town of Do
" laid out in Kent on the DELAYS
~ the course of few years CO
uOOse was built and a few fami
'''tled in its aeighborhood, but I'll
vas no definite plan to create a Il
~''' the Colonial Assembly of L