Smyrna times., 1917-09-19
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.

Peninsula About Your Friends and
NeIghbors and Their Doings.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Denney and
Miss Eugenia Denney are occupying
their cottage at Rehoboth Beach.
The trustees of the Ridgely M. E.
Church, under the will of Mrs. Eliza |
Sigler, are bequeathed $25O0 for
church maintenance.
Miss Helen L. Startling, daughter of
Postmaster and Mrs. ]. Frank Star
ling, of Dover has gone to Troy, N.
Y, to enter the Russell Sage School.
W. Hart Scott, Kent County Road
Engineer, has gone to Newport News,
Virginia. where he will take up work
in the U S. Army Engineer Corps.
While there were many vacant
dwellings in Dover at this time last
year, there are none at present. In
quiries are now frequent for houses
but none are available for the present
or next year.
Governor Townsend has appointed
Harry Mayer, of Dover, former mayor
of Dover, to be a member of the State
Board of Accountancy for a term of
three years.
William Sylvester, aged n years.
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Edward Jerman, Leipsic, Thursday
September e. The funeral was held
Sunday September 9.
Charles W. Hardesty, secretary
and treasurer of the F. L. Hardesty
& Sons Company. who recently
volunteered in the U. S. Army officers
branch, has been summoned to report
for duty and left yesterday.
The engagement of Miss Myrtle
Tunnell, of Dover, daughter of Mrs.
Martha Tunnell. of Petersburg, and
Kenneth PleasantOn of Wilmington
formerly of Dover is announced. No
date has been set for the wedding.
Robert Stott, of Dover superinten-
dent of the Metropolitn Life Insur-
ance Company. formerly of Smyrna,
is recuperating at the Metropolitan
Sanatorium at Mt. McGregor among
the Adirondack mountains of New
York State.
Harry C. Jacobs, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charlie Jacobs, of Endicote, N.
Y, and Miss Pearl Vessel of Wyom-
ing. were married Sunday evening.
Sept 9th. at half past six, at Wyom-
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. Jacobs will live
in New York after October 18th.
Henry Hart, aged So years, dice
suddenly at the home of his mother,
D Patience Hart, Magnolia, Sunday
. morning, September 9. He haC
! been employed in Philadelphia for
z some time. He was a member OF
z Washington Camp No. 10. P. o. S
= of A.. and Miona Tribe No. SO, Rec
4 Men.
0 R. R. Kenney of Dover who wa
D appointed some weeks ago by Presi
z dent Wilson as major and judge ad
Y vocate general appeared on Dover
q streets Saturday in uniform. H
x has presented his resignation to Gov
q ernor Townsend as a member of tn
4 Kent County Local Exemption Board
a to take effect September 19.
= Announcement is made of the en-
y gagement of Miss E. Louise Cole
a daughterof Mrs. Amos Cole. of Dover
= and Cecil C.. Fulton, IT., formerly O
q Dover and now of Greenville N. c
Q The wedding will take place on Wed
0 nesday October II, and the youni
Q couple will reside at Greenville.
< Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Goodwin, q
a Dover are entertaining their daughter
@ Mrs. VIM. Uric Boggs, of Seattle
0 Washington, and Mrs, Frederick Wi
. liams, of Brooklyn, N Y. Mrs
Boggs, formerly Miss Mary F. Godwir
was a teacher in the Dover Publ
= School for some time and return
< home just six years after her d.
. parture.
Harry Rankin, aged 40 years,
- well-known merchant, died at h
home in Lewes Thursday Sept. 6tl
. after long illness. The deceast
II was member of the firm of Hank
& Zerden. a director Of the Coast Fl:
Oil and Fertilizer Company. memb
of Jefferson Lodge, Nc. Is, A.
and A. M, a member of the Knigh
of the Macabees. He leaves a wi
n and four children, three brother
William and Aaron Hankin of Milto
and Isaac Hankin of Baltimore; tv
sisters, Mrs. A. Gutowitz, of Lewe
and Mrs. Sarah Barsky. of Wilmin
n ton. He was the son of Samu
Hankin, of Dover, but left there abo
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