Smyrna times., 1917-05-16
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Int resting Items from all Partsof the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
NeIghbors and Their Doings.

Mr.. John Barnes Wells, the we'll
known tenor soloist, and Mrs. Wells,
are the guests of Mrs. Alden b. Rich
ardson. of Dover. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wells went to Dover with New York |
friends who are stopping at the Hotel |
Richardson.
Robert w. Hargadine of st. Paul,
State Fire Marshal of Minnesota, is
Kent county visitor this week. He
ls a native of this county, son of
the late DR.. R. W. Hargadine of Fell
ton, and a grandson of the late Ed
ward j. Carter, of Dover.
Three valuable horses, owned by
Foster Jones, living on a farm in
Whitehall Neck, Kent county, were
killed by lightning during the hail
and electric storm which passed over
Kent county several days ago. The
horses were standing close together in
field and were all three killed in
stanlly.
Sergeant James Bice and Corporal
J. Henry Hazel have been selected
from Company G, of Dover, to go to
Fort Meyer, Virginia, Camp of In
struction, which is located across the
Potomac river from Washington, D. C.
They will probably leave for that
place next week and become officers
and instructors. Professor Schantz,
principal of Dover Public Schools,
also goes to the same camp.
Announcement was made last week
of the resignation of County Agent
Levi H. Cooch, of New Castle county,
the resignation taking effect April
30th. M. o. Pence, formerly agent
of Kent county and now holding a
similar position in a county in In
diana, has been named to succeed MIR.
CoNch He also will be assistant
State leader, and will assume his
dnties July first.
Miss Marie K. Flach, of Bowers
Beach, and Leland d. Clements, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward E. Clements
of near Dover, were married at the
home of the Rev George F. Ellis of
Magnolia, on Saturday afternoon,
May 5. The bride and groom spent
week in Wilmington. Mr.. Glenn
ents is a member of the National
Coast Defense Reserve, having en-
listed on May 3.
Bro. Co. has large and very inter
esting display of the handiwork OF
the Grammar Grade and High School
pupils of the Dover Public Schools. Ii
consists of about 100 pieces, includ.
ing dress skirts, bed linen, aprons,
towels and underwear. selected from
about one-third of the entire lot ot
work. The exhibit is made that the
town people may see the work that is
being done in these departments.
Strawberries will be badly damaged
unless the warm weather arrives soon
The cold weather has brought out the
berry weevil, which has cut the buds
almost as fast as they formed. Olive
A. Newton, a member of the State
Board of Agriculture, declares that il
his large berry fields the early vari
eties are nearly ruined, but that thu
late crops are as yet untouched
George A. Hill, Coulter Messick
George B. Graef and Harry P. Can
non, all owners of extensive berr,
fields, united in declaring that tn
pest has done great damage within tn
last two or three days.
Reports from bayshore fishermen
are to the effect that the shad seasol
has been practically a failure. Tn
cold weather and the backward sprinl
held the fishermen back, and the fis
were unusually scarce. The men hav
stopped fishing for shad at Bower
Beach, after a very poor season
Trout fishing with large surf seines
about two weeks late compared wit
forme er seasons. Only about one thir
of the seines that usually fish frol
Bowers have made a beginning, an
those that are in commission are hav
ing poor success, with less than 5
- bushels at haul. But prices al
very good.
The funeral of Miss Mary Hackett
who died Sunday in Wilmington, too
place Thursday afternoon from 100
jackson street. Miss Hackett was
member of the Society of Friends, b
whom the funeral ceremony was col
Quoted, with interment in Rivervie
cemetery. Miss Hackett was bol
February 2, 1886, being a daught,
of Charles and Margaret (Cheffin
Hackett. Her father was a merchal
in Massey, Kent county, Md, ar
her ancestors were among the fir
settlers of this Peninsula and were d
faodara of this country in the ear