Smyrna times., 1917-08-01
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.
Lee Clifton, infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. D. Ennis, of near Leipsic,
died Monday afternoon. July %, aged
1 year and 5 months.
Mrs. Hervey P. Hall, of Smyrna,
who recently underwent an operation
at the Women's College Hospital,
Philadelphia, is now home recovering
much to the Joy of her friends.
w. F. Allen, the well-known hor-
ticulturist of Salisbury, will bring a
force of experienced peach packers
from Georgia to pack the tremendous
crop of peaches which he expects to
gather from his thousands of peach
trees now bearing on his plantations.
Mrs. Samuel Downes, of Dnver, has
received letter from her son, Oliver
Lee Downes, Ensign of the U. S. S.
Dale, of his marriage to Miss Ethel
Harrison, of San Antonio, Texas,
June the seventh, at Manila, Philip
pine Islands. The bride was visiting
her brother, who is stationed at
Manila.
Herman C. Taylor, Secretary and
Executive Officer of the Dover Board
of Health, has been appointed by DR..
L. S. Conwell, a member of the State
Board of Health, as sub-registrar of
deaths, births and marriages. Also
to issue burial permits, for the Sec
ond State Board of Health District
for Kent County.
Register of Wills Ernest RaughIey
has issued letters testamentary on the
estate of Isaac Slnex to Alice Sinex;
on the estate of Jonathan Handy to
Thomas c. Frame, Jr. on the estate
of Charles A. Smith to Royal Hop
kins. Letters of administration have
been issued on the estate of Gustav
F. Tunell to Martha L. Tunell, and
on the estate of Louise Moore to Ida
Marvel.
Travelling in automobiles, 400 bus
mess men and their families from
Quarryville, Pa, are slated to pass
through CentreVille, Md, on Satur-
day, August IL. They will be en-
route to Ocean City, where Sunday
will be spent, and will travel by way
of Elkton, Chestertown, Centrevile,
Easton and Salisbury. Leaving Ocean
City Monday, the large party will
stop for dinner in Denton, where the
IQuarryville Grounding Club was en-
tertained some weeks ago.
Mrs. Peter Lowber Cooper, of Mt.
Airy, Pa, announces the engagement
of her daughter, Katherine Roberts, tC
Francis Phelps Todd, son of Mr.. anC
Mrs. Henry S. Todd, of Salisbury
Md. Miss Cooper is daughter o.
the late Peter Lowber Cooper, at ont
time deputy attorney general for Del
aware, ard granddaughter of the lat,
General Louis Wagner of Philadel
phia. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter L. Coope
resided in Wilmington after thei
marriage, until the death of Mr.
Cooper, the result of an accident
Then Mrs. Cooper returned to Phila
delphia. Mr.. Cooper was a membe
of an old Delaware fsmily-the Coop
ers of Kent county-and is fondly re
membered by many who were hi
warm friends.
Mrs. Margaret A. Clements passe
away at an early hour, Wednesds
j morning, at the home of her daughter
Mrs. A. S. Woolley, Cannon street
Seaford, where she had been maxim
her home for the past year. She he
fall last March, and fractured h
y hip, and had been a great suffer-
ever since. Mrs. Clements was Il
) widow of the late Rev. Joel Clement
and the daughter of the late Re
- Daniel Lamden, a prominent memb
= of the old Philadelphia COnferenc
and at one time a presiding eide
Mrs. Clements was born at Federal
burg, Md, 80 years ago, the first d.
of May. She is survived by five chi
dren, Miss Phonnie Clements,
Camden; Mr.. A. j. Clements,
New York; Mrs. Charles M. Chas
of Carney's Point, N. j.. Mrs. Ma
l. Hopkins, of Washington, D.
and Mrs. A. S. Woolley, of Seafor
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