Smyrna times., 1917-07-18
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.

AhO COOAolSOuLS 81 NOs mCoSCllSSAS |
says: Frank Wright has purchased a
ton and half Bessemer auto truck |
and used it this last week to haul his
wheat to Seaford where he sold it for
2. 25 per bushel. Mr.. Wright got
sos bushels from about 27 acres.
Mr.. and Mrs. John C. Dill of Will
low Grove, this county, have issued
announcements of the marriage of
their youngest daughter, Miss Angela
Dill, to George j. Clark, of Wyoming,
Del The wedding took place at the
home of the BRIDES sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. James w. Oldham, Elkton, Md,
Saturday, June 3Oth.
The State Armory Commission met
in Dover Wednesday afternoon with
Governor Townsend, Adjutant General
Wickersham, Colonel Theodore Town
send, State Treasurer Swain, and T.
c. DUPONT in attendance. The con-
tract for the erection of the new state
armOry at New Castle was awarded
to James A. Hirons of Dover for s18,-
600. Plans and specifications were
submitted for the remodeling of the
state armory at Milford at a COST of
| $1,000.
Members of the Delaware Defense
Council met in response to the call of
Governor Townsend on Wednesday.
Former Congressman Thomas W.
Miller, secretary of the Defense
Council, is convalescing from an
operation in hospital in Washing
ton, but he forwarded a lengthy re-
port of the Councils activities in the
lines of the ban on return of unsold
bread, in which every wholesale
baker in the State has joined; in food
conservation, fertilizer shipments, re-
cruiting for the regular army, Four
Minute Mems organizations, Federal
Reserves, Working Boys Reserve,
Fort at the mouth of the Mispillion
River. Priority Board. Women's Com
mittees and Department of Labor.
Mason A. Rogers, whs for five
months has been connected with the
Sussex county highway department,
left Georgetown for Dover last week
where he has accepted a position nm
der State Highway Engineer Charles
M. Upham. He will likely be in
charge of the survey party to make
and lay out the state highways to be
improved. Mr.. Rogers was a class
mate OF State Highway Engineer Up
ham at Tufts College, and both grad
uated from that institution in 1903.
1t was through the efforts of Mr.. Up.
ham at the time he was county en-.
gineer of Sussex that the services oi
Mr.. Rogers was obtained. One o1
his main duties was to look after the
bridges, drainage and survey work.
One of the bills passed at the
special session of the Maryland Gen
eral Assembly, which became a Law
: Thursday when Governor Harrington
signed it, interests deeply the youni
people of Maryland. This law, effec
tive at once, permits boys and girl!
of 16 to 18 years of age respectively
! ! to operate motor vehicles if they cal
pass the State tests. The tests
which will be before the Automobil
| Commissioner Baughman, will consis
in practical demonstration of tn
\ applicants skill in operating an auto
mobile. For this test applicants will
be charged 81 each. If the test
satisfactory then the license will b
issued Immediately. Farmers in thi
n section are planting large quantitie
of late POTATOES, utilizing wheat stub
BILE fields that have just been cleared
Announcement was received las
= week of the wedding of Miss Ne
McFerran NAPLES, daughter of MI
and Mrs. Charles G. NAPLES, of Mi
ton, to Mr.. Sinclair C. Campbell, G
Philadelphia. on Thursday, July 5tt
1917, at their home in Milton. Th
wedding was a quiet early mornin
affair witnessed by only few rels
tives and friends. Miss NAPLES we
hostess to a large house party owe
the Fourth, which ended with ht
marriage on Thursday morning. Al
ter their wedding trip, Mr.. and Mr.
Campbell will leave for Noble, o.
tario, where Mr.. Campbell is a. SUI
erintendent for the Canadian ExplosiV
Company. Among those entertaine
at the house party at the Waplel
home over the Fourth were Mrs. Joh
d. Campbell and Russell Hamilton
of Cynwyd, Pa. Miss Alice CAM
bell, of Media, Pa. Miss Graz
Scattergood. of Philadelphia; Nj
and Mrs. S. o. Toadvine, of Saul
bury, Md. Miss Bess White, DR.. al
Mrs. ]. B. NAPLES, Jr., Sudler Ricl
ards, of Georgetown, and LockwoC
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