Smyrna times., 1918-03-13
Personal and Social
People Who Come and Go
and Their Social Doings

John L. Mannering of this town has
enlisted as a painter in the service
snd reports tomorrow at Dover. He
expects to start Friday enroute for
San Antonio, Texas and from there to
France. Grant was a member of the
Delaware Militia when it left Smyrna
for service on the Mexican Border at
Deming. New Mexico but become so
incaDacitated with rheumatism he
could not march with his company
and was "honorably discharged from
infantry service. He now enlists as
a painter where he is better able to
do his bit for Uncle Sam. He leaves
with the good wishes of his friends.
Mr.. c. Raymond Cumimns, Of the
Allen Jewelry Company. Charleston,
South Carolina. has been paying his |
parents. Postmaster and Mrs. A. Lee
Cummins, a short visit. He vas called |
home to take his examination for the |
Draft, having been assigned to Glass
A. He passed o. K. and has now
gone back with his firm to work until
ne is Summoned for duty. He received
the glad hand.
Messrs. Edwin Wilson and Earl
Slaughter, of Mercersburg College,
who have been home for several weeks
on account of the college being quar-
antined for scarlet fever, have re-
ceived word the quarantine has been
lifted and left Monday to resume their
studies.
MIR. and Mrs. l. N. Odell and chill
dren left Smyrna Saturday for Indiana
to visit relatives and will leave for
Gadsden, Alabama, where MIR. Odell
will take hold of his new position
April the first. Since coming to
Smyrna to manage the gas plant of
the Frost Gas Company MIR. Odell and
his wife made many friends who wish
them we'll in their new field of labors.
Mr.. James P Mckay of Philadel-
phia was a visitor to his brother in
Smyrna Sunday and Monday having
come down on their boat Steamer
Clio to Odessa where it brought a
cargo. The McKays forming the
Philadelphia & Smyrna Steamboat
Company are being importuned by a
number OF their friends and old Gus
toners to put the boat hack on reg
ular run between Smyrna and Phil
adelphia but unless assured of suffici-
ent support they seem still unwilling
to venture the proposition again.
Smyrna shippers however are not CIV
ing up hope that something may
develop between now and May the
first.
Mrs. Frank H. Shakespeare and
children are visiting in Yonkers, N.
Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster DeFord. whC
recently moved into their bungalow
on Frazier street, have an addition tt
their household. A little baby gir
arrived yesterday morning and all il
we'll.
Mrs. T. H. Haynes. who has heel
} spending the winter in Wilmington
, has returned home. Mr. Ernes
Haynes came down with her but re
. turned this morning.
: MIR. and Mrs. j. Frank Griffith (ne
Miss Rossie Buttery), of Wilmington
+ who were married on February 18t
f and took a southern wedding trip t
White Sulphur Springs, Va, and othe
places, visited the brides parents
Mr.. and Mrs. John Buttery over Sun
day.
Mrs. Ella Griffith is visiting Ger
mantown.
> Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Robert
(nee Miss Alice Spruance), have re
o turned from their wedding trip
y Tampa, Florida, and other points an
u opened their home corner of Nj
y Vernon and Union streets.
Mrs. C. H. LeFevre and childre
left Saturday for Philadelphia to sper
a a visit. Mrs. H. A. Lank return'
Ell with them.
ID Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Davis have r.
le turned from Atlantic City, N. J
it where they sojourned for few day
n Miss Rebecca Lee has returned fro
is visit to Wilmington.
ne Miss Katharine Price spent Sundi
r, in Germantown. Pa.
ly Mr.. Kent Sheubrooks spent Sund
n and Monday at Woodlyn, N. j.