Smyrna times., 1918-07-31
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"..iO.uIa About Your Friends and
Nsghbors and Their Ooings'
Tam large man-eating sharks were
,5od recently at Bowers. They
'na 'n,ed about eight feet in length
~ we're caught in one of the seines
n,ed by fishermen.
n, and Mrs. Frank W. Harold, of
v,rtclait N. j., have announced the
.Dg,cement of their daughter. Miss
rli,sbetb Harper Harold, to Mr.. Paul
lyman Cooley, also of Montclair.
Tho wedding will take place in Oc-
tober.
A. John Collins. aged 83 years,
farmer who lives a short distance
t,om Milford was driving to his home
few evenings ago his horse took
f,obt at an automobile. The car
,isoe was turned over, throwing Mr..
rolIins out and brusing him. The
horse is SO years old.
George D. Grassland last week
tbreshed over ?, 800 bushels of wheat
ana 113-acre farm near Middletown,
vbiob was an average of almost 25
bnobels per acre. New Castle county
farmers say this is a large average,
Init they have heard of larger averages
near Middletown in past years.
The olden days of highway traffic
seem to be returning. Automobiles
carving large quantities of vegetables
and fruits bound to the city markets
are daily occurrences now. On Wed
pesdsy an eight mule team passed
through with a large iron boiler
on its way from Wilmington to Hick-
msntoWn. The outfit looked as
though it had passed through the
dessert and moved on slowly to it's
destination in the lower part of the
county
The six Kent county draftees who
left Dover Monday of last week with
the other Delaware contingent for
Camp Dix. included George Clark,
Wyoming; Bailey Sturat Ashby. Clay
ton; Ralph Y. Cooper, Camden i;
Lester Huntley, Huntington, W. Va. /;
John H. Walls, Harrington; George
Swaine, Cheswold The young men
were accompanied to the station by
H. |. Beers, chairman of Kent county
Exemption Board, and his wife, Mrs.
Beers, who always accompanies the
young men to the station and presents
them with kits from the Red Cross.
c. W Shelter, of Dover, has re-
ceived word from his son. Lee c.
Shelter. that the latter has arrived
safely ''sOmewhere in France. Lee
left Dover about six weeks ago for
Camp Dix. He was already trained
soldier, as he was an old member of
the Dover militia, snc he was so anx-
Ous to ''gO across" to fight the Huns
that he was given an opportunity tC
embark for France at once.
Kent county Democrats are becom.
ing active in announcing themselves
as candidates for the nominations tC
county offices while some have &C.
tually begun their canvass. They in.
elude the following: John Evan:
Cook, Camden; Lee R. Cochran,
Smyrna, for Sheriff. John W. Shell
drake. Harrington. former State Sena
tor, and c. Coverdale of Clayton, fol-
recorder of deeds. 0. j. Lafferty
Clayton, for coroner; E. Z. Clements
Dover, and James Harry Latchum
Milford. for clerk Of the peace
Mark W. Cole, Dover, for clerk o
Orphans Court and register in chan
cery. Rev. Wilson C. Moore o
Dover, Democratic nomination fo
State Senator, Third Senatorial dis
triet.
An exciting runaway occurred re
Gently on Bradford street. Dover.
morse which had been hired for th
Gay by Joseph Rash to an overseer @
Inc road that is being built abov
Dover was left to eat it's dinner o
Aeed street near Bradford, when
became frightened at something, brok
lis halter and dashed out Reed stree
u Bradford street, into which
'ufhed. In turning the corner tn
morse fell, turning the carriage owe
ana wrecking it and injuring itsel
'Oout the legs. Regaining its fee
sna with only one shaft of the cal
mage still gea:ed to it, the hors
continued out Bradford street to D
"'lon' Where it ran upon the pave
Ient IN front of the residence of D.
'Onn W. James, near where it WI
cauobt