Smyrna times., 1919-11-26
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Interesting Items From All Parts OF
The Peninsula About Friends And
NeighbOrs And Their DOings

NeighbOrs And Their DOings
Delegations from all the camps of
the P. o. S, of A. of Delaware met
at Dover, Saturday afternoon, last,
for the purpose of forming a
State Death Benefit Association.
The oldest hotel at Bowers Beach
has been purchased by Winfield Gran.
er, of Rockaway Beach, N. Y, who ex-
poets to put it in good condition and
make modern hotel out of it.
An alarm of fire was sounded in
Dover on Tuesday evening, of last
week, shortly after seven o'clock, due
to q chimney blaze at Kilkwood and
Fulton streets. The fire was extin-
guished before serious damage was
done to the property.
Gunners in Kent county who have
been out since Monday report rabbits
very scarce, the largest number yet |
heard of killed by one person being |
six. The sale of not more than 20 |
rabbits by any person killing that |
many, is permitted by the amended
Game law.
Rev. Spencer Skinner. of Dover re-
turned on Fuseday of last week, from
Pittsburgh, Pa, where he has been
for the past week While away Rev.
Skinner held two services at Johnston
Avenue Baptist Church as a result of
which he received a unanimous call tn
become pastor of that church. The
offer is very fiattering one and will
no doubt be accepted by Rev. Skinner.
The members of the church in Pitts
burg have lately undertaken the erec-
ton of a $4,000 building.
1t is reported that smallpox is
gaining very fast in and arou1ld the
country section of Warwick, small
village on the road leading from
Millsboro to Oak Orchard. AS Frank
ford is not many miles from the in
fected district, twenty-five young wo-
men have formed a class for nurses
and are being taught by Miss Nc
Colin, Red Cross nurse, who has
lust returned from over the seas. The
class meets every Monday and are
given instructions how to care for the
sick as done by Red Cross textbook.
Mrs. E. L. Jones, of Dover, one of
the delegates to the National Conven-
ton of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union that meets at Kansas
City this week, joined the other dele
gates at Wilmington, who left fol
Kansas City on Sunday last. Mr.
Jones met his wife at st. Louis or
Wednesday, November 18th, they viii
visit his brother in Kansas City anC
Mrs. Jones' sister in Omaha, return
ing home after Christmas.
Captain R. B. Handy, Jr., nephew
of L. Irving Handy, of Smyrna, re
presenting the War Department il
pennsylvania, Maryland and Delawar
in reference to employment for ex
service men, visited the offices of tn
Bureau for Returned Soldiers, Sailor
and Marines in the Federal building
Wilmington, recently. This worl
was formerly conducted by Col. Ar
thur Woods and is now being carrie
on by Lieutenant Colonel MattheN
Smith, of the general staff office o
the assistant secretary of war, ser
vice and information branches.
Howard Belts, who resides abou
four miles from Milford, just mort
of Houston, had an experience Will
in Philadelphia which caused him
) memorable visit. He was in tn
: Chinatown section of Philadelphia
Mole and Cherry streets, where h
met two men in one of the Chimes
4 restaurants, and by whom he wa
J beaten about the head and robbed o
ten dollars. He was taken to tn
Z Hahnemann Hospital for treatemen
4 and his assailant was arrested wit
I the ten dollars in his possession. MI
Belts is a well known farmer an
I highly respected in the stction wher
j he resides.
Last week Mrs. Hester Angelin
Marshall sold the water rights an
! the land connected with the Old MI
: site at the east edge of Milford
Edward M. Davis, who will cause tn
! property to be turned into a recrea
7 tion park and beauty spot for the pee
! ple of Milford. This property is Il
: Gated at the point where the oil
J "ford,D or crossing of the waterwa
} over which Caesar Rodney rode dul
! ing the Revolutionary period IN n
: famous ride from Lewes to Phllade
= phia to sign the Declaration OF lnd'
o,donca A number of years ago tt