Smyrna times., 1920-08-18
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We Know
In and Around the Larger Penin-
sula Towns and Communities

Mrs. Lettie G. Wiltbank, the oldest
person in Georgetown, has just OBJ
served her 93rd birthday.
William Massey, living between
Seaford and Woodland, fractured two
bones in a wrist while cranking a mo-
tor truck
Word has been received by Gamers
of Sussex county that the government
will see to it that they have sufficient
coal for the canning season.
The 63 acre farm belonging to the
estate of the late Lewis A. Reddish,
about three miles from Delmar, was
sold at public auction last Saturday,
Earl Reddish being the purchaser, at
$4,000.
After drifting with broken rudder
for three days, Captain W. S. War
mock and his crew on the fishing boat
Mary Thelma, of Anglessa, N. j., were
picked up by coast guards off Ocean
City, Md.
Motorists who purchase gasoline in
Sussex herafter will be assured of full
measure when they have it pumped
into the tank from a roadside tank
The county commissioners will have
all pumps tested.
For several nights the great attrac-
tion at RehObOth Beach has been an
unusual display of falling stars" and
many of them. At night the beach
and boardwalk are well-filled with
gazers whose eyes are turned heaven
ward.
Catching 1916 edible fish with hook
and line in fishing trip of ten days
seems like "fish stroy", but it vOuch-
/ ed for by many residents of Bowers
Beach an especially by J. NJ. Boulden
of Georgetown, who took the party out
on the Delaware bay during their trip.
While J. Fred Stevens, of Delmar,
was returning from Crisfield, accom-
panied by Mr. and Mrs. Ira F. Heam
and Miss Gertrude Gordy, his car
skidded and was overturned on a
curve short distance from the town.
Mrs. Hearn's right arm was broken
and Mr.. Hearn's face was bruised,
Mr.. Stevens sustained a slight cut
about his mouth. Miss Gordy was un-
injured.
Unless coal dealers inl over Della
ware make better progress within the
next three months than they have for
the past six months in obtaining a
supply for the trade, the rsult will be
a coal famine. Nearly every dealer
between Georgetown and Selbyville
reports it is impossible to fill their
bins for the retail trade. Dealers are
booking orders, but can give no prom
ise of delivery. The anxiety over the
fuel situation has resulted in many
persons placing orders for wood with
the farmers.
The funeral of John Husbands was
held at Leipsic on Wednesday morn
ing, August 4th at eleven a. m. at
Roby NJ. P. Church. He died sudden
ly at the home of Miss Ida Seversor
ucoI DIGHIOIUs I1C lCdNCS bWO oOllS
John, Jr., and Charles.
Misses Mable and Mildred Rawley
Annie Harrington, Emma Hall, Annie
Thomas, Martha Morris and Messrs
Frank Harrington, Harry Hall, Will
liam Thomas, Harry Ford and Walter
Handsbery, all of Leipsic, have beer
spending a week at Bowers Beach.
The Leipsic community wasrshockeC
to learn of the death of Mrs Jane:
Parker, who died on Wednesday, sh,
was sick only one day of acute pneu
monia. Funeral services were held a
the NJ. E. Church on Saturday at tw,
\ p. m. She leaves a husband, on
daughter, three grandchildren and tw
sisters. Those who attended the fun
eral from a distance were: Mr.. an
: Mrs. William Salter, Mrs. Fairbanks
Mrs. Peterson and two sons and on
neice from Philadelphia.
CAR SHORTAGE is RELIEVED