Smyrna times., 1920-08-25
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

mingtOn, Monday, and operated on for
appendicitis, died Wednesday night.
He was a son of Nh and Mrs. Edward
COale of Delaware City.
The body of Mrs. Mary A. Richards
aged 81 years, mother of Mrs. Joseph
T. Vance, living just south of Dover,
who died there Tuesday of last week,
was sent to Hensessey, Okla, her
former home. Mr.. Vance accompan-
led the remains.
The price of soft crabs has reached
$4 a dozen at Rock Hall, Md, and
other grabbing centers, and all that
can be caught are finding ready sale.
Sheriff William c. Townsend has
inserted novel advertisement in the
Chestertown, Md, papers, stating that
he has completed arrangements for
catching all chicken thieves, and the
arrangement" seems to be working
nicely.
Mrs. Joel R. Clements, Chestertown,
Md, is in a critical condition follow
ing a stroke of paralysis.
George Hildebrand, an employe of
the Delaware City trolley line, while
working on the road abreast of Schaf-
fer's farm, was attacked by a swarm
of bees. In his fight he lost both his
gloves and hat.
Carl J. Reese, a graduate of Frank
! lin and Marshall College with the de-
gree of A. B., 1918, has accepted an
appointment as assistant in the de-
partment of Mathematics and physics
in Delaware College under DR.. George
A. Harter, head of the department.
! Mr.. Rees has had experience in teach
ing in the Lancaster, Pa, high school
and the State Normal school at Mill
ersburg. He was in the military ser
vice, in the Coast Artillery School at
Fort Monroe during the war. He IS
now in Y. NJ. c. A. work at Lancaster
as secretary OF boys work. He will
have charge OF physics and mathe-
matics at the Women's College.
Friday evening, August 13, at the
home of Nh. and Mrs. John 7. Mes
sick, near Georgetown, their youngest
daughter, Hattye Evelyn, and Herman
Harrison, Lewes Cross Roads, were
married by Rev. William J. Tyndall,
bv the Methodist Episcopal ceremony.
The wedding march was played by
Mrs. William McIlvaine and the cere-
mony took place under an evergreen
arch. The decorations were pink and
white. The bride wore gown OF hy-
drangea blue satin with chiffon and
silver-spangle trimmings and carried
blue hydrangeas. The groom wore a
suit of blue serge. Miss Messick was
a teacher in Sussex county schools
and the groom is a farmer. Only
members of the immediate familie;
were present.
George Morris, of Clayton, and An
ma Poore, of Hartly, were united in
marriage at Clayton on Sunday at
noon, Aug. Is, by Rev. E. c. Graham
of Clayton.
Officers of Sussex county have sue
ceeded in rounding up Part OF thu
gang of thieves that has been Operat.
ing in the central and eastern parts OF
the county the past four weeks. Thre'
are now confined in the Sussex jail
for the next term of court, charged
with the thefts.
Unless there is a check on hog chOl
era in lower Delaware, which is rap
idlv spreading to all sections of east
ern Sussex, hundreds of pOrkers ar
going to be infected. The ravages Of
che disease, however, will not be a:
, great as last year, because of the fac
that many farmers have had theil
hogs vaccinated.
John Goodwin and Arthur Clark
both of Dover, were fined $40, with
out costs, by United States Distric
Judge Dickinson, in the Federal Build
ing, Philadelphia, on Wednesday, Au
gust 18th, when they plead guilty t
a charge of transporting alcohol, an
not whiskey, as stated by the Philadel
phia papers, through the streets o
Philadelphia in an automobile on Au
gust 7th. The evidence at hand clear
" established the fact that the alco
hol had been procured upon the OF
der of a physician for medical pu1
poses and that the men were therefor
guilty only of a slight and not gros
violation of the National Prohibitio
Law; hence the small fine.
Councilman Frank Reedy, an eX
sheriff of Kent County, has been elect
. ed president of Milford Town Counc
. for the remainder of the term, unit
January l, 1921. This makes Pres
4 dent Reedy acting mayor of the tow
until that date, when, according to tt
Il town charter, regular election W.
Il be held.
i Forty years as teacher in the pr
n mary department of the Lewes uniC
4 schools is the record held by Miss Al
ME ]. Rench, thus making her one
the oldest educators in Delaware.
IN four Io,,- eivoo rba fapdprp6 her feSll