Smyrna times., 1920-04-07
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES


A free clinic for the treatment of !
eye trouble will be established by the
Delaware Optometrical Association |
in Wilmington.
At the defamation contest Miss
Elsie Walls was selected to represent
New Castle county at the State Con-
test to be held in Dover.
Approximately $155,OOO was raised
in Delaware for the Jewish Relief
Campaign, according to the final an
nOuncement.
Because of the unusual winter con-
ditiOns, Sussex County Commission
ers have appropriated $4,000 to each
of the 10 districts for dragging and
scraping the dirt roads.
Former Governor S. S. Pennewill
who has passed al his life on the
family farm, near Greenwood, has
purchased the Conoway home in Do
yer.
Robert P. Robinson was elected to
the Wilmington Public Building Com
mission by the Levy Court as success
sor to William H. Heald, resigned.
Mrs. B. NJ. Gillespie, of Milford,
gave variety shower last Thursday
evening to Miss Thelma Southards,
of Lincoln City, whose engagement
to Joseph Unison of Mahoney City,
Pa, has been announced.
The engagement is announced of
L. Roy Clark, of Railway, N. j., son
Of Mr. and Mrs. John Clark, of Dover
to Miss Marjorie Cook of Railway.
The wedding will take place the lat
ter part of this month.
Kent County School Commission
has purchased ten-acre lot on the
Iowber estate, on which to build
Frederica's new school. The lot is
located on Market street, that town.
Judge and Mrs. Walter A. Powell
will occupy the Conoway home on
North State street Dover, which was
= recently purchased by Ex-Governor
S. S. Pennewill, until December, when
their new home now in course IF con-
struction, on North State street will
be ready for occupancy.
Seventy-five motorcycle ii d e Rs
from Philadelphia and vicinity vii
participate in an endurance rur
through Delaware on Sunday for the
purpose of testing tires. These rid
ers will reach Dover about noon anC
have arranged for a dinner at The
Hotel Richardson.
About seventy-five friends of Mis-
Linda Pyott of Dover gave her a mis-
4 cellaneous shower on Saturday night
I Miss Pyott is one of Kent County
school teachers, who will soon becom
the bride of Charles Edgar Coz
Miss Pyott received many beautifu
and useful gifts. Refreshments wer
served.
I Robert T. Cochran OF Middletowl
l has sold to William H. Scott of Dal
4 lington, Md, his brown pacing mal
4 Little June Bug for $1,000. This mal
I is considered one of the best pacin
I prospects ever raised here, and wit
I good handling should be one of II
fastest of the daughters of Prime
March. She will be trained at Lal
1 caster, Pa.
Milford Town Council has raise
its tax rate to SIPS on the hundrt
dollars.
I Mr.. and Mrs. S. C. Faulkner
/ Rising Sun have issued invitation
to the marriage of their daughtt
Miss Florence Kersey Faulkner,
I Lloyd Voshell Travers, of Eastc
The ceremony took place at the hcr
of the brides parents Easter Sunds
The farmers in the upper distr1C
of Cecil county, Md, have organic
y the County Corn and Tomato Gro
ers' Association, with H. H. Xii
president; C. A. Hutchin, vice-pre
dent; and J. J. Hanna, secretary. I
Gamers and growers held a meeti
N at Rising Sun, Md, when the price
growing corn this year was fully d
. cussed. The farmers demand sgt T
ton, while the Gamers offered s.
They could not agree and the qu'
ton is deadlocked.
@ Motion picture patrons will be
terested to learn of the recent ma
al riage of Mary Pickford and Dougl
'uT Fairbanks at Los Angeles, Californ
on Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Fairban
pa are leading stars in the film wo'
arr and are known in almost every p'
- Of the world. The wedding occur
- lust twenty-eight days after M
'n' Fairbanks secured her divorce fr
II Owen Moore at Minden, Nevada.