Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-11

Held up by detectives while innocently
engaged IN eating marshmallows was the
unique experience of party OF summer
vacationists from Spoford Lake, New
Hampshire, the party including MIR. ana
Mrs. Frank Thomas Miss Jeanette Thom.
as and the William Belts family, all oi
Wilmington. About 30 guests at Spofiord
Lake decided a woodland supper with
marshmallow roast would be good fun.
Good things To eat were prepared and
things looked promising for delightful
time The party found an ideal picnic
ground and were on the marshmaliow
stretch Of the supper when they iound
themselves surrounded ley mysterious
figures who were more br1sque than
polite in demanding hands up" of all the
picnickers Their hands were full OF marsh
mallows. but they managed TO get them
up in the air, only to find twas much ado
about nothing. Some detectives on the
trnil of burglar suspects saw their fre and
closed IN on them for the possible hold
M men. The girls in the party think the
police Smcllcd the toasting marshmallows
and played u rusc to get share. lheir
friends here will have to wait till the VII
mingtoniaus return ON August 70 TO know
II they were successful.
Or Julian Adair and Mrs Adair will
leave next Friday for Squirrel Island
where they will be the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs Fred Wardcnburg ut their summer
home.
Miss Louise Ienckes Of Wyomissing,
In will arrive on Friday TO spend two
weeks with Miss Mildred Simpson Miss
,lcnckes Is graduate Of Friends School
and hos many friends here who will be
delighted to learn Of her visit.
Mr. and Mrs James s. Stirling will 60
hy motor "a Nechanicsville, y Y. on
August n They will bring back with
them Thomas Stirling. Jr., who has been
spending the summer with his uncle,
Thomas Strling. Sr, Miss Louise Stir
ling aud Miss Elizabeth Luke of Tarry-
town, y. y
Navor and Mrs William G. Taylor
and Roger TAYLOR have returned from a
nsonths visit To RChOboth.
Mr. and Mrs ] r. Hudson are at Ocean
CITY. \ ! and Mrs Merris Taylor has
been thor guest for several DAYS.
Mr. and Mrs Ferdinand L. Gilpin,
" orc ~ Cape May for the remainder
Of the season.
Mr. and Mrs Thomas | LafTy have
returned from three weeks stay at At
lannc CITY Miss Lorena laffy IS in camp.
M and Mrs Robert Lytle have return
ed from Atlantic CITY and leave this week
for Pit,sburg, Ia.
Mr. and NIrs. Henry T. du Pont are
81 southampton, L. i, for several
weeks
Mrs Jane c. Van Trump and Miss
Laura -. Nan Trump are at Atlantic |
CITY.
Mr. and Mrs r r. NJ Carpenter and
family arc AZ home after week spent at
Long Branch, whore Misses Louisa and
irene Carpenter won blue ribbons in the
Monmouth County Horse show.
Mrs Florence Bayard Hilles has gone
10 Nashville. Tenn, where she will rep
resent the National Woman S Party at the |
gathering Of suffTagists attendant upon |
the called session of the Tennessee Legs /
lature.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the /
Society of Descendants of Henry VOL 4
colt opened Yesterday at the Hotel Astor, |
New York, and will continue today end /
tomorrow. Members Of this family, which 1
has figured in tho affairs Of America since /
1894. came from several States. One, +
Henry II. Nolcott, came from Jamaica, 4