Smyrna times., 1921-02-23

canning factories this year.
The senior class of the Georgetown
High School is rehearsing for play
to be given next month to raise funds
for the annual trip to Washington.
All the patriotic societies and kin
dred organizations in Wilmington are
making plans to celebrate Washing
toms birthday in an elaborate manner.
The Board of Health in Wilmington,
through its president, DIR. w. H. Han
by, recorded its opposition to the es-
tablishment of piggeries on the out
skirts of the city.
More than $100,0O0,O00 worth of au-
tomobiles will be exhibited at the an
nual show of the Wilmington Automo-
bile Trade Association, opening on
February 2Sth.
Miss Blanche Lockwood, of Middle
town, gave a talk on "The Health of
the Community" at a meeting of the |
Home and School Association in st. |
Georges Monday.
The Wilmington Rodney Equestrian !
Society, which has worked hard for |
monument to the Delaware patriot, !
has appealed to the Legislature for
$4,000 to aid the project.
Easton is soon to have another man.
ufacturing plant, which will give en-
ployment to large number of men, a
company to manufacture wheelbar
rows and trucks.
Lieutenant Colonel Herman w.
Schulz has been named by the War
Department to take charge of the re-
serve depot of the ordnance depart
ment at the Aberdeen Proving
grounds.
George Black, chief of police in Will
mington, celebrated on Thursday the
nineteenth year of his promotion to
head of the force. Chief Black is
credited with being responsible for
many improvements.
Joseph L. Parsons, aged rs years,
died at the home of his sister in Bal
timore, Wednesday evening. He was
veteran of the Civil War and lived
in Middletown for many years. The
body was brought to Middletown for
interment.
Edward D. Hearne, Washington, D
c., will begin building his new home
corner South Broad street and Park
Place, in Middletown, in the early
spring and will make his home here
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Reed have re.
turned to Middletown from Mechan
icsburg, Pa, where Mrs. Reed haC
been for some time because of the ILL
ness and death of her mother, Mrs
Emeline Miller.
The first lost of 10000 Mexican
quail ordered by State Game Warder
LeCompte, of Maryland, has been re
ceived at the State game farm anC
preparations are being made to dis
tribute the birds in the various coun
ties of the State this week.
Representatives of the Delawar
Corn Growers Association, the SUISSE,
County Farm Bureau and Seafor
business men met in Seaford Monday
to make recommendations for futur
corn shows held in Sussex county.
At its weekly meeting last Tuesda
night the Board of Education of vii
mington, appointed Is new teachers i
the grammar and high schools. A
increase of more than 200 pupils i
the high school necessitated the az
pointments.
Chicken thieves have been robbin
the chicken house of Mrs. George jar
vier, on her farm, north of Frogtow
Crossing, near Middletown, during tn
winter months, and on their last Wis
carried away all of the fowls she ha
kept for breeding purposes. Mrs. Jan
vier places her loss at $3.50.
Estella Cam, wife of Moses Can
colored, probably the largest woms
in Maryland, was buried in Georg
town cemetery last week. The coff
was too large to get into the hous
and the corpse had to be taken out
be placed in the casket. The case
which the coffin was fitted was fol
feet wide and eight feet long. IT
coffin was so large that it would n
go in the hearse, and had to be TAX
to the cemetery in a two-horse far
wagon. The woman was about
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