Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-09-21
INSPECTING DELAWARE
RIVER FORT|F|CAT|ONS
Government Force Making a
Tour Of Forts du Pont, Della
ware, Mott, Salisbury.

Special Correspondence Every Evening.
Delaware City. Sept. 2i.--Willism
Carpenter. master mechanic and an
ordnance inspection ofYicer from Fort
Howard are making district in
spection OF ornaments in this district.
N. w. Wilkinson was at Fort Sauls-
bury yesterday experimenting the
work OF putting small man-doors In
the big storm doors OF the ERin pro-
tections.
Charles Heal has resigned his po-
sition at Baltimore and returned home
yesterday. This morning he enrolled
In the High School.
Mrs. John Swan and sons, Robert
and John. Jr., Ore visiting .her'brother,
Oscar. Bender. In Camden.
A party from here took motor trip
to Smyrna yesterday afternoon. Those
In the party were Harry Hall. Miss
Florence Hall. Miss Jane Clark Miss
Ethel Reybold, Miss Caroline Clark.
Harry Price. Mrs. Harry Price Mrs.
f. c. Warner, Miss Alice Reybold and
Miss Marian Price.
The dinner hour at the High School
has been changed from IL to 1. to 1920
to 1.20. The length of the recitation
periods was changed also from forty
five to fifty minutes. In the twelfth
grade this year are the following stu
dents: Ruth Morrison, Mary Rash.
Bessie Hagen. Mildred Davidson.
Margaret Davidson, Catherine Rose,
Merle Yearsley and Davis Coale.
Mrs. Kenneth Cross and Miss Ger
trude McMunn, of Jersey City. N. j..
who are visiting Mrs. Cross here
motored to Philadelphia yesterday
The Red Lion Hundred Sunday
School Convention IL being held today
in the Methodist Episcopal Church Mt
Summit Bridge OF which the Rev. J..
c. Mccoy of st. Georges, il pastor.
Those from the local Presbyterian
church who attended as representa-
tives of the Sunday school We're: Mrs
George w. Clark. Mrs. Harry Price,
Miss Marion Price. Miss Elizabeth
AlSer. Miss Ella Cleaver. Rev. r.. C.
PitZer, Mrs. John Schunder. Mrs.
George Kennedy and Mrs. Gertrude
Sader.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Hicken re-
| turned home yesterday after spend
! Ing several days with their son, Ray
mond. in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. w. wilkinson At
tended the concert given by the
| United States Marine Band Tuesday
night at Longwood.
The Diamond state Telephone Co
| had repairmen making inspection of
! telephone poles and company property
in this vicinity yesterday.
Guy T.. Vail Of the local lock Office
force will return from a twp-weeks
vacation tomorrow On the day he re-
turns, John Swan, also n member of
/ the local force, will leave on a NJ
days vacation. He will go tc
| New York by rail and from there &c
Albany by boat. thence 10 Niagara
Falls. through Canada TO Detroit tC
q icago returning home by way OF
Cincinnati, and Wheeling.
Interest In the bali game Saturday
afternoon between the married an6
single mems teams for the benefit OF
the local Child Health Center is in.
| creasing. Tickets are in the hands OF
Mrs. q. n. Bright. Mrs. WV. Ellis
Miss Marion Price, Miss Mary Money
Mrs. Frank O. Moore. Mrs. n. w. vii,
kinson and Mrs. VIM. X. Pennington
come of whom have already sold al
placed In their hands and have re
turned TO Managers Cofer and Spicel
for more. The tickets are twenty-flv,
cents
Miss Mary Lang went to Philadcl
ph.a to attend The funeral service:
OF friend who was buried yesterday
/, Miss Lydia Broadway has receive,
several baskets of Fallowater apple!
from cousin who is "A fruit groves
: md trucker in Bridgeton, n. ]. Thes,
apple are very large in size. TWEEN
; ~ of them will fill a five eights basket
: Miss Broadway distributed some anon,
her friends.
, The c'abbing from the local wharve,
is bet IL at the present time than
has been during the summer. TIL
ordbs are just as numerous as eve
and are much larger and fatter.
Miss Alice Vail. nurse in charge o
the .ocal Child Health Centre. at
tender g meeting in Newark yesterda,
of all the nurses in New Castle Coun
" who are engaged in Child Welfar
Work. Yesterday afternoon at the 10
cal Health centre, 10 children wer
weighed, measured and examine
while mothers were instructed Il
the care of infants.
Mr.. Harry Rose announces his can
didacy for the nomination OF Sena to
from the Fifth Senatorial Distric
subject 10 the decision Of the Demo
: cratic party and solicits the supper
OF his friends and the party in genera
for the office.-Adv.