Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-07-10
DELAWARE CITY
AND VICINITY
The Girl Scouts viii Camp
Along the c. & D. Canal
Until July ~.

Special Correspondence Every Evening.
Delaware city. July 1o.-The Girl
Scouts went In launches today TO the
wide water ~ the Chesapeake 4 Del
aware canal. where they VIII camp
until July 81 after which the Roy
Scouts will SO there for 10 days. The
patroncrscs of the girls camp are:
Mrs. W. W. Ellis. Mrs. Harry c. Price.
Mrs. George Kennedy. Miss Elizabeth
Ak,r Miss Marion Price. Mrs. William
II. Jester and Miss Alice Vail. July 20
will be visitors day at the camp. when
the parents and friends OF the girls
IRE invited to visit them The following
girls are AT the camp: Dorothy Stanley.
Margaret Ellis, Harriet Bentley. Eliz-
aheth Adkins. Elizabeth Gladfeller.
katherine Nestch. Alberta Miller. May
Bentley. Edith Rudnick. Jane Miller.
Elizabeth Murphy. Evelyn kincaid,
Mildred Nestch. Florence Neary and
Dorothy Winslow.
Twcnty-four oil-soaked tents. which
Mrs Harry G. Price had prepared for
the girls camp. were destroyed at 4
O'Clock in the morning by spontaneous
combustion. The back porch OF the
Price dwelling was burned. and the
house barely escaped destruction.
The body OF Captain James IL.
Hobbs. who died on the barge Charles
q, Mcllvaine of Pigeon Point. has been
shipped 20 Laurel for burial.
Tho funeral of J. Amos Collins. who
died from injuries received by falling
down an elevator shaft at the plant of
the NIscose silk Co, Marcus Hook, Pa.
was held here. Saturday. with Rev. l.
W. Iayfield officiating. and was large
Is attended one hundred and twenty
Ave NiCose employees were present, and
90 composed a glee club. which SANG
appropriate hymns. The floral tributes
were numerous. James Husfelt. Frank
Il Irons. Harry Webb. Harry Rose
William Givison and Harry Pratt were
pallhcarers.
The tug Salem. OF which Axel Most
IL captain. IS undergoing repairs NJ
the American Car and Foundry plant
in Wilmington.
Anthony Smith returned 10 Phila-
delphia today. after spending a week
with his parents.
Major Eugene Reybold has been
transferred 10 Camp custer. Michigan
until September, when the will report
10 Fort Ieavenworth. Kansas. 10 at
tend the officers artillery school.
The odd Fellows carnival. which
opened a, ST Georges. saturday night
was largely attended. The 40-piece
band Will bc an attraction tonight.
Notices have been posted that the
registration officers for the First
election district ~ the Twelfth Rep
resentatiNe district will sit 20 regis
ter voters IN July IS. August s
August le. September I6. and October
81
Henry = Scot, entertained friend.
on the yacht Countess on a fishins
trip down the bay. The party caught
80 trout and croakers. Those IN the
party were: Henry p. Scott. Sidney
scott. Mr.. Baker. y. Simpson Dean
Miss Polly du Pont and Miss Elizabeth
Holiday.
Miss Addic X Morrow. of Glenolden
Pa. and Harry Morrow. OF Phila
delph!a. were weekend visitors G
their mother. Mrs. Jane Morrow
Mrs. Gilbert Kennedy. who had beer
visiting her parents for week. re
turned 90 Highlands, y. J.. yester
day
Frank Cassidy Of the L. s +. L
chip Camden. Is visiting his family.
The government dredee Bob Morri
started saturday 10 deepen the chan
nel z the canal az the culvert. A sur
vey party Will start today 20 TAX