Smyrna times., 1923-09-05
STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
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OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We Know
In and Around the Larger Penin-
sula Towns and Communities

In and Around the Larger Penin-
sula Towns and Communities
Walter Elburn, brother of R. Frank
Elburn, clerk in the postoffice, while
unloading tomatoes at the Chester
tertown wharf fell from his team,
across the railing of a vessel, fractur-
ing three ribs and injuring himself
internally. He was taken to Easton
Hospital for an X-ray examination.
Recovery from directors and former |
directors of the r. L. Dollings Com |
pany of Ohio of approximately S43O,- |
600 alleged to have been paid illegal |
ly as dividends on common stock from
October, 1919, to April 1923, is sought
in a suit filed in common pleas court
in behalf of the receivers. William
G. Benham, president Fred G.. Con-
nelly and John r. Willbanks, directors
at the time receivership proceedings
were first instituted, and six executors
of the estate of Charles E. Morris, de-
ceased, are named as defendants.
Tomatoes reached the highwater
mark of several years at, Nassau
Wednesday, when several different
buyers were bidding against each
other on a one hundred basket load.
1t brought 991a cents basket. Dur
ing the day other loads brought all
the way from 81 cents to 62 cents a
basket. Fortunately for the farmers
at Lewes this season, there are a
number of buyers and as yet they
haven't gotten their heads together
and fixed prices as they have been do
ing for the past three or four years.
Dixie Reynolds, of Wilmington, was
elected superintendent of the State
Highway Police at the meeting We'd
nesday of the State Highway Depart
ment. He will assume his new duties
on or about September 1. Mr.. Reyn-
olds will succeed Captain A. Alquest,
of the Pennsylvania State Constabu-
larry, who was here for three months
conducting a school of instruction and
organizing the department. The new
superintendent was formerly resident
engineer Of the Department for New
Castle county. That program may be
dispensed with as the program of
work has almost been completed.
Miss Katie Edna Fox, daughter of
Mrs. Clara Fox, and Captain Robert
D. Simmons, of Dover, were married
Il at the home of the brides mother
Y Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Leon.
II ard White, psator of Wesley NJ. E
II Church. Captain Simmons is a dis
tribution clerk in the Dover postofficC
III where the bride was also employed
Mrs. Simmons is president of tht
IN Woman's Auxiliary of the American
N Legion, the Dover post of which wa!
II named in honor of her brother, Wal
II ter L. Fox, who was killed in France
III Captain Simmons is commander O
II the Dover company of the Nationa
II Guard and has been interested in mill
II tary affairs for number of years.
III DOvers town alderman, Edwin +
II Wood, also justice of the peace an
II notary public, passed the S0th mile
stone last Monday. Magistrate Woo
is still active, attending his Office eac
III day. Magistrate Wood enjoys a dis
III tinction apart from any other appoir
Ill tive Office in the State that of havin
III served as a justice of the peace an
Hi notary public continuously over
HI years, having been first appointed t
ll that office by Governor John Hun
Hill shortly after his Inauguration in 100
Hill and re-appointed each four yea
Hill thereafter. Magistrate Woods wi
sgN is still living at an active advance
= age. Mr. Wood is a Civil War vete
- an and still has the soldierly bearil
1M in his walk. Squire Wood receiv
many congratulations on the annive