Smyrna times., 1923-08-15
NEWS OF CLAYTON.
And Local News Budgets from CheswOd, Kenton
BIackbird, Townsend, Thoroughfare Neck,
Leipsc, Brenford, and Their Vcinities.
CLAYTON

CLAYTON
Fred Thomas is having his home
beautifed by a fresh coat of paint.
holland Bennett has accepted a po-
sition in New Castle.
Miss Edythe Meredith has accepted
a position with Mrs. Frank Van
Wrinkle, milliner at Smyrna.
We are indeed glad to state that
Mrs. Harry Stevens, who has been
dangerously i'll from gall stones, is
improving.
Isaac Newton is able to return to
his duties for the P. R. R. after being
absent several weeks due to a broken
blood vessel of the nose.
Abel Sevil, president of the Clayton
Bank, has returned home after de-
lightful sight seeing trip to the Pa
cifc Coast where he spent month
visiting in California and other places.
The refrigerating and ice plant of
the P. R. r above Clayton, is busy
place these days. AS most of the
fruit is shipped in refrigerator cars,
the stop-over for ice makes the north
bound side track a scene of activity.
The local painting crew of the Penn
sylvania Railroad have been assigned
to a month or more of work at Lewes
and Rehoboth and while it will take
them away from their families, they
are delighted at the prospect of COM
bining business and pleasure at the
seashore for the rest of theasummer.
Grover Moore, an emplOye of the
Fruit Growers Express Company, of
Clayton, while standing on a board
loading ice into a cold storage freight
car Saturday morning, was precipi-
tated te the ground by the ice slip
ping and pushing the board from un-
der him. He was picked up uncOn-
scious, suffering from conclusion of
the brain, and taken to the Delaware
Hospital.
Henry Ellis, 15 years old, employ
ed on the farm of Pierce DOnavan,
was kicked in the head by horse last
Thursday afternoon while plOwing a
field. The boy sank unconscious to
the ground and another employe who
was helping him, called a physician
He was sent to the Delaware Hospital
at Wilmington, where it is reported
the boy is in a serious condition. He
is suffering from a compound frac-
ture of the base Of the skull.
Clayton has been visited by repre-
sentatives of the State Highway Com
mission who have been following VI
road surveys west to the Maryland
line. There is no hope now of getting
a road thru Clayton this year, owinl
to the lateness of the season and tn
fact that appropriations for 1928 hav
been expended. Assurances are, how
ever, made that next year a roa
from the dupont Boulevard at SmyT
ma, thru Clayton, thru Blackiston an
on to the Maryland line near Milling
ton will be one of the first roads t
receive attention.
The auditors Of the recent Fire
mans Carnival have made their II
port with the result that the total n
ceipts lacked SO cents of being $500
To be exact the total taken in wa
S8,69901 from which the Clayto
Firemen will clear S4,04321, enoug
to liquate the Indebtedness on the +,
Gently purchased chemical fire true
buy all the hose necessary and leaV
a balance in the treasury of over 81
500. The Clayton Firemen are elatC
over their success and have every re-
son to be. In turn they are gratef
to the people of the town and who
community, including Smyrna, for Il
support and encouragement they +
ceived.
Seven hundred members of the We
eran Railroad Employees of the d.
aware and Maryland Divisions of t
Pennsylvania Railroad, with the
families crowded RehOboth Bea
Sunday at their annual cOnventiC
They were welcomed by Mayor Har
Satterfeld, himself railroad condu
tor, at the Blue Hen theatre. Amo
the speakers were /. B. Sinclair, D
aware Railroad Superintendent. 3
was disclosed at the meeting til