Smyrna times., 1923-08-15

LeHlPldteS transporting children from
Port Penn to the Delaware City school
for the next term. The number of
children to be transported will not ex-
ceed thirty and they must all be high
school students.
The past six months traffic through
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
shows an increase over the CORES
ponding period of 1922 of 22,776 net
tons of merchandise shipped and
$71,57O in value.
The Special Six Studebaker auto
mobile, offered by the Elkon Firemen
as the grand prize at their carnival,
was won on Wednesday night by Rob
ert McCauley, prominent butcher, of
Leeds. The car cost the lucky winner
just twenty cents.
Thaddeus Windsor, proprietor Of
the Windsor Hotel Milford. who takes
a delight in obtaining pets of unusual
character, has just received another
shipment of bears. For the sake of
amusement he tames and train these
animals. The bears received Sunday
are of the cinnamon variety and when
full grown will weigh 1900 pounds.
Work upon the construction of the
concrete Elkton-Delaware Line sec
ton of the Glasgow Road, awarded by
State Road Commission to the Broad
Creek Contracting Company, under
the provisions of the Shoemaker Act.
the State and County meeting the
cost, has been held up indefinitely ow-
ing to the discovery of lack of funds.
whether State or county, has not been
learned definitely.
While operating a corn shelter on
the farm of Edgar B. Coulter at
Harbeson, Lawrence Phillips, young
boy, had his left hand caught and
badly mangled before it could be ex-
tricated. The Phillips boy is an or
phan and was taken from an orphan
age and given a home with Mr.. Coul-
ter. DrJOhn H. Hammond, of George
town, was summoned and dressed the
injuries.
The contract for the construction of
the Delaware City-Port Penn road
was awarded by the Levy Court Tues
day to the Shallcross Brothers of
MiddletOwn whose bid was $4,000.
The contract Stipulates that it shall
be completed by June 1, 1924. It is
to be 100 feet wide at the base and
raised to a height of about 10 feet
which will serve to keep the river
from flooding the inland farms in thar
section, should the river bank give
way as it has done in the past few
years.
Mrs. Mary A. Powell, who was re-
Gently granted a parole after serving
nineteen years of a life-term SEN
tence in the New Castle County Jail
who is still an inmate awaiting the
finding of a suitable home, had her
first trip out side the prison walls
last week. She was taken to the low
er part of Kent County by Parole
Officer Robinson to see her brother,
sixty-nine years old, who is i'll. Mrs.
Powell was not recognized by any
one as she passed through Dover and
other towns on her trip.
Henry Ellis, Is years old, employ
ed on the farm of Pierce Donovan,
near MiddletOwn, was kicked in the
head by a horse Thursday afternoon
while plowing a field. The boy sank
unconscious to the ground and an
other employe who was helping him,
called DR.. E. NJ. Vaughn DR.. Vaughn
treated the boy for a fractured skull
and then sent him to the Delaware
Hospital at Wilmington. At the Del
aware Hospital it was reported that
the boy is in a serious condition. He
is suffering from a compound frac-
ture of the base of the skull.
"Big Thursday" was observed at
Bowers Beach and also at Oak Orch
ard and both places were thronged all
day with visitors. Towns and villag-
es and farming communities in lower
Delaware were deserted by the inhab-
itants who all made their way to one
or the other of the resorts. 1t was
also known as Farmers Day. and
the agriculturists were out in large
numbers. Many residents were pres
ent at Bowers Beach from Whining
ton and Philadelphia. Many made the
trip by boat and others by automO-
bile. There was a large sale of build
ing lots at Bowers Beach, and it is
expected that many new cottages will
be erected for use next summer