Smyrna times., 1923-09-12

Lemuel Barratt, negro, was shot in
the throat last week at Blanco Camp,
west of Clayton in a fight. John
Westley Prior, negro, is said to be his
assailant.
There is much local interest in the
awarding of the contract for the con-
crete street thru the town limits of |
Clayton. Bids are to be opened to-
day at Dover. -
Rev. w. E. Matthews, of Smyrna |
will occupy the pulpit Of St. Paul NJ.
E. Church next Sunday in the absence
of Rev. c. W. Clark who will preach |
at Asbury, Smyrna.
Samuel Schwake a white man, was
taken to Dover recently by Constable
Smith and committed on a charge of
assault on a ten-year-old white child
living on the farm of Walter Beddell,
near Clayton.
Thursday night an auto thief or
thieves broken open Edward Wrights
garage in this town and went off with
his Ford car. Mr.. Wright notified
the State Highway Department and
local officers, but at this writing has
not gotten up with his car. 1t was
not insured against theft.
Trinity Church School opened for
the year on the second of this month.
Promise is given of an unusually good
session. Let all those who intend to
come, begin now. The School meets
at 2.30 p. M, every Sunday. There
will only be one service next Sunday
following the School, there will be
Evening Prayer and Sermon at $50.
The Clayton cannery, operated by
members of the Farm Bureau, on the
cooperative plan, is one of the busiest
places to be found these days a record
pack is being made. The capacity of
their new peeling machine was found
to be so inadequate, it has been aban-
doned and workers are turning out a
greater production by hand.
Probably the first farm to ever bt
vacant over in Queen Anne's county
has been located near Chestertown
The farm is known as "Old Kentuck
and is owned by Mrs. Sarah Cooper
The farm has been tenanted by
Chestertown man until recently. Tn
place is now grown up in weeds an
affords rabbits and quail an excellen
hiding place.
Wanda ZukOfsky the four-year-ol
daughter of Stanislas Zukofsky, {
Baltimore, Md, who is working in tn
tomato cannery in Clayton was foun
lying on the ground with two heav
tomato trucks pinning her down, b
the head. How the accident happeI
ed is not known as no one was pre-
ent when it occurred. There is
long cut on the left side of her hea
and it is thought that the skull
fractured at the base. Her cOnditiC
is regarded as very serious.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. HAZEL, known
a number in this vicinity, died at h
home on South Sassafras street
Millington Md, last Wednesday, agt
IS years. The funeral was held Sa
urday, at 1.30 p. m. at Holy Gro
Chapel. Interment in Millington Ger
etery. Rev. J. f. Saunders, of Ma
sey, Officiated. She is survived
one son, DR.. B. w. Hazel of Baltimo
and two daughters, Miss Martha &c
trude at home, and Mrs. ]. Re
Howe of Hamlet, n c. Mrs. Haz
has lived in Millington for a numb
of years and leaves a host of frien
in the community.
The rumor in town that Earl
Grant with other parties had pU
chased Wright's Garage at corner
Boulevard and Leipsic Road ne
Smyrna, seems not to have matters
lied. There was a move in this
rection, it was ascertained,
Wright's Garage property is
shrOuded with litigation following I
Wright-Scotten law suit, that any
empt to purchase and run said pre-
erty as a garage was deemed by
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