Smyrna times., 1927-10-26
STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We Know
In and Around the Larger PENN
sula Towns and Communities


The Volunteer Hose Company of
Middletown responded to an alarm of
fire at the home of Mr.. ]. H. Lyman,
on the Levels last Saturday morning,
and quickly subdued the blaze which
was in the chimney.
Lower Delaware is water-soaked as
result of the heavy rain storms, Low
lands in many sections of Sussex
county are flooded and bitches are
taxed to carry off the surplus water.
Farmers who have their lands in read
mess for the winter wheat crop have
been handicapped because of the wet
condition of the fields, and it may be
several days before many of them in
the central section of the county will
be able to get the seeds sown.
With new buildings in course of con-
struction for Harry E. Walls and H.
D. Massey & Co., to replace structures
destroyed by the Church Hill fire of
last July, a contract has been awarded
to H. B. PiIchard, of Pocomoke City,
to begin work on the new home of the
| Church Hill Bank of Maryland. The
bank building will be a handsome
brick structure facing on Main street,
Church Hill, and is expected to cost
approximately $4,000.
Miss Hazel E. Saunders, daughter
| of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Saunders, and
Harvey M. Jones, son of the late John
M. Jones and Nancy Jones, all of
Woodside, Del, were married on Fri
day morning, October IA at 7.3O, at
the Harrington Methodist Episcopal
parsonage by Rev. E. H. Collins. Mrs.
Mildred S. Deputy sister of the bride,
was brides maid while w. D. Deputy,
her husband, acted as best man. At
ter wedding trip Mr.. and Mrs. Jones
will continue to live at Woodside.
Judges Herbert L. Rice and William
| Watson Harrington, sitting In Super
ior Court at Georgetown last week,
granted a decree nisi in the following
divorce cases; Mrs. Alice Belle Rave,
of Laurel, from Clarence w. Rave,
desertion; Joseph D. Knowles, of
Greenwood, from Mrs. Mary A. Know
les, desertion; Mrs. Addie H. Dyer, of
Greenwood, from Frederick F. Dyer,
desertion; Mrs. Mildred A. Brown, of
Harbeson, from Knoulton Brown, de-
sertion.
Members of Sussex Post, No. 8,
American Legion, comprised of legion
naires from all sections in the eastern
part of Sussex county, gave testi-
monial and reception to Charles Town
send, of Dagsboro, and George How
| ard Baer, of Georgetown, two MEM
bers of the Post, Wednesday night.
The two young men were among the
number who went TO Paris a few
weeks ago. Past State Commander
Howard t. Ennis was master of cere-
monies and made very fitting adj
dress. Refreshments were served at
the close of the meeting.
When the new tourists and COM
munity hotel, now in course of con-
struction on Second street, Lewes, are
completed, Lewes will have one of the
| finest hostelries on the Delmarvia
Peninsula outside of Wilmington and
the Wicomico Hotel, in Salisbury, Md.
Excavation work is under way by the
Barnes Construction Company, of
Philadelphia, who were awarded the
contract. The hotel will cost more
than $4,000 and will be owned by a
stock company. Shares of stock have
been sold throughout lower Delaware,
and no one person holds the controll-
ing interest.
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