Smyrna times., 1929-04-24
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 Dover school building was Wis
tied by hundreds of members Of the
Parent Teacher Associations Of the
State, which met there last Saturday.
Many favorable comments upon the
appearance of the grounds, the build
ing and the various school rooms were
heard.
By vote of the teachers who par
tlcipated at the Parent-Teacher AS
sociation antique exhibit at Dover, the
display in the room of Mrs. Cubbage
of the elementary grades, was judged
the best, which entities Mrs. Cubbage
to two-day trip to New York city,
to observe school work in the ele-
mentary grades.
Professor Virgil B. Wiley has been
reelected superintendent Of the Do
Yer Public Schools for the next school
year. Prof. George H. Henry, head of
the English department has also been
reelected and appointed principal Of
the school. Several others of the fac
ulty have been reelected for the next
year.
That drunken drivers are on the in
crease instead Of decrease is indicated
by the reports of the State Automo-
bile Department for the past few
months. Thus far during April there
have been p revocations of license of
operators driving while under the in
fluence Of intoxicants. They include
16 from Delaware, four from Penn
sylvania and one from Maryland.
There will be no inspection of straw
berries at Selbyville this year w. T.
Derickson, director Of the Bureau of
Markets states. A majority of the
brokers want inspection but not until
they can win over the others to the
inspection plan will the State Board Of
agriculture arrange for this method
Of advancing the profits from the sale
Of this fruit.
Chester Rogers, a young farmer re-
siding near Georgetown, suffered
badly crushed ankle and foot when a
horse which he was riding on the
Georgetown-Laurel concrete highway,
stumbled and fell upon him. When
the horse fell, Rogers managed to
swing his body clear but his right
foot was caught before he could
snatch it out of danger.
Mrs. Fleta G. Powell, acting super
intendent at the Kent General Hos
pital, has presented her resignation to
the Board of Directors which has been
accepted The board has elected Miss
Ruth S. Cooper, who has been at the
hospital since its opening more than
two years ago, as acting superinten-
dent Miss Cooper trained at the NJ.
E. Hospital, Philadelphia, and has had
considerable experience in nursing.
IA quarrel between two brothers
over the location of a mail box at
Cedar Hill, near Pocomoke City, Md,
Saturday morning, eliminated in the
shooting Of Ned Brittinghom by Grow
er Birmingham. Ned was taken to
Pocomoke City where he was treated
BY physician. AT his home his con
dition is reported as rot being critical.
His arm was broken by the load Of
buckshot.
The road from Delaware City to
Port Penn, rebuilt several years ago
by raising the average height about
six feet by filing in with dirt, is
scheduled to be concreted all the way
from Delaware City to Port Penn.
Residents in that section are anxious
to see the road completed as soon as
possible az it is only four miles to
Port Penn by this road and it is ap-
proximately Is miles via st. Georges,
the road that now has to be used.
Striking evidence of the heavy de-
mands made annually on the railroads
by automobile manufacturers came to
| light yesterday with the announce
ment Of G. r. Scharff, general traffic
director Of Chevrolet Motor Company,
that the company's freight bill for
/ 1928, representing inbound and out
bound shipments for 16 domestic
plants, totalled more than S46,OO0,000.
This was an increase of more than
S11, 100000 over the 1927 bill.
Kent and Sussex County Fair Off
cials always start things early to get