Smyrna times., 1929-01-16
STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
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In and Around the Larger Penin-
sula Towns and Communities

In and Around the Larger PENN
sula Towns and Communities
DR.. and Mrs. Dorsey w. Lewis, of
Middletown, accompanied by Mr.. N.
]. Williams, expect to leave Middle
town next Tuesdaysfor Florida, where
they will remain until the last of
March.
Mr.. C. Malcom Cochran, Jr., of Mid
dletown, has returned to Kiski School
at Salisbury, Pa, after having fully
recovered from an operation for ap-
pendicitis which he underwent two
months ago.
Establishment of an air mail route
between Baltimore and the Eastern
Shore became a possibility last week
when it was learned that Senator Mil
lard E. Tydings had requested the
Postoffice Department to consider such
action.
Mrs. David R. Reese of near Mid
dletown, received during the month of
December, ITO dozen eggs from 140
White Rock pullets. This is an excep-
tionally good egg record and speaks
well for the White Rocks as egg pro-
[ducers.
Miss Mabel Savage, daughter of
Mrs. Eurie M. Savage and Herman
Benson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Benson, of near Milford, were mar
ried at the parsonage of the NJ. +.
Church at Lincoln City, by the Rev.
w. c. Buckson.
Professor Roy E. Jones, extension
poultryman, Storrs, Conn, will give
lecture on the results of his "grow
healthy chick campaign, conducted in
Connecticut for the past two years, at
the Delaware State Poultry Show to
be held in Milford on Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday Of this week.
The funeral of Edward B. Jones, re
tired Chestertown, Md, farmer, was
held Wednesday from the home Of his
daughter, Mrs. Frank V.Simpers, con
Quoted by the Rev. Dr. Wilbur F.Cork
ran, Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Interment was in Chester
cemetery.
Unless a suitable successor to State
Senator David j. Ward, president and
general manager Of the Salisbury Fair
can be found and a plan to conduct the
fair successfully worked out, the an
nual exhibition may be discontinued, it
has been reported. The fair has been
operated annually and Senator Ward,
its head, for more than twenty years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor @. Kohl, of near
Middletown, announce the marriage Of
their daughter, Josephine, to Noel Ur-
quahart, of New York City, Tuesday,
January |. Mrs. Urquahart has been
engaged in social welfare work. She
is a graduate of Middletown High
School and Brooklyn Hospital, also
attended Columbia College. The bride
groom is a student Of Stevens Insti-
tute of Technology, Class 80
Diamond-back terrapin are reported
to be unusually plentiful in Queen
Anne's county, Maryland, this year.
Last week it was reported that large
numbers had been caught in marsh
es along Chester river and Eastern
bay. Diamond-backs from six to
eight inches in length are selling for
five dollars each, in the Baltimore
markets, it is said. The hotels in
Baltimore have been the largest purch-
asers of those caught in this county.
The funeral of Samuel Burgess,
former Judge of the Orphans Court,
at Chestertown, Nd, who died near
Rock Hall, was held Wednesday in
Wesley Chapel Methodist Protestant
Church, with which he had been con-
nected since early manhood. Services
were conducted by the Rev. C.L. Daw-
son, the pastor, assisted by the Rev.
A. F. 7. Raum, former pastor, and the
Rev. w. S. Grant, of Rock Hall Meth
odist Episcopal Church. Interment
was in the cemetery adjoining.
At meeting the Milford Board of
Health last week the quarantine es-
tablished because of so many cases of
grip and fear of an outbreak of inf1u-
enza was lifted and the public schools
were opened Thursday morning. The
theatre reopened Thursday night. The
schools had not been opened since the
Christmas holidays. Physicians re-
port gradual decrease in the number
of grip cases there. The quarantine
according to local merchants hurt bus
mess considerably as few people have
been going to town to do their shop
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