Smyrna times., 1929-09-25
STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
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NEWS ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We
Know In and Around the Larg-
er Peninsula Towns
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis j. Parker of
Dover, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Helene J.
Parker, to William c. Boyer, Jr.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Charles
Boyer, also of Dover.
With the month of September
half gone, revocations of licenses
of drivers of automobiles for be-
ing intoxicated while operating
such machines have alreaoy reach
ed the total of SO, of which 33 are
from Delaware, three from Mary
land, two from Pennsylvania and
one from District of Columbia.
At meeting of the State Sink
ing Fund Commission in the Office
of Governor Buck, retiring of ad-
ditional State Highway bonds by
the first of the year was discussed.
With the 100000 bonds retired
some time ago it is hoped to re
duce the bonded Indebtedness by
January L, by S2,OO0,OOO more.
Governor Buck has returned
from a trip to the Eastern States
Exposition at Camp Ware, Spring
field, Mass, where he went on Sat
urday. The Governor expressed
himself as greatly pleased with the
exposition and the displays made
by the several States of which Del
aware is one. While there he talk
ed with the group of All Club
boys and girls from Delaware who
are attending the exhibit.
The U. S. District Engineer Of
fee, Wilmington, has a force of
men working at st. Georges dyna-
miting the bed of the old locks in
the Chesapeake and Delaware Can
al in an effort to remove more
than 1000 pilings, some Of which
are more than 80 feet in length.
The work of removing the rocks
at the bottom of the locks has
been completed and the workmen
are now concentrating On remov-
ing the many piling, which it is
feared may hinder navigation if
they are not removed from the
waterway.
In a raid made at Dover by City
officers, F. A Oliver, n. B. Farr
and Prohibition Officer N. E. Jett
together with w. A. Moore, Dep
uty Constable and Wilson Cum
minis, pool room operated by
Thomas Paskins on Reed and Kirk
wood streets, with Knowles Har-
mon, negro, in charge of the pool
room, nearly three quarts of liquor
was captured by the officers before
any attempt was made to destroy
any of it. Harmon was taken in
custody and assumed all response
bility for the liquor He was lock-
ed up in Kent county jail for q
hearing.
Mrs. Edward w. Cooch, of
Cooch's Bridge, State Regent of
the D. A. R., called joint
meeting of the State Executive
Board and the State Chairman of
Committees at the Wayside Inn,
Smyrna, at o'clock, standard
time, September 25. At this time
chapter regents will announce
their chapter committee appoint
ments, and definite arrangements
will be made for the 1929 Fall
Guest Day. There are three chap
ters of the D. A. r. in Delaware: ::
the Caesar Rodney Chapter of Will
mington; Col. Haslet Chapter of
Dover, and Cooch's Bridge Chapter
of Newark.
Announcement was made last
Tuesday of the marriage of Miss
Hazel Robinson, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Robinson, of
Cambridge, Md, and Reginald C.
Orem, son of Mayor Earl W.Orem,
Of Cambridge, which was perform
ed in Clarendon, Va, September
10. The bride, a graduate of the
Cambridge Hospital Training
School for Nurses, has been nurse
for former Senator Coleman du-
Pont at Horn Point, his Dorches-
ter county estate. Mr.. Ormen, a
graduate of st. Johns College at
Annapolis, is at present assistant
experimenting engineer at the
Dorchester county estate of Wal
ter P. Chrysler. !.
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