Smyrna times., 1930-11-19

| after some months without indi-
cations or hopes of restoration, at
his earnest solicitation she went
over and nursed him. Consump-
tion he saw, was doing its work
rapidly and he, insisted on being
married before his final dissolution
to which she at length assented
and they were married on the End
instant and he survived only to
the 10th instant last Wednesday.
Much sympathy is felt for the
young widow in her affliction.
BILLY" Kenton, a familiar char
acter about town, succumbed on
Wednesday last after six
months attack of dropsy, saving
attained the age of 81 years. Up
till disabled by his last sickness he
had been the man power" to turn
our press on publication days and
was always pleased to number
himself as an attachee of the Of
flee. Billy was the best natured
fellow going, never mad perhaps
longer than a minute at time
and then under great provocation,
and when warmed up by finger
or two of ''red eye" could laugh
incontinently. Nature had given
him a longer allotment of time if
he had used it carefully, his moth
er still surviving him at the ad
vanced age of 80 years.
Local Option.-The meeting held
in this town on the Both of August
in pursuance to a resolution of the
Annual Conference held at Dover,
former a society called the State
Temperance Alliance and adjourn
ed to meet in Dover December 1st
to further perfect the association.
A meeting will be held in a few
days to elect delegates from this
place. The purpose of the meet
ing is to effect permanent organ
ization by the election of officers,
and to take steps toward securing
the passage of a local option law
for Delaware. Religious and
Temperance Associations are in
vited. Excursion rates have been
secured on the P. w. & B. and
Delaware Railroads. Revs. L. G.
Matlack, T. E. Martindale and W.
H. Kitchen compose the Commit
tee of Publication.
A. P. Griffith has contracted for
his new dwelling on Main street
and a working force of ten men
set in on Monday morning for the
preliminary work of cellar digging,
etc. Mr.. Griff1th's lot has front
of 100 feet running back 230 and
with such a clever piece of land
it is expected that Mr.. Griffith will
have something "nobby" in the
way of house and surroundings. 1t
is the purpose to get the building
enclosed before. extreme weather
sets in, and plaster and finish af
ter freezing weather in the spring.
(Note-This property is now the
residence Of Mr.. L. M. Price.)
We congratulate Col.Geo. H.Ray-
mond as chairman of the commit
tee and the teachers of the town
on the complete arrangements for
providing homes for all the visit
ing teachers, Mr.. Roe, as the only
members of the executive here, has
had the responsibility of securing
workers and arranging the pro-
gramme. DR.. Purnell of Delaware
College will be the speaker for to-
night, Rev. A. w. Milby for to-
morrow night, and Prof. Brooks of
Pennsylvania, Friday night.
Marriages Slaughter Cooper.
At the residence of the brides
parents, on the 10th instant, by
Rev. j. M. Yingling, S. Olin
Slaughter and Miss Emma Cooper,
daughter of Thomas B. Cooper,
Esq, of Willow Grove. No cards.
Booker Broadway.-On the 9th
instant, at the residence of Henry
Dagger, East Dover Hundred, by
Rev. G. Huntington, Walter Book
er of Hillsboro, Caroline County,
Nd, and Miss Amandad Broadway
of Willow Grove, Delaware.
Rev. James Stubs, late of Eng
land, father of Rev. Enoch Stubbs,
has purchased of Alex. Collins, of
Dover, the house and lot of four
and half acres of ground, situat-
ed half way between this town and
Duck Creek for S1050. 1t is the
purpose of Mr.. Stubs to take pos
session of it the coming spring and
make it permanent home. Mr..
Stubbs will receive a warm wei
come from the community.
The peach evaporators of this
county who took their machines to
New York state for fall and
winter run on apples have not met
with the remuneration expected,
the price having fallen from lie
in 1879, to sc per lb. this year.
Apples have been so abundant as
to sell as low as 10c per bushel
and from this as the season has
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