Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-02

property this week.
]. B. McGinnis, law student O
Dover, will deliver a lecture OF
Race Respect in Bethel A. M. E
!. Church on Friday evening. Pro
ceeds for the building fund of tn,
new school house.
The Fourth Quarterly Confer
ence of Smyrna Circuit, viii b.
held on Saturday at Bethel NJ. E
Church at 1870 o'clock. Presiding
Elder Martindale will preach there
Sunday evening.
John, eldest son of Horace r
Mustard, had the small bone in his
leg just above the instep fractured
while at play at school on Monday
DR.. Swinney reduced the fracture
Sale-A. P. Griffith, real estate
agent, has sold the house and Iot
at Clayton, belonging to Mary A
Lof1and, to Patrick Mcguire, for
$525 cash.
Pork has been coming to market
the past week, but not so freely as
in some former years, and selling
at $3.50 per hundred.
Thanksgiving Visitors - The
Thanksgiving dinner is an annual
feature in calling friends and fam
lilies together in pleasant reunions.
The following are those, former
citizens and friends, who conferred
around the festive: Mrs. DR.. Dir
ickson, Berlin, Md; John A. Hof-
fecker, Philadelphia; Miss Nellie
Lacklin, Harry VanGasken, Will
liam Chandler, Wilmington; Miss
Mamie B. Fulton, Miss Lizzie B.
Stevenson, Miss Florence Hough,
Dover; Miss Mary Cooper, Phila-
delphia; J. Edward Hoffecker, Bal
timore; ]. P. U. Handy, Camden;
Rev. G. w. Burke, Mardel, Md;
Miss Clara Wilson, Harry @. Hill,
Middletown; F. J. Wands, Penning-
ton Seminary; William R. Cahoon
Jr., and family, Dover; Samuel H.
Wilson and wife, Wilmington.
PERSONAL. P. Eyre, wife and
daughter of Chester, in accordance
with a custom of years, Joined in
the Thanksgiving dinner with the
family Of Colonel George w. Cum
minis, returning OF Monday.
John E. Tygert and wife, who
have been on a visit to the Atlanta
Exposition and Florida, will return
in few days.
Ezekiel Rigg Of Conshohoken,
Pa, is visiting his son, Rev. J. D.
Rigg of this town. Levi Sylvester,
who went to Colorado last spring
and from whom his family had not
heard for several months, causing
them much distress of mind, sud
denly turned UP on Wednesday
evening last.
William P. Corsa, of the Milford
Chronicle, was in town yesterday
and smiled genially on the Times
office.
Mrs. J. w. Jones returned on
Saturday from a five weeks visit
to Washington.
Mrs. S. l.. Baldwin gave the M.
E. Sunday School Of which she was
a member before going to the
Foochow Mission. China, nearly
twenty years ago, one of her pleas
ant and very interesting talks on
Sunday last.
D. James Price, residing near
Brenford, has relinquished farming
because Of impaired health and
moved to this town.
Robert Smith, one Of our old cit
liens. goes to Camden, n. J., this
week to reside.
Colonel Fountain Of the Richard
son House, Dover, was in town on
Monday.
Harry Scout gave the Harmony
Cornet Band, Of which he is
member a slip on Thanksgiving
evening and run his head in the
matrimonial moose. They had been
anticipating as much for some time
but hardly expected him to come
it" over them so on the sly. Mon
day evening they treated him and
his bride to some of their best
music.
The Stubs family had a family
reunion at the residence of Rev
Enoch Stubs in Philadelphia on
Day. the first time
they have all been together at one
time in seventeen years. The re-
representatives. from this town were
Rev. James Stubs and wife (fath-
er and mother) and William Far
les and wife. Mr.. Stubs senior
read a very appropriate poem
which he composed for the occa-
sion.
John H. Hoffecker who returned
from a five weeks visit to the West
on Thanksgiving Day, has handed
us an interesting account of a visit
to a pork packing establishment
(which will anreqr in orr next is