Smyrna times., 1931-06-10

SOuIoc, SOuSluSTdDl6 attention II
. our community and diligent in
; quiry fails to connect this charac
ter with any one who has ever liv
} ed here or near here. She belong
ed to some other locality.
! Festival Moonlight Fes
tival in the outrageous grave''wa
fore in the fancy than in the fact
for the Clerk of the weather threw
a wet blanket over all such realiza
tlons and sent the managers anc
patrons to the closer quarters o1
the Town Hall where both Satur
day and Monday evenings they
really had most pleasant times
The tables with their splendid flor.
al display were decidedly hand
some. One of the beautiful bo,
quets- made by Mrs. S. E. An.
thony- -graced the chancel table al
the M. E. Church Sunday morning
The Festival floor is a common
platform where all classes meet
and as such is not without its
benefit to society. The gross sales
amounted to S126 leaving abou;
$50 clear of expenses.
Deaths. - Harrison. At Lake
City, Fla, May 18th, May Perkins,
wife of S. G. Harrison and daugh-
ter of Thomas j. and Amelia Perk-
ins of Tallahassee, Fla.
Bailey. In Spruance City, on
the 31st of May, Sarah Francis,
wife of John H. Bailey, aged A
years.
KINNEY. In Saltwater, Mimi,
May 27th, Samuel H. KINNEY,
formerly of this town, aged 27
years and months. He has been
great sufferer for the last two
years from heart disease. He is
the only son of Mary A. KINNEY
of this town. His father was the
late Samuel KINNEY of Dover, and
for many years the only printer in
Kent County, Delaware.
Senatorial Compliments. - Sena-
tor Salisbury calls all his con-
stituency from Duck Creek Hun
dred, who dare to question him
about the Creek appropriations,
BILLY Mahones." How is that for
mplimentary? But, Senator,
these BILLY Mahones" think while
you are passing around compli-
ments that you might condescent
to answer a civil question, viz:
How $4,000 appropriation to i'm
prove the navigation of Smyrna
Creek would be unconstitutional
while it would be constitutional for
st. Jones Creek? This is not pol
itics you know but law, and the
plain people do not attempt to
fathom the depths of the law.
Real Estate James Nc
Carter sold at Administrators sale
last week the farm of Philip Land
ers, deceased near Dexter's Corner
Blackbird Hundred (the old Barr
property, 800 acres, to Abraham
Landers Of Lancaster, for S5,200
On Thursday last Sheriff Lacy sold
the interest (one-fourth) of James
E. Black, deceased, in the parental
estate as follows: No. I, the family
residence S861; No. 2, a vacant lot
adjoining S1O1; No. 8, the farm on
the road to the Landing, 120 acres,
for So, POI; No. 4, II acres of wood
land in Raymond's Neck. S66.
Last Saturday Isaac Truax came
to town and hitched his horse and
carriage in the Smyrna Hotel yard.
When ready to go home about 9
o'clock he found some one had cut
the hitch rein and made off with
his team. The horse and team
were found next morning at his
brother SamuePs near town, the
horse looking as if it had been
driven nearly all night and the We
hicle was broken.
Petit Jurors-The following is
the Kent list of petit jurors for the
June term of the Circuit Court,
which meets in Wilmington on the
third Tuesday in June: Harvey d.
Learned, Dover; Joseph M. Cham
bers, Dover; John CStockley, Duck
Creek; John E. Phillips, Duck
Creek; John M Hall, South Murd-
erkill; Samuel B. Cooper, North
Murderkill; Benjamin j. Moore,
Little Creek.
We learn without any notifica-
ton as to date and circumstances
that Mrs. David j. Murphy died at
their residence at Newark week be-
fore last. Mrs. Murphy was well
known here, having spent the larg-
er part of her life in this vicinity,
Alley Mills. She was a lady of
quiet and gentle temperament, and
in her circle Of relatives and
friends enjoyed their warmest af-
fections.
At the first excursion to Bonn
bay Hook on Wednesday, which
was from Union Church, Whining
ton, Miss Thompson fell from
swing striking stump in her de-
coapt oDI Iroalr;ro Lar Lea -.