Smyrna times., 1931-10-14
NEWS BUDGETS FROM
NEARBY TOWNS
CLAYTON
Items of Personal and Social Inter
est Cleaned About Neighborhood

soccer Team WOH I1-O against
Hartly Friday, October 8. Bailey
scored 5, Capt. Knight and Viii
liam Gooding, 8 each. The Girls
Dodge Ball team played Cheswold
October Is. Score 1872 in favor Of
Clayton. Miss Masten and Miss
Learned accompanied Cheswold
team. Our Dodge Ball Team will
play Hartly at Hartly October -.
The Soccer team will play McDon-
ough at McDonough, October 10.
Miss Elrick took the Seventh
grade on Get to Gether" hike
last Tuesday. Supervisor H. II.
Williams visited our school on Oc-
tober THE school band made a
creditable showing at the Rally
Day Service on Sunday Boy
Scouts meet each Thursday night
at the School House at 7.30. Mr..
Hickman is Scout Master and Mr.
Carroll Brown, assistant scout
master The Junior Boys Club
meets on Thursday evening at
7.30 p. m.-Mary Kathryn Pryor
won the prize offered by Mr.. Nc
Fadden for the best ear tuning for
the last month.-The regular Par
ent Teacher Association meeting
will be held Tuesday night, Octo-
ber 27. The P. T. A. drive for
membership will soon be on. Please
cooperate-Look for Miss Blue
Bonnet" the play, to be given at
Clayton School Friday and Satur-
day evenings, October % and "a.
When death closed the careers of
William H. Landon, pioneer pas
senger engineman at Crisfield on
Saturday, October 8, and ]. II.
Conaway, veteran engineman at
Delmar, on Tuesday, October 6,
both of whose names had been
placed upon the honor roll of the
Pennsylvania Railroad some years
ago, a check of the records of
these two railroad employees show
ed that their employment records
combined covered a period of SO
years and months. Mr.. Landon,
who at the time of his retirement
was the oldest engineman in point
of service on the former Norfolk
Division had been continuously en-
ployed for 81 years and 4 months,
more than half a century. J. II.
Conaway, the other erstwhile
Knight Of the Rails, whose fiery
steeds were at first the old wood
burning engines Of pioneer days,
and later the superheated steam
driven locomotive Of 1880, was re-
lieved from active service after AZ
years and months.
The Smyrna Band which is Civ
ing concerts at intervals in nearby
towns, visited Clayton Monday
night and gave an open air con
cert in front Of Rynear w. Slaugh-
ter's show room. A large crowd
assembled and a number Of auto
mobiles lined both sides Of the
street. The concert was much en-
joyed.
Mr.. Carl Downing. Mr.. Lawrence
Downing, and Miss Beatrice Down
ing, all Of New York, spent several
days last week with their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Downing.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Porter of
near town, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr.. Harry Amos.
Mrs. Joseph Miller and Mrs.
Louis Hurd attended the w. c. T.
II. at Seaford last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Downing
and sons, Mr.. Lawrence Downing,
Mr.. Carl Downing, and daughter
Miss Beatrice Downing, motored
to Wye Mill on Monday.
Trinity Episcopal Church, Clay
ton, Sunday, $50, Morning Prayer
and sermon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Boyden
and Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Stewart of
Wilmington, spent Saturday with
Mr.. and Mrs. George Parker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill Boggs
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Atkinson at Cape
Charles, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Reynolds of
Philadelphia, spent the weekend
with Mrs. John Harris.
Miss Mary Hutchison Of VIII
spent the weekend with
her father, Mr.. William Hutchison.
Mrs. Thomas Gilroy Of Clay
and Mrs. Sallie Baynard Of
Smyrna, spent Tuesday with Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Kinnamon-
Mr.. Ernest Ellingsworth, who
has been quite i'll, is able to be out
again.
Mrs. Raymond Hudson and chill
dren Ray and Nancy, spent sever
al days last week with relatives in
Georgetown.
Mr.. Willard Hickman spent the
weekend with his parents in Rob
erts, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Day Jr.,
and children, Betty, Mildred, and
Bobby, of Wilmington, spent Sun