Smyrna times., 1933-03-08

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at o'clock.
DEATH OF MRS. MARY
DAVIS This venerable and es-
teemed lady, the wife Of Mr.. Man
love Davis, died on Wednesday af--
ternoon last, at the residence of her
son-in-law, Mr.. w. George Truax,
near this town. She was a suffer-
er for fifteen years, yet reached the
advanced age of seventy-one. Of
her, it may be said, that she was a
woman Of singular devotion to her
family, and of conservation to her
God In 1928 she was led to a
definite acceptance of Jesus as her
Savior, at a campmeeting held in
4 Sussex county, near Milford. From
that day to the hour Of her depart
ure, through the manifested cares
| incident to her life, she was a
woman Of beautiful and radiant,
yet child-like spirit and character.
This is evidenced in the exceptional
influence of her example and coun-
sells in her own home. Of her
eight children all were brought into
the church early in life and are the
living works that do follow her,
now that she has gone to her re-
ward. Her golden wedding" which
took place last December a year,
was a rare occasion, in which each
/ of them strove to rival the others
in the kindly gifts presented to
her; all Of which she received with
! fearful reference to the exceed
t ing goodness of the Lord. 1t was
touchingly appropriate, that in the
4 funeral services which were held on
Saturday last in the Middletown NJ.
E. Church, four of her sons should
! be the bearers. Addresses were
delivered by Revs. w. L. S. Murray
and T. E. Martindale, after which
the sleeping saint was laid to rest
in the cemetery surrounding the
church. We tender our sincere
sympathy to the bereaved relatives.
SUNDAY SCHOOL MISSION
AIRY ANNIVERSARY The Mis-
sionary Anniversary Of the M. E.
Sunday School was held on Sunday
evening last. in the auditorium of
the church in the presence of a
very large audience. The exercis-
es were opened with a song by the
school, Chorister ]. H. Groves di-
recting, Miss Jennie G. Smithers
at the organ, II. w. Jefferson, Cor
netist, Rev. H. S. Thompson of New
Hampshire made e long but chaste
prayer. The Infant School occu-
pied the choir gallery gave one of
their spirited songs under the di-
rection Of Miss Elva Carrow, Miss
Kate Douglass at the organ, Mr..
jefferson accompanying with the
cornet The song, Little Clean
ers" the first strains of which were
sung by the Infant School and re-
sponded to by the main school,
was well rendered and with good
effect. Misses Bett Smithers and
Minnie E. Reed each read poems
appropriate to the occasion with
credit to themselves and decided
pleasure to the audience. The doc
ument read by the Missionary Sec
retary Mr.. Herman Roe was very
gratifying report in that it showed
very large gains in the Missionary
collections over last year. The re-
port of the Secretary of the school,
Mr.. Walter o. Hoffecker was also
a pleasing paper, being very full
in its statistics and showing the
school to be in a prosperous condi-
ton. In the memorial service held
in memory of Name Smithers and
Lilly Primrose, the pastor, Rev. J.
D. Rigg delivered the eulogy, the
classes of which they were mem
bers presenting to the respective
families beautiful wreathes of wax
flowers nicely framed, as memen-
toes. The exercises occupied about
and hour and quarter, the audi
ence seeming to be well pleased
with the program.
PERSONAL-Jam Taylor had
a family reunion in commemora-
tion of his II birthday on Wednes-
day, last. His children from a dis
tance were Mr.. and Mrs. William
A. Humes of Milford, and Mrs. E
A. Messick and Mrs. Donnelly OF
Atlantic City, N. J.
Rev. H. S. Thompson of the New
Hampshire Conference is on a visit
to his mother, who has been quite
sick for the past two or three
weeks.
Rev. r. E. Martindale and wife
and Rev. ]. D. Rigg and Rev. j. t
VanBurkalow left yesterday fol
Conference and Mrs. Rigg fol
Chester, Pa.
Miss Name Clifton of FELTON,