Smyrna times., 1933-07-05
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
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still living all over three score
years., survive him after a mar
ried life of ffty-three years. The
funeral on Sunday afternoon was
very large one. After services
at the house conducted by Revs.
Rigg and Umsted he was borne to
the farmily burial grounds at Bryn
Zion Baptist Church followed by a
long procession.
THE NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL
BUILDING The mason work of
the new school building is complet-
ed solid stone wall two feet
thick enclosing an immense cellar
excavation. This wall from the
foundation to the first floor is sew
en- feet. From this point up it is
to be brick. The progress of erec-
ton has been delayed some by the
fire at Havre de Grace where the
windows and doors were being
made, but they will soon be furn-
ished from another mill when the
walls will be erected very rapidly
The building is to be crusiform in
shape, having four transeps, each
of which, will be 25 by 35 feet, two
stories high, these will form the
eight school rooms and will be fin
ished and furnished in modern
style. The center building will be
35 by 35 feet and three stories
high surmounted with a dome or
belfry which will give an aggre-
gate height of ninety-two feet
There will be four entrance doors
to the building, one at each Of the
angles formed by the transeps, the
door will be recessed in such man
ner as to form the center room into
an octagonal. The stair ways and
cloak rooms will be located in the
center building both on the first
and second floors. The third story
will be a large auditorium for COM
mencemeuts and other school en-
tertainments. The building will
be of red brick with belts of color
ed brick and Amherst stone trim
mings. The dentals and brackets
and the roof will be slate. The
structure will have very impos-
ing appearance as it will stand
about eighty-six feet from the surb
line of South street, and when the
whole is finished, the grounds sod
ded and oramented with shade
trees, it may be said our town can
boast of the handsomest public
school building on the Peninsula.
PERSONAL Rev. A. Ritten-
house, D. D., twelve years ago pas
tor of the NJ. Church of this town,
it is expected will be elected at the
next meeting of the Board of Trus-
tee in few weeks to take the
Professorship of a new chair that
has been created at Dickinson Col
lege.
Thomas N. Rawlins, son of Rev.
P. H Rawlins, now of Georgetown,
who left this town several wears
ago for Dickinson College and
graduated there last year has been
elected as one of the Faculty of
Pennington Seminary, N. j., and
will commence teaching there at
the next session.
Capt. Thompson of the US. Cav
airy, now stationed in New Mexico
a friend of Rev j. D. Rigg whom
he has not seen for years payed
him a visit the past week.
w. Scott Way, editor of the
Transcript, visited our
town yesterday and of course gave
our sanctum the light of his pres
ence.
L. Irving Handy starts on his
summer vacation today, expecting
to spend the time in the lower pen
insula.
The friends of Mrs. Annie NJ. Al
len of Wilmington daughter of
the late Charles Smoth of this
town., will regret to learn that she
has lost her son, Ralph, years old
which makes the second child she
has lost this season by scarlet
fever.
Miss Hannah VanGasken, who
went to Luling, Texas, last winter
with her brother, DR. Joseph Van
Gasken, on his return home from
a visit to his friends here, has re-
turned, much delighted with the
and incidents of the
visit.
Miss M. V. Janvier and Mrs. S.
w. Raimond have gone to the
of Glasgow to spend
the vacation season and Miss
Nettie Waugh to the home of her
parents, Marshall, Farquier Coun-
-y, Va.
Mrs. R. d. Hoffec8er and Miss
Clement are visiting
friends in Milford; Miss Emma
HAZEL, Cecilton, Md; Miss Mary
L. Cosden, Sharon Hill, Pc.