Smyrna times., 1933-03-01
CLAYTON NEWS
AND PERSONALS
Budget of Items From Our
Railroad Town and Their
Personal Mention
CHURCHES AND SCHOOL

Isabel Horn entertained at min
tables of cards in the Century Clul
room at Clayton. The room wa
decorated with the color scheme il
keeping with Washington's birth
day and flowers and ferns wer,
placed about the room. ArounC
midnight refreshments We're served
and the prizes awarded to Eliza
beth Thomson of Rising Sun; Ethe
Carrow of Clayton, Russell Marker
of Dover, and William Barcus OF
Cheswold. This was followed by
dancing after which the guests left
for their respective homes. The
guests included Miss Mary Paschall
of Cecilton, Md; Mr.. and Mrs
Vaughn Jones, Miss Mary Mar
shall and Miss Alice Jones of Will
mington; Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Marker, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Will
kinson and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Pinder of Dover; Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lard Thomson, Rising Sun; Mr..
Randolph Hughes, William Palmer,
and Thomas Roadway of Hartly;
Miss Frances Smith and Mr.. and
Mrs. Willard Barcus of Cheswold;
Miss Ruth Kaufman and Mr.. and
Mrs. Melvin Moore of Smyrna, and
MIR. and Mrs. T. N. Horn, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. "A. Skinner, Mr.. and Mrs.
Merritt Horn, Mr.. and Mrs. Dick
Carrow, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Horn,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Tunis Jr.,
Misses Elsie Grin, Kathryn Horn,
Winona Skinner, Marion Jane Horn
Rynear Macklin and Frank Tunis
of Clayton.
Senator Neugebauer presented
two bills Friday to amend the
charter Of Clayton One bill con
tains provision to give the town
council authority to enact ordin-
ances to collect any accounts due
Clayton for water rents, electric
power or water power supplied by
the town or any Of its departments.
It further provides that the town
shall have the right To bring ac-
tions in any court Of competent
jurisdiction to collect accounts due
the town for any service, article,
material or labor furnished by it.
The other measure sets out that
the lien for the town taxes shall
remain lien for the period Of
three years from the date prescrib-
ed by the charter Of the town for
the delivery Of the tax duplicate
or tax list to the collector Sena-
tor Neugebauer offered a bill in the
Legislature last week to authorize
the Kent County Deceiver Of Tax
es and County Treasurer to com
pile list of persons delinquent in
the payment Of their taxes, to be
Kent County The Levy Court
would be empowered to investigate
the list. and then to make settle
ment with the County Treasurer
and Receiver Of Taxes, making just
allowance for such taxes as they
find uncollectable on his part. The
settlement would be made annually
in the month Of May.
The Clayton Century Club held
its meeting last Thursday evening.
Mrs Pearl Boggs was in charge of
the program, it being "A George
Washington" party. Several of the
guests wore dresses of colonial
days. There were songs by the
club and a vocal solo by Mrs.
Frances Kitchens, accompanied by
Mrs. Louise Hudson. A playlet,
Little Soldiers" by Mrs. Sallie
Gooding, Mary Frances Walker,
Mary Pryor and Ellen Louise Cul-
len. A dialogue by Flo Hollett and
Roberta Macklin. The Everhart
Brothers, accompanied by Mrs.
Mary Westfall, gave several songs
and humorous sketches which were
enjoyed by ALL Mrs. Walter Keys
presented the club with an Ameri-
can flag. Refreshments were serv-
ed by the club hostess, Mrs. Walk
er and Mrs. William Tunis. Mrs.
Lambert Gooding will be chairman
of the card party that will be held
in the club room on Tuesday even
ing, February 2sth.
Clayton School News Grades
two and three, Miss Jones, teacher,
won the weekly Art Award The
weekly attendance award was won
by grade six, Mrs. Clark, teacher.
The Athletic Club is sponsoring a
Marble Tournament to determine
the champion marble player of the
school.-As a part of the Parent
Teachers Association health pro-
gram three successful tonsil oper-
ations were performed at Middle
town Thursday of last week. Six
more operations will be performed
this week.-On account of March /
moving, quite few children are
being transferred to and from 9TH
er schools The public school will !
be closed Friday, March third, on
which date the County Education (