Smyrna times., 1933-09-27
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL ITEMS
People Who Come and Go,
Visitors To Our Community
and Former Smyrnians
HOME AND CLUB PARTIES

Rev. w. w. w Wilson, D. d., Of
Flushing,Long Island, d,N.Y.,a form
er pastor of Asbury NJ. E. Church,
who spent 16 of the 48 years of
his active ministry in the Will
mington Conference and was
pastor of Asbury Methodist Epis-
copal Church Of Smyrna, in 1890
1892, will, with mental faculties
unimpaired and physical powers
unabated, preach "a post octo-
genarian sermon" on THE Su-
preme Moment in Life, in his
old home church and town, the
Goshen Methodist Episcopal at
Milton, Delaware, Sunday night,
october 5, 1888, his s1st birthday.
"A number of preachers of the
Wilmington Conference as well as
laymen, expect to motor to Milton
to hear him.
Rev. and Mrs. John L. Johnson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter o. Hoffecker,
Rev. and Mrs. w. E. Matthews,
Rev. and Mrs. r. K. Stephenson,
and w. E. Matthews Jr., attended
the celebration of the sesqui-cen-
tennial of Methodism at Newark
convening at the Methodist Epis-
copaI Church. Bishop Edwin H.
Hughes was the speaker in which
he extold his listeners to prayer"
especially to intercessional prayer.
Between IT'S and 200 ministers
and laymen from the Wilmington
and Middletown districts were
present
Mrs. Thomas r. Moffett and
children have returned from Phil
adelphia where they attended on
! Sunday the funeral of Mrs. Mof-
fett's brother, Harry Brothers, who
died there Tuesday of last week
following an operation. His death
was received among his relatives
and friends about Smyrna with
much sorrow for he was not only
native Of this vicinity, but was
a frequent visitor here. He is sur
vived by his widow and one son
Arthur Brothers of New York.
Mrs. William ]. Bone of Prince
ton, n. J., widow of the late Rev.
NJ. ]. Bone, whose tragic death
took place last May, has returned
from several days spent with
friends in and about Smyrna She
was given a cordial welcome by
her old friends. Mrs. Bone, who
was in the automobile accident
that killed her husband, is recov-
ering from her injuries and this
was the first time she had been
back to Smyrna since the acci-
dent.
Miss Nancy Arthurs, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Arthurs,
Miss Claire c. Hughes, daughter
OF Representative and Mrs. Ed
ward Hughes, and Miss Audrey
IA. Davis, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilbert Davis, all of Kenton,
entered Women's College, Univer-
sity of Delaware, at Newark last
Thursday, beginning their class
room work yesterday. All three
girls graduated from the Smyrna
High School in June.
Messrs. ]. Fletcher Truax, John
p Morris, Frank p. McCawley,
Horace David, Vernon Ford, G..
Medford Sparks, William Dough-
ten, Eugene Porter, Julian Staats,
Leonard A. Collins, Jr., Grover
KING, William Hamburg Carl
Bartlett, and B. Franklin Ennis
represented the Citizens Hose
Company, No. 1, of Smyrna, at
tne firemen's annual convention
neid at Laurel last Wednesday and
Thursday.
Miss Margaret Collins, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest P. Collins,
VINO attended Women's College
University Of Delaware, last year
nas made a change and left today
lor petersburg, Va. where she will
matriculate at Southern College
Last evening a number of her
friends gave her a Farewell al
me home Of John Dick near town
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Davis Truax OF
wilmington, are receiving con.
gratulations on arrival of a fine
paoy son on Friday at the Viii.
mington Homeopathic Hospital
Mrs. Truax will be remembered as
MISS Helen Bush Of Wilmington
while Mr.. Truax is well known in