Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-21

has accepted a position with I
Nusbaum & Co., fruit commission
merchants of Philadelphia.
DEATHS Cooper. In Philadel.
phia, February 18th, Irving Louis
infant son of Fletcher E. and Liz
zie Cooper, aged 3 months.
Samuel G. Stinson, an employee
at the shops of G. w. & S. Taylor
had the end of his middle finger
cut off this morning while using a
champering machine.
A. P. Griffith, real estate agent,
has sold the Raymond farm near
Leipsic, belonging to John c.
Bailey, containing 124 acres for
$4,000 to Franklin Rash of Ken
nedyville, Md.
Michael Riley, who has been the
bar-keeper at the Delaware House
for several years will take charge
of w. F. Jefferson's hotel property
at Clayton and Elijah Primrose of
Clayton will take his place.
The old, high standing clock at
the sale of Mrs. Frances Lavender
on Saturday afternoon was warm
Iy competed for and finally knock
ed off to William Sharp at $500.
1t is for his son, William, living in
New York City.
The Town Commissioners have
had placed on the street lamp
burners patent gas check that it
is claimed will save one-fourth of
the gas in burning. This device
was used at the suggestion of Mr..
Smithers of the gas company.
John w. Clark, son of the Rev.
John M. Clark, living near Downs
Chapel, on farm of Mrs. Lydia
Taylor, is compelled to discontinue
farming because of serious i'm
pairment Of his eyesight and will
be followed by Thomas English.
Mr.. Clark is a young man and
there is much sympathy for him.
DR.. John r. Pits of Philadelphia,
has rented a room in the Johnson
Building and will fit it up for the
practice of dentistry sometime
next week. He is a son of ]. E.
Pitts, formerly with ]. E. Gugert
81 Co. in rs and ". With this
room taken as a dentists Office,
all the rooms of the johnson Build
ing are now occupied.
DEATH OF DIR. THOMAS H.
GREEN-Dr. Thomas H. Green,
sone of the leading physicians Of
Church Hill, Md, died at his resi-
dence there after a weeks illness
of typhoid pneumonia on Saturday,
aged As years. DR.. Green first
commenced practicing at Clayton
10 or IA years ago where he mar
ried Miss Maria Mitchell, sister Of
Mrs. w. H. Carr of this town. He
shortly after moved to Church Hill
where he had succeeded in build
ing up large practice. He leaves
a wife and four children to mourn
his loss.
NEW PIER AT WOODLAND
REACH-Messrs Robert Morrison
& Son, the contractors and bridge
builders, have been awarded a con-
tract by Mr.. William Reybold for
building a pier 48 x 48 feet, tri-
angle 38 x 81, and tramway about
$40 feet, at Woodland Beach. The
whole is to be constructed from
white oak timber, procured from
the Delaware and Maryland PENN
suIa. When finished this wharf
will be one of the strongest, most
substantial, and certainly one OF
the finest on the bay. The work
is to be completed by the goth Of
May next.
ROBBERY ON COMMERCE
STREET-On Monday night Of
rather Tuesday morning, a thief
or thieves invaded the premises o.
Mrs. Lydia HAZEL and William G
Fairbanks which adjoin each othel
and succeeded in getting from thu
cellar of the first place can o
lard and some butter, potatoes ant
cabbage. At the latter place the.
only got a lot of stockings tina
were hanging out in the back yard
An attempt was made to force al
entrance into the house but tn
noise aroused member of tn
family which frightened then
away. They have some suspicion
as to who the parties were.
SMYRNA'S NEW SCHOOL
BUILDING OPENED MONDA,
AT last, after vexatious delay:
everything being in complete read
iness, the teachers with their chill
dren, assembled in the new schoc
building on Monday morning a
nine o'clock. For a half hour pre-
vious groups of animated childre
with satchels of books were see
vending their way to South Stree