Smyrna times., 1934-09-20


from a disease contracted in the
army and has gone totally blind.
His wife was here yesterday to get
certificate from their physician,
DR.. Hirons, with a view of secur-
ing a government pension.
E. J. Rawlins, who has been chief
telegraph operator at Clayton
since the removal of the offices
from Wilmington to that place has
been appointed the company S
agent at Bridgeville. This causes
the rest of the force to take a
step higher and H. F. Smith fills
the vacancy caused by Mr.. Raw
Inns transfer, F. D. Strickland
takes Smiths place, and he is fol
lowed by J. G. Everett. The place
of the later is filled temporarily by
George Herman.
DELEGATES TO CON N
TION-At a meeting of the Demo
cracy of Duck Creek Hundred, held
at the Smyrna House on Saturday
afternoon, L. Irving Handy in the
chair and DR.. Henry Stout secre-
tary, the following persons were
chosen to represent the Hundred
in the State Convention which
meets in Dover on September %:
John NJ Voshell, Edward Harrison,
James H. Groves, W. T. Cavender,
Robert Denney, James Startling,
DR.. Henry Stout and w. E. Spru-
ance
William A. Winford, who pur-
chased a week or so ago, the prop
erty of Mrs. S. A. Keith on Della
ware Street has commenced to re
model it for a home. The present
building is to be moved back for
the dining room and kitchen, and
in its place is to be erected a build
ing having a frontage Of 36 feet,
and a depth of 16 feet for parlor
and sitting rooms, with hall and
stairway in the middle. The house
will be two story with two double
bay windows front, porch COW
ering the space between.
MARRIAGES -Benson-Louder-
bough-At the residence of the
brides parents in Dover, Septem-
Der 10, by Rev. William V. Louder
bough of Salem, N. J.. assisted by
Rev. ]. F. Stonecipher of Dover,
Alden B. Benson and Miss Mary H
Louderbough, both of Dover.
Bostic-M c-Moffitt-At the NJ E.par-
sonage, Smyrna, September 16, by
Rev. ]. B. Quigg, Stephen Bostic
and Miss Anna Mofitt both of
Kent County, Md.
Cole-Emerson- At the residence
of the brides parents at Moorton,
September 10, by Rev. L. w. Glib
son, Charles Kneeland Cole and
Carrie Maude, eldest daughter OF
James Emerson.
4 Grieves- -Mason-In Philadelphia
August %, by Rev. Mr.. Cleveland
William G. Grieves of Smyrna and
Miss Laura E. Mason of Whining
\ ton.
/ THE SMYRNA GRIST MILL
4 The improvements at the mill pro-
perty on the south side of town
which have been going on for the
past several months are nearing
completion. After the tedious
work of putting in the gates the
mill itself has been carried through
thorough course of repair, includ-
Y ing two new turbine wheels of the
pattern called Perfection" and the
whole interior construction of the
mill has been changed and mod
ernized. The work has been under
I the mechanical direction of John
B. Lewis. In addition a stable anG
carriage house has been built near
the mill, and a new kitchen has
been added to the dwelling Mr.
Webb. the miller, expects to start
the grist work about the first OF
October. These improvements will
cost the owner John c. Corbit OF
Odessa about $4,000.
DEATH OF D. JAMES PRICE
d. James Price who has had a
protracted sickness OF several
years at first from an ineradicable
malarial trouble, at one time built
up with fiattering prospects of re-
covery and then again cast down
I by more violent return of the di-
sease, yielded to the inevitable on
Monday and mortality and the
/ brightness that surrounds an ex-
/ istence free from care and pain
I Deceased was the eldest son OF
Moses Price, young man of SUI
1 perior excellence and moral worth
Some seven years ago he took his
/ fathers home farm near Brenforo
and after a year or so married
Miss Annie Pepper, of Dover, who
has been devoted and loving com
panion throughout the varying
changes of his Drotracted Illness