Smyrna times., 1937-06-24
CLAYTON NEWS
AND PERSONALS
Budget of Items From Our
Railroad Town and Their
Personal Mention
CHURCHES AND SCHOOL


man in the train dispatching SER
vice, well known to a number of
CLAYTON railroad men who died in
the Milford Emergency Hospital,
Friday, was buried Monday at
Bridgeville. He was a former
member of the lower house of the
Legislature and a Democrat. He
was assistant majority floor leader
at the 1888 session of the General
Assembly. A former member of
the Sussex County Board of As
sessments and of the Sussex Coun-
ty Democratic Committee. For
more than 80 years he had been
employed by the Delaware Rail
road Company as a telegraph op-
orator at Greenwood. He was a
Mason and a member of the M. P.
Church. Mr.. Owens is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Minnie Buell. Owens;
two daughters, Otalie and Mary
Louise, both students in business
colleges; his mother, Mrs. Jacob
Owens, and a sister, Mrs. Walter
J. Mills, all of Greenwood.
An aftermath of the automobile
accident of February II last at
the railroad crossin g at Clayton,
when car was wrecked and Rus
sell Maybery of Clayton killed, was
heard Monday when Judge Earle
d. Wiley n Court of Common
Pleas imposed a fine of S1O1 and
$11.44 costs On Norman Filings
worth, driver of the car. Elings-
worth gave notice OF ar appeal to
the Court of General Sessions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Henry and
children Ruth and Johnny; Mr..
Henry Darrell of Riverside, N. j.,
spent last week with Mr.. and Mrs.
Walton Smith and Mr.. w. H.
Smith and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. D. Wallace and
son Richard, of Drexel Hill, spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. F'luharty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Day and
children, of Wilmington, spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walton Smith, Mrs
]. NJ. Downes and son Walter,
spent Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Walter was taken to Temple Uni
versity Hospital for an operation
on his throat. He is improved at
this writing.
Those who attended the birthday
party of Miss Betty Marker in
honor of her 11th birthday, were:
Miss Marjorie Pryor, Mrs. Robert
Hawthorne and children Junior,
Dorothy, and Billy; Mr.. and Mrs.
Walton Smith and children Joseph
me and Buzzie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Lynch and
daughter Helen and Miss Fannie
Brown Of Dover, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Montague
and family. Mrs. John Jacobs and
son David, of Smyrna, also visited
them on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Mills and
son Junior, spent Sunday at Rob
erts, Nd.
Little Tommy Brown of Balti-
more, Nd, is spending sometime
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Carrow
and son Billy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Lynch of
Wilmington, spent Sunday in town.
Miss Marion Dulin of Dover,
spent the weekend with her aunt,
Mrs. Edison Collins.
Mrs. Vernon Graham and daugh-
ter Betty, spent Sunday in Dover.
Mrs. Howell Sevn and Miss Alice
Ennis spent Sunday and Monday in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Ralph Stevens, who was op-
Grated on several weeks ago, has
returned to the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Leighton Kirby of Smyr-
ma, and is getting along nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Knox spent
Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Paul Fleming Of Philadel-
phia, spent the weekend with Mrs.
Harvey Boggs.
Mrs. Paul Spencer and daughter
upent the weekend at Dover.
Nr. Wesley Fleming Of Whining
ton, visited his mother over the
weekend.
Nr. and Mrs. Charles Hess, of
Springfield, Mass, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Crozier of Philadelphia,
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. S. Collision.
Miss Bessie McGinnes, Mrs. Dor
othy Queesenbury and daughter
Esther May, of Baltimore, spent
Friday evening with Mrs. Harvey
Boggs.
Mr.. Roland Sinex of Washing
ton, Is visiting his mother, Mrs.
Alice Sinex.
Mr.. James LeCompte Is spending
the summer at Trappe, Nd.
Mrs. Pete Callornl and daughter
of Washington, Mrs. Name Shane,
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