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Smyrna times., 1938-05-05
TUESDAY, MAY "a, 1888
At 2 O'clock p. M.
(Standard Time)


The following described Real Estate. to-wlt:
All that certain farm. tract. or parcel of
land situated in Duck Creek Hundred, Kent
County, and State of Delaware, lying on
the public road leading from the Town of
Smyrna to Leipsic, adjoining the lands of
late Julia Collins, lands of Joseph c. Rob
inson. lands of Carrie E. Speakman estate.
and lands of the Donoho Heirs, and con-
tanning thirty-seven acres and seventeen
square perches of land, be the same more
or less, and being the same land and prem
ises which were this day conveyed to the
said James Wayman by the deed of James
r. Mott and Annie E. Mott, his wife and
to be recorded herewith. This obligation
being in consideration of part purchase
money for the said land.
The improvements thereon erected being
frame dwelling house. frame barn, stable.
shed and other outbuildings.
Together, with all and singular the build
ings and improvements of every kind what
soever, ways, water, water-courses. rights.
liberties, privileges. improvements, heredi-
taments and appurtenances whatsoever
thereunto belonging or in any wise apper-
tanning.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of JAMES WAYMAN and Hell
EN- MAY WAYMAN his wife, Mortgagors,
and will be sold by
LEVI L. EVERETT. JR.. Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office. Dover. Del.
April 80. 1888. SIS st
Smyrna times., 1938-05-05
Sherif's Sale
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE

By virtue of writ of Levari Facias to
me directed. will be exposed to sale by way
of Public Vendue at the front door of the
COLONIAL HOTEL in the TOWN OF
SMYRNA, Kent County and State of Della
ware. on
TUESDAY, MAY "a, 1898
At 2 O'clock p. Nj.
(Standard Time)
Smyrna times., 1938-05-05


At O'clock p. Nj.
(Standard Time)
The following described Real Estate to-wit /:
All that certain piece or parcel of land
with large brick dwelling and store
thereon erected. situated at the northwest
corner of Main and Mt. Vernon Streets in
the Town of Smyrna. Kent County and
State of Delaware. having a depth along
Mt. Vernon Street of one hundred and
forty-two (142) feet and a width on Main
Street of seventy-three (73) feet and eight
(S) inches, the contents being ten thousand,
one hundred and thirty-seven (I0.137)
square feet of land, more or less. which
was conveyed by James r. Mott and wife
to Willard G. Beatty by deed datd Decem-
Der l, 1918 and of record at Dover in Deed
Book K. Vol. IL, Page ESQ and which was
conveyed by Willard G. Beatty and Lola
deed dated January 81, 1921 ard of record
at Dover in Deed Book X, Vol. IL, Page
262 and which was also conveyed by Henry
D. Boyer and wife to Warner w. Price by
deed dated April 80. 1921 and of record in
Deed Book 2. Vol. IL. Page 462. and which
was conveyed by Warner w. Price and
wife to Jacob Cohen by deed dated July 6,
1922 and of record in Deed Book +. Vol.
II, Page 120. EXCEPTING HOWEVER
THEIR EFROM eleven ND feet and ten
(1O) inches of the frontage on Main Street
and also ffty-fve (55) feet and seven (7)
inches reserved by Price along Mt. Vernon
Street, and which reserved lands were duly
released from the lien of the mortgage on
which this execution is issued so that the
lands now advertised and to be sold as
aforesaid are as follows, to-wit:
All that certain piece or parcel of land
with a large brick dwelling house and store
thereon erected. situated at the northwest
corner of Main and Mt. Vernon Streets in
the Town of Smyrna. Kent County and
State of Delaware, beginning at a point in
the southwest line of Main Street, corner
for these lands and lands late of Warner
w. Price. deceased thence running with
the Price home property in a southwest
feet and eight (S) inches to a corner for
the lands hereby described and lands of
said Price: thence continuing with said
Price lands in a southeasterly direction
distance of sixty (60) feet to the northwest
side of Mt. Vernon Street thence with said
side Of Mt. Vernon Street in a northeast
ery direction a distance of eighty-six 1861
feet and five (5) inches to the southwest
line of Main Street thence with said Main
Street in a northwsterly direction seventy
three (73) feet and eight (S) inches to the
place of beginning. be the contents what
soever they may.
Together, with all and singular the build
ings and improvements of every kind what
soever, ways, water, water-courses, rights,
liberties, privileges, improvements. heredi-
taments and appurtenances whatsoever
thereunto belonging or in any wise apper-
tanning.
property of WILLARD G. BEATTY and
LOLA BEATTY. his wife. Mortgagors. and
will be sold by
LEVI T.. EVERETT. JR.. Sheriff.
Sherff's Office. Dover. Del,
April 80. 1888 5-5 3t
Smyrna times., 1938-05-05
HARTLY
Items Of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity


terest Cleaned From the Vicinity
Hartly, May 5 - Mr.. and Mrs.
Maxwell Davis had as recent
guests Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Burris
and children, Mr.. and Mrs. Benton
Vible and daughter, Betty and
Mrs. Sidney Morris, all of Will
mington, and Mrs. Herbert Hurd
and daughter of Brenford.
Final arrangements have been
made for the dance which the
Westville All Club is giving in the
Hartly Fire House on Friday even
ing, May 9Th according to Isaac
Thomas, local leader of the group.
Violet Long, president and chair
man Of the music committee has
secured an orchestra composed of
Albert and Milton Steele and Theo-
dore Ems. Members of the Ar
rangements Committee for the
dance are: Gladys Warren, Frank
lin Long and Clements Horvath.
Margaret Comegys is chairman of
the Refreshments Committee.
These dances are popular with the
young people in the Hartly COM
munity and furnish funds to send
members of the All Club to New
ark to attend the All Club Week
in June.
Miss Ann Hammond, who under
went an appendix operation at the
Kent General Hospital, is recover
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dodd en-
tertained one day last week, Mrs.
Mae Gooden and daughter, Dor
othy and Miss Madalene Klaes Of
Dover.
Mrs. Fannie Poore has been en-
tertaining relatives from Pennsyl-
vania.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Ashton Of
Wilmington, were guests of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Ash
ton, last Sunday.
Patsy, the little daughter Of
State Senator and Mrs. Jennings
Poore, entertained several Of her
Smyrna times., 1938-05-05

friends at a party last Saturday
afternoon in honor of hel. third
birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Price Inman and children of
Philadelphia, spent few days the
past week with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. c. Roadway.
Smyrna times., 1938-05-05
GIRL ASSEMBLY
MEET AT DOVER

Continued from rage One)
Smyrna times., 1938-05-05
Sherif's Sale
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE

By virtue of writ of Levari Facias to
me directed will be exposed to sale by way
of Public Vendue at the front door of the
COLONIAL HOTEL in the TOWN OF
SMYRNA, Kent County and State of Della
Smyrna times., 1938-05-05

Subscription price. s1.5o per year. strictly
In advance.
Entered at tie Post Office at SIM Jrna. Del
aware, as Second Class waiter.
Smyrna times., 1938-05-05
Sherif's Sale
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE

By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias to
me directed, will be exposed to sale by way
of Public Vendue at the front door of the
COLONIAL HOTEL in the TOWN OF
SMYRNA. Kent County and State OF Della
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
A Teacher, a Student, a Log

We are approaching the season when college and university presidents, beam- ing down from commencement plat forms, will proudly announce that good old Alumnus So-and-So has been moved bv the spirit of philanthrophy to give half a million or so for new buildings or endowment Those gifts are in the mak- ing right now, and by mid-June they will add up to a sizeable total, which will be received by the colleges with deep grati- tude For there never yet was college that wasn't in the market for big gift. Never? We'll hardly ever. We have heard one.
 Dr. Thomas Whitney Surette, of the faculty of Black Mountain College, told a New York audience the other day that his college wouldn't take million dol lars if someone offered it. Indeed, he added, such gift would simply ruin the college Black Mountain College is situ- ated near Asheville, N. c. It is small institution, with a student body of 50 or whereabouts, and it wants to stay small. It could use a little more money, Dr. surette admits - perhaps as mulch as $10,000 - but it doesn't want any more than that. It has no formal curriculum, grants no degrees and offers no lectures, and it's entire budget for athletics last year ran to exactly nine dollars.
 In day when almost every college is straining it's nerves to be as big and as rich as possible, it is extremely refresh ing to run across one which is content to be both small and poor. It is even more refreshing to hear Dr. Surette's explana ton: "We have been called radical and strange, but call our plan just old. It is a sloughing off of all this paraphernalia which clutters up most education, and getting down to human beings. Most peoples minds are sterilized by the for mality of education"
 There is great deal of good sense in that. Remember the old saying? - that a college is nothing more, essentially, than log with teacher sitting on one end and student sitting on the other That is an over-simplification, of course; something is needed in the way of labora- tories reference works, libraries, and so on. But the fundamental idea is worth hanging onto.
 We have managed to confuse bigness with goodness in almost every walk of American life. Our conmonest delusion is that no human institution can really work right unless it has plenty of money and knows how to get more. And mo- where does this deluSion do much more harm than in the field of higher edu- cation.
 So we tend to appoint "good money raisers" or fable administrators" to our college and university presidencies, and let the thirst for pure learning take care of itself. It is good thing to realize that there is another standard for judging such things - standard by which neither money nor size is so very important.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
Recession In Town

Proof that conditions are not of the best in this community was written across the front pages of our newspapers yesterday when Mayor Frank Hayes an- nounced that once again during his ad- miniStration he was forced to curtail city expenses by cutting wages. Just eight years ago the city took the same steps it is taking today. It put into effect a 10 per cent wage cut for all city employees, even those whose salaries are established by law. Conditions, of which all of us are aware, make such step necessary.
 There may be even more demands made on the city fathers to retrench before the year is out. However, there seems to be more optimistic tinge to business reports from other sections of the nation right now, so perhaps by fall conditions will so have lighted themselves that we will have recovered completely the ground lost since last fall Waterbury being highly industrialized town we naturally feel the brunt of decreased purchasing power. Everyone shares in such conditions even- tually.
 It is barely possible that the admins tration will be critized for the step it is now taking. It is also possible that others might see different way of approaching the present difficulty. We presume those who are clamoring for a special tax will take this opportunity to press for their proposal. We don't see that special tax would be a godsend to any particular group in town right now, inasmuch as many are struggling with the present taxes without additional ones.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
50 Million Simoleons

That's just what it would cost the State of Connecticut to appease the heads of all our institutions. For years now their complaints, their demands, and their pointed references to iniustices at the hands of the money dispensers have been mounting. Year by year it became increasingly evident that our institu- tional needs were mounting to the skies. Some of them were taken care of for we have built few new buildings and the like in the last eight years. But we have not kept pace. Even the plans of 1887 are now ante-dated
 This week Commissioner of Public Works took the trouble to prepare some figures on what actually is needed to take care of our state institutions. His figure is that above - $50,00O,OOO. His survey of all requirements certainly isn't over-emphaSized. If it were anything we would be inclined to think it might be modest. We haven't taken the trouble to ltemize all the requests of the last five years, but they have not only been many and continuous but they have been expensive
 There is available right now for build ing purposes in Connecticut about S15,- 000,000 A great portion of that will be realized through the sale of bonds authorized by the last Legislature The total amount of bonds authorized for sale was $25, 100000. A good portion of this must take care of the states deficit, which will not be estimated until the close of the fiscal year on June 30. Whatever is left when this debt is wiped out will be used for number of state institutions. most of them being earmarked already through conferences between the gover- nor and various other state officials
 Commissioner Hurley is just back from Washington where he YVES in session with those who will be behind tl.e vast spending program" that President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes, but
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12

The famous Alaskan colony at Mata- nuska Valley is now on it's own. Uncle Sam has stopped his subsidies just as the third anniversary of the colony's founding was being celebrated. Start ing next October families still residing at Matanuska must subside by their own initiative and efforts. It may be news to many good taxpayers back home in the states, but the federal government has been paying the families each $75, a month since the colony was started three years ago. But the experimental period is now passed. The project, so far as the government is concerned, is believed on it's own feet and quite able to take care of itself. AS for the colonists themselves their feelings are no doubt mixed. Some will accept the cutting of ties with the proper spirit others will rebel Many will stay on their farms; others will leave Those who stay will be pioneers imbued with the spirit of the men and women who laid the real foundation for this nation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
Selected Poem
SENTINEL ON THE HILL-TOPs

(Grace Lippincott Madison,
 in the New Haven Journal Courier) Old white church and the hills of home Our message through the years Has been source where lives entwine Around you as Waysde shrine Through all that life endears And we may look unto the hills For help will come from there This heritage a priceless gift AS our world seems to idly drift We breathe silent prayer Because we knew the paths they walked And shared along the way The beauty of the commonplace When soul-light shone upon each Iace Through lives both grave and gay So with this floor of memories Through days of good or ill We saw New England at it's best When loved ones in their faith confessed This white church on the hill. And as their children's children walk Through trails that wander far They carry with them home town pride For faith and love walk side by side When guided by star.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12

The tri-state pollution commission, composed of members from New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey held it's annual meeting in Hartford this week. Nothing was done, the commission mark ing time", as Attorney General Charles J. Mclaughlin described it. Too bad that something can't actually be done, though, by these pollution groups. If only the federal government would take the ini- tiative in this program, we think that states, and communities would soon fall in line. Of course we are not overlook ing the vast amount of good work that has been done in checking water pollu- tion, but it's small compared to what remains to be done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12

One recommendation of the Mer- ritt Parkway Grand Jury embodied a suggestion often offered by this newspaper; namely, that the gen. eral planning of the state highway system be removed from the arbi- trary decision of single individual and entrusted to commission.
 Much is to be said for that recom- mendation. Connecticut has re- peatedly rejected the commission plan and with justification at the time.
 To center responsibility and au- thority seemed highly desirable un- der conditions which prevailed for several decades.
 When Governor Baldwin finally undertook, twenty years ago, to re- move Commissioner James H. Mac donald, on the ground that his de- partment had become permeated with politics, the three-man board proposal was offered as 8 way of keeping Macdonald in even if he had to share authority. That was the idea of the Republican machine, which later suggested the three man plan as means of preventing Commissioner Charles J. Bennett
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12

Hartford finally gets it's Housing Authority. The Common Council called on Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy to name one and he will act promptly. The city is now committed to the long and tedious task of unrolling the red-tape that goes with taking advantage of the Wagner Steagall Housing Act We hope that Hartford's experience will be more prof. itable than Bridgeports which is still struggling for action. And what of our own Waterbury?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, May 12-No one knows just what is buzzing around in the brunette head of Mayor P. H. La , Guardia, although political oppon- ents are prone to suggest that it is the Presidential bee.
 Nevertheless, the paunchy, dy- mamie, little Napoleon of the me- tropolis Is gathering great gobs of publicity for himself with all the sure-fire formulae of the politicians of the age.
 On his recent western trip he became an Indian chief, which is right in line with presidential procedure. And the other night he blossomed as 8 music commen- tator, an event chronicled on most front pages, because 1t is unusual enough to be news; and on others because the Mayor was careful to mispronounce the name Beethoven (bay-toven), as Bee toven. Perhaps, some skeptics suggested, he remem- bered how long the discussion ragged over Al Smiths version of radio as raddio.
 But 1t is only fair to point out that the mayor did well as com mentator that he usually does well in all he tries-even the Indian hierarchy. He went into the back ground of the selections he was describing at a Federal Music Con- cert and showed a deep knowledge of his subject, as he should, since he was born into the musical world as the son of a bandleader an6 played the cornet himself.
 His tag line clinched his talk when he disclosed with a wink tha' the reason he had so much goot music played on the city radio sys. tenn was to counteract the effect of bad political speeches.
 
 Producing Woes
 As Tommy Lyman views 1t, her, are the troubles of the Broadwa. producer: By the time produce has found his angel" he has los his patience. Then there are tn actors who claim that fellow play CTS are trying to steal the show though the author has done tha already. If the show Is put of, it. usually because the creditors can be. The more the critics hit show the less of a hit 1t will be. And b the time the show Is in, the back CTS are so disgusted that if the shoy isn't in for a run, the producer 1. Finally, while the only lines tn actors fret about are the ones il their contracts. the only lines pro ducers worry about are those at tn box office.
 Statistics for JoIesmiths
 The mother-in-law situation ha just been clarified by straw pol taken under the auspices of tn Child Welfare League of America Seems that 40.272 husbands an wives were asked point-blank they loved their mothers-in- la and 92 per cent of the wives sai "Yes" while 5l per cent of the hus bands said "No.' Put that in you bonnet. ladyl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12

conductor, and the first Democrat to be elected to Congress from his district.
 Fifty years old, tall, and with a grey-streaked mane of black hair brushed straight back from his forehead, Healey comes by his ar- dent pro-labor views through per- Sonal knowledge of what it means to start at the bottom and work up.
 Forced to go to work at the age of thirteen when his father died Healey stuck grimly to his boy hood ambition to be lawyer, and put himself through Dartmouth and the Boston University Law School by horny handed toll.
 Equally tenacious was his fight to be congressman. It was during the Coolidge regime that he first started running, only to be showed under by 45,- 900 votes. Undaunted, he came back in 1928, this time losing by 565 votes out of 10000 despite the Hoover landslide. In 193O he again missed by a narrow 2 margin, but two years later, on the crest of the Roosevelt sweep Healey finally rode 70 victory.
 In the House he immediately forged to the fore as a labor champion, and while still a rookie he put through the famous Walsh Healey Act requiring employers with government contracts to ob- serve the 40-hour week and pay the highest prevailing wage in their industry.
 Healey took up the cause of the wage-hour measure as soon as it was launched, and did such effective work that he was unanimous choice for leader in the current struggle.
 NOTE-Healey's hobbies are baseball and weekly poker game from which he rarely emerges a winner.
 Merry-G0-ROund
 Ex-TVA Chairman Arthur Nor gan is adding a new note to Con- gressional probes. He is writing to friends soliciting contributions for a defense fund" to help him in the forthcoming investigation. ... Asked if there was "any sig nificance" to the erection of the new high iron fence around the White House grounds, Mrs. Roosevelt replied, "The only sig nificance is that people were able to climb over the old one too easily" =. With Texas threat ening to grab off the new south- ern agricultural research labora- tory authorized in the crop con- trol act. Senator Pat Harrison has dropped his feuo with his Mis- sissippi colleague, Senator ("The Man") Bilbo, in order to get the project for their state.
 Copyright, 1888, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
Ju1yS Suggestion General Planning of Highways in State Should Be Divided by Commission, Not
 Lone Individual
Lone Individual,
HARTFORD TIMES.

from adhering to his strictly non- political administration.
 Connecticut was wise in rejecting proposals with such purposes. Since then, there has been a vast change in the whole highway situation. Road building is different enter prise.
 The Merritt Parkway is the first of it's type in Connecticut. However, it follows the pattern of what all our trunk roads ought to be. Like the Merritt highway, they will not al- ways follow the location of old roads. Just where such roads should go, the form of construction to be employed and the order of building are questions worthy of considera- tion by more than single mind. A board will bring more wisdom and broader judgment to bear upon such problems than a single indi- vidual can.
 The grand jury's recommendation is somewhat vague. The Hartford Courant interpreted it as applying only to major undertakings. The language does not altogether sup port that view. It would seem that the board ought to have jurisdiction over all general planning. It should not usurp all the commissioners functions. Once general questions are decided, construction should be left to him. He should be held &C., countable and responsible for that as well as for maintenance and re- pair, general policy for which would be laid down by his board. He should have complete authority in administrative matters.
 The next legislature undoubtedly will consider Connecticut's whole method of planning and building highways. There is an opportunity for great improvement in line with the grand jury's suggestion.