Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-06-16

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when an automobile driven by Ed
gar Moffett, salesman, ran off the
highway near frankfort and over
turned in a field
The recent death of Lois jeanne
White, 8 years old, of Elsmere, on
her way to school, brought the to-
tai auto accident fatalities of Della
ware this year up to "a. She was
the third child to be killed.
Mrs. Ida Slade Davis, of Salem,
r. j., recently appointed director
of nurses for the Milford Memorial
Hospital, will select a class of Is
young women to enter training.
Mrs. Davis has reported for duty.
FELTON, high nosed out Harring-
ton high recently at baseball to
the score of 80, avengin9 an earl
Ter defeat. Bohannon held Har-
rington to two hits but five errors
aided the visitors in scoring their
two runs.
The property assessment in New
ark, not including manufacturing
plants, has increased $150,0O0 over
last year it was reported to coun-
Gil last week. Council voted to re-
tain the 40 cent tax rate for an
other year.
A committee of the Volunteer
Hose Company of Middletown, Wis
tied Tacoma Park, Md, fire depart
ment recently to secure data on
new type fire equipment. The Mid
dletown company plans the pur-
chase of a new truck.
Out of 20 prospective applicants
who took entrance examinations
for St. Andrews School recently
20 are to be accepted for next
year. This will bring the enroll
ment to lis boys, the largest the
school has ever accepted.
Milford Council is advertising for
bids for contract to furnish and in
stall equipment and make altera-
lions and additions to the water
works, artesian well, coal storage
bin and coal handling equipment
at an estimated cost of S73, 500.
The Harrington high school bac-
calaureate program was held at
the M. E. Church with nearly 500
persons present. The sermon was
given by the Rev. Robert Green,
pastor, assisted by the Rev. Gilbert
z. Turner of the Methodist Pro-
testant Church.
Captain Harry M. Bell, vice-pres-
ident of the Seaford Trust Com
pany, was found dead in the gar
age of James Freidel, adjoining his
home. DR.. H. M. Manning said Mr..
Bell died from a bullet wound in
the mouth. He said he believed it
was self-infiicted.
The graduating class of Milford
high school began commencement
week activities last week when the
class was entertained at a banquet
in the Hotel Windsor by the Mil
ford Rotary Club with former U.
S. Representative Robert G. Hous-
ton as the speaker.
u. S. Senators John G. Townsend
Jr., and James H Hughes and Rep
resentative William F. Allen are
among 142 members of Congress
who have condemned the oppres-
sion of Jews of Eastern and Cen
trail Europe, in messages to DR..
Stephen S. Wise as president Of
the American Jewish Congress.
llIY-LWO OLlAdCAIo - 49,
leges and universities will go to
France in August for a year of
study under the University of Del
ware Foreign Study Plan it was
recently. There will
also be Is in the first group to be
sent to Geneva under the Delaware
plan from nnie colleges and uni
versities.
William H. Head, chairman of
the board of trustees of the Uni
versity of Delaware, at the COM
announced that H.
Fletcher Brown, of Wilmington,
was the donor of the funds to build
the chemistry building which was
opened last fall Up until this
time the name of the donor had re-
NAMED anonymous.