Smyrna times., 1939-01-19
BRIEF ITEMS OF
THE PENINSULA
Brief News Items of People
We Know in and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

FROM OUR EXCHANGES
Mid-year examinations will start
at the University of Delaawre
Thursday, January 26th. All stu
dents will register for the new
term on January 30th.
The Farmers Open Door Club,
recently organized in Smyrna with
20 members, has elected Harry
Slaughter, president, and Carroll
Stats secretary and treasurer.
About 400 students and guests
of the Women's College, Univer-
sity of Delaware, attended the an
nual junior prom held by the col
lege recently in the Gold Ballroom
of the Hotel DUPONT, Wilmington.
Bradford P. Jones, former
Bridgeville postmaster, who plead
ed guilty to falsifying a report to
the United States postmaster gen
eral, was fined S100 by Judge John
P. Nields in the U. S. District
Court recently in Wilmington.
Emnloyment on WPA operations
in Delaware was 4,020 for the
week ending December "a, Col. F.
q. Harrington, recently appointed
WPA administrator for Delaware
said recently. The roll of employ
es decreased "a during that week.
The Elkton Chamber of Com
merce held its annual meeting at
the Howard Hotel, Elkton, Md,
and elected w. Henry Pippin as
president; Harry L. Croak, vice
president; P. c. Williams, secre-
tary; and Robert ]. McCauley,
treasurer.
Perla Crows, president of the
Rebekah Assembly of Delaware,
will make her official visit to Mar
garet Pyle Rebekah Lodge, Mil
ford, this evening, January 10. The
travelling gavel will be presented
to the lodge by the Florence
Bailey Lodge of Wilmington.
A gain in pig crop in 1888 over
1887, and an increase in Fall seed
ings of rye were noted recently by
the Delaware Crop Reporting Ser
vice. The Fall pig crop was esti-
mated at 10000 head in 1888
against $4,000 in 1887, and COM
bined Spring and Fall crops at 3D.
900 last year, compared with 3D.
900 in 1887.
Grand Master George 2. Vande-
grift and his grand lodge staff will
make his annual official visit to
Union Lodge, No. 5, A. F. and A.
M, of Middletown, Tuesday night,
April 4. Visitors from Delaware
CITY and other lodges were enter
tanned on Tuesday night Of last
week at an oyster supper in the
lodges banquet room.
The Alumni Association of Del
aware College, University of Della
ware. will hold the mid-winter re-
union at the University on Febru-
ary 25th. An interesting program,
which will include q banquet IN
Old College early in the evening,
is being arranged. That evening
Delaware will play P. M. c. bas-
ketball in Taylor gymnasium.
zack w. Wells, deputy motor
vehicle commissioner, has an
nounced that receipts from the
sale of 1889 automobile licenses in
the state, as of December 81, were
S51O.O25.5O. Although there is no
tabulation of the number of sets
of licenses sold it is believed that
several thousand cars lack new
plates. Last year there were more
than 10000 motor vehicles regis
tered in Delaware.
During the annual meeting OF
the Hickory Grove Cemetery Asso-
citation, near Middletown, William
B. McMullin was reelected presi-
dent for another year as well as
superintendent of grounds. James
T. Carpenter was reelected assist
ant superintendent of grounds, and
J. Albert Kumpel was renamed
cretary-treasurer. The follow
ing directors were elected: VIII
liam B. McMullin, ]. T. Carpenter,
]. A. Kumpel, ]. S. Zachies, A. J.
vandegrift, ]. w. Carrow, S. D.
Collins, and Harvey Moore.