Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-03-05
SMYRNA DOINGS
of so YEARS AGO
Continued from Page Two)

March 9th at o'clock.
Olin 1. Hough, with Jacob Reeds
Sons, Philadelphia, is home for a
visit of several days.
George w. Reybold, of Delaware
City, visited Woodland Beach and
Smyrna on Saturday.
Irving Cooper, who was sick five
weeks in the Homeopathic Hos
Ipital, Philadelphia, with typhoid few
er, having been sick two weeks
previous to that at his boarding
house, was brought home Thursday
last by his father, John B. Cooper,
and is convalesing very satisfactor-
lily.
Louis Refs, of Strandsburg, Pa,
has been visiting his brother in this
town. +@6
G. Davis Brown, of Philadelphia,
spent several days last week in
town.
Richard Gum, foreman in the
stocking factory was called to Ger
mantown last week to attend the
funeral of his father.
Mrs. Carrie Farrell and Miss Sal
lie Ransom are visiting friends in
Middletown.
Miss Lottie, daughter and only
child of Charles Smith, is seriously
i'll with diphtheria.
Howard Taylor spent several
days the past week with his father,
Samuel Taylor, who was sick.
Miss Tillie Foreman was called
away to Maryland Saturday last to
attend the funeral of a friend who
was suddenly stricken with apo
Iplexy Friday morning.
4 COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
Diphtheria is prevalent in Della
ware City.
Large numbers of strawberry
plants ae being set in Sussex Coun-
ty.
Over 10000 otter and muskrat
hides were bought by one Odessa
dealer.
The kick of a horse sent George
Clendaniel, Of Milford, to bed with
a broken leg.
Eight-year-old Edward Rice was
run over by a bicycle in Whining
ton and was badly hurt.
oNewark's churches will take up
collections next Sunday for Russian
famine sufferers.
The "Deestrict Skule" was worth
just S170 to the Dover M. E. Mite
Society, clear profit.
Scarlet fever is again raging
about Middletown. A large num-
Der of children were stricken down
with the malady Saturday.
Mira Carmen, of Indian River
Hundred, celebrated her 1O9th
birthday anniversary one week ago.
She is believed to be the oldest per-
son in Delaware.
The Middletown electric light
plant is not a paying investment as
| it is now operated and the company
has made an assignment. The di-
rectors have appointed M. B. Burris
receiver for the company and it's
affairs are now in his hands for
settlement.
1t takes 104 buoys in the Della
ware Bay and River, and Schuykill
River, to properly mark the chan
nels so to insure safe navigation, all
of which have to be kept in good
order. The iron ice buoys needed
in the Delaware bay and river to
give entire satisfaction number
twenty-four.
The representatives of Delaware
in the Worlds Fair have been CIV
en- positions of prominence highly
Ifiattering to themselves and the
little State they represent. Hon.
George v. Massey and Willard
Hall Porter the commissioners, are
prominently identified in the execu-
tive management and the represen-
tatives of Delaware on the board of
lady managers, have also been as
signed to important positions. Mrs.
j. Frank Ball, of Wilmington, is the
chairman of the committee on lib
eral arts, and also a member of the
committee on manufactures and
the fine arts. Mrs. Mary Richards
Kinder of Milford, is a member of
the committees on fine arts, liberal
arts and colonial display. These are
leading and important committees.
The schooner, Annie E. Pierce,
built at Milford a few years ago,
was last week wrecked on the coast
near Cape Hatteras. She was
Feaught in a terrible storm that
ragged and was driven on the rocks,
where she went to pieces and is
now a total loss. Her mate is re-
ported lost and her captain sustain
ed a broken leg. She was owned
and commanded by Captain Joe
Sommers.