Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-14
CLAYTON NEWS
AND PERSONALS
Budget of Items From Our
Railroad Town and Their
Personal Mention
CHURCHES AND SCHOOL


ing was called to order by the pres
ident, Leslie Pryor, and the min
utes of the last meeting were read
and approved. The treasurer re-
ported the amount in the treasury
which is to be used toward Short
Course in June. Marietta Legar
and Dorothy Cook, Dorothy Hill
and Kitty Burris were selected for
the Dairy Demonstrations at the
Harrington Fair in June. 1t was
decided that the All Club meet in
a body to attend the Presbyterian
Church at Smyrna, on Sunday May
II, in observance of All Sunday.
A straw-ride and weinie roast will
be held at Betterton, Md, on May
10. All members are allowed to
take one guest, and meet at the
Clayton School at Z o'clock. A
movie was shown called ION The
Road to Tomorrow, courtesy of
Miss Helen Comstock. The meet
ing was adjourned and refresh
ments were served.
A bunch of colored boys working
in the kitchen at st. Joseph's In
dustrial School here, received a
scare last week. One of the boys,
looking out of a window, spotted a
parachute descending nearby.
Dangling from the parachute was,
what appeared to them, "sho huff
bomb" Promptly they disappear
ed from the kitchen to lover yond-
err" on the way one of them noti-
flying the Rector, Rev. E. G. Brun-
ner. Invetigation was promptly
made, with the boys at a comfort
able distance ito the rear" The
bomb" had landed, and the para
chute was draped over limb. The
bomb" proved to be nothing more
than a peaceful weather recording
apparatus sent up from Washing
ton, c., an hour earlier by the
Weather Bureau.
It had assembled twelve miles
where the balloon, carrying the
whole apparatus, burst; the para
chute then descended slowly while
the machine sent out information
about the weather to the Bureau.
The "bomb" was returned to Wash
ington.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Boggs, and
Mr.. Ralph Carrow, spent Sunday
with Miss Hedy Deittrick in Wash
ington, and Corporal William R
Carrow, at Boiling Field, Washing
ton, G.
Trinity Church, Clayton-Service
in the Church Sunday next at s
p. m. of evening prayer and SER
mon.
Private Roy Rogers of the U. S
Army School, stationed at Newark
N. j., spent the weekend with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Rogers
and family, returning home with
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. o
A. Rogers, to Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Carey
and son Lewis, his daughter Janice
and Miss Dorothy Webb, of West
mont, N. j., visited Mr.. Carey's
twin brother. Both will be rs years
of age on June II. Mr.. William A
Carey, and Mrs. Carey, formerly Of
Kenton, now residing with their
daughter Mrs. Pearl M. Connell
Mrs. William Carey, who has been
very ill at her daughters home, is
convalescing nicely.
Miss Mary Alexander of near
Blackstone and Mr.. Melvin Alfree
of Middletown, were quietly mar
ried on Sunday, May 10, at the
home of Rev, and Mrs. R. G. Con-
nsr of Kentofl,
Corporal j. r. Price, husband OF
Mrs. Marie (Bickling) Price, was
seriously hurt in an automobile &C.
cident. No details as yet are
known.
Mr.. Robert P. Kelso, Mrs. Mar
garet Kelso, and their children
Grace and Alice, of Wilmington
were visitors of their parents, Rev
and Mrs. Hugh B. Kelso on Moth
er's Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward l.. Hudson
of Frederick, were visitors at Ewel
Parsonage on Sunday.
Miss Hilda Elburn and Mr.. Gil
bert Tracey of Baltimore, Md.
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
William Elburn and Mr.. Franci
Cox.
Mrs. Amelia Shelton, who ha
been visiting her daughter, Mrs
John Belts, left Sunday to visit he
other daughter Mrs. Dudley Everett
Of Massey, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Donovan, VIII
were called to Georgia on accoun
of the sudden death Of Mrs. Don
ovan's brother, left last Monda,
evening.
Miss Grace Machamer spent tn
weekend with her parents, Mr. an
Mrs. G. w. Machamer.
Lieutenant Flora Hollett of For
DUPONT, spent the weekend wit
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
T. Hollett.
Miss Edith Hollett, Miss Bett,
Eichholz, Mr.. Austin Carey, an