Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-25
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL ITEMS
People Who Come and Go,
Visitors To Our Community
and Former Smyrnians
HOME AND CLUB PARTIES

HOME AND CLUB PARTIES
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton B. Walls,
Miss Polly Walls, Lancaster, Pa;
Mrs. Mildred Wildrick, Miss Shirley
Wildrick, Germantown, Mrs. Alice
B. Brooks, Philadelphia; Mrs. Paul
Rutan, Swarthmore; Capt.and Mrs.
]. H. Hutton, Claymont; Mrs. Lot
tie Townshend; Miss Charlotte
Townshend and Mr.. John Russell of
Chestertown, Nd, were among
those from a distance who attended
the funeral of James R. DeFord on
Sunday.
Mrs. Ernest Rowland was guest
over the weekend of Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Ferguson at Blackbird.
Mrs. Sara Sterley has returned
to her home from the Kent General
Hospital where she underwent a
major operation three weeks ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warner w. Price,
Jr., and son have been spending a
week at Rehoboth Beach.
The condition of the Rev. William
S. Robinson, former pastor of As
bury Church, who is suffering from
a fractured leg, is not much i'm
proved. The Rev. Robinson sent
word here that he has enjoyed
hearing from his Smyrna friends.
His home is at 141 Heller Park
way, Newark, N. J.
Stephen Vogel, student in Med
icine at Cincinnati, Ohio, has oeen
spending two weeks vacation at
home and left Monday to resume
his studies so that he may COM
plete the course in three years in
stead of four.
Sgt. Thomas Lamb, in charge of
Police Station No. 3, near Dover,
suffered an acute heart attack
Thursday evening after helping to
locate the body of-Jimmie DeFord
who had died in Lake Como. Sgt.
Lamb is doing as well as could be
expected at this time, at his home
near town.
Miss Bess Matthews attended the
funeral of DR.. ]. R. Morris in Will
mington last Thursday evening. DR..
Morris first started practicing dent
istry in Smyrna. His sister, Mrs.
John M. Arters of Cape Elizabeth,
Maine, is sister-in-law of Rev.
Mrs. w. E. Matthews.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew F. Slaugh-
ter and Mr.. and Mrs. Howard G..
Slaughter attended the wedding of
Miss Audrey Work and Mr.. Nelson
Robirk in Marshallton on Saturday
evening. Mr.. Howard Slaughter
served as best man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Owens
and daughter Lee, of Lansdowne,
Pa, were guests over the weekend
of DR.. and Mrs. R. F. Corley.
Mrs. Frank E. Postles of Phila-
delphia, will come to Smyrna on
July 4th for a six weeks stay with
Mrs. Lucy Lattomus.
Mrs. B. Hollingsworth Down
ward had as her guests over the
weekend her sister, Mrs. Joseph
Rixstine of Alden, Pa, and Miss
Ada Raiser of Haverford, Pa. She
entertained at tea in their honor on
Friday.
Miss Elizabeth Thornley, was a
guest over the weekend with her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. John l.. Graham of Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bryan of
Germantown, Pa, were guests sew
eral days last week of Mr.. and Mrs
G. Harvey Wright and family.
Mary Jean Goldsborough, daugh-
ter of Col. William Goldsborough
of Dover, has been visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Frank Thompson.
Mrs. Homer D. Hudson was a
guest over the weekend of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lindale Frazier of Dover
Mrs. Frazier was hostess at lunch
con and bridge on Saturday at the
Mapledale Country Club in compli-
ment to Mrs. Hudson and Mrs
Daniel e. Jones of Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn s. King have
returned home after spending 9
week with Mr.. and Mrs. I. S. Fal.
lin of Lansdowne. Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Cole were
guests over the weekend of Miss
Vida Besser at Audubon, N. j.
Mrs. Alice Beck Brooks of Phil.
adelphia, was guest over the
. weekend with DR.. and Mrs. Ernest
u. Collins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Vogel left
on Friday for Townville, Pa, where
they will spend the summer.
Mrs. George j. Enders of Phila
delphia, spent several days last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Davis H
Bell.