Smyrna times., 1944-10-26
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL ITEMS
People Who Come and Go,
Visitors To Our Community
and Former Smyrnians
HOME AND CLUB PARTIES

crew training at Sioux City, Iowa,
and be ready to go overseas to do
his part in defeating the enemy.
Lieut.. Grier, a bombardier in a
heavy bomber crew, is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. David F. Grier, and
entered the U. S. Air Service jan
uary 30th, 1943.
Captain and Mrs. Ralph B. Jones
are receiving congratulations on
the birth of a son, Ralph Brandon
Jr., on Saturday, October 21st, at
Deming, New Mexico. Before en-
tering the service of the U. S.
Army, Captain Jones was a dentist
in Smyrna.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Money and
son Blaine, of Delaware City, Mr..
and Mrs. Vernon Clark and daugh-
ter Janet, and James Clark, Y &c
of the destroyer Check, U. S. Navy,
were guests on Sunday of Mrs. r.
H. Denney and daughters.
Mr.. Robert Talbot will leave to-
day to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
M. Brown at Muskegon, Michigan.
Mr.. Brown was a member of the
faculty of the John Bassett Moore
High School when in Smyrna.
Mrs. Charles P. Deakyne~ of
Smyrna, who underwent a major
operation in Kent General Hospital
in Dover on October 18th, is slow
ly improving.
Sgt. James Caras and wife of
Albany, N. Y, are guests of the
formers uncle, Mr.. Louis Caras.
Sgt. Caras is stationed at Fort
Bragg, N. c.
Miss Sally Bodley, Miss Dorothy
Burge and Miss Jean Ellen Russell
attended the Methodist Youth Con-
vocation at Salisbury, Nd, last
weekend. They represented As
bury Church.
Mrs. James Moylan of New York
was guest over the weekend OF
her brother and sister-in-law, Sgt.
and Mrs. Charles Gee.
Mr.. George Reynolds Stevenson,
who has been a paeient at Memoir
ial Hospital in Wilmington where
he was operated on, has recovered
sufficiently to return to his home
here.
Miss Helen Ringgold, who was
ill in Kent General Hospital for six
weeks, has recovered sufficiently to
return to her home on South Street.
Mrs. Earl T. Poole and daughter
Mimi, of Lewes, have returned to
their home after spending several
days with her parents, DR.. and
Mrs. E. P. Collins.
Mrs. Edwin Mackenzie was a re-
cent hostess to the members OF her
bridge club at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard B. Mailer
of New Rochelle, N. Y, are spend
ing two weeks with Mrs. Mahler's
brother, John S. Griffin and family.
Mrs. Louise H. Burslem left on
Friday to spend the weekend with
Mrs. Dorothy Townsend Fletcher
in Wilmington and on Monday
went to Red Bank, N. j., where she
will be on the staff of the daily
paper of that place.
Mrs. Glenn S. King, who has
been spending some time with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. I. S. Fallin
at Lansdowne, Pa, has now return
ed to her home.
Mr.. Roland Bell, who has been a
patient at the Naval Hospital in
Philadelphia for four weeks, re-
turned home last Thursday. His
son, Mr.. William Bell and family,
accompanied him home.
Mrs. Eide Lawrence of Narberth,
Pa, is the guest of Mr.. William
Brown and family.
Mrs. Grace Gordon and Mrs.
Sloane of Haverford, Pa, have been
the guests of Mrs. Rixstein and
Miss Ada Reiser at their home on
Delaware Street.
Mrs. George w. Wright was a
recent hostess to the members OF
her bridge club at her home on
South Street.
Mrs. Henry Shapley has receiv-
ed word of the safe arrival of her
husband, Cpl. Shapley, U. S. Army,
somewhere in south England.
Miss Elizabeth Thornley, has re-
turned home after a visit with Mrs.
Douglas Shotwell at Lake Hopat-
kong.
Mrs. Thomas B. Davidson of
Richmond, Va, has been the guest
for several days of Mrs. Charles A.
Owens.
Pvt. Robert Lower, u. S. Army
who is student at Lafayette Col
lege, Easton, Pa, spent the week
end with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
Harry J. Lower.
Mrs. Robert Denney will attend
today in Dover a directors meeting
of the board of Kent County of the
Women's Federation of Century
Clubs.
Mrs. Charles Owens and daugh-
ter Lee, spent several days last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Malcom
Adams Of Lansdowne, Pa.
Mr.. BENJAMIN Elv entered the