Smyrna times., 1962-07-12

closed last Thursday, Fourth o.
July, after one of the most sue
cessful enterprises ever giver
by the Smyrna club women. UI
until Monday night, when the
Directors met to go over the
accounts, the receipts amounted
ST., $40 and this amount is ex-
pected to be swelled to 81, $50
by the time all the returns are
In. Just what the Club Womer
will clear from this amount,
has not been definitely figured
While the receipts were the lar
gest of any Country Fair
they have given In the past
six years, the expenses have
grown from year to year anc
this year If they clear between
$500 and $500 the ladies' will
be doing we'll. The results have
been highly gratifying to al
concerned and as a Fourth oi
July institution, it has been one
of the best and most successful
ever held. The ladies were
favored with ideal weather for
the Fair which continued until
the close. The Fourth, the "Olo
Home Day" of the Fair. was
the big day of all and the home
coming of former Smyrnians
seemed more pronounced than
ever. Former Smyrnians who
had not been home In years
mingled with old friends and
acquatntances on the Fair
Grounds and some who had
passed their four score and ten,
found pleasure In making the
acquaintance of children of old
friends and families that were
prominent in Smyrna in by gone
years. 1t was a happy day for
these home-comers. The fes-
tivities of the Fourth opened
with an automobile parade under
the direction of the Automo-
bile Committee, Miss Laura
Bell, chairman. Between thirty
and forty beautifully decorated
cars rendezvoused at the Stand
pipe and the parade moved over
all the important streets of
Smyrna. The judges, Miss Cora
Tschudy, MIR. Eugene Davis and
Mr.. Hervey P. Hall, occupied
stand at Clifton & Jones Phar-
macy at the -Four Corners"
and at the conclusion of the par
ade, awarded prizes for the best
decorated cars as follows: first
prize, Mrs. w. H. Stayton, SIS;
second prize, Mr.. Lewis M.
Price, $3.50; third prize, Cliff
ton & Jones, $3.50; honorable
mention, Ensign Frank F. Rey-
nolds with car of w. A. FAIRIES
& Son.
An early morning wedding
took place at the rectOrV of
Holy Cross Catholic Church,
Monday, the parties being Hen
ry G. Cowgirl of Wilmington.
formerly of Dover, and Miss
Blanche V. KERN of Dover,
daughter of MIR. andMrs. James
A. KERN. The bride and groom
were attended by Miss May Ker-
In, sister of the bride, and John
Behen, Jr. Rev. James C. Co
miskey, priest in charge of
Holy Cross, performed the
ceremony. The couple, after
the ceremony, entered an auto
mobile and were driven to their
new home in Wilminton, which
had already been furnished. MIR.
Cowgill is employed by the
dupont Co. in Wilmington.
John S. Griffin, Jr., night
operator of the Diamond State
Telephone Exchange of this town
gave his friends a surprise last
week by taking unto himself a
wife. The bride is Miss Emma
May Pratt, Oldest daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. John R. Pratt
of near Clayton. The ceremony
took place at Asbury M. E.
Parsonage at 7:30 o'clock last
Thursday evening, July 4th, the
Rev. W. D. Parry, pastor, tying
the knot. After the wedding they
went to the Country Fair
grounds and indulged the sew
eral attractions offered, but
kept their wedding secret n-
til the next day when they left
for Oxford, Nd, to spend the
weekend with MIR. and Mrs.
George D. Maloney. They re-
turned Monday and will make
their home with the groom's
parents on south Main street.
Mrs. M. F. Carey, who has
been spending some weeks at
Quaker City Cottage, Lewes
Beach, came home for the
Fourth of July, left on Monday
for Philadelphia and Ocean City,
N. j., where she will be a
guest of her brother, George
B. Wells and family for a few
days prior to his sailing for
Europe. She will then return
to Lewes Beach.
MIR. and Mrs. w. B. Megear
and children, DR.. and Mrs. H.
R. Spruance, MIR. and Mrs. Ro-
land B. Carr, MIR. and Mrs.
Charles E. Williams, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilbert S. Jones. Miss
Edith Start, we're among those
from Wilmington who spent the
Fourth in Smyrna andwere seen
at the Country Fair.
Mrs. Elmer Webb and sons,
Harold and Elmer, of Whining
ron. Miss DoWnham of Wv0 :