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ITEMS gathered from state EXCHANGES OlB , tem> from all Parts of About Your Friends s and their Doings. Interesting Ihe Penis and Neighbor! sill a County Bar Association resolutions on the death member of the The Kent ; adopted Remolds Clough, a f ' th i< countv, who died last week. has o: • h McGinnes, aged 45 years, ' m Marydcl, Md., Wednesday illness c-r some weeks, s made at Templeville, V. In after an terment wa Md. The Rev. Spencer Skinner, pastor of • Baptist Church has secured he services of an evangelist who will 1 in a series of meetings in the Church beginning Sunday, th Dover •■.;n Baptist November 3. Kent County's Board has received announcement of death of Jacob Foraere, about 19 «ars of age, one of the new draftees. With the death of Foraere, the board liai received four notices of deaths of draftees in the last call. Local Exemption Fred C. Lord, son of C. W. Lord, of Dover, who was induetd into the mili tari- sendee by the Kent County Local Exemption Board and sent to the Cen tral Officers' Training Camp School at Camp Lee, Va., and who arrivd at the October 13, was taken ill on the Monday following with influenza and is still suffering from the disease. ranp Wilbur W. Hubbard has chartered a special train, to be made up at Wil mington, for the convenience of guests {ram Wilmington, Philadelphia, Balti more, Washington and New York, to to Chestertown last Saturday for the marriage of his daughter. Miss Mirian Warren Hubbard, to Lieu tenant George Maurice Morris. He also fitted up his apartment house for the convenience of guests who re mained over night. run Lieutenant W. K. Frampton, <5f Sand Town, seven miles of Felton, whose name appears in Wednesdays casualty list as having been killed in action, was a son of W. W. Frampton, of that place. He enlisted while liv ing in Wilmington. He is a graduate of the Preston, Md., High School, and also of Beacom's Business College, Wilmington. He served with the Del aware troops at the Mexican border and is survived by his father, mother and three or four brothers. One of the largest fish of its class ever seen or known to have been caught around Dover was a big-mouth bass caught Tuesday afternoon in Sil ver Lake, north of town, by State Commissioner of Education A. R. Spaid, with an ordinary fish hook on a reel line. The bass weighed 7 pounds and If) ounces, and measured 23 inches long, 16 inches across, with a mouth 4 by 4. The tail spread measured 7 inches. A few days be fore, a son of Professor Spaid caught a bass weighing more than four pounds at the same place. Bayard Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Turner of Little Creek, was badly injured last Sunday afternoon October 20, in an automobile accident near town. He was driving Rr. E. F. O'Day's Studebaker car and while founding Cooper's Corner at a high »peed collided with another car and ksded against a telephone pole. He Tas Badly cut by the broken glass of tbe nind-shield. His companion es injury. The automobile was considerably. Bishop Matthew Simpson Hughes of Dortland, Oregon, will be a guest of *• D. Short, November 3. nue M. E. Church on that day, his sub Ject ' n Ike morning being "The Final '*1 of Christ." In the evening he will filer a lecture on "America and the ! e " Internationalism.' Bishop Hughes | 5 v «ry well known all over the coun 'jo although this is his first trip in e fast. This week he is in Buffalo, tli semi-annual meeting of f Board of the Methodist Episcopal aich. Th people of Milford are de ' ? ted with the honor of having Bis °P Hughes with them. He comes at ■f request of Dr. Francis Burgette 0r b who is one of the leading Meth ministers of the Northwest, and D ° at P res ent is located in Portland. Miiford rt ' 8 a br ° ther t0 L D - Short of of Milford, on Sunday, He will preach in Ave a n<l his mother also lives ■tat Boschee's German Syrup »ben V 96 ordinar y cough remedies, been ° 8chee 9 Berman Syrup has j " sed f0 successfully for fifty-two for .a' n . a ^ P arts °* the United States i nt L ° Rh8 ' bronchitis, colds settled U gi, e . I?*'' ea P ec ially lung troubles. «tat, f re e h f rn P m at ' Pnt 8 good night ' i ex P««oration C °" gh,ng ' with ea8y '»tare a oh " " the ™ rning ' give thro- ofF med Dati.nf . he H,8ea8e - helping Ibas. B. Sw 8 '" h ' 8 health * 8old th.. CHILDREN MISS SCHOOL. Lack of Attendance Officers in Dela ware Rapped by Inspector Be fore Labor Commission. Proof that scores of children, both boys and girls, under the age of four teen years are idling away valuable time outside the schoolroom contrary to State law, through the absence here of attendance officers to keep tabs the delinquents, a denial that Dela ware is unduly ahead of other States in the employment of child labor, and a leport that fifty-seven violations were found in four months against the ten-hour law governing the em ployment of women and childr were features of two reports laid be fore the Labor Commission of Dela ware at a meeting held Thursday afternoon in the office of Charles War ner in the Odd Fellows Building, Wil mington. Charles A. Hdgner, State child labor inspector, who called at tention to the large number of child ren of school age roaming the streets also reported that general certificates for employment to the number of 1,561 were granted during the past five months to children of Wilmington, and 106 to children from rural New Castle, Kent and Sussex counties. This is an increase of 116 over April 1 of this year, praised the spirit of co-operation shown by industrial concerns,parents, and the children as well, came in for criticism. The desire to rid them selves of what they deem a burden— their employment certificate—leads them to claim children are more than 16 years of age, the age when they no longer need a certificate of ployment. Miss M. Edna Palmer, in spector of the 10-hour and sanitary law for women employees, declared that virtually all the violations of these statues she had found were fined to restaurants, hotels and fectionery stores run by foreigners. She said that the educational crusade which the labor commissioner has in augurated to teach what the law re quires is cheerfully being followed by these foreigners. Regarding the lack of attendance officers the report says: "The Delaware Child Labor law pro vides that children must be 14 years of age and must have completed a a course of study equivalent to five yearly grades in our public schools in spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history of the United States, and in the English language before a general employment certifi cate can be obtained. In looking back over the nine months of my work as State Child Labor Inspector, the thought often comes to me, "has Wil on en, While Mr. Hagner cm con con mington done its full duty in looking after the education of its shildren? While on inspection trips about the city, I am confronted in nearly every section with children of school age and during school hours. Questioning brings the information, that "I didn't go to school because I had to go to the store;' 'I had to stay home to mind my little brother,' (who in this instance was half a block away playing with another child), 'I was late for school,' etc. The children who apply at the office of the Labor Commission of Del aware for employment certificates, having reached 14 years of age and who must be refused because they have not completed five years grade at school, undoubtedly, in the majority of instances are like those quoted above. It is this class apparently more than any other, that have enter the labor world because of finan cial conditions. MIDDLETOWN AFTER PROJECT Dwelling for Marlin-Rockwell Work ers May Not he at Port Penn. While no definite decision has been reached as to the site, the prospects are that the large number of houses to be built for the men employed the shell loading plant of the Marlin Rockwell Company, at Port Penn, will he erected in the vicinity of Mid dletown, eight miles from the large plant. The original plan was to build the houses at Port Penn, but since the explosion at Perth ^Amboy, the War Department has insisted on such hous ing projects being at a safe distance from the plants. This necessitated change and the location for the Port Penn housing project has been aband oned entirely. Senator Willard Sauls bury went to Middletown Tuesday and had a conference with some of the town officials. The purpose of his visit was to put the people of that town terested in the proposed project touch with the officials at Washington who have in charge the housing plans in connection with all Govrnment con trolled plants. It is also understood that representatives from the War Department and the Marlin-Rockwell Company visited Middletown and with Walter S. Letherbury, president the Town Commissioners and other officials, inspected three locations, of them just west of the town and It is understood that about to be erected which north . 1,000 houses are will make a town in itself of from 3 000 to 5,000 persons. It is under stood that government officials have , , inspecting a plot of ground on the road from McDonough to ' Georges, adjoining the lighthouse ÜP STUTE MUCH DELAYED GOVERNMENT REFUSES MATER IAL TO COMPLETE ROAD Pikes Creek-Marshallton Section Will not be Finished this Year—Lynch Company Tears up New Road Construction of the Lincoln High way will be held up for sometime.it de veloped at the meeting of the New Castle Court Wednesday, because of refusal of the United States Highways Council to allow materials for the con struction of the section of the road from Pike's Creek to Marshallton, de spite the importance of the work, The Standard Bitulithic Company, builders of the section of the road from Elsmere to Price's comer, has found it impossible to complete the work in the time specified. In addi tion, about 600 feet of the highway, only recently completed, just outside the city limits, has been tom up by the Lynch Construction Company, to lay a sewer. Application of the Standard Bitulithic Company for an extension of time for completing its work was laid over by the Levy Court last week. In regard to this matter, County En gineer Grubb told th court that the company has proceeded with the work as well as they could. The county, he said, has furnished, at great detriment to its own work, the labor from the Workhouse and that the construction company has in its employ only about six of its own laboring men. The company could secure more men for the work, he felt. If the road is not to be finished this year,Commissioner Groves urged, the unfinished part should be put in condition for travel. The John T. Dyer Quarry Company, which is furnishing stone for the Lin coln Highway, imformed the court that it might be unable to complete its order before October 31, because of shortage of labor and stated that the county, to secure stone öfter Nov ember 1, must obtain the approval of the State Highway Commission. The action of the Federal authorities in refusing to allow materials for the Lincoln Highway caused disappoint ment to the county officials. When the contract for the construction of that section of the highway from Pike's Creek to Marshallton was a warded, the U. S. Highway Council assured County Engineer Grubb that materials would be allowed. The communication stated that approval of the county's order had been with held, notwithstanding the importance of the road, because of the need of materials for other and more essential work. Mr. Grubb said that, because of the lateness in the year for build ing roads, it would not be worth while for the court to make a fight for the materials. The letter was ordered noted on the court minutes. Mr. Grubb then informed the court of the action of the Lynch Construction Company in digging a trench, two feet wide and 600 feet long, in the middle of the recently finished part of the Lincoln Highway leading from this city to Marshallton, without obtaining the consent of the Levy Court or even informing that body of its intention. Mr. Grubb said an official of the com pany told him that he did not know that it was a county road and ex explained to him that it was the in tention of the company to connect the houses at Front and Union streets with the sewer. The company has offered to repave the tom-up part of the road, but as Commissioner Elliott thought it would he impossible to place the highway in nearly as good condition after once being tom up,Mr. Grubb felt that the matter should be taken up with the U. S. Shipping Board Offices at Philadelphia. The court referred the matter to Mr. Grubb and Frank L. Speakman, attor ney for the court. a in of FORMER DOVER GIRL A BRIDE Miss Bernadette Prince of Hopewell Va., Weds T. Sumter Bruton. Miss Bernadette Prince, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Prince, formerly of Dover, but now residing in Hope well, Va., was married on October 21 to Mr. T. Sumter Bruton, of Conway, South Carolina. The ceremony was performed by Rev. James Bergen in St. Joseph's R. C. Church at Peters burg, Va. The bride wore a dark blue traveling suit with hat to match and was attended by her sister, Miss Mary B. Prince, and Mr. John Richards Brown, of Charlottesville, Va. Only members of the immediate family were present. After an extended honeymoon at Cincinnati, Louisville, and other cities, the happy couple will be at home after November 1, at Nashville, Tennessee, where Mr. Bru ton is connected with the flu Pont Com pany as superintendent, A coinci dence of the wedding was the fact that the ceremony was preformed on the birthday of both parties. The bride is eighteen years of age and the groom twenty-four. St. HARRY COLLINS JOHN W. TUCKER ■ s Advance Showing of "all and Winter CLOTHING Our Fall and Winter Clothes are coming daily and we advise buying your suit and overcoat early while we can take care of your wants. Boys' School Clothing at Popular Prices Men's New Fall Hats are ready in all the newest novelties and regular staples in all the prevailing colors in the highest qualities at the lowest prices. Early selecting this season is advisable. JOHN W. TUCKER, t HEN'S AND BOYS' OUTFITTER ✓ Commerce Street, Merchant Tailoring a Specialty Smyrna, Del. j s C 4) MOTTO: Money Returned to Any Customer Not Satisfied With Their Purchase. HORACE DAVID Auto Truck Express Smyrna and Wilmington Bound Trips every Tuesday Thursday aud Friday. Leave Smyrna at 7 a. m., re turning. leave Wilmington at 2 p. m. Stop anywhere along route to receive and deliver fruit, produce, etc. Special attention to moving Household Goods within a radius of GO miles. Phone 114-2—Smyrna. United War Work Campaign Program The campaign begins on Monday morning, November 11, and ends at midnight on Monday, November 18. As approved by representatives of the Government at Washington the $170,500,000 will be divided as follows : Y. M. C. A..... $100,000,000 Y. W. C. A. IS.OOIMIM) National Catho lic War Coun cil (Including K n 1 g h t s of Columbus)... 80 , 000 , mu» War Camp Com munity Serv ice. 15,000,000 Jewish Welfare Board. A m e rlcan Li brary Associ ation. 8,500,000 Salvation Army 8,500,000 Any surplus will be divided rata. 3,500,000 pro No American May Refuse, Cardinal Gibbons Says n «4 James Cardinal Gibbons, the leading Catholic churchman In America, has issued a strong ap peal In support of th® United War Work Campaign. "It is an American campaign," he said. "Its appeal Is one that no American may refuse. America's answer will be another triumphant announcement that we are In this war as one people and as one na tion to see It through to victory. Into the splendid work of sustain ing the morale of our fighting men the great social organizations of America have thrown themselves. The American people will raise the sum they ask—generously and gladly." THE UNIVERSAL CAR Look out when having your Ford paired that the genuine Ford parts terials are used. There are many "bogus," imitations, or counterfeit, so-called Ford car re or ma parts of sadly inferior quality on the market. Be warned against them. No Bogus Ford Parts Here Buy parts and have your Ford car repaired by the authorized Ford dealer as this is the Ford only way to guard against "bogus" parts. Bring your car to us for service, us for Ford parts. Ford place. Come to Ours is an authorized W. F. Keith ô Son North Main Street. SMYRNA, DEL. FERRO ù CO INC. • * Chestnut Street at Juniper Philadelphia Exclusive Agents Rogers Peet Co. Clothes The only comparsion we ever ask for our clothes is with the highest priced custom made. This Fall finds an unusual situation. We have been lucky enough to land even more than our usual quota of fine foreign fabrics. Together with goods stuffs made in America our variety is ample. The highest type of tailoring. Fine clothes at half the fine tailor's fee. The fit you see before you order!