Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-09-21
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Milford has mail boxes.

Milford has mail boxes.
Laurel ssto have an opera house.
Peach trees will now begin to show the
yellows
Straw rides are very popular at Port
Deposit, Nd.
Speaker sirman's saw min at Delmar
Is being rebuilt.
frankfort is making an effort to get
two mails a day.
Burglars are operating at Port Deposit.
Md, aud vicinity.
Salisbury. Md has new paper. It
is called the Sentinel
new church will be built at st.
Georges, in Sussex county.
distiilery In Kent county is paying
IL cents bushel for apples.
Society in Riverton, Sussex county. is
shocked by many scandals.
The Methodist Protestant village camp
near Georgetown is still running.
The Seaford Base Ball Club claims 10
be the crack club of Sussex county
A Milton canning firm packed 30, 600
cans Of tomatoes in one day recently.
Milford clerks want the stores TO close
at p, M, holiday seasons excepted.
The number of scholars who attended
Laurel public schools last year was 207.
A seaford firm put up 275, 900 cans OF
peaches at Still Pond, Md, this season.
The Sussex Countian is boo ming
ing Speaker W L, Sirman for governor
Thomas Hanson Of near Dover has
10000 baskets Of Lawrence and Kiefer
pears.
Milfcrd's romantic boys and girls de-
light In moonlight excursions in row
boats
Democrats and Republicans are busily
engaged 10 effecting organization on the
Eastern Shore,
Isaac r Locales, Seaford farmer, has
raised stalk Of corn sixteen feet six
inches in height
The Farmers Alliance Of Broad Creek
hundred, Sussex county, will open a gen
eral store at Bethel
A Baptist church is being erected on
the road leading from Riverton to Barren
Creek, Sussex county
The raEzle dazzle has reached Milford
AS consequences the giddy youth Of the
whole town Is razze-dazzled
Twenty PERSONS have died in Dover
in six months OF this number fifteen
were white aud eleven we're males.
The new Methodist Protestant
Church at Frederick, Kent county will
be ready for dedication in November
f B Frazer, secretary Of the State
Board Of Health, has been circulating In
Sussex towns trying to smell some
thlng.
Many Eastern Shore farmers win pull
up their peach orchards They say there
Is no money In diseased trees and glut.
ted markets.
Sussex county papers ara urging the
farmers Of that county to plant tobacoo
and make II 3 staple crop The idea will
60 up in smoke.
Rev J HOWELL Geare, rector OF Christ
P. e. Church, Milford, has resigned de
has accepted call as rector Of the Churcn 1
Of St. John the Baptist, at st Johns,
New Brunswick.
Frank Phillips. son OF Chalkley Phil. |
lips, proprietor OF the FELTON, House ia
Elkton, Md has bought the Robinson
House. at Delaware City, and will assume !
charge Of II on September 90
All the shipyards on the Mispilllon
creek are idle with the exception of
Lank's There Is one big ship on the
ways there. The ship carpenters will
move 70 Philadelphia and other places
The Sineerly Steam Fire Engine and
book and Ladder Company, No. /, q
Elkton, Md. has been organized with a
capital stock of 81, 900 Adam Meisel
David L Sloan, 0. r. Chaytor, samuel
B. Enos and William H. Booth are the
directors,
Broad Creek Church, Sussex county
WAS built during the time that the lower
county was under control Of the Mary.
land colony-l772 New Castle ana
Kent county we're then "the two lower
counties on the Delaware, and belonged /
TO Pennsylvania.
Hynson and Nichols are two post Offices
OF Caroline county, Md They are only
four miles apart Under the Harrison
administration letter mailed at Hynson /
addressed to person in Nichols has 70 |
go 10 miles. via Easton, Clayton, Sea
ford and fredericksburg to reach It's desti.
nation.
Fred Williams aud Harvey Wells. the |
two young white men who fought such
eloody duel AZ a campmeeting near Del. /
mar about two weeks ago are still living |
and have a good chance OF recovering |
Williams says he wants TO get we'll and
finish the deadly job he began-that Of
killing Wells.
The term Of Prothonotary Joseph Bur
chenal Of Kent county will soon expire.
BE has held the Office for ten years and |
Uncle Joe" will probably leave Dover
without an enemy, There are two az. |
plcants for the positien--B. B Allen II |
Duck Creek hundred, aud Stephen X. |
Belts Of Milford hundred The indics-
tions are that Mr. Allen will receive the |
commission, although It Is said that |
personally the governor leans towards
Mr. Belts
What IL the NUMBER
The Milford Chronicle prints the fol. |