Evening journal., 1891-08-10
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
Dover has three way mails north.

DoVer mas three way mails north.
Georgetown girls meet every train.
Bay cottages are now generally occu
pied.
Tyndall's camp, Sussex county, closed
to-day.
Sussex county has the base ball fever
this year.
The streets of Milford are being cleaned
and graded.
Lima beans are ripe and plentiful all
over the state.
The new NJ p Parsonage at Hurlock's 8,
Mo-, is completed.
But few peaches have been shipped
from Georgetown.
Eastern Shore boats are taking much
grain to Baltimore.
The Bartlett pear crop is large, and the
fruit, fine in quality.
Thursday is big Thursday" at Oak
Orchard, Sussex county.
The announcement of the engagement
of ten Dover girls is made.
Denton. Md. is sending piling by the
steamer load to New York.
Milford Red Men will picnic at
Slaughter Beach to morrow.
Peach wagons make the streets Of the
down-state towns very lively.
Mrs. Charles Cox of seaford, owns
Bible that was printed in 1742s
The wiley fox is playing sad havoc with
hocks Of turkeys in Kent county.
Seven valuable dogs were poisoned in
Snow Hill, Md, several days ago.
This years crop of early apples is the
largest ever harvested in the state.
The Republican primaries in Caroline
county, Md. will be held August 22d-
The members Of Georgetown NJ P.
Church, talk Of holding village camp.
A camp is in progress in Vests
woods. near Gumborough, Sussex county.
The capital stock Of the Dover Button
Company was increased 81, 900 last week.
Dover Methodists are holding night
meetings in tents erected on vacant
lots
Thomas @. Roe of Dover, sold 100
baskets of apples in Boston recently for
$1.25.
George A. Millington, at Dover, lost a
COW last week She died of hydro
phobis.
Conductors on TIE D., NJ Il v. railroad
are given the rag off the bush for their
politeness.
Col R. ]. w. Carey, has gathered SO
baskets OF Troth peaches from six trees
this season
The Maryland State Republican Con
vention will be held at Ocean City on
August 9th.
Rowland Messick, Georgetown boy,
has been appointed telegraph operator at
Ridgely, Md
About $4,000 will be expended in
making repairs upon All Hal.oUs Church,
Snow Hill, Nd.
The new cannery at Cheswold, Kent
county, is completed and will begin run
ming in few days.
Denton A. M. E. Camp is now running
in full blast, and with all Of its mid
summer fragrance.
Dover has Ladies Exchange whal
a relief it will prove to the en-peekeo
husbands of the town.
| OlIeCI lax OOululnclOnbI NAAAb n1
in Georgetown several days last weel
fling applications for direct tax.
David Robbins, living near Milton, ha
a COW that recently gave birth to thre
fine calves Genuine veal triplets.
J The wet weather has caused wheat +
} sprout in the shock all over the PENN
. sula. 1t is still too wet to be threshed
Dover's street sprinkler has bee
driven out of the home market by th
4 heavenly competition of the last tw
weeks.
The new schooner Annie and May Bei
' Wick, In Abbott's yard, Milford, is bein
: rugged In two weeks she will be read
for sea.
Julia Douglass Johnson, little gil
living in Georgetown, nurses doll ths
! is over sixty years old. She is yer
Q proud of it.
|, Edgar Price of Millington, Nd ,threshe
S5l bushels from 25 acres OF sod. and "a
from 23 acres of stubble, all Of the Flu
II caster variety.
it T. L. Wiley, living near Georgetown
t planted five -eights Of bushel of whit
s2 potatoes, and from this planting raise
thirty one bushels Of ''Ireland's friend
q Milford is a good place for peaches,
the following, from the News and Adve
tiser is to be believed From an o
chard Of 425 6-year- old trees, Garrett
Hynson ia 1879 picked nearly 1900 ba
n. kets. In 1885 Leander s. Hopkins pick
about ZOO baskets Of peaches, most
"a Crawfords from 100 trees ever 25 yea
old. In 1887 s. T. Jenkins picked l.
III baskets Of Smocks from 16 6-year.o
to trees
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We Select and Special Excursions to Ocei
Grove.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington Al
Baltimore Railroad announces two sele
and special excursions to Ocean 6roN
ly ~ J for August 18th and 9th. 7
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