Smyrna times., 1892-08-24
MARYLAND Item g.

hlkton NJ. E. Church will soon put
in new pipe organ at cost of $1,000.
A heavy surf and violent hailstOrm
were experienced at Ocean City, Sun
day
The drought is necessitating the ex-
ercse of great economy in the use of
water in EastOn.
Robert c. Thackery is the Cecil
republican candidate for Congress in
the second district.
Wholesale and retail merchants Of
Baltimore predict an unusually large
autumn business.
Dynamite is being successfully used
in Queen Anne's County in Kidding
new ground OF stumps.
Mayor George Taylor, of Cecilton,
dangerously stabbed Cecil Slaughter
on Friday night aud then fed.
Provisions are going rapidly to the
relief of the Delmar fire sufferers and
uilding the town is actively in
progress.
The recent disastrous fires on the
peninsula have aroused fredericksburg
citizens to the necessity of procuring
fire apparatus.
A special peach train has been put |
on the Western Maryland Railroad for
the benefit of Washington county |
growers and shippers.
A large number of men are actively |
at work cutting through Winter Quar- |
ter Beach to let salt water from the |
ocean to Siuepuxent bay.
The pack of corn and tomatoes will |
be large this year in Talbot county |
| where number of Poles have been
employed in the packing houses.
! Several oyster planters are removing
from Talbot county Md, to Virginia,
where the laws are more liberal and
encouraging to the planting industry.
The Board of Trade of Chestertown
has received "a proposition for the erec-
ton of large glass factory which
will give employment to twenty five
or thirty men.
Cape Charles City Fair, uGder the
auspices of the Chesapeake Agricul-
tural Fair Association, begins next
Tuesday. There are SO entries for
the racing events.
Miss Josephine Harris, daughter of
John Harris, of near KennedyVille,
has been appointed principal of Ken
nedyVille public school ia place Of Mr..
L. J. Smyth, resigned.
The Millington chapter of the Ep.
worth League met at Galena and the
Cecilton Leagues at Woodall's Point,
on the Sassafras river, near George
town, on Wednesday last, and had
rOusing picnic.
Rev. aud Mrs. f. E. White, of Mil
lingtOn, Mrs. w. E. Blackiston, Mrs.
w. E. B. Mallalieu, Miss Cynthia Mel.
son, Miss Lou MOffett and Miss Mary
Price are guests at the Aldine House,
Ocean Grove.
Rains are badly needed in Cecil
County. The water in the North East
creek is lower than it has been for
seven years. For this reason the
Mccullough Iron Company has been
compelled to run on half time at their
Water Mills.
The Maryland building at the Col
umbian Exposition is to be 100 feet by
40 feet, on the colonial style of archi.
lecture, with porch in the rear,
pOrticO in front, with pillars. 1t will
be two stories In height, and is to have
a garden on the roof.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. B. Earle, Centre
vile, are visiting in Washington county
: that State. Mr.. Earle writes home that
q full crop of peaches will be gathered
in that section, this year and mentions
the fact of one grower refusing $4,000
!. cash for his crop this year.
Capt. r. S. Emory is shipping barrels
of pears. Mrs. N Barnard, J. S. Har.
ris, DR.. w. S. Maxwell, f. ID. Crew ana
others in Still Pond Neck report Bart
!. let and Keifer pears plentiful and have
commenced packing them for market.
Prices range from 60 cents tc 81.
On Wednesday evening, Aug. 10, the
, marriage vows were sOlemnized, unit.
7 ing Miss Sallie A. HurlOck and ] Leo.
: nard Price, the bride being tho young
est daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hurlock the groom popular and ell
terpring young farmer near Kennedy.
Vile.
! Galena cream cry paid 80 cents per
hundred for milk for the month Of
, July. RumOr says that the creamery
at Sassafras is about TO dissolve part.
nership with the separating company
} of Galena. Report also says the cream-
: cry at Middletown is anxious that the
} Galena Company should join them.
. For the third time in his eventful
, life, George NJ. Russum, ESQ, was
nominated at Ocean City last Fhurs-
day by the Republican Congressional
convention, a candidate for Congress
The Union, his home journal, reports
Q that he left last Monday for the States
: of Wisconsin and North Dakota on
, professional business.
Water Works for Crisfeld.-A special
! to the Baltimore Sun says: John H,
1 Buxton, now of Laurel, Md, and for
4 merly of Baltimore and Buxton, Md.
Q has secured the franchise from the
|, town commissioners Of Crisfeld, Som
4 erset county, Md, to erect water works
: suitable for drinking, laundry and
} boiler purposes. The largest pipe will
. be inches in diameter. The water
I will be obtained from artesian wells
} If good water san be found If not
; from the Pceqmoka river OF some
( other source,