Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
M arVland Items.

The truckers around Norfolk are
still busy planting Irish potatoes.
Bishop Coleman, of Delaware,
preached at St. Anne's, Annapolis, |
Md Sunday.
There was a destructive fire in Eas-
ton Saturday loss, $4,000, houses
fully insured.
The quadrennial session of the
Methodist Protestant Church will be
held in Westminster, May 20.
The planning mill of L. E. Williams
& Co., in Salisbury, was burned early
saturday morning; loss $4,000 to
| $4,000, insurance $9,40O.
The Junior of the Greensborough
Free Press IN taking match from his
vest pocket drew out FIVE dollar
greenback which fell into the FIRE and
ended in smoke. Government five
dollars ahead.
A colOred woman of unsOund mind,
named Cooper, was burned to death
!
mother and sister had fastened her in
her home while they went away to
work, aud before their return the
house was on fire and the woman
burned to death.
Governor Brown has designated
Wednesday, April 9, as Arbor Day,
and by proclamation issued this week,
recommends that the same be observed
by the people of Maryland in planting
trees, shrubs and vines for the promo
: tiOn of forest growth and the culture
and adOrnment of public and private
: = grounds and ways.
! George Riddle, of Cecilton, presi
= dent of the Peninsula Horticulture
i Society says of the coming peach crop
on the Peninsula, II have cut mum
u Der of buds on some of the varieties
y and found only 2 per cent alive, OF
> others as many as so per cent. Thi
> condition renders it certain that ther
will not be very large crop, yet
Z does not seem certain that there vii
u be nc fruit some think that the col
% day of November 30, killed the bud:
10 | believe the real cause existed muc
III earlier and was immature or impel
- feet buds caused by the immense croT
er of last season,
a. A 10000 fire at Eastom-M Midnigf
OF fire Saturday night destroyed aboU
ne $4,000 worth of property on Mark,
u space, EastOn, burning out the bloc
&c. from MasOn's carriage warehouse
lr, Noot N h,,;lI;nrs
,e- were Alex. Fountains occupied
~ William Wright's clothing store O
~ the first floor and the newspaper Ofit
ne of the Easton Democrat Oh the secoI
err HOOr, John Y. Todd, editor; Frank
lse MasOns double house, occupied
ll- Harry Ads as a general store. DR..
Dte H. AndersOn,s, occupied by A.
vas Cook, restaurant, and Miss El
OF Brown, seamstress; B. F. Lsmbdi
leo occupied by NJ. P. Henry as store al
zen dwelling, The houses were all pre-
srs erly insured. There was So, 900 inst
les ance on the Democrat office, 81, 900
Ine Wright's stock, and $4,000 on Ad
lld who says his loss is over $4,000 T
len goods of Messrs. Henry and Co
ght were not insured but were most
ay. removed and saved.
ur.
leu leu The American Straw Board Com
1ne ny's mill at ChestertOwn, Md, to
Ies i.s fire at IL O'Clock on Monday night
S ui last week, and is now a total wreC
nu A high wind was blowing at the til
VI which famed the flames. The u
f Vs shut down ON Friday because tn
;o' was no straw boiled, and there w
sls but three employees on duty-En
'ne neer Nelson and three assistants.
om- Nelson stated that he made his hou
tue visit at 10 o'clock and everything '
e. all right, but at II o'clock he saw
iOI falling on the rotary boiler from
80 straw Room.
,one ,' All efforts to save the building W
lins useless and the 6remen directed tn
i.on efforts TO saving the stables and DIV
are ling houses, which they accomplish
~ The mill is owned by the Ameri'
MI Straw Board Company Of Chicago, {
ecu represented a capital of $15O,OOO.
pc was the only straw board mill rum
tne this side of the Alleghenys, and wa
lVles S feeder to the New England States
,.S anS the South II is insured for ab
WIN WIN $1O5 600. Sixty men are thrown
PoI- of employment, and it was one OF
new worst fires that has happened there
,T! Une the last twenty years. There
mar H grave fears that the mill will not
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