Smyrna times., 1893-06-07

Baltimore W DeihWhre Day Will Close AZ oUO a. M
Opening of Mails.
From North, $780, 1000 a. m, 4.2O and 6lO p. m
% p. m. Wilmington only.
County and State Items.
Buglars are attempting to plunder
Milford stores.
Chief Justice Lore was the orator OF
Wilmington, on Decoration Day.
The Methodist Protestants of Dover
are going to build a three thousand
dollar church. --
Fishing at the Break water has begun
and fisherman make good catch
every day that the weather permits.
VIM. c. Longfellow, of Wyoming,
recently a messenger in the treasury
department was discharged last week.
John r. Todd, Professor of Greek at
the Conference Academy, expects to
spend next year at Oxford University,
England. --
The one hundred and fourth annual
meeting of the Delaware State Medical
Society will be held at Lewes on June
18th and 14th. --
A big Fourth of July demonstration
with fireworks galore, at night, is being
arranged for by WilmingtOn's Patriotic
Son OF American.
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Oh Reedy Island, in the Delaware
River, below New Castle, will be fin
ished in three weeks.
Wilmington's ex-Chief of Police,
Theodore W. Francis, has been appOin-
ted Chief Warden Of New Castle Jail
III salary OF $500 year.
Wilmington insurance agents have
notified policy holders that their COM
panies will not pay fire losses resulting
from the use of gasOliue stoves.
Still immigrants keep hOcking over
to this country from Europe. During
the month of May $4,000 came over,
1866 arriving last MOuday.
The KnAutf Organ Factory in New
ark, including six acres of land and all
the machinery, will be offered at public
sale on June 18th, by the receivers.
Samuel G. Baker, of Lewes, has been
appointed an assistant keeper at the
Brandywine light house i'll the place of
Eben Hudson, promoted to principal
keeper -
John L. Bailey, who was a member
of Co. E, First Regiment, Delaware In-
fantry, died at the Soldiers Home,
Hampton, Va, May 20Ih, at the age of
72years. --
The Douglass House, at Rehoboth,
will be run this season by Messrs. JEFF
fersOn & LOaand. the Bright House by
E II. Graham, and the HenelOpen by
Walter Burton.
Catalogues of the Delaware State
FAIR to be held at Dover in September
are out 1t you want one address John
b. Wharton, Secretary of State Fair,
Dover, Delaware.
There are about 1000 pensioners in
Wilmington. There are in the United
States one pensiOner to every sixty five
persons, and the same proportion holds
good in Wilmington.
Thomas B. Burton has this week
been appointed postmaster at Frederick
in place of John W. CarrOw, removed
for political purposes, and III. B. Work
man has also been appointed at Ellen
dale.
The open air meetings to be held by
the Rev. RObt. Watt, pastor of the Ave.
NJ. b. Church, on the church lot, Mil
ford during the Summer months, will
be novel aud exceedingly pleasant in
every way.
Cards have been issued for the mar
riage OfMiss Minnie Rosenbaum, of
Georgetown, to Charles K. Landis, of
Vineland, n. j., on Thursday morning,
June 10Th, in st. Paul's Church,
Georgetown. --
From present indications there will
be between 3U0, 900 and $780, 900 baskets
OF peaches shipped from BridgeVille
station, which in all likelihood surpass-
es the shipment of any station ON the
Delaware railroad.
The railroad authorities have notified
the officers of the Dover NJ. +. Sunday
school, that on account of increased
Worlds Fair travel, cars cannot be fur.
nished for the proposed excursion tC
Woodland Beach on June 28Lh next.
The shirt factory in town is now run.
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and fifty people are employed cOnstan
tly. Half of this number take the work
to their homes while the other hal
work at the factory Milford Chronicle
Wilmington Conference Herald, pub.
lished at Dover by Rev. Robert w
Todd, has been sold TO u stock com.
pany, and will hereafter be published
at Harrington. Rev. G. A. Grise, o.
Georgetown, will have editorial control
Peter l.. Cooper, Jr., of Wilmington
formerly of Dover, aud Miss Katharine
+. Wagner, daughter of General Loui.
Wagner, ex director of public work,
aud president of the Third Nationa
Bank of Philadelphia, will be married
on Tuesday, June 18Th.
The Joseph Pierce farm of twenty
acres has been purchased by William
pu POnt for $4,000, The building oI
the Pierce farm, which is directly op
pQsite WOOltOn hall, will be takel
down. He is negotiating for the pur
chase of the Mt Pleasant NJ. E. Church
We are buying more than we are sci
ling, or gold would not be leaving tn
country at the rate it is now doing
When an individual or q firm or a ns
tiOn buy more than they sell, and kee
on doing it, but one result will follow
We cannot expect to have both tn
penny and the cake.
Richardson & Robbins Friday close
their canning establishment for at leas
RmOnth, and possibly for longer Dc
HOd. II the firm concludes to ca
peaches, the can makers will 90 I
work in June. The closing Of this VI
tablishment puts many persons out {
employment for the present.
The 10th annual convention of th
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