Middletown transcript., 1893-11-18
PENINSULA NEWS.

Gathered Here and There and Com
densed for Ready Reading.
CLAYTON has building boom, five houses
being in course of erection there.
George r. Walls. assistant keeper of
Henlopen Light, has resigned to undertake
farm life.
Snow fell Wednesday in Baltimore, An
napolis and in other parts of southern
Maryland.
Mrs. Hannah johnson, wife of the late
George johnson, historian and poet, died
at Eikton on Sunday
Centerville bakers have Fruit Cake Day,
when Christmas fruit cake of their patrons
are cooked free of charge.
The Seventh Day Adventist have rented
the town hall at Centreyille for a week or
more and are holding meetings every
night.
An enthusiastic revival service is being
held at the NJ. E. Church at Pearson's
Corner. During the last week 25 persons
were converted.
Peter F. Causey, of Milford, has been
appointed Sugar Inspector in the New
Orleans Custom House at the very neat
salary of Sc, 900.
The thirty-ffth annual meeting of the
Local Preachers and Exhorters' Associa-
ton of the Wilmington Conference was
held in the Cheswold, Del, this week.
Messrs. Richardson and Robbins of Dover
are employing about 225 hands at present
canning poultry of which they received
two carloads one day this week.
At Kiamensi, Del, Monday afternoon,
Roy Hopes, aged Ia years, was shot and
instantly killed by companion. The boys
were firing at target, when Hopes got in
the way of the gun, and was accidently shot
in the heart.
Rev. T. s. Williams has gone into the
business of egg farming near North East.
Jacob Sherwood has charge of fthe farm and
now has one hundred hens and epects to in
crease the number to thousand.
The Garfield Monument Association. of
Wilmington, has selected the plot at the
corner of Delaware avenue and Washington
street as the site, and will place thereon a
white bronze statue of Garfield, 9 feet high.
to cost about $4,000 with the base.
The Delaware College and Conference
Academy football teams will play game
on the Academy grounds this afternoon.
The game will be called promptly at 1.30
o'clock, in order to finish in time for the
Newark boys to return on the Norfolk ex-
press.
Gunners in Kent county have been
killing rabbits since the first of the month
without fear of prosecution by the Game
Protective Association. The sport has
been exceptionally good and choice rabbits
can be easily had in Dover at 15 and 20
cents apiece
The Still Pond Md, Creamery Co., COM
menced operations on Monday, but because
of the breaking of some of the machinery
experienced several days delay. Repairs
completed, the creamery recommended
work on Friday. The plant is said to be
one of the finest in Kent county.
Invitations are out for reception at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs Thomas J. Davis,
at Milford, for the 5oth anniversary OF
their wedding, to take place Wednes-
day, November 10Th, from to P. NJ.
The same day and in the same place, DR..
Sallie Maria DaYis. the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Davis, will be married to George w,
Halliwell of Bethlehem, Pa. DR.. Davis is a
medical practitioner at Bethlehem.
Partridges in Kent Co. Nd, says the
! Ghestertown Transcript, are so extremely
scarce, that many farmers are protecting
their birds with a view to stocking the
county for coming seasons. Several farmers
said on Tuesday that thay were neither
shooting birds on their places themselves
nor letting others shoot them. this, said
one gentleman, Is the only way to save
our birds for the future, and sportsmen
should under existing circumstances bs
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