Middletown transcript., 1894-06-02
PENINSULA NEWS.

The public schools of Cecil count
closed for the summer months OIL June Isl
DIR. Downs, of Kenton, picket 1900 quart
of strawberries from his one acre lot OF
Monday.
The Dan Cochran farm in Kent Co., Md.
containing 256 acres, 2 rods and 35 perche.
has been transferred to Samuel HurIocI
for IS, 423.O7.
The canning houses in Princess Anne are
running to their full capacity at this time
packing strawberries. On Saturday last
one firm canned $1,000 quarts.
Mr.. R. C. Tubman near Cambridge, has
an orchard of 250O peach trees which are
in bearing this year. and from which he
expects full crop
The army worm has made its appearance
in Somerset, David Ruch, farmer on the
outskirts Of Princess Anne, had a field of
fifteen ocres of corn destroyed by the worm.
Twenty-one carloads of Strawberries
reached Wilmington Tuesday via. the
Delaware railroad berry train Wednes-
days shipment of berries was also heavy.
Jennie, wife of ex-Sheriff John G. Penne-
well, of Dover, died suddenly Monday
morning aged about So years. She had
been an invalid for some time. Death was
due to apoplexy.
During the thunder storm of Saturday
p;pbt a uoI,obIa hrood p,aro ond b,r oo1+
were instantly killed by lightning while
running in the pasture field of their owner,
Timothy Devine, near Warwick.
There is much complaint in Wicomico
county that the moles have destroyed the
watermelous seed. Some of the truckers
have replanted as high as five times each
time the moles have destroyed the seed.
While at work in the Factory of the
Georgetown Hosiery Co., on Saturday,
Abbie Stigers, girl employed by the COM
pany, caught her dress in the machinery
and was being rapidly pulled into the ma
chine when companion cut her dress and |
saved her life
The shipping of soft crabs from Kent Co., |!
to Baltimore has developed into an ex-
tensive and remunerative business. Be. |
tween May and Is one operator shipped |
576 dozen or 6,912 soft crabs, an average of |
a little over go dozen per day. On May "a
he handled 110 dozen crabs.
DR. James H. Morgan has sold his drug
store at Eighth and Church streets, Will
to J. Luther Truax of Smyrna,
who has just graduated from the Mary
land College of Pharmacy. Mr.. Truax
took charge this week. Dr. Morgan con-
tinues his office at Tenth and Poplar streets
Two carpenters at work on the roof Of
the new building of William Lyman,
in Pencader hundred were badly stunned
by the electric storm Monday afternoon
Seven COWS, belonging so farmer named
Carlisle living near McCleliandsvile, were
killed by flash of lightning the same
time.
Last Sunday Snow Hill was visited by
one the seyerest rain and hail-storms ever
experienced. The storm which was en-
,irely local, began about noon and lasted
for an hour. Haistones the size of mar
oles fell in such quantities that they were
gathered up by bucketfuls. There was
neither rain or hail two miles from any
quarter
On Monday J. 7. Shallcross, of Sassafras
Kent county. made the largest shipment
If gooseberries ever sent to market by
single grower on the Eastern Shore He
shipped fl ty five sugar barrels of230 pounds
each, agregating 1900 pounds of goose
berries. The berries sold in Baltimore at
y cents per pound. He expects to get
rom patch Of six acres over 600 bushels
of gooseberries.