Smyrna times., 1895-10-23
THE SMYRNA TIMES.
smyrna, DeI.,
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, Oct zsrd. 1905
County and State Items.

The single Tax tent has been erootod -
Dover Il Is travelling South through tn,
State. Wv
Presiding Elder Louis E. Barrett. of vii
mngton has declined pastoral call :,
Wesley Church. Dover.
Dr. Cove $. Harrington has decided :,
locate IN Philadelphia and will hang out hi,
shingle at 7s5 n. 10th st.
Aunt Lydia Cook. mother of VIM
Cook of Frederica died on "Wednesday at 81.
advanced age of 90 years. ''''
Nearly all the cases marked for trial op tI,e
docket OF the Superior Court of Snssav
County were amicably settled.
Ihe Historical society of Wilmington nv q
vote OF p to decided against admittino 7
Edward Addicks to membership.
food exposition will be held in Wil,oir,,
ton IN the Auditorium, beginning ON Novem-
Der Is and continuing for ten days.
Nine babies were born in Georgetown last
week and the people there are elated at this
rapid rate of increase in population.
- Dl"WH' Esq, and Miss Ethel
F"r'ls the former of Wilmington will be
married at Middletown November 9th.
Rev Fred E. McKinsey has been trans
serFed trom Exmore Circuit. Salisbury Dis
trlc'' Va, TO Little Creek, Dover District
T. James Belt. at Wilmington. and Mrs
NJ j. Besgs, of Moundsville, w. Va. were
married AT the home of the bride on Wednes-
day.
The Delaware College foot ball team de-
fea'ed the Hahnemann College eleven of
Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon bv the
score OF = too.
Strawberries are ripening in such ouanti-
Ties III the lower part of the State as To
warrant shipping them.-Cumberland and
thompson varieties.
IA- residence of j. S PurnelI, in Milford
NreA. was destroyed by tire. together will |
all contents. The barns and out buildipos |
"e-e destroyed. Loss, 5000; partially in
>u..-L
Jonathan 5. Scot,en died at his residence
near Dover Friday aged A wears. lie was -
member oI Dover Conclave L. 0. H.. and is
ba !
conceive was formed.
Ihe Eev. J. A b. Wilson. ID. d. formerly, of
~. Wilmington Conference. has accented
an lntlta,l'H 10 become pastor of tin. Eirst
h- T. Church o. Los Angeles, Cal. The
pastoral relation III New York was becoming
strained
Politics IN tine Diamond State are in q
stat. "- q'u-scence. But ii You desire to
A--T inc music, read thc reports from Mary
L-li, kentucky, Ohio, New Jersey and New
l'ra, specially the city oi that name. In
all of these places there's music ON a full
band Sentinel"
I-@ failure Of ex-state Treasurer VIM. H
Burnite. Of FELTON,, Is not for as much as was
AZ hr-t reported. The loss of the state or
rather his securities. twelve in number will D,
p Sl.lOO IN itead Of $1,000. as at first re-
ported. His assets it Is stated will fall |
several thousand dollars short Of paving his q
liabilities. {
The Delaware Railroad Company has paid
on one Of the largest mortgages Oh record at
the court house. 1t was for $3.50. 600 The
mortgage was the Fidelity Insurance. Trust
and SAFE Deposit Company The COMPANY
has paid S73,O on the face Of the MORTGAGE
and the Fidelity takes $50. 500 in stock in
lieu ~ tAe remainder.
The Every Evening after predicting
time and again, that tin plate could NOT he
made IN this country. now announces that
the increased production of tin plate dur-
ing the past three months has been at the 1
rate of 100000 boxes year, exclusive of the
factories which merely dip imported plate -
The installation of the new president Of
the State College for colored students will
iake place Tomorrow oath inst, at 2 p. N
Chiei Justice Lore Will make the Introduce d,
ofy address, and addresses will also be made
Dy bishop Wayman, and Fanny VI. J. Cop-
pm principal Of the Colored Institute in 7
Philadelphia. !
Anthrax has ragged along the Delaware I
River this year with such virulence that if
has required the constant attention of the
Experiment Station. All the cattle ON fifty
Farms have been vaccinated. Some Of these
cattle are ranging fields that are known 10 be n
injected and none Of them have been at u
lacked by the malady Delawarean''
The Gamers Association Of the PeninsuI,
met IN special session at Dover on Thurs
day Reports were received from 50 Of the
lo5 packing houses, and careful estimate
showed pack Of about 1000 cases of to-
inatoes the past season, which Is only about q
- per cent. Of the pack Of last year. The !"
greater part Of this years pack Is already =
sold
1. b. MERRITT DEAD.-Tobias b. Merritt.
Proprietor Of the Merritt House, Wilmington
eisd suddenly Sunday afternoon. He was
uflFing on the New Castle causeway, when
he was attacked by heart disease and fell back +,
n his carriage, dead. Terrence Carvin. who 1
happened to be driving by at the time. stop,
pei the team and brought it and its occu-
pant back 70 the city. Merritt was one of
!, Dsst- known and most popular hotel men of
=, ie feninsula' and had kept hotels at Easton, >
'iu.' and Harrington, Dover and Whining -
g'h. lie was 60 years Of age. He will be 4,
buried at Easton. a
=, me Philadelphia Record" thus refers TO
.he Wilmington Cuban meeting; If the
Dei'A"afeans do not mind their manners and
ave lhe Cubans TO work out their own ~
salion Spain may be getting after tn en- r
win gunboat. Foreigners as a rule knovv 4
~ ii''ie about the geography Of the United Il
States' and it would require no very oroot -
s1Ie'ch OF imagination to convert Delaware
into an island. Spain loves am island ,r.,,
We aaould be sorry if anything verv seyio,,s ~
should befan the people of Delaware - L,ls
tney must be on their guard. Mass Ioeet;De.
AZ Grand Opera Houses are dangerous ~ 81
plOsives. eA- =,
- SYMPATHY WITH CUBA. = Fully 1900 81
people crowded into the Opera House vii NJ
ning'on' Saturday night to express their III
sympathy for Cuba. On the stage were
many prominent business and professional
men. Among them were Colonel E. I. Ma, -
'la, ex-member Of Congress, Rev. L. Z. Bar
,g''' Rev Robert Watt, Adiutant General
mart Of the State Militia, and Rev. Merritt
1la'ourd- ID. Z. g. shortlidge, was perman- =
s'i1 chairman General Postles read resoIu- ,od
'iohs pressing sympathy with the Cuban oil