Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1896-07-08
County and State Items.

The new Baptist church at Millsboro
will open next Sunday.
The Dover Hader, with it's last issue
completes the ninth year of its exis-
tence.
The Summer School of Methods is
now in session at Dover, with a good |
attendance.
Pennington basket makers have al
ready shipped over 100, 900 peach bas-
kets this season.
DIR. Harry B. Hickman and Miss
Annie V. Manning were married in the
NJ. E. Church at Lewes.
A new conclave of Heptasophs,
known as Delaware, has been Organi-
zed in Wilmington with 40 members.
Peach baskets have sold at $50 per
1000 in Milford, but have advanced to
S33; with prospects of another advance.
They are now selling at Dover at $37.
DELAWARE PENSIONS. Mary E. Davis
of Smyrna, Annie Booth of Whining
ton and Annie E. Pierce of Townsend
have been granted original widows
pensions.
There is not much doubt the greater
part, at least, of the peach crop being
sold and bought at the stations. One
local buyer has made arrangements al
ready to buy from five to eight cars
day.
Mrs. Mary E. Naylor, wife of Robert
Naylor, living near the Pine Tree Cor
ner, died on Tuesday, June 23d, in the
54th year of her age. The remains
were inferred i'll the cemetery at Union
NJ. E. Church.
1t is supposed that go, 600 delegrtes
will attend the Christian EndeavOr
Convention In Washington this week.
The Delaware delegation will leave
Wilmington to-day on a Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad special train.
Prof Edmund Bryan has recently
been elected Superintendent of the
public schools at Danville ILL.,, with a
salary of $500. Prof. Bryan is the
oldest son of the late Rev. j. Z. Bryan,
of the Wilmington Conference and the
husband of May Martindale.
The Dover Telephone Co. has been
granted permission to erect poles and
string wires in the town of Smyrna and
will have the line completed in a few
days. The company has erected poles
to Bowers Beach and now has almost
The famous old Cedar Greek Mills
once the property of Governor Hazlett,
have just been improved by the put
ting in of an entn ely new roller flour
mill of the latest improved type, in
Guiding the first gyrating scalper and
sitter on the Delaware and Maryland
Peninsula
State Insurance Commissioner Peter
X. Meredith has decided to move
against those insurance companies that
follow the practice of rebating on pol
icies. Under a State law, rebatlng is
a misdemeanor, punishable by fine
of $500 for every $25, 900 of insurance
Some of the peach growers in tn,
lower part of the State are already be
coming frightened over the size of thu
peach crop. They fear that tn ere viii
be so many peaches that prices will b.
low and they are willing to sell thei
crops for twenty-five cents basket.
The birthday reception rendered
Miss NOrah Shaw by her parents, Sher
iff Shaw and wife at their home il
Dover, on her 21st birthday, was
most enjoyable occasion to the partic
ipants. There were about 70 of he
many friends present, nearly One-thirC
of these being from Harrington.
Mrs Martha j. Harris, aged 81 year
died at her home in Milford Frida
week. She was pensiOner of the wa
of 1912, being the widow of DIR. Wi
liam Harris. She left about $4,000
mostly invested in bank stock, an,
willed it to John b. Pennington, Esq.
of Dover-thereby ignoring her rela
tiOns.
Six growers having orchards nes
Milford expect to have together, 100, 0C
baskets of peaches this summer. Th
growers are George H. Draper, Ere
A. Whitehead, Charles Barker, GeOrg
H. Hail, William 1. Simpson and job
J. Rosa. There are a number of Othel
who will have from 5000 to 10000 ba
kets each.
WOULD TRY A MUzZLE FOR BAYAR1
-"When Lord Roseberry and Il
Duke of Devonshire and the Marqu
of Salisbury glow about America l a
willing to have Mr.. Bayard glow abOl
England and not till then. Mea
while, l would buy a muzzle for hi
and for the like of him who may con
after" Henry Watterson's LOndC
Letter in the Louisville Courier JOti
nal.
A New TRAIN FOR PEACHES. IT
Farmers Institute of Kent county,
a meeting held at Milford, appoints
a committee to secure, if possible, T.
running of a solid peach train,
= leave the Delaware Maryland & v
ginia branch at or 8 o'clock in t
evening daily, and run through to NJ
York and NewEngland This ira
would take peaches picked IN the att
moons, which heretofore have not be
shipped until next morning. Pea
baskets in this town have advanced
price from $50 to $33 per 1000
EvAPoRArzD WHITE POTATOES.
Perhaps the old peach evapOrators
this vicinity may come into use agt
as evapOrated potatoes, prepared IN
same manner as evapOrated apples,
to be put on the market from Mini
sofa next fall. Last seasons pots
crop was so large that many mllllC
of bushels were wasted, and expe
ments were made in evaporating pc
toes. The experiments were succe
full, and two big factories for preparl
potatoes In this manner are buildil
Milford Chronicle.
The Sussex County Republican G.
trail Committee met at GeorgetO
last week for organization. When
fight over contested seats from Ii
Greek Hundred had ended George
Smith, found that his political h
was entirely scratched off. Ode Nc
had contested his seat in the commi
just as Higgins had contested the ri
of Addicks, at st. Louis, and Ode '
with hands down. This left the
dicks wing of the convention in
troll by the vote of s to 5. Thus arr
they made short work of electing G,
K. Layton Chairman of the Conn
tee.
BISHOP COLEMAN A FIRM FRIENI
DELAWARE COLLEGE.-At the Il
School commencement on Wednes
evening Wilmington, Bishop Cole
IN his remarks advised as many of
graduates as possible to take a col
course. He called attention to
TACT that DR.. George A. Harter.
new president of the institution
mad Just assumed his duties az mr.
cent on that day, was present
Dlshop Coleman then said that
aware had within its own borders a
iieege well equipped to give the e'i ;n 2 !,
ZION desired brr CO - - VI