Smyrna times., 1896-06-10
DELAWARE AND
MARYLAND ITEMS.

ticipate in the sports OF the Young
Mems Christian Association, IL Will
mington, June 20.
Col. Luther H. Gadd has done the
right thing at last in resigning the
Office of State Librarian at Annapolis
and has saved the Governor the
trouble of removing him.
Deputy. Attorney General Peter L.
Cooper will accompany his father-in-
law, General Louis Wagner, of Phila-
delphia, to Europe July 1.
George w. Rodenhiser, of Kent
county, Md, gave William Wood
valuable horse for a setter doy 18
months old.
The skeleton of the whale that
washed ashore at Ocean View last
week will be taken to Washington and
mounted.
Henry G.. Turner, who was at one
time prominent in Delaware politics,
has written book which will be is
sued under the name of ga Modern
Political Boss"
William H. Radcliff, of Camden,
who played such good ball last year
for the Dover club, is playing this
year with the Western Maryland Col
lege club and has been pitching
phenomenal ball.
The Sarah Ann White Home for
Aged and Infrm COlored People, Will
mingtOn, will be opened when forty
persons will agree to contribute S:
each per year toward the maintenance
of the institution.
The School Commissioners of Dor
chester refuse to allow the use o
school-honses for debating societies
because it interferes with the insurance
w. F. Allen, Jr., of Wicomico, solC
strawberry plants this year in France
and is apprised by letter that they ar
rived in excellent condition.
I. Freeman Rasin, of Baltimore, ha
large force of mechanics at work i'm
proving the residence on "Old Fiel
Point" farm, Kent, ON Sassafras river
The Barren Greek strawberry an
pea crop was worth this year $4,000
!. and the prospect for melons, cantt
lopes, peaches and blackberries wa
never better than now.
The business of George Bannistel
. colored, of Chestertown, is to elm
Il smoke-stacks. He has travelled
II New South Wales and nearly ever
country of Europe, climbing chimney
and smoke-stacks. The tallest chin
ney he has ever climbed was one of L
an feet in Chicago.
!, w. Page Dame, son of Rev. DIR. Y
ie- NJ. Dame, rector of Memorial PrOte
,o1 pa tant Episcopal Church Baltimore hi
&c. won first place in reading conte
." among the students of the Episcop
rSl Sl High School at Alexandria, Va. The
were eleven other participants. You
nd Mr.. Dame will enter the University
ON Virginia in the fall.
"French peas" will be packed
, Milford this year, at the cannery
i, David Refs. This firm has import
from Bordeaux, France, pea sepal
n tor of the kind used in that count
for grading peas, and having CO
tracted with farmers for growing t
D small variety of earlypeas, the cam
+ product is expected to be equal to I'll
packed in France under label 'pe
- pois.
In about six weeks the early variet
lO of peaches will be ripening and in t
weeks more the rush will CONNER
Growers should only bring their b
fruit to market and let the small fir
n stay on the farm. Good fruit is alw,
L : sure to bring fair price but poor fr
-. will not pay expenses. Pack the fir
carefully and put your name on
baskets. Buyers this year will ini
on the baskets being marked Q
80 growers will get about five cents
basket less for their fruit if their mar
- are not on the baskets.
Says the Milford Chronicle:
strawberry crop in this section i
thing of the past. In two weeks bla
berries will be ripe and will be SEN
20 refrigerator cars to Eastern mark
For the first time refrigerator {
were used this season on strawber
So and about all the crop was handled
this manner by M. H. Prettyman,
qntV sent the first to Springfield, Ma
where good prices have prevailed
the season. Mr., Prettyman will
YES handle the blackberry crop In refriI
ators and he has already received
+, surance from the growers of +
,1cE enough to load one or more cars.
here We would remind the Single
f"s' Il orators and their friends says the \
. dletown .Ne,0 Era, that the wa,
approach a friend is by no means
q club. When the Single Takers
more civilly, when they stop their
DEL. , iiance of the authorities, when
W. bride their tongues and use argum
instead Of threats and criticism; v
)el they school themselves to the fact