Evening journal., 1896-09-21
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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tives. The services were in charge of
the Rev. T.. Martindaae, the pastor of
the Avenue NJ. u. Church. and the
music was by the choir Of the same
church. Intorment was made in the
Odd Fellows Cemetery The pall-bear-
ers were: Frank Reedy Gardiner Jos
ephs. Frank II. Kramlich. James An
derson. DR. ]. c. Wiltbank and DR.
George w. Marshall.
Shooting might hawks" is a favorite
pastime for some Georgetown sports
men during the early evening.
James Hevalow. Of near Milford. was
bitten on the right shoulder by a
spider, the arm now being terribly
swollen.
Rabbits are said to be very numer-
Gus in Sussex.
Where oh, where is that bicycle fac
tory that was to locate here? pathet-
ically inquiries the Newark Ledger. It
has failed to materialize and many re-
gret it. 1t seemed, at one time. to be
an assured thing, but something went
agee, and the old factory stands as a
monument of former prosperity and a
waste of good capital.
Mrs r. r. Hart, of Georgetown. has
a rose bush that has grown to height
of over twenty feet. 1t is not of the
climbing variety.
The "sanctifed Band" Church, at
Chincoteague, Va. has been sold by
the sheriff.
Prices Of white potatoes are steadily
advancing on account of the shortness
of tho crop.
Clerk Of the Peace Dorman has Sc
cured a lot of iron railing which will
be used in the erection of the long
needed fence around the court house
yard, says a Georgetown exchange.
There is a scarcity of white potatoes
in the neighborhood of Dover The
early crop has been already consumed,
and the late crop is not equal to the
demand.
Runaways are matters of almost
daily occurrence in Milford of late. and
are generally due to the carlessness
of the drivers.
Conductor Tom Hawkins has been
presented a pumpkin by Burt Elliott,
of Delmar, which weighs sixteen
pounds, and is six feet five and half
inches around.
The peach season is practically over
In the Delaware Peninsula. and results
show that the season was not as profit
| able, considering the size of the crop,
as was last years. with a much smaller
supply of fruit This was largely due
to the poor quality of much of
the fruit which brought but
80 cents per basket, against IS cents
last year The poor quality was at
tributed to the long dry spell. Those
growers who sold direct from the or
chard made out hest It is estimated
that the money receipts from the crop
amounted to about S1,O00,OO0.
Hog cholera is prevalent around
Lewes.
Citizens of Greenwood and Ellen
/ dale have presented to Mrs. Wilmer
Emory q handsome watch in recogni-
| tion OF her husbands services in Sc
curing to them the Queen Anne's rail-
road.
A mass convention Of Methodists
will be held at Dover on Thursday,
September "a, for the purpose of Sc
curing, if possible, the Introduction
into the new state constitution OF a
clause prohibiting the liquor traffic in
Delaware.
The fish factories at Lewes are run
ming on full time. The catch Of mem
madden has been large and the oil pro-
| duction great. Extensive repairs have
been ordered to the piers at which the
fishing steamers land.
Marshall H. Prettyman, who was
the best buyer of fancy fruit at the
( Milford market this Summer, has gone
to the mountains of Western Mary
! land to buy peaches for shipment 10
New England.
The following counties of Maryland
comprise the Eastern Shore: Cecil
Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Caroline
! Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico and
Worcester The other fourteen coun-
ties and the city of Baltimore COM
prise the Western Shore. There are IN
ell twenty-three counties.
Sycamore camp, in Sussex, commenc-
ed Saturday.
Robert Morgan of the crew of the
ship ST. Paul. waiting at the Delaware
BrealIwatcr for orders, died of beri'
beri fever.
Next Sunday Bishop Coleman vii
b cOnsecrate the new altar and other iur
nitnre recently presented to st. Philip'
Protestant Episcopal Church, Laurel.
A census of Milford taken by
Charles +. Stephenson, shows 3446 in
, habitants, making Milford the iarges
town in the state except Wilmington.
Roy Brammer and George Winecon
of Ironton. Ohio, who have the govern
ment contract for deepening an'
wide ing the channel Of the Laure
river from Laurel to the Nanticoke
will soon put 200 men at work.
The colored people of Milton have
begun the erection of a church
During Saturdays nights storm
lightning struck a hay rick on the farm
of Francis n Buck, at State Road, en-
tirely consuming it.
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