Smyrna times., 1897-09-15
County and State Items.

C. George Wright will build adwell-
ing in Dover to cost $14OO.
Professor Chew has resigned as cleo
trician at the State Colored College.
ClaytOnites are discussing the Or
ganization of a Board of Trade.
Townsend, can now boast of three
industries, flour mill, saw mill and
canning factory.
A national bank will probably be
started in Lewes, with capital of S25, :
600.
Custis Burton has been appointed
ticket agent of the Queen Anne's Rail-
road, at Milton.
Governor Tunnel and staff opened
the new shooting range of Company H
at New Castle Saturday.
While fishing near Georgetown.
Lewis E. Hamilton was stricken with
paralysis and died in few moments.
The bicycle path between Lewes and
Georgetown has been completed to
within two miles of Georgetown.
Editor DOwnham, of the Transcript,
is again quite sick, and has been con-
fined to his bed.
296 baskets of fine potatoes from 1 /
acres of land is the record of VIM. A..
Scott, of Townsend.
FOurth-class pOstmasters have been
appointed in Delaware as follows: W.
S. Barris, Bear; J. d. Harrington,
Viola.
The Easton district Epworth League
will meet at Clayton on Oct 14th and
the Dover district convention will be
held at Milton on Oct. Goth.
The news that counterfeit $1,000 bills
are in circulation has spread conster-
nation among the newspaper men of
the Peninsula Milford Herald.
Thieves early Saturday morning Sc
cured a quantity of wearing apparel
and silverware from the home of DIR.
George Chamberlain, in Middletown
Rev. G. E. Hastings, pastor of
ArmOry Methodist Episcopal Church,
of Dover, has resigned and will enter
Drew Theological Seminary. Rev
Howard Smith may succeed him.
Bishop Monagan, Thursday ordained
Revs. Thomas Plunkett. Daniel O'Cal.
lahan and Justin Mccarthy to the
diacOnate at st. Joseph's Church, Clay
ton.
About 1000 baskets of peaches is the
aggregate shipment, from FELTON,
The tomato crop has proved a gOOj
substitute; prices has gone as high a
81 cents a basket.
VIM. J. Thoroughbred, of SUSSEX
county, and Baltimore capitalists, hav,
purchased the Bright House site a
RehobOth, and will erect large hote
there.
The Baltimore Dredging Co., has re
ceived a contract to removed 5000, 90
cubic yards of material from Dal
Baker shoals about 40 miles insid
Cape HenlOpen.
Dover people are singing a hymn en-
titled $50 Wash in That Beautiful
Stream" which was made popular a
the recent campmeeting of Mt. Zion A
NJ. E. Church.
Bishop Coleman, returned to vii
mington Saturday, after an absence o
three months abroad, during which h
attended the Lambeth Conference G
Bishops in England.
Miss Eleuthera DUPONT Bradford
daughter of Judge Bradford, AM
Henry Belin DUPONT, will be marie
in st. Johns Episcopal Church, Wi
mingtOn to-day. by Bishop Coleman
The anniversary of Barratt's Chape
will be observed Sabbath, Sept. 1!
Rev. S. H. Evans, of Spring City, Pa.
will preach morning and evening, an
Rev. Alfred Smith, d. D., of Dove
in the afternoon.
Joseph Harris, colored, is spendin
a vacation at Sheriff Shaw's resor
Joseph has been obtaining goods @
forged orders of Jehu Reed. I'll
orders were presented to c. S. Val
BurkalOw, of Magnolia.
The work of remOdeling the Welse
NJ. E. Church, at Dover has begul
The contract price is $685. and is to
finished Nov. oath. During the tin
that the work is being done all servic
will be held in the lecture room.
Senator Gray has returned from h
European trip. In an interview ]
dubs the Dingely bill a robber bi
says it is bad in principal. and that
plays highwayman with commerce al
pickpocket with the individual.
Because Of several cases of diphther
in the Wilmington colored publ
school at Fifth and Dupont streets b
been closed. The Board of Heal
estimates that there are fifty cases
the disease confined to the sOuthwe
ern section of the city.
Georgetown people are trying to 9
a new Jail built. The present bull
ing is located in the central portion
the town, and is old and unsuited
the purposes of Jail. AS new O
is needed, the people in Georgeto,
want to build outside of town.
Some of the Sussex county farmt
are picking the second crop of stra
berries and are making quite a sum
money from them. In the vicinity
Bridgeville the growers have b,
shipping berries for nearly two we,
and are receiving 25 cents quart
Owing to short crop of tomatoes, 1
canned vegetable has taken a decic
advance. One month ago the thr
pound cans were freely offered al