Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

| 10 BUILD Saw MILL.-A new COM
pany is being formed at Seaford for the
purpose of building new saw mill. The
new company will have a capital stock of
$4,000 and will put in the latest machinery.
Steps are being taken to establish the
Pasteur treatment for rabies in Baltimore
and 1t is expected that patients can be
treated in six weeks time. Dr. John Rub
rah, of the City Hospital went to Paris in
December to make study of the treatment
and returned to Baltimore last week.
ANTI-RACE TRACK WoRK.-The anti-race
track people of Cecil county held con-
vention at Elkton yesterday. The object
of the convention is to denounce race-track
and other forms of gambling and to secure
the nomination of men as candidates for the
General Assembly of the state who are op-
posed to gambling in all forms.
Maryland having struck blow that will
practically drive the outlawed race tracks
from her limits, members of the Delaware
Legislature should be on their guard against
allowing the hackers of these illegal con-
Germs to get foothold in this State. They
will probably make the attempt, but all
their Overtures should be rejected with
scant courtesy
The coming Chestertown conference is
expected to be a season of great revival.
SPECIAL meetings will be held every after
noon at o'clock. Rev. G. ]. Fowler, of
Haverhill, Mass, President of the National
Holiness Association, will conduct the Pene
costal Services and Bishop Walden, who is
in hearty sympathy with these special SER
vices has said that they will be given the
right of way every day at 4 z. NJ Rev. r.
I. C0ursey assisted by Miss Anna G. Lam
bert, of Chestertown, will have charge of
the music in connection with the services.
CELERY FARMING IN MARYLAND. go J. !
Vanmuller, of Kalamazoo, Mich, arrived |
last week at the State Immigration Bureau, /
en- route for the Easttrn Shore, where he |
proposes to locate and devote himself to |
celery farming. Mr.. Vanmuiler is a Hol- |
lander, and has been raising celery in Kal- |
amazoo for some years. He says, that be- |
sides the demand for it for table use, it Is
also in demand for the manufacture of |
candy, and it is also used in medicine. The |
celery industry is paying one.
RESULT OF A BICYCLE PURCHAsE.-Mrs.
Jennie f. Abell, widow of the late George /
w. Abel, who was one of the proprietors
of the Baltimore Sun, was married ON
Thursday morning last to Mr.. William Ben
Dsrd Duke, of the bicycle firm of Ehrman
x Duke, Baltimore. Mrs. Abel has an in
come Of over 100000 per year. 1t is said
that Mr.. Dukes and Mrs. Abelrs marriage
was indirectly brought about by the pur-
chase of bicycle. Mrs Abel is said to be
As and Mr. Duke %.
The Galena correspondent of the Kent
Ne1eS gives the following item A peculiar
accident and one that will set the super
'tltlous ones to thinking, happened at Mr..
j, II. Hicks on the evening of the 3rd inst.
Mr.. H. got glass can in Wilmington, Del.
ON the day that Cleveland was first inaugu-
rated. 1t had been standing in one place
for number of years. On Wednesday
evening 1t fell to the floor and broke in AZ
he says thousand pieces. Nothing was
near it and why it should have fallen he can
not imagine. Mr.. H. Says some of the
aides that he told about it says something
ireadfull is going to happen to this country.
KENT CoUNvY FARMERS PRICE OF FARM
IABoR.-The Still Pond Farmers Club, at
is last meeting, passed resolution stating
hat the farmers would not ship any pro-
luce whatever to commission merchants
Who engaged in the produce and shipping
# farm products, claiming that is damaging
o the interest of the farmer. The question
# fixing the price of farm labor by the far
ners was discussed at length, but it was
conceded that under present conditions the
armer is as helpless in this matter as he is
fixing the selling price of his producer
hat the price of farm produce demands
eduction of wages, but they saw no practi-
al way in which it could be done.