Smyrna times., 1897-04-21
County and State Items.

The Kent Club, of Dover, will give
dance on April %.
The population of Milford. ACCORDING
toa census recently taken, is 3446.
}.tordinging to ATilford's new Al.
rec,ory that town has 100 business
houses.
About l2O applications for licenses tc
sell liquor were filed with Clerk of tbe
Peace Foard, at Wilmington.
Mr.. Martha s. Cranston has been
elected president of the New Castle
county Woman's Christian Temper-
ance Union
Rev Charles w. Horn, of New Ham,
shire, has accepted a call to become
rector of Christ Episcopal church in
CAustiana hundred.
lhout 200O persons attended an in
formal reception given the public at
the new Federal building by Postmas-
jer Moore, Thursday.
John Bird, of Wilmington. and Miss
Lille Bancroft will be married at the
re~ldence of the brides father, Samuel
bancroft, Jr., on April 2S.
Mayor Money, Of Delaware CITY. is
getting signatures to petition asking.
the Wilmington and New Castle Flee
trie Railway to extend its line to Del
aware City.
Says the Philadelphia Lecturer.
There are just too many people in
Delaware to give an office to each man.
Hence the difficulty in distributing no.
lItical plums
Seaford people are complaining of
crowds Of boys and young men loiter
Ing about the church doors on Sunday
during church services and annoying
people on the inside by their loud
talk
The Harlan & Hollingsworth Com
uany will use hydraulic and pnuematic
riyelug machines, which Will do the
work Of niue-tenths Of the eriveters now
necessary. SO much for going on a
strike
The following have been elected
Town Councilmen of Newark: DE-.
Columbus Henry, President; j. A.
Wilson, James Roberts, Eben b. Fraz-
er, ". il. Parton, S. n. DonneU and
J. Rankin Armstrong.
About POO business men Of New Cas-
tie county, who have failed to take out
licenses, have been notified by the At
torney General that unless they pay up
by March 3rd their names will be sent
to the grand jury for indictment.
Good roads are being made every
where. Many States are spending
hundreds Of thousands of dollars in
making thoroughfares that can beused
by everybody The wheelmen are re-
sponsible, but the wagoners will reap
the benefits
If the Constitutional Convention
should DO nothing else but take
the granting Of divorces from the hands
of the General Assembly it is a reform
that should make the constitution ac-
ceptable to the people. The Dover di-
vorce mill is the most shameful scan
dal on the state
William E. Evans, proprietor of the
NOXentown Mill, near Middletown, has
new IS horsepower gasoline engine,
which he proposes to run his flour
and feed mills. Mr.. Evans has found
1t necessary to adopt some other mo-
tive power than water, and after inves-
tisation has decided upon gasoline.
In anticipation of busy season the
Delaware Railroad Company is having
its road bed put iii thorough order.
Trackman are engaged in removing old
cross ties and putting in new ones be-
tween Middletown and Townsend.
Considering the number of trains, and
fast ones too, which 20 over this road
each day, it surpasses portions of the
''main line" for smoothness.
Says the Morning .Nc,cs ''It would
be a good thing if the New Castle troll
ley road could be extended to Della
ware City and Smyrna. 1t would be a
good thing for the State, for the towns
below this city and for Wilmington it's
self. We do not understand why the
General Assembly should oppose the
request for charter by which the new
trolley road could be extended. 1t is
a public measure and there can be no
valid objection to it.
Says the Daily Rcp"bUcan; "We
think the present Legislature is doing
proper in passing laws to take every
office in the State out of the hands of
the Republicans New Castle county
Levy Court is Democratic, while Kent
and Sussex should also be made Demo
cratic. All officers should be Demo
Gratis, and the Democratic Levy Court
OF Kent county would be in the line of
progress to refuse to pay the Republi-
can Sheriff his fees.
Says the Morning Mars: eve won
uci WubL mas become OF the contests
that were made by the Union Republi-
cans for their seats in the General AS
sembly. So far as heard from the Hon.
J. Frank Alice has failed to open fire
on the seat of Meredith who is occu-
pying a space that does not belong to
him. We wonder how a legislature
that was in such a hurry to obtain JUS
tice by firing out Dickey can refuse
to take up these claims of other con
testants. Surely the session is not to
pass without conscientious consider
alton of these claims by the learned
and honorable gentlemen at Dover.
METHODIST PROTEsTANTs. The sixty
ninth session Of the Maryland Annual
Conference Of the Methodist Protes-
ant Church came to close Tuesday
night. The charge Of Dover and Leip-
Il