Smyrna times., 1897-05-26
County and State Items


The Atlantic Refining Company is
I lSlilding a 21,OOO-gallon oil tank il
Nver.
3 ICON L Son, of Laurel, will manu-.
/ 1e straw covers for bottles at
p twO-manual pipe organ, which will
tbst $1,000, will be put in the Lewes
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Levin Marvil, aged 6S years, the
largest owner of vessel property on the
Peninsula, died at Laurel Sunday.
-Four men, all over 20 years old, were
recently confirmed by Bishop Coleman
in the Middletown Episcopal Church.
The wedding of William P. Forkum
and Miss Emma G.. Hinsely will take
place in the First Baptist Church,
Dover, on June Sd.
Miss Edna Henry, of Newark, and
@. Oran Cooper, of Baltimore, Md,
will be married in the Presbyterian
Church in Newark on June 3
Harry A. Richardson, of Dover last
week cancelled.a "a debt Ofl$lO, $40 against
the Baptist Church of that town. The
congregation are iubilant over the
news.
The Delaware Society Sons of the
American Revolution will observe Flag
day on June Ii and endeavor to have
exercises in the public school in VIII
mington.
Delaware is q small State and we
will never have regular Committee
work as long as every legislator has a
pass to go home on to get his supper.
-Susser journal.
Charged with holding up and robbing
Louis Dubell near Rising Sun. John
DOugherty and William Thornton were
held under bail by Magistrate Sasse in
Wilmington Friday.
Senator r. r. Kenney voted in the
U. 5, Senate on Thursday, grantinS
belligerent rights to Cuba, while Sen
atOr George Gray lodged the issue by
being paired with brother Senator.
Contrary to DeVoe, experienced
meteOrolOgists predict hot, droughty
'".mer. They base their prediction
australian weather, the heat in Cal
MA, and the early melting of snow
and icebergs from the northwest.
Abont 1GGV people gathered along
the Delaware River Sunday at New
Castle and witnessed the baptism of
three women converts according to the
ceremonies of the Seventh Day Adven-
lists.
Barber's saw and planning mills, at
lfOrd, which have been standing idle
year past, are to be put in oper-
y as factory for the manufacture
-Sxes and barrels, under the charge
of Mr.. Fredericks, of Clinton, Pa.
a lower state paper says: '1t looks
as if the Legislature would do well to
let the city of Wilmington fix the salary
of her own municipal officers, Judging
from the tendency of the members to
raise the salary of every officer who
asks for an increase"
The Queen Anne's Railroad Com
pany has about completed the signal
tower at Greenwood and the Pennsyl-
svania company having Withdrawn their
objections to the crossing of their
tracks at that place and at Glendale
these crossing will probably be put in
i, hext week.
THERE WILL BE MANY-CRABs. The
tOothsOme crabs are already beginning
to arrive in ttae Delaware river, and the
work of%Scatching them will begin in a
week Z or so. Prom the thousands of
lsms'.d hard crabs seen. it is expected
! 'nefe will be many soft she'll
} Ihe first of the seasons soft
y though ANAL, are the best.
Essay that there are more hard
CRABS this year than usual.
X In FAVOR OF FREE PASSES. The
members of the Constitutional Conven-
Mon by vote of II to 10 decided it was
.of harmful for Legislators to receive
. from the railroad companies.
FCity Solicitor Harman made speech
Hnd said he was using pass from the
Delaware Railroad Company at the
present time, besides a pass book from
the Wilmington City Railroad Com
pany, notwithstanding the latter fact,
however, he said that in his Official ca
pacity he had rendered three decisions
against the Company, but the pass was
still issued to him.
The INVESTMENT TAX LAw.-The
Adams tax bill was amended and
passed this week by both Houses of
= - neral Assembly. It is, there
: r II. 1t taxes bonds mort
T,Tses' nr,s1 80 1 other investments
- - provides that bonds
9i"ii - pssessed at
three-fourths of their face valno
taxed at the rate of thirty cents on the
lhe hundred dollars; three-fourths of
the tax goes to the county, one-fourth
to the State.
GoLDEY COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT
The Goldey Wilmington Commercial
and Shorthand College will hold ia
commencement exercises in the Grand
opera House on TaAs,sssv aron;r,,
- ACouaJ ONCHiuS,
'llege term does not,
4 June Both. An
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