Smyrna times., 1898-08-17
DELAWARE ITEMS.

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RehOboth will be run on Thursday the
25th.
The Wilmington Conference Acad-
emy is to be heated by steam. E. L.
Jones & Co. have obtained the con-
tract.
The school tax rate in New Castle
county is $1.335 on the g1OO this year.
The collector has sent out bills to all
the taxables.
After digging to depth of 500 feet,
and spending several hundred dollars,
good drinking water has been obtained
at Cedar Beach.
Rev. Alfred Smith, of Dover, is rus
ticating at Oxford, Md, and Rev. W.
F. Talbot is filling his pulpit at Wes-
ley NJ. f. Church.
On Monday week the Watkins Pack
ing Co., canned corn for the first time
this season. The corn is fine, and the
prospects now are for fairly good
crop at Odessa.
DEATH OF AN AGED LADY.-Mrs.
Sallie w. NAPLES, widow of James
NAPLES, died at Bromall, Delaware
county, Pa. Aug. 7th, aged 81 years.
The remains were brought to Dover
for interment.
The PEAR CROP. 1t is estimated that
from 75 to so carloads of 1000 baskets
each of Kieffer pears will be shipped
from this Peninsula this season as
against 140 carloads of last year.
Nine ladies came up from Centre
vile, Md, for instruction in the shirt
factory at MiddletOwn, preparatory to
becoming operators in a factory being
built in Centreville.
The excursion over the Delaware
railroad to Rehoboth and Ocean City,
Thursday, was one of the largest for
several years. Ten carloads went to
RehOboth and seven carloads to Ocean
City.
DEATH OF Mrs. MARIA L. BUXTON.
Mrs. Maria Tatum Burton, Widow
of David F. Burton, of Dover, died
Friday. She was SO years old. Her
death resulted from cancerous trouble.
Never was there time when water
melons were more plentiful in Seaford
than at the present time. Nearly every
farmer in this section has a patch,
some having from 300 to 1000 hills.
Notwithstanding the almost com
plete failure of the peach crop in Della
ware, we read of the large crops now
being shipped from the Cumberland
Valley, Pa, and other sections of the
country.
The corn. crop in Sussex county
promises to beat the record. Toma
toes promise well and Baltimore buy
ers are offering as high as $16 ton
Large quantities of watermelons are
being shipped from here.
APPOINTED POSTMASTER. - Captain
William A. Blocksom has been com
missioned as postmaster of Littl,
, Greek. He succeeded J. V. Anderson
, Capt. Blocksom was mail route agen
between Dover and Little Greek TO
, two terms.
AN OLD OFFENDER.-Cal Stepnel
colored, who is well-known abOu
Dover, has been convicted of larcenc,
a number of times in this county, wal
released from the State prison at Tren
ton, n. j., Saturday week after sery
ing ten year sentence.
: DEATH OF DIR. MITCHELL's WIDOW
r Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace Mitchell
t widow of the late DR.. James R. Mitch
: ell, Milford's oldest citizen, died Wed
: nesday afternoon, aged 80 years. Mrs
: Mitchell was a sister of Delaware
Q famous poet, the Milford bard.
We wonder if the poor farm hors
/, does not hate to see Saturday come
because he is required to dOa full day
work on the farm and then be drive
: to town by some thoughtless farl
hand, who bitches the poor snims
= along the street, where he remain
= without a mouthful of water until a
:, most midnight.
Spectators declare that they hay
e never known such peculiar conditio
l. of affairs as that now prevailing in I'll
n wheat market. In spite of the fact thi
n the winter wheat crop is enormou
p, there is such a lack of wheat on I'll
l. market that it is puzzling buyers
r, know where the wheat is to come fro
s, to cover contracts. High premium
y fail to bring it out.
=. HELD ON A SERIOUS CHARGE.-A
70 gust 10th, Edward O'Neill and Charl
"a Welsh, both members of the First De
IN dWdIO MOAO AAOAO uhNCA w
f. bail each at Middletown for trial {
g. the charge of assaulting two Italii
le girls at Townsend. Tuesday, GeOr!
n Stradley was held in the same amour
ic of bail as an sccomplice.
st In speaking of the serious chars
,e against the two soldiers from Can
IN Tunnel, an exchange says; 'Idlene
w is sinfulness, and had the Delawa
es soldiers been assigned to perform q
ct tive duties intended, and for which t
ut men enlisted and are eager, this di
m graceful incident would not ha
al taken place, and reproach would ha
r. spared the U. S. uniform.
of beauty Is Blood Deep.
nc C1oo, bIood Ynaana a clean skin.