Smyrna times., 1898-08-03
DELAWARE ITEMS.

The retail clothing statesmen of Will
mlngton held a meeting Saturday
night, and organized in hopes of in
ducing the houses to close early.
Judge Bradford has appointed Ar
thur W. Spruance, son of Judge Will
liam G. Spruance to be referee in
bankruptcy under the new national
law.
The average yield of wheat this year
in Jones' Neck, below Dover, has been
twelve bushels per acre as against
twenty-five and third bushels last
year.
General James H. Wilson has been
made military governor at Ponce. He
has started out by guaranteeing fair
treatment to Spanish residents and
everybody else in Porto Rico.
About one hundred and forty survi-
VOrs of the Fourth Delaware Regiment
and their relatives gathered at Brandy
wine Springs Thursday, the accession
being the tenth annual reunion.
Mr.. Joseph Horney, late of the Del
aware Record, has assumed business
management of the Milford Herald.
Mr.. HOrney has had considerable ex-
perience in the newspaper business.
City merchants have had on sale
during the past week some very pretty
Georgia peaches. Whoever thought
twenty years ago that peaches would
be brought to Delaware from Georgia?
Through the influence of Senator
Gray, Frank Borie, son of the superin-
tendent of the Delaware Iron Works,
at New Castle, has been appointed as
sistant engineer in the United States
Navy, with the rank of ensign.
The Rev. Joseph S. Cook, who died
at Bristol, Pa, on Saturday, was we'll
known in Delaware, having formerly
been a member of the Wilmington NJ
E. Conference. He was the father o.
Mrs. H. l.. Bunstein of Milford.
NEWSPAPER CHANGES HANDs.-A. T.
Thomas, formerly postmaster at Mil
ford, and his son, Walter Thomas,
recent graduate of Princeton Univer
! sity, have taken charge of the Milford
NelUS as editors and publishers.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Bake
were returning from Camden CAM
grounds on Sunday night, their hOrs,
ran away and Mr.. Baker was dragged
about 100 yards and seriously hurt
His wife, jumping from the carriage
was injured about the head.
Orders were received at Middletowl
to recruit men for the First Delawar
Regiment encamped there to make u
J. for the men discharged for variou
: reasons. Major Walter H. Gordon
will be the recruiting officer and wi
have his Office at MiddletOwn.
d All arrangements have been mad
{ for the RehObOth camp meeting, whlc
s will be held from August 6 to 81, unde
!. the management of the Rev. r. r
d Adams. He will have the assistanC
e of some of the best ministerial talen
e of the Wilmington Conference.
e William Ellis of Delmar, valedictol
ian of the class of '97 of Delaware Co
. lege, has passed all his examination
4 for the position of first lieutenant
y the regular army, to which he was ar
% pointed by President Mckinley. H
Il has been ordered to report for dut.
10 A little commotion was created in I'll
n NJ. E. Church at Milton, on Sunda
A. evening by a young man going
Al sleep while sitting in a chair, leaniI
- against the class room door. II
door suddenly opened and he was pr
at cipitated backward. Tableaux amor
al the congregation.
- Rev. Harvey w. Ewing, pastor
ba Mt Salem Methodist Episcopal Churc
r. in Wilmington, has been transferr
nj to the Kentucky Conference to becOr
;e pastor of the Union Church, at Gown
10 ton, and Rev. Ralph L. COursey,
rv Harrison Street Church. Wilmin
4, ton, has declined to call to Mt. Sale
he At Brandywide Summit Cal
a Ground, the Wilmington Methods
a have begun their services in earne
up and from the large crowd present Sr
&c day it is expected that the attendar
ed this year will be one of the largest
of the history of the camp. The last W
k known as ''Little Sunday" on
'se grounds. Rev. Harvey Ewing preach
OF the morning sermon, and Rev. W.
Tas Compton in the afternoon.