Smyrna times., 1898-06-01
DELAWARE ITEMS.

May, 1898, will go on record as a
most fearful month.
The commencement of the Middle
town High School will be held on
June II.
The large barn on the farm of Mrs.
Margaret Beaston, near Middletown,
was badly wrecked during a recent
storm.
TO EXAMINE DocToRs. The State
Board of Medical Examiners will hold
an examination at Dover, June 81, %
and %.
A side track 900 feet long, which will
be used by fruit cars, is being laid at
the Milford railroad station
P. E. APPOINTMENTS s.-The Rev.J J.
H. Beauchamp, has been appointed by
the Presiding Elder to Woodside, and
r. S. Stephens to Willis Chapel.
John Pleasanton died at Cowgills,
May 81, aged n years. The interment
was made at Lakeside cemetery,
Dover.
Miss Sarah Elizabeth Brown, of
Dover, will be married to Mr.. Elzey
D. Richardson, of Philadelphia, at the
Baptist church of that town, to-day, at
1 o'clock.
Strawberries at Bridgeville, are un-
usually fine, but up to last week, the
shipments were light The berries
sold at the station at from 10 to IA cents
per quart.
A. B. Connor has rented the FELTON,
cannery to a Mr.. Isaac Robinson, of
Baltimore This one counts the 28th
cannery that he (Robinson) expects to
have in operation this year.
Cor JoB.-R. o. P. Wilson, of
Dover, formerly Clerk of the Orphans S
Court, has secured an appointment as
attendent at Washington, D. c.,
through r. r. Kenney. The salary is
1000 year.
A RICH HARVEST. If the war sends
the price of peaches up in proportion to
the price of wheat, Delaware will have
a rich harvest, provided the "June
Drop does not knock the bottom out
of the whole scheme.
BERRY CROP SODA. G.. Arm
strong, of CheswOld, has sold his en-
tire strawberry crop at four cents per
quart. He will have from fifteen to
twenty thousand quarts. The pur-
chaser is to furnish the boxes and
crates for the crop.
Sam Jones says, "women cut their
dresses off at the top for the ball room
and at the bottom for the bicycle. If
the Lord had intended that the
neck should be exposed, He would
have covered it with growth of hair
or feathers"
The available supply of colOnels and
captains have been nearly exhausted
in our State by the call made by the
President for troops. A few of the
cOlonels, however are left at home as
ornaments and for state occasions
when the Governor is called upon to
preside at such functions.
WEDDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| ment is made of the marriage of the
Rev. Thomas P. Revelle, formerly pas
tor of the NJ. P. Church of Dover, but
now of Alexandria, Va, to Miss Ida
. BOggs, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
: D. Boggs, of Dover, in the NJ. P.
: church, Wednesday, June the Sth at
: noon.
l George G.. Rothwell, former Levy
b Court commissioner for Blackbird
hundred, is making a lively canvass
for the Democratic nomination for cor
oner of this county, and his friends
: predict his success. He is capable OF
l. filling the office in good style.
Peaches still continue to heavily
n fall from the trees in Sussex county
i owing to the rainy weather, and all
v hopes for a crop are abandoned. The
e fungus growth on the fruit, produced
bv the wet weather, caused the dam
- age.
! Death has visited Camp Tunnel and
/. private Phillips, of Laurel, has an
II swered to the call of the mysterious
sentinel. His name will go down as
the first from this State to fall in the
Ia fight for the freedom of Cuba.
- The new General Assembly, to be
q elected next November, will be con-
: fined to a session of sixty days. 1t will
l. have the advantage, however, OF hav-
u ing nothing to do, save perhaps to
n amend certain existing laws and to
: make clear the uncertain provisions.
e By the adjournment of the Legislature
II II the State will have plenty of law on
n hand to last for many years.
CONFERENCE CLosEs.-The Phila-
delphia Conference of the A. M. E.
Church closed its annual session We'd
r. nesday at Columbia, Pa. Rev. o. d.
" Robinson is presiding elder for Will.
70 =, district. The other appointments are:
S. Allen Chapel, J. M. Palmer; Whining
lg ton, J. G. Brock; Smyrna, Frank
Bradley; Mt. Friendship, Festus john
on; Mt Zion, J. S. Hemsley; West
q Dover, R. Murray; Camden, R. Wright;
e. Frederick, P. P. Gaines; East Freder-
'k erica, c. G. Collins; Milford, z. W.
le Nichols; Lewes, J. Fl. Holden;
o. Georgetown, w. W. Taylor; Seaford,
~ w. B. Williams; Laurel, d. J. Black
IN son; Concord, I. W. Newell; Harring-
T. ton, ]. D. johnson; Wilmington, E.
Al A. Deatoin; South Wilmington, j. d..
Lee; Middletown, j. II. Buckner;
Greenwood, H. Cummings; Dover,
> Paris Daker.
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