Smyrna times., 1898-12-07
STATE ITEMS.

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Owing to the prevalence of diphthe-
ria, the public schools at Woodside are
closed.
The shipment of evergreen and holly |
has commenced from the lower part of |
the State.
More than 100000 worth of new
buildings are being erected in Will
mington.
DR.. VIM. R. Messick, of George
town, will move to Lewes and prac-
tice his profession there.
George Wheatley died at Farnhurst
on Saturday week and was inferred at
Leipsic. Aged SO years.
Men are now being mentioned"
for the Senate who will not be heard of
when the voting begins.
There are 1877 school districts in Sus-
sex county and 213 teachers are active
ly and regularly engaged throughout
the county.
DR.. S. P. Manship, formerly of Ken
ton, now of Denton, has been appoin-
ted physician at the Caroline county
almshOuses.
Many prominent women were in
Dover Thursday evening, planning
work for the ensuing year for the State
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Alexander Pullen, of Milford, has
shipped nine carloads of fruit trees to
Minnesota and five carloads of holly
and mistletoe to Toronto, Canada.
The North Murderkill Hundred
Sunday School Association was organ
lied in the Camden NJ E. Church,
by State Organizer Aubrey Vandever,
of Clayton.
DIR. Lewis N. Slaughter, of Whining
ton, hes been appointed by Governor
Tunnel to be member Of the Homeo-
pathic Medicine Examing Board for
the unexpired term of the late DR.. j.
NJ. Smith, of Cheswold.
The annual session of the Delaware
State Grange will be held in the Court
room in Dover, on Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday. Dec. 13, IA, and 10.
Master S. H. Messick will preside and
officers will be elected for the ensuing
two years.
Delaware College Experimental Sta
ton has issued bulletin by G.. How
ard Powell, director, on 'Pea Canning
in Delaware. 1t is one of the best
and most interesting bulletins for the
general public which has ever been is
sued by the station.
Senator r-elect Robert McFarlin, of
New Castle hundred, last week dis
| posed of his last years wheat crop,
which he had refused $1.2O bushel
for at 6S cents a bushel. This was
quite a shrinkage. Mr.. McFarlin was
holding for 50 bushel.
The choir of Wesley NJ E. Church,
Dover, led by Mrs. E. L. Jones, will
give a sacred concert in the auditor
ium, December 10Th. When the church
was soliciting aid for the late improve
ments, the choir very generously made
itself responsible for 500 as its contri-
button, and the concert is intended to
raise the sum.
Sheriff S. L. Shaw appeared before
Prothonotary Hutson last Tuesday
week with his bondsmen and bonded
for the balance of the year. This is
necessitated on account of the changes
in the term of Office. Sheriff Shaw has
the unprecedented record of bonding
six times in succession without inter
mission.
Judge Pennewill, Senator J. Frank
Alice, and DR.. T. G. Moore, of Kent
county, refute the impression which
has been going the rounds of the press
that they aspire to the U. S. Senator.
ship. They appear to be satisfied thus
far with the honors conferred upon
them by the success of the Republican
party in Kent county.
WINTER IN THE GULF STREAM. Il
has long been a mystery as to where
the Delaware Bay trout goes during
the winter months. Our dealers
have been receiving trout that are
caught ten miles off Chincoteague ISL
and in the Atlantic Gulf Stream, which
are doubtless our Delaware Bay trout
They surely are the same kind in taste
and looks. Some of them are very
large weighing nine pounds.
JOHN T. CAUSE, SHIPBUILDER. =
John Taylor Cause, president of tn,
. Harlan & Hollingsworth Company
died Thursday at noon of pneumonia
Mr.. Cause had been in i'll health fol
some time. Mr.. Cause was born il
E Chester county, Pa, in 1928, and wai
l thus rs years old. In 1S43, he went t.
: Wilmington, and secured aposition will
Harlan, Hollingsworth & Co., as er
: rand boy. He filed almost every po
: sition in the works, and in 1858 wa
admitted to the firm as an equal part
ner with Samuel Harlan, and contin
ued to rise until he became chief off
Ger of the corporation.
y BoTKIN WITNESSES. followin,
: are the persons who went to San Fran
cisco to testify in the prosecution Q
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, for the allege
murder of Mrs. John p. Dunning an
Mrs. J. d. Deane, of Dover. The
were Hon John B. Pennington, fathe
of the victims; Joshua d. Deane, hus
band of Mrs. Deane, who died as tn
result of eating the candy; Miss Ethe
Millington, Miss Josephine Bateman
{ Miss Leila Deane, DR.. l.. A. III. Bishop
f DIR. p. S. Downs, and ex-postmaste
s T.. M. Gooden. They were joined q
\ Wilmington by DR.. and Mrs. Theodor
} Wolfe, of Newark. DIR. Wolfe is tn
# State chemist. Detective McVey an
Q Harry Pennington, Attorney Geners