Smyrna times., 1898-02-09
DELAWARE ITEMS.

adopted resolutions opposing the bill
to restrict immigration.
Some of the fishermen of Leipsic are
reaping harvest. Thomas Sylvester
caught 63 carp the past week, realizing
about $50.
The revival services in the Milford
M. E. Church have closed. There
have been about fifty conversions dur
the revival.
John H. Fortner has been appointed
custodian of the Road Commissioner
Office IN Blackbird Hundred. at sal
ary of So a year.
James G. Palmer, of Milford, has
purchased the good will and fixtures of
the Ponder House in Milton, of Mrs.
Emma Hazard for So, 900.
Frank A. Johns, a merchant of Ken
ton, and Miss Kate Graham, also of
that town, were married at the resi-
dence of the bride Thursday week.
While Constable Brown, of Wyom-
ing, was taking James Gale, accused
OF stealing, to Jail Thursd ay at Dover
the prisoner leaped from the wagon
and escaped.
The personal property of H. H. Me
Mullen, of New Castle hundred, and
John Robinson, of Mill Creek hun
dred, was sold last week at public sale
by Sheriff Finn.
A Wilmington paper says the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company and the
Wilmington City Passenger Railway
Company have pooled their interests
in an effort to defeat the general cor
portion act
G. F. Richards, of Georgetown, has
purchased 200 acres of on Poplar Cy-
press Swamp, near Frankford, for 5000.
This is the lowest price for which land
was ever purchased i'll Delaware.
If some of our present legislators are
re-nOminated and reelected next fall,
it looks very much as if they might
keep right along for the regular ses-
sion of 1899 without leaving their
seats. Mder.
Part of the farmers near Milford,
have contracted to grow tomatoes for
$500 per ton and peas at two cents per
pound. Many others will set out from
one to five acres (without contracting)
of both peas and tomatoes.
Butchers in Wilmington Thursday,
sent two wagon loads of supplies to
the United Charities of New Castle for
the poor of that city. The gifts in
cluded 500 pounds of meat, four bar
rels of flour, corn meal, fish, bread and
vegetables.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Cooke, of
near KentOn, have issued invitations
for the marriage of their daughter
Maggie to w. George Knots. The
ceremony will take place at the home of
the brides parents, Wednesday even
ing, FEBRUARY 16.
Union Lodge, A. F. A. NJ, will give
reception and musicale at the Hotel
Richardson ON FEBRUARY 22d. The
Temple Quartette and Grace Orchestra
of Wilmington will furnish music, and
A. G. Bartlett will recite. The Ma
sonic lodges at Smyrna, Milford, Sea
ford and Denton will be represented.
Ezekiel Fleming, of Harrington, who
has bought about one hundred and
twenty acres of timber land near Mil
ford to clear up, has started saving,
and expects to be about four weeks in
this vicinity. Much of the timber will
be shipped to the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works of Philadelphia.
Miss Virdie GOOden, who has been
connected with the Herald since its
removal to Milford, aud who is a stem
ographer and typewriter of much pro-
ficiency, has severed her connection
with that paper and accepted aposition
at Dover in the law office of William
Dickson, Clerk of the Peace.
The DeiatOdredn, whose editor was
an active member of the Constitutional
Convention, has at last reached the
sage conclusion that detailed legis-
lation is a dangerous thing in
Constitution" E0cry EUcning preach
ed this doctrine, day after day, while
the convention was in session.
At the NJ. E. church in Bridgeville,
a paper was cirulated Sunday asking
for the signatures of persons remon-