Smyrna times., 1899-10-11
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Maryland.


and Maryland.
The young ladies of Cowgills Cor
ner NJ. E. Sunday School held box
social Saturday evening
At the New Castle Presbytery $3.50
each were ordered paid to the Harring-
ton and FELTON, churches.
A reunion of the survivors of the 1st
Delaware regiment will be held in
Wilmington on Friday, Oct. Goth.
A contemporary last week expresses
the opinion that Delaware politics
were never in a worse jumble than they
are just now.
The Delaware General Electric Rail
way Co. has rented of Mrs. T. S.
Clark the office in Dover occupied by
Charles Butler.
During last week two carloads, 1900
baskets of Kieffer pears, were shipped
to Canada. Other carloads have been
shipped to Cleveland and Boston.
Sheriff Wharton has been restrained
from seizing the steamer Delaware by
a chancellor's INDUCTION. 1t is an old
Smyrna debt that is in litigation.
The Delaware Railroad Company is
extending the sidings at Viola and
Woodside. 1t will be only short
time before the double track is opened
to Harrington.
The big frosts last week proved very
destructive to many of the farmers, de-
stroying many acres of COW peas down
the county, that were sown for late
crop of hay.
Elisha Massey, near Persons Cor
ner, prosperous farmer, was stricken
with paralysis and died Sept. 3Oth,
aged So years. Interment was made
in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden.
Col. w. H. Stevens, the well-known
oyster packer of Seaford, has made
contract to furnish the Messrs. Rich
ardson about 1000 gallone of oysters
for canning.
Messrs Herman L. Wright and Emile
B. Quillen, of Harrington, are attend
ing Delaware College. and Miss Liz
zie Shaw is taking business course at
West Chester State Normal School.
The 10th anniversary of Barratt's
Chapel was held Sunday. Love feast
at 1920 a. m., followed by preaching
by Rev. J. D. Kemp; o'clock p. m,
sermon by Rev. L. E. Barrett, of Mil
ford.
Sheriff John B. Wharton on Tuesday
week sold the sos acre farm of Peter
Loose, deceased, situated in Kenton
hundred to Thomas G. Frame, Jr., at
torney, for theDuPonts, of Whining
ton, for $1,000.
William T. Hutson, prothonotary of
Kent county, was stricken with paraly-
sis Saturday week and has been in a
critical condition ever since. He has
been in poor health all summer and
there is little hope of his recovery.
Four YEARS FOR AN ASSAULT
Charles Wooters, a colored man, con-
victed of murderous assault on Mrs.
George Zott, of Bridgeville, was SEN
fenced by the Superior Court at
Georgetown to four years imprison-
ment.
Sheriff Wharton has seized and or
dered to be sold on Oct. 18th, twenty
one properties in the town of Freder-
lea, of the late Mrs. Agnes d. Sapp,
and James Harrington, terre tenant.
This large seizure embraces nearly one
fourth of Frederick.
LICENSE MONEY FOR SCHooLs.-A
check for $1,000 was forwarded to the
State Treasurer Wednesday, by Clerk
of the Peace Robert S. Downs, of Kent
county, being the sum from merchants
license fees from April to October.
The same amount will be returned as
Kent county's apportionment of the
school fund
Pomona Grange, No. 1, of New Cas-
tie county, has a grievance over the
present tax collection law. The ques
ton of collecting the taxes of this
State seems to be a pretty difficult
problem to solve. The grange does
not suggest any plan, except that ''s
law should be passed which will be
practical, economical and business
like"