Smyrna times., 1899-06-21
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Maryland.

Chief Justice Lore and H. c. Con.
rad, Esq, have been appointed trus-
tees of the Colored Peoples College.
Cards are also out announcing the
marriage of Miss Mary Collins of
Dover, and Michael Scanlon of Fred
erica.
Irving Sheppard of Camden, was
graduated from the dental department
of the University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday.
Twenty-three cars was the largest
strawberry shipment from Bridgeville
any one day, and this number sur
passed all former shipments.
st. Johns College, Annapolis, has
conferred the degree of D. D., on the
Rev. R. Irving Watkins, of the NJ. E.
Church at New Castle.
Mr.. Houston A. Culbreth and Miss
Lucinda Hall Bradford were married
on Thursday in Christ p E. church,
Dover, by Rev. Geo. NJ. Bond.
Governor Tunnel has received over
a score of applications for the appoint
ment to succeed the late Jacob G..
Lewis as oyster revenue collector.
Senator and Mrs. R. r. Kenney
have returned from their trip into the
far Northwest and will probably go to
RehOboth Beach later in the season. :
J. Edward Addicks and Senator J.
Frank Alice have left for a trip
of several weeks to Arizona, where
they are interested in some copper
mines.
Chief Warden Bowers prevented
the escape of three prisoners at the
New Castle Jail by the discovery that
they had cut hole in the ceiling of
CELL
The Hacienda de la Cuela Company,
of New York, for the cultivation of
Cuban sugar, was incorporated at
Dover, Del, with a capital stock of
$50, 200.
The marriage of Miss Lola Hutchins
and Mr.. John Archer, will take place
to-day at 8 p. m, in Hartley M. E.
Church. Mr.. Archer is resident of
Newark, N. J.
Governor Tunnel Saturday, COM
missioned Frank Mahoney, of Dover,
collector of oyster revenue to succeed
Jacob G.. Lewis, deceased. The place
is worth $500.
If the various school commissions
do not conform with the Delaware
school laws this year they will be de-
prived of their appropriations until the
requirements are lived up to.
Mrs. Daniel w. Corbit, of Odessa,
and her neice, Miss Katherine Higgins
of East Orange, N. j., sailed Saturday
for Dundee, Scotland, where they will
be guests of the consul, John G. Hig-
gins.
To avoid the payment of stamp on
checks some Dover business men now
draw their cash from the Farmers
Bank and give the bank a receipt for
the amount, instead of using the or
dinarv checks.
FACTORY BURNED.-The phosphate
factory and contents of Colonel E. E.
Ross of Seaford, was destroyed by fire
on Saturday night. The loss is esti-
mated at $50, 900 on which there is $12,
900 insurance.
Rev. Francis Burgette Short of Ep-
worth Methodist Episcopal Church,
Wilmington, hes announced his de-
clination of the call to become pastor
of Delaware Avenue Baptist Church.
There is not much surprise at any,
thing Mr.. Short does.
The Board of Education of Milford,
has authorized the issue of bonds to
the amount of $4,000 to build a new
high school. Citizens who oppose
building the school have applied for
restraining injunction. The latter
want the Gov. Causey property.
City Solicitor Henry G. Conrad, who
succeeds himself has announced the
reappointment of Medford H. Cahoon
as Assistant City Solicitor. The lat