Smyrna times., 1899-08-30
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Maryland.

The tomato crop about Seaford is
the largest in the history of that re-
gion.
The new silk mills and the shirt
factory in Dover are both short of
help.
Twenty-six divorce cases have been
scheduled for the coming term of court
at Wilmington.
Frank Whelan & Son talk of start
ing a newspaper in Harrington in the
near future.
There were 1O6 tickets for Rehoboth
and % for Ocean City sold at Milford
on Thursday last.
Simmons Band of Dover has secured
the contract to furnish music for the
Delaware State Fair.
The Diamond State Construction
Company, of Dover, capital 100000,
was chartered at Dover last week.
Rev. T. B. Cooper, of Oxford, Md,
preached at Wesley M. E. Church,
Dover, Sunday, both morning and
evening.
The DelaWaredn, owned and edited
by a Salisbury, devotes nearly two
columns to the attempted initiation of
Salisbury balloon.
Four Wilmington firms have applied
for space at the National Export Expo
sition to be held from September IA to
November 30, in Philadelphia.
Over fifty various craft are now in
course of construction or under con-
tract, aggregating 100000 tons, in the
shipyards that line the Delaware from
KensingtOn to Wilmington.
The oyster tongers that work in
Leipsic and St. Simons River are MAX
ing preparations for good season, as
the prospective buyers for plants are
reported to be quite numerous.
Dewey and Tunnel, two of the trip
lets born at Smyrna Landing, of
which mention was made Monday,
have died Handy, the other one was
thriving at last accounts.-DeLaVar-
can.
Grover Cleveland Fowler, the six
year-old son of David Fowler. of
Hazletville, last week jumped on a
passing wagon and fell under the
wheels. His thigh bone was broken
and his hip badly bruised.
The extensive repairs and beautiful
improvements to Forest Presbyterian
Church, Middletown, are about COM
pleted, and only the finishing touches
remain to be done before the reopen
ing on Sunday next, September 3D..
The cigarette fiend got in his work
in Milford last week; a printer who
has been in the habit of smoking eight
packages day, collapsed, and but for
prompt medical aid would have died.
Can bows see a lesson here for them?
Publishing newspapers is not so
profitable as many suppose. There
are many who make no effort to keep
their subscriptions paid, and hundreds
of dollars are lost thereby, and these
losses cut serious crevices in the
profits Milford Chronicle.
No recent year has witnessed so
large shipments of fruit as are now
going forward from Kent County.
Apples, pears, grapes and melons are
in great abundance and the quality is
better than for years.
During the heavy electric storm on
Monday evening week, the steamer
Clio was on her passage up the bay
and when near Port Penn, the light
ming struck the forward mast, running
down it into the water. Fortunately
no damage was done, and the steamer
passed on up the river.
This has been the greatest season
Rehoboth has experienced in years.
The cottages have all been occupied
and rent far above any price heretofore
realized. Some furnished cottages in
desirable localities have rented as
high as forty dollars week.
The dedicatory services of the Kirk
wood NJ. E. Church will be held Oh
Sunday, Sept. Sd. The sermon will
be preached at 2.30 p. m, by Rev
James Grove. d. D., of Asbury M. e.
Church, Wilmington. The music will
be conducted by the railroad choir oi
of the Y. M. G. A., of Wilmington.
Andrew Jones, a farmer neal
Smyrna, has suffered the destruction
of ten acres of tomatoes by worms
He contended himself by picking OF
the worms instead of applying some
of the numerous Insecticides now useC