Smyrna times., 1899-02-15
DELAWARE ITEMS.
matter OF Interest Going on in Our Little
Commonwealth.


Commonwealth.
George Massey Jones of Dover. has
been appointed referee in bankruptcy
for Kent county.
The Diamond State Telephone Com
pany has completed it's line from Mil
lord to Harrington, where it has
eighteen phones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Loxley Wiley of
Brldgeville, have been married 5G
years, during which time they have
been separated only two days.
Rev. W. G. Rooms of BridgevilIe
Del, has been called to the pastorate
OF st. Michaels NJ. E. Church to sue
ceed Rev. G. W. Burke, resigned.
A movement is on foot at Magnolia
Tor the erection of a tomato factory.
Inc project will be headed by J. J.
Conner, a wealthy resident of that
place
The Queen Anne Railroad Company
VIII shortly begin the extension of its
line from Lewes to Rehoboth. It WAS
using the Pennsylvania tracks, but at
recent meeting of the directors it was
decided to extend the line.
The second story of the Dover depot
is to be torn out and remodelled Of
hces will be fitted up for the newly
elected president of the road, H. F.
kenney, and Treasurer ManlOve
Hayes. The waiting rooms will be i'm
proved.
The Adams tax bill would be a good
one to repeal. 1t should never have
been passed in the first place and now
the best thing is for the present Legis-
lature to repeal it. 1t makes places for
party hacks and is sinecure for party
purposes. - Wilmington Daily Rc1ub-
Gc0R.
Kent County's new levy court has
organized, with James T. Truax. O
Duck Creek, as president, and Robert
>. Downs, secretary. Pennell Emer-
son, the new county treasurer, bonded
and was sworn in. Messrs, Fear.
Moore and Postles were appointed a
committee on elections, and Messrs.
Mabrey, Fear and Powell on claims.
Another measure before the Legisla-
ture deserves instant death. That is
the proposition to require all public
printing to use the stamp of the Ty-
biographical Union. The State has no
business to be mixed up or tied up
with any such nonsencial restrictions.
and we have no notion that the Gen
eral Assembly will lend itself to anv
such arrangement.
Some of those interested in the es
tablishment of steamboat line be-
tween Milton and Philadelphia have
about given up hope of accomplishing
anything. Captain w. Z. Chase of
Wilmington, who has been trying to
form a company, has abandoned the
matter and Frederick Rust, of Phila-
delphia, who is still working for line
is not meeting with the encourage
ment expected.
Rev. Geo. W. Townsend, for the
past five years pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church at Delmar,
Delaware, has accepted call from the
official board of the Northeast Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in Cecil county.
Rev. Walter E. Every, formerly pre-
siding elder of Salisbury District, now
stationed at Perryville, Cecil county,
is invited by the congregation of Lau-
rel, Delaware, to that church.
The standing committee of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Della
ware, has elected Hon. Edward G.
Bradford to succeed DIR. Horace Burr,
deceased, and the Rev. J. Leighton
McKinn of Milford, to succeed the
Rev. Charles E. Murray, d. D., de-
ceased, as members of the committee.
The Rev. II. Ashton Henry has been
elected president, and the Rev. George
w. Dame of Smyrna, secretary. S. NJ.
Curtis of Newark, is the other men,
Der of the committee.
Rev. Alfred Smith, d. D., pastor Of
Wesley NJ. E. Church, Dover, has had
a call to one of the largest and most
influential churches in Wilmington.
This makes the third time during the
present conference year that DIR.
Smith has received this call At the
third quarterly conference on Wesley |
NJ. E. Church, three months ago, DIR. !
Smith was asked to return for the
third year, and Presiding Elder Baker
was instructed to do all in his power
to bring about his return. Notwith-
atanding this fact, an informal meet
ing of the official board was held !
recently, when the request of |
three months ago was reaflirmed. -