Smyrna times., 1899-07-26
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Maryland


on the Mousley farm. north of Newark
The foundation for Col. E. C. Ross
new phosphate plant is being laid at
Seaford.
The attempt to run vaudeville shows
i'll tents at RehOboth has been stopped
by the authorities.
Railroad men report this seasons
travel between Dover and Rehoboth
the heaviest ON record.
A fire protection plant to cost $780,
900, will be placed in the Pullman
Palace Car Works in Wilmington.
Rev. Clarence Il. Wilson, d. D., of
Pasadena, Cal, is spending some time
on the Peninsula, revisiting the scenes
of former days.
Burglars stole quantity of clothing
from the Wahamaker X Brown agency
on Lockerman street, Dover, one
morning last week.
James R. Camac of Dover, well-known
as Fisk Camac, - is now at Manila and
is In the centre of the Philippine war,
where he ought to be.
The post office on the Highlands,
near Wilmington, will be closed on
August lst, and the free delivery sys-
tenn will be extended there.
The Holiness Christian Association
is preparing to hold tent meetings on
Governors avenue, Dover, as they did
in Smyrna last August.
There seems to be no end to the new
corporations seeking charters at Dover.
The State should soon have regular
and healthy source of revenue.
Wherever Admiral Dewey shows
himself in Europe the people turn out
and greet him as one of themselves.
EIe is indeed having a triumphal re-
turn home.
Chancellor Nicholson accepted the
resignation of John Harrington, of
Milford, as trustee of the Potter es-
tate, and former Congressman John
W. Causey was selected.
Miss Edith A. Cahoon, Postmaster
Casson's popular and accommodating
assistant at Dover will give up her
present position about September +,
to enter Dickinson College.
The United States Water Company,
of Pittsburg, Pa, capital 81 900 200
and the Oreleans Cotton Company of
New York, capital 100000, have ap-
piled for incorporation at Dover.
Arrangements have been made with
the original surveyors of the New Cas-
tie Trolley Line to make complete
drawings and specifications of cost for
the New Castle-Delaware City Trolley
Railway.
The War Department has assigned
Howard 7. Jason, of Frederick, 6
brother to Presideu W. G.. Jason o.
the State College for Colored Students
to Managers, Puerto Rico, to take
charge of the schools there.
Contractor James Z. Smith has beer
awarded the contract to build clul
house at Bowers Beach for DIR. w. r
Gieser, of Philadelphia. 1t is to b.
25x5O feet, two stories high, to contain
about twenty rooms.
Var;ouS Damocratio orOanizatiOn
throughout the country are busy jus
now repudiating other Democratic OF
ganizations. Each so-called leade
has different notion of what ough
to be the campaign slogans mex
year.
President Willard Salisbury, of tn
New Castle County Bar Association
has appointed Col. Benjamin Neildi
William T. Lyman and Charles I
Evans delegates to attend the Nation,
Association meeting at Buffalo, n. Y
August %.
President Willard Salisbury, of I'll
New Castle County Bar Association
has appointed Colonel Benjami
Nields, William L. Lyman and Charl'
b. Evans delegates to attend the n
tional Association meeting at Buffal
n, Y, August 2S.
The coming census will have add'
interest from the fact that live stock
also to be enumerated. Horses, ca
tie, sheep and poultry are to be II
cluded. The farmers themselves orij
mated this plan, and the governme
comedies with the wisdom of it.
The elders of the Presbyterii
church, of Dover, will go into litig
tion with the Diamond State Telepho
Company, and have served notice
that cornoration to remove the ne