Smyrna times., 1899-09-20
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Maryland.

A Young Mems Christian Association
has been organized in Dover.
The Rehoboth Club proposes to
build club house at that resort to
cost $4,000.
To save fodder about Milford, farm
ers have paid laborers 81. 25 a dav this
wear. Hay is scarce.
Rev 7. E. Terry, who has been quite
i'll at Harrington, is much improved
and returned to his home in Elkton.
Friday.
The regular meetings of the Dover
Century Club will be resumed We'd
nesday, October 4th, with an afternoon
tea.
The property of Isaac n. Fooks, of
Georgetown, has been sold under the
National Bankrupt law, the sale aggre-
eating $1,000.
Charles H. Taylor's dwelling and
shoe store and shop at Georgetown,
were completely destroyed by fire
Sunday night week.
Crabs are so small and scarce at
Kits Hammock that tenter is COM
PEELED to use shot gun to capture
enough for his own use.
A W. Williams, of Magnolia, has
signed a contract with Pawnee Bill to
serve as his advance agent through the
Southern States this season.
The new Delaware General Electric
Railway Company has obtained rights
of the Council and Commissioners to
the use of Fredericas streets.
The steamer Delaware has carried
for Pennsville, n. J., every trip for
two weeks, Between 500 and l 1000 bas-
kets of tomatoes from Milford.
The annual report of the Commits
siOner of Pensions at Washington,
shows that Delaware has ,, 749 pension
ers, who drew last year S4O1, ,615.
AIilford's City Council will listen to
no petitions from the warning Della
ware trolley companies until the first
one gets its tracks laid to the place.
Twenty weight new students reg
istered at the Wilmington Conference
Academy last week, and more are ex-
pected during the coming fortnight.
John w. Kellum, of Dover, has gone
to Washington, d. c., where he has
secured position in the auditors de-
partment of the Southern Railway.
The Post & Sheldon silk mill in
Dover has % looms in operation at
present and they turn out from 1000 to
1900 yards of fine dress and trimming
silks and satin daily.
The election of Daniel Ross, of Will
mington, as Senior National Vice-Com-
mander of the Republic is an honor to
Wilmington and to Delaware, no less
than to Mr. Ross himself.
Mrs. Mary Jakes, wife of. the late
John I. Jakes, was paid 81, 600 by Kent
Lodge, A. o. U. w, of Wyoming last
week the sum that is always paid on
the death of one of its members.
Sheriff Wharton sold the 200 acre
farm of George E. Ford, situated on
the road leading from Dover to Cow
gill's Corner, in Little Greek hundred,
TO James B. Merritt for $500.
There has been a general tendency
to raise rentals for stores in Milford.
Stores under the Windsor Hotel, that
formerly rented for $125.OO per year,
will be held for S2OO.OO after January
1st, next.
The Government surveyors are at
work on the Strengthening of st. Jones
River. that they can considerably les
sen the distance from Lebanon to the
Delaware Bay by cutting off the three
NOISl lOOpS.
The quality of the gas that is now
being furnished to the people OF VIII
mington, says the Sunday Star, Is
such as to engender profound regrets
that the Hydrogen Company'ha'
not been permitted to enter the tielC
there as a competitor of the Whining
ton Coal Gas Company.
BIG KEIFFER PEAR CROFT. ID
Hanson, of near Rising Sun, this
county, has $4,000 Kieffer pear trees
from which he expects to pick and
market this fall, 80, 900 baskets of fruit
W. F. Mckee, of near Cheswold, ex
poets to pick 5000 baskets. The pres
ent price of pears is % cents pc
basket.