Smyrna times., 1899-08-02


this section as they have been in former
years. In fact we have been entirely
free from this pest up to the present
time this season.
Thirty-two new cottages along the
bay shore at Bowers Beach are now
occupied with city families and there
is a popular board walk promenade in
front of the new settlement.
At the Dover railroad station, four
new artesian wells, capable of furnish
ing 5000 gallons of water an hour,
have been driven to supply the pump
ing engines with clear water.
Samuel Webb Merritt, son of Rev.
James B. Merritt, d. D., well-known
throughout this Peninsula, has been
elected principal of the Schissler Col
lege of Business, NorristOwn, Pa.
The Queen Anne's railroad traffic
has so increased from Greenwood that
the company has purchased of the
Pennsylvania railroad locomotive for
the run from Greenwood to Queens
town.
By order of the War Department
dated July 25th the recently construc
ted battery at Delaware City has been
named Fort Dupont, in honor of the
late Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du-
Pont.
Governor Tunnel has appointed the
first justice of the peace at RehOhoth.
The new official is Ribons H. Evans,
and he will hold magistrate court
regularly at the summer resort. JUS
tice Evans is a resident of Rehoboth.
While John Mensch, living on the
J. j. Connor farm near Magnolia, was
moving the roadside, one of his horses
stopped in front of the mower blade,
and its foot was entirely severed, and
the horse died.
BICYCLE HELPS THE FARMER. .-Sus-
sex county farmers are pleased at the
drop IN the price of bicycles. For
merly the farmer was kept busy either
loaning or refusing to loan teams to
his hired help. Now the farm hands
own bicycles and requests for teams
are few.
Gen. Samuel Macallister, U. S. Con-
sui to Barbados, is home on sick
leave. He was compelled to leave the
tropics by order of his physician, and
will remain in Wilmington until he re-
cuperates. He says the heat in Barba-
does is unusually severe this sea-
son.
The entire capitalization of the 139
companies thus far chartered is found
to be $271, 1874, 300, or an average of
nearly two millions dollars for each
company. And all this has been com
bined by capitalists since March II,
when the incorporation law became
operative.
A QUARTER OF A MILE OF BUGs.-
People going to Sand Hill camp-meet-
ing near Georgetown, Sunday, found
the road covered to depth of from one
to two inches with potato bugs for a
quarter of a mile The bugs had been
driven from 20-acre potato patch by
the roadside by farmers sprinkling the
vines.
The Legislative junketing trip has
been arranged for August 8. Members
of the Legislature, all the officers OF
the two houses, newspaper reporters
who attended the sessions, the Gov
ernor and other State officials, have
been invited. Free transportation will
be furnished. Norfolk is the point
selected and a committee of NorfolB
citizens, with Rev. Charles 1. Stengle
at the head, will receive the visitors
and do the hOnors.
CAESAR RODNEY PILGRIMAGE The
teachers in the Delaware Summer
School of Methods have joined in the
movement to have Caesar Rodney
Pilgrimage" to-day, to celebrate Caesar
Rodney Day at his home, Popular
Grove, in st. Jones Neck. The ora
tions to be delivered are: "Caesal
Rodney" by Henry Ridgely, Jr.
''The Statesman of Delaware" by Sec
retary of State Hughes; "The Heroes
of Delaware" by Magistrate john B.
Hutton.
A RABID Docs MAD CAREER. Mil
ford experienced mad dog scare Sat
day. A large sheppard dog ran wildly
down the main street, its tongue hang
ing out, foam and lather flying from
J its:snapping jaws. Pedestrians dashed
into stores, jumped upon dry goods
boxes and Skinned up awning posti
and trees. The dog bit several per.
sons and a number of dogs in its flight
It ran into the stable of Thomas Wind