Smyrna times., 1900-09-19
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and MARYLAND,

Inc harvesting OF the corn crop goes
merrily on in this vicinity.
J. R. McGonigall, of Dover, has sold
the Paris Knight farm, near little Greek,
to John McGeegan for $15, 500.
Rev. William J. Hamilton has ac-
cepted a call to become rector of the
Episcopal Church at Delaware City.
The heavy rain on Sunday morning
did about $500 worth of damage to the
Wilmington parks by washing out the
driveways.
An open air meeting for the satisfac-
tion of the State ticket will be held by |
the East Side Republican Association
in Wilmington.
1t is stated that senator r. r. Ken
ney, has the endorsement of Rev. j.
Brown Turner, and Rev. Geo. M.
Bond, of Dover.
John Patterson and Frank Young
have been held under $1,000 bail i'll Will
mington for holding up Charles
Chapel and robbing him of $lS.
Governor Tunnel has appointed J.
Thomas Lowe to the Office of Fish
Commissioner for Delaware, succeed
ing J. Stanley Short of Milford.
While unloading his tomato wagon
at Grier & Sons factory, at Milford,
Joseph V. Titus, prominent farmer,
fell dead. He was aged 75 years.
Rev. Aloysius Green will occupy the
pulpit of Newport Methodist Episcopal
Church, as successor of Rev. Ralph 7.
Coursey, for the first time Sunday.
Miss Virginia Lord aged ga years,
died suddenly Sunday at her residence
at Odessa. She was stricken with par
alysis shortly before noon and died
about o'clock.
Revs. Charles A. Grise and F. Bur-
gette Short of Wilmington, who have
been in Europe six weeks as the guests
of n. Snellenburg & Company, arrived
home Thursday.
Isaac E. Brown, young LOCKER
, man street grocer, on Monday left
Dover to take position as chief in sew
eral of the departments of George Halls
: large department store at Milford.
e Edward Harris, a colored boy Of
f Frederica, was committed to Jail by
+ Justice of the Peace Emory of tina
b place last week, for stealing a bicycle
t wheel, a gold watch and $40 in cash.
Z At the residence of her father, Mr.
Reuben Harrington, September 10th
- of typhoid fever, Miss Laura Harring
, ton, aged 46 years. The family ha
= lost by this dread disease several mem
bers during the past few weeks.
* The September term of New Castl
y County Court opened in Wilmingto
Monday. Two capital cases are to b
% tried-J Joseph Frisby for housebreal
in ing and Albert Conrad, accused of xii
h ing George Lyrer at the Bavarian Bre
very.
I'd
Gunners should be more Garrett
Z when out. Friday James Potts of Che
? ter aged AZ years, was killed by Ere
p Kennedy, who had employed him
70 push his cunning skiff. The cOlore
man raised up just as Kennedy Dire
ge his gun to his sholder and fired.
'ol Says the Delaware RepublicG
ly Peter J. Ford, the Democratic nOmin,
IL for governor, will poll nearly the fl
eK strength of his party. The only tro
III BILE will be. that the republicans, WI
a united party, will poll their fl
lie strength, something they have n
IN done in Delaware for years.
Considered as a vote winner, the VI
A. nrable place in the ticket made
of Dover last week is the Congressior
re. nomination for the long term. 1t W
raj unexpected and is the most severe CT
of icized portion of the ticket. The ca
~. didate is not thought to be built out
in congressional timber WI. San.
Sussex county claims to grow
!, biggest watermellons in the world.
IT. IT. A. Robinson, living on the Delmar re
sent to Salisbury for exhibition seve
9oH magnificent melons of the Triumph
'0 riety. There were six of them a
80 they weighed, respectively 81, 60,
y G5, 66, and 6S pounds.
Two young men registered at "
en-, mington on Saturday as law studen
Irs. They were Cable E. Burchenal
Kent County, a graduate of Dickins
and College, who registers with Will
r at S. Hilles, and Daniel J. Layton, s
[ut- of DIR. G. r. Layton of Georgetown
yer, graduate of the University of Pens
oon vania, who registers with Herbert