Smyrna times., 1900-05-09
NEWS OF THE PEN|NUSLA.
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM THE
STATE AND EASTERN SHORE
Though a Community of Common Interests
Yet Every Week Brings its Changes
With Regard to People We Known.

With Regard to People We Known.
Hail fell at Townsend Thursday af-
ternoon about o'clock.
At present the Delaware Audubon
Society has $50 members.
A. L. Burton near Lewes, expects
20, 900 baskets of peaches.
There are 1854 American exhibitors
on the programme of the Paris Expo
sition.
Fruit-growers estimate the crop of
peaches on the peninsula at about
1900, 900 baskets.
The third annual Sunday School In
stitute of the Episcopal diocese, of
Delaware, will be held at Newark on
May IL.
The librarian of the Dover Library
reports that there were $40 books and
305 periodicals taken ont during the
month of April.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Salisbury,
who have been spending the winter in
California on their wedding tour, have
returned home.
The Wilmington Lodge of Elks will
hold street fair and carnival, begin
ming on Monday, June IS, and ending
Saturday, June %.
Mrs. Susanna Purnell died in Will
mington, Monday week, aged 70 years.
Deceased was a sister of Clerk of the
Peace Robert S. Downs.
The stock and fixtures of the late
Caleb Jackson's store at Wyoming,
have been sold to William and Mifflin
J. Jenkins for So, 300.
If the peach crop in Delaware turns
out as we'll as the fish catch, our citI-
zens will be better off and the banks
have their deposits increased.
Mrs. Mollie Cahall, wife of DIR. Law
encon Cahall, died at Bridgeville
Friday of pneumonia. Mrs Cahall
was the daughter Simeon Pennewill.
Kent county tomato and truck
growers will be interested in wagon
that is so made that its contents may
accurately weighed without removing
the load.
Dr. Samuel T. Cubbage, of FELTON,,
and Miss Mamie Grubb, were married
at the home of the bride in Phila-
delphia, on Wednesday evening, April
the Goth.
The stores of DR.. Bennett Downes
and Walter Carrow, at Frederick, were
broken into Thursday, but the burglars
were frightened off before they secured
anything.
About $3.50 has already been sub
scribed towards the formation of a
professional base ball club for
Dover and great interest is being show
IN the movement.
There is but one cause for the ex-
listing division of the Republican party
in Delaware it is the desire of Col
onel H. A. Dupont to be Senator. -
Wilmington San.
A. w. Evans of Havre de Grace, was
Saturday, at Chestertown, awarded
$450O damages in his case against the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
Railroad Company.
Sheriff Taylor, Saturday, sold two
properties in Middletown, owned by
Wilson T. Cavender, as administrator
of Thomas Cavender, to Edwin r.
Cochran, Jr., for $3,75O.
Rev. o. w. DeVenish, of Clayton
delivered a lecture entitled "Tht
Gates of Pearl" in the NJ. E. Church
at Townsend, on Wednesday evening
under the auspices of the Epwortf
League.
Bishop Coleman has admitted Fred
erick M. @. Choate, youngest son o
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen R. Choate o.
Newark, as postulant for holy orders
Mr.. Choate has been a member of tn,
Baltimore Bar.
The commission appointed to con
denim the land of the Potter Estate
over which the proposed trolley rout,
extends, assembled Wednesday anC
fixed the price at $40. John w
Causey is trustee for the estate.
Another lot of quail were released
near Dover last week. The last 10
consisted of nine dozen birds from Da
kato. In all nearly one Thousand
birds have been purchased and re
leased near Dover.
During the month of April forty
nine companies were incorporated a
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