Smyrna times., 1900-04-25
NEWS OF THE PEN|NUSLA,
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM THE
STATE AND EASTERN SHORE.
Though Community of Common Interests,
Yet Every Week Brings its Changes
With Regard to People We Known.

j. W. Watkins of Odessa, has been
appointed to clerkship in the office of
Clerk of the Peace Foard.
This evening John L. Cahall, q
prominent Georgetown attorney, will
marry Miss Eleanor Richardson Powell
at Onacock, Va.
More than 200 men are at work on
the New Castle & Delaware City troll
ley road, which is expected to be ready
for travel by July 1st.
The marriage of Victor Magg, of
Dover, to Miss Ella Schieble, of Phila
delphia, will take place at the home of
the BRIDES parents this evening.
Miss Sarah Merritt Pharo and Mr..
Edward Willis Pharo, of Philadelphia,
will be married tomorrow at $50, at
the home of her parents, near Middle
town.
In a few days State Treasurer Ball
will notify many of the corporations
chartered in the State, that if they do
not pay the State tax their charters
will be annulled.
Owners of automobiles in Whining.
mington are complaining because the
turnpike charge twenty cents for au
tomobiles, which are rated as traction
engines.
Mrs. R. L. Holiday, of Dover, Del,
has organized Junior Audubon So
ciety. and has secured boys who hunt
birds nests and girls who wear feath
ers in their hats to sign pledge they
will not do so in the future.
Daniel NJ, Cochran, of near Middle
town, is candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Levy Court Commits
sioner from St. Georges hundred; and
Daniel Colpitts, of Mt. Pleasant, is a
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
tion for Senator.
Thomas Cochran, near Middletown,
has remarkable activity for a man of
his age, now nearly S5 years. This
week he attended the wedding of
his granddaughter, Miss Mary Estelle
Cochran, which date was also the 51st
anniversary of his own marriage.
George V. Massey and wife will sail
from New York for Southampton, to-
day, on the American Line Steamer
New York. They will be absent for
about five weeks. The tour of Europe
while primarily for Mr.. Massey s
health, will embrace the Paris Expo
sition. He was a commissioner for
Delaware at the Worlds Fair.
William Reed, who resided near
Magnolia, met death last week in a
peculiar manner. He was removing
bricks from an old we'll near his house,
when it is supposed one of them fell back
striking him on the head and stunning
him so that he fell to the bottom and
drowned. The body was found by
his wife, who became alarmed at his
long absence.
S. H. Derby will make some extended
experiments this season at his farm
near WOodside to determine the effect
upon the keeping qualities of fruits OF
such fertilizers as nitrate of soda. muir
late of potash and phosphate of lime
The work will be aided by DIR. Johr
A. Myers, of New York city, and DIR
A. T. Neale, director of the Delaware
Experiment station.
Caleb Jackson, of Wyoming, dice
Monday week, after suffering the mos
.excruciating pain for weeks. Mr.
Jackson, some time ago, became affec
ted about the mouth and throat, anC
upon subjecting himself for treatmen
at the University of Pennsylvania, as
certained that his malady was can
.cerous growth in thereof of the mouth
He was a member of the Kent Count
Levy Court from 1888 to 1892, and wa
also director of the Farmers Bank TO
several years.
The DeLawarean says: There is al
unrest plainly visible among the voter
VI DeldWdre, DObh OOLiOOi"' anu A'S
publican, that augurs well, we believ
for the State of Delaware. Probably
never in its history have the voters a
a rule, shown the interest in public al
fairs, both State and National, the.
now exhibit; probably never in tn
history of either party have the ran
and file of the voters more closel.
studied the questions at issue, or NOR
highly appreciated the power OF tn
franchise at their command than the
do now.
The reason of the silence of certai
papers in Sussex county says th
Onion Republican is two-fold: In tn
first place the financial condition of th
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