Smyrna times., 1900-09-05
PENINSULA MATTERS
OF GENERAL IMPORTANCE.
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 Well Known

There are lots of Polly McNatt's
around jest now.
Timothy P. Colt, aged 81 years died
Wednesday in Dover.
Judge Pennewill heard five appeals
from the decisions of Kent County
Registrars Tuesday.
Thieves on Tuesday night stole fifty
chickens from the farm of j. b. Hami-
lton, near Newport.
Levi Scott has bought from R. H.
Vandyke, attorney. Howard NJ. Will
kinson's drugstore in Dover.
Samuel Pilchard died wednesday
from the effect of injuries received by
falling from ladder at Stanton.
There are many reed and rail birds
on the lower marshel of the Elk River,
and they are reported in fine condition.
Joseph S. Terrell, of Elkton, had a
chicken Matched out that had four legs,
four feet and four wings, all perfectly
formed.
A car load of plum pudding, ordered
by the United States government, was
shipped to Manila by Richardson &
Robbins.
Robert H Wilson, near Dover, sold
his entire crop of peaches, about 5000
baskets, to Isaac Robinson for 30 cents
a basket.
The directors of the Lewis National
Bank have decided to erect a brick
banking house ON the site of their pres
ent building.
A William Jennings Bryan Club has
been organized at Newark, with George
w. Griffin as president. 1t has thirty
eight members.
James Hanson, of Harrington, has
purchased the valuable farm owned by
Miss Annie Rodney, near Five Points,
for 50, 200.
The School Commissioner in Denton
appointed Mr.. Wilson Salisbury to the
vacant scholarship at Western Mary
land College.
Clerk of the Peace Robert S. Downs
has received during the past ninety
days $11, ,4S2 for merchants and manu-
facturers license fees.
The boys of the Ferris Industrial
School who have studied manual train
ing, will build the barn that was re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
Miss Sallie d. Hawkins, sister of
John d. Hawkins, died in Dover last
week in the thirty-ffth year of her age.
Her death was caused by dropsy.
The Census Bereau announces the
census of Wilmington, Del. ,as sos,
against IS, -431 in 1900. This is an in
crease of 5,O77, or "a. "a per cent.
Five horses owned by James Priestly
of st. Jones Neck died few days ago
of cerebro spinal meningitus. Ray
mond Taylor has also lost several
horses.
The State Sentinel Printing Co. is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Cowgirl Building, on State street, oc.
cuppied by Joseph McDaniel's carriage
bazaar.
The bridge at the Garrison mill, Oh
the State road between Dover and
Smyrna, has been placed in position
and this thoroughfare is again open
for public travel.
Gov. Tunnel has issued the required
proclamation for special election fol-
a successor to John H. Hoffecker as
representative of the district of Della.
ware in Congress.
Wilbur Ridgway, ,colored. has been re-
leased from Jail after serving six months
Imprisonment for participating il
the trunk robberies at the Delaware
rallrord station at Dover.
The Wilkinson elopement scandal O.
Dover has developed into a low-dowr
i. case of immortality and, aside from
the warming to others, it is unworthy
of the publicity it has received.
The value of the securities left BY
B. B. Comegys are appraised at onl,
$107, ,772,29. 1t was popularity sup
posed that the personal estate woulC
aggregate at least half a million dollars
Cere-bro-spinal - meningitis ha
stricken several horses belonging I,
Raymond Taylor, living near Lebanon
and they have died, as have also fiv,
horses belonging to Mr.. Priestly, hi
neighbor.
The registrar and his attorney hav
driven all over st. Jones Neck tryini
to find some Democrat who woul
swear that John L. McLain does no