Smyrna times., 1900-01-17
NEWS OF THE PENINSULA.
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 Know.

WIN Regard 10 People we knOW.
The debt on Leipslc Nj. E. church has
been cancelled.
Robert B. Russell died at his home
in Milford, January 6, 1900, from pa
ralysis, aged 62 years.
The Kent county Bible Society has
placed on sale new lot of bibles and
hymnals with DR.. R. S. Stephens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Davis, of
Milford, celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of their wedding on the 9th
inst.
The Tenth Annual Dinner of the
Delaware Society of New York is to be
given on the night of February the
18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A. Richardson,
OF Dover, are contemplating a trip to
Florida for the winter, and will leave
about February. 1.
John Wyatt and Miss Lydia A. Bull
lock, both of Harrington, were mar
ried in Harrington M. E. church last
Wednesday evening by Rev. w. A.
Wise.
A. X. Cole and wife, who have re-
sided on farm near Leipsic for several
years has moved to Philadelphia,
where they will reside with their
daughter.
Three families in Milford have been
afflicted with diptheria, and there has
not been any indications of the disease
spreading; thanks to strict quaran-
tine by the Board of Health.
Farmers were paid $12O per hun
dred for their December milk delivered
at the Hazel Brothers Creamery in
Dover. There has been quite an ad-
vance in milk during the past year.
Montyloo A. Cole, the University of
Pennsylvania student, who is serving
five years sentence at New Castle
Jail, is continuing his dental studies
and hopes to get a pardon before his
term shall expire.
Never in the history OF South Will
mington has there been such demand
for small desirable houses to rent.
The putting up of the new rolling mill
will increase the demand 20 per cent.
Rev. T. G.. Eiswald, a member of the
Wilmington Conference, has severed
his connection with the Methodist
church and united himself to the Bap-
tist church. He married Miss Todd
of Dover.
The Morning NeaOs says the EUery
Evening has a delirium whenever it
thinks of the possibility of united
Republican party, and of course its
part in the game is to play the Repub-
hcans against themselves.
SWEET Potato SEASON OVER. R.-Ship-
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road from the Eastern Shore have
about ceased for the season. Prices
were fair this year, and over ZOO, ,O0O
barrels were shipped over the rail-
road.
The patrons of Middletown Farms
for December, got 30 cents per pound
for butter fat. The patron having the
highest test, Mr.. E. B. Clever, whose
test was cent. received 81. 45 per 1OC
lbs for his milk.
Former Senator Anthony Higgins
has been appointed to represent Della
ware on the committee of the American
Bar Association to arrange for a gen.
eral celebration of "John Marshall
Day." on February 4, 1901.
Within the past few weeks the names
of many of the stations along the Del
aware railroad have been painted in
white letters-This is of great assist.
ance to the trainmen, it is said, espec-
tally at night in distinguishing the
stations.
A concurrent resolution was intro
duced in the Senate by Senator Ken
ney, Friday, providing that the Secre
tary of War should open estimates foi
the improvement of Mahon harbOr
Delaware Bay, which was adopted.
Under the new management of Edi.
tor Jefferies the EUeniag Journal has
come back to its Republican moorings.
1t WIS first started by Mr.. Fred Eden
Bach and Charles William Edwards
as Republican paper. 1t changed tc
| Democratic paper and now has
changed back.
Alice Richardson, of Smyrna, Del.
wife of William Richardson, late Co.
c., Thirtieth Regiment, U. s. COLD
| Infantry hoe haan orontad a oano;o,,