Smyrna times., 1900-03-21
NEWS OF THE PEhINUSLA.
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.
The sum of 100000 was spent on
Kent county's roads last year.
All the basket factories in Delaware
will start on double time on March
Goth.
Milford is to have big pickle fac
tory under the management of H. J.
Heinz & Co.
The CdU says of ITSELF "Not one
person has requested, inquired about or
expressed a particle of interest in sim
gle editorial utterance.
One year of the General Corporation
Law has resulted in the issuing of 27j
charters and the addition of S75, $50 to
the funds of the State.
Milford business men are hustling
to find steamer to replace the burned
Delaware. They are making an effort
to open the line by April first.
The Old Bachelors of Dover are ar
ranging to hold Town Meeting the
last week in March to devise ways and
means to stop the exodus of the "Old
Maids
The MlddletOwn Improvement Com
pany is considering proposition
made by f. H. Burgess to start
steam laundry. 1t is proposed to run
it in connection with the shirt fac
tory.
Bridgeville is growing crop of
statesmen. John f. Davis, John
Green and G. b. Gray, all Union Re-
publicans, are candidates for the Gen
eral Assembly.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, who was
asked by certain ladies of Dover to
make a contribution in aid of the Dover
Library, has declined
The New Castle county School Com
mission has decided to warn the Com
misioners of the other districts not to
accept maps which Chicago firm has
been selling under misrepresentation.
Rev. Cornelius w. Prettyman, pas
tor of Salisbury, NJ. E. church, is
confined to his room with a broken
leg, the result of fall from his BIZ
cycle.
Contracts have been closed at Mil
ford for 5000 birds, to be killed for
New York milliners. From 10 to so
cents each are to be paid for the
birds.
Invitations are out for the marriage
of Cecil A. Ewing, assistant principal
of the Wilmington Conference Acad-
emy, and Miss Adaline Mac Null, of
Carlisle, Pa, to take place Tuesday
March 9th.
Harlan & HOllingsworth Company
have signed a contract to build eight
steel vessels, one of which will be the
largest vessel ever constructed in Will
mingtOn. This vessel will be 400 feet
long and is for the G. II. Mallory Com
pany.
DIR. Hanna has travelled 10000 miles
and given over 300 sermons and lee
lures in the interest of the Twentieth
Century Thank Offering Fund of the
Wilmington Conference.
The firm of William 1. Simpson &
Co., phosphate manufacturers, of Mil
ford, has been dissolved, and the plant
has been purchased by George f.
Pierce. Mr.. Simpson will devote his
time to his shipbuilding interests.
The Farmers unions recently formed
throughout this peninsula have about
decided upon a uniform price for this
year, and while they will not rigidly
enforce the rule this year, strict OBJ
servance of these prices will be main
tanned next season.
Under the new law the Levy Court
is applying severe pressure upon the
tax collectors, and they in turn are
squeezing the people for taxes. The
law, we believe, requires that the du-
plicates be settled Sin full" by March
26th, and the penalty to tax collectors
who fail to meet the requirement, is no
reappointment.
If we remember Alright, though in
creasing years robs us of confidence in
this respect, the Pilot made the decla-
ration that no Democratic Levy Court
ever allowed Clerk of the Peace in
Sussex County over SO, 500 in one year.
Would it be discourteous to remind the
Pilot that we asked for the explanation
of an allowance in 1886 of $4,000 to
the Office of Clerk of the Peace, and
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