Smyrna times., 1900-06-06
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 Well Known

hSt Lively UCCh DIluSS It's SudhSSo
With Regard to People Well Known
Orphans Court convenes at Dover.
Thursday, June Z.
The new 12OO-foot pier at Lewes will
be completed by June 10.
Burglars last week robbed the store
of John G. Armstrong at Odessa.
The Rev. and Mrs. T. E. Terry, of
Elkton. are occupying their cottage at
Rehoboth.
Mr.. Abraham l.. English, of Phila-
delphia, is another man who wishes he
hadn't done it.
The first crate of strawberries that
was shipped over the D. NJ. & V. Rail
road, was shipped from Selbyville on
May 10Th.
The most amusing game of baseball
of the season was played in Dover,
between the married and single men.
The single men won by a score of 10
to 1S.
A ten-acre piece of land belonging to
H. A. Richardson adjoining Silver
Lake, is being transformed into beau
tiful park, with walks and drive
ways.
Mrs. Rebecca Postles died at the
home of her son -in-law in st. Jones
Neck Sunday afternoon, aged 80 years.
Death was caused by stroke of par
alysis.
Last week, A. B. Magee, as trustee,
sold the farm of Thomas Keith, deceas-
ed, situated in Little Greek hundred,
near Denney's Corner, to Andrew
Keith, for 81, $50.
Miss Miranda Holt, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Cyrus Holt, of Middletown,
was married Wednesday, to William
Penn Wilson, of Townsend. The cou-
pie will reside in the latter town.
Real Estate Dealer George w. Tebo
has sold the brick dwelling property of
William Salisbury, situated on the
'Green, to Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Fisher,
of Dickson, ILL.,, who expect to move to
Dover.
The Rev. G. P. Swain, a prominent
minister of the Wilmington Conference
and pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Deals Island, died on Fri
day week of pneumonia.
Mr.. Isaac Edwin Brown, a young
merchant, of Dover, and Miss Mabel
Cleora Weaver, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William H. Weaver, were mar
ried in Dover on Wednesday last.
The Rev. w. NJ. Jeffries and Charles
NJ. Curtis will address the missionary
meeting to be held in Milford on the
evening of June 9th, which meeting
will precede the annual convention of
the Diocese in Delaware.
Rev. F. B. Short, pastor of Epworth
Methodist Episcopal Church, Whining
ton, has told his congregation that il
they will secure $4,000 to pay off the
debt he will start a movement for 8
church to seat $500.
Mrs. R. l.. Holiday and Mrs. Ceci
G. Fulton, left Dover, Friday, for Mil
waukee, ia attend the biennial conven
ton to be held in that city. They are
the delegates who were recently Sc
lected by the State Federation.
Colonel and Mrs. Daniel Barnard
of Wilmington, have issued marriage
invitations for the marriage of thei
daughter, Miss Esther Elizabeth Bar
nard, to DIR. William Topping Watson
of Baltimore, in Trinity church, OF
Wednesday, June 18th.
Every spring there comes the sam
compaint about the water in the Ches
apeake Canal. The stream becomes s
polluted that hundreds of fish die
This year is no exception and the waite
is literary covered with hundreds O
dead herring that create an unpleas
ant odor.
James Goslin, P. B. Truitt, Wu
Mills, and VIM. Wilson are fitting th
steamer Pocanoka, owned by Denn
Bros, which is now lying at the var
of Harlan & Hollingsworth, at Wi
mington, with state rooms. and al
) rebuilding the pilot house. Whe
: completed she will ply between Lew'
and Philadelphia.
There is every prospect of the peac
growers making money out of the cro
this year and this means improvement
in every branch of business, becaus
: the money which is secured from ii
s crop will be distributed about anon