Smyrna times., 1900-06-13
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

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The number of census enumerators
at work over this country is 52,631.
Delaware has 103 of this number.
The librarian of the Dover Library
reports that there were 400 books and
9O6 periodicals taken out during May.
A new 21-horse power gasoline en-
gine has been placed in the McDon-
ough Flour Mills by Messrs. James T.
Shallcross & Sons.
The wedding of DIR. J. B. Derrick
son and Miss Mary L. L. Burton took
place in the NJ. E. Church, Frederick,
Wednesday evening.
Caleb Burchenal. a Kent county
youth at Dickinson College, was one
of the three who defeated Cornell in an
inter collegiate debate.
Frederica is to have national and
savings bank, with capital of $25, 500
DIR. Cahall and Paris I. Carlisle are
the largest stockholders.
Madam, when the census man asks
your age, don't tell him it is none of
his business, because it is. Tell the
truth and shame the devil. Hlder.
Nothing has been heard of Frank
Brown, the negro who killed James
Gilmore at Dover week before last. In
fact the tragedy has been almost for
gotten.
Clerk of the Peace J. B. Foard re-
newed his bond for $66 600, his sure
ties being George Janvier, Charles
Derrickson, George Wilson and Sewell
G. Biggs.
The suit of Detective Bernard J.
McVey against Peter j. Ford for $2O,-
900 damages for libel was discontinued
in the Superior Court in Wilmington,
Monday.
DR.. Edward S. Harrington, son of
the late David Harrington, of Dover,
died in New York City, June 5th. in
the 45th year of his age. He was un-
married.
Jackson & Sharp are doing heavy
business at their ship yards. Large
cargoes of lumber are being received.
They will launch two barges before the
18th of June.
Charles Watkins, farmer living in
Milford Neck, killed one hundred and
sixty beach robins at Sand Point on
Saturday morning with four shots.
The birds had taken shelter behind
the pile dyke, and were there in thOus-
ands.
A Wilmington paper says: "There is
quite story behind the dropping of
Detective McVey's libel suit against
Peter j. Ford in the upper court. The
Democrats have some sense, which the
bull-head Republicans could take a
lesson from.
Ex-Marshal Harry McMullen pre-
diets a short crop of apples because of
rains that washed off the pollen, and
the scarcity of bees to distribute the
pollen. The scarcity of bees is ac-
counted for by the prevailing cool
weather which interfered with their
work.
DIR. E. o. Shakespeare, formerly
of Dover, a scientist of worldwide
fame as a bacteriologist, and a physic-
ian and surgeon of exceptional skill,
died June 1st of heart trouble, at the
Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, where he
had recently been stopping with his
wife and children. Age "a years.
The Milford Chronicle says: "In all
political parties, there Is gen orally
some element to create discord, but
the Union Republican party of Della
ware is an exception to this rule. 1t
has but one object, to bring about re-
form in State and county government
in Delaware.
Among the graduates at Goldey's
Commercial College, Wilmington, were
the following: Eugene R. Gooden,
FELTON,; W. I. Inderlied, Wyoming;
Herbert Mason, John P. Mason, John
Wallace, Marietta Stats, Dover; and
Gilbert r. Clark, Kenton; and Gilbert
S. FAIRIES, Smyrna.
All signs point to the success of the
ElK's Carnival, which will open in Will
mington on the 18th of this month.
Nearly all the space has been taken.
The fair will be great success and
give Wilmington a big boom. Our