Smyrna times., 1900-08-01
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

WIN NSSdtu " VIII hhO"H
B. F. Graham has been appointed
fourth-class postmaster at Blackiston,
Del.
Jacob Levy has sold his distillery at
Dover to Nathan Cook of Woodside.
Mr.. Cook will take charge of the plant
at once.
Hundreds of bushels of young oys
ters are on the new beds about the
Mispillion, and thousands of bushels
are on the old beds.
The Steamer New Brunswick was
not capable of making the time neces-
sary between Cape May and Lewes,
and has been withdrawn.
The Georgia peach crop will wind up
with this week. The next variety to
go from Delaware will be the Noun
thin Rose and Yellow st. John.
The Levy Court has appointed a
committee to confer with prominent
farmers on the subject of improving
the county roads. There is room for
much improvement.
An increase in the price of anthracite
coal is looked for beginning August 1.
An advance of so cents per ton is prob
able. A partial advance to the whole
sale dealer was made on July /.
Soft crabs are being more plentifully Y
caught along the bayshore than for
many years. Robert Jester of Milford
has been catching as many as 20 day
and many others have taken from to
dozen.
Word has been received of the safe
arrival in Southampton, of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick Darlington, Miss Sue
Simpson and Miss Carrie Hoffecker,
all of Wilmington, who will visit the
Paris Exposition.
Louis Napoleon Shakespeare of
Dover, aged Al years, died in sani-
tarium in Philadelphia, July 81, 1900.
Deceased was the son of William
Shakespeare and brother of the late
DR.. E. o. Shakespeare.
The State College for Colored Stu
dents near Dover, is likely soon to
want more room for students. The
present available space is needed for
male students, and a seperate house
will have to be providedas girls dor
mitory.
The friends of William A. Scott, the
President of the Levy Court, who re-
sides at Townsend, have begun tc
mention his hame in connection with
the nomination for Clerk of the Peace
of New Castle county, to succeed JEFF
ferson Ford.
A party composed of Senator Slaugh-
ter, F. l.. Jones, j. I. Hoffecker, DIR.
William Burton, and L. J. Collins,
will leave Dover Saturday, Aug. 4th,
on the launch Dixie for their annual
cruise up the Delaware River.
The work of removing the bar at the
entrance of st. Jones River, was
begun on Thursday by the Atlas
Dredging Co., of Wilmington, which
has received the contract. A depth OF
six feet is to be dredged 60 feet wide
from the mouth of the stream to the
six-foot depth in the bay.
Mr.. Geo. A. Millington. who has
been proprietor of the Capitol Hote
in Dover 16 years, will soon remove t.
his farm near that town, where he il
having an up-to-date dwelling built
Mr.. Millington will continue to owl
the hotel, but his brother, James Mil
lington, of Philadelphia, will assume
the management.
Leaders of the Gold Democrats il
Wilmington, say that absolutely no in
terest is being taken in any third part.
movement. One of them said: 60
think that fully one-half of the mel
who voted for Palmer and Buckne
four years ago will support the entir
Democratic ticket this year, one-fourtl
will not vote at all and the other fourtl
will vote for Mckinley.
Probably Oak Orchard, on the In
dian River, will witness the gathering
there on Thursday, August 9th of tn
largest crowd ever assembled at tina
place, and one of the causes for thi
great gathering will be the presenc
there of John Edward Addicks, VIII
will be guest of DIR. George Messic
on that day. Thousands will be ther
out of curiosity.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jump died July 21f
in Dover after lingering illness {
several months. Mrs. Jump was
| native of this conntv heino horn /