Smyrna times., 1900-11-07
PENINSULA MATTER
OF GENERAL IMPORTANCE,
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM THE
STATE AND EASTERN SHORE
Though a Community of Common Interest,
Yet Every Week Brings its Changes With
Regard to People Well Known.

Regard 10 PeOpie Wen hhO"h'
Wilmington dealers have reduced
he price of coal from IS to Sc. so per
ton.
The falling leaves are thicker than
snowfakes and the housekeeper is
kept busy disposing of them.
The cabbage crop in this county will
fail far below the general average OF |
last year. The heads are very small.
Mr.. William Culveyhouse is an ex-
pert combination safe opener. In the
past few years he has opened AZ out of
4S safes.
Burglars entered the Armstrong Hotel
at Delaware City Wednesday night
and secured about $75 and other val
uables.
The Delaware railroad is enlarging its
bridge over the Delaware & Ches-
peake Canal preparatory to laying a
second track on it.
At a meeting of the vestry of Christ
P. E. Church, Dover, Henry Ridgely,
Jr., was elected to fill the vacancy in
that body caused by the death of his
father, Edward Ridgely.
A fire, which caught from traction
engine, broke out Wednesday morn
ing in the barnyard of Samuel I. Sax
ton, near Magnolia, destroying nearly
his entire crop CT fodder and straw.
John W. Davis, prominent citizen
of Lebanon, and for number of years
postmaster of that place, died last
week from typhoid fever, aged 20
years. A widow and five children sur
vive him.
Arthur W. Spruance, son of Judge
William G. Spruance, and Miss Mar
guerite Cause, daughter of Horace w.
Cause, of the Harlan & Hollingsworth
Company, were married Wednesday.
Rev. William Frederick Lewis Off
ciated.
In the Superior Court the case OF
Samuel Warren Darby VS.. Samuel w
Hall, an action to recover a sun
alleged to be owed for peaches bought
of Mr.. Darby was concluded Tuesday
The verdict was in favor of Mr.. Darby
who was given judgment for $567.68.
Rev. J. d. G. Hanna has been in
vited by the official board of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church of West Ches
ter, Pa, to become their pastor tn
coming year, and a motion will b
made at the next Conference for hi
transfer to that place.
g Potatoes in the local markets ar
+, scarce and high in price. From go t
: 20 cents per bushel is being asked fo
t the tubers, and these are not of th
u finest quality. In the lower parts {
: the State potatoes are very scarce an
the farmers in many instances will /
compelled to purchase.
The family of Lemuel l.. Derrick
son lining near Roxanna, narrowly e
Is cVped being poisoned. Some evil III
known person placed a bag of par
green in the we'll, but fortunately th
% large quantity of poison caused Il
lie water to turn green color, and mol
ID of the water was used.
- The Army Relief Society of D
= ware is being organized. Mrs. Cal
: Churchman, Mrs. John A. Andre
and Miss Katherine Wilson are int
= ested in 1t. Mrs. Churchman's so
Lieutenant Churchman, was killed
- Cuba; Mrs. Andrews is the wife
- Colonel Andrews, retired, and NJ
.? Wilson is the daughter of Gene
= James H. Wilson.
The annual session of the CIR,
is Council of Delaware, Improved orc
in Red Men, convened in Dover Wedn
Mt. day. Over 200 representatives w
lg- present representing a membership
3507. the largest sick benefit order
the State. The following new offic
d., were elected; Great Prophet, E.
my Riggin,, Laurel; Great Sachem, Jar
he McGlothen, Georgetown; Great S
He ior Sycamore, George r. Powell, N
rm- ark; Great Junior Sycamore, O..
had knight, Frederica.
" Almost the entire city of Wilmi
=. ,n'o ton turned out to celebrate Hallow
'iTo and from nightfall until after n
- night the streets were filled with
"eo masqueraders. Early in the even
20" there was parade in which 1000
In :. sons took part. These included al
~ " $50 members of the Wilmington B
} 10 Gle Club in overalls and silk hats,