Smyrna times., 1900-02-21
NEWS OF THE PENINSULA,
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM THE
STATE AND EASTERN SHORE.
Yet Every Week Brings its Changes
With Regard to People We Kn9wn.


Yet Every Week Brings its Changes
With Regard to People We Known.
The first shad of the season in Mil
ford, were sold Wednesday by the
Pierce Bros.
Postmaster Robert J. Morrison, of
Newark, has appointed William Lyman
his assistant.
David Houston Roush, well-known
printer of Dover, died in Philadelphia
hospital Sunday week, aged about II
years.
Harry Krischbaum, barber of Dover,
died Tuesday week, aged ga years.
Interment was made in the old NJ. E.
cemetery.
Some of the machinery of the Della
ware Hosiery Co. has been sold to some
Philadelphia parties and is being ship
ped there.
The Epworth League of Wesley
Church, Dover, will hold a Martha
Washington tea on the 22d inst. in the
lecture room of the church.
Miss Mary Vail Appleton, daughter
of Mrs. M. V. Appleton, and Henry
Jones Ellison, of the Security Trust &
Safe Deposit Co., were married in Will
mington, Thursday evening.
Rev. Seidell has just brought to a
close most successful series of revival
meetings on his circuit which includes
Thomas Chapel, Marydel, Temple
vile and Hartly. There has been
about $50 conversions.
John NJ. Clayton of Smyrna, late
Company G, No. As, Regiment, U. s.,
Colored Infantry, has been granted a
pension of $12 month from Nov. 3Oth,
1898, through the agency of Col. John
Wainwright of Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome B. Bell of Will
mingtOn last week, celebrated their
twenty-ffty wedding anniversary with
an elaborate and largely attended re-
ception at the New Century Club. Mr..
Bell is publisher of the Sunday Star
Rev. DIR. Henry Baker will retire as
pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church, Wilmington, at the end of
this conference year. He has received
calls to Pittsburg, Pa, and Albany,
n. T., but has decided on Pittsburg.
The 17-months old child of Thomas
Short, of near Gumboro, was bitten by
cat while trying to take from the
child's hand piece of bread. In a
short time the hand began to swell. A
physician was called, but the child
died in few hours.
The Levy Court of Sussex county
has elected the following officers for
1900: President, Charles A. Sackett
attorney, Joseph L. Cahall; bailiff,
George COnoway; Trustees of the Poor,
H. Wright, Sheppard NJ. Walls, David
W. Fisher and William r. Phillips.
The largest man in Delaware is said
to be Captain Rogers of the Life Sav.
ing Service, who lately has been in
Lewis inspecting stations by appoint
ment with the Government. The cap
tain weighs 295 pounds, is tall and
active, and his appearance at the dinner
table is dreaded by all the Lewes
hotel prOprietors.
THE Two CONVENTIONS. The Reg
ular Republicans announce that tn,
State convention called for Februar,
27th to choose Philadelphia Nationa
Convention delegates will be held il
the old Baptist church on the Dove
Green, the Union Republicans havin,
fOrestalled them in the leasing of tn,
customary convention hall on the pub
lie square. The halls are situated
only 100 yards apart.
President Mckinley is not the frs
American of the name to bear tha
title. The earlier one, who preceded
him by considerably more than cen
tury, was President John McKinly
of the State of Delaware, who spelled
his name without an ''e'' in the fina
syllable. This President McKinly wa
the first chief executive of Delaware
He took Office February 81, 1777.
WANTS DELAWARE SEAT IN Cox
GREss. .-Ex-Assemblyman Robert H
Wilson of st. Jones' Neck, has an
nounced his candidacy for Delaware
seat in the National House of Repre-
sentatives. As this is the year TO
Kent county to select the Congress
sional candidate, the nomination is be
lieved to lay between Assemblymal
Wilson and Governor Reynolds, will
the chances in favor of Mr.. Wilson
Mr.. Wilson is the ''long distance
editor of the Smyrna call.
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