Smyrna times., 1900-05-16
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 Rgard to People Well Known
The Camden Union Camp will be
held from July 25 to August 8, 1900.
A scheme is on foot to make New
port News great fruit port for Virginia
and the West.
Newly-planted sweet potato plants
were hurt by the frost, as were also
early planted beans.
A movement is on foot for the es-
tablishment of a National Bank at
Chincoteague by the leading citizens
of that town.
In the stomach of duck which he
killed, Peter w. Baker of Bridgeville,
found a copper cent of 1888, four but
tons, five nails and dolls arm.
Rachel Slaughter, widow of the late
Jonothan Slaughter, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. E. B. Downs,
near Wyoming, Tuesday, May 8, aged
"a years.
The Democratic County Committee
met in Dover on Thursday and fixed
June 16 as the day for the primaries
to select delegates to the State Con-
vention to be held June 10.
Messrs. w. H. Money and Thomas
Lattomus have purchased the hardware
and implement business of Richard
Hodgson, and moved to the corner
store formerly occupied by w. E.
Graves, in Townsend.
The Delaware Summer Institute will
begin it sessions ON Monday, July 8,
to continue for three weeks. Profes-
sor Aldrich, DIR. Joseph Walton, Mrs.
Thomas and Miss Wallace, will be
present to take part in the work.
DIR. Herman S. Davis, who was re-
Gently called to the U. S. Coast and
Geodetic Survey in Washington as the
Expert Computer, has been selected to
represent the Treasury Department at
the total eclipse of the sun May 2Sth,
stationed in Southern Alabama.
The farm known as the Baum farm,
situated near Dover, and owned by
Mr.. Woolworth, was sold by Peter J..
Westervelt of Tenefy, N. j., for nearly
1000; and the Keller farm near Viola,
was sold to Miss Warner of Tyrone,
Pa, the price being $4,000.
The Georgetown Republican says
that during the last 20 years enough
money has been "abstracted" from the
taxes of the people by low and cunning
schemes to have paid every dollar of
the county debt and reduced the taxa
tion to 40 cents on the hundred
dollars.
Thanks to Him who rules the ele-
ments, this Peninsula has escaped the
devastation by floods and tornadoes,
which have visited so many places in
the great Middle Western part of these
United States. During the past week,
scores of lives have been lost and mil
lions of dollars worth of property laid
waste in Kansas, Texas and other prop
erty laid waste in Kansas, Texas and
other Western places.
The funeral of Mrs. Gen. James H
Wilson, who was burned to death at
Matanzas, took place at Wilmington OF
the 8th inst, and the most tender mes
sages of sympathy have come to the
bereaved family. From Cuba the re
mains came in a government, and a
every place evidence of the people,
high regard for General Wilson ant
his family have been a comfort to hin
and them in their hours of sorrow.
The following delegates were ap
. pointed to attend the General Fedora
ton at Milwaukee: Mrs. A. d
Warner, Miss Annie T. Candy an
Mrs. William M. Field, Wilmington
Mrs. r. l.. Holiday, Mrs. G. G. Full
ton and Mrs. E. G. Marshall, of Dover
} Mrs. Cooper, of Seaford; Mrs. job
I w. Causey, of Milford, and Mrs. j
! w. Clifton of Smyrna. A rising vot
" of thanks was given to the Milfor
: Club for their generous hospitality an
= appreciation was expressed of the il
terest of the meeting. The federatio
is invited to meet in Wilmington ne,
year.