Smyrna times., 1900-09-12

Mllllam hothwell Reynolds OF Mid
dletOwn is a candidate for comptrol-
Ter of New Castle county on the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Tomorrow a farmers reunion under
the auspices of the New Castle County
Grange will be held at Brandywine
Springs Park.
Charged with committing felOnious
assault on Mrs. Ezekial Barlow, of
near State Road, John GoldsborO was
arrested at Middletown Wednesday.
Wilmington has population of
over 5000 with five railroads entering
the city and four steamboat lines,
thirty miles of electric railway and
line to Philadelphia
The fact that Mr.. Addicks and Col.
H. A. du Pont appeared at the meeting
place of the Republican harmony con-
ference Wednesday afternoon, such
hot day, each carrying a heavy
oYercoat, was considered as worthy of
remark.
A deal is about to be closed whereby
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will get possession of much property
abutting on its lines through Whining
ton. The property about to be ac-
quired comprises nearly all that laying
between Front and Water streets antl
French and Orange streets.
George w. Ivory died at the home of
Mrs. Henry E. Moore, nesr Dover
Sept. 5th, 1900. George W. Ivory
was an industrious and very bright
yOund man. He was born in Smyrna.
He attended the Conference Academy
and about two years ago took a bus
mess and penmanship course at Col
dey's College.
Thursday was Farmers Day at
Brandywine Springs and the lawn
was crowded with farmers with their
wives and children, while thousands of
city folk went out to mingle with
their country cousins. The politicians
were also there shaking hands indust-
triously with his constituents or those
whom he hopes to obtain as constit-
uents.
Four years ago Frank Purnell left
home i'll Virginia, going with circus
A year later Lemuel Purnell, the
father, heard his son had been killed
by an elephant and has since mourned
him as dead. Purnell went to a circus
at Bridgeville Wednesday and was
amazed to discover the young man
among the show employees.
James D. Massey, twenty-elght years
of age, was taken i'll suddenly Wednes-
day while at work in the commission
house of Henry Mohl, Pratt and Hano-
yer streets, Baltimore, and died.
Worry and loss of rest over the sick
ness of his wife are supposed to have
been the cause of the mans death.
Massey was a native of Queen Anne's
county.
Recently the barn of Mr. Frank D..
Reynolds on the farm of Mr.. John c..
Corbit near Odessa was burned. The
building and contents consisting of
over 1000 bushels of wheat, 90 tons of
hay, one horse one COW and calf and
yearly all the farm implements therein
were destroyed The loss is estimated
at abOnt $4, 900 and is partially covered
by insurance. The barn on the same
farm was burned about four years
since, the result of being struck by
lightning.
Mr.. VIM H. Jackson is a member of
"The Caves Valley Farm Company,
which was chartered at Dover, Del,
on Monday to develop the property
in Green Spring Valley, Baltimore
county better known as The
Caves, which was recently bought by
a syndicate. 1t is proposed to divide
the tract, which embraces about 1900
acres, into twenty-five acre farms and
to build three macadamized roads
through the property. The company
has a capital stock of 100000.
Assistant Clerk William B. Jones, OF
the Dover post Office, had narrow es-
cape from horrible death while gun
ming near Kits Hammock. After
shooting a crane whice fell in the
marsh, Mr.. Jones started to wade out
for the bird. When he had COTTON
within few feet of it he became stuck
IN the mire. He sank rapidly and in
few minutes was up to his waist in
the soft mud. There was no one near
to assist him and realizing that he
must do something quickly or sink
over his head and drown, he threw
away his gun and making a last des-
perate effort he roachad q small knoll