Smyrna times., 1900-03-28
NEWS OF THE PENINUSLA,
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 We Known.


Yet Every Week Brings its Changes
With Regard to People We Known.
Delaware Odd Fellows will celebrate
the eighty-frst anniversary of the
order on April %.
The Old Maids Convention given
by the ladies of the Ever Ready Circle
Kings Daughters, Dover, realized
$141.72.
Mrs. Francis Watkins, wife of Co.
lumbus Watkins, of Odessa, died on
March Goth, after several years of pa
tient suffering.
The annual report of the public
schools of the State, exclusive of Will
mingtOn, shows 1884 pupils, and
$22, ,926. "a received from the State.
The Odessa Creamery Co. has sold
its plant at st. Georges to Stanley S.
Stevens and Fred Kumpel 1t will
continue to operate its plant at Odessa
Invitations are out for the marriage
of Miss Clara Goslin to Mr.. William
w. Gremminger, in Odessa, on We'd
nesday evening, April jth at 8 o'clock.
Eli b. Foard, of Chesapeake City,
Md, and Miss Emma Edwards, of
Middletown, were married on Monday
the 10Th inst, by the Rev. Thos. E.
Terry, at Elkton.
J. P. Cooper and T. r. Russell, Of
Seaford, are constructing a steamboat
which will ply between SharptOwn
Nd, and Seaford. She will be thirty
feet long and nine feet beam.
Invitations are out for the marriage
of Miss Esther Barnard, of Cheswold
Del, formerly of Middletown, to Mr..
Walter Harper Collins, of New Yorl
City, on Thursday, April 5th, at on
o'clock, at Cheswold
George Cooper, aged 10 years, on
of the oldest pilots in Delaware, die
Sunday week at his residence in Will
mington, three days after the death o
his sister-in-law, Esther G.. Stevenson
aged 81 years, which occurred at tn
same house.
From an educational standpoin
Harrington is ahead of any other tow
in this county. Nearly % per cent {
the population is enrolled at the pub
lie schools The total population
about 1900 and there are at present 30
pupils attending school.
Milford has II teachers to instruC
less than 400 scholars, while Smyrn
with the same number has only eigE
teachers. This saving in salary is be
cause they have only one school builG
ing. This amount in ten years woul
pay for half of a handsome buildin
and its site. - Chronicle.
State Senator and Mrs. Stephe
Slaughter, of Dover, have issued il
vitations to the marriage of the
daughter, Miss Helen Slaughter,
Mr.. William Reese Parker, of Middle
town. The marriage will take place a
Wesley NJ E. Church, Dover, Thurs
day afternoon, April 5th, at 1 O'clocl
Immediately after the ceremony r.
ception will be held at the Hotel Ricl
ardson.
The sum and total of all crows shil
ped to New York from Milford is 8
for which five cents each was pai
This charge is brought against Il
crow: "Crows find partridge's mes
and eat every egg; and worse stil
they get into coveys of young qua
and eat them as rare tidbits. The
also eat terrapin and turtle eggs, al
the young of almost any kind of bil
they come across-even young chic
ems are not disdained, as every far
wife will testify.
4 The NEGROES AND BRIBERY.-Tl
News and AdUertiSer in a dOlOro
: editorial last week made grave acc
: sation against the colored race in d.
aware; charging it as whole, wi
> being corrupt and venal to an exte
y that far exceeds all other elements
Delaware politics. This charge is n
= born out by facts, and if the you
!. writer of the NeWS had have had pri
tical political experience of Delawa
politics from 1875 to 1900, such a stat
e ment as made last week, could L
: truthfully have been written. AS
I fact, taking the colored voters as
is body, there are no more true follow'
p of the party of their choice than
n negro. There are some who are c.
IL rupt and who demanded pay in
l. past, just as the Regular" Reput
cans to-day demand federal patrona
as the price of their support to the \
tional administration. This is a &C
q | 1;t;o,, IN oil ,,artiaq whara salf-int