Smyrna times., 1901-09-25
NEWS Of THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
INTERESTING ITEMS CLEANED FROM STATE
AND EASTERN SHORE PAPERS.
Local Happenings of the Different Towns of
the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal. Social and Otherwise.

Local happenings or the Dnfere1t IOWnS OF
the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal, Social and Otherwise.
The Seaford shirt factory resumed
operations last week with about 100
hands.
Tomatoes at Milton sold on Monday
of last week for 10 cents per basket and
ON Tuesday for cents.
The house of Minos T. Conoway of
Dagsboro, Nd, near Shortley was
burned on Wednesday. Most of the
contents were destroyed.
Miss Edna Collins Finn, daughter
of Representative William r. Finn of
Newport, and James Truss Challenger,
of New Castle, will be married at New
port Methodist Episcopal Church on
October 3.
Henry j. Fish, for merly of Philadel.
phia, who shot Thomas Mullin, in the
saloon of the latter last May, was con-
victed in Wilmington and sentenced to
four years at hard labor.
Bishop Coleman last week, at the
Chapel of the Good Shepherd in Will
mington, confirmed and received into
the Episcopal Communion Rev. Will
liam Fitzsimon, one of the best-known
Presbyterian clergyman of this PENN
sula, and a former moderator of the
New Castle Presbytery.
Deputy Sheriff Marsh went to Mil
ton last week and attached the canning
house, machinery and empty cans of
the Isaac Robinson Company, upon
claim of VIM. Tomlinson for S106 due
for ground rent and scales. The COM
pany had $4,000 cans loaded in a car at
the railroad station to be shipped to
Harrington. Mr.. Wood, an agent for
the Canning Company, went to Mil
ton and paid off the claim.
Samuel W. Hall of Dover, who is
said to own some of the finest farms in
the State, has recently bought the
James L. Postles farm near Little
Creek Landing for $500. Captain
Andrew Woodall of Kent county, Md,
has also sold one of the best farms in
the United States-the place known as
the Shallcross farm near Centreville, 20
James T. Earle of Centreville at private
sale for $4,000. DIR. J. L. Crossmore
of Wyoming, has purchased the dwell
ing of John H. Berry for 81, 800.
The run of carp in the Brandywine
this year has been something unprece-
dented. 1t is nothing for a small boy
with dipnet to catch half bushel or
more in a couple hours. When it is
known that these fish are taken in a
space not five feet square it must be
seen that the water is fairly alive with
them.
Mayor George NJ. Fisher is much in
terested in the project to have a monu-
ment of the late President Mckinley
erected in Wilmington. The mayor
believes that monuments add to the
appearance of the city, and when erec-
ted in the memory of great men serve
a good purpose in reminding youth
what these men accomplished Over
$4,000 was subscribed on Saturday.
AS Garfield Dashields, a negro, was
passing the house of Ephraim Adams
an aged negro, at Laurel, on Friday
last, he shot and fatally wounded him.
Dashields had been out hunting.
and as he passed the old man asked
what luck. Dashields replied: eff you
say peas [ will shoot you" The old
fellow. thinking the man was Joking.
said Peas, whereupon Dashields took
deliberate aim and fred, the shot tax
ing effect in the abdomen aud left arm
of Adams. Dashields made his escape.
The negroes are very much exercised
over the affair and if Dashields is
caught he will be dealt with severely.
Says the Wilmington Republican
"Persons very foolishly time and time
again put their savings in the Savings
Fund Associations and in the Foreign
Building Associations, which invaria-
bly, burst up. Several hundred of our
citizens are to-day mourning the loss
of their hard earned savings which
they paid into the defunct Republic
Building and Loan Assoc iation, which
is now in the hands of Herbert H.
Ward and William Michael Byrne.
who represent the shareholders in set
tling up the affairs of the Association.
The Delaware shareholders hold some
$4,000 worth of stock in the Associa-
tion.
"Addicks himself is the leader OF
the Unions and furnishes all their
funds, says the editor of the '.DeIa-
ware Democrat" Well brother vhile