Smyrna times., 1901-02-27
PNINSULA MATTERS
OF GENERAL IMPORTANCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM THE
STATE AND EASTERN SHORE
hOugh a Community of Common Interest
Yet Every Week Brings its Changs With
Regard to People Well Known.

NSSdTu u feOple well knOWn.
Twenty-Five cars of new steel rails
have passed through Dover recently
ON their way to Delmar to be used in
improving n. Y. p. and n. Railroad.
John Henry Fulmer, William Guy
and Mary Buck, all cOlored, of Odessa,
have been arrested on suspicion of hav-
ing robbed the store of F. B. Watkins,
in Odessa.
Alexander G. Dill, a prominent and
successful farmer of Petersburg, Kent
county, died Wednesday, Feb. 20,
aged rs years.
William B. Virgins, who died at
Hinton, w. Va, Sunday week was
elected Mayor of Wilmington in 1855
on the Prohibition ticket and served
one year.
The real estate of the Agricultural
Society of the State of Delaware,
known as Fairview Park is advertised
for sale on March 5th, at Dover by
John b. Wharton, late sheriff.
Governor HUM has announced that
he will appoint Rev. William NJ.
Green, Justice of the Peace for Cam
den, to succeed Henry A. Draper,
whose term expires February 81.
The Rev. Alfred Smith, pastor of
Wesley NJ. E. Church, Dover, has
gone to Sebring, Ohio. TO assist at the
dedication of Rev. T. L. Coursey's new
church at that place Sunday. Rev. H.
G. Scudday also assisted.
Prof. E. Dwight Sanderson, of the
Delaware College Experiment Station,
addressed the Farmers Institute in
Grange Hall, Milford, his subject
being, ''The Troublesome Pea Louise
and Sweet Potato Insects"
Prof. Samuel Harper's grand Legisla-
tive cake walk in Dover was a grand
success. Howard Patton and Nicie
Palmer won the cake for stylish walk
ing and Edward Holiday and Amanda
Handy were awarded the prize for bur-
lesque walking.
Howard M. Wilkinson, who eloped
from Dover last summer with Miss JOS
ephine Packard, his wife's sister, and
who has since been conducting a drug
store in Buffalo, n. Y, wrote friend
here a few days ago that he is now
travelling for manufacturer of soda
water fountains and is meeting with
much success.
The slot machine bill which was re-
Gently passed by the Legislature has
had the desired result. The owner of
the machines hastily gathered them in
from all parts of the county and left.
There were 40 machines distributed
throughout the State and it is said
that the two ir Dover each earned
about $40 week and one at Bowers
Beach last Big Thursday earned $3.50.
The Delaware Construction Com
pany of Wilmington has gone INTO the
hands of the receivers. The Company
from the start in 1890, enjoyed large
and paying business. Several months
ago they received the contract for con
structing large dry dock i'll Balti
more for S24O, O9O. The Company sted
lily has been losing money since it tool
the contract having sunk over $42, 900
Ex-Clerk of the Peace William NJ
Dickson and Miss Annie Atkins wer
quietly married at their home nea
Woodside, Wednesday, Feb. 20. 1901
at II o'clock, a. m. Recorder o
Deeds James Lord, of Dover, acted a
best man and Miss Virdie Caulk, o.
Woodside, was bridesmaid. The ush
ers were Messrs. Franklin Temple AM
James L. Wolcott Miss Alice Tai
played the wedding march and Rev
L. W. Layfeld of Camden performe
the ceremony.
The office of Clerk-of-the Peace fo
Sussex county is worth from six t,
seven thousand dollars per year an
the vacancy caused by the death {
Mr.. Dorman, has caused small arm
of applicants to spring up all over th
county. The list is growing, ant
Governor HUM now has the fOllOwin
names to select from, viz; DIR. Hirar
r. Burton, James Wright, who We
the defeated candidate for Sherif
George E. Mcgee, of Milton, who
well qualified for the place, Daniel
Layton, of Georgetown, and DIR. Gee
Messick, of Georgetown.
The Union Republican again rel
crates the statement that to give th
City of Wilmington and the othe
towns of the State the license fe'
from the sale of liquor paid in eaC
city and town by the liquor dealel
thereof is wrong in principle ar