Smyrna times., 1901-06-19
PENINSULA MATTERS
Of GENERAL IMPORTANCE
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM THE
STATE AND EASTERN SHORE.
.r.ongh a Community Of Common Interest
Vet Every Week Brings its Changes With
Regard TO People Well Known.


cbildren's Day services were held at
Scott NJ. E. Church Blackbird, Sun
day evening.
Sunday evening thieves broke into
.ho meat house of Mrs. James Mullin |
ono mile west of Middletown and car
riad away 200 ponnds of meat.
Mr. Welton, who has rendered such
ovcellent service in music instruction
ot tbe Conference Academy for the
past school year, goes to Denver, Col,
for next year.
Rev. Mr.. Hallett, of Milford, who
has filed the Presbyterian pulpit at
Odessa for the last several Sundays,
has made an excellent impression
upon all who have heard or met him.
A dispatch to the Philadelphia TitOes
saws; .'Blackbird hundred, with pop
ulation Of 1900, has not a single lic-
ensed saloon. An application for Ii
csnse was withdrawn.
Deputy Attorney General Robert
Haven Richards of Wilmington, will
be married to Miss Lydia Haddock of
Carlisle, Pa, in the Second Presbyter-
ian Church at Carlisle on Wednesday
evening, June 26.
Richard c.. Brockson, James A.
Buckson, Alexander Deakyne, John
Lockerman, Alexander Lattomus, Will
liam J. Nowland, Joseph Van Pelt
have been appointed fence viewers
for Blackbird Hundred.
William W. and John w. G. Pullen
of Milford were held by Esquire Hol-
lis of Wilmington TO appear in the I'm
tied States Couat to answer in the
charge of ''using the mails with fir adu-
lent intent" have been released from
bail, and will not have to appear, as
the case against them has been with
drawn.
The young ladies and young gentle
men, graduates at Middletown school
number eleven, as follows: Esther L l..
Shallcross, NJ Louise Mcdowell,
Ethel I. Rowe, Sylvia L. Moore, Sy-
lvia A. Arthurs, Boyd Salmon, Price
B. Alrich, Sewel C. Downs, G. Edgar
Rowe, Joseph P. Comegys, J. Bayard
Eliason.
More than $50 persons were grad
uated from the University of Pennsyl-
vannia Wednesday In the list were
Victor S. Thomas and John w. Brady
of Wilmington who received the de-
gree of Bachelor of Laws, and Hugh
Baker, who graduated in medicine
and t. Harry Keaveny, in dental sur.
gerry. Allen B. Clement, formerly ot
Wilmington, graduated in law.
While David Ireland, who lives on
the John D. Berry farm, near the
AlmshOuse, was away from home OF
Tuesday evening of last week, some
person or persons stole a brood of q
turkeys and set fire to another cool
in which were about 40 young turkeys
burning the turkey hens wings anC
feet. This happened between s and
in the evening. Mrs. Ireland wa
home and happened to see the fire be
fore much damage was done.
Says the Wilmington Sun: The lat
est explanation that has been offeret
relative to the delay in settling the
question of Federal appointments il
this state is the statement that the Re
gulars threatened abodily desertion t
the Democratic party, unless the.
they were assured of the Federal OF
fcers for the next four years. We ar
happy to assure the President thG
there is no danger in that threi
now. If all those who can be persus
ded, or hired to go into the Democri
tic party, do go there, Delaware woul
still be Republican.
This is the way E'Uery Evening pur
ches the Union Republican of Wi
mington: We like to punch an Az
dlcksite under the ribs, when we ca
DO 1t effectively, because he alway
squirms off with vicious howl, like
bad boy who has been caught stealth
Jam. They all feel so ashamed
themselves at hanging on to the strinl
OF bag of money that they are We
sensitive to criticism, and this sens
tveness is increased by a knowledi
OF the fact that the Boss himself ca
ries a sneer beneath the unctuo
smile with which he greets them al
that he regards them more contem
tuously each time he filings them
check.
The Board of Education of Wilmir
ton has decided that nonresident I
pills attending public schools in IL
City will be charged tuition fee
and after September Sd next. I
matter was referred 10 the City Sol
ltOr for his opipion on1 he ~.o,-1 - Al