Smyrna times., 1901-05-29
PENINSULA MAT TIERS
OF GENERAL IMPORTANCE,
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM THE
STATE AND EASTERN SHORE.
Though a Community of Common Interest
Yet Every Week Brings Its Changes With
Regard TO People Well Known.

kSSdIu u feOpie well kuOWu.
John G. Higgins, consul to Dundee,
Scotland, is at his home in Delaware
City on sixty days leave of absence.
He is enjoying excellent health. ~
Reports from nearly all the wards in
Wilmington, indicate that the Repub-
lican voters are alive to the Importance
of the approaching city election June3.
1t will require Laurel or Delmar
confiagration to convince some of the
Georgetown conservatives that the pro-
position to bond the town for water
works is a good one.
Seaford has purchase q site for the
new water works which it is preparing
to build. IE short time S25, 200 in
bonds will be issued for the purpose of
paying for the plant.
The Delaware Clay Mfg. Co., has
been awarded the contract for 13O,0O
bricks to be used in the new building
to be erected at the State College for
Colored Students near Dover, and the
bricks are now being delivered.
Scores of wagons visit the bayshore
at Cedar and Slaughter Beaches, each
high tide last week, to gather up king
crabs. The farmers find them valuable
to feed hogs and make manure.
Miss Bessie Holmes, of near Milford,
and Mr.. M. Cremer, of New York, are
to be married in Christ Church, Mil
ford, on Thursday, June 9Th 1901, at
o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr.. Orion T. Cannon, and Miss Lii
liam 7. Williams, both of Milford were
joined in matrimony by Rev. Frank P.
Harris, on Sunday evening, May 18th,
1901, just after the evening church SER
vices were closed.
Thereyival meetings in Delm II NJ. E.
Church are increasing in interest and
power. Meetings are being held every
afternoon and night. Rev. H. G.
Scudday continues to assist the pastor,
Rev. W. W. Sharp.
There was large attendance at the
Baptist Association, held at Mount
MOriah Church, near Petersburg,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
last week. Old School Baptists from
all parts of the State were present at
the meetings.
Judge Gray filed an opinion in tho
U. S. Circuit Court, reversing the
finding of the local District Court,
which held the Delaware Insurance
Company liable in the sum of $19, 1OS, :
AZ on policy of insurance of supplies
of the S. White Dental Company.
A Wilmington paper suggests that
the face of the City Hall clock of that
city be rented out to advertisers, the
old bell not having recorded the hours
for two years. In a hustling town like
Wilmington this should not be, but
perhaps man cannot be found who
has time to wind the clock.
Wesley NJ. E. Church, Dover has
elected the following trustees: For
three years, 7. j. Stevenson, William
NJ. Hazel and Henry Z. Moore; for
two years, William Salisbury, J.
Frank Wilds and George w. Tebo; for
Que year, Wilson L. Cannon, Thomas
F. Dunn and James L. Wolcott.
The big structural iron plant at Edge
Moore is getting its share of the i'm
mense volume of business being done
in this country under the fostering care
of the present administration. All de-
partments are busy and the hundreds
OF men employed there are engaged
steadily in turning out structural iron
for bridges and buildings.
Gamblers of Delaware find hard lines
when they get up against the law, as a
Philadelphian who conducted q club
with gambling tables found out last
week. He entered a plea of guilty.
and the Court showed mercy by fining
him $500 and warning not to repeat
the offence.
William Decker, white, who dissa-
peared suddenly Sunday morning week
carrying with him the team of J. H.
Ross, of Hazlettville, with whom he
lived, was captured at Berlin, Md.
Tuesday, after having sold the team.
He was brought to Dover by Sheriff
Reedy and lodged in Jail. Mr.. Ross
recovered his team and drove it home
Thursday.
On Thursday evening last a recep-
tion was held at the NJ. E. Parsonage.
Frederica, to welcome the newly ap-
pointed minister and his family, Rev.
Il. n. Joscelyn, who was recently tran
sferred to the Wilmington Conference
and stationed at Frederick, in lieu of
Rev. E. Fl. Thrasher who was sent to
the place from which Mr.. Joscelvn