Smyrna times., 1901-03-13
PENINSULA MATTERS
OF GENERAL IMPORTANCE,
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM THE
STATE AND EASTERN SHORE
Though Community of Common Interest
Yet Every Week Brings its Changs With
Regard to People Well Known.

NSdIu W feOpie well k0OWn.
Capital Grange has sent for sample |
mail box that can be delivered at 81 |
each with lock and key.
The regular term of the Orphans
Court and Court of Chancery will be
held Monday, March IS.
Michael Greminger, of Odessa, died
on Wednesday week of paralysis. He
was about 65 years old and.a veteran
of the civil war.
A bill was passed by the House on
Wednesday increasing the salaries of
the Chief Justice and the Chancellor.
And Associete Justices.
Jos. E. Holland will soon commence
the erection of a large warehouse ad-
joining his one at Milford. He will
build railroad siding.
Garrett S. Layton, farmer, aged 75
years, and his brother, Mitchell Lay
ton, aged 81, merchants, both died at
their homes in Bridgeville on the 9th
inst
G. W. W. Naudaine, Charles H.
Howell and B. F. McWhorter have
been elected Town Commissioners of
Middletown; Joseph G. Jolls, Assessor,
Edward Reynolds, treasurer, and Will
liam X. Reynolds, Alderman.
Former Sheriff John B. Wharton
sold the race track and fair gl ounds
of the Delaware State Agricultural
Society, situated on the outskirts of
Dover, to Hon. John w. Causey, for
the Kent County Mutual Insurance
| Co., for So, 200.
Hugh Duffy, of Wilmington, aged
81 years, committed suicide about noon
Wednesday by hanging himself with
a clothesline in the cellar of his resi-
dence, No. S39 Madison street. His
1 mind has been affected for the last
4 three months.
Mr.. Edmond Morgan an aged and
well-known farmer of Appoquinimink
4 hundred died Tuesday 5th inst, NOR
4 ming of paralysis which prostrated him
some two weeks ago. Mr.. Morgan
was 80 years of age.
An announcement by the New York
State Board of Health is to the effect
that during the year 1900 the deaths in
"a that State caused by the grip num-
1 bered II, 800. This total exceeds the
total of any previous year by at least
5000.
Owing to the numerous cases of mad
dogs running at large the Town Coun-
Gil of Dover adohted au ordinance that
all dogs found running at large with
out chain or rope shall be Immediately
killed by the police. Officer Hill the
first day killed six.
n Madeley Methodist church Soutl
Wilmington, has had 200 conversions
recorded under the pastorate of the
Rev. Vaughn P. Northrup, who il
serving his fourth year. The sum o
$4,000 has been expended on improve
ments including a pipe organ and $50
of old debts has been wiped out.
A lincoln writer say: Peach grow
ers are pruning their orchards an,
some are pruning about twelve inche
below the surface of the ground. The
Yellows the Delaware Legislature an,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Compan.
are making peach growing prohibitor.
in Delaware.
The appropriation of twenty-sevel
hundred dollars to pay the expenses {
the members of the General Assembl
and the State MALTA on their junket
ing trip to Washington can hardly b
justified in anyway one may look g
the matter. Furnished with free trar
sportation and lodging the questio
naturally arise as to what becomes o
the twenty hundred dollars?
Several Delaware towns have profile
by the session of the Legislature iu
drawing to a close. Seaford, Georg
town and Lewes especially have take
radical steps forward in the matter
light and water plants, and Lewes hi
even gone to the extreme of providir
ior a sewer system. Laurel, Reh
Doth, Bridgeville and Selbyviile ali
have felt the benefcent influence
wise and conservative legislation.
Real Estate agents j. r. McGonig
ms sold two farms of 1000 acres sit
Ned in Maryland and owned by MI
Durnite, of Newark, N. j., to Geore
huss, of South Carolina, for $3,9O
The 234 acre farm Of Stephen Slaug
er'sltuated near Leipsic, to Hen
Dfown, of Jermyn, Pu., for $3.50
MI. Brown has rnnuad The 13R nc