Smyrna times., 1901-10-02
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.

more city, has sold his fine farm of
$50 acres, near Chesterville, to Mr.. W.
S. Dill, for $500.
Bishop Coleman has licensed j. Hen
ming Neims, DIR. Edgar Worthington,
and Prof William Richardson to be
lay readers in the Episcopal Church.
Ninety students are now enrolled at
the Wilmington Conference Academy
and it is expected that the enrolment
will reach 100 by November 1st.
Farmers in the lower section of
Cecil county report that they are hav-
ing considerable difficulty in securing
labor, notwithstanding they are pay
ing from $1.25 to $3.50 per day.
1t is estimated that the horse disease
has taken off about 200 horses in the
lower part of Somerset county. Be-
sides these a number of farmers in
and near Princess Anne have lost
horses.
Miss Helen Marr Pratt, youngest
daughter of William A. Pratt. who
resides on the "Willow Grove" farm,
near Easton, was married to Mr.. Wal
ter Sheppard, of New York, in Wash
ington, D. c., on Wednesday.
The Trustees of the Odessa NJ. E.
Church are making quite extensive re-
pairs to the interior of the church by
lowering and extending the pulpit and
moving the organ back of the pulpit.
1t is reported that the agents who
are trying to buy property upon which
to erect pier at Lewes, represent J.
Pierpont Morgan and George Gould,
and it is proposed to make Lewes a
coal shipping station for sending coal
to Europe.
Mrs: Hannah D. Wilson has issued
cards announcing the wedding of her
daughter, Laurine, to Mr.. Warren
Jackson Haines. The ceremony will
take place Wednesday evening, Octo-
Der 9th, at $50 o'clock, In st. Paul's
P. E. Church, Centreville.
County Treasurer Pennell Emerson.
who is an extensive grower of small
fruits and nuts at Wyoming, has
brought the first chesnuts of the sea-
son, which he called the Japan Giants.
They are without exception the larg-
est chestnuts ever grown in Delaware.
Twelve of them weigh pound.
A clock was recently found in the old
Cannon homestead at Georgetown.
! Del, which is said to be over two hun
dred years old. 1t is an eight dav
brass piece which tells the day of the
month, day of the week and changes of
the moon. 1t is said to have stood idle
for the past fifty years.
George A. Townsend, ("Gath' the
well-knOwn author, was a visitor to
Newark last Wednesday. He lived
there about As years ago and his COM
ing at this time was to visit the scenes
of days before he had gained a name in
the literary world. From there he
went to Delaware City. He owns a
farm near that place.
DIR. A. 7. Neal, of Delaware College,
will make an address at the re-opening
of Fruitland Grange, of Camden, on
Saturday, October 5. President A. n.
Brown, of the Farmers Protective AS
sociation, will speak on the difference
in peach culture in this country and
Georgia. E. H. Bancroft will read 9
paper on summer feeding.
So great has been the demand fol
tomatoes in Caroline county that a
number of the packing houses have
had difficulty in securing enough to
iill orders and meet the requirements
usually made upon them. Baltimore
agents at Denton and at many Other
points in Caroline county have been
paying good prices, ranging from 20
to 80 cents basket.
Deputy Collector Daniel Burton, OF
the United States revenue service, ha.
just completed tour of the lower part
4 of the State, bonding the fruit distiII
ers, and he reports that while all tha
intend to run this season are in full
operation, only about one. third of tn,
distillers are at work, many of the es
Establishments being entirely idle. This
is all due to the total failure of tn,
apple crop.
Preparations are being made by th,
temperance people and other promi
nent citizens of Lewes to make a Wig
orous fight before the coming court
at Georgetown against the relicensin,
of the Hotel Virden with E. 7. Vanc,
as proprietor. Some of the complain
ants describe the hotel and the alley
adjoining it as a nuisance and centr,
, for gross immOralitv and an;r;ta,