Smyrna times., 1901-07-31
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.


the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal. Social and Otherwise.
The plant of the Dover Index has
been moved to its new office, on North
street.
Spencer Lapham of Goldsboro, ship
ped 1920 quarts of blackberries this
| season.
John c. Higgins of Delaware City,
United States Consul TO Dundee. has
sailed for his post. Mrs Higgins ac-
cOmpanied him.
Mrs. Sarah E. Frear, aged So years,
grandmother Of Stat Librarian Corne-
lius Frear, died at Rising Sun, Sunday
week after an illness Of nine years.
The project TO cut out the mouth of
the Mispillion by private subscription
has been dropped. The sum of 81, 900
once before was subscribed, but the
project fell through.
Prof. J. E. S. Pardee, one of the
most progressive school teachers of
Queen Anne's county, has connected
himself with the Centreville Observer
as associate editor.
A Worcester justice of the peace has
decided that a creditor my waive
portion Of q debt due him in order to
bring the claim within the jurisdiction
Of justice Of the peace.
The second volume of Pennewilrs
Delaware Reports has been issued
from the press Of the mercantile Com
pany. It contains III pages and was
prepared for publication by Judge Pen
newill and Court Stenographer Har-
desty.
Farmers Of this section are Just now
especially interested in the corn crop
Of the West, as indications were never
better for big crop in Delaware. They
believe that the failure of the Western
crop will cause a rise IN the price of
corn.
The names of I. Alan Goldaborough
Of Greensborough, and J. Fletcher
Clark OF Sandtown, Del. are among
those Of the successful candidates that
came before the State Board recently
for license to practice law in the State
Of Maryland.
Governor HUM Thursday, settled
one OF the most Interesting cuutruvers-
es Of the year by appointing Theodore
". Francis of Wilmington, to be State
detective under the new law, for q
period of four years, pending confirm
alton ny the next State Senate.
The swarm Of mosquitoes now infest-
ing the Atlantic Coast is a great pest,
and exceeds any plague of this char
acter for six or more years. At the
watering places guests have been
driven away by them, and even in the
rural localities, laborers have been
u.
The State Board of agriculture We'd
nesdaY discussed methods of stamping
out anthrax, which prevails among cat
tie in New Castle county. Gov. Hum
promised to assist the board. A com
mittee to act with DR.. A. T. Neale and
veterinarians was appointed to locate
and report cases of anthrax.
DR.. E. W. Cooper, of Camden, pres
ident of the State Board of Health.
and Professor Frederick D. Chester.
of Delaware College, together with
Professor RObyn, the boards bacte-
rlologlst, are about to make expert
ments with mosquitoes to decide if
they disseminate malaria.
The debt of the Wilmington Confer
ence Academy is being rapidly paid
off. John 5. Collins, cashier of the
National Bank of Dover, who is treas
urer of of the Wilmington Conference
Academy, reports that already S15, 900
of the SS7,0 have been received and
disbursed.
Lawyer George M. Jones, who has
been seriously Ill at Wernersville ar
rived in Dover last week, making the
trip IN the private car of Solicitor
George V. Massey of the Pennsylvania
railroad. The friends of Mr.. Jones
have had great anxiety about mis- ill.,
ness, but he is reported as being much
better.
The Local Preachers and Exhorters'
Oamp-meeting at Leslie, Nd, was at
tended by upward of 1000 people on
Sunday. Young people especially
were present in goodly numbers. DIR.
I. L. Poulson, Of New York, preached
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