Smyrna times., 1901-09-11
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.

go to 75 cents.
Betterton is yachting headquarters
for the Chesapeake.
1t cost $4,000 to repair the Nanti-
coke bridge draw.
The commissioners of Cambridge
have bought horse.
Casino and Douglass hotels at Re
hoboth beach will not close until Oc-
tober 1.
Miss Mary Stevens, of Leipsic, is Wis
iting her cousin, Miss Ethel Lee, near
Townsend.
H. G. Collision, Jr., has secured the
position as teacher of the public school |
at Brenford.
Robert w. Messick, of fredericksburg
is running a canning factory at Clay
City, Indiana.
The last General Assembly proposes
to have a reunion at the Buffalo Expo
sltlOn on october I.
The new church at Vienna, Nd,
has been dedicated free of debt. Rev.
J. T. Van Burkalow is the pastor.
About $12, 900 is yet to be raised to
meet the Indebtedness of the Will
mington Conference Academy at
Dover.
The Wilmington Police Commission
has decided that all the saloons in the
city must have their windows free of
screens on Sunday as we'll as other
days.
The world famous trottlng stallion
Cresceus, is booked as one of the at
fractions at Pimlico race track, at Bal
timore.
The shirt factory at Denton bridge
has resumed operations. The fac
tory will work on summer goods
for the Spring trade.
Five hundred bushels of wheat on
the farm of J. V. Crawford, near War
wick, was destroyed by fire Sunday
night week.
James R, Camac, well-known in
Dover as "Fisk" Camac, died at Ma
nila, Philippine, Islands, June 2S,
from swamp fever.
While they are boring for oil in Po-
comoke City, it seems quite probable
that they could obtain more oil for less
money from the stores in town.
Edmund Stats, who has been EN-.
ployed in the shirt factory at Middle
town, has enlisted for three years ser.
vice with Uncle Sam and is at Fort Du
, pont, Delaware City.
! The Democratic party expects to viii
} this fall in Maryland, not on the mer-
its of the case, but on the number o
votes it can disfranchise, both white
and colored.
Mr.. G. NJ. Newman, of Baltimore
has been the guest of friends in Cen
treville, Mr.. Newman will shortly g
e to Virginia to engage in business will
S the Trenchard brothers.
: The present campaign will be on
!. of the most bitterly contested, nc
> only in Caroline county but in til
State, since the negro was first a
lowed the right of suffrage.
Willard Melvin, son of Rev. A. ID
Melvin, president of the Methods
Protestant Conference, of Maryland
was drowned while bathing at Tolchet
: ter Beach on Tuesday week.
s. One of the largest sea turtles eve
caught on this coast was captured a
;. one of the fish ponds at Ocean City O
q Tuesday morning. The turtle weighe
: seven hundred pounds. 1t took seve
men to get it in the boat.
A human skull recently dug up
Church circle, Annapolis, had in eac
id eye socket an English penny date
a. 1773, with the name of the thir
he George and the coat of arms of En-
Of land on its respective faces.
20 Mr.. John G. G. Kelley, son of Cas-
If ier George D.. Kelley, of Middleton
or and Miss Julia Denise will be marri'
os tomorrow afternoon in the Presbyte
.. ian church at Allentown, New Jerse
"a They will be at home 1862 North 43
an street, West Philadelphia after Oct
u ber 10.
90 90 1t was hardly to be expected after t
rs unusually large enrolment of last We
ne at Goldey College, which exceeds tn
1y of any former year, that the enrollme
y ste this year would exceed it. but the 16t