Smyrna times., 1901-07-24
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
lNTERESTINGnEMS CLEANED FROM STATE
AND EASTERN SHORE PAPERS.
Local Happenings of the Different Towns Of
the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal. Social and Otherwise.

.OcaI Happenings of the Different Towns OF
the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal. Social and Otherwise.
The town of Laurel will buy the
electric light there for $4,000.
The Democrats of Kent County will
hold their primary meetings July q.
Galena NJ. E. Church is now closed
for repairs and will be reopened Au-
gust 4.
Chestertown's Board of Commission
ers is considering an improvement of
the fire department.
Harry Lyons, of neat Farnhurst,
has lost nine valuable COWS from dl-
sease supposed to be anthrax.
Material is being received for the
Kent county trolley line and the pro-
iectors say the road will surely be
built.
The free scholarship at Washington
College, Chestertown, Nd, due Cecil
County, will be filled by appointment
of the Orphans Court.
Colonel A. l.. Ainscow has bought
the property No. SO2 Market street,
Wilmington, from the heirs of DIR.
Derrickson, for $4,000.
Rev. s. B. Hiley, of Camden, N. J.
the new pastor of Dover Baptist
Church, Dover, will preach his first
sermon there on September 1.
The regular July meeting of the
Delaware State Press Association. will
be held Saturday evening, July 9th,
in Rehoboth at 8.3Op. m.
On account of Camden Camp and
other camps in the lower part of the
State and Peninsula being closed,
Brandywine Summit campmeeting
near Wilmington, will be the only
large one in the State this year. 1t
will be in charge of Rev. G. w. Pret-
lyman, of Wilmington.
The residents of Milford are deplor-
ing the great scarcity of butter in that
town during the hot weather, it hav-
ing been almost impossible to secure
any but supply received from city
houses for the past week. This scare
ity is due to the inability of farmers
to keep their cream without ice aud
the lack of ice houses in that vicinity.
John S. Barto, of near Cordova, lost
two horses by lightning Wednesday
night. Five horses were in row of
stalls in the stable, one horse between
the two killed was uninjured. The
} horses killed were his two valuable
driving horses. Mr.. Barto knew moth
ing of his loss until he went to feet
them in the morning.
At a meeting of the Wilmington
Press Club minute was adopted ex
pressing sorrow at the death of Pete
L. Cooper, Jr., former Deputy Attor
! ney General, and it was decided t,
send a floral offering. The funera
will take place tomorrow afternoon
t. Services will be held at his home b.
Rev. T. A. McCurdy, and intermen
will be made in Germantown.
DIR. J. B. Merritt and w. H. Stewar
were returning from Easton, Md, t
! Oxford, Nd, in team Wednesday
when opposite Preston B. Spring
farm, the horse they were driving wa
!, stunned by the lightning and it fell t.
the ground. Stopping so suddenly
,f the carriage was upset and Mr.. Stew
is art was whirled across a barb-wil
g fence into "a field. DIR. Merritt We
thrown into the top of the carrlag,
The shaft of the carriage was broker
A severe electric storm passed owe
this section last Wednesday evenin.
ne completely destroying the stable G
" the farm occupied by John E. Willie
10 10 of near Easton. Mr.. Wiley lost
l. tons of hay and all his harness. Or
I'D COW was found dead in the stable, su
- posed to have been struck by ligh
to ming. Three pigs were also kille
n Mr.. Wiley estimates his loss at So
le with $86 insurance. The stable, whi,
- - belonged to Isaac S. Swami, was i
10 sured for $24O.
er F. M. @. Choate, son of MI
~ Stephen R. Choate of Newark, d,
is who for sometime has been practici
,u. law in Baltimore Nd, has decided
enter the Episcopal Ministry, [
which profession he is now studyin
,st A paper in Cambridge, Pa, is speak,
al. of Mr.. Choate conducting services
8 church there, says ''that tho
te. who heard him could hardly belle
tle that Mr.. Choate was, as yet, but ls
arc man. He did far better than ma