Smyrna times., 1901-07-17
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 aud Otherwise.

Local Happenings of the Different Towns OF
the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal, Social aud Otherwise.
Harrington NJ. E. Church has fixed
the salary of its pastor, the Rev. E. c.
Atkins, at 5000, an increase of 500.
The adjourned session last week was
the shortest term of Court George
town has experienced for a long
time.
Clements B. Smith, founder of the
Republican party in Delaware at Will
mington died Thursday aged rs
years.
The white potato crop in southern
Delaware is unusually large this sea-
son, and big shipments are being
made.
Farmers about New Castle say the
wheat crop will not average more than
90 bushels to the acre, due to the in
tense heat.
DIR. George A. Harter, president of
Delaware College, sailed from New
York Wednesday for Europe, where
he will remain about two months.
P. Blair Pie, recently appointed lieu
tenant in the United States Army, is
visiting his old home in Newark. He
has been in service in the Philippines.
James I. Pyle and Miss Florenc ce
Reed were married Wednesday even
ing at the residence of Mr.. Pyle's par
ents in Dover by the Rev. B. F. Camp
| bell
Alexis Wolcott and James Dean,
two young Dover men who have been
spending several months on aranch in
North Dakota, have returned to their
homes.
The Odessa Board of Education has
elected these teachers for the public
schools: H. Rodney Sharp, of Lewes;
Miss Hallett, of Milford, and Miss
Eaton, of Warwick, Nd.
Armory M. E. Sunday School
of Dover, will picnic at Silver
Lake Park, near Dover, on Thursday
next. The pretty little resort is an
ideal picnic grounds.
Prof. w. D. Sanderson of the Della
ware College Experiment Station has
issued bulletin entitled "Webworms. ="
These are little caterpillar that infest
the fruit trees.
Jewish residents of Wilmington are
enthusiastic over the movement to buy
Palestine and make the place a haven
for Hebrews. Sunday a meeting was
held in the synagogue and arrange.
ments were made for a mass meeting
next Sunday sure.
Former Secretary of State James H
Hughes aud Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Rid
gely, Jr., of Dover, who are making ar
extended European visit, will sail fol
home the last of this month and will
5 reach Dover on August 10.
Continued wet weather of the pas
week has done much damage to thu
hay and oats crop. The rainy weathe
has caused the grain to sprout badly
The crop will consequently be yer,
: small. Hay, too, has been bad,
= damaged.
! Wesley NJ E. Church, Dover, no
Y only raised its apportionment for tn
o debt on the Wilmington Conferenc,
Academy, which was $1,000, but of tn
extra 500 that was raised $50 has bee
donated to Armory Church to pay it
apportionment.
d The huckleberry pickers of nea
l. Townsend have formed union ant
- are keeping up the price per quart pai
II them by wholesalers. Most of th
e pickers are being paid seven and eigh
II cents per quart compared to five an
e six last year.
n Joseph Baker, who murdered Et
N ward M. Lynch, was Wednesday foun
l. guilty of manslaughter and sentence
N N to one year in prison and to pay fiji
- of $4OO The crime was the result
le jealousy, Baker accusing Lynch {
~ alternating his wife's affections.
vt, ground hog weighing 23l pound
o. was found on the farm of E. r. Knot
near FELTON,, ard after hard fight W
49, killed by dog. The animal had du
:. - hole four feet deep in the chick,
y house into which the dog was sent al
- the hog was brought out dead.
zee The Georgetown Board of Educate
have elected teachers as follow
Principal, J. Emory Chapman, of ne