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.

Local Happenings of the Different Towns OF |
the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal, Social and Otherwise.
d. Refs has bought the pendulum
chair factory in Milford for $1,000.
In the threshing of grain about Mil
ford the yield has been found to be
about two-thirds the normal.
The largest shipment of potatoes
ever known over the Delaware Rail-
road went out Friday vixen 13 trains
of 400 cars passed up to the city mar
kets.
The members of the New Century
Club, of Dover, have succeeded in Sc
curing So, 900 to which Manlove Hayes
will add one thousand to secure free
library.
The Keiffer pear outlook, reports
state, is excellent, and this fact is very
pleasing to farmers, for the yield is al
ways large and the fruit is proftably
grown.
Peach shipments are small and the
fruit is of a poor quality, owing to
the fact that the earlier varieties rot
easily and consequently the fruit is
picked green.
Secretary of State G. R. Layton and
family have taken cottage at Reho-
both for the summer and DIR. Layton
travels from Dover to that ocean re-
sort every Saturday.
The Douglass House at R9hoboth
has become famous for its shirt waist
dances, and now prominent men of
Delaware may be found in the ball
room, attracted by the negligee liber-
ties they may take in enjoying a waltz.
That there is a great demand for
apples this season is evident from the
fact that poor, knotty, curculio fruit
is bringing from so cents to 81 bushel
at shipping stations down the State.
Mary Demby, of Odessa, was ad-
mitted to the Homeopathic Hospital,
Wilmington, Saturday, suffering from
bullet wound in the face. On Fri
day night colored man stopped at her
house, asked for a match, and she says
while she was getting it, he shot her.
The improvement bonds issued to
put an electric light plant and water
and sewage in Lewes brought a pre-
MUM of $500 on the issue of $50, 900,
the Farmers Bank of Georgetown,
making the highest bid, $103.
Two monuments, weighing over
eight tons and costing 81, 900, have
been ordered by George V. Massey,
of Philadelphia, to place over the
graves of his mother and daughter, in
the old Dover Presbyterian cemetery.
, Dover's young business men, mar
ried or unmarried, evidently take {
pride in their public school system, fol
the Board of Education has just or
: dered tax levy of $2.10 on the $1OO,
making the young clerk assessed a
| $500, pay $3.50 school tax without en-
joying a cents worth of property. For
j mer Magistrate 7. o. Culbreth is the
new collector of school taxes.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cranmer, an aged
woman who recently removed to
, Georgetown from Philadelphia, wal
found scantily clad in a woods not fal
from there a few nights ago. She had
wandered from her home and lay dowl
in the woods, where she was discov
cred. Physicians found that her min'
. had become affected as a result of il
: health, and she has been sent to tn
u state hospital for treatment.
Congressman l.. Heisler Ball has re
: ceived assurance that Wilmington vii
be well cared for in the next river an
harbor bill. Colonel Raymond, tn
engineer in charge of this district, ha
recommended that $50, 900 be allowe
q for maintaining the improvements a
= ready made and there is every pros
II pect that this will be allowed. Tn
IL government expects Wilmington t
e keep the Christiana free of sewag,
- however.