Smyrna times., 1901-07-03
PENINSULA MATTERS
OF GENERAL IMPORTANCE,
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM THE
STATE AND EASTERN SHORE.
Though a Community of Common Interest
Yet Every Week Brings its Changes With
Regard to People Well Known.


Regard TO People Well Known.
The Sussex county courts will meet
in adjourned session next Monday.
E. w. Dawson and S. B. Herdman
have been reelected school commits
sioners at Newark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezekiel HUM of Cam
den celebrated the 65th anniversary of
their wedding Saturday.
Gov. HUM and some members of
his staff will participate in the Fourth
of July celebration at Dover.
Twenty thousand is a big price to
pay every year for the board of pri-
soners in New Castle Jail.
Gov. HUM has appointed Louis
Barkley, colored, ianitor of the State
House for a term of four years. The
salary is $500 year.
While working on farm near Mag
nolia, Friday, Edward Conwell was
hurled from a mower by runaway
horses and one of his arms was broken
and his body bruised.
Miss Emma H. Cooper, of Dover,
has been elected teacher in the Dover
public schools, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Miss Alice
DAILY.
A new fiscal year opened in New
Castle county Monday accompanied by
an increase of 334 per cent in the tax
| rate, which now stands at 20 cents for
county and 10 cents or poor purposes.
The contract for building and re-
modelling at Delaware College was to
the lowest bidder, Levi E. Patterson
of Perryville, Md, whose bid was $21, =
600. The work will be pushed as rapi-
! dly as possible.
Judge Cook San Francisco Cal. g,
Saturday decided to continue until
July 18th the case of Mrs. Cordelia
Botkin, charged with the killing of
Mrs. Dunning of Dover Del, by send
ing through the mail poisoned con-
fections.
Forty-one out of 46 charges in the
Wilmington district of the Whining
ton Conference have in hand or in
sight the money they have pledged to-
wards the districts share of the $37,
900 Indebtedness of the Wilmington
Conference Academy at Dover. This
district was of raise $4,000.
The bodies of Lieut. Reynolds Driver
who fought in the Civil War, and his
sister, Miss Annie Driver, both OF
whom have been dead for a nmber OF
years, were removed several days age
from Emmanuel churchyard, at New
Castle, and taken to st. Anne's GENE.
terry near Middle town, where they
were reinterred.
A charter was filed at Dover by
Josiah Marvel, attorney for the Uni
ted Railway, Light and Water Com.
pany, of Wilmington, with capital
stock of $5,OOO,OOO. Mr.. Marvel re.
presents outside capitalists, who in,
tend to become interested in railway
projects in Wilmington and other
places.
2 The candidacy of Hon. A. P. Cor
man for the U. S. Senate was laun
ched at dinner given by Mr.. Jos
Friedenwald at his home near Balti
more Thursday afternoon. About on,
hundred notable Democrats were pre-
sent and named the ex-senator as tn,
e Moses who would lead the Democra
tic children out of the wilderness O
| Republican rule.
{ The State Library Commission or
r ganized Friday Manlove Hayes wa
elected chairman, and Cornelius Frea
I secretary. The terms of the members O
a the commission are as follows: Manlov
= Hayes, Joseph E. Holland and Georg,
= f. Bowerman, five years; Mrs. Ella
. Marshall, Mrs. H. A. RichardsoI
e and Daniel w. Corbit, there years
y Mr.. Charles R. Miller, Mrs. Margare
e Truxton and John Barley, one year.
J. the Union Republican gives the fol
lowing summer advice: "The SIN al
boy has as much right to have fun a
q fhe oldest man in the community, s.
g long as his fun does not interfere wit
g the comfort and safety of others, bu
n when the reckless discharge of torpe
: does, fire crackers, etc., he not onl,
endangers the lives of those drivinl
nervous horses, but also tries to Sc,
how much he can annoy the neighbors
10 it is time for his parents to take hir
home and administer shingle wher