Smyrna times., 1901-10-09
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Haryland.


and Haryland.
Middletown is to have a golf club.
William P. Shockley, ESQ.,, of
Dover, was admitted to practice in the
court of Chancery last week.
Messrs. Moore & Pleasanton have
purchased the drug store of Mullekin
Brothers in Milford. This will give
them two drug stores In the town.
The Milford public schools are
crowded, and efforts are being made to
have the commissioners make arrange
ments to better accommodate the schOl-
ars.
Mr.. Charles F. Wolf, editor of the
Pilot published at Lewes, Del, has
been to Chincoteague trying to get the
citizens to take sufficient stock to- start
newspaper there.
Harry Davis, employed in a saw mill
near Laurel, was instantly killed Tues
day by heavy piece of timber hurled
from the saw striking him. He leaves
a wife and seven children.
Sheriff Peter J. Hart, of Sussex
county, has purchased house and
three building lots in the most desir-
able section of Georgetown, where he
will reside at the close of the official
term.
J. l.. Bonsall, son of Capt. J. L.
Bonsall of Dover, has been promoted
to the first officer ON the steamship
Arrapahoe, of the Clyde line, which
plies between New York, Charleston
and Jacksonville.
George Hopkins, of Coolspring,
Sussex county, whose neck was broken
in a runaway near Lewes recently, has
been removed to Philadelphia hos
pital, and the surgeons there believe
that the man will get we'll.
Wilmer Hollis of Camden, on Tues
day purchased fourteen hogs from
Sheriff Reedy, for which he paid $3.50.
Mr.. Hollis shipped his purchase to
Philadelphia and expects to realize a
good profit on the deal.
While descending the stairway in the
residence of her son in Milford, Mrs.
Elizabeth Richards fell and broke two
ribs in her left side. Dr. Stanton gave
medical attendance and found the fifth
and sixth ribs were broken.
William Morgan, aged % years, died
at his home, near Harrington, last
Tuesday night. He was the oldest
citizen of Mispillion hundred, and was
identified with the advancement of the
lower portion of Kent county.
A committee representing both Del
aware and Maryland incorporation of
Delmar, has closed a deal with the
Laurel & Seaford Electric Light Com
pany by which Delmar will be lighted
all night. Both Laurel and Seaford
will be lighted all night hereafter, in
stead of being shut off at midnight.
While William Prettyman, son of
Nehemiah Prettyman, at Stockley Sta
tion, was in the act of striking a
match, the head few off and landed in
a can of powder nearby, causing an ex-
plosion, in which the young man was
severely burned about the face and
hands.
Oystermen say they never knew BIZ
valves to be as plentiful in the Mispil-
lion river as they are this year. They
are not only supplying the town of
Milford, but teams for miles around
are hauling oysters away in large
quantities.
Hattie, the s.year-old daughter of
Harvey Saxton, a farmer living near
Bridgeville, while playing with some
companions Wednesday afternoon, in
a corn field, fell and ran a stalk down
her throat, the stalk penetrating the
windpipe, inaicting an ugly wound.
A very pretty private wedding was
celebrated at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Benn on Loockerman
street, Dover, Wednesday morning,
when their daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Jackson Benn, was welded to A. Tyson
Hancock of New Britain, Conn. Rev.
N. o. Gibson performed the ceremony
and Miss Sue Glow, of Camden, N. j.,
played the wedding march. The newly
welded pair left for southern trip on
the southbound express. They will
reside at New Britain.