Smyrna times., 1901-10-23
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.


a masquerade dance on Friday, Octo-
Der 25.
Mrs. Annie R. Palmer, of Lewes,
has been granted a pension of So a
month.
The Grand Lodge of Delaware,
Knights of Pythias, will meet in New
ark on Monday, October 21st.
John NJ. Sapp, formerly of Milford,
has sold his house and lot in Fred
erica, to William G. Tomlinson, for
$500.
The Lewes Club, composed of young
men, has passed a resolution requiring
members to wear high hats on Sun
day.
Daniel Townsend of Rising Sun, will
succeed William Uhlig as keeper of
Lakeside Cemetery of Wesley Church
Dover.
w. NJ. G. Hearn has been appointed
deputy grand master of Delaware Odd
Fellows, to succeed Rev. R. K. Steph-
enson, who has removed to Elkton.
G. Edward Dawson has purchased of
G. W. Lord, the residence at the
corner of State and Division streets,
Dover. The consideration was 81, 500.
The Sussex County Sunday School
Association will hold its tenth annual
convention in Mt. Olivet NJ. P.
Church, Seaford, on Tuesday, Octo-
ber 80.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Walter T. Wallace of Seaford
to Miss Jennie Bennum of George
town to take place on Wednesday, Oc-
tober %, at Georgetown.
DR.. r. p Corley has rented and will
occupy the house next to the Priscilla
Block which was formerly occupied by
DIR. I. O. Clements. j. R. McGonigal
and family will occupy the resident
part.
G.. b. RhOades has been held under
1000 bail for a hearing at Middletown
charged with assaulting Harry X.
Armstrong with pitch fork, fractur-
ing his skull.
The old Sussex county Jail building
which was erected sometime in the
eighteenth century, on a plot in the
centre of Market street at Lewes, has
! been razed to make room for a new
building.
Mistaking carbolic acid in the dark for
chill medicine, Mable Smithers, the A.
year old daughter of Jesse Smithers, a
farmer living near Laurel, took a table
spoonful on Sunday last and died in
great agony.
Samuel Harper, head waiter at the
Capitol Hotel, Dover, is undergoing
treatment at the hospital in Philadel-
phia for his eyes, he fearing that cat
aract was forming over one of them.
Capt. Erasmus d. Burton of Dover,
a member of the Town Council, while
making some improvements to his house
on King street, Saturday, made a mis-
step from ladder and fell to the porch
below, sustaining several bruises.
Captain Burton is 20 years old.
Harry Kellum, colored, of Dover,
has devoted all his spare time during
the past year in the building of dou-
BILE dwelling house. 1t has been re.
moved from the rear of his own home
to site where it will net him a good
rental income.
AL Potter, colored, insulted a white
man at Greenwood last week, and
when the latter demonstrated the me-
gro drew a razor. Then a crowd as.
saulted Potter and several beat him.
The negro was arrested on a charge of
disorderly conduct and sentenced tC
pay fine of So.
Lorenzo Smith, who was rescued
from a we'll in Tipoquin swamp, Sus
sex county, last Friday, where he fel
while coon hunting. and remained al
most four days, is improving at his
fathers house in Sinepuxent district,
and it is now believed he will recover
James B. Millington, of Dover, the
present occupant of the Capital Hotel
has purchased the hotel and ground
from the Janvier heirs and will con
tinue the business, contrary to all ru
mors. He will make many improve
ments among which will be a steam
heating outfit.
George Hopkins, of Cool Spri ngs
Del, who fell from his carriage on
September Z, breaking his meek, dice
at the Jefferson Hospital in Philadel.
phia. Soon after the accident Hop.