Smyrna times., 1901-09-04
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.

$5.69 cents ton.
Wicomico's watermelons are weigh
ing up to rs lbs.
The National Guard of Delaware is
to be provided with Krag rifles.
Chancery Court will begin in New
Castle county on September 9th.
Miss Nora Cowdright, of Chester,
has been the guest of Mrs. Ed. Jones,
of Leipsic.
The acreage in tomatoes this year on
the peninsula is about third of what
it was last year.
Nearly all the canneries in Caroline
county are being operated largely this
year by Bohemian help.
Wilmington morocco manufacturers
report business quiet at present, but
look for an active fall trade.
Harry A. Richardson, of Dover, car
ries $500, 900 life insurance, the largest
amount of any person in the State.
Wicomico has more illiterate white
voters than negroes. What the effect
of the new law will be is hard to say.
Easton has three ice wagons and
seven milk wagons running daily,
Sundays included, besides a number
of private milk dealers.
Governor Smith has issued a procla-
nation designating Thursday the 70, as
Defenders Day, a legal holiday
throughout the State.
Robert Stott, Superintendent of the
Metropolitan Insurance Co., has rent
ed the State street property owned by
the late Mrs. Anna Wharton in Dover.
The Republican campaign is well un-
der way in Caroline county, while the
Democrats have not nominated their
local ticket. The county will be close.
The Rev. and Mrs. Richard Hugh
lett Adams have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss Mary
Bratt, to James Percy Colt, of Easton,
Md.
Miss Ann Krider, who died recently
in Wilmington, left $500 to the Ferris
Industrial School and $1,000 each to the
Delaware Hospital and the Home for
Aged Women.
McIlrOy McIlvaine, the staunch tenn
perance advocate, VIII. has been quite
active of late for man in his eighty
ninth year, is seriously i'll at his home
near Magnolia.
Miss Carrie Davis, who for some
years made her home with her uncle,
Col. George Davis, in Smyrna, died in
Baltimore, August %, at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Thomas Ward.
Robert j. Dryden, a wealthy ferti-
izer manufacturer of Pocomoke, was
killed by train while driving across
the Pennsylvania railroad at Mohrs-
vile, Pa. He had $27, 900 life insur-
ance.
The progressive people of George
town are making an effort to secure
waterworks and electric lighting. The
town has suffered from numerous dis
astrous fires in the last few years, and
insurance rates are high.
Lawyer Robert H. VanDyke, of
Dover, has purchased of Messrs. Sapp
& Raughley, of Harrington, car load
consisting of 81 western heiffers and a
pair of mules which were sent to his
farms in Kent county, Nd.
The State Convention of the w. G..
L. .. will convene in Dover, Thurs
day, October 18th, and continue for
three days. The 175 or 200 delegates
to be present will be entertained by
the townspeople.
Thomas Austin, formerly of Queen
Anne's county but now of Ridgely, a
man about eighty years of age, had the
first shave of his life by barber one
morning last week. And this came
because the old gentleman was not
well.
Overseer James p Aron and his
wife, of the Kent County Almshouse,
gave the white inmates of that institu-
tion a treat last Thursday, such as
they have never been accustomed to.
They were taken to kits Hammock
in the morning and spent the day.
The crop of sugar corn for canning
purposes in Carroll county is enor-
nous and the canning factories are
taxed to their utmost to handle it.
About $50 tons are being received
daily at the two factories in Westmin-