Smyrna times., 1901-08-28
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.

The game of base ball between Dover
and Seaford resulted in a victory for
Dover by score of to 4.
F. P. Roe & Bro, at Greensboro,
have employed in their factory 26O per-
sons. The factory is now running on
peaches.
1t is estimated that fully 500 people
attended the farmers picnic held last
Thursday in Reynolds Grove, one
mile west of st. Georges.
Maryland is the only State in the
Union, says the Peninsula Democrat,
that has deliberately and systematically
disfranchised its white voters.
John Westervelt has purchased of
Fred Cruikshank, of West Virginia,
the 11-acre farm situated on the road
leading from Dover to Leipsic for 1925.
The Methodist Protestant Church at
Leipsic has been greatly improved by
being repainted. New walks have been
laid and new steel wire fence has been
placed around the church and GEM
etery.
1t is said that Cambridge crabbers
this summer have had the best season
they have had for number of years.
The shipments of crabs have been
larger than usual and the prices paid
have been much better.
Curiosity killed a cat," but when
the Democratic party of Maryland is
laid out in November the coroner will
not say curiosity did it," but that
GOrmandizing on full stomach was
the trouble. -EdStOn Gazette.
About go members of the Fourth
Delaware Regiment, with their fam
lilies, spent delightful day Thursday
at Brandywine Springs Park. 1t was
the thirteenth annual reunion of the
regiment.
The heavy and incessant rains have
prevented many farmers from thresh-
ing their wheat and it is estimated,
says the Dover Sentinel, that not over
half the crop in this county has been
threshed.
Rev. G. S. Baker, d. D., Presiding
Elder of Dover district, is named as a
delegate to the Ecumenical Council.
The Wilmington Conference delega-
ton will be "WiIsonian, through and
through.
John E. Hendrickson has purchased
of the heirs the 1SS acre farm of Sam
uel G. York, deceased, for SO, 100. The
farm is situated in Little Creek hun
dred and contains 20 acres upland, 18
acres woodland and 100 acres marsh.
Watermelons, which were formerly
classified as vegetables under our tariff
laws, are now officially considered to
be fruits. Evidently, says the Centre
vile Observer. this is a low down at
tempt on the part of the Republicans
to cater to the negro vote.
H. G. Rawlins, one of Caroline's
thrifty truck farmers, has this year re-
ceived from one acre of strawberries
anc one and one-quarter acres of can
taloupes, checks amounting to 5000, the
proceeds from these two crops alone.
1t is said that the largest Protestant
Episcopal parish on the Peninsula is
that of Spring Hill, in Wicomico coun-
ty, in the Diocese of Easton. 1t is in
charge of Rev. F. B. Atkins, rector,
and has 700 active parishioners.
Tax collector Thomas E. Hurn is
without doubt the champion tomato
grower of Middletown. Last week
Mr.. Hurn pulled tomato from his gar
den that weighed 25 ounces, and his
vines are full of tomatoes, all of which
are very large.
The retirement of Mr.. Jefferson B
Foard from the grain business was an.
nounced last week and it naturally Gre
ated much surprise in Middletown.
Mr.. FoaId had been in the business
for more than thirty years, and was
known from one end of the State to
the other.
The Kent county Democrats have
selected the following ticket: House
of Delegates, Stonewall J. jackson and
William 7. Nicholson; County Treas
urer, Jesse Cooper; Sheriff, Thomas J.
Fletcher; County Commissioners,
Louis G. Ayers and Captain Harvey
Brice; County Surveyor, Harrison H.
Gresham.
An Easton exchange says: "There
is absolutely no reason why any Mary
land man should remain a bachelor.
The last census shows that the females
exceed the males by nearly 10000 in