Smyrna times., 1901-10-30
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.


Grace and Betterton, has been discon-
tinued.
Rev. W. H. Hudson has been trans
ferred from the pastorate of Port Penn
to Leipsic.
Preparations are being made by gun
ners for the opening day on the Sus-
quehanna flats.
Lawyers George NJ. Jones and Will
liam NJ. Hope have formed a partner
ship in their practice of law.
The wedding of DR.. Hubert A. Roys-
ter and Miss Louisa j. Page will take
place at Princess Anne, November 9th.
Harry X. Armstrong, whose skull
was fractured recently at Middletown,
has been taken to a Philadelphia
hospital to have his skull trephined.
Orville Moore, pitcher of the Willow
Grove baseball club, broke his arm
while throwing the ball to the batter
in game last Saturday week.
J. Frank Startling, of Dover, has
purchased the house belonging to Mrs.
Burnite and now occupied by G. E.
Dawson. The price paid was 81, 300.
OF three men who live on adjoining
farms near Hickman, one votes in Dem
ton, the second at American Corner
and the third at Bridgeville, Del.
DR.. Alexander Lowber, secretary of
the State Board of Health, went to
Marydel last week to investigate a re-
port that there is smallpox in that
neighborhood.
Willie Beale, son of Thomas Beale.
of EastOn, severely scalded his face
and arms last Saturday week, whileat
tempting 20 remove a boiling dinner
pot from the stove.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of DR.. J. Albert Ruby, pharma-
cist of Philadelphia, to Miss Irena W.
Mills, of Milford, to take place on
Wednesday, Oct. 30.
The lowest tide known in many
years, prevailed last Sunday in the
rivers and creeks of Talbot Hun
dreds of bushels of oysters were picked
up incidentally during the day.
The drug store of Warren Vansant
OF Greensboro, was broken into recent
.-ly while Mr.. Vansant was at church,
and together with other articles $50 in
cash was mysteriously taken from the
money drawer.
Dorchester can boast of probably the
Oldest oysterman in the State, in the
person of Daniel Coulbourne, of Sec
retary, who applied last week for a IL
cense to tong oysters. Mr.. Coulbourne
stated in his certificate that he was 90
years of age.
Mrs. Joseph S. Terrill, of Elkton.
to-day celebrated her eighty-third
birthday, and with her husband, JOS
eph S. Terrill, So years of age, enter
tanned their children, grandchildren
four generations, at dinner.
S. H. Derby, a very successful
trucker and fruit grower of near Wood
side, has just finished picking a lare e
crop of apples in spite of the fact that
the crop was total failure with almost
every other grower in this section.
Steel rails are being hauled by the
Delaware General Electric Railway
people and placed along the public
road along the property of Mrs. Sarah
Cooper, where they have been unable
to secure the right of way through pri-
vate property.
A cOvey of twenty-nine partridges
last Friday attempted to cross Miles
river from Long Point to Maiden
Point. They fell into the river when
nearing the south bank. None per-
ished. A nearby oysterman picked
them up and set them afight on dry
land.
Cambridge is experiencing quite a
I.Jing boom. A new hotel, a large
brick building to be used as a shirt
factory, three stOrerOoms, with a pub
lie hall above; a new office building,
several residences, and a colored
church to cost $4,000 are now under
course of construction.
Tuesday afternoon the residences OF
Luther M. Dill, near Petersburg, Del.
was burned, together with the most OF
its contents. The fire is supposed to
have originated from a defective lue
and was discovered in a closet adjoin.
ing the chimney in the kitchen. Loss
$4,000; insurance 1900.