Smyrna times., 1902-01-08
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 house of William Reed near
Fieldsboro on Thursday night and |
chlOrOformIng the inmates, searched |
the house at leisure. They secured a
valuable gold watch and other jewelry
and $2O in cash aud escaped
Lewis Ruhl, farmer near Dover,
was awakened early Friday. morning
by his dogs barking, and upon making
incendiary had saturated fodder with
oil and stacked it against the house
and barn, but had been driven off by
the dogs before match could be ap
piled.
Mr.. George W. Marshall, Insurance
Commissioner of the State of Delaware
has just turned over to State Treasurer
Martin B. Burris as the receipts from
his office for the year just ended,
$23. 49,. "a, which amount is slightly III
excess of the States revenue from the
general incorpo1 alton laws operations
for the same period.
An interesting meeting of Sunday
School workers will be held at Dover
tomorrow, when the East Dover
Hundred Sunday School Association
will be formed. DR.. F. n. Lang of
Wilmington, state secretary, will make
an address ou the work of the association
throughout the state, and of the good
that is being accomplished by mea IT.
of the hundred associations. Professor
H. 5. Goldey of Wilmington will
speak on "Home Department, and w.
K. Crosby on "Better Sunday School
Work" A number of ministers will
also participate in the meeting.
One of the handsomest and most
costly old English hOmesteads on the
peninsula has just been given as a
holiday gift A deed has been filed iu
the clerks Office at Salisbury conveying
from former Governor E. E. Jackson
aud judge G F. Holland, of Salisbury
t. Mrs. Margaret Jackson Vanderbogart
wi of the Episcopal rectOrof Salisbury
and daughter of the Governor, a title
to the Lemon Hill'' property of the
Governor. Former Cover nor Jackson
will personally superintend the
spending of several thousand dollars t.
further beautlfy the place.
Much surprise was caused at the
dance at Hotel Richardson last Tues
day evening by the appearance OF
Thomas G. Frame, Jr., with his wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frame have been sepa.
rated for quite while and he had
taken steps to procure divorce, which
came up before the last session o1
court. The case was not settled and
Mr.. Frame was ordered to pay his
wife's counsel fees and allow her $1(
per month during the progress of the
suit. Their appearance together would
indicate that there has now been re
Cancellation .-DOUer State Sentinel.
George Il. Lynch. a merchant of George
town has shipped during the year just passed
|
This amount does not include those sold tC
his local customers. Mr.. Lynch says tina
the average price he paid the farmers fo
these eggs is 1415 cents per dozen, making
: the amount he has paid for eggs during tn
year 81 504.3715 Mr.. Lynch is but one o
a dozep or more of local merchants VIII
handle eggs extensively and it is estimate,
that at least $175, ,0OO year is realized b.
Sussex countyfarmers from their eggs alone
The treasury of the State of Delaware il
q in a satisfactory condition a direct result
from Republican legislation, and tn
, Democratic" Every Evening, ''Of Wilmingto
, in testimony of this as follows:
THE revenue to the State from fees o
account of charters during the year jus
. closing amounts to about $4,000. This
a tidy bit of revenue to come from such a
:, inexpensive source. Our General In
Y corporation law has proved good tinancif
8 investment, and thus far it can with trut
4 be said that no evil has resulted from il
operations. So long as this conditio
q remains, there will be no demand for tn
repeal of the enactment"
I, The colored people of Kent county hav
- been unable to meet heconditions require
y by the Legislature, to avail themselves {
a the two thousand dollars appropriated fC
/ each year to aid their public school.
2, both Sussex and New Castle the fund h,
It been all taken up, and only the colbred foil
IS of Kent county have failed. The Cause fC
|. this has been silly and narrow-minde
% jealousy which has been permitted to con
:, into their public schools. The condition
affairs is deplorable, and the Kent Count
= School Commission has held repeate
meetings to give counsel and AID to ii
a colored districts; but few have accomplisht
d anything. About three-fourths of I'll
Kent county appropriation for 1901 W
revert back to the State treasury, and the
the colored children will lose forever Il
the chances for education that their paren
q might have gained for them by securiI
20 this special aid for their schools which W
re enacted by a Republican Legislature f
ly them. The State appropriation for 10
DR. should be expended to the last dollar, al
es the colored people of Kent county owe IL