Smyrna times., 1902-06-04
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 aud the Rural Districts,
Personal, Social and Otherwise.

The Cape Charles Light has changed
hands and is now issued as the North
ampton Times.
A farmer near Chestertown. Nd,
has cleared 800 per week from a small
asparagus patch in his lawn.
Rev. F. B. Short has resigned as
secretary of the Wilmington Y. NJ. c..
A, which position he accepted few
months ago.
The annual reunion of the class Of
1870 of Dickinson College will be en-
tertalned by H. p. Cannon at his home
at Brldgeville, June s. The many
prominent guests will come on special
Pullman train.
Chancellor Nicholson banded down
decision recently in the Milford
school house case. Theiniunction was
refused, thereby sustaining the Board
OF Education Of that town who will
build on the site selected.
The Salvation Army, under the
leadership of Adjutaut Kemp. closed =
series of successful services in the
Methodist Church at Lewis Wednesday
night. The services continued for
three weeks, and over 100 conversions
were the result.
Fred Eden Bach, who has been re-
appointed Superintendent of Free
Rural Mail Delivery, has been notified
by the Postmaster General tbat Inc
headquarters are to be in PhiladeI-
phla and that Delaware will be one Of
the States under his jurisdiction.
Ihls brings Bach into the Republican
Held here as a factor in the coming,
campaign.
bishop Coleman has withdrawn from
the Society of Atonement. Of New
York, of which he was chaplain.
Bishop Coleman does not agree with
the statement of the Minister General
OF the Society that the Protestant
Episcopal Church ought to 90 into the :
Roman Catholic Church and acknowI-
edge the Pope's authority.
1t Is complained that the stealing Of a.,
money from the mails has been going
on with persIstency from points down
the State for the past month. A letter
winch was sent from Laurel TO Sauls-
bury last Tuesday by H. w. Horner F
containing almost $500, was probably n
stolen, as it has failed to reach its p
destination up to date. Postmaster s,
Smith has asked for a postal detective o
to investigate \
A few days ago Miss Bessie Brown. e'
daughter of John Brown, of England )
who recently purchased the Slaughter l
arm north of Dover, while looking p'
after her turkeys discovered large A
snake after the eggs in the nest. She pf
hurried to the house and went back to VI
lest alone armed with a rifle and A.
Killed the reptile, which proved to be I'll
'yer five feet long. She scared the at
amily badly when she marched home tu
With the snake on the barrel of her "a
lle resting across her shoulder. JU
Benjamin Hubbard, Of Kent county
'as one of the victims who died fro =
maIlPox at the recent epidemic at the 81
tate Hospital, at Farnhurst. At his
cath the sum of money that had been ~
rdered invested for his benefit by his
lther, Newton Hubbard, which was lib
Z
100, was distributed to and among ~. on
Is brothers and sisters. "The share
each of them, as may be dead, leav- y
lg children, to be paid to the children n
no may be living at the time Of the \
nd Benjamin Hubbard" "
A Brooklyn minister sent series of
lestions over the United States to find 4
It the qualifications of the 'Tdeal ~
pung Woman" as she existed in the E
nds of the young men of the country.
said that she must be a Christian.
per cent said she might use slang.
said she should not use profanity
P drink wine, 12 per cent said she
ght dance and play cards and all
iced that a knowledge of house
sping was desirable quality. On
question of coeducation 20 per
3 said she should be educated in a
k9q school,
flford Grange instructed the sec-
afg TO write to President Roosevelt, .s-,.
ehairmaE Of the Committees on treat
a4stoto f, r ~ Pulas
'A'0 COHlncrce OI Iue mousse ana your
Rte, Senator Penrose and Con- e dirce
mman Ball, to urge them to fur since
tne passage Of the Nelson Corliss out caIt'iS r
Adfnent to the interstate Commerce wrote
81 Pror,rt ro,,,;oa~ ,o,,,'e -. c.. Th
ny Cortelyou. Representative the /