Smyrna times., 1902-01-15
STATE ITEMS.
INTERESTING ITEMS CLEANED FROM STATE
AND EASTERN SHORE PAPERS
Local Happenings of the Different Towns of
the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal. Social aud Otherwise


the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal. Social and Otherwise
The Georgetown Democrat was
twenty years old last week.
There is a runner of hosiery being
erected shortly at Townsend.
There will be injecting of the Sussex
County Grane at Bridgeville on Thurs
day.
Governor John HUM has been
elected president of the Camden and
Wyoming Hook and Ladder Company.
There will be meeting of the Sussex
County Farmers Institute at George
town on Jauary 80 and 81 to discuss
good roads.
The extension of the lines of the
Laurel Electric Light Plant between
that place and Delmar has been COM
pleted and the latter place is now
lighted by electricity.
The citizens of Harrington will
shortly hold town election to decide
whether it shall have water works. A
determined effort shall be made to
secure the plant.
The large tomato canning factory of
Isaac Robinson at Harrington was to-
tally destroyed by fire at an early hour
Sunday morning. The loss is about
S., 900. 1t is supposed the fire was of
incendiary origin.
John H. Rodney representing the
Bar Association presented resolutions
of respect to the Superior Court
Monday morning in honor of the name
of the late Peter L. Cooper, Jr. The
court received the resolutions and
spoke in commendation of the dead
attorney and his short but phenomenal
career.
| Isaac McNatt of Dover who recently
inherited about $4,000 from an aunt
residing in Ohio has returned from a
visit to that State where the property
left him is located. He secured full
title and is pleased with the nest egg
that thus comes to him in the evening
of his life
A bill has been introduced in the
House of Delegates Maryland imposing
a fine of from 50 to $40 for killing or
having in possession partridges quail
pheasants, hare wookcock squirrel dove
or hickers between December "a and
October 18th or to kill plover or snipe
between May 1st and Febrary 25th.
Mr.. Wilson L. Cannon of Dover has
conveyed to the congregation Of
Leipsic NJ. E. Church the ground upor
which the edifce stands and the
enclosure. The consideration was one
dollar and the congregation thus
secures an enjoyable Christmas gift.
Townsend Council, No II, Junio
Order of United American Mechanic
has elected the following named officer
Junior past councillor, w. A. Lyman
councillor Richard Hodgson; recording
secretary W. G. Money; assistan
recording secretary, Professor DAME
B. Jones treasurer John S. LattOmus
warden, H. Vanhorn; conductor Mar
tin Lee; inside seminal John M. Rit
tenhouse outside seminal W. B. In
gram; financial secretary David 7. Ly
} nam: trustee, w. B. Ingram.
Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D; one c
the most prominent ministers of til
Presbyterian Church and at presen
superintendent of missions in Alask
and general agent of the United State
Bureau of Education in that country
will deliver an address in Dove
Presbyterian Church tomorrow night
Isaac N. Jordan of Delaware City
was in Wilmington on Saturday j
quest of his two brothers, Charles an
4 George for whom he has a warran
, charging them with assault and th
larceny of some leather clothing an
$40 in money. Jordan heard they al
in Philadelphia and went there i
search of them.
n Milford is excited over the attac
g last week on several prominent farm
ers near that town accused of shootin
v a number of prize fox hounds.
4 bitter warfare has been waging fo
= several years among the farmers {
s lower Delaware and the sportsmen (
d that section of the country where fox'
&C and hunters abound. A number of th
: attacking party have been arrested.
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l. Hartford and Kent counties, Nd, an