Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-05-31
NEWS Of THE peninsula.
Short Paragraphs About Things
Seen and Heard.

Seen and Heard.
a dancing class has been organized at
Bridgeville.
A baseball club is to be organized in
Middletown
The commencement exercises of the
Geoogetown public school will be held
on June l6.
Mr. William H. Truitt formerly of
Frankford was drowned in Camden, N.
j., Tuesday last.
The Delaware Railroad Company will
lay double tracks from Townsend to
Clayton this summer.
Havre de Grace city bonds to the
amount of So, 900 have been sold by the
City Council at Sl02ls.
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Efforts are making to organize a
VI tiiC IOuh6 oAOn OAA hStA1sA
Association in Milford.
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Notices have been posted about Lau-
rel forbidding tramps asking for help,
under penalty of arrest.
The annual convention of the Episco-
pal Diocese of Delaware will be held at
New Castle ON June 4.
The annual session of the State Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs began in
Smyrna Monday afternoon.
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From present indications the wheat
crop in Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne's
Counties will not be very large.
Otis Lloyd has contracted to build a
| wharf at Seaford for the Baltimore,
Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Co.
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Georgetown's Board of Health mas
stamped out the smallpox, raised the
quarantine and dismissed the last pa
tient.
William c. Butler, of Dover. was
thrown violently to the ground in run
away accident at Townsend and seri-
ously injured.
The last service in the North East M.
E. Church was held Sunday. The work
of tearing down the present church be-
gan Monday.
Jackson Poor, aged IA. of Harrington.
has been lodged in Dover Jail, charged
with robbing the store of J. S. Harring.
| ton, in the town.
Owing to the rust which has affected
the stocks and made much of it unmar-
ketable, the asparagus crop will not be
very profitable this season.
| Nearly 100 Italians have been taken
to Clayton to work on improvements of
the Delware Railroad Company. labor
being scarce in that section.
Thieves stole considerable sum of
money and other valuables from the
home of Andrew Jones, near Townsend,
while he was in the field working.
The county Commissioners of Kent
County have awarded the issue of $lO,-
600 county bonds to Smith Brothers, of
Eadesville, upon their bid of S10.250.
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Plans have been completed for the en-
largement of the Silver Cross Home. in
Cecil County, by the Kings Daughters
and Sons of Maryland, which society
has charge of the home.
Mr. John W. Basset, of Georgetown,
has sold eggs, since the first of last JAN
uary to the first of May, off 23 hens,
amounting to S2727. The cost of keep
ing said hens was S7.36
The sale OF water bonds Tor Denton
some time ago to a Baltimore firm was
not complied with and the Denton Ma
tional Bank took the whole of the issue,
ten thousand dollars.
The commencement exercises of the
Georgetown High School will be held on
June l6. The address to the graduating
class will be made by the Rev. DIR. w.
l.. Lewes, president of the Western
Maryland College.
n double funeral was held Sunday
at Hart's M. +. Church, Elk Neck, over
the remaius of Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan
Groves. Mrs. Groves died on Tuesday
and two days following her husband
suffered stroke of Paralysis and died.
William Thorp. of Elkton, defeated
Thomas McGouldrick in go-as-you-
please race Saturday morning between
Elkton and Chesapeake City and return,
a III istance of - miles The distance