Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-09-20

PENINSULA PARAGRAPHS

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Newsy Items Gathered from Our
Exchanges.
The bulk of Kent and Queen Anne's
peach crop is practically marketed.
Milton Schaeffer, postmaster at West
minister, Md. died Saturday aged As.
An athletic association has been or.
ganized at Milford with go members.
Eighty eight students are enrolled in
the Wilmington Conference Academy,
at Dover.
The Sussex County Teachers Insti-
tute will be held at Milford beginning
December 10.
Mrs. Phoebe Armstrong, of Sassafras.
aged so years has finished silk quilt
containing over 1000 pieces.
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Wyoming NJ E. Church, which has
been closed for several weeks for neces-
sary repairs, was reopened last Sunday.
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In order to secure help to save his fod-
Il L.. 60
day, board, plenty of cider and apple
jack.
Because his tomato crop had turned
out poorly Isaac Holley, colored, resi-
dent of Kent County, attempted suicide
by shooting.
a strawberry patch on the property of
J. Frank Dukes. of Selbyville, is bear
ing its second crop of the season. The
berries are of excellent quality.
The telephone cable crossing Chesa-
peake Bay from Love Point. on the
Eastern Shore, to point in Anne
Arundel County has been completed.
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Men who want work are needed in
Sussex County. Nearly every farmer
i'll lower Delaware is suffering for want
of help, and the canneries are so pressed
with work that they cannot catch up.
Henry Taylor eldest son of ex-Sheriff
TAYLOR of New Castle, shot the thumb
of his right hand off while cunning, and
the other portion of his hand was so
badly mutilated that it may have TO be
amputated.
Steven ii. Evans bought table for a
! few cents at sale at Georgetown the
other day and found SIS 80 in one of the
drawers The administrator of the es-
tate sued him and got judgement for the
full amount
The entirr amount of capital stock
$75, ,O00-of the new Baltimore and Ches-
tertown Railway Company has been
subscribed, and upon the organization
of the company the contract for the
trolley line between Chestertown. Rock
Hall and Colchester Beach will be
awarded.
States Attorney Evans, of Cecil Coun-
ty. has requested the Maryland House
of Correction to return James Chambers
the negro sentenced for attempted as
sault, to the authorities of that county,
as the offense is one for submission to
the Grand Jury and beyond the juris-
diction of Magistrate.
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We clip the following pointed para
graph from an exchange subscriber
about seven years in arrears was dying
"How do you feel?" asked the editor.
"All looks bright before me-" gasped
the subscriber. II thought so. return
ed the editor You'll see the blaze in
about ten minutes"
Mr. Linwood r. Beauchamp and Mr..
Henry Wilkinson have purchased the
interest of DR.. W. W. Goldsborough in
the Caroline Sun Messrs Beauchamp
and Wilkinson have both had experience
in the business and are therefore not
new hands at the wheel DIR. Colds
borough will take up the practice of
medicine.
On the banks OF a rivulet near Stra-
bane is stone with this singular in
scription. which was no doubt intended
for the information ST strangers travel
ing by the road: Take notice that
when this stone is ont of sight it is not
safe to ford the river" This recalls the
famous finger post which is SAID to have
been erected by order of surveyor of
roads in Kent. This is bride path
to Faversham. If YOU can't read this
you had better keep the main road. =
London GrDphic.
1t is rumored that the New York,
Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Com
pany have under consideration the es-
tabllshment of a daily Steamboat line to