Smyrna times., 1903-01-21
CHESWOLD.
Reports Mech Exaggerated Concerning the
Smallpox Scare-Another Interesting
Shooting Match-Local and Personal.


Smallpox Scare-Another Interesting
Shooting Match-Local and Personal.
Special Correspondence to the Times.
CHEswoLD, Jan. 2O:-Those who
fill ice houses here went at 1t in earnest
Wednesday Of last week. The ice
was fine, ranging from Al to inches
in thickness.
The reports of the smallpox in Ches-
wold seems to be greatly exaggerated;
as we gather the alarming statements
of this disease among US from neigh
boring towns The facts are DIR.
LOber and DR.. Cooper, of the State
Board of Health, have visited us and
pronounced only one case of smallpox
in very mild form and that is half
mile south of town. The business of
our town is moving along in its even
tenor and our people are not concern
ed beyond the necessary prudence and
care that should be exerted to keep it
from spreading.
Grain Chiefly corn) is moving about
as fast as men and teams in this To-
cality can be had to do the work.
Last Monday our street parallel with
the railroad was lined with wagons
similar to the tomato season. Messrs.
Hardcastle and Boyer, our grain
dealers, were that day paying 10 and
SO cents respectively for cob or shelled.
Another shooting match came off
last Saturday in Cheswold and it was
lively and spicy contest. The score
we could not obtain, but DIR. Smith
won the turkey and H. r. Loose won
the sweepstakes in three successive
contests. VIM. II. Gehman was one
of the contestants.
Many things here point to double
track soon to be used along the Della
ware division, now getting to be
great trunk line. As our cannerv is
on the line of the prepared second
track the local question is will the
present cannery be moved and rebuilt
or will we be without a cannery this
coming tomato year. Another ques-
tion growing out of the proposed lay
ing of the second track with our farm
ers is the effect the extra demand for
labor it may have upon their labor a
most vexing problem with them the
past two years.
Our W. c. T. U. will meet Thurs
day afternoon at the parsonage at ?. 80
o'clock.
Pastor Roe preached Sunday morn
ing a very interesting sermon to the
young. At night his subject was
"God, Our Defence"
Our W. G. T. u, has made our pnb-
lie school library another donation of
books. 1t is fine public library.
PersOnal.-Dr. Frank Gardner was
called by telegram last Saturday to
the sick room of his brother, DR..
Edwin Gardner at Cape Charles City.
Miss Lizzie Grieves of Smyrna is
the guest of Miss Lille Bishop. Mr..
and Mrs. George W. McNamee and
Miss Judie Crawford, Mt. Pleasant;
and Mr.. John E. Barcus of Lewes,
we're visitors over Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. P. L. Barcus. Principal
Howard Griffin of Camden schools
was in Cheswold last Saturday,
There is general rejoicing with us at
promised recovery of Frank A. Moore
from serious illness.-J. W. Hilyard
has moved his family to Dover.-John
A. Green, two miles west of Cheswold,
who has been with us few years and
who with Mrs. Green are much re-
spected, has sold his farm of 81 acres
to Mr.. Alfred Madley, who also set
tied with us a few years since.
Frank Morehouse, in this immediate
vicinity, also will leave us when he
sells off his personal property.