Smyrna times., 1904-10-05
NEWS CLEANED FROM ALL
PARTS OF1HE PENINSULA
SHORT ARTICLES ABOUT PEOPLE YOU
KNOW AND THINGS THAT HAPPEN.
Large Corn crop throughout Kent County.
Number of Delaware Students Enrolled
at West Chester Normal School.

The livery stable of John H. Rob
erts at Delaware City, with all the |
contents, including seven horses, was
totally destroyed by fire early We'd !
nesday morning.
Alfred Smallwood, son of the late
William Smallwood, died at his home
IN Hartly Friday of last week, aged
about SO years. The funeral was held
from Hartly Church Sunday and in
terment was made at the old NJ. E.
Cemetery, Dover.
Attorney James H. Hughes and
William S. Hilles Thursday afternoon
filed with Register of Wills Wilson of
Kent county the petition for a review
of the will of the late DIR. Henry
Ridgely of Dover. J. Frank Wilds
and William H. Hazel were appointed
appraisers of the property.
DIR. L. A. H. Bishop of Dover, ac-
companied his daughter Mrs. Charles
Avery Hughes to Washington last
week. Mrs. Hughes will break up her
home in Washington since the death
of her husband and will make her
| home with her parents in Dover.
While the Charles j. Damus was be-
ing launched at Abbott's shipyard,
Milford, Tuesday afternoon of last
week, 200 persons were thrown from a
collapsing scaffold and fell 30 feet.
Many were seriously injured, but
none were killed. The vessel was
four master, 1876 feet long and of 1000
tonnage, one OF the largest boats ever
built in this county.
The Democrats of Kenton Hundred
have organized a Parker and Davis
Club. It is a strong organization
with large membership. The Off
GERS are N. H. Griffin, chairman; Will
bur Wilds secretary and Thomas
Bailey treasurer. The meetings are
held every Wednesday evening in
Lanes Hall, Kenton.
A call has been issued for all the
temperance men and members OF
church of Kent county to assemble at
the Kent county courthouse, Dover,
on Tuesday, October II, for the pur-
pose of organizing an antisaloon
league to be known as the Delaware
Anti-Saloon League, of which there is
already a branch organized in Sussex
county. The meeting will be ad
dressed by Prof W. T. Bundick, of
Virginia, a noted temperance orator.
and by Rev. G. A. Grise. the Maryland
superintendent of the anti-saloou
, league, who will also act as the Della
ware superintendent in the deld.
In the State Normal School at Wes
Chester, Pa, Delaware is we'll repre-
sented. ID. Edward Atwell of Town
send, is the private secretary of th'
principal DIR. Phillips. Among it
: many students there are from Della
, ware: Emma g. Baynard, Elizabetl
;. Dayett, Flora D. Hindes, Jeanett
= Mclaughlin, Wilmington; Mary E
. BENEFIT, Milford; Oscar H. Campbell
Clara Gray, Dagsboro; Sarah NJ. Case
Dover; Dora Collision, Howard D
Evans, Harrington; Della Creiss
Rockland; William Curtin: Mortime
@. Whitehead, Lincoln City; Lott
10 NJ. Davis, Port Penn; Mary A. Dono
hoe, Edge Moor; William @. Dunbar
. Kenton; Margaret A. George, Fredel
- lea; George E. Gordy, Millsboro; A
- bert T. Handy, Carpenter; Jennie
; Jump, H. Wilbur Jump, Houston
y Annie Leadenam, Hester Willie!
- Bridgeville; Lida L. Lindale, Olive
, P. Thompson, Rehoboth; l.. Mau
10 Lodge, Clara d. NcIlvaine, Magnoli
Ethel r. Moore, Marshalton; J.
> Parker, Middletown; Lulu V. Robi
4. son, Smyrna; James B. Toman, Ne
=. Castle; Caroline White, Laurel; J
+. sephine W. Willard, Lewes.
r. The general reports from all ov
ge the county are very gratifying abo
lr- the corn crop. The average state
h, the weather during the simmer h
b, certainly been favorable to its growt
W, During the earlier and critical grow
I'M period of the season there was
V. abundance of moisture and a coolne
", in temperature which permitted t
plant to get a good, vigorous sta
nd AS consequence, the yield, so far
Iso the visible evidences would indica
art has been exceptionally large. Sol
of the farmers who failed to cut pri
es, to the recent severe storm, have be
T. handicapped somewhat by the f,
ey, that their corn was laid fiat on I
ch; ground by the violence of the vii
W. The misfortune, however, did not
ark feet the condition of the ear. Ma
q. who have examined their shocks