Smyrna times., 1905-12-20

SHORT, NEwSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH
Erred FORM OUR HXCHNGeS.
0Ieanings Gathered From all Parts Ofthe State
About Your Friends and NeighbOrs and
Their DOings During the Week.
Forty cars for South American rail
ways will be built by the American
Car and Foundry Company at Will
mlngton.
The new wharves of the Baldt and
Brylgon Steel Companies, north of
New Castle, will be 700 feet in length,
with frontages of sixty feet each on
the Delaware River.
The rectorship of st. Anne's Parish,
Middletown. made vacant by tie res
| ignation of Rev. W. j. Wilkie on ac-
count of his wife's health, has been
accepted by Rev. Albert E. Clay, of
Foxburg, Pa, who will enter upon his
new duties about the first of the new
year.
Mr.. Frank A. Emory, of near Gen.
treville, is having one of the best ho- |
tells on the peninsula built at Milling |
ton, Md. The hotel is nearly COM
pleted, and Mr.. B. F. Yansant will
take charge of it in the near future
There is no town on the peninsula of
the same size that can boast of better
hotel service than Millington.
The young men of Middletown have
issued invitations for their New Years
dance, to be given in the Opera House
on Monday evening, January 1st, 1906.
The committee is as follows: Joseph
P. Comegys, Harry s. Brady, DIR. E
NJ. Vaughan, Elias M. Shallcross,
James E. Woodall, Jr., Charles H.
Crawford, Fred S. Crouch, Julian Fl.
Foard and George I. Lockwood.
Michael P. Hewlett, of Philadelphia,
has purchased of the Rickson Robbins
bankruptcy trustees, fifty acres of the
Delaware Bay Oyster grounds off
Kits Hammock, for which he paid
5000. This purchase of course con-
Yeys to him no property rights of the
States oyster grounds other than the
rights of all the oysters thereon and
their increase.
Letters on the estate of Sarah A..
Faucet, late of Georgetown hundred,
have been granted to GeorgeT. Lynch
and Edward J. Faucett; on the estate
of Mary E. Clendaniel, late of Cedar
Greek hundred, TO Mark l.. Clendaniel
| on the estate of Samuel H. Clendaniel,
| late of Cedar Greek hundred to Mark
| l.. Clendaniel.
| In Federal Court Thursday, claims
| amounting to $94, 900 we're filed against
| the West Chester, Kennett and Will
Il mIngton Trolley Company, recently
II sold at a receivers sale. For the Del
i aware end of the road 5000 was Sc
cured with which to pay debts
Thomas F. Bayard, the receiver il
this State will probably be allowed
$25OO fees and $500 for clerk hire.
At the annual meeting in Whining
ton. of the Delaware Society Daugh
ters of the War OF 1912, Mrs. Millarc
q f. Corkran was chosen president
Mrs. James G.. Longfellow, Mrs
Mrs. Charles f. King and Mrs. Frank
lin J. Murphy. vice president; Mrs
Thomas Saddler and Miss Alice Pratt
secretaries; Mrs. Charles ]. Kinkaid
auditor; Mrs. Cornelius Taylor, his
torian; Miss Annie Cunningham, regis
trar, and Mrs. l.. b. Morrow, libral
IT, ian.
About 200 persons attended the III
yelling Thursday afternoon of th
stone bench in Rockford Park, i
4. memory of the late William M. Canby
for many years president of the Boar
of Park Commissioners. John N
. Rogers presided, Bishop Coleman o
fered PRAYER, and the Rev. w. f. L
Lewis delivered an eulogy on M
Candy. Little Marjorie Candy,
SIhuu uauShIeI ol MT. OdnDy 8, III
yelled the memorial, which overlook
Candy Vista, a part of the park
l Several applications for farms
~ Maryland have been received recent
at the State Bureau of immigration
iI9t 9t Most of the applicants are from IL
RS West, having gone there Immediate
sed after their arrival in this country. Or
his of the communications is from mini
ter, who, having saved some none
a wants to buy home in Maryland al
Il move his family there. He is now
Wisconsin. Another applicant no
in Minnesota complains of the ha
- winters and desires home in a mo
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