Smyrna times., 1905-07-26
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH.
Erred FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Cleaning Gathered From all Parts OF the State
About Your Friends and NeigbbOrs and
Their Doing During the Week.

Delaware Railroad, accompanied by
his daughter, Miss Annie B. Hayes,
is spending the heated term at Glou-
cester, Mass.
If the man who predicted that horses
would be crowded out by the automo-
bile were to step into an auction room
and try to buy good, guaranteed
horse, his own prophetic skill might
be shaken. More choice work horses
ought to be raised by the farmers in
this part of the country.
New Hampshire has an egg farm
that is about the biggest thing in the
line yet heard of. This farm contains
eight hundred acres, and six hundred
houses, accommodating eight thousand
and four hundred hens. Gathering
eggs daily on this farm must be little
matter like picking up sixty or eighty
bushels of eggs a day.
A house party composed of the fol-
lowing young people of Dover have
been occupying two cottages at kits
Hammock: Mr.. and Mrs. G. Edward
Dawson, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Ridgely
Harrington, Miss Lucy Richardson's
Miss Virginia Harrington, Misses
Mary, Ella and Julia Jones, Messrs. S.
Maxwell Harrington, A. A. Bateman,
Carl Fleming, W. d. Denney and
Harry Crawford.
A house party consisting of we'll
known Dover people assembled at the
Brown Cottage, Baltimore avenue,
RehobOth, last Saturday and will
spend ten days by the ocean. The
party consists of Miss Elizabeth Col
Inns, Miss NJ Try L. Kellum, Miss Kath-
crime S. Haman, Miss Cora B. Dunn,
Miss May Damn, Mrs. Josephine
Dunn, Messrs. NAPLES Burton and
Thomas F. Dunn, of Dover; DIR.
George B. Whitten, of Johnstown, Pa.
John W. Kellum and Walter Jones, OF
Wilmington.
Harry Hoch, young student oi
Woodside and son of Mr.. ond Mrs.
Charles NJ. Hoch, has been elected
superintendent of the Camden school.
New teachers selected include Miss
Edith Hutton of Dover and Miss Ma
bel Cole of Wyoming. If Mr.. Hoct
accepts the place he will undoubtedly
be the youngest school superintendent
in Delaware. He graduated this yea
from the State Normal School at Kutz
town, Pa.
Prosperous farmers of this section o
the country will fight shy of the ex
perience of John Sparks, farmer and
land owner near Sudlersville. Mr.
Sparks, it appears was not so confdeh
of big yield of wheat this year a
we're his family associates. In dis
cussion over the probable turnout, b,
promised Miss Mary Sparks, hi
daughter, before harvest, that all owe
given amount of money, realize
,, from the crop should be hers. Th
wheat turned out surprisingly we'll
and to Miss Mary's account in the ban
was placed Sl75.
L. E. King of Tamona, Pa, who We
married at Dover on Thursday las
= had an unfortunate experience Nor
4 day morning. While returning frol
Cheswold, where he and his wife ha
spent Sunday, he lost his pocket booI
= containing all the money he had wit
him, $65. Mr.. King in company
William Lofand of Dover, secured
- team and started back to Cheswold i
search of the lost money. They faile
to find it however.
t. Users of gasoline cannot be too car
Is full. Last week Captain Eugene Mill
y of Cambridge, Md, had the cabin of b
,; bugeye swabbed out and thorough
70 cleaned with gasoline, and the cab
8. was then closed. Late one evening
j. colored hand went there on some c
IN rand. He lit match which caused
g explosion that shook every house
:. Cambridge. The man was serious
Z. but not fatally burned and was carri
he to the hospital. The boat was dal
aged about $500.
Camden is the third town in De
- ware to go "dry" when it cam t.
90 vote on the question of establishing
- modern water works and water SUPP
plant. A Philadelphia concern pl
:, ferred to install a water and elect
10 light plant, but in doing so would
ar quire some assistance from the tow
70 This entailed bonding of thepropel
- and an increase of taxation and the N
=. nicipal citizens voted it down. {
>. lamps and pump water, they decla
"A are better than debt which they CT
"a not pay.
Y, On Friday next, a shouting can
el- meeting will be opened at Harringt
camp grounds by the Holiness Assoc
tion. Webster Holland, one of 1