Smyrna times., 1905-05-03
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH.
Erred FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

SHORT, NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH.
Erred FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Cleaning Gathered From all Parts of the State
About Your Friends and NeighbOrs and
Their DOlOgs During the Week.
Ex-Sheriff Frank Reedy has moved
from Milford to Bridgeton, N. j.,
where he has purchased a large boot
and shoe store.
Mr.. Milton Pragg, son of A. Pragg,
of Salisbury, Md. who will celebrate his
twenty first birthday on April 30,
weighs 294 1-2 pounds, and is the
heaviest boy in W1comico county.
Pragg's father weighs 200, but his
mother weighs only Wicomico
| News.
Thomas George Baxter, of this
county, member of the senior class of
Princeton Theological Seminary, has
sent friends an invitation to the grad
uating exercises which take place
Tuesday morning, May 8, at Prince
ton, N. j. Mr.. Baxter will enter the
Presbyterian ministry.
Mrs. Margaret V. France, aged 81
years, widow of Rev. John France, a
well known minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church died Sunday week at
home of her sonin-law, w. d. Had
dock, 6O1 Franklin Street, Wilmington,
The funeral was held Wednesday.
A forest fire which ragged for ten
hours and destroyed over one hundred
acres of valuable timber land around
Seaford, was extinguished Thursday
near Woodland. 1t caught from
blaze in a nearby field. The residents
OF Woodland and farmers of the sur
rounding country worked heroically.
The tract burned was one of the best
sections of timber in that locality.
Wilson Lee Cannon and Miss Eliz-
abeth Mingle, both of New York City,
were married Tuesday. Only the i'm
mediate family were present owing to
the recent death of Mr.. Cannon's
father, Wilson L. Cannon, of Dover.
Mr.. Cannon is a prominent member of
the New York bar and is also we'll
known here. Mrs. Ella Marshall.
Mrs. 81. G. Lewis and daughter and
Miss Mary E. Cannon were among
those in attendance.
The barns and outbuildings on the
j. A. Frear farm on the Bay Road near
Dover, were destroyed by fire
about II O'Clock Tuesday morning.
About 200 bushels of corn, pro-
vender and farm machinery were
lost. The buildings, which were
large and modern. were completely
destroyed; while the dwelling, which
was old and of little value, was
not damaged at all. The place was
tenanted by colored family named
Martin. Mr.. Frear had recently sold
the farm to Charles H. Paradee, but it
is understood that the transfer had not
been made.
Superintendent of Public Schools J.
E. Carroll has made an announcement
calling attention to a change by the
last legislature in the time for holding
the annual school elections. The time
for all districts, consolidated and in
dependent, is changed back to the last
Saturday in June, where 1t was prior
to 1901, wien school elections will he
held throughout Kent and Sussex
Counties. There is much objection to
this new order of things, because the
last Saturday in June is usually the
helght OF the harvest season and far
mers and their hands cannot leave the
ripened grain.
The funeral of Thomas Warren took
place Thursday near Viola. Warren is
the prisoner who died in Jail while
serving a sentence of five years for
homocide. When, last year the State
attorneys accepted plea of guilty of
manslaughter from Warren, who had
killed his sister, it was after futile ef-
forts to remove doubt as to whether
Warren had shot his sister by accident
or design. Much condemnation of the
States acceptance of the plea was
heard as many of the neighbors be-
lieved that Warren should at least
have been sent to Jail for life. 1t
turned out that this is just what was
done, as Warren died in Jail Sunday
night.
AS the Delaware railroad express
train, due at French Street station,
Wilmington at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing, was passing Kirkwood Wednes-
day, it was sideswiped by freight car
| that had been left protrudinp from a