Smyrna times., 1905-05-31

they will again meet with considerable
loss as they have done in the past.
The season is getting fairly underway
and the shipments promise to exceed
those of past seasons. A delegation
of buyers may wait upon officials of
the railroad company to devise some
change of plan, for the buyers contend
that as they represent the largest
strawberry shipping point in the
country, they are entitled to consider
alton.
Dover musi clans are arranging for a
weeks musical festival beginning on
Monday, July 8, to be held on the
campus of the Wilmington Conference
Academy. A large chorus choir and a
full orchestra will furnish the musical
numbers. On July 4 patriotic cele
bration will be held and Governor Lea
will be asked to preside.
The Rev. r. G. Penney, pastor of
Camden Baptist Church, has arranged
an attractive program for the meeting
of the executive committee of the Del
aware Baptist Home Mission Board,
which will be held in Camden on
Thursday, June 1. The speakers will
be the Rev. Alexander McGeorge and
the Rev. F. F. Briggs of Wilmington,
and the Rev. s. B. Hiley of Dover.
William Foord of Wilmington, has
challenged Alden B. Richardson, Do
ver's expert marksman, for a shoot,
which will be held under the auspices
of the Dover Gun Club, early in June.
The contest is to secure the State
championship, and as Mr.. Richardson
already holds several medals, the con
test will be close and Interesting one.
Sassafras, Nd, was greatly shocked
Tuesday evening by the death of Mrs.
B. Caulk, widow of the late Benjamin
Caulk. Mrs. Caulk had been i'll for
some weeks, then grew better, and
was taken seriously i'll on Monday last.
She was a member of the NJ. P. Reho-
both Church and will be greatly
missed by all. being OF a very bright
and happy disposition. She leaves
two daughters and four sons to mourn
her loss. Funeral services were held
at her late home on Friday morning,
interment in the M. P. Cemetery.
Miss Blanche Brown, the Delaware
girl who has become one of the most
popular violinists who ever played in
Dover, left on Thursday to join the
Fadette Women's Orchestra, the big
Boston aggregation of women instru-
mentalists. Miss Brown appeared sew
eral times with the orchestra last sea-
son, but returned to Dover for a per-
iod of rest with her aunt, Miss Rose
Virden, before undertaking the sum-
mer tour which will take the orchestra
as far West as San Francisco. Miss
Browns playing while here before the
Dover Century Club and at a few pri-
vate musicals won for her great pop
ularity, not only for the remarkable
soulful tone which she obtains from
her instrument, but for her skillful ex-
ecution and rare grace.
The long and bitter tight between
members of Gethsemane Lodge, No %,
A. F. and A. NJ, of Reliance, Md,
and the Methodist Protestant Church
of that town, of which Rev. Thomas
Wheeler is pastor. came to an end
last Thursday. when compromise was
effected in which the Masons sold out
their part of the building to the church.
1t is located on the Delaware side and
settlement was made in Delaware.
The building erected in 1871, was
built jointly by Masons and Metho-
dists. A year ago Mr.. Wheeler began
his denuncistion of the order and said
the Masons would have to vacate the
building. They refused and an at
tempt was made to tear it down by
adherents of the church. Arrests were
made and charges of trespass nuisa nee
were preferred against the offenders.
The matter was carried into the Court
of Chancery and the Masons intended
to fight the matter to the end. Having
sold out their share they will now va.
cate the building.
Two prisoners died at the county
workhouse, Wilmington, Thursday af-
ternoon, one of consumption and the
other very suddenly. David Griffin,
colored, aged IS years, was the pris-
oner who died suddenly in his cell.
He was sentenced in county court on
May 18th to be imprisoned twenty DAYS
for carrying a revolver at Townsend,
where he lived. Giffin labored on the
workhouse farm during the day, after
which he went to his cell. He was
called for supper but did not respond.
and when a guard went to his cell