Smyrna times., 1906-04-18
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH.
Erred FROM OUR HxCHNGHS.

Gleaniugs Gathered from all Parts Of the State
About Your Friends and NrishbOrs and
Their DOings During the Week.
Thinking he might soon have use for
it, Joseph Venables of Chestertown,
twenty-five years ago had his coffin
made. He began soon thereafter to
enjoy better health, and continued to
do so until few days ago. His death
occurred last week and he was buried
in the coffin he had made.
William Salisbury, Dover, editor
OF the Delawarean, is expected to ar
rive home from California next mouth.
Mr.. Salisbury, it is reported, has in
vested in some promising California
orange groves. He can now raise or
anges in the winter and in summer can
harvest the fine Delaware peaches
from his half score of Kent County
fruit farms.
The State Department last week is
sued certificates of incorporation to
the most remarkable social club on
record so far as a name or title is con-
cerned. 1t Is the King Gedeminas of
Lithuanians Club, and is incorporated
for the moral, intellectual, social and
business conditions of its members
The incorporators are of Wilmington
and because of the organizations bene-
fetal nature, no certifcation of capital
stock was required and no state tax
was paid upon capitalization.
In a rear end collision on the New
York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad
Wednesday, near Exmore, between a
fast freight train and the Norfolk ex.
press, both southbound, Engineer
Daniel J. Parker and Fireman George
R. Wilson, both of the passenger train
were instantly killed. Owing to the
freight train parting it had stopped,
and Engineer Parker, on account OF
the fog, failed to see his signals in
time to stop his train. Both of the dead
men lived in Delmar and Parker was
married, leaving a wife and son.
The State apartment issued certif
Gates of incorporation to a concern
which may engage In a business that
will interest the important canning and
conserving concerns of Delaware,
Maryland and New Jersey. 1t is the
American Sanitary Canning Co., tC
conduct canneries operating under let
ters and to engage in the manufacture
of the sanitary canning appliances. II
is understood that this is the device
that will can tomatoes whole after al
incision has been made at the core
The services of hundreds of parers and
slicers of every degree of cleanliness
is thereby dispensed with. The in
corporators are all of Baltimore, anC
the capital stock is $500
Samuel M. Harrington, who ha
lately been re elected collector of mu
nicipal taxes for Dover, has just re
turned from a winter in the west
which he spent in travelling abou
through the northwest and southwest
observing the most felicitous and ez
hilarating climates. Mr.. Harringto
was a close observer in his investiga
tions and his deductions do not cor
respond with those of some lovers c
the West, who go into ecstacies owe
the California and Minnesota climates
He found that, after spending sewers
weeks in Seattle, in San francisco
then later in Los Angeles, and th
beautiful southern section of Califo
MIA that the climate was somewhi
enervating and treacherous, and hs
the tendency to take the spirit of hu
tie from the people and substitute
restful and indolent demeanor. Sa
Antonio, Texas, however. proved
possess a fine air and a visit there WI
quite beneficial.