Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-03-14
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEwSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH
Erred FORM OUR EXCHNGES.
GIeaniugs Gathered from all Parts of the State
About Your Friends and Neighbors and
their Doings During the Week.

GIeanings Gathered from all Parts of the State
About Your Friends and Neighbors and
their DOings During the Week.
Col. AR Boyle left Thursday morn
ing, accompanied by his young son,
Arthur Boyle, for Seward, Alaska. Col.
Boyle's son, Frank M. Boyle, is sue
cessfully engaged in business in Val
Dee, Alaska Mrs. Boyle and Misses
Mary and Lizzie Boyle expect to leave
for Alaska in few days. Col. Boyle
has sold his residence in Dover to
Messrs. Morris and Dawson.
E. B. Louderbough, manager and
publisher of the State Sentinel, met
with painful accident Thur sday after
noon. He was attempting to replace
roller in the large cylinder press, when
his left thumb was caught between the
revolving cylinder and the press bed
and was so badly mashed and mangled
that it was held only by thin piece of
skin. DIR. L. o. Clements sewed the
injured member up, with the hope of
saving it.
The transportation committee of til g
Philadelphia Commercial Exchange,
after hearing the testimony of inter
ested parties on both sides of the ques-
ton, has reported to the board of di
rectors recommending favorable action
by the Maryland Legisture the petition
of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Co., for the right to charge tolls for
passenger business in the canal The
committee, however, does not favor
the granting of full Transportation
rights to the canal company.
A convention of rural mail carriers
has been called to meet in Dover on
Decoration Day, May 80, the next hol-
iday which these public officials will
have, to organize an association. Car
rier Walter Ford, of Clayton has been
most prominent in the movement and
has sent out the call for the conven.
ton. 1t is said that there will be a
large attendance of the rural mail men,
who will form helpful organi zation
and probably start collection fund
Associations have already been organ
lied in Sussex and New Castle Coun
ties.
Governor Lea Thursday issued the
| following commissions to military
men of the State who have Just beer
elected to the Office, ''reposing espec
iai trust and confidence in the patrio
tism, valor, prudence and fidelity" o
the citizens designated: J. Warne
Reade, of Wilmington, to be major o
the First Infantry, National Guard o
Delaware. James M. Satterfeld o
Dover, to be captain of Company G
First Infantry National Guard of Del
aware. Herbert NJ. Jones, of Dover
to be First Lieutenant of Company 6
First Infantry, National Guard of Del
aware. William E. Hoey, Jr., to b
second lieutenant of Company G. Firs
Infantry, National Guard of Delaware
On Thursday afternoon at la
O'Clock very pretty wedding was sol
emnized at the home of Mrs. Elizabet
s. Stevens in Odessa, when her daugt
ter Nellie Tho mpson, was united
marriage to Mr.. William E. Spicei
The ceremony was performed by Re-
: r. b. Stephenson, a brother of til
bride, assisted by Rev. j. M Arters,
: Wilmington and Rev. Walter E. Gunb
OF this town. The bride was very b.
comingly attired in gray coat suit vii
, hat and gloves to match. After recei'
g ing congratulations and best wishes ,
q all present the guests were invited |
the dining room where refreshmen
were serve. The happy couple left &c
Middletown to take the south boui
: train accompanied by a number
4 their young friends.
Sophomores of Delaware College.
Newark, last week formed an an
le robin society, the object of which is
ID prevent robins encroaching upon t
ie green sward of the campus. The 8
ciety is really ar instrument of hazi
the freshmen, for the secret Of riddi
the campus of robins was divulg
when freshman was given brot
:, and told TO sweep the imaginary bir
:. from the grass. He was kept at ii
,e task for half an hour. Members of /
s. new society say that every freshm
will have to take turn at driving re
ins away before the college year
ended, and enforcement of this is Iik.
70 to result in some scrimmages betwe
the rival classes. A cane, whisk broo
q or other articles is to be regarded
en- sufficient weapon for the ''Freshies