Smyrna times., 1906-02-28
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH
Erred FORM OUR EXcnNGES.
Gleanings Gathered from all Parts of The State
About Your Friends and Neighbors and
their DOiBgs During the Week.


weeks, over 20 additions have been
made to Armory Methodist Church,
Dover.
The Wilmington Labor Union last
week sent telegram to President
Roosevelt protesting against his APP
proval of the bill eliminating work on
the Panama Canal from the provisions
of the eight hour law.
Miss Mary Wilkerson, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Wllkerson of
Milford and Mr.. George A. Swain, of
Cedar Neck, were married at the
brides home on Church Street, at 6
o'clock a. m. last Thursday by Rev.
George P. Jones. After the ceremony
a wedding breakfast was served to the
immediate relative and friends of the
bride aud groom.
A pretty wedding was soIemnized at
the brides home Wednesday evening
the contracting parties being Miss
Emma Zimmerman, of Wilmington,
and Thomas Bevens Pepper, lawyer
of Georgetown. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. A. N Haggerty of
the First Presbyterian Church. The
groom is a graduate of the Dickinson
School of Law. After wedding trip
the couple will take up their residence
at Georgetown.
The breaking of fauge on a freight
car, which was being shifted from the
yards of the CHARLES Warner Company
Friday morning caused delay in the
passenger trains on the Pennsylvania
! Railroad both north and south bound
for nearly an hour. The broken fange
also broke a switch. A shifting engine
of the Philadelphia and Reading rail
way assisted in placing the derailed
! car on the track, The accident caused
! a rufnor to gain ground that there was
a wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad
and many focked to the scene.
At the annual meeting of the State
Council of Delaware Jr. o. u. A, M,
resolution was adopted giving degree
teams of subordinate Councils the
privilege Of appearing in uniform aud
| accoutrements ror the celebration of
| Decoration Day and for the purpose OF
decorating graves of deceased mechan-
les or firing salutes over their graves.
A handsome chest of silver was pre-.
sented to the retiring councillor, NJ
N. Willis, by A. w. Thomas, on be-
half of the council. A past councillors
jewel was also presented to Mr.. Willis
by F. M. Jones of Georgetown.
Newspapers will not be sold on th,
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad
hereafter. The anti-pass order ISSUED
by President Cassett has been inter
preted by the management to includ
this newsboy who has been accustomed
to sell his papers on the through an,
! suburban trains. They rode on passe
5 provided by the Union News Com
. pany by the railroad company under
general contract. Mr. Cassett's orde
: preclnded giving out any form of fire
! transportation to other than employ
8 ees and the train newsboy was drive
Z out of the business.
There are two shad fisheries on
mile south of Frederick, which fol
: merly supplied this entire sectio
with shad, but which are, of recei
years so unproductive as to almo
have been relegated to the realm
obscurity, One is located on the oil
Burton farm, the other on the Guile
farm opposite. At the first mentiont
many large beachnut trees, on Il
a. trunk of one of which was carved wi
q a pen knife the statement that on h
q 18th OF February, 1868, there were 1,
is shad caught in the net there at o.
te haul, a circumstance which at this d,
Il. and season would astonish the native
at The State Board of Health is takiI
be steps to stamp out anthrax in case ii
We disease appears among the cattle of t
I'D lower end of the State. Two years a
Id the disease so affected the cattle til
he hundreds of horses and cows We
nd killed to prevent an epidemic. L
ut Legislature reimbursed the farme
m. whose stock was killed and provid
Ia for the purchase of Aaccine and I
or employment of veterinarians to ws
ter off a recurrence of the disease. Su
ed piled with this vaccine, DIR. j.
he Kuhns, of Kent County, will vaccini
me the COWS in the vicinity of Bowe
vas Beach and elsewhere in that secti,
OF in the hope that the disease will I
ION appear the coming summer.
a'' The Legislative committee resun
no its work, Wednesday and House CT,
:" Thomas s. Lewis appeared with
journal completed asking for set