Smyrna times., 1906-03-28
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEwSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH.
Erred FROM OUR EXcHNGHS.
Geanings Gathered from all Parts of tn. State
About Your Friends and Neighbors and
their DOings During the WEEK.

About Your Friends and NeighbOrs and
their DOings During the WEEK.
Miss Agnes Mowbray, daughter of
Presiding Elder A. s. Mowpray, of
Elkton, has been appointed private
secretary to DIR. A. W. Harris, direc-
tor of Tome Institute, Port Deposit,
Nd.
Captain Flagler has received author
ity from Washington to spend SO, 500
from the governments emergency APP
preparation on st. Jones River. Nav
igation is to be improved from the
mouth of the river to Lebanon without
delay.
A successor to Prof. S. A. Ford, who
will quit the chair of Agriculture at
Delaware College on April LIST, to ac-
cept that at the Ohio State University,
will be chosen about that date by the
Board of Trustees.
The quarterly distribution Of the
public schoelfund was announced by
the Comptroller of the Treasury on
Friday. The total amount to be dis
tributed is $500, 900, of which amount
Cecil County, Md, will receive
$6,126.24; Kent County, 81, 5S5.S2, and
Hartford County, 81, S52.73.
At the recent city election in Seattle,
Washin gton, Thomas Plummer Re-
velle, former pastor of the M. P.
Church of Dover, was elected a mem
Der of the City Council. His majority
was from two to three times larger
than that of any other ward council
man elected.
Certificates of incorporation were
filed at Dover last week as follows:
Horene Mining, Philadelphia, Pa, to
carry on a general mining and milling
of ores and metals of all kinds; capital
stock, 100000.
United States Starch and Glucose
Co., Philadelphia, Pa, to prepare
starch and glucose, for general use;
capital stock, $3.50, 1000.
We are glad to report that the Phila-
delphia oyster planters have supplied
Delaware with a watch boat COM
manded by Captain Elmer Tarburton,
who is noted for his endurance. 1t
never blows too hard nor storms too
bad but what you will find him on the
alert. He is superior to all others who
ever attempted to perform this duty.
We hope to see the time when the state
will give our plantation the kind of
protection she has promised to give.
The Kent Club, Dover's organiza-
ton of business and professional men,
who have elaborate quarters in the
Priscilla Block, is arranging for a
smoker to be held at the club house on
Thursday evening, March 80, and Sec
rotary Harry Mayer is sending ont no.
tees. Harry A. Richardson is Iresi-
dent of the club and John 81. Jones is
vice-president. At the last annual
smoker, prominent men from all parts
of the peninsula attended and ar or.
chestra from the Bellevue Stratford
Philadelphia, furnished the muisica
programme.
Ministers and delegates are prepar
ing to leave next week for the Mary
land Annual Conference of the Meth
odist Protestant Church. The confer
ence will be held at West Baltimor,
Station Church, and will sit from
April 4th to April 10th, considering
many changes in its officers, minister
ial assignments, and in the future 0
the church, which now favors forming
the tri-church alliance and the Unitet
Brethren Churches. DIR. F. Il. Lewis
president of the Western Marylan,
College and formerly of Dover, tn
delegate from this conference who a
such, sat in the tri church preliminar,
councils, will make an exhaustive re
port and it will be finally acted upon
Harrington Council, No. A, of th
} Junior Order of United American Me
chanics, having made the greatest pro
portionate increase of any lodge of tn
order in Delaware, was presented wit
a handsome American flag by the stat
5 council of that order and the presents
ton was the occasion for elaborate pa
! triotic exercises. The Harringto
! Councils gain had been equivalent
rs percentum, very remarkable il
crease, and public meeting was bel
in the Harrington Opera House To ce
B citrate the event. John 2. Holland, (
Milford, made the opening speech
!. telling in pleasing manner OF I'll
country which had as it's emblem th
! Stars and Stripes. Warren Moore. {