Smyrna times., 1906-05-16
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH
Erred FROM OUR EXCHNGES.
Gleanings Gathered from all Parts of the State
About Your Friends and NeighbOrs and
Thnir DOiugs During the Week.

1t is the opinion of many fruit grow
ers in Kent County that notwithstand-
ing the heavy dropping of many Keif-
fer pears in the past few weeks, sup
posed to be due to early frosts, there
will still be large crop.
Certificates of incorporation were
fled at Dover Thursday as follows:
Adelphia Lodge, No. 8, K. of P, New
Castle, Del; no capital stock. Change
of name of Transatlantic Finance Cor
poration to Cuba Commercial CorpOr-
alton, New York City.
Seaford, this State, experienced a
shock on Tuesday which resembled a
slight earthquake, buildings were
shaken and windows ratified as if they
would fall out, The shock was felt
worse in some parts of the town than
in others. People ran out and were
greatly excited. The shock lasted but
for few seconds and no serious dam
age was done.
Rev. Thomas L.. Poulson, well known
throughout this section, has been appointed
the representative of the National Temper
ance Society in the Philadelphia and Viii
mington NJ. E. Conferences at a salary of
$4,000 year and travelling expenses.
Some large shipments to the North and
East of mated hOming pigeons are being
made this week by Elmer Bowdle, pigeon
fancier of near Marydel. The pigeons are
selected when very young in order that they
may, by long confinement and careful treat
ment, forget the home they once knew and
to which they would return from distances
so great that experimenters have not YET
calculated their limits.
1.-THE National Wholesale Druggists As
sociation is also an unincorporate assOcia
ton, composed of nearly all of the whole
sale druggists in the United States. Thes'
wholesale druggists act as the distributing
agents for the manufacturers and prop
rIetries of patent medicines, drugs, chemi
Gals and proprietary articles, purchasing
the same direct from the manufactures anC
supplying.
DIR. Horace G.. Miller, of New York anC
Brooklyn, has been secured to preach tn
baccalaureate sermon at the Whatcoa
Church, Dover, for the commencement
exercises of the Stage College for Colore
Students, May 27. Dr. w. BrCce Evans
president of the Manual Training Schoo
Washington, D. c., will deliver the addres
at the commencement proper at Colleg
Farm on Friday June /. The graduatin
class will number ten
Ellen s. Waller. daughter of Mr.. an
/. Mrs. Y. G. F. Waller, life was saved froI
a fiery death by the prompt action {
her grandmother, who discovered I'll
little girl in the kitchen in light blaz
The child had backed against a gasollI
stove to get warm, and, becoming preoccl
pied, the fringe of her dress caught the bit
fame and Immediately a sheet of fire Ell
wrapped her, The quick rescue was
complete that none of tie child's hair WI
injured, although much of her clOthin
including a new dress, was burned from he
The condition of the wheat crop throug
out Delaware Is so exceptionally fine as
arouse comment throughout the state. IT
fruit growers of the peninsula have lol
since learned to plant wheat and corn, ev
the most promising fruit years, and gi
them as much time as possible, for up
these staple crops of cereals they can 7
their faith for livliehood much mo
certainly than they can rely upon berri
pears and peaches. The Keiffer pear o.
look is still discouraging, but there
indications that more than half crop v
be harvested.
In company with Professor C. P. Clio
an entomologist and specialist of Delawi
College, Frank M. Soper and +. L. Sop
his son, an agricultural college graduate,
experimenting on Mr.. Soper's great ap
\ farm near Magnolia with view to prod
ing earlier and later apples, new apples a
better early apples. The Sopers have
Gently become the apple kings of the p
insula, having learned the art of growi
packing and storing. This week they be
oChAA5 AAoN y SoAA dppACoi WHlCn nave net
them 81 per barrel. Jersey City conn
sion men have notified the Delaware ap
specialists that they are now selling SO
of their apples grown two years ago,
these are in such prime condition that fa
prices are being realized. Spraying
ploughing did it." say the orchardists.
The will'of the late General A.
Evans was filed in the Registers of
last week. He leaves to his sisi
Mrs. Mary Evans, Clayton, ninet
shares of p. b. & w. r. r. stock
$500 U. S. bond. His saber and pil
are left to his nephew Alexander Ev
of Elkton, and his camp equipmen
nephew Paul Clayton. Various 9
cles of family associations are left
his namesake, Andrew Wallace Ev,
of Newark, Del. The rest and resi-
of his estate is left to his wife n
Susan A. Evans.
The trial list for the May tern
Superior Court was issued on Tues
by Prothonotary Speakman.