Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-02-21
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH
Erred FORM OUR EXcHNGHS.

Gathered from all Parts of the State
About Your Friends and Neighbors aud
their DOings During the Week.
The $4,000 annex to the Havre de
Grace High School has been put in
use.
Gamers in Kent County, Nd, have
offered farmers $3.50 per ton for toma-
toes.
Mack Patrick, of Chestertown, has
an orange tree at his home from which
he has just picked an orange which
measures 10 incnes in circumference.
Directors of the proposed Union
Hospital for Cecil County, to be built
atEIkton, have appointed committee
on a site, also one on building.
James Townsend, Gamer at Mas
tens Corner, has four thousand cases
of tomatoes He has been offered 81. 15
per dozen but is holding them for his
price $1.25.
City Treasurer Blaine has notified
Wilmington City Council, which de-
clined to remove Clerk Joseph E.
Postles, colored, that he will secure
bookkeeper for the Office and pay him
himself.
Delaware Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution were the first branch of
the society to contribute $1,000 for a
column the Daughters are placing in
the memorial building IN Washington.
Dover public schools are said to be
overtaxed to accommodate the increas-
ing attendance The enrolment for
the month has been 479, compared
with 449 for February last year, while
the average attendance is now 439 in
stead of 1888 for the same month last
year.
The State Department last week is
sued tickets of incorporation to the
Solar Arc Light Company to manufac
ture arc lights and electrical equip
ments and to make other devices fo
illumination. The incorporators ar,
of New York city and the capital stool
is $500, 900.
> Although the schedule between Will
t mington, Edgemoor and Delmar i
3 three hours for freight train the nev
], merchandise train of the Delawar
g Railroad, which made its first run o
q Tuesday evening beat that time b
9 thirty minutes, having made th
e trip between the two points named i
b two hours and twenty-five minute
n The train was drawn by engine NJ
,. 1854 and 1t is probable that the scheC
t, ule will be changed.
{. The big Clyde line steamer Cher,
g. kee, recently wrecked off Atlantic Gil
a has been anchored inside the o.
b. Breakwater several days with son
ia twelve feet of water in her hold. III
Of Cherokee was bound to New York f
repairs iii tow of the wrecking IL
North America, day before yesterdi
- aud when short way up the Jers,
a. coast her wrecking pumps became di
e. abled. Captain Gibbons of the Nor
Of America, wisely returned to the Brea
u, water, and thereby avoided a
1n chances of losing her.
in Ten carloads of emigrants we
r. through Wilmington on their W
90 South. The train was special a
~ passed through shortly before 8o'clo
o. in the morning and everyone of I
- ten cars was packed with the hum
freight. The train was from N
York and the emigrants we're destin
to southern points, many leaving
I'd. train at Baltimore. The greater o
of ton of the emigrants were male II
,oa ians, who have left their native ho
3 to seek employment in this country
- H. r. Nicholson, of Glssboro, n.
- a farmer of that locality, arrived
p. Dover Wednesday, with farm wal
~ loaded with several sets of harne
several horse blankets and robes
York carriage, several plows, and OF
farming implements, all of which
" been stolen from Nicholson's farm
January Sd, by Raymond Shockle
farm laborer. Shockley, with
goods in his possession, was foun
nd. Cedar Neck, near Milford, by
Nicholson aud his father-in-law.
was at once arrested and taken bac
~ New jersey by Mr.. Nictolsons fat
~ in-law, where he will stand trial.
/, OF The silver memorial to the crr
fice' Maryland, consisting of 48'pieces,
SUIT. be ready for delivery about April
lged 1t will be a complete silver pic
Wno' history of the State and is regards
ever one of the richest and handsomest