Smyrna times., 1906-11-28
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH
Erred FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Cleaning Gathered from all Parts of the State
About Your Friends and NeighbOrs aud
Their Doings During the Week.


About Your Friends and NeighbOrs and
Their Dolngs During the Week.
Robert w. Todd, a prominent mer-
chant of Hurlock, died Tuesday of
kidney trouble, aged 80 years.
Charles E. Gray, who recently re-
signed his position as State detective,
has taken position on the copy edi-
tors staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
He will continue to live in Wilmington
for the present at least. Before becom
ing detective Mr.. Gray was in the
newspaper business in Mexico and
prior to that in Wilmington.
Herbert H. Ward counsel for John
Edward Addicks, has satisfied the Kent
county prothonotary's Office at Dover
the judgment of $33, 29S.6S, held by
Mrs. Ida Shaw against United State s
Senator J. Frank Alice, which was
entered against him February 18th,
1905. The sale of the Addicks proper
ties recently brougt about the salts
faction of the judgment.
The much talked of hospital for Eas-
ton Md, will soon be a reality, and in
the near future Easton will have one
of the best-equipped and most modern
hospital buildings in the State of
Marylan d, as the board of directions
of the Emergency Hospital of Easton
has entered into lease with Col. James
B. Norris for the building now known
as the Hotel Norris for period of five
years. The board expects to get pos
session about the first of December.
Judge Ignatius G. Grub has been
ordered by his physicians to discou-
tinue entirely his judicial labors for
the present and seek complete rest
under the most favorable climatic con-
ditions. The Judge left yesterday
afternoon at 3.5S o'clock for Los An
geles, California. It is probable that
he will spend the winter away from
this city. Judge Grubb is SO years old
and has been on the bench for twenty
one years. Many attorneys and others
who have business with the court will
be sorry to learn that he has beer
compelled to seek rest.
The big meeting of the Peninsula
Horticultural Society, which is to be
held in Dover during the second weeE
in January, promises to be the most
enthusiastic convention of this educa
ticnal society since it was organized
Inc new Opera House has been en-
:. gagged for the sittings, there will be al
~$eh0Fate exhibit of fresh fruits, which
have been kept in cold storage sine
summer and famous Lectures will ap
pear. The society now gets two ap
preparations, one from Maryland an,
another from Delaware.
A movement is under way by tn
the choir of Wesley M. E. Churcl
Dover for the purchase Of a new anC
up-to-date pipe organ for the church
to peplace the present ore, which ha
been in use over % years. The trus
tees of the church are not willing to
accept an organ unless every dolla
is not only subscribed, but paid in an
havo consented to accept only on thes
conditions. The price of the new oil
gan together with the alteration to tn
church for sorting it in place, is to b
$4,5O). The matter is entirely in th
hands of committee from the choir
and the expection is that half the cos
will be contributed by Andrew Can
negie.
Clayton W. Colt, of Dover aged /
years, for sometime employed at I'll
State Sentinel, also a member of G,
G, n. G. D., died Friday morning
the home of his aunt, Mrs. Robert ]
Hurd, on New street, after an illnei
of several weeks of rapid consumption
1t is said, that during the encamI
ment of the Delaware Guard, La
summer, young Colt one stormy mig
gave his blanket to a comrade VIII
was sick, and lay on the damp grounC
from which it is supposed he co
tracted his death illness. A detail
Go. q. attended his funeral whic
took place Thursday afternoon, wit
interment at Lakeside cemetary.
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