Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-02-14
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
SHORT, NEwSY ITEMS OF INTERES GATH
Erred FORM OUR EXCHNGES.

GIeanlngs Gathered IRON all Parts of The State
About Your Friends and Neighbors and
their Doings During the Week.
John White, of Dover, has purchased |
the 10 acre farm of Orren G. Fenner,
situated near Lincoln City, considera-
tion $4,000.
James HI. McGlothen & Co., of
Georgetown, have sold the George
Burton farm in Indian River hundred,
containing 102 acres, to Jerome @.
Phillips, for $1,6OO.4O.
A company will be organized in
Snow Hill, Nd, to manufacture veneer
barrel, basket and crate coverings, an
invention of Everett ID. Moone of that
town. The capital stock will be $50, 900.
The Consolidated Construction Com
pany was incorporated to deal in goods,
wares and merchandise and to engage
in the expectation and importation of
same. The incorporators are of New
York city, and the capital stock is
$4,000.
The poultry fever is again epidemic
In Dover and vicinity. Elmer Bowdle
of West Dover, recently paid SLIGO for
one little White Leghorn cockerel,
while for single comb brown Leg
horn cockerel, Mr.. Bowdle paid $3.50
to johnson & Stokes, Philadelphia.
A. G. Brown is having the old Red
Liou campmeeting woods, near Bear
Station cleared up aud the trees cut
into firewood. He is assisted by a
colored man named Burgess, who is
minus his right arm, but ne cuts and
puts up two and one-quarter cords OF
wood in one day. He does more with
one arm than most men with two.
Grand Master L. Irving Handy, Of
the Grand Lodge of Delaware, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons. paid an of
fetal visit to Armstrong Lodge o.
Newport Thursday night. At the con
clusion of the meeting, there was I
dinner, and number of speeches wer,
made by the prominent guests pres
ent.
FELTON, Council No. IS. Junior Orde
of United American Mechanics, hel,
an elaborate banquet in FELTON, Hall
Thursday, at which lawyer James M
Satterfeld, of Dover, State Vice Coun
cilor A. M. Thomas, of Kent County
and Rev. E. @. Sunfeld, of FELTON,
were the speakers.
Ii is reported that through job
faayn1Tfght a pension has bee
granted to Mary A. Laws. of Concord
Delaware, widow of the late Alexande
Laws, who served in Company b, At
u. s. Colored Troops. She is to q
IS per month and back pay since Eel
ruary 1898, about thirteen years. Tn
will amount to about $124O.
AT the regular monthly busine
of the Woman's Home Missionary
Middletown, the following delegat
were elected to attend the annual Sc
sion in Wilmington on March St
Mrs. ]. l.. Shepherd, Mrs. A. Y
Lightbourne, Miss Mollie Lyman
Miss Emma Merritt; alternates, Nj
E. G. Alice, Miss Annie Freeman.
At the fourth quarterly conferen
Wesley NJ. E. Church, the paste
Rev. Howard I. Quigg, informed t
official board that he desired chan
next conference year. Rev. Har
Taylor, pastor of Georgetown circ
of the NJ. E. Church, also informed
official board of the circuit, of his
sire for change next conference we
Elisha Brummel, of Baltimore, NJ
and Miss Mary Ayres Ward of Dow
were married Thursday afternoon,
residence of r. d. Simmons on G.
ernor's Avenue, by Rev. E. FL Nels'
OF Camden, Del, former pastor
Miss Ward. The couple left on
Norfolk express for Baltimore I'll
future home.
At the State Department Thurs
certificates of incorporation "
granted to the William E. Wilt
Company, to manufacture, sell
deal in manufacturing appliances o
kinds and devices appertaining
roofing, sheet metal work, corrug.
iron coverings and outside covert
The incorporators are of Whining
Del. with a capital stock of $50, 00C
J. r. McGonigal & Son have
the Harkins farm near Smyrna
Walter Burton of Odessa, $4,000;
Bradford Ennis farm of 313 a.
near Cowgill's Corner, to r. Plum
of Dover, $1,000; the T. E. Lau
farm of lao acres, to Mrs. A. Z.
son, Dover, 81, 500; two lots of j.
ohapa1 ~, North R~oIeo~l ca