Smyrna times., 1907-09-18

harry Carpenter, the boy who was
arrested as he was leaving the Lyceum
Theatre, Wilmington, was taken to
Dover to answer the charge of stealing
some articles from the freight car at
Dover few days ago.
George w. Baker, Jr., of Dover, is
planning to open a roller skating rink
at his carriage and agricultural imple-
ment establishment on Lockerman
street. The present building will be
greatly enlarged and ready for the
opening, which will take place about
October 1.
The trOtting horse fanciers of Dover
and throughout the peninsula are get
ting their horses into condition for the
Easton fair competition, which prom
lses to be of unusual interest this year.
Several Dover horses have been driven
the past week at Point Breeze and else
where in the neighborhood of PhiIa-
delphia in order to take advantage of
the expert handling there.
Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia.
secretary of the interior during the first
administration of Grover Cleveland as
President, has been secured to deliver
an address in Wesley NJ. e. Church.
Dover, on the evening of Wednesday.
October 9, on the occasion of the OPEN
ing OF the Epworth League convention
here. The subject for that evening
will be Temperance"
Sussex county will probably have q
case of whlpping-p post punishment for
wife-beater, Sheriff Pritchett went
to Lewes and arrested John Warren. a
white man charged with whipping his
wife. He was committed to iail. being
unable to furnish the necessary bail.
The otfense is punishable if convic.
tion before jury results, with heavy
lashing at the post.
Chicken thieves are making npbtlv
raids on the poultry houses of subur.
ban residents and farmers who live
near Milford. The latest victim re-
ported is Alfred Truitt, tenant of the
Blvens Donovan farm on the east side
Of Milford, near Marshall Mill. Fifty
hens and pullets were drawn from
his house after nIghtfall and the
thieves left tracks and two or three
good clues.
After a careful examination of sew
eral peach and plum orchards in Della.
ware by members of the State Board
OF Agriculture, resulting in the findino
OF yellows injecting many of the or.
chards, the board has issued a letter
warning growers and others to make
rigid examination of their orchards
and to rid affected ones at once of the
disease that threatens them.
Senator Edward Hart, one of Della.
wares best-known lawmakers Is the
shining mark this month for Della
wares lawbreakers. On his farm inst
north of the New Castle Kent county
line he has lost this week by chicken
thieves, 125 chickens and ducks. all in
prime marketable condition. The
Senator's faith in the whipping-post is
increased rather than shaken by his
experiences without laws.
A convention of colored farmers vas
held at the State College near Dover.
Thursday, to consider the farm labor
and other questions which promise
beneficial results to the negro race in
this State and Peninsula. DR.. G. A
Ilndley, the eloquent PhiIadelpbia
preacher, delivered an address. and
Professor Wesley Webb represented
the State Board of Agriculture.
Harrington boasts of one of the most
popular school teachers in the United
States. She is Miss Rebecca Harring-
ton and she has gone to WILMINGTON
to resume her school duties. II is
said that each superintendent in the
State called upon Miss Harrington and
offered her a school to superintend
while several of the choicest schools in
Kent and Sussex counties were offered
her. She spent most of her summer
vacation in Philadelphia attending a
business school.
An experienced teacher saws that |
pupils who have access to newspapers
at home, when compared with those
VINO do not, are better readers. better
spoilers, better grammarians. better
punctuators, and read more under
standlngly and obtain practical
knowledge of geography in almost half
the time it requires others. The news.
paper is decidedly an important factor
In modern life. This will not be dis
puted by any one who has taken the
trouble to investigate the ma tier for
himself.