Smyrna times., 1907-07-31
DELAWARE AND
MARYLAND NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
ALL PARTS OF PENINSULA

People You Know and their Doings
in Other Towns and Places,
Gathered During the Week.
Wilmington City Council has appro-
priated $751; to build public bath
house at Kirkwood Park.
Fred Scheerer has sold his farm of
SO acres near Pennington to P. H. Nc
Cracken of Penna.
Last Monday Charles Beck sold his
farm of 2S acres four and one-half miles
northwest of Milford ty W. L. limerick
of New York for $500.
On account of the swampy conditions
of the location allotted for the encamp-
ment of the Delaware militia at James
town, there is possibility that the
troops will abandon the trip.
Miss Elizabeth A. Boyle, daughter
of Colonel and Mrs. A. R. Boyle, who
moved from Dover to Seward, Alaska,
several months ago at the frema ms
ball, won the election as the most pop.
ular young lady in town, receiving a
gold watch and chain, valued at $50
Out of 1900 voters polled, Miss Boyle
received 467.
The Daniel Comet, discovered by
Mr.. Daniel at Princeton Observatory
on June 8, is now visible to the naked
eye in early morning in the eastern
sky, appearing as a misty star. A
small telescope or field glass will show
tail one and a half degrees in length.
Mrs. George Brittingham was Sc
verely burned at her home on Cover
nor's avenue, Dover, shortly before
noon on "Wednesday. She was cook
ing dinner, when the gasoline leaked
, and the stove was all ablaze. She
l picked up the stove and carried it out
j doors for fear the house would be set
, on fire. Her hands and arms and the
left side of her face were badly burned.
DIR. J. Il. Wilson, of Dover, on Tues.
day received information of the death
of DIR. b. @. Hopkins, relative and
native of this county, at Scranton, Pa,
where he had practiced for Is years,
He was 7S years Of age. DIR. Hopkins
: and Hon. Nathaniel B. Smithers were
!. delegates from Delaware in 1860 to the
!. Republican National Convention il
r Chicago, which nominated Abraham
A Lincoln for president of the United
d States. DIR. Hopkins will be buried
Y IN Wilmington, He is survived BY
O two sons, one an architect in New Yorl
n City, the other a coal dealer in Sranton
! Delaware peaches will be good, higl
and scarce this season. Careful esti
mates made in the principal orchard
. OF Kent county this week elicit the in
n formation that the remarkable and con
= tinuous drop has at last ceased anC
if that peaches are staying on the trees
= Harry Mcdaniel, the Dover peacl
- grower, who delivered a crop of fame,
g peaches last year when all others were
, failing. made an inspection of his or
chards in West Dover in company will
John Carrow, of Dover, and the,
found that crop of $500 baskets O
fruit, mostly the fancy and desirabl
s. market qualities, will probably ripe
r in prime condition. This, however
st is large orchard and last year brough
N forth 5000 baskets.
D. Mary Pritchard has been locked u
ye in the Chestertown Jail on charge {
m numbering her three ee-months-old baby
ne The body was found on the river shor
r. drive by Capt. Cecil R. Atkinson Will
of he and his wife we're driving along th
as road. At the inquest the mother sal
i" she had thrown the baby in the rive
r. because it was already dead and sh
ey had no money to pay for funera
Sc The woman's daughter, however
,al stated the accused had acknowlede
at that she had ''put it away" The jul
i'll decided that the baby had bee
DO drowned.
ne
nt On ways located one and one-ha
20 miles from creek or navigable strear
,r- Peter Jarman, living near Warwicl
in Sussex County, Delaware, is buildir
m sloop 36 feet ever all and IA feet bean
Mt There is much mystery surroundir
+. the boat and the yards in which it
I'M erected, for they were construct,
of within few days and then fenced i
o. order to keep the inquisitive publ
e from Witnessing the -onerationa. La