Smyrna times., 1907-09-25
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.

People You Know and their Do1ngs
in Other Towns and Places,
Gathered During the Week.
The Delaware State CoIored Teach
ers' Institute will be held in Dover on
October 2, and 4. All colored teach
ers are compelled to attend. Clerks
will please inform their teachers. Able
instructors have been employed:-Jas.
E. Carroll, Snpt.
Rev. F. B. Short, who has just re-
covered at Wilmington hospital from
an attack of typhoid fever, has been
appointed pastor of the First M. E.
Church in Salt Lake City, one of the
finest churches of this denomination
in the West
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard r. Cochran,
of Middletown, have announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Sara
Violette, to John Franklin Plummer,
of Salisbury, N. G. The wedding will
take place at the home of the brides
parents on Monday, October 7th at
noon.
For the purpose of establishing and
operating a large factory for packing
fruits and vegetables, Edward @. Will
son, of Dover, has purchased of W. S..
Heverin his fine farm at Little Greek,
containing 393 acres. Mr.. Wilson will
build his cannery on the edge of the
farm.
s. Green Workman, of Milford, was
crushed by horse, which he was en-
deavoring to relieve in it's stall in the
stables of J. J. Foulk, where the ami
NAL had become caught in the manger.
While Mr.. Workman aud the horse
were both struggling together, the
animal slipped and surged against the
man, crushing his side, leg and back
, A new Republican paper, to be
= known as the State Republican, will
: be issued from the printing roome o.
4 B. F. Simmons, Dover, on October
5 18th. Who the editor of the paper
a will be has not been disclosed. It ii
e. generally understood that the paper
) will be published in the interests o
. the du Pont faction of the Republican
g party.
In honor of the opening of the Pal
!. mer Home for Old Folks, to take plac
within the next fortnight or month
" several local concerns are donating
= useful or ornamental accessories to tn
institution, which has been founde
" aud built by the Kings Daughters {
. Dover. The Diamond State Telephon
!. Company donated a telephone servic
= for the institution.
IT The river steamboats,, particular
9r the little state room steamers runnin
.e between PHILADELPHIA aud Delawal
r. towns, are enjoying unprecedente
= prosperity and patronage. tt
I'd steamer Frederick, during the mont
4 of August, carried 1901 passenger
us or II more than the same month I'll
'r previous year. Persons are taking I'll
id trips not only for Philadelphia shoI
in ping tours, but for rest and sea air.
Bradford Ennis, a tall and athlet
farmer, who prides himself on b
spirited horses, lost control of pa
of colts attached to wagon last wei
he and the animals sprang so quick
from the check of his grasp that
nd was ierked out over the horses baC
in and run over. DIR. L. o. Clements
op administerin to to the patient who
ny he hopes will recover.
ais After marrying Charles 81. Helm
ea and Margaret j. Coloway, daughter
~ ~ Mr.. and Mrs. John Galloway, Rev.
oro L. Hardesty had to escort the couI
or. home, distance of half mile, in |
shirt sleeves. The coupleis very smt
ulf and the crowd around the parsona
or become so boisterous that they we
ol afraid to start home, and asked t
~. PASTORS protec tion.
The old time quilt and heavy co
~ - Portable are being disclared in Dov,
- and even the feecy wooden blanl
aclk must go. Dover people who I
of becoming modernized are using
un patent paper blankets, which, tn
any friends claim, weight but ten ounc
OF yet serve the same purpose of WOO
nas blanket in protecting and husbandi
led the heat of the body during chi
ey- night. An informal meeting was b
this morning in the apartments