Smyrna times., 1907-08-28
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.

0dluCISu OuI1nS the w eek.
James D. Boggs, Jr., of Dover had
been appointed sanitary inspector for
the city of Seattle. Washington, at a
good salary, The position was secured |
by Lawyer T. P. Revelle. formerly of
Dover but now City Councilman OF
Seattle.
Mrs. Ruth Jones, wife of Frank Jones
died of typhoid fever at her home, near
Greensboro, Md, at o clock last We'd
nesday night, aged about 40 years.
The family is stricken with the disease.
Florence, eldest daughter, aged about
IL, died of the trouble last Saturday,
and three other children are extremely
i'll. Mr.. Jones, the father, now has
symptoms of the disease.
Because of i'll health, the Rev. F,
Burgett Short, we'll known here, has
resigned as pastor of the M. E. Church
of Portland, Oregon, to recuperate.
Mr.. Short resigned as pastor of Ep-
worth M. E. Church at Wilmington
four years ago to go to California in
the interest of the Methodist Univer-
sity there. Later he went to Portland
where he met with much success. Ill
health compelled him to return East,
and he is now at his home at Mt.
Pleasant, Del
6rit Ii ho
OF TASKS, beer cans and schooners, Sc
lecting the public places, where people
of refinement cannot but see their or
gies during the evening hours, have
become such a nuisance in Milford,
that the Council has been petitiOned
to pass a special ordinance prohibiting
this as a crime. The police have been
authorized to make arrests for dis
orderly conduct, but some of the au-
thorities believe that a special law will
be necessary to cover the Offense. The
women are chiefly mulattoes and negro
women.
Fishing continues fine. Good catchee
have been reported from all parts dur
ing the past week Bass, perch, sun
fish and catfish haye been landed in
the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal,
while salt water trout are numerous al
Woodland and Bowers Beaches. All
the Jersey coast resorts have been be-
sieged by anglers snd they have had
good luck, Grabbing in the Delaware
at mouth of Christiana, Riverside, Co
fields and Delaware City is the order
of the day and many a pleasant houl
is spent in this way.
It is supposed that John Boyce o
Dover was drowned in the Delawar,
Bay where the new lighthouse is be
ing built at Joe Flogger shoals. BOyct
who was an able bodied fellow abou
40 years of age, left his wife and fou
little children Monday morning of las
week and went to Mahon's, where b
took boat for the new lighthouse
where he was employed as cook. Il
was last seen shortly after midnigh
when he was getting food ready fo
breakfast. It is supposed that he fe
from the platform into the water an
was drowned. There was no way fc
him to leave the place, and being sti
missing there is but one conclusion
However, his wife, who lives on Mort
street, refuses to believe that h'
husband will not return to her.
One of the excursion trains return
ing from the Red Mems Field Day
Rehoboth Thursday night was so Ion
that passengers in the rear cars coul
not learn what the stations were
which the train was stopping. job
Behen, Sr., prominent real esta
owner of Dover, was on rear car al
kent inouiring concerning the station
but the voices of the hustling condu
tors and brakemen did not reach hil
He ascertained that the station W
Dover lust as the train started off. A
forgetful OF the consequence, Mr.. b
hen jumped from his seat and pitche
headlong from the train into the dar
ness. He was picked up by some b
ISLANDERS at the station, but soon 10
consciousness and his condition b
given his friends great alarm.
Delaware horses at the Belmont ra
track, near Philadelphia, are MAXI
good in the racing events there Il
week. There are some four or 4
horses in the bunch, among thu
Bohemia BOY, owned by Mr.. JUL
Clayton, trained by Mr.. Peacocd
the Middletown track and driven
him in the 2.35 pace race on Tuesd'
took the race in three straights hea
the time being 2.174, 2.1S, 81
There was string of fifteen horses