Smyrna times., 1907-09-04

industrial school in Wilmington, held
a meeting in the North Olive Street U.
A. NJ. E. Church Thursday under the
auspices of the Williams Twentieth
Century Educational Association.
Bishop B. I. Ruley presided Two
hundred and fifty dollars was raised.
These officers were elected: President, |
Bishop B. I. RuIey; secretary, Mrs
Viola Corsey, assistant secretary, Rev. |
W. Castell; financial secretary, DIR.
Ezekiel Smith
According to A. r. Spaid, superin-
tendent of New Castle County schools,
low salaries and high living expenses
have combined to decrease the number
of school teachers IN rural New Castle |
County, be added: But few girls are
now anxios to prepare themselves as
teachers in the county schools because
the business college offers them a
shorter term of prepal alton and higher
salaried positions after they complete
their courses. The average salary
paid county school teachers is $50
month. Many girls in business houses
earn much more. The schools will
open next Tuesday, and several vacan-
cies are to be filled
Delaware has found new State rev.
enue and has already received the sum
of $15, $40. AZ which she did not get last
year, and which will be increased from
year to year. The fund is the revenue
from the new State tax on bands and
banking institutions, in accordance
with the statute passed at Dover last
| March after the difficulty that grew
out of the failure of all but two banks
of the State to pay any State taxes.
Insurance Commissioner George W
Marshall, to whose department was
committed the collection of the taxes
nnder the new State law, has made this
statement: Under the new law, we
have collected from banks and bank
ing institut ton: estate banks and trust
companies, So, ,945. 80. "National banks
So, 4O2. 81. Total revenue, So, 349. AZ. ."
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank C. Bancroft
opened the door of their fine country
home, near Camden, Delaware, We'd
nesday morning very early before the
people of the household began to stir.
A short time later they heard a noise
resembling a kitten, and observed a
bundle in the hallway. There was a
three weeks old baby, cast off by its
parents and left where they thought it
might have cOzy home. The mother,
however, had come to the city on the
midnight train, desiring to conceal her
identity and errand, but she had for.
gotten that in the country they can
track ones footsteps. The woman's
tracks were promptly followed to a
tenant house on neighboring farm,
where she had stopped for rest and
} evidently to observe afar off, what had
become of her child. The whole sad
story was then unraveled and she was
started homeward with her child.
A fruit grower near Lincoln City,
, four miles below Milford, last week
6 had a pleasant experience with his
peach trees. The grower is Charles H
, Sackett, well known to every agricul
turist of prominence in Delaware, anC
we incidentally learned of it through
s another party, so the facts are pub
D lished without any desire of Mr.
e Sackett so far as we know but, know
! ing that the facts will be of help tC
{ others and fruit growing generally
i. they should be given wide publicity
: In five day last week five hundred anC
}. thirty two baskets of peaches wer
gathered from his orchard, and he re
ceived $844.0 90 for them at the Lincoh
a railroad depot More than three
t fourths of the fruit came from tw
{ hundred peach trees, and this show
d this possibilities of fruit growing il
a this section under favorable conditions
q First, the land must be adapted f
l. peach rlpening as we'll as growth O
e the trees. Second, the varieties mus
g be chosen with regard to robust bear
ing Third, the grower must spra,
and cultivate each and every year. b
e observing these three general princi
= pies, growers will receive successful
e returns for their efforts to proddc
y peaches The days of haphazzar,
l. peachgrowing have passed, and tn
r systematic grower will get the results
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