Smyrna times., 1908-09-02
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.

A freak calf with five legs was
born on the farm of Harris Jones
near Georgetown last week.
Wrestling with a boy companion,
Daniel Townsend, of Roxana, was
thrown to the ground and had his
arm broken.
This week is fodder saving season
in this part of Delaware, and before
the end of next week the crop will
generally be all saved.
A hundred or more Italians at
Houston, employed by the canning
factories there, went on a strike
Wednesday for higher wages.
William Pierce, an employee of
the Milford Basket Factory, last
week cut the end of one of his
fingers off while handling some logs.
DR.. Nickerson of Magnolia has
purchased the drug store of w. B.
Mock, at Camden, and will shortly
move there and practice medicine.
Federal employees have received a
communication this week notifying
them that hereafter those in the civil
service class will be barred from any
participation in party affairs.
Ernest A. Truitt of Milford,
passed a successful examination
before the State Borad of Pharmacy
of New Jersey at Collingswood at it's
meeting in July.
Thomas Hastings, residing near
Laurel, has the largest watermelon
patch in Sussex county. 1t contains
about ), 900 hills. This week he
loaded five cars for northern
markets.
Miss Louise Marion Avery, daugh-
ter of the late Rev. w. E. Avery,
was married in Wilmington on We'd
nesday to DR.. Frederick James Bar
rett, prominent physician of New
York, by Rev. Charles A. Hill.
The report of the U. S. Commits
sioner of Internal Revenues shows
that 55, 4O2, 1856, 113 cigarettes were
consumed in the United States last
year, an average of 2,216 for each
smoker. The number of cigars
consumed was 1905, I'LL
James T. Shallcross of Middle
town a member of the State Board
of Agricultural and one of the best
known farmers of the State, has
determined to experiment with
Alaska wheat on his farm. He has
studied the subject considerably and
thinks that the grain will do we'll in
Delaware soil.
Members of the grange have de-
clared themselves in favor of going
to the General Assembly with
proposition to tax automobiles. for
the purpose of raising money to as
sist in building good roads. 1t is
claimed that automobiles do more
damage to roads than heavily loaded
wagons and therefore should pay for
it.
The peach season will close this
week, so farmers claim, with a very
small profit and loss to some for their
years work on the orchard. Hot
weather in the early season and wet
weather at ripening time combined
to rot the peaches and turn out a
very inferior brand of fruit.
October l has been fixed as the
date for the opening of the fine new
$3.50, 900 home of the Young Men s
Christian Association in Wilmington.
Prominent members of the organiza-
tion from all parts of the country will
be present at the dedication exer-
cises.
At meeting of the State Board
Of Health held in Camden last week
DR.. A. E. Frantz of Wilmington was
elected secretary and treasurer of the
S tate Board of Health to succeed
DR.. Alexander Lowber, deceased.
The new secretary is one of the best
known physicians In Wilmington and
has always bero stcd in health
matters, having been a member of
the Wilmington Board of Health for
some years. He bas been connected
with the State Board of Health for
some time. DR.. Frantz is probably
the first Homeopath ever selected to
the position.
The police of Milford have been
compelled to take up stray pigs run
ming at large in the streets of North
Milford, and heretofore the owners
have paid the fine, but in this case
the owner, Mr.. McCaffery. refused
to pay, and after keeping the pig the
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