Smyrna times., 1908-07-22
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.
Falling from a hayloft, Richard,
the 4-year-old son of Joseph w.
Lynch, of Rehoboth, broke his arm.
With several large factories lying
idle, Lewes citizens have started
proposition to rebuild them for
large continuous cannery.
Attacked with an axe by prisoner,
Sheriff Pritchett had stirring tussel
in the Georgetown Jail yard, but
succeeded in disarming the man.
While engaged in a fight at
Hocker's Landing, on the Indian
River, Thomas Harmon, of Reho-
both, was kicked, perhaps fatally in
the abdomen.
Mrs. Arthur B. Wilson won the
1O-pOund prize cake at the Rose
Hill Sunday school picnic at Cofeld
Beach, in the 5O-yard dash for heavy
women.
Commander Craven, of the Hen
lOpen Lighthouse district, has been
transferred to sea service, and
Lieutenant Commander H. A.
Bispham has taken his place.
Thursday July 80, will be
Governors day" at Camp Hall of
the First Delaware Infantry at
Rehoboth, VIXEN Governor Lea and
staff will review the regiment.
The fishing Schooner Colonel
Thomas F. Austin, which was ashore
on Dead Mans Shoal, in the Della
ware Bay, has been pulled off and
tOwed to Philadelphia by Lewes tug.
William B. Gregg, son of the
late Rev. William B. Gregg and G.
Anna Gregg of Kenton, died on July
at st. Vincent's Hospital, Indian
apolis, Ind, following ,an operation.
The State militia will 90 into
camp at Rehoboth July 25. A detail
will arrive on the 22nd to put up
tents and have everything ready
when the regiment reaches there.
Fruitland Grange held an open-air
meeting last Saturday afternoon at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Bancroft
near Camden. A musical and
literary program was rendered, in
addition to the business session
followed by refreshments.
After a trip of four days through
the lower part of the State, Secre-
tary Wesley Webb of the Horticul
tural Society concludes that there
will be half crop of peaches in that
section.
United States Engineer Flagler is
arranging to transfer the Whining
ton office to Major Deakyne, of
Philadelphia, on July 80. Major
Flagler leaves for his new post at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Captain
Rand, now on duty at West Point.
later will be placed in permanent
charge of the Wilmington office.
Miss Mary H. Maxwell, for
several years assistant principal of
the Middletown High School, has
rendered her resignation. Miss
Maxwell has been offered a more
lucrative position in the Atlantic
City public school but has not
accepted it.
The Odd Fellows are now the
largest fraternal organization in the
world, extending into twentv-six
countries and thirty states of the
United States. 1t out numbers all
other organizations, having a member
ship of 1900, 900 and contributing
Sl4, 600, 900 year for relief
purposes. 1t was started in Balti-
more by Thomas Wildey April &c
l8l9., with five members.
The county school commission has
been notified that the commissioners
of the public schools of Houston have
yielded to the commissioner pres
sure and will build a new schoolhouse
to take the place of one where fiftv-
eight children were forced into a
room with only twenty-eight seats.
j. Bayard Cook, of Dover, aged
70 years, son of Mr.. and Mrs. !
Charles Cook, died at the White
Haven Sanitarium, of consumption. |
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon, in FELTON, M. E. Church, |
conducted by Rev. E. C. Sunfeld:
lnterment at Barrett's Chapel
Cemetery.
A circular letter has been sent to
the people of the neIawara n;o,o,o