Smyrna times., 1908-05-13
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.


While first reports indicated almost
a total loss of the Keiffer pear crop,
it is now found that some orchards
will have a good yield.
Detectives are investigating sew
eral cases of larceny at Seaford last
week. Two families had prepared ice
cream for guests and when they went |
to serve it it was gone.
Albert D. Racine, of Dover, last |
Saturday purchased the farm of John
G. Racine near Kirkwood, for 81, 800.
1t contains 81 acres and is located
partly in Pencader, New Castle and
Red Lion hundreds.
The Levy Court or Tuesday voted
to loan the benches in the third story
of the Court House at Dover, for use
in the post office park. The park
will be lighted by electricity by order
of Town Council.
At a congregational meeting of
Wesley M. E. Church, Dover, Chair
man T. J. Stevenson appointed a
committee of seven to purchase a new
carpet for the auditorium, as fol-
lows: Miss Mary E. Cannon, Mrs.
w. P. Goodwin, Mrs. James H. Hazel,
Mrs. James L. Walcott, Mrs. James
Pennewill, Mrs. N B. Smithers, Mrs.
T. K. Jones.
On Thursday, the last day of license
in Worcester, county, Md, the pro-
prietor of the Line Hotel, which
stands on the Delaware and Maryland
line, gave a large clambake, with
brass band accompaniment. The bars
are now all closed in Berlin, Snow
Hill, Ocean City, ETC., as a result of
the election last March. The entire
peninsula south of New Castle county,
Delaware, is now dry"
Lawrence Hartnett, of Hartly, has
bought part of the farm northeast
of Pearson s, consisting of 120 acres,
with one set of buildings. COnsidera-
tion, $5, 500. Albert Babbitt and
his son, Grover, have divided their
farm one mile east of Hartly, and
both parties are erecting new dwell
lings and outbuildings. George Perry,
who has bought tract of land north
of Hartly, is also erecting new
buildings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Xavier Martin Brock
of New Berne, North Carolina, have
issued invitations to the marriage OF
their daughter, Miss Katharine
Brock, to Willis c. Jenkins, OF
Wyoming. The wedding will take
place at Christ Church, New Berne,
on the morning of May 9th. BOtF
parties are we'll known here Miss
Brock having taught in the schools
of Kent County for several years
while Mr.. Jenkins is a prominen
business man of Wyoming.
The Wilmington Conference Acad
emy will hold it's commencement
Sunday exercises on June 7th, at 10. 3
a. m. Professor E. L. Cross, tn
- principal of the institution, has pre-
pared an unusually fine programs fO
this event. He has secured Bisho
Daniel A. Goodsell who presided a
the last session of the Wilmingto
Conference, held in Wilmington las
March, to preach the baccalaureat
I sermon to the graduating class, an
! the evening exercises will be befor
the school, when Rev. John M. A
1 ters, field secretary of the Anti
/ Saloon League for this Peninsula
will preach. The program for thi
years commencement will be publish
/ ed later in these columns.
Frank w. Donovan, of Georgetown
! died of cancer of the face on Sur
day May 4th, after a lingering il
+ ness, aged 81 years. Mr.. DOnova
I was well-Inown throughout the state
{ He had been in the employ of IL
I government for several years as gal
I ger of liquors. For several years
3 alternated in his work between Dov,
+ and Georgetown where the bondt
: warehouses were located for tn
8 district. He made many friend
+ He leaves a widow and one daughte
Z Mrs. Mark w. Cole, of Dover, al
q one son. Mrs. Sallie Owens, h
I mother, still lives in Georgetown
I Mrs. J. ]. Morris, of Dover, is
Z sister of the deceased.
! In Hon. John P Holland, of Mi
Z ford, Delaware has the honor of sen
= ing the youngest lay delegate to Il
General Conference of the Method
Episcopal Church, now in session
Baltimore, that was ever elected
:, that body. He was elected as a del
gate by the Lay Conference held
Wilmington last March, when t
annual session of the clergy met