Smyrna times., 1908-06-10
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.

H. L. Vincent, 80 years old, is
dead at his home in Laurel, from
blood poisoning.
"Floral Mission Day." will be
observed by the New Castle w. c.
T. u, Tuesday.
Soft-shelled crabs are plentiful in
Sussex county. Large catches are
being made in Rehoboth Bay.
w. c. Mcdaniel of Atlantic City
will remove this week to Georgetown,
where he will form a county band.
Harry w. Hushebeck of New
Castle, has been appointed to 5000
clerkship in the office of County Treas
urer Burns.
The prospect for big wheat crop
is much better through Kent and
Sussex counties than for the past
few years.
John Albertina one of the two men
injured at the Wooddale quarres
Thursday, died in a Wilmington
hospital.
1t is predicted that John P. Hol-
and of Milford, will be nominated on
for Governor on the first ballot by
the Democratic State Convention.
Wilmington Democrats have chosen
former Mayor Charles D. Bird, John
F. Malloy and Thomas F. Gormley,
members of the County Committee.
Miss Matte Boyd and Mr.. Frank
Morris, both of Townsend, were mar
ried at the manse by Rev. F. K.
Moore on Wednesday evening, June
Sd.
George Morrison, of New Castle,
the past week caught three sturgeon
which netted him $152, and Edward
Brown caught four, which netted
about $16O.
A batted ball struck Isaac Shears
in the eye during a game between
two scrub teams at Georgetown, and
it is feared he may lose the sight of
that eye.
Commencement week began at
the Milford High School last
night, when the junior class presented
its play followed by exercises by the
graduating class Monday, June 18th.
Nearly all the merchants of Mil
ford have formed an organization and
will close their stores at o'clock in
the evening except Wednesday and
Saturday, during the summer.
The Perry Brothers Manufacturing
Company has decided not to remove
their plant from Millsboro, but will
build an additional plant at Seaford,
where they have purchased three acres
of land.
Burglars entered the home of John
P. Redmond in Wilmington early
Saturday morning, and, blowing open
a safe secured $13O of the funds of
the local lodge of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen, of which Mr..
Redmond is secretary.
While preparing breakfast at her
home, on West Second street, Will
mington, Saturday morning, Miss
Alberta Donaldson accidentally ig-
nited oil that had run over the floor
from stove and was seriously
burned.
The two hundred and twenty-ninth
; anniversary of Old Swedes Church,
Wilmington, will be observed on June
Ia. The sermon will be preached by
Prof. F. J. Kisnman, the newly
elected bishop of Delaware.
Cards have been issued, announcing
the marriage of Miss Anna Lillian
Bordley, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
T. A. P. Bordley, formerly of Middle
town to Jefferson Sharpe Graves of
Washington, D. c., have been re-
ceived there.
A very quiet wedding was solem-
nized at the home of Mrs. K. Williams
near Odessa, on Wednesday morning,
when her youngest daughter, Miss
Elizabeth Craft Williams, was mar
ried to James Reynolds CHM of Den.
yer, Col. Mr.. and Mrs. CHM will
reside in Denver.
, A balloon owned by Col. Charles A.
Coey, of Chicago, left Quincy, Ill.
=. last Monday week at p. M, anC
landed near Clear Lake, South Da.
kota, at 5 o'clock next morning GOV.
ering over 800 miles in II hours, anc
securing the worlds speed record
with an average of rs miles an hour.
The official board of Wesley
, Church, Dover, at a special meeting
adopted resolution urging the Bel
Telephone Company to retain Auditor
j. H. Eckert in Dover if at all pos
!, sible. The company replied prompt
Iy, assuring favorable consideration
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