Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1909-02-17
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.
The farmers of Jones' Neck near
Dover, have signed an agreement to
grow no tomatoes for less than 10
cents a basket and not by the ton.
John ]. MINER of Magnolia, and
Miss Sallie Bailey daughter of
George Bailey, were married at
home in Lebanon, by Rev. Hugh
Kelso.
Governor Pennewill on Tuesday ap-
pointed Edward w. Jenkins of Dover
a member of the State Board of Ag-
riculture for Kent County to succeed
A. w. Slaymaker, term expired.
Captain Thomas Muncy killed two
wilds geese on Mahon's marsh, Sat-
urday which weighed II pounds. Mr..
and Mrs. Muncy entertained a few
of their friends at roast goose din
ner on Monday.
The stock of the proposed First
National Bank of Woyming, has been
over subscribed. A new building will
be erected and the bank, which is to
have capitalization of S25, 900 will
open and be ready for business next
May.
The forty-frst session of the Will
mington Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence will begin on March II in the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Mil
ford. The conference will be pre-
sided over by Bishop David H Moore
whose residence is Cincinnati.
Governor Pennewill has honored his
predecessor, Ex-Governor Lea, by ap-
pointing him a member of the State
section of the Board of Trustees of
Delaware College, to fill vacancy,
the Board having declared vacant the
seat of Trustee J. Edward Addicks,
because of absence from meetings
The marriage of Professor Oliver
Clark Short, late principals assis-
tant in the Dover High School, and
Miss Katharine May Alton, a primary
teacher in the Dover public schools,
for the last three years and half,
took place last week in Baltimore,
and the couple are now on wedding
trip after which they will live in
Sayre Pa.
The four-masted schooner Sarah
r W. Lawrence from Newport News
for Boston, went around off Cape
HenlOpen during the gale on Wednes-
day and is a total loss. The crew of
eight and the captains wife were
saved by the Henlopen life savers.
Oil portraits of former Governors
Preston Lea and John HUM, and
former Lieutenant. Governors l. Thos.
Parker and Phillip L. Cannon are to
adorn the walls of the Senate and
House Chambers, along with the
paintings ad portraits of other former
governors of the State.
1t is estimated on February I'd
that there were 80, 200 to 40, 900
bushels of oysters on boats in Cam
bridge harbor and about 25, 900 bu-
shells in the oyster houses. That sup
ply is sufficient to last the packers
until March, and, in consequence,
the price is the lowest for many
years.
Governor Pennewill of Delaware.
and staff have notified Congressman
Hiram R. Burton that they will be
present at the Inauguration. The
Governor will lead the Delaware
troops in the parade and will be
quartered in the Ebbitt House. Prac.
tically the entire National Guard of
Delaware will be included in the
parade.
Henry B. Thompson will be Della.
wares representative on the com.
mittee which is to act as escort t.
President-elect Taft on March 4. Mr.
Thompson is treasurer of the JOSEPH
Bancroft & Sons Company, of Will
mingtOn, textile manufacturers son
in-law of General James H. Wilson
U. S. A., (retired); trustee O
Princeton University, from which h
graduated.
Delaware's new board OF Pardon
met and organized by the selection o
Lieutenant Governor Menindhall a
president and Secretary of Stat
Daniel o. Hastings, secretary. TIL
new board had no business before j