Smyrna times., 1910-04-27
DELAWAR NEWS AND THE
EASTERN SHORE MARYLAND
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Counties of Delaware About Your
Friends and Neighbors.

Counties of Delaware About Your
Friends and Neighbors.
A tag social netted the Hopewell
Methodist Church, Cecil county, $25.
The new government fish Matching
station at Salisbury has been COM
pleted.
Herring are so plentiful in Big
Elk Creek that boys are catching
them by the hundreds with scoop
nets.
An order has been issued by the
Centreville Council strictly enforc-
ing the law against selling tobacco
on Sunday.
Emory. the fve-year- son of ].
w. Carter, of Wye Mills, was caught
in field roller, breaking his leg In
two places.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Frank B. Evans, a member of the
Elkton bar, and Miss Mary E. Hance
of Baltimore, on April Both.
The Seniors will give the Middle
Glass of the Dover Conference Acad-
emy reception at the Conference
Academy Hall, Thursday evening,
April 2S.
James B. Bice, the Lockerman
street merchant, had the misfortune
to step on a sharp nail at his place
of busin IS, which caused a painful
wound. He. is. however, recovering
without any serious effects.
The pupils of the Cambridge High
School realized $106 from the bazaar
given by them in the assembly room
of the High School last week. The
proceeds are Cor the benefit of the
school paper.
The remains of William B. Rich
ards, of Parkview, Portmouth, Va,
who died at the Union Protestant
Inirmary Baltimore, of acute indi-
gestion, were taken to Cambridge,
and buried in Cambridge cemetery,
There is considerab BILE talk of the
erection of a new school building in
Harrington to have twelve rooms and
to cost Sl2, 900 to SIS, 900. The pres
ent building is totally inadequate to
the enrolment, is not sanitary or up
to-date in school construction and
new building is very badly needed.
The men of Lewes held a meeting
last week at which the farmers were
instructed in the culture of broom
corn. The object of calling the
meeting was to get the farmers in
terested so the new broom factory
, recently built there could be able to
secure supply of broom corn.
Judge and Mrs. George Gray sail
from New ork on May 21 st, on the
White Star Line Steamship Celtic.
Judge Gray goes abroad as a mem
Der of the international court of ar
bitration, which will sit at the
Hague June 1st, to make an effort to
settle the fishing dispute between the
United States and Great Britain.
Cards are out announcing the COM
ing wedding of Miss Margaret Cham
bers, daughter of DR.. John W.
Chambers, of Baltimore, Md, and
L. Alan Dill. in Mt. Vernon Place
Methodist Episcopal Church, that
city, at 7.3O O'Clock, evening of April
Both. DR.. Chambers and family
have spent several summers at RAhc-
both, and the bride is we'll known in
Dover.
The Chesapeake Basket Factory
was destroyed by fire that broke out
about half-past ten o'clock Tuesday
night, entailing loss of probably
So, 900. The fire is supposed to have
originated in the engine room, al =
though but little fire was left in the
furnace. When the flames were
discovered the citizens of the town
all responded and by hard work sue
ced in confning the flames to the one
big frame building containing the
saw-milI and factory proper.
Thousands of feet of lumber were
moved and saved, and the stables
and other buildings were also saved.
The plant was owned by New Jersey
parties.
This is the season for planting
seed, and tbs also the printers time
of need. Sow radish seed, and lettuce
4nn nr,d nav the rrinfar what ever is