Smyrna times., 1910-07-13
DELAWARE AND
MARYLAND NEWS
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Best News Culled From the Three
Counties of Delaware About Your
Friends and Neighbors.


Friends and Neighbors.
Friends of Hope H. Barrell, of
Kent county, have started a boom
for him to succeed James Alfred
Pearce in 1912.
The Circuit Court of Cecil county
has granted Charles E. Warburton a
divorce from his wife, now of Phil
adelphia, on the ground of desertion.
Cecil Peoples, son of Speaker of
the House Adam Peoples, of Port
Deposit, has been removed to the
Cecil County Hospital for an opera
tiOn for appendicitis.
In order to devote his time to
farming, the Rev. S. S. Hepburn,
for several years rector of st Lukes
P. E. Church at Church Hill, has
rendered his resignation.
Deputy Attorney General Josiah
o. Wolcott has taken the Marshall
Cottage, Lewes Beach, for the sea-
son.
Bethany Beach will issue 5 per CEN
30-year bonds to pay off an indebtedt
ness incurred through building a
boardwalk and better sidewalks.
Taking fright at blowing paper,
horse driven by William O'Neal,
of Seaford, ran away, wrecking the
carriage and injuring O'Neal.
The heaviest storm of this summer
passed over Sussex County Monday
night of last week doing a great deal
of damage. Growing corn was bent
to the ground.
David Mosley has sold his fast
pacing colt, Baby Russell, to Harry
Cullen, Jr., of Philadelphia, who IS
summering at Leipsic. The price
was over $500.
About sixty yards of sand now re-
mains to be dug, when an open
waterway will be completed between
Virginia and Delaware from the
ChincOteague Bay to the Indian river.
After years of continued petition
ing. the Pennsylvania Railroad has
given lower Delaware an early
morning mail train, which takes the
mail and newspapers to Delmar about
10 O'Clock.
Caleb Sipple Layton, a recent
graduate of the University of Penn
sylvania, and son of DR.. Caleb R.
Layton. has been admitted to the
Sussex County bar, having passed a
satisfactory examination.
James H. Hughes, ESQ.,, and fam
lily, of Dover, spent the Fourth al
Chester and Atlantic City. Mr..
Hughes was taken ill at Chester,
where he has since been threatened
with typhoid fever,
With an upturned Iowboat found
adrift on the Indian River immed.
lately after the heavy storm MONDAY
afternoon, word is being sent al
through the country to ascertain O.
any persons missing.
In a spirit of play while leading {
calf at Rising Sun, little JOSEPH
Hunter, Jr., coiled the end of tn
rope around his neck. The cal
started to run, throwing the boy t.
the ground, the drawn rope badl,
lacerating his neck.
The Rev. E. P. Perry, of tn
Georgetown Methodist Protestan
Church, having been engaged in
contest recently, has been successful
in winning a trip, with all expense
paid, to Italy and through Europ
and return.
William P. Lindale, a well-knowr
resident of Wyoming, who was know
throughout Kent County as a success
full miller, died Sunday morning il
his 87th year. The funeral was he'll
Tuesday of last week, interment wa:
made at Odd Fellows Cemetery
Camden.
Former Senator John F. Dawson
one of Caroline county's best know
citizens, and Miss Addie Coursey
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Coursey
of Greensboro, and the late Thoma
Coursey, were united in marriage a
the home of the bride in that plac
on Wednesday evening last, the Rev
j. P. Otis, pastor of the Methods
Episcopal church, officiating. Only
few friends were invited and tn
marriage was a quiet one.
Pew Short Weeks