Smyrna times., 1910-10-12
DELAWARE AND
MARYLAND NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED
FROM ALL PARTS OF PENINSULA

Friends and Neighbors.
Records, Trinity and Burris country
schools have been closed on account
of the prevalence of diptheria.
Georgetown school boys have
formed the first basketball team ever
known in Sussex county.
While working in a canning fac
tory near Frederick, Albert Wallen
lost three fingers in the machinery
Mrs. Sarah Benn, of Dover, has |
sold her dwelling on Governors |
avenue to Mr.. Cole, the oil man,
for $4,000 cash.
Because Milton has opened a new
postoffice, Joshua B. Gray one of |
the new rural mail carriers, will use
new automobile in carrying his
mail.
Thrown from a team which he was
driving, George Nibblet of Harbeson,
was seriously injured when more
than two tons of gravel passed over
him.
Vocal instructions will be intro
duced in the Georgetown High
School, one of the present teachers
having volunteered 10 take charge of
the work.
Shortly before daylight Wednes-
day morning fire broke out in the
Belair, Md, electric light plant and
in short order the pant was entirely
destroyed.
While the season for shooting
quail, rabbits and woodcock does
not open until November Is, the wild
duck season is now on and the ducks
are fine and afford great sport.
William Salisbury, who ha- been
elected chairman of Kent County's
Democratic Central Committee, as
sumed his new duties last week as
did Crawford Graham, the secretary.
About three miles of graveled
road has been completed from
Georgetown toward Milford, and now
the officials of Milford will be asked
to extend their gravel road the same
distance toward Georgetown.
The judges of the Superior Court
now sitting in Georgetown have an
nounced that hereafter, all divorce
cases will be heard the first after
noon in every term instead of the
Saturday in the first week.
Captain Maurice Doody, aged 5e
years, was drowned in the st. Jones
River, at Bowers Sunday, October 2.
The body was recovered Thursday anc
interment was made at Holy Cross,
Cemetery.
Mrs. Mary B. Lane has presented
y to the Methodist Church of New
Castle, a family Bible, which has
been in the Lane family for SO years
in memory of her son, who died las
Christmas in st. Louis.
Infantile paralysis. which is epi
1emic in Cecil county, Md, ha
claimed its first victim in Elkton
when the five-year- son of M. F
Woodall, of Elkton, died from tn
disease, and two other children il
the same house are down with it.
State Auditor Theodore Townsen
has qualified and assumed his duties
succeeding the late Auditor Thee
dore F. Clark. Mr.. Townsend ha
& appointed as his deputy auditc
Amos A. Watson, of Dover, who hs
filled the office for the past Nv
years.
The Milford Fire Department hs
secured the services of an expei
fireman of the New York City De
partment to drill the members
its company in fire fighting. II
instructor is confident that in a sho
4 time he will have one of the be-
n sets of fire fighters in the Stat
b outside of Wilmington.
u Contractor George E. Cofi n had
narrow escape a few days ago
Dover, when a carpenter working
the second second story Of the Miss
y Wise dwelling dropped sharp CHS
which missed Mr.. Coffin's head on
by very narrow margin. The sha
instrument passed through the mi
q die finger of his left hand.
While on her way to attend t
W. C. T. u. convention at Easto
Md, Mrs. Rachel Corse, of Bal
more, was stricken with paraly
on the steamer Cambridge. S
4 was taken back to Baltimore on
u same vessel and taken to privi
hospital, where she lies in a criti