Smyrna times., 1910-08-31

Best News CuIled From the Three
Counties of Delaware About Your
Friends and Neighbors.
The interior of the Dover Opera
House is being thoroughly renovated
and frightened up.
Fur cows belonging to Thomas
Williams, of near Bridgeville, died
from eating nitrate of soda.
State Auditor Watson, of Dover,
has been in Georgetown looking over
the accounts of the country officials.
The Seaford Potato Chip Company
will erect a new building in West
Seaford to replace the old one de-
stroyed by fire recently.
Owing to poor health. John Mccoy,
who has been an employee of the
Dover postOffice for the past forty
years, has resigned his position.
Miss Elizabeth Long, of Lewes,
has been elected principal of
the High School, and Miss Matthews
will teach in the grammar depart
ment.
Tripping over piece of planking
at the Beebe boatyards at New
Castle Villain Johnson went into
the Delaware river, but was rescued
by a number of men near by.
]. B. Belts, of Millsboro, rece ived
word from his dealers in New York
Friday that he had cleared just So
cents on 28 baskets of peaches he had
shipped.
Petitions have been sent from Re-
hOboth, Lewes, Georgetown, Milford
and other towns asking the Pennsyl-
vania railroad to continue its summer
schedule during the winter.
By the report of Insurance Com
missioner Maull, recently issued, the
people of this State carry SAL, O99, GA
of life insurance, and pay 81, 442, 443
in premiums.
The watermelon crop in Queen
Anne county is the largest for seve-
raj years and good prices are also
being realized by the growers.
Jumping on a step in the rear of
a wagon and then falling backward,
Shelton, 5-year-old son of Joseph
Sewell, of Rock Hall, was seriously
injured.
Nineteen members of the Ushers'
Union of the Zion Methodist Church
are constructing a concrete walk
around and steps to the church and
parsonage.
DR.. Charles M. Ellis, of Ekton,
has been named by Governor Crothers
as a delegate to the Southern Com
mercial Congress which meets in
Atlanta October Z.
While ball game was in progress
at Havre de Grace, thieves entered
the lockers and stole watch, money
and jewelry belonging to the players
from Oxford, Pa.
The Cecil County Commissioners
have decided to replace the old
wooden covered bridge spanning
Stone Run, at Liberty Grove, with
an iron structure.
A railroad wreck in New York
State, which delayed several car
loads of Georgetown peaches on their
way to selling points caused heavy
loss to growers.
The presence of Bishop Quaye, of
Oklahoma Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference at the dedication of the new
church in Lewes next month is eX
pected to attract visitors from all
over Delaware.
George Bolan, an employee of the
Dover Machine Works, while work
ing at a lathe, had the misfortune
to get his right arm wedged in re-
volviDg cylinder. His arm was
fractured.
Charles Phillips, one of the
owners of Oak Orchard, on the In
dian river, has purchased the old
fixtures of the Millsboro postffioce,
and will erect private Office for the
accommodation of the Orchard sum-
mer cottagers.
Arrangements were made by
County Superintendent E. j. Hardes-
ty last week for the Sussex County
Teachers Institute to be held in
Armory Hall, Milford, the first
three days of Thanksgiving week.
November 21st, 22nd and 23rd. The