Smyrna times., 1910-09-14
DELAWARE AND
MARYLAND NEWS
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Best News CulIed From the Three
Counties of Delaware About Your
Friends and Neighbors.
Junior Mechanics of Rock Hall,
Md, have begun the erection of a
building.
r. Frank Walls, of Milton, has
been chosen Republican County Com
mitteeman from that district.
The Town Commissioners of Ches-
terfield, Md, have decided to have
all the pavements laid of concrete.
1t is estimated that the buckle
berry crop in Sussex County this
year was worth at least $40, 900.
The State Agricultural Commission
of Maryland will hold a back to- the
farm movement meeting at Sails
bury.
There have been shipped from
Laurel this season 1913 carloads of
watermelons, averaging about HOO
to a car
Falling in line with other lower
Delaware towns, Bethel merchants
will hold a meeting this week to or
ganize a Board of Trade.
The Seaford Volunteer Fire De-
partment Band has been reorganized,
under the leadership of Charles Van
leer and William H. Miller.
Lee, Lawrence and Halsted Lay
ton, three Georgetown brothers, left
last week for trip through Mary
land and Virginia in their touring
car.
Work has been started on another
factory for the Seaford Potato Chip
Company to replace the one recently
destroyed by fire in West Seaford.
Returning home after an eight
weeks vacation on Lake George,
N. Y, the Rev. Wilmot Gateson
re-opened St. Paul Episcopal Church
in Georgetown, Sunday.
Thrown from a horse that became
frightened when bitten by snake,
Samuel Reynolds, a Red Turkey.
Md, farmer, was painfully injured.
William Lane, a farmer living
near Centreville, sustained a COM
pound fra" ture of one leg by being
kicked by horse while at work in
his stable.
The Seaford Public Schools open
ed Monday with Prof. Alexander
Harrington, of Milton, principal,
and Miss Alice C. Burchenal, of
Wilmington, vice principal.
Members of Mt. Olivet Methodist
Protestant Church at Seaford are
trying to raise enough money for the
purchase of a pipe organ for the
church.
Argus Workman, young man wht
was seriously cut with a razor b!
some unknown assailant as he wa
sitting in the park at the Laurel AM
Bethel Campmeeting Sunday evening
August %, is recovering.
A. B. Evans, well-know citizel
of Camden. stricken with typhoi
fever few days ago, died of tha
disease and was buried in Odd Eel
lows Cemetery. He was the young
est son of the late William K. an
Hannah Evans.
Residents of Sharptown. villag
on the Nanticoke River, ten mile
below Seaford, are pleased with tn
course chosen for the new count
drawbridge to be erected over tn
Nanticoke river at that point to re
place the old ferry boat, and wor
Will be started sometime this month
With over two hundred dollars
bank toward the building of Paris
Hall for St. Luke's Protestant Epii
copal Church at Seaford, members {
the vestry, choir and senior auxiliar
of the church are planning to give
number of local talent performance
in the Seaford Opera House durir
the coming winter months for tn
benefit of the building fund.
The Dover public schools opent
with big attendance last week al
the school buildings were found
be so crowded, because of the cor
pulsory education law, that temporal
rooms were fitted up in the KeI