Smyrna times., 1910-02-09
DELAWARE AND MARYLAND NEWS
Short NewsY Items of the Week
Cleaned from Our Exchanges.

The three-story double dwelling ,
of the late Thomas Foreaker, on
Division Street, Dover, was sold at
public sale, Saturday afternoon to
Henry l. Beers, Jr., for $1,800.
The Delaware Ice Company was
incorporated at Dover, Wednesday,
capital $100, 900. the incorporators
are Joshua D. Marvil, Albert W.
Robinson and Harry F. Marvil, all
of Laurel.
For the third consecutive meeting
of the Levy Court of Sussex county
no agreement was reached on the
question of a county road engineer,
and they failed to elect one Tuesday,
although another vote was taken at
the conclusion of the session.
The third annual dinner of the
Delaware Society of Norfolk, Va,
will be held at the Lorraine Hotel,
Norfolk, Saturday evening, March
26th, at 73O O'Clock. The society
has membership of nearly 100 and
is increasing in number all the time.
The number of failures on the
Maryland and Delaware Peninsula last
year was SO with S3l1, Oil. O5 in liza
bilities and S213, 656. 80 in assets. Of
the total number of failures 80 were
in Delaware, 81 in the Eastern Shore
of Maryland and in the two counties
of Virginia. which go to make up
the Maryland Delaware Peninsula.
The Delaware State Revenue and
Taxation Commission met on Tues
day with the Kent County Levy
Court to discuss the various ways
used by the Kent County Court in
raising and distributing funds and to
suggest means whereby a uniform
system of taxation and collection of
funds may be made throughout the
State. All three counties in Della
ware now have different systems of
taxation.
A. H. Lovejoy's lease at the Capt.
tol Hotel, Dover, expired Monday,
and he is succeeded by Mr.. Chares S.
Gray, of Brooklyn, N. Y, who took
possession on Tuesday. Lovejoy and
family have removed to Camden
temporarily, not being able to get a
suitable house IN Dover until spring,
when they will return there. Mr..
Lovejoy has accepted a position as
travelling salesman for a hardware
firm. He has also applied for a
Government position.
A large and enthusiastic meeting
of Dover horsemen was held in Dover
Tuesday, to discuss the advisability
of laying out a raceTt track on the
farm of Frank E. Maloney, one mile
south of Dover. An organization
! was effected by electing S. M. Har-
5 rington, president; DIR. j. R. Kuhns,
] secretary; Charles W. Postles,
} treasurer. A committee consisting
of j. E. Beck, Harry Mcdaniel Jr.
: Charles W. Postles and DIR. j. R.
Kuhns was appointed to secure sur
> veyor and have a track laid out a!
soon as deemed practicable.
John P. LeFevre, of Dover, deput,
prothonotary of Kent county, and w
Bateman Cullen, of East Dover
farmer. were elected captain ant
I second lieutenant, respectively, o
Company G. organized militia of Del
aware. The election passed of
in Dover Monday night and the choic
of LeFevre, who has peen a lieu
: tenant of the company, and Cullen
who has served as a sergeant, wa
practically unanimous. Under tn
new Federal statutes holding tn
militia subject to transformation int
n Federal troops at any time, bot
n men will have to pass searchin
n examination on edcational branches
n theory and practice and the manua
g. of arms, before an examining boar
a at the State Armory in Wilmington
IS With this in view it was though
that Lieutenant LeFevre and Sci
- geant Cullen were the only men
q the company capable of successful
d meeting this test.
IS The people who have to use tn
Milford postofice most, and are dis
ID comftted by its inadequate cond
lie tions, are asking the question in a
places where possible informatio
could be obtained. as to when tn
work of fininsing the building will /
IN resumed. Last Friday Mr.. List, WI
IT. represents the Surety Company fl
al the Lynch Brothers, went to MILFORD
IS and it was supposed that work wou
q go ahead at once; as he had instru,
g e tions from the bonding company
"a finish the work. Mr.. Wilson, wi