Smyrna times., 1911-11-29
NEWS OF THF DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Interesting Items From All Parts of
the Peninsula About Your Friends
and Neighbors and their Doings.

Work has been begun on the new
Methodist parsonage in Northeast,
Md.
Hagerstown orchardists are urg-
ing the erection of cold storage
plants on a cooperative basis.
The frame structure Of Taylor W.
McKenney's new garage in Elkton
was completely demolished by high |
winds last week.
Bitten on one hand by a fox
hound, W. H. Waters, of Walnut |
Grove, Md, is being treated at the
Pasteur Institute.
The September Government crop
report indicates the yield of poatoes
this years to be 25O, 900, 900 bushels
about 900, 900, 900 bushels less than
last year.
Married, November %, at the
Baptist parsonage Dover by Rev. ].
W. Weddell Charles H. Hall and
Miss Beatrice Pleasanton, both of
Little Creek.
Woodward Cooper, of Frederick,
and Miss Nancy Hoey, of Washing
ton, D. c., were united in marriage
Wednesday, November %, at Wash
ington, D. C.
Sheriff Raughley has sold the
property of Edward j. Hallman and
Mary E. Hallman, his wife, in
North Murderkill hundred, consisting
of about % acres to James M. Satter-
field, attorney, for 81, 800.
Mrs. Frances T. Gatta, of Will
mington, has sued the railroad COM
pany for S25, 900 for the death of
her hubsand who was crushed be-
ween cars.
General Bixby chief of army en-
gineers, recommends in his annual
report an appropriation of So, 900, 900
for the 35-foot channel in the Della
ware river.
On Monday, November 20, Miss
Ida Gibson, OF Wilmington, and
: Thomas Bayard Johnson, of Rising
Sun, were married at the home of
the groom's sister, Mrs. Charles F.
Lilley, in Dover, by Rev. W. E.
Greenfield of Wilmington.
Trophy Grange of FELTON, has pur-
chased the Boone property on West
Main street, FELTON,, and will build
a fine hall on the site where former
ly stood two old frame buildings.
The building will be occupied next
summer.
Congressman Heald- has been
fortunate in obtaining improved
quarters for the postoffices at Mil
ton, Clayton and New Castle, and
this week conferred with the P. O..
Department about securing more
suitable quarters for the postoffice
at Middletown.
Cards have been issued for the
goth annual dinner of the Sons of
Delaware which will be held at the
Bellevue-Stratford Philadelphia on
Thursday evening December Z start
ing at O'Clock. December is the
anniversary of the day on which
Delaware ratified the federal con-
stitution.
Declared the champion grower OF
pumpkins for years, William N.
Dorsey, who lives on the edge of
Milford has come forward with one
tipping the scales at 700 pounds.
The vine OH which this mammoth
pumpkin grew is over 300 feet long.
The residence adjoining the new
Capitol building in Dover, on the
corner of the Green, for years oc'
cupied by Chancellor John r. Mich.
olson, and still owned by him, ha;
been temporarily leased by Register
in Chancery Romulus Hopkins, who
will reside there.
Lieutenant Elvid Hunt, instructor
Inspector of the militia, the Regular
Army Official assigned to Delaware
by the Government, drilled the
Dover militiamen Monday night
Company G is preparing for it,
annual inspection which has beer
ordered for this week.
Mrs. Mary Lohand, one of the
wealthiest women in Delaware, diet
Monday of last week at her resi-
dence in Milford. She was tn,
wife of the late DR.. Mark Lofand
and the mother of DR.. James, P
Lofland and Harry Lofand, an ,ex
! perienced engineer. Mrs. Lohant
D was 72 years old.
On Wednesday and Thursday, De
4 oapobar an z fbara will he a Dala