Smyrna times., 1911-10-04

NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED
FROM ALL PARTS OF PENINSULA

Best News CulIed From the Three
Counties of Delaware About
Your Friends and Neighbors
James l. Boyce, Delaware student
at Oxford University sailed for
Europe this week to resume his
studies broad.
Robert W. Wiley has bought the
Charles A. Brown farm of 80 acres,
two miles northwest of Dover, for
SIS, 200.
James Kirby has sold his farm
along Murderkill river, 10 miles
northeast of Milford, to John r.
Watkins for 81, 400.
Detective Doris, of Clayton, took
to Dover Jail on Tuesday, Clarence
Hammond, charged with trespassing
on the railroad.
The New Castle Presbytery will
meet in Red Clay Creek Presbyterian
Church on the 9rd and 4th of Octo-
ber. The church is reached by troll
ley from Wilmington.
John Killen, 81 year old, brother
of Mrs. T. K. Jones and Thomas W.
Killen of Dover, died at his home
in Philadelphia and was buried last
Monday.
The subway at the Dover station
has been opened and an iron fence
placed between the tracks. The new
station will be ready for Use this
week.
j. H. Dodd, Charles Fearis and
Samuel O'Neal were arrested for
disorderly conduct at the Dover rail-
road station. Their fine and costs
amounted to SIS each.
The real estate of the late Phoebe
Thomas on Bradford Street below
Reed, Dover, was sold at public sale
last Saturday for $2,7OO. The Farm
ers' Bank was the purchaser.
The Dover Glee Club will sing at
the rally meeting of Rev. F. D.
= Reynolds at Dover M. P. Church on
Monday evening, and at the Gabriel
Mcclure lecture at First BAPTIST
! Church.
Eugene H. Murray, telephone
foreman, stricken blind at midday
last week, is recovering his sight
under treatment at Philadelphia S
Medico-Chirurgical Hospital.
Moore's mill recently destroyed
by fire near Dover, will be rebuilt as
soon as the insurance companies
Ie adjust the losses and the mass OF
as ruins can be cleaned away.
lg The following jurors from Kent
" county have been drwan for the U.
he S. District Court which meets ir
TO Wilmington: John B. Conner anc
ne Alex. M. Thomas of N. Murderkill,
lp Thomas Attix and Frank Moore, Of
st Kenton, John P. Hudson of Duck
Creek.
ls A systematic search is being
made for Henry Baer, of Rising
Sun, who disappeared two week:
ago while going from the farm Of
his brother Jacob, near Birmingham
q Schoolhouse, to the farm of hi:
- BROTHER John at Mount Pleasant, g
distance of eight miles.
i The State Live Stock Sanitary
, Board has employed DIR. Evans
Roberts, veterinarian of Milford
to look after the vaccinating Of hogI
a and live stock in that vicinity
& against cholera, which has been 81
q prevalent for the past two months
- during which time about $50 hog,
have died from cholera in Milford.
Patience Roberts, colored, o.
Middletown, claims to be los YEAR
of age. She is still active and ha
II a spendid memory. She was raiset
u near st. Georges and was a slav,
q belonging to the johnson family
~ The aged woman is a Delawarean ant
n was born in Kent county. She j.
y very religious and is a member O
~ the Bethel Church at Middletown.
n All over the line of the D. M.
X V. Railroad, which runs from Har
- rington to Rehoboth and FRANKLIN
u City, Va, the block system wen
u into effect Thursday, in complianc,
81 with a recent law passed by the las
SA congress, compelling all railroad
q to operatezunder the block system
u The d. M. & v. h as been one o
y the last to comply. The line ha
~ been marked off in blocks averaging
S9 from six to twelve miles.