Smyrna times., 1912-10-02
NEWS Of THE 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.

Peninsula About Your Friends and
NeIghbors and their Doings.
John Harrington, a Milford farmer,
was badly bitten on one hand by
hog.
Work has been begun on the new
$12, 1000 Baptist church in Havre de
Grace.
Extensive Improvements have been
started upon the Cherry Hill Methodist
Church.
Lyel Leithiser, of Havre de Grace.
has been appointed teacher of chem
istry at Tome Institute.
The Cecil County Commissioners
have sold to Townsend, Scott & Son,
of Baltimore, S25, 900 worth of road
bonds at 1O5.11.
Lewis B. Harvey, of Harvey Station,
on Sunday celebrated his ninety-third
birthday anniversary, still hearty and
active.
While playing football, Elmo New
man, of Georgetown, was thrown
against barbed-wire fence and badly
| lacerated.
A Wilmington concern has Just
completed a combination automobile
fire engine for the Fire Department
of Easton. Pa.
Harold Wilson, of Middletown. has
accepted a position in the Walden
University, at Nashville, Tenn. and
has left for that place.
Frank Danberg wanted in Whining
ton for the alleged embezzlement of
$4,000, is under arrest in Wheeling,
w. Va, awaiting extradition.
Progressive mass-meetings have
been planned for many towns in Sus-
sex county in the next two weeks
when candidates on the State ticket
will address the voters.
William Miller, colored, was fined
$50 and costs and sentenced to two
months in the workhouse by the Will
mington General Sessions Court for
selling liquor without license.
jackson Edmunds, the negro arres-
ted by the Wilmington police with
two big revolvers and many cartridges
in his possession, was declared insane
and removed to Farnhurst.
Mrs. Henry Ridgely and Miss Phyllis
Ridgely, of Dover, went to Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, last week where Miss
Ridgely will remain and attend Vassar
College.
Senator H. A. Richardson and wife
of Dover, have returned from Front
enac, Thousand Islands, where they
occupied their summer home during
July and August.
Harold B. Fox and Mary M. Shad-
dell, both of Philadelphia, went to
Dover Thursday evening, September
18th, and were married at Wesley
Parsonage by Rev. w. L. White.
John B. Saledan, of Chester, Pa,
and Miss Jessie McCardle, of Kent
county, this state, were married at
Wesley Parsonage at 10 O'Clock Sat
urday evening, by Rev. w. L. White.
George Wallace, of Syracuse, N.
bY., has sold to Leander Riddle, of
Glen Riddle, Pa, the champion saddle
horse, My Butterfly, for SIS, 600.
This is close to the record price paid
for saddle horse in this country
The Baker Brothers corn cannery at
Middletown closed for the season on
Wednesday morning after one of the
most successful seasons in the history
of the plant. Their total pack amount
ed to 35, 900 cases of corn.
The following Dover young men
have returned to their school duties
c. Burton Sypherd, George V. M.
Jones, George Ferguson, Mercersburg;
Oliver Lee Downes, U. S. Naval Ac-
| "NSiiy, 1AiliidPOiiS, mu. w dlISF OeT-
rickson, Swarthmore; Dick Wilson,
Cedarcroft, Kennett Square, Pa.
Leipsic is quite busy place now
in addition to the local cannery, large
quantities of tomatoes are being hauled
to that place for shipment to the
Campbell factory at Camden, N j.,
and the Heniz factory at Salem,
N. j.
The amount of express and baggage
has increased to such proportions on
the Delaware Railroad of late that
passenger trains were being delayed
by the time required to handle the
same. In order to overcome this two
additional trains were put on recently