Smyrna times., 1912-09-11
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Increasing Items From all Parts of the
Peninsula About Your Friendsand
Neighbors and Their Doings.

FenlnSula ABOUT IOur FrtenQSanQ
Neighbors and Their Doings.
While opening oysters, Charles Le-
gates, of Georgetown, cut one hand
through to the bone.
Miss Louisa Wagner, of Cecil
county has been appointed principal of
the public school at West Grove, Pa.
Albert c. johnson, bookkeeper at
the Elkton Pulp Works, has resigned
his position and started for Missouri
to study OsteOpathy.
The engagement of Miss Dora R.
Price, of Middletown, and George B.
Robertson, of Whaleyville, Va, was
formally announced on Wednesday.
Claiming that the present charge
are excessive, fish dealers at Ocean
City, Md, are making a fight for
better rates from the express COM
panies.
While bathing at Princess Anne,
Md, Monday afternoon, Miss Violet
Kemkp, and Miss Margaret DickersOn
aged Is and IA years respectively,
were drowned.
Fishermen along the Mispillion
River made strong protest to the
State Fish Commissioners and the State
Board of Health against the dumping
of tomato refuse and acid from can
ming factories into the river.
Henry Wilkinson, Editor of the
Ridgely Sun, and leading Democrat
of that section, has been commissioned
by Governor Goldsborough justice of
the peace for the town of Ridgely,
Nd
After a brief illness, Mrs. Sarah
Wiley Hubbard, wife of William L.
Hubbard, president of the Hubbard
Fertilizer Works, died in Baltimore
Tuesday. Mrs. Hubbard who was 81
years of age, was native of this
state and formerly resided at Wyom-
ing, this county.
Preparing for the manufacture of
their celebrated plum pudding, the
Richardson & Robbins Company re-
ceived a carload of raisins Wednes-
day. The shipment was from Fresno,
California, and the freight charges
were $44O. A.
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth D
Robinson and Leroy C. Stevenson
both residing near Milford, was sol
emnized at Wesley M. E. parsonage il
Georgetown on August Is. The wed
ding has been a secret and when
became known this week create
somewhat of surprise among thei
many friends.
The small band of gypsies VIII
recently came to Smyrna went
Dover and during their short stay ther
proved to be the most persistent fol
tune tellers at large. The wome
feeced several citizens of amount
ranging from SO cents to $50
two cases Sheriff Raughley compellt
Lnem 10 IGluuu JilC CoSils
Rev. Alfred Smith, who has bee
= temperance secretary of the Methodi
= Episcopal Church of the United State
= has resigned on account of the conti
uous illness of Mrs. Smith, and h
been appointed by District Superinte
9 dent Robert Watt to fill pulpit
. Galena, Md, M. E. Church, ma
= vacant by the illness of Rev. Lewis
George Walls, an elderly gentl
= man. who resided in South Milfor
9 died at his home on Friday, Augu
3Oth, 1912, aged rs years. M
Z Walls was a veteran of the Civil w
. and had drawn a pension for yeai
Heshad been i'll for several years pa:
= A wife survives him. Funeral Sc
vices and interment was made at 0
Fellows Cemetery.
= The prospects are good for
= largest yield of Keiffer pears eN
garnered in Sussex. The trees l
z so overburdened with fruit that til
9 are literally breaking down.
growers have put props under
= largest limbs to prevent them bre;
ing off, so overburdened are Il
with fruit. Apples are also unusa
z plentiful and cider for fodder saw
is more plentiful than it has been
. many years.
= While at work painting the bui
ing on Mrs. Cuthbert Green's far
the Wheatland, near Middleton
. one day last week, Owen 7. Cha
and Walter Shaw fell twenty-five
to the ground. The accident '
Z caused by the breaking of the lad
scaffolding on which they were wo
ing. Mr. Shaw was taken to