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Peninsula About Your Friends and
Neighbors and Their Doings.
Falling from a Wilmington car,
Edmund Fitch broke an arm and
sprained leg.
William Murray has been elected
president of the trustees of Zion,
Md, Presbyterian Church.
Public subscription is being raised
to build a boardwalk along the
Lewes beach from the Ocean House
to the Iron Pier.
DR.. ]. G. Dawson, secretary of
the Milford Board of Health. has
been appointed local Sub-Register
of Vital Statistics.
Thrown from her horse when boys
scared him, Mrs. Elmer E. Riggin,
of Laurel, was picked up uncon-
scious.
Rev. William Clews was installed
as pastor of Chesapeake City, Md,
Presbyterian Church Thursday
night.
J. R. Cameron, Road Supervisor
for the Ninth district of Cecil
county, Md, has rendered his resig-
nation.
Because Alfred L. Jones, of New
ark, refused to answer in City
Court, Wilmington, as the Judge or
dained, he was locked up for sc
hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel L. Fell, of
Wilmington, last week celebrated
the ffty-frst anniversary of their
wedding, MIR. Fell being n and
his wife 72.
Miss Mary Condit has resigned
from the faculty of the Girls High
School, Tome Institute, Port De
posit, Md, to accept a position in
Pratt Institute, Baltimore.
DR.. Thomas S. Baker, director of
Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Nd. d.
is being prominently mentioned for
the presidency of Johns Hopkins
University.
Company E. M. N. G., Elkton,
has elected Charles B. Finley, Jr. a.,
first lieutenant, to succeed DR.. H.
A. Mitchell, and Dory Foster, Sec
ond lieutenant.
Charged with illegal freight
riding, Edward Shea, Charles Stew.
art AMI Charles Baker, all white,
from Philadelphia, were sentenced
to Is days in Elkton. Md. Jail.
Mrs. Charles NJ. Wharton, Of
Dover, is entertaining Mr.. anc
Mrs. Louder T. Layton. of Phila.
delphia, and Mrs. Ashcraft. Of
Smyrna.
Ensign G. Benjamin Hoey, of the
U. S. S. Georgia, who has been al
target practice off Hampton Roads,
is spending a few days in Dover
with his mother, Mrs. Alice Hoey.
The oyster planting season opened
Monday, April Is. Quite a feet il
busy dredging on the natural beds,
selling plants to down east buyers,
making Mahons very busy place
at present.
While playing with an ak, Mary,
the 4-year-old daughter of Mr.. ano
Mrs. William Fitzgerald, of New
Valley, Md, almost severed three
fingers from a hand of her 2-year.
old sister.
Prof. Daniel S. Ellis, aged 7E
years. for years principal of the
Milford public schools, died Thurs.
day last. Deceased was the father
of Mrs. William K. Knight, near
Dover, and for a number of years
resided in Camden.
Capt. Henry Hudson, of Milton,
who is in his 9th year, had a baC
fall few days ago, and as the re
suit one side of his face is very
much discolored, but he is seer
taking his daily walks as usual, anC
most of the time without the as
sistance of cane.
Ex-Governor John HUM, Senator
Conner and John Carrow, the com
mittee appointed by the directors o.
The First National Bank of Dover,
were in Philadelphia last week will
]. E. Beck, of Dover, and purchased
the furniture for the new banking
house which will be at Dover tn,
first week in April.
The State Woman's Christian
Temperance Union has engaged Mrs
May Sparks, of New Jersey, for tn,
u month of May, and her work will