Smyrna times., 1912-02-07
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Interesting TENS From all Parts of the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
Neighbors and Their Doings.

CIliSOld FNOOul OQI anu
Neighbors and Their Doings.
Packers are closing contracts for
tomatoes at Laurel to be delivered
this year, the prices ranging from
$40 to S11 per ton. The outlook is
or a heavy pick in 1912.
Fruit buyers from New York,
Boston and other northern markets
have asked cantaIoupe growers
around Bridgeville, Georgetown and
other Sussex county points to in
crease their acreage this sumner.
A valuable gray horse, recently
purchased by ex-Judge Daniel o.
Hastings for his Dover farm, killed
herself in the stable by first get
ting fast with her feet in her stall
and in working loose drove some
nailed boards in her spine.
James Harris, President of the
Peninsula Horticultural Society, is
of the opinion that the peach crop
is seriously injured by the continued
extreme cold. 1t is generally |
thought that the peach buds are in
jured, but apples are reported un-
hurt.
Dover Conclave, No. 286 Improved |
Order of Heptasophs will hold their
annual banquet Tuesday evening,
Februay 18th. General Counsel J.
Olin Bryan will be the principal
speaker of the evening. The affair
will be held in the rooms of the
Dover Century Club.
About 300 famers in the vicinity
of Denton and Ridgely, Nd, have
signed an agreement not to contract
to plant tomatoes tor the coming
season for less than $11 per ton.
The price paid the past year was
SO per ton. Only a few years ago
the price was Sc. so per ton.
William Ellison, of Camden, was
in Dover last week and gave out the
information that after a personal
canvass from the extreme lower end
of the State up he finds two out of
every three republicans interviewed
in favor of Theodore Roosevelt for
the nomination for President.
Malcom Frazer, of Newark, who
was killed by his automobile skid
ding was taken to West Nottingham
Cemetery and buried beside his
brother, Joseph H. Frazer, the rail
road contractor, who died in Bolivia.
Joseph made a fortune in South
America of $500, 900. 1t was divid-
ed equally between his parents and
two brothers-Stanley and Malcom.
. For the first time since 1906, the
American Ice Company has har-
vested ice at Perryville, Md. They
have stored there over 20, 900 tons
of excellent 10 and IL inch ice.
Some 400 or 500 men were employed
at 20 to 25 cents per hour, which
caused. the expenditure of abou
$50, 900. The force has now beer
transferred to the Hudson river, N.
Y.
The new M. P. Church at Laure
has recently been the beneficiary Of
Andrew Carnegie's check for S90(
toward a pipe organ fund. Mr..
Carnegie was appealed to by the
pastor, Rev. Avery Donovan, in be-
half of the organ, and responded
with donation of half the cost oi
the instrument the other half to bC
raise by the congregation.
A spirited revival Is in progres!
at Roby M. P. Church, Leipsic, un
der the direction of the pastor, Rev
F. d. Reynolds. Sunday last L
new converts joined the church
There have been about 80 conver
sions during the meetings which
will continue indefinitely. Rev
Leach, of Baltimore, assisted wit
the meetings last week.
Mr.. Clarence Clark, oldest son o
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Clark, o
Crumpton Md, died IN the Samari
tan Hospital, Philadelphia, of ty
phoid-pneumonia, on Saturday, Jan
uary 20, 1911, aged 20 years. Fun
eral services were held in tn
Crumpton M. E. Church, Rev. ]. H
Thornton and Rev. Nicholson offici
ating. Interment in Crumpto
cemetery.
Mr.. William Pratt died nea
I Chestertown on Sunday morning
January 28, of Bright's disease
aged 88 years. Funeral service
we're held from the undertaken
rooms of Undertaken W H. Kruse
in Still Pond on Tuesday mornin
Rev. ]. H. Beauchamp officiating