Smyrna times., 1912-01-24
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES

NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Interesting TENS From all Parts of the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
Neighbors and Their Doings.
Mrs. Curtis Morris died near
Bethel last week and was buried at
Greensboro, Md.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Evans, of near Leipsic, died
Thursday morning.
W. Oscar Hotfecker has removed |
from Dover to Wilmington, where
he has secured position with the
DUPONT Company.
= A pension has been allowed Mrs.
Sarah Poore, of Hartly, and Mrs.
Rachel Shoebrooks, of Marydel, each
$12 month.
Z The Grand Chapter of Delaware,
Royal Arch Masons, has donated
$500 toward the fund or the pur
chase of the new Masonic Home
near Wilmington.
Charles B. Marsh, a Georgetown
dairyman, lost a milch cow We'd
nesday night valued at $10O A few
days ago one of his cows gave birth
to a calf that weighed 100 pounds
which is the largest ever born in
that section of the country
DIR. John M. Downs, of Hazlett
Vile, one of the best known men of
this county died Thursday, January
11th after a prolonged illness. De-
ceased was born February l, 1924,
hence was in his 88th year. The
funeral took place on Sunday, when
interment was made at Odd Fellows
Cemetery, in Camden.
A family of seven stricken and
almost at deaths door with typhoid
fever is that of Alfred Mosley and
his six children residing at Even's
sawmill, near Cheswold. DR.. W. L..
Vaughn, the attending physician, at
tributes the wholesale calamity to
bad we'll water.
Mrs. Elizabeth Washington Sord-
en-, aged So years, of Caroline
County, died at the Aged Woman S
Home at Easton, Nd, on Tuesday,
January 9th, 1912. Mrs. Sorden,
who had been an inmate of the
home for eight years, was totally
blind. Her remains were inferred
at Harrington, Delaware.
It is a wellknown fact that TEN.
perature at or about five degrees be-
low zero is fatal to the peach bu:
on the Delaware and Maryland
peninsula; but most fruit grower!
feel confident that the cold weather
of last week when zero weather wa
experienced has not had damaging
results of a serious nature.
From 325 hens, George W. Halo
way, of Selbyville, gathered 96, so
- eggs during the year 1911, fror
which his sales averaged sc cent pc
dozen. His November sales wer
/. all 55 cents per dozen. During tn
first II days of December his sale
were 60 cents a dozen. Durin
} February of last year he used As G
! his hens and CTS eggs for hatchin
and during the same month of 2
days he gathered 43, 900 eggs frol
280 hens.
Mrs. Robert P. Wilson, of Buffalo
Z. N. Y, daughter of the late Judg
) James Murdock Smith, has issue
Z invitations for a large reception I
2 be given on January 25th in hone
of her guests, General and Mr.
! Steward L. Woodford, of New Yorl
: who have just returned from Europ,
: General Woodford was sometin
Z since United States Minister
: Spain and was also President of Il
: Hudson Fulton Celebration in Ne
z York two years ago.
: John Boone, chief clerk of II
Z plant department of the Diamol
z State Telephone Company, had
: narrow escape Thursday mornir
: from asphyxiation at his boardil
= house on State street, Dove
: Workmen had been at work on o.
Z of the gas fixtures in his room
2 the afternoon and had left a scre
: loose, from which gas escaped {
= night. Others in the house, risil
9 early in the morning, detected t
odor of gas and began an investig
z tion. Boone was aroused later a
= in starting from his room fainte
: A physician was summoned, final