Smyrna times., 1912-10-23
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.


The owners of Milford's big shirt
factory will open it as soon as opera
tors can be obtained.
Struk by the handle of gasoline
engine, Edward Jones, of Rock Hall,
Md, sustained fractured arm.
Falling out of stable loft, Samuel
G. Caldwell, of Galena, Md, sutsain-
ed serious injuries to one shoulder.
Charles Bryson has bought the
100 acre CratsOn farm, in the Fourth
Cecil County Md, district, for $4,000.
The Wilmington Board of Trade has
appointed committee of 100 to Sc
cure fund of $25, 600 to boost the
city.
Milford Council has been petitioned
to have the sidewalks paved, but will
not take any action until next year.
The first year of the postal savings
system in New Castle showed AT pat
rons who deposited $4123 and with
drew $847.
A Milton canning factory has star
ted canning pumpkins and sweet po-
tatoes, and will keep running until
the first of the year.
The cholera attacked the mulefoot
hogs of Harry Price, of Chestertown,
Md, and laid them out as it does the
other kind.
The total cost of the Old Home
Week celebration in Wilmington last
week was about $5, 900, all of which
the city council will pay.
Charles M. Hammond has a quarter
of acre of peanuts growing at his
farm near Milford. He expects a
yield of $50 bushels.
Among those who took examinations
for the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford
University, England, this week, was
Elmer Blades, of Wyoming.
Several young men of Ridgley,
Md, started Saturday morning for
Southern California, where they in
tend to make ther future home.
The Christian Scientists of Will
mington, have obtained permit to
build $55, 600 church, 7Ox12O feet,
at Park Place and VanBuren street.
The Grand Lodge of Delaware, l.
o. o. F., will hold its 18th annual
session in Odd Fellows Hall, Will.
mington, on Wednesday, November
goth.
George A. Steele, of Baltimore,
Md, has sold the 96-acre Swane,
farm, in the Fourth Cecil county
Md, district, to Charles Jester fol
$4,000.
While working in corn field OF
one of the DUPONT farms, near Viii
mington, John Perry, aged so years
. dropped dead from heart disease.
Frank Danberg, charged with tn
embezzlement of $500, was held i
$4,000 bail for the Grand Jury b
Magistrate Buckley in Wilmington.
The Grand Lodge, Knights of Py
thias, in session at New Castle, re
ported a total membership of 1845
a net increase OF 218 for the year.
The total paid admissions to tn
: Havre de Grace, Md, race track dul
ing the recent 80 days meeting nun
bered 81, 346. Hartford County
share of the gate receipts was S6
4O8. 80.
The Delaware Red Cross Societ
has been asked by the national bod
for assistance in carrying on work
foreign countries where war is in pre-
gress.
Many wild geese have been seen
the vicinity of New Castle and Wi
liam Morris bagged one that dresse
nine pounds and was in prime cond
tion.
Sergeant Eli Wells, custodian
the State rifle range, on being tram
ferred to New York, was presents
with fine gold watch by the men
bers of Company H. of New Castle.
Miss Katherine Davis, 15-year-o
daughter of Robert P. Davis,
Georgetown, was run over by heav
wagon and badly injured when 81
fell off bicycle in Milford.
John Berry, manager of earniv
company that appeared in Whining
ton during Old Home Week, is alleg,
to have embezzled S66 from F. ]
Mettler, who was interested in Il
} concern, and warrant has been i
sued for his arrest.