Smyrna times., 1912-03-27
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.


Neighbors and Their Doings.
Charles Harris. highly respect
ed citizen of Burrsville, died March
9Th, aged SO years.
A free horse is rarely ridden to
death; he usually protests at the
first sign of WEAKNESS.
The Snider Preserve Company,
which operated the Newark cannery
last season and distributed about
$40, 900 among the tomato growers,
is moving the machinery to Green
wood.
Editor H. C. Barrett of the Cam
bridge. Md, Journal, who has been
actively engaged in the printing
business for 81 years, has decided
to retire from the newspaper busi-
ness.
The Commercial Orchards Com
pany which has purchased the large
farm near Cheswold, Of Mrs. Clar-
ence W. Hazel. has been incorpor-
ated and is being organized. A.
B. Magee is the attorney.
Get rid of the notion that adver-
tising is undignified unless it is
free. Every set ting sun sees a
greater recognition of the dignity,
Importance and value Of paid ad-
vertising.
The Chautauqua committee of the
Dover Board of Trade met Monday
and decided on the time for the
holding of the Chautauqua. The
time selected was the week of June
Is to Is.
A contract has been awarded to
Comptroller Elisha G. Ryan by the
Coleman dupont Road for 80, 900
ties, to be delivered in the southern
part of the State for a narrow
gauge railroad which it is said will
be built when operations begin on
the boulevard.
By an order of Deputy Attorney
General W. W. Harrington, all
nonresident owners of boats in the
Delaware Bay have been ordered to
pay a license of $50 for eacI boat
employed in catching CLANS in the
Delaware Bay. AS a result of this
order all non-owners have ceased
overations.
William Barker, aged Ia years,
was arraigned before Magistrate
Wood in Dover last week on a
charge of larceny and was held in
$500 bail for court. 1t was alleged
that on July II last he entered the
store of A. R. Benson and grabbed
the purse of Miss May KERN. con-
tanning $'9, that she had left on the
counter. The lad could not furnish
bail and was taken to Jail.
Charles o. Frazier, son of the
late William and Anne Gooden
Frazier, died at his residence in
Wilmington on March 18th, in his
45th year. He leaves "A wife who
was Miss Goldie Reed, of Little
Creek, and one son, also FIVE
brothers and two sisters Interment
was made at Cow Marsh, near
Petersburg, Rev. G. J. Meredith
officiating.
A Democratic club of East Dover
Hundred was organized recently
with the following officers: Presi-
dent, Frank P. Collins; Vice-presi
dents, Thomas C. Frame, Jr., Robert
E. Lewis and John II. Jones; Finan-
cial Secretary, Hebert M. Jones;
Recording Secretary, Sam H. Car
son; Treasurer, Elmer Outten, Board
of Governors, John F. Salisbury,
j. L. Sothcomb, G.. D. Jackson, j.
Frank Startling, E. o. Raymond,
John P. LeFevre. DR.. j. MTwilley.
The club will meet Friday evenings.
The Sussex County Levy Court
has elected Walter v. Redman a
constable for the Second district;
Minos B. Hearn for the Fifth distict
and Hiram E. Short for the Ninth
district. DR.. James E.. Chipman
was reelected Jail physician.
Humphrey Riley was elected bridge
tender at Laurel, and Solomon Dean
was chosen ferryman at Woodland.
Jonathan C. Moore and Joshua C.
Evans were selected as tax collec-
tors for the Fourth ard Seventh
representative districts, respectively.
Asher Holstein. George Munger
and John Hudson died last week and
George Sturgis is in a precarious
condition from drinking a concoc.
tion of bay rum, Turlington's
balsam and wood alcohol, at Chinco-
league Island. The men died in