Smyrna times., 1913-03-19

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Several rooms in the Lewis High
School have been fumiga ted and
school has again been started after a
diptheria scare.
J. J. Ross and Son, of SeafOrd,
have purchased an eighty-hOrse power
gasoline traction engine to pull eight
twelve-inch furrow plows. 1t is the
first TO be used in Sussex county.
Pupils of the Lewes High School
are arranging to produce the sketch,
Fun on the Podunk Limited, =
which was so successfully given in
Georgetown a few years ago.
Harry McCadden, the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Railroad /
lineman, who was struck and killed |
by train near Chester, was married |
and lived in Wilmington.
Mrs. Charles Stevenson of Ridgely. |
in her suit against DR.. Guy L. Hun
ner for $50, 600 damages for alleged
negligence in professional care, has
been awarded verdict for 81, 600.
The Rev. E. G. Eggert, of Harring-
ton, Del. who recently accepted call
TO the pastorate of the First Presby-
term Church Of Chesapeake City has
moved his family there and entered
upon his new duties Sunday.
Former Attorney General Issac Lobe
Staus, who has entred the fight for
United States Senator to succeed
John Walter Smith was at Galena for
several days making a personal appeal
to voters.
A. A. Brown. Of Elkton, who for
! 80 consecutive years was superin-
tendent of public buildings in Elkton,
has been granted pension of SIS a
month by the Cecil County Commits
siOners.
DR.. G. Hampton Richards has been
chosen mayor of Port Deposit to sue
ceed David Armstrong, who served
seven terms and refused to qualify af-
ter he had been elected for the eighth
time against his protests.
James E. Taylor. a graduate of
New Castle High School and stud
ent at Delaware College, has been
appointed to the Naval Academy at
! Annapolis. He is a son of former
j Sheriff John E. Taylor.
William Little, charged with keep
ing a pack of hounds and feeding to
them putrid meat to the annoyance
r of his neighbors in Mill Greek Hun
dred, was parolled upon his own rec
ognizance by General Sessions Court.
E John H. Rodney has been elected
president of the trustees of the New
: Castle Common; Francis duh. Janviel
! secretary; Patrick McGrOry, treasur
er; James E. Biggs, James G. Shaw
f and John E. Taylor, acting committee
United States Engineer r. R. Ray
mond will shorty ask bids for dredg
ing Little river, and when the wOrl
f is completed, a line of steamboats, be
!. ween Philadelphia and lower Della
/ ware will be established.
1t is estimated that more than 300
z persons paid respects 70 the late Fran
le Richards during his funeral in Mi
1t ford. which was the largest ever see
there. For the first time in Milford
Automobiles were used to convey th
u funeral party to the grave.
s. Declaring that one Individual
Wilmington owes $50, 600 in baC
taxes and that Others have not pa
~ any city taxes for seven or eigl
g years. Councilman Slower tried
get from council the authority
make public the list Of delinquent
but the attempt was opposed.
ne Seven-year-old Sammy Moore, wi
"a shot and killed Henry Herbert Dors'
III near COnowingo, has been sent to d
'H Henry Watson Home"Of BaltimOr
by an order of the court. Charl
re Moore brother who is eleven yea
~ old, has been held in the Elkton js
.e- since the murder as d witness.
ne too must go 20 the home. Both bo
will remain till they are Of age.
of DR.. Farrig, an expert representing I
len mining syndicates of the world, hea
I'll quarter at London. England, visit
md the Iron Hill mine this week. Aft
examining specimens he became gre
ly interested and expressed his bell
all that the project to work the mine W
ing prove a financial success.
urt Cecil Countians are mortified oN
l." letter in the Baltimore sun in
ference TO the bad condition Of
Il roadc il. fhfe county but aanaefa