Smyrna times., 1913-01-15
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
Nelghbors and their Doings.


Peninsula About Your Friends and
NeIghbors and their Doings.
Shad and herring are being caught
in the streams in lower Delaware.
John Coard Hazard, aged 80, fell,
in Milton, and fractured his thigh
bone.
Sheppard M. Walls, from St.
Johns, has been made trustee of the
poor in the Eighth district of Sussex
county.
At the Glendale election William
EllegoOd was elected Mayor and Wal
ter Reynolds and Howard Prettyman
Councilmen.
Rev. John j. Heavy, appointed to
st. Paul's Catholic Church, Delaware
City, and St. James Protectory, near
Reynolds took charge last week.
Like two brothers and sister be-
fore him, Charles Wilkins, of George
town. married a King, in the person
of Miss Mile King.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's heating plant in the West
Yard, Wilmington, was destroyed by
fire early Friday morning.
The Christmas air rifle brigade of
Milford has shot up the windows of
the Presbyterian Church, practicing
on the fiocks of sparrows there.
Woman's suffrage in town elections
is proposition for the new charter
to be presented to the Legislature by
Milton, and town water plant bond
issue is another.
Edward Stafford died at his home
at Marydel on Friday, December 27.
He was carpenter by trade and had
been active all his life. Burial was
made at Sudlersville.
A dinner to the officers of the
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
was given by Charles w. Nic'-erson,
one of them, at New Castle, last
evening.
Thrown from an Overturning wagon
at New Castle, Mary Eastburn and
Albert and Fletcher Nelson were in
jured to such an extent as to require
te services of a doctor.
Burning fcdier stacks jeopardized
St James Protectory, near Reynolds,
automobiles from Delaware CITY
bringing assistance to the bucket
brigade, which saved the institution.
DR.. T. o. Cooper, James j. Eng
lish, Thomas M. Monaghan and John
M Truax are mentioned as candi-
dates to succeed Postmaster Nj. How
ard Jester, at Wilmington, next Au-
gust.
Captain William E. Myers has been
appointed superintendent of the COM
bined Wilmington Southern Traction
and the Wilmington, New Castle &
Delaware City Railway, at New Cas-
tie.
Lawrence ]. Roe, of Magnolia, and
Miss Emma Allen Coverdale, of Bow
ers, were married last Saturday, jan
uary 4th, by Rev. E. C. Macnichol,
pastor of Asbury M. E. Church, Will
miugton.
Professor Hayward has been in
vited to address the Pomona Grange
of Kent County at FELTON,, on January
30th, and will also speak at the
Farmer Institute, Milford, on the
31st.
Mr.. Carl Christopher, instructor in
Animal Husbandry at Delaware Col
lege, has received a f1attering offer
from the Department of Agriculture
at Buenos Aires, South America.
Mr.. Christopher, who will be in
Washington for two weeks, has the
offer under consideration.
Cherry Hill M. E. Church was re-
opened on Sunday, January 9Th, after
extensive repairs, with a special pro-
gram. Rev. G. P. Jones, and Rev.
E. L. Hoffecker, superintendents of
Salisbury and Wilmington districts,
preached the morning and evening
sermons, and Rev. G. T. Anderson of
Newark. gave the address before the
Sunday School, in the afternoon.
Linwood R. Beauchamp, of the
wholesale hardware firm of Shields &
Co., Philadelphia, and Miss Letha M.
Anderson, a former teacher in the
public schools of Kent and New Castle
Counties, were mar ried in Philadel.
phia at the home of the BRIDES sister,
Saturday evening, January 4th, by
Rev. w. B. Chalfonte. They will
reside in Harrington.
Clawson S. Hammitt has almost