Smyrna times., 1913-02-12
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.
DR.. J. Lane Finley has sold his
farm near Church Hill to Mr.. Will
liam c. Hall, consideration, $40, 900. !
William Crooks, of Lewes, charged |
with setting fire to a store in Lewes,
was set free because of lack of evil
dence.
The first trout to be caught this
year was hauled in a net last week
at Slaughter Beach and weighed one
and half pounds.
Beaten by two negroes, William S.
Collision, fiagman on the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad is confined to his bed in
Wilmington.
A religious fervor, which is reach
ing all over Sussex cOu nty and ap-
pearing in many towns, has so far
resulted in hundreds of conversions.
Thieves broke into Constable Cur
tbs Stems house at Georgetown, and
stole all the fruit and edibles in the
house while the family slept.
A horse owned by F. B. Woodall
ran away in Milford and dashed
through a group of a hundred school
children without injuring one.
Wilmington Council has before it
ordinances providing a fine of $50
for fighting in the streets, or begg
ing and for playing upon the public
sympathy by exhibition of wounds or
sores
R.C. Williams, one of Queen Anne's
prominent truckers, has five Rhode
Island Red hens and ten pullets, that
laid 200 eggs in the month of De-
cember. That is a fine record for
December laying.
Tne wedding of Miss Edna B. Hur-
lock and Mr.. Lee Cats took place at
the home of the brides parents on
Wednesday, Feb. 18th. After the
ceremony they left on the afternoon
train for Cumberland, Md. where
they will spend their honeymoon.
Joseph G. Davis, of MILFORD; John
A. Tyndall, of Georgetown; Charles
H. White, of Delmar; Elijah H.
Lynch, of Selbyville, and Anthony l..
Hudson, of Georgetown, have been
elected Trustees of the Poor of
Sussex county by Levy Court.
A town meeting discussed a bill
providing for system of sewers and
a disposal plant for Newark in Town
Council chambers Thursday night,
and, after some minor changes, or
dered the bill introduced in the Leg
islature by Representative Hoffecker
Monday.
Seven cases of scarlet fever have
develoved in Centreville, Md. during
the past week. The epidemic seems
to be chiefly among the children of
the primary school, and the school
board had the school closed and
fumigated on Tuesday and opened
again for classes on Wednesday.
A number of business men at Queen
Anne will establish another canning
house at that place. They have pur
chased piece of land from Mr.. C.
H. Dean, who, with Messrs George
C. Moore, HI. Jump, Harry Clark
H. T. Fisher ard Or. Rowe is inter
ested in the enterprise.
The "Ground Hog' saw his shad-
ow and from present indications il
looks as if the old prophecy may
come true and give US six weeks OF
wintry weather. February put an
end to the warm weather that haC
prevailed up to it's advent and VIZ
are now feeling almost the first rea
touches of winter.
Milford Town Council in addition
to the regular schedule of licenses
has placed a license of $500 pc
month on moving picture theatre
and roller skating parlors. During
the past few years these places o
amusement have been operating wit
out paying any license whatevert
the town. The other licenses usuall
issued from year to year affect
merry -go-rounds. cicuses, razzle
dazzles, beef wagons, parades, &c.
and are the same as formerly.