Smyrna times., 1913-06-25

Peninsula About Your Friends and
Neighbors and their Doings.
Amos Camper Of. Easton, Md, for
larceny was sentenced to 15 months
in the House of Correction.
Unable to buy a site for the new
water works, Milton residents will pc
tition Council to condemn land.
Early peaches are ripening around
Georgetown and several farmers have
brought the fruit into town.
John Soreth, aged s5, a farmer
living near COOch's Bridge, dropped
dead Thursday night Of heart disease.
Lime infected an open sore on the
face Of Charles Lloyd, Seaford, and
produced dangerous poisoning.
While playing in front Of his home.
Charles T. Edwards, a small Will
mingtOn boy, was badly bitten by a
bulldog.
Dover's post Office for the two
years just ended, after paying the
salaries. cleared SIC, sac. 81 for the
Government.
Because he had abused a horse he
had hired from a liveryman, James
A. Dougherty was fined $50 and costs
in the Wilmington City Court.
State Game Warden Frederick
Murphy found about 20 hunting dogs
running at large near Milton and had
their owners arrested and fined.
The body Of Samuel Archer. a col
Ored farm hand, was found on a road
near MiddletOwn Thursday, and Cor
oner Spring was called to investigate.
Frank Collins and Frank Cassidy
we're seriously injured when thrown
from carriage in a runaway at Del
aware City.
Edward Carey, a prominent mer-
chant and Democrat, has been an.
pointed postmaster at Millsboro after
a hard fight.
George G. Kerr last week sold the
century old Kerr homestead farm. Of
lT2 acres on Elkton road. near New
ark, to George Murray.
Herbert L. Walker and Loleta
Dunn, both Of Delmar, were married
in Camden, N. j. last March, but
kept it a secret until this week.
The engagement Of Miss Ruth Wat |
son. Of Perryville. Nd. to Frank L.
Rowland. Of Port Deposit, Md. has
been announced.
Pork-raisers around Georgetown
declared that hog cholera has been
stamped out in that section and that
not a single case has been reported.
George NJ. Campbell Of near Elkton
Nd. has field Of timothy that stands
more than FIVE feet in height and uni
formly thick all over.
DR.. and Mrs. George B. whitten
Of Johnstown. Pa, both formerly of
Dover, announce the birth Of son.
Wednesday, June eighteenth.
Surveyors are plotting the public
lands Of the State lying near the In
dian River and Rehoboth Bay. pre-
paratory to their open sale Of the
lands Of the State.
Rehoboth Village Improvement AS
ISOLATION, composed Of Rehoboth
Beach ladies, has subscribed 500 for
the rebuilding of a boardwalk pavilion,
blown down by a recent storm.
The marriage Of Miss Agnes Brown
Metcalf TO Roy Baden. OF Virgsnia,
took place Wednesday night at 7.30,
In st. Andrews Protestant Episco-
pal Church, at Church Hill, Nd.
To add to the Cecilton, Md, Metho.
list Church treasury residents Of that
town are arranging for an all-day
Fourth Of July carnival.
Heavy rains washing nitrate OF
.oda from fields Of neighbor resulted
n the death Of a number Of cows be-
onging to J. Shepherd Wolf, Of Zion,
I'D.
Because they listed some risque
Iacnes. the use Of the Laurel Opera
House was withdrawn from the young
'eople of that town. and now there
5 tempest in q teapot over the mat
er
The bareback from gun powder she
arelessly tossed into q kitchen stove
'urned Miss Bertha Dykes, Of Green l
good, in the face, arms and on one
DOT, and she will be badly SCARED.
Trying to step from launch into
canoe, Bessie Horsev. Of Seaford.