Smyrna times., 1915-07-28
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Inte resting Items from all Partsof the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
Neighbors and Their Ooings.

Inte resting Items from all Partsof the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
Ne,ghbors and Their Oongs.
The sight Of one eve may be lost
to Walter Numford of Georgetown.
as a result Of getting lime in it.
The Srellenhurg Boilding. in Will
mirpton. was damaged by a fire
started by cigarette thrown into
pile If rubbish.
Traffic over the Baltimore & Ohio
and Reqjing Railroads was blocked
when three freight cars were derailed
at Elsmere Junction.
Purchasing raspberry vines and find
ing them bearing peach p!ums. was
the novel experience of Judge II. c.
Conrad. of Georgetown.
Union brewery workers on strike
in Wilmington are talking Of building
a brewery of their own. TO be main
tanned on the cooperative plan.
Because of protests of persons liv-
ing near the grounds. the DUPONT Gun
Club is contemplating moving its
Grub house and traps to another site.
A demented man. without hat,
coat or shoes, who had been peep
ing in windows and clambering over
porches. has been arrested. but re-
mains unidentified.
The dupont Powder Company has
received word from Washington that
its request Cor a post Office at its
new plant at Hopewell, Va. las
been refused as unnecessary.
John Hoffecker. son of State Sena-
tor Harvey Hoffecker. who was ser
iously injured in an automobile acci-
dent. Wednesday of last week. is i'm
proving rapidly ct the Delaware Hos
pital.
Waite. Burton has been elected
Mayor Of Rehoboth Beach. over Cap
tain f Merritt. IN the place of D
William Messick. resigned. and Town
Commissioners elected are: J. c.
Gilmore. J. y. Harper. Rev. j. A.
Bcukson and A. F. WilgUs.
Farmers in the vicinity of Newark
are having considerable trouble in
getting their harvesting completed
because of the numerous rains. Those
who have threshed wheat so far report
generally yield below normal. The
hay crop is fair in quantity and of
excellent quality.
Under the will Of Miss Annie NJ.
Wilson. daughter Of the late Rathmel
Wilson of Philadelphia, who died in
Canada. July Sd. Misses Martha, Lii
lie and Alice Wilson of Newark,
nieces of the deceased. were left 81.
600 each. Miss Wilson's estate is
estimated to be worth between $3.50, :
600 and $3.50. 600. of which about
s35, 600 was bequeathed to charitable
institutions in Philadelphia.
Cons table Frank Vansant, Of Dover.
went to Smyrna Wednesday and ar
rested jeff Wilson. colored. on a
chage of abusing a female child
named Harris. The girl, who was
not Is years Of age, is now dead.
and the case against Wilson may
prove serious. Wilson is in the
Kent county Jail. William Butcher,
also colored. was arrested by Consta-
Bile Vansant at Smyrna on a charge
preferred by his wife of desertion Of
Is months old child. Butcher
gave bail and was released.
The low-water mark Of the white
potato crop came last week wher
buyers offered but so cents a barrel
to Georgetown growers. Farmers de.
clared that such a price would not
pay the cost of digging and of the
barrels, and that they would leave
them in the ground To rot before they
would dig them. Most growers have
powed a furrow on top Of the rows
so that the potatoes will keep indef'
nitely.