Smyrna times., 1915-11-17
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 Doings.
Duck spoTtsmen have been having
good luck on the marshes anS along
the canal, near Delaware City.
Charged with the theft of team
in ElktOn, John Simpson. aged 81.
is under atrrest in Wilmington.
Men convicted Of vagraney in Will .
mington and sentenced to street work |
for terms of 3Odays will be shaekle6.
The politically historic Hotel |
Richardson, Dover's largest hostelry.
is TO go under the Sheriff's hammer.
Joseph C. Jolls. has been appointed
a clerk in the Office Of Recorder Of
Deeds George.
Thomas Kelley. Of Richmond, Va.
fell down the stairs in his boarding
house in Wilmington and broke his
right leg.
w. H Chambers has on exhibition
in his Lewes windows Keiffer pears
weighing two pounds. raised by John
Marsh.
Cells tsken out Of the Wilmington
Courthouse have been sent to New
Castle and installed in the old Court
house.
John NJ. Snyder. of Michigan. has
bought so acre farm near George
town from Mrs. Marietta Louder,
for $500.
The Aetna Hose. Hook and Lid
er Company. Of Newark. has donated
sic for prizes in spelling contest
in the pubic schools
Members Of the Jackson Sunday
School, near Newark, have organized
a literary society with Miss Mary
r. Kemble as president.
The New Castle Choral Club. will
make its first public appearance No
vember %. at a concert in the Good
Will fire hall.
With more than 500 patients in
the institution. the largest number
in its history. the State Hospital for
the insane at Farnhurst is oveIcrowed.
The Americanization Day Committee
has asked Wilmington Council for
81, 600 guaranteeing to raise $500.
70 educate adult foreigners.
Work will be started by the COntin-
entail Fibre Company, of Newark, in
few days on an additional building.
40 by 2SO feet. two stores high.
Wilmington Council will pay $50
for the arrest and conviction Of the
! person or persons who haze been
sending in false FIRE alarms.
The dupont Powder Company is
reported TO have received an addi-
tional order from the allies for S65,
600 600 worth Of powder.
Captain Edward Tunnell, superin-
tendent of the Coast Guard at Lewes,
painfully injured his left hand wher
a serewdriver slipped.
, Because Of the activities Of thieve:
and highwsymen in the rural sections
the residents will petition the Lev!
Court for special officers TO patrol tn
roads day and night
DIR. Robert Roth formerly Of Smyr
ma who left New Castle two year
ago and has prscticed in Denton, Md.
and Philadelphia. has returned I
New Castle.
Rev. Allen Halderman. Of Greens
boro. Md, has accepted the call I
Groome Memorial M. P. Church. Lewe'
Rev. c. NJ. Simms going to one q
the Baltimore churches.
Mrs. Ella Anderson complained
the Wilmington police that Will
she was in a restaurant in Newark
two men snatehed her watch, jumps
into an automobile and disappeared.
Postmaster English will endeav'
10 learn the sentiment OF the publ
in Wilmington relative n closir
the pest Office on Thanksgiving tn
n the employees may have a holiday.
Charged before Magistrate Ridgle,
at Camden with forging the name
J.. H. Gooden to two checks on Il
- First National Bank Of Wyomin
Thomas Hughes eolcred, has bel
VI lodged in Kent count Jail.
q The State Board of Agrieultu
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