Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1916-03-15
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSV ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES

tnte resting Items from all Partsof the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
Neighbors and Their Doings.
St. Luke's Guild. of Seaford,
cleared nearly $50 at rummage sale.
Lewes MethOdists raised 500 by
a turkey dinner.
BridgeviHe Fire Company has or.
dered 20 rubber suits.
Charles T. Grassland is dead at his
home in Middletown, at the age of
1O3
A movement mas been started for
organization of a militia company in /
SeafOrd
Lewes Board of Trade is offering
5000 acres Of free land for manu-
featuring sites.
Washington Camp, No. 16, P. o.
S. of A.. of Cheswold, initiated
class of AZ candidates.
William NJ. Pyle. a former Police
Commissioner, is dead at his home in
Wilmington. aged 76.
A breaking belt in a Bri5geville
saw mill threw James Cox against a
drag saw. which cut deep cash in
a knee.
Because of i'll health, Miss Bessie
c. Harris has resigned as assistant
at Bridgeville post office. and will be
succeeded by Miss Sarah E. Harris.
A Boy Scout moven ent has been
started in Dover with the election of
NJ o. Perez as Scout Master; Harry
Heite. secretary; Marvel Baxter.
bugler
Charles Lewis. was held in $500
bail for the Grand Jury, on a charge
of driving off Dr. j. r. Ruhn's auto
mobile without the owners consent.
at Wilmington.
In Court of General Sessions Friday
last. Frank H. Thomas. charged with
forgery of a check of the Wyoming
Fruit Growers Association. was
acquitted.
Deputy Coroner Nichols and the
police are investigating the death of
Tynatius Spino. a powdermaker at
Carney's Point, who was found IN
conscious in Wilmington rooming
house.
Walter A. Leatherbury and James
Redersve have been reelected Town
Commissioners Of Middletown. Johr
S. Crouch was elected Town treasured
: and Alfred G. Cox. alderman.
As the result of trimming a corn
7 Peter Thomas. a Syracuse farmer. hai
& lost toe and has been told by sur
3 geons that his leg will have to be am
putated if he wishes to save his life
: The torpedo boat destroyer Barna.
passed out of the Chesapeake and Del
aware Canal. bound from the Nava
Z Academy Cor the Philadelphia Nav.
3 Yard. where the boat will be tie up
Wilmington Council is considerat
ing an ordinance authorizing a loa
2 from the banks for the payment o
& SOB. 49l 81 TO the Wilmington Build
3 ing Commission for the premium 0
Building Commission bonds.
Clifton Lofand. the son Of
Milton farmer. found large animi
crawling up the bank of Prime Hoo
& Creek. and shot it. when he found
was an otter. weighing % pounds an
Z bearing fur worth 500.
Residents on Cedar street sre r,
moving their shade trees preparation
to replacing them with Norwi
tS naples this spring. The New Cel
fury Club is making an effort to ha'
- the unsiRhtly trees in the town G.
down and naples planted. The pill
> is to make Georgetown "city bea
tiful."
) Peter Tyndal. a 7O.year old farme
Z yesterday fell down a fox hole viii
: walking across his field to a neiRhbor
: house In an unfrequent part of {
Z farm. his weak cries for help brOug
. no response, and he is still unable
: tell how he succeeded in getting hin
Z self out. lie WIS unconscious
2 some time after his escape.
= Six cases of diphtheTia have q
: veloped in the home of Charles Tu
z nell, colored. in Belltown. a color
. settlement Of Lewes. within the pa
: few days. At the present time
= disease seems to be spreading a
= fears are entertained that the emit
Z negro settlement will become infect'
9 Within the past two weeks
3 members of Tunnell's family hs