Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1916-03-08
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES

int resting Items from all Parisof the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
Ne'ghbors and Their Dongs.
Fire destroyed the potato storage
house of John Jordan at Shawnee.
with large stock of potatoes.
Eastlake NJ E. Church. Whining
ton. has voted for the return of Pas
tor W. W. Sharp and to increase his
salary 5000.
The Peoples Steamboat Company
will establish a line between Whining
ton and Pennsgrove next week.
The New Century Club. of George
town. gave a Victrola recital at the
home of Nj. and Mrs. John NJ. Rich
a-dson.
Because he dsregarded the signal
of traffic policeman in Wilmington.
Samuel G. Williams. a chauffeur.
was fined $40.
An additional contribution of 500 |
to the Students Loan Fund Of Della
ware College has raised the total of |
the fund TO $3.50.
Jacob W. Fendt has sold his bakery !
and restaurant in Dover to George |
Singer. who has been employed by |
him for some time.
Knocked overheard by a swinging
boom on a ssilboat. George Reynolds.
of BrOadkiln Neck. nearly drowned
before he could be pulled out of the
river.
Greenwood Methodsts "pounded"
the pastor, Rev. J. c. Hopkins. when
they gave him a pound party and
filled one room with groceries, meats
and canned fruit.
One mans ear was partly chewed
off in dispute growing out of check
err game at Broad Greek. in which the
champions Isaac Josephs and Vaughn
Hurley, were interrupted.
Rev. J. Gibson CAN'T, rector of the
Episcopal Church at Denton. Md, has
been elected rector of the Church of
the Ascension. at Claymont, and
Grace Church, at Talleyville.
Stricken with acute indigestion
while walking along street in Will
mington, Miss Mary Mccormick, 35
years old, was dead before physician
could be summoned.
With a dinner for captains and
members Of the various subscription
= teams. the Boy Scout campaign to
raise $40, 600 in three days in Will
mington was launched Friday night.
At the quarterly meeting of the New
Castle School Commissioners a divi-
sion of the district including Richard
son Park and Elsmere was recon-
mended by the Commissioners of the
district.
An effort is being made by the
Parent Teachers Association Of
Sussex county to have the State and
county combine 20 erect at George
town a county high school to teach
domestic science and agriculture.
John Long. aged 80. whose back
was broken last November. wher
knocked from a wagon at Carney's
Point, N j.. is in a critical condition
at the Physicians and Surgeons Hos
pital in Wilmington.
Slipping out of Hillsboro HigE
School. Ethel Hall, aged Is. JOINED
Everett Mitchell. aged %. waiting
with a carriage. and, driving over Il
II near Whitesville, Nd. they were
married by a country parson.
II The fund for the advancement o
II the Boy Scout movement in Whining
ton aggregated S5692. rs when tn
II various teams engaged in the three
II day campaign to raise $40, 900 re
U ported at noon, Friday.
s On Friday last, Mrs. Ella McManus
- daughter of Postmaster and Mrs
= Albert /. Swan, and Edgar SaxtOn
= son of Mr.. and Mrs Austin SaxtOn
: who live naer Delaware City, wer
Z married by Rev. o. B. Rice. pasta
2 of the NJ. E. Church. at the home q
: Mr.. and Mrs. Saxton. The coupl
Z will live on the dairy farm of job
= c. Higgins.
2 Cashier John S. Crouch, of the eli
= izens National Bank, Of Middletowr
! has purchased the dwelling of Joshu
2 Cross, on South Broad street. an
: expects to occupy it about May Is
Z next. Mr.. Crouch will retire fro
= the banking business at that tim'
: Mr.. Crouch's retirement from Il
! bank is regretted by his many frien'
Z and acquaintance having bushes
: with that institution the past q
,,aars He saws he is going TO take