Smyrna times., 1917-02-07
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.

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Nearly $500 has already been sub
scribed towards the purchase of fire
engine for the Delaware City Fire
Company.
Many sportsmen of this section are
opposed to the 81. 10 cunning license
bill now before the Legislature claim
ing that the bill is not fair to all
concerned.
While he was working in Layton &
Owens box and basket factory, at
Bridgeville, James Riley's left hand
was badly mangled by coming in con-
tact with a saw.
Mrs. Lewis W. Mustard, of Lewes,
will sail this week for South America,
where she will visit her daughter,
wife of Professor George F. Messer-
smith.
Mrs Sarah Mitten, of Frederick,
celebrated her 93d birthday annivers-
airy last week. Mrs. Mitten is as ac-
tive as a woman score of years
younger and her age has not affected |
her faculties in any manner whatso-
ever.
The wild fowl cunning season closed, |
Wednesday and was one of the best
for several years. The sportsmen of
this sertion have been urging the ex
tension of the season, so that some
spring shooting coul4 be enjoyed, but
nothing has resulted from the agita-
tiOn.
There are being held in several
towns of the Eastern Shore of Mary
land. meetings of the tomato growers,
to effect organizations for the market
ing of the 1917 crop of tomatoes.
The prices that canned goods are
bringing just now have caused the
growers to ask a much higher price
per ton than that paid last year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel H. Daniels,
of Cedar Lane near Mt. Pleasant,
Tuesday evening rendered reception
to their son, Fletcher ]. Daniels, and
his bride, who was Miss Elizabeth
Staats of Townsend, on their return
from their wedding trip. More than
rs friends of the young couple were
present. They will live on the farm
of w. B. Biggs.
Miller y. Stuart, aged % years,
son of John D. Stuart, of Seaford,
was scaded while working as a fire.
man of a Pennsylvania Railroad en-
CINE at Hoboken, N. j., and is now in
a serious condition in hospital there.
He was being instructed in running
an engine, prior to taking an exami-
nation, when a steam gauge exploded.
Il He jumped from the engine cab, but
e his foot caught and he fell to the
n ground.
Robert A. Cochran has sold his
homestead farm, on the State Road
l. two and half miles south of Middle
r ton, to w. j. Stats, OF Newark N
le j., for $42, 600. The farm is one o.
the finest and most productive in lower
:. New Castle county, and the sale CAM
as a great surprise. After having
D. lived on the farm for more than 81
t, years, Mr.. Cochran, who is nearly 8;
j. years of age, will move to Middle
ell town. Possession of the farm will b
On given on March l.
Representatives of reliable and sue
D. cessful Ohio oil operators are in Dover
}. who have been leasing land in tn
30 vicinity of Bowers for the purpos
of drilling for oil in the future. Th
H. leasors pay a nominal sum for tn
privilege and guarantees a libers
n royalty if the company strikes oil
no Nearly two thousand acres have a.
ltt leady been leased in this county an
d. prospecting will begin when a bloc
no is secured. The company is endeaI
oring to lease lands between the Mul
m derkill and ST. Jones' rivers west fro
on Bowers. They are also operating e.
,m tensively in New Jersey.
ny At the public sale of Herbert Cal
non, near Glasgow. Wednesday hors
m sold for from $105 to $172. so; COW
on from $43 to $78, and hogs. 122cen
ad per pound, live weight. All the hoI
oil, were bought by Wilmington dealer
ol That the farmers are prosperous
shown at the public sales by Il
RS amount of cash taken in. A credit
r, from nine months to twelve mont
de. is given at farm sales, and fe
Dad years back it was an unusual circur
one stance to get in one.tenth of t
amount of the sale in cash. TE
year, however, at all of the sales he
M so far more than one-half of t
Tue amounts have been paid on the spC