Smyrna times., 1917-05-30
vFWS Of THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
,swsY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ou6 STATE EXCHANGES

,,,eresting Items from all Partsof the
usrinsula About Your Friends and
Nsrghbors and Their Doings.
q A. Palmer, a farmer of Kent
r.lsnd Md, last week delivered 1900
Sn.bels of wheat for which he re-
.svyd So. 16 per bushel, or 81, TAO.
Polk Bramble, a Chestertown, Md,
oonltryman, shipped 125 pound-and-
half broilers to Baltimore recently
and received 42c per pound, or
$3.50.
Rev. Thomas G. Baxter, of SUNNY
bnrn Pa. brother of A. B. Baxter of
nover. is a delegate to the Presby-
torian General Assembly, in seassion
at Dallas, Texas
Is is reported that the promoters of
The oil-sinking project along the Della
Uare bay shore are meeting with par
tial success, it being alleged that at
recent boring some kind of infiam-
sble material was struck.
Sebourn Buckson, a we'll known
Dover chauffeur, and Miss Mary Baker.
If Delmar, were married at the res
ijence Of Mrs Clark on Division
street, Saturday evening. May 18th,
nv Rev. Thomas Fardee. They will
RESIDE at Dover.
Register of Wills Ernest p. Raugh-
lev has granted letters on the follow
ing estates: Estate of Laura Lee
Temple of Smyrna. to Charles J.
Suder; estate of Joseph H. Boone to
Thomas C Frame, Jr. estate of Jacob
Mosley to John D. Hawkins; estate
Of Joseph Frazier to Joseph Frazier;
estate of Charles Blackson to Helen
BIackson; letters of administration
on estate of Ambrose Morris to Sarah
Norris.
Charged before Magistrate John B.
Wharton. at Dover by Game Warden
Albert F. Dillaha, with violation of
the state fish laws, catching and ex-
posing for sale trout under ten inches,
esVeral fishermen of Bowers Beach
we're mulcted in fines and costs. They
we're: John W. Tribbett and William
Jackson, each $5 and costs; James H.
Thompson and Wills johnson, $40
EACH All paid their fines and were
discharged.
Governor Townsend has named the
following delegates from Delaware to
the American League for National
Peace, which meets at Washington,
June 6: George H. Hall, Milford ;
Fred Ross. Clayton; Andrew ]. Lynch.
Georgetown; Frank Lynch, Delmar /;
William NJ. Hazel and DR.. John W.
James, Dover; Charles Warner and
Charles Kurtz, Wilmington; John w.
Watkins, Odessa; DR.. Samuel Chiles
Mitchell, Newark.
The Delaware Children's Home So
ciety met in annual session, last week
and the following officers were elected
President, Rev. F. H. Moore. Middle
town; first Vice-pres!dent, Rev. w.
R. Mowbray; second vice-president,
Rev. Il. G. Budd; secretary and trea
'urer. John B. Hutton; executive
Committee. T. C. Horsey. James H.
Hughes, H. G. Budd, W. R. Now
bray, John B. Hutton; the Rev. W.
4. Lord, superintendent. A repre-
sentative of the Russell Sage Endow
nent, DR.. W. H. Slingerland of New
York city, was present, securing in
formation as to the condition of de
PENDENT children.
COrnelins Comegys, son of the lat
William and Harriet Frazer Comegy
lofmerly resident of Dover, died a
DIS home in Rock Island, Ill. on tn
41tn inst. Mr.. Comegys was q
years of age and is survived by
widow and son and a daughter an
several grandchildren. He was a
Cnclal of the Chicago, Rock Islam
railroad until he retired recently be
cause of i'll health. He was nephe
VI the late Chief Justice of Delaware
Joseph P. Comegys, and of Benjami
D. COmegys, late of Philadelphia. an
grandson of former Governor Con
ssys He was a brother of Mri
Edward Ridoa,v