Smyrna times., 1917-07-11
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Int resting Items from all Partsof the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
NeIghbors and Their Doings.

Peninsula About Your Friends and
NeIghbors and Their Doings.
To avoid collision with Mrs. Katie ,
Francis at Delmar, on July 4th, Mrs
Grover T. Elliott ran her car into
telephone pole bending the front axle
and throwing her little boy against
and breaking the windshield.
Charged with having in their pos
session II quarts of liquor, Louis
johnson, of Dover, and Alfred Hol-
land, of Maryland, were committed to
the Kent county Jail in default of
$500 bail.
c. w. Lord on Saturday sold to S.
j. Speal and Harlan & Manahan at
Wyoming, 100 baskets of Yellow
Transparent apples at SLIGO per
basket; on Wednesday July 4th Mr..
Lord sold to the same parties 200
baskets at 81. so per basket. Mr..
LORD expects about 5000 baskets of
Summer apples.
Washington Camp, No. 3, P.O. S.
of A, of Kenton. elected the follow
ing officers Thursday night, June %:
President, E. j. Williams; Vice Pres
ident, M. F. Reed, Master of Forms,
VIM. J. Phillips; Conductor, J. M.
Good; Inspector, Gilbert Downs;
Guard, j. W. Dunlap; Delegates to
State Camp to be held in Wilmington
in August, H. W. Hilyard. Wilbur D.
Wilds and VIM. J. Phillips.
Twenty three States became "bone
dry Saturday night, June 80, the
Reed amendment prohibiting shipment
of liquor into any territory where its
manufacture or sale is prohibited be-
coming effective at that hour. Della
ware is affected by the law, Kent and
Sussex counties being dry" under
the State law. No person shall have
more than one quart of whiskey in hi:
possession at any time. The Federal
law also bars from prohibition areas,
whether State or smaller corporations
all mail matter containing advertise
ments OF solicitations for orders for
intoxicants in order to suppress th'
activities of mail order houses.
Harry Bothman, former proprietor
of the Clayton House, Wilmington
when that hotel was Wilmington
largest hoetelry, died in Baltimore OIL
Monday, July 2. Mr.. Bothman wa
we'll known in Wilmington and be
longed to several fraternities ant
clubs there. The deceased, togethe
= with his brother, Albert, left Will
mington several years go and wen
into the hotel business in Norfolk, Va
= Later they moved to Baltimore, wher
they were managing a hotel at tn
time of Harry's death. Mr.. Both
man. who was a very large man, ha
not been we'll for some time.
Governor Townsend, at Dover, Fri
day appoi nted the following member
of the special Department of EleC
tions for Wilmington on the part Q
n the Anti Saloon League to conduct tn
| "wet" and "dry' election next fall
| George M. Fisher, William P. Whit
and Joseph s. Hamilton. The wet
committee as yet has not submitte
n a list of males to the Governor. Th
Governor also appointed the registrs
tion officers who will conduct tn
speial election in rural New Cast
county. The first registration day fC
II the special "wet" and" dry" electio
under the law will be the third Satu
day in July July 21) instead of tt
first Saturday July 2 as previousl
II announced.
:! The state board of pardons la
week after a full days considerable
of the cases of the three negroes
- William Prettyman, Adam Harg
and Webs ter Purnell-all under SCI
tence of death to be hanged July z
for the murder of Harry Parker, all
colored, at Lewes, on September q
1916, deferred action until July L
At that time a vote will be taken {
the application for Communication
sentence to life Imprisonment.
the case of Anthony Seufort, servir
four years sentence for assau
with intent to commit murder
May, 1916, an application was ma
for an absolute pardon. The boa
voted the recommendation of a fu
pardon for the prisoner on the grou
of the peculiar circumstances su
rounding the case and also because
has a wife and five children depen
ing upon him.
A jolly party from Indiana h
been spending ten days at Bowe