Smyrna times., 1917-08-22
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Inte resting Items from all Partsof the
Peninsula F.bout Your Friends and
NeIghbors and Their Doings.


NeIghbors and Their Dongs.
The trustees of Lavina camp meet
ing, at Milton, cleared over $261 from
the camp this year.
Albert B. Davis, of Middletnwn,
had his feet badly injured while start
ing the engine of his motorcycle.
Falling down flight of steps in
her home at Middletown, Mrs. Herbert
N. Notely received internal injuries
that may result in her death.
Cunning for reed birds this year.
starting September 1, promises to be
quite paying sport as the birds are
already very plentiful.
Theodore Hopkins, of Milton. was
badly scalded about the face and body
when the boiler of wheat thresher,
on which he was working, bursted.
Sussex county Gamers have ap-
pealed for help to the government,
and will be unable to make their US
ual pack unless boys, girls and women
are sent to them.
Nelson Bennett, of Milford, re-
ceived a very badly mangled hand
when it was caught in an ice crusher
while he was making ice cream. Sew
eral fingers have been amputated.
DR.. H. G. Nj. Kollock has been
elected president of the Newark
Academy. The trustees are making
Improvements to the grounds and
buildings.
So many of the players having been
drafted the Laurel baseball club has
disbsnded. 1t is probable that not
another game will be played there
this season.
About all the Kent county wheat
crops have been threshed and the
grain is about ready for market The
price quoted last week by local buyers
was So 10 per bushel.
The $50. .OOO,OOO Herbert Hoover
Food Conservation Corporation was
incorporated at Dover Thursday under
the laws of Delaware. The corpora
tion fee paid the State was $260O.
State Senator Charles NJ. Wharton,
Representative John W. Tarburton
and Senator Attorney William NJ.
Hope are attending the Legislative
reunion at Chincoteague, Virgins.
County Farm Agent H. H. Zim-
merly, of this place, has arranged
a series of meetings to be held in this
= county in the interest of wheat pro-
duction. These meetings will be held
on different farms thruout the county
from August 20 to %.
Detective Tinsman and Constable
Bowers. of Wilmington, designated
especially by the attorney generals
office, have arrested eleven motorists
for alleged violation of the new motor
law regulating lights on machines.
Victor Moore of the Lloyd Moore
canning factory, of Seaford, who
started to pack last week, paid the
highest price known this year for to-
matoes, 65 cents basket at the oper
market. While the yield of tomatoes
is not expected to be good this season.
there will be large crop as twice
the acreage was planted.
. James Walls, a blacksmith a
Laurel, was overcome by the heat {
few days ago and has since been in 1
serious condition. He was taken t.
the Peninsula General Hospital. Hi
father, Benjamin T. Walls, of Mil
ford, who went there Wednesday tt
take his place at the forge was over
come BY the heat and has since beer
confined to his bed.
County Agent H. H. Zimmerly hs
arranged series of meetings to b.
held throughout Kent county in tn
interest of wheat production in an en-
deavor to interest farmers in growing
more wheat and in saving wheat the,
have harvested this summer from tn
destructive work of the weevil. Nev
Castle County Agent M. o. Pence
- Professor A. E. Grantham and other
. will take part.
Ii A very pretty wedding was solem
n nized on Saturday evening, August IL
II st the Armory M. E. parsonage, i
II Dover. the contracting parties bein
II James E. Coleman, formerly of Dover
u now employed on the Milford Cbroni
1T Gle, and Miss Delema Vista Short
| one nf the popular young ladies o
Dover. They were accompanied b.
the brides brother, Leon Short, an
L Miss Mary E. Hollis, of Greenwood
| Del. The ceremony was performed b
Rev. Thos. Pardee. The young coupl