Smyrna times., 1918-05-29
l[VS Of THE DELAWARE
. MARYLAND PENINSULA
..v ITEMS GATHERED FROM
""' w., STATE EXCHANGES

,.ems from all Partsof the
Ini'rs'"i ',ia About Your Friends and
NsIghoOrs and Their OO'"sS'
pobert E. Lewis and Allen
Tbonas had automobile tom. ans f9ill:ion Di1.ion
Sanosy i Dover last week. Both
'- '...nsd serious injury
.,,iDg workman was repairing
1',a u% an the steeple of Holy Cross
% .S ',S' .t Dover last week and at
lDa.s '.,.s much attention He repaired
% al',:i siIdsd the cross on the very top
4 the stesple'
:. franklin Bernard. Jr.. of
Mt u. = Souare. Pa, and Miss Mary
A'r1. Ts,ritt' daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Merritt, of Warwick, Md, were
= misty married in Philadelphia on
i saturday,, May 11tb.
csDtsin Herbert M. Jones OF Dover
y, With an accident at Camp Dix,
WI. VI Saturday, May 18th. In alight'
W.. t.,r q moving railroad train he
y =, thrown to the ground and consid-
,,blv bruised and shaken up.
Living Fl. Boggs, son of Mrs. Laura
0.-r. of Dover, who has been at
D,Si .."5ing Delaware College, left Mon
= for the Plattsbury, N. Y, Train
nc Camp. His entire school class
ii take military instruction at that
place.
Iudce Ed Willim, of near Dover re-
.,Dtlv had to kill a valuable family
,o,.s which was injured by an auto
robils collision. The horse was
,,lued at $3.50 and was brought here
Nv Mr. Willim from his former
hane in Kentucky.
Rev. G. R. Ellis, Robert J. Russell
ud other members of BaTratt s Chaple
ge Manning for a big day at that
4 historic spot on Memorial Day. The
mp,ipsl speaker will be Rev. Herbert
4 Randolph, of Wilmington. The
exercises will begin at 2 o'clock p. m.
4 Farmers in sll parts of the State
re showing an increased interest in
4 be prices that are offered by the
State Board of Agriculture for yields
Of corn this year. A number have
already entered the contest for the five
sre prizes as we'll as for the golC
medal for the best seed corn and the
$50 State prize and the County prizes.
It tfanspires that Mr.. and Mrs.
SpIden S. Deemer, of New Castle
General 7. Coleman DUPONT and Col
mel ]. Ernest Smith and other public
Piritei citizens will pay the $35. 40t
purchase price for the farm selectel
Hs site for the Delaware Home TO
he Feeble Minded, and will presen
i to the State. The farm, which i
8be bought from Governor Town
eld, is located near Seltyville.
George q. Virgins, proprietor o
ihe -four mill located at Townsend
EhO is working under Government
supervision, has just shipped carloa
d $40 barrels of -four for exportatio
70 France. Practically no water hs
gone to waste over the new 12O-foC
PlWsy, as he keeps the mill runnin
night and day when necessary in orde
1utlize every drop in grinding, ar
A already begun work on another an
Gget carload.
farmer was in Milford Tuesday
Asy2I. with dearborn load of whit
@AtOes which he was trying to di
pose Of at % cents per basket. +
FoEs potatoes but not strawberrie
no be made trade even with Il
merchant Of one basket of fine larJ
'll'e potatoes for one quart of fiji
"ss strawberries. The size of Il
@o commodities was striking as Il
saae was effected on the streets
Altord.
Maryland is not modest in taxil
soof trucks. A five-ton truck pa
s'ou' A seven-ton truck pays $50
rVnlo a ten.ton truck would pay On
Maryland highway police car
JACK WITH which to raise the whe
any loaded truck and weigh t
y" resting on that wheel or whee1
y nlgh tax tends to lessen the ha,
VI nea7y loads. In fact, the SIS
~ Is well nigh prohibitive. In Il
'el Maryland seems to have me
's 'nan Ohio, and gets more doll,
incense fees. Motor truck max,
seeking to have a uniform i
ng motor truck traffic {
si,.s % all States. One motor trr
T. ''a Goes business in several stat
ps's '' OI loads, width of tires {
S,,.. ~ are matters of Interstate i
Ta and in time will be unifor