Smyrna times., 1919-07-09
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA

The farmers located on the State
road, facing the new concrete high
way are puzzled about threshing out
fits on their place to thresh wheat.
Traction engines are prohibited the
use of the concrete road-bed.
Mrs. Thomas Aaron, who resides in
Dover, in hurrying to summon a
physician for Mrs. Oscar Cannon, fell
and fractured her thigh few days
ago.
Mrs. Annie Moore, of Dover, was
considerably hurt Wednesday, when
she was thrown from a carriage in a
runaway accident. The horse be-
came frightened and unmanageable.
Rev. w. R. Mowbray, Dover Dis
trict Superintendent, arrived home on
Tuesday from Columbus, Ohio, where
he has been attending the great
Methodist Centenary Celebration. He
speaks in the highest terms of the af-
fair and the exhibits from all parts
of the world. He was greatly i'm
pressed with the daily pageant, The
Wayfarer, a story of the Christian re-
ligiOn from creation TO date.
The summer apple season is now
on in this section. Picking began last
week in the many nearby orchards
and the prices are very good. Yellow
Transparents sold from $295 to $3.15
per bushel hamper. On Tuesday
Frances NJ. and ]. Leonard Soper sold
APO hampers to Samuel j. Speal at
record price for that day S4.4O per
bushel hamper. The prices paid on
Tuesday ranged from $2.75 to $3.1O
per bushel. S. J. Speal shipped four
carloads; Hartman and Mammalian, six
carloads, and C. L. Terry, two car
loads from Wyoming.
A Ford automobile, bearing a
Pennsylvania license with four men
passengers, turned turtle in front of
Forest Cemetery, near Midtown,
recently, and one of the four occu-
pants sustained a broken limb and
another had his arm badly sprained
while the other two men were more or
less cut and bruised. The car was
completely wrecked. After receiving
medical attention, one of the men was
sent to the Delaware Hospital, Will
mington. The party who were from
Chester, had been on a fishing trip
in the lower part of the State, were
returning home when the accident oc-
Cured.
With a much more interesting as
sortment of courses than in former
years and with prospects of the larg-
est enrolment in the history of the
school the annual State Summer
School for teachers was opened at
Delaware College last week and will
continue six weeks. More than 250
teachers have enrolled. There are a
few teachers from other States but
the great majority are from Del
aware The State reimburses the
State teachers for their railroad fare
and board while at the school. The
college has arranged to accommodate
all with sleeping accommodation:
and the teachers will also take theil
meals in the college Commons.
The State House Commission me-
last Tuesday to further conside
the remodeling of the Kent Count!
Building, purchased by the State, anC
which adjoins the State property
there being a roadway of few fee
only, intervening. Because of th'
refusal of Dover's Town Council t.
grant the closing of this street in or
der to wholly connect up the tw
buildings, the Commission decided no
to make the necessary improvement
4. or remodel the old building, deemin
it inexpedient to spend the amount o
money appropriated for that purpose
$125,OOO, unless the proper right
could be secured. By this decision O
the Commission the matter will in a
= probability be left for the next Leg
islature to either pass law givin
the State the right to acquire tn
property, or leave the matter alOn
altogether.