Smyrna times., 1920-05-26
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA

Josiah Marvel will be the speaker
at the Memorial Day exercises at Del
aware City.
Middletown farmers fear the
strawberry crop has been damaged bv
the late frosts.
The annual reunion at Old Draw.
yers vii be celebrated at the church
on Sunday, June A.
Old Blackbird mill, owned bv Theo-
dore I. Ferguson, is being repaired
and new machinery placed.
The Wilmington Institute Free Lii
brary needs S1,OOO,OOO for construc-
ton, endowment and maintenance, it
has been announced by the treasurer.
At a special election in Millington.
Nd, today the voters will decide
whether they will have a modern wat
er supply and up-to-date sewer sys-
TEN.
Eugene Cuilison, a 14-year-old boy
of Delaware iCty, landed eight big
carp with hook and line in the Chesa-
peake & Delaware Canal. One of the
fish weighed over IL pounds.
Last Friday Miss Frances Will
liams, of near Odessa, made a mis-
step, fell and broke her leg. She re-
ceived first aid treatment and was
then taken to n Philadelphia hospital.
Chief of Police, E. l. Lane of Do
yer, is determined to put a stop TO
motorists using Dover streets as a
speedway. During the past week he
has made two arrests for this offense.
The annual picnic of the East Do
yer Community of the Kent County
Farm Bureau will be held on Tuesday,
June Sth instead of June 9th as was
errOnously published in the Index last
week. The picnic will be held at Com
eggs school and will be bigger and bet
ter than ever before.
The commencement exercises of the
Georgetown High School will be held
in the Courthouse June 8. The speak
er will be Professor Alexander Har-
rington.
= Kennard & Co. and Edward w. Pyle
& Co., two of Wilmington's largest
department stores, have merged and
will erect a new building. The firm
will be the Kennard-Pyle Co.
Thomas C. Frazier, of Dover, and
M. Beatrice Cook, of Kenton, were
married Sunday evening at 8.3C
o'clock at the Dover M. P. Church
parsonage by Rev. P. W. Crosby.
J. Cooper Berry, of Wyoming, ant
Miss Ellen V. Deats, of Dover, wert
married in the M. E. parsonage al
Cheswold on Saturday evening, May
18th, by the Rev. ]. P. Smith.
Catches of sturgeon in the Della
ware River during the last two week
have netted fishermen a small for
tune. The returns have been invari
ably larger than anything experienc
ed in recent years.
Bluefish, which seldom appear il
4 fresh or braCkish water, are beini
1 caught in large numbers by Delawar
Bay fishermen from both the Ne0
Jersey and Delaware shores.
\ The 3-ton Clydesdale truck, owne
I by eLon F. Buckson, of Odessa, wa
/ totally destroyed by fire, at 81
4 Georges, recently. Mr. Buckson use
this truck in conveying milk an
! freight between Middletown and vii
mington, and we understand it wa
partially covered by insurance.
The bar-room of Old Blackbidr he
tel has been remodeled and made int
a w. C. T. U. rest room. Supper wa
4 served there On Tuesday for visitor
4 to the Sunday School convention.
\ John Pleasanton and Lauvina En-
4 ory, both of Dover, were married Sal
\ urdya evening by Rev. R. S. Stephen
4 pastor of st. Luke's Church, at th
4 parsonage. Wedding took place {
4 $50 o'clock.
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