Smyrna times., 1920-03-31
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES

Kent county which will close on April
1St' has been the most profitable in
the history of the business.
Major Caleb Kenney and his sister.
Mrs. Chester Tremain, of New York
City, are the guests of Mrs. N. B.
Smithers, and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith
ers, at Dover.
The Wilmington city tax collectors
have taken in more than S1,5OO,OOO in
the eight months in which thev have
been in office, already exceeding the
total for last year.
The Legislature will be asked TO
amend the charter of Seaford to make
it necessary for all citizens to pay
their taxes 80 days previous to the
town election to entitle them to a vote
New Castle County Levy Court has
announced that the original estimate
Of $4,000 for rebuilding the Balti-
more & Ohio bridge over the Brandy
wine in Wilmington will have to be
increased to $61,000
The steamer Frederick of the Phil
adelphia-Frederica passenger and
freight line has been taken to Will
mington for overhauling and painting
before the beginning of the season
which generally commences on April
first.
The first shad of the season were
caught this week in the Broadl1iln
river by John Robinson and his crew.
The fish sold for $1.5O each. The
first aspey, or fish hawk, appeared the
same day and was taken as large
sign that spring hod arrived.
Five crates of quail were received
recently by Joshua Clayton, secretary
of the Cecil County, Md, Game Pro-
tective Association for restocking
The birds 24O in number will beliber-
ated in various sections of Cecil coun-
ty. They were sent to Mr. Clayton
by the State Game Warden.
Chesapeake City residents are be-
ginning to fear the enlargement of
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
will not be of any benefit to them, as
probably none of the passing steam
ers will stop at the town.
Former State Senator Harvey Hof-
fecker, of White Clay Creek hundred,
has announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for PrOthOno-
tary of New Castle He is making an
active canvass.
Farmers about Milton have begun to
plow their fields for the planting of
the early pea crop. The Gamers
have contracted for an increased acre
age and expect to have large pack.
Birdsong Brothers are asking far
mers to increase their acreage of lima
beans, of which the firm makes a
speciality and for which they have
paid farmers thousands of dollars in
recent years. The growers hesitate
to contract as labor is hard to obtain
Farm hands offered from $50 to $40
month are refusing and are leaving
to work in the cities.
1t is announced the Chesapeake
Flax and Linen Corporation has been
i organized in Delaware to foster the
growing of flax on the Peninsula
4 which, it is claimed, can be readily
\ grown on the Peninsula and will yield
\ larger returns than any of the regu-
lar crops. 1t is planned, tits said, to
start a linen plant at Elk Mills, Cecil
4 County, Md, and later another in Del
aware and increase such plants, If
thesuggested new crop finds favor
4 with the farmers. 1t iss aid that much
1 interest has been aroused in the sug-
J gestion of fiax-growing at recent Del
aware farmers institutes.
At a meeting of Christ Methodist
Protestant Church, ChestertOwn, Md.
the resignation of the Rev. j. L. Ware
was received and accepted. He has
been at hits church four years. Three
: ministers have resigned Rev. DIR
Henry B. Martin, Emmanuel Episcopal
Church: Rev. George 7. Anderson
Methodist Church and Rev. J. L.Warc
} Rev. J. L. Jump has resigned from
the Methodist Protestant charge Of
Caroline and has purchased a house
II and ten acres of land at Greensboro
/: to which he expects to remove shortly
a. and 90 into the business OF raising
I poultry.
/ Those on the committee in Dove
lt to seek funds for the Jewish relle'
+, are: William D. Denney, chairman
John S. Collins, treasurer; Karl u
Dorzback, secretary; James Hall AN
derson, w. H. Baker, J. E. Beck H.
D Beers, w. c. Boyer Howard BucKson