Smyrna times., 1926-12-29
ON DEL -MAR-VA PENINSULA
Items of Interest Prepared by Del
Mar-Va Eastern Shore Association

tinction of being the home of Mary
lands champion COW. She is Bess
Clothilde Pontiac Burke, 677,879, and
is owned by Norman Pennington, of
Kennedyville, one of the leading MEM
bers of the Kent Boys All Calf Club.
Young Pennington became a member
of the Boys Calf Club in 1921 and
shortly afterward his first club heifer
was Bess, which he purchased from
his father, Edgar H. Pennington,
prominent Holstein breeder, for $65
made from growing tomatoes. At the
age of 3 years Bess, which had won
blue ribbons at Maryland State fairs
for the best in her class, as well as
at other exhibits, broke the State
record for a seven-day milk test, her
mark being 26.6 pounds of butter and
6O6.1 pounds of milk. So far as is
known by County Agent Horace B.
Derrick, this has never been equaled
in Maryland.
The Chamber of Commerce and
town Council of Middletown, Delaware
have been negotiating with the Tex
tile Manufacturing Company of
Frankford, Pa, and the Louis Miller
Shirt Company, both of which are eX-
pected soon to locate in Middletown.
Seven miles of State Highway will
be paved with concrete in Northamp-
ton County in 1927. This addition
will greatly attract tourists to the
Eastern Shore Of Virginia and the
Del-Mar-Va Peninsula.
The Industrial Finance Corporation
Of Cape Charles, through J.W. Wilson
E. M. Kellogg, r. A. Parsons and
Otto Lowe have already begun nego-
tiations with industries in Philadel-
phia and New York looking toward
the establishment Of industries in
Cape Charles.
The Agricultural Committee Of the
Salisbury Wicomico Chamber Of Com
merce is sponsoring through w. Up
shur Polk, Superintendent Of the Bal
timore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Rail
way Company, the operation Of a
Livestock train" over that division
within the next few weeks. The train
will be operated from one terminal OF
the Division to the other, making
stops in various towns en- route to ex-
hibit specimens Of thoroughbred Ayre-
shire, Guernsey, Jersey and Holstein.
Plans are on foot for the operation Of
a similar train on the Norfolk Divi-
sion Of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
IL Is believed that any future trips are
dependent upon the success Of the
first.
Students Of Washington College,
Chestertown, Md, are assisting in the
compilation Of data for DR.. Esther M.
Dole, professor of history and Ray
mond A. Fitzpatrick, professor Of COM
merce, who will later write the COM
plete history Of the nine counties Of
the Eastern Shore Of Maryland.
An event Of considerable signifi-
canoe to the taxpayers Of Delaware
was the announcement made Friday
that charter had been filed at Dover
for the Taxpayers Research League
in Delaware. The announced purpose
Of the Taxpayers Research League is
to make a continuous scientific study
Of Government problems in Delaware,
including questions Of assessment, tax
alton, and the expenditure Of public
funds.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is plan
ming immediate construction Of its i'm
proved freight terminal facilities at
Little Creek, near Norfolk, Va. This
will be the most extensive railroad
freight-ferrying operation Of its kind
in the world, and its present tremend-
Gus volume Of perishable and other
traffic from southeastern points to
Philadelphia, New York, Boston and
other northern and eastern markets
should rapidly increase
The Secretary Of the Chamber Of
Commerce of Dover, Delaware, is in
correspondence with a Stainless Steel
\ Boat Manufacturing Company which
is looking for a factory site. This
Company wants to locate in a town
where labor is available and four feet
of water at high tide may be had.
Cape Charles will have a commun-
ity celebration Christmas around a
thirty-foot cedar Christmas tree which
has been planted for the purpose OF
celebrating Christmas annually with
out the necessary destruction OF
trees.