Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-06-23
very few running.

very few running.
The Changers are making ar
rangemeLts for their annual picnic
at Rehoboth in July.
Two hundred Caroline poplar
and maple trees have been set out
on the State Fair Grounds at Do
yer.
George Y. Massey, Esq, has
been elected an honorary member
of the American Wing Society of
Princeton College.
The Rev. ]. D. Kemp, pastor of
the M. E. Church of Georgetown,
has had his salary raised to 5000
per annum, an increase of $500.
George H. Graham, convicted at
Wilmington of manslaughter in
killing Gottfried Koeder, was sent
enced to three years Imprisonment
and $1,000 fine.
Detective Hutchins is gathering
in the free riding tramps on the
railroad. He landed seven in Do
yer Jail, Friday, where jailer Pow
ell will take charge of them for
ten days.
The contract for building the
Agricultural Experimental Build
ing at Delaware College was on
Tuesday last awarded to Francis
D. Talley at $3.50 and work will
commence at once.
Lightning struck stable be-
longing to Alexander Laws near
Little Creek during storm on
Saturday night, and it was de-
stroyed together with a valuable
mule. The building was worth
about $1,000 and was partially in
sured.
Mrs. w. r. Rickson, of Magnolia,
but formerly of Smyrna, died
Thursday after a lingering but
painful illness. She was the wife
Of County Treasurer Dickson, and
a sister of Mrs. DR.. Wilson, of Do
yer. She was As years of age at
the time Of her death.
A carrier pigeon stopped at
Joshua McGonigal's near Little
Creek, last week, and stayed two
days. When it came there it was
very tired and hungry. It was
tame, eating out of the nand It
was marked 1883" under one wing
and had bands around each leg.
After resting thoroughly, it went
on its way.
Mr.. William Butler living on the
Hirons farm / IL miles south of
Dover, has lost two horses and five
others on the sick list. They are
stricken ID peculiar manner,
their mouths and tongues getting
yellow, refusing food until they
die. Mr. Butler thinks they were
poisoned by eating something in
the pasture field.
Benjamin Barton, a prominent
citizen Of Georgetown, died at his
home there quite suddenly on Fri
day afternoon, of heart trouble.
Mr.. Burton was born in 1910, near
Lewes. He was twice elected to
the State Legislature by the
Wings; once in 1912, and again in
1851. He leaves a widow and six
children. They are Daniel and Ed
ward Burton, Millsboro; Major
George Fl. Burton, Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan; Mrs. Alfred P. Rob
inson, the Misses Julia and Clara
Burton, Georgetown.
Before two months shall have
passed, said DR.. Seth Pancoast last
week, II propose to land in Jhila-
delphia 100000 worth of gold
and silver bars and precious stones
now lying in the bottom of the
Atlantic Ocean, the treasure of the
sunken English sloof-of-war De
Braak, which went down in 1898"
The main obstacle heretofore to
locating the wreck the Doctor says,
has been the variation of the mer-
idian, which has been accurately
solved by Lieutenant Commander
Adams, of the United States Navy
Ex-Chief Engineer of the Fire
Hugh F. Swinney, Of
Wilmington, made a cowardly and
brutal assault on Thomas Martin
about twelve o'clock last Saturday
night, which will probably result in
his death It seems the men were
in Mrs. Ringers saloon, on Second
street between French and Walnut,
when they became engaged in a