Smyrna times., 1938-05-26

absence of some weeks visiting
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abel J. Porter, pur-
posed leaving to-day for Scranton,
Pa, to visit their son.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Wiltbank, of
Milton, and Miss Emma Hudson, Of
this town, will leave to-day for a
trip to California.
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
Fish were never SO plentiful
along our bay shores as they are
this spring. All kinds = trout,
drum, rock and shad.
Peck, Clifton & Co., have leased
their large cannery at FELTON, to
Reed and Killen, who will run
on tomatoes to the full capacity of
the factory.
Sturgeon fishermen at Port Penn
are making a good thing of it.
Two of them on Monday morning
made S48 before breakfast. Other
boats during the day made from
$25 to $40.
Rev. ]. S. Willis gave his annual
farm party Wriday at his Glendale
Farms, near Magnolia. Threaten
ing rain kept away a number of
guests, yet the company numbered
nearly forty persons.
The wheat crop in New Castle
county will be short this year.
while in Kent it will hardly reach
the average of former years. I'm
less something unusual happens
the crop of Sussex will be sorae-
what larger than in years past.
On Thursday afternoon the boil
er of an agricultural engine ex-
ploded on a farm four miles below
Port Penn, Del. Four persons were
injured, and Benz. Pleasanton was
blown go feet and instantly killed.
The others are not seriously hurt.
David H. Atkins, Of Milton, has
accepted the position of superin-
tendent Of Moor's ship yard, Will
made vacant by the res
ignation Of George Sauernof. Mr..
Atkins was a member of the House
in the Delaware Legislature of
1885.
An extra freight train has been
put on the D. M. q ". Railroad be
tween Georgetown and Harring-
ton, making close connection with
the freight train from Franklin
City and with the through Jersey
City freight Oh the main line. at
Charles Davis, residing in West
Dover Hundred, had an alteration
with a colored man named Miller,
in his employ, and pounded him
severely with a singletree. Squire
Jester took his deposition and held
Davis to bail to appear before him
when Miller will be able to attend,
ia the sum Of $500.
Miss Harriet Clayton Comegys,
daughter of the Chief Justice, has
been unanimously chosen by the
regent and vice-regents of the
Ladies Mount Vernon Association,
vice regwet for the State of Della
ware, to fill the vacancy in the
board occasioned by the deceased
Of her mother, who held the place
from the organization of the asso-
citation until her decease last
month.
Drs. Richard and Layton, of
Georgetown, extrasted a ball from
the arm Of the eight year old son
Of James Parker, Of Milsboro, last
Tuesday. The boy was accidental
ly shot by his brother in August
1885, but the wound had not until
recently given him any trouble
Sometime ago it commenced run
ming and his parents were persuad-
ed to have the bullet taken cut.
The operation was quite a severe
one, but at last accounts the little
sufferer was doing well.
A government hospital is being
erected near the Delaware Break
water at Lewes to receive any per-
sons from foreign ports who are
afflicted with any contagious dis
eases. This is for the protection
of the towns along the bay and
river, which have heretofore been
to considerable danger
from incoming vessels. No quar-
antine station has ever been estab-
lished below Chester and this one
is for the protection of the river
and harbor as well as Philadelphia.
William j. Hickman, of Bayard,
Del, found the badly decomposed
body of a man on the beach about
three miles north of Frederick's
last week. Upon his right
arm was stamped in India ink an
flag, the figure of a
woman and the words Young
His left arm contain
ed the figure of a full rugged ship
and the initials w. v. K. A tax
receipt from William Meyer, col
lector in the eighteenth ward, Phil