The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-24

is II not about time for another
game of ball Or is it too warm -?
The Academy base ball club prom
ised TO be good one this season.
Don't forget the date of the Chris
tiana Church excursion TO Cape May
June 22.
Note the many new advertisements
in this issue. They are all perfectly re-
liable.
r. jeff. Scott went to Baltimore on
Monday and is now one of the Custom
House boys.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Lee, oiliciated
at st. Thomas Episcopal Church yester-
day evening.
Just the weather for ice cream. Mrs.
s. A. Roach's saloon Is the place to get
that article.
The small boy now travels barefoot
ed. Soon he will HE to the brook and
there enjoy bath.
Spring has set in in earnest this
week The thermometer registered 800
on Monday and Tuesday.
We earnestly call the attention of
the Board of Health to the old cellar
along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Il Away deal at L G. Jays Drug
Store and will continue to do so, be-
cause lam sure of getting just what l
want.
"A young man called at one Of our
stores last week for sheep-skin apples.
He wanted sheep-nose apples, but tan
ned sheep skin was impressed on his
mind.
Don't miss seeing the famous Stuart
Rogers on Friday night next. Reserved
seats will be for sale on Monday at l.. G..
Jays. Price so cents. General admission,
% cents.
Some people are complaining about
some other people pulling flowers from
their front yards. Too bad, but cannot
be helped unless flowers are watched
all night.
An umbrella member, peddlers of
chair bottoms, tins, and other articles,
and man selling some sort of medicine
near the Deer Park Hotel, were in town
this week.
Paste this in your hat. On June
22nd, 1886, the Chrstiana Sunday School
will give its fifth annual excursion to
Cape May. Cars will make connection
with the Republic at Delaware City.
Gardening is to be done-in fact
much has been done. Every fellow
who can turn sod must register his name
on the gardeners list. There are very
many lighter occupations. But we like
gardening. Z
Stuart Rogers has the faculty of
making his audience laugh or cry seem
ingly at will. He makes all of the
changes from one character to another
instantaneously, and in the presence of
the audience.
"A committee composed of three well
and favorably-known gentlemen of this
town will give hop-the fourth-in
Caskey Hall, on Wednesday evening,
April 2s. Ritchie's popular orchestra will
furnish the music.
Fred Choate not only lays claim to
being the champion runner, but is also
equally a champion in the way Of keep
ing abreast of the the times by having at
his store everything useful in the way
Of books, papers, stationery, etc.
Spring is here sure, and the time has
arrived also when II general cleaning up
must take place. We shudder each day
as we start home, because we know not
how soon it will be torn up beyond rec
ignition. We all must go through this
ordeal.
A G. Yates & Co., clothers, of Phil
adelphia, secured the privilege and have
had painted on Mr.. Jno. f. Lewis wind
mill, in this town, flaming sign. 1t is
very attractive, and will undoubtedly
draw additional trade to their old-estab-
lished place.
Just before going to press we learn
ed that two year old child of Edward
Grace, living on Cleveland avenue, in
some manner got hold of bottle of ere
osote and swallowed some of the con-
tents. But little hopes are entertained
of its recovery.
Mrs. Rachel Chambers who resides at
Milford Cross Roads, had the misfortune
on Wednesday to lose $40 which she had
drawn from the bank in this town on that
day. We trust Mrs. Chambers will have
the good fortune TO find the lost pocket
book. See ad elsewhere.
Miss Nettie Van Name of Ocean
Beach, N. j., will arrive in Newark to-
day, and be the guest of Miss Annie
Wilson at Mr.. and Mrs. John William
sons, at the East End. Miss Van Name,
it will be remembered, was Mrs. Ken
ney's co-laborer in the big revival which
took place in the M. L. Church here last
fall. Miss Nettie has many friends here.
There is an article going the rounds
of the country press, headed Newspaper
Borrowers" This business of borrowing
papers is done thoughtlessly, but is kept
up constantly year after year. Now
right here we earnestly request our sub
scrbers not to loan The LEDGER. Let
your neighbors subscribe. We cannot
borrow enough paper to print The LED
GER. Be man and subscribe.
The great temperance orator, Frank
whelen, who is the G. w. G. T. of Della
ware, is coming to New Castle County to-