The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-10-23


what are you, young man, going to do to
pass the time? We know of no better
way than to pursue course of reading,
and you will always look back upon the
time as being well spent.
Ice cream weather fingers longer
this season than ever before known.
While this is so, all should bear in mind
the fact that Mrs. S. Roach makes ice
cream of all favors and of the best quail
ity. Try plate tonight.
The arrivals this week at tue Acad-
envy and Normal School are Misses Mag
gle Stewart and Addie l.. Beniz, and Mr..
Harry Stewart, all of st. Georges. The
total enrolment to date is about forty per
cent in advance Of that ot last year
The 7;l2 p. m. train on the b. 4 o.
Road is very handy for those who desire
to go to Wilmington, but of late it is
very uncertain at what time you will get
there. However we suppose everything
will be on schedule time in the bye and
bye.
The Messrs. Brown Brothers, at the
West End Meat Market, are doing what
they started to do, a first-class trade
Their card appears at the head of our
locals this week. After this week they
will tell you through these columns what
they will sell you.
Mrs. VIM. d. Mackey and family of
this town removed to Baltimore last
week, where they will remain during the
winter. The Rev. Mr.. Umberger, pastor
of White Clay Creek Church, now oc-
cupies the residence made vacant by
Mrs. Mackey.
There will be temperance meeting
held in the Hall at Appleton next Thurs
day evening, October 2Sth. All are in
vited to be present and hear the disad-
vantages of License Law" made per-
By order of committee. David
T. Work, secretary.
Every man, boy, and woman, we
might say, have been over in Maryland
cunning. There are so many gunners
now that it is impossible for game ofany
sort to live in this section. Skunks are
considered big game with some of the
pseudo-sportsman.
MIR. VIM Wade, of Appleton, Nd,
will please accept our thanks for bas-
ket of fine apples. No class of persons
small offerings more than
printers. Our latch string is always on
the outside for those who wish to tickle
our palate by good things.
The Weekly Times, a new Paper start
ed in Wilmington last Saturday, looks
like all those papers that come from the
same mill, and it will hardly fill the long
felt want of another weekly. 1t is neat
and well gotten up and we wish the new
editors great success with the Times.
"A party of Newark ladies and gem
tleman were pleasantly entertained on
evening by Mr.. Joseph Ran
kin, and sister, Miss Margaret Rankin,
at their home in Mill Creek hundred.
The host and hostess sustained their
known reputation for hospitality, SO Of
ten extended to their many friends.
Fred Choate prides himself on being
the only agent in this town of the "Dia-
manta" spectacles and eyeglasses, class
of goods of high merit. These glasses
have been pronounced superior to any
in use by some of the most celebrated
oculists in the country. Those suffer
ing with defective eyesight should go at
once and get a pair of these glasses.
1t is wonderful what improvements
have been made close to the station Of
p, w. & b. r. II. David Rose has had
built new house Patrick Corbitt has
added to his residence large addition
which is equal to new houses, two in
cubators are in operation, one belonging
to VIM. II. Cook, and the other to David
Rose. Young chicks are turned out by
the hundred. There are several other
improvements of which we will
speak of more fully in the future.
Chicago Beef, West End Market.
One night this week several of the
young men of Newark were waiting for
the midnight train at the Wilmington
depot, they were accosted by young
man who addressed them with II beg
your pardon, but you look like man
who would help one who has had moth
ing to eat, etc, and wound up by ask
ing for enough to get cup of coffee.
Newarkers are too smart to be taken in
by such characters. Everybody reads
the papers here and are posted about
these frauds This young man was a
fraud, undoubtedly.
Samuel Morrison, residing at the
West End, this town, raised some fine
vegetables in his garden. On one pun
kin vine of the sweet potato variety
there were 1G pumpkins, the largest
ofwhich measured 81 inches around, and
SO inches long, and weighed 20 pounds,
The smallest one weighed pounds
Also some fine sweet potatoes. Some
of these potatoes measured 10 inches in
length, being quite IL inches in circum-
ference One stock of corn grew to the