Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-01-30
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uent WAS MADE In the cemetery CONNECTED
with the church, Mrs. Riley leaves q1i;e
q number of grown mp children.
The hot houses OF William II. Cook,
near the P, W. i D. station, are supply.
ing about 800 carnations each week TO
Washington florists for use 10 the dec.
orstions Of the state receptions there
during the social season. Many other
kinds OF flowers are also sent each week,
but it seems that the carnation blossom
is the favored flower Just now among the
Washington four hundred.
The recent disagreement between Con-
tractor Evans and Contractor Pyle ss to
where belonged the responsibility for the
fall of portion OF the. Knauff organ
factory during high winc several weeks
ago has been amicably settled and the
building operations will be pushed for
ward as much as possible.
The E!na Hose and Ladder Company
will hold hop in Olskey Hall on the
evening Of February 2lst. to conimemo-
rate the opening OF the public water
works and tine organization Of the hose
company on February 22d of last year.
The proceeds or the dance will be de-
voted to the fund for the erection Of its
new house on Academy street.
Professor F. D. Chester, the botanist
OF the Delaware College Agricultural Sta
ton, has recently executed remarkably
hne pieoe of work in reproducing on
paper representation of section OF a
wheat grain. This grain Of wheat was
magnifed many hundred times by
powerful microscope and then drawn
upon paper by the professors adept hand
with almost Photographic e1sctitude.
Each OF the myriad OF cells is shown in
eolors and it is safe to say that in work.
msnship it has no equal. 1t is certainly
valuable contE. button to botanical
science in this country. 1t will be re.
produced as closely as possible in the
next bulletin of the station.
NEWARK, Jan. 24.-There are Just now
many loud complaints heard regarding
the actions OF James Fl. Smalley, the
White Clay Greek hundred county tax
collector. Mr.. Smalley lives at Chsistiaua,
I've miles east of this town, and is conse-
| quently inaccessible to the Newark taxa.
bles, save at rare intervals when he
comes here. His vista, however, are rather
unfrequent and uncertain Us to time.
| About month ago it lesked out among
4 Republicans that he was to hold a sitting
/ here on January lat, at the Washington
! House, and there was at once an activity
/ among the Republican workers aud tax
4 ab!es. The informstion of this proposed
! sitting was obtained susreptitiou5ly, for
there was Of that no announcement made.
During the sitting the collector was sur
/ prised beyond measure to find 80 many
Republicans ready to pay their taxes,
especially as no announcement had been
Lnade. About en- hour or two
before Lis closing hour the col
lector suddenly discovered that his
supply Of blank tax receipts was
exhausted, while his home was five
miles away. For moment the spects-
tors say, he stood sgh4st at his horrible
mistake and then assuming a very sor-
rOwiul expression. he packed of for
home, promising tbs many disappointed
teKables that h9 wauld be back at the
same place on each Wednesday this
month from 9tn O'CLOCK. Two OF these days
passed and there was no collector visible,
owing TO the COLI Weather, ha said. Yes.
teEdey, however, he turned up, and sit
ting only part Of the advertised time,
he took many tax payments. Next Wed.
nesuay Is the hast cblnc6 for Newark
tnIabies nulssg they ride over and hunt
up the collector themselves. They de.
clare That they will do this II he dissp.
points them this fourth and last time.
altogether the contest is very amusing.
Many business iiFrlg here are using on
tue backs Ot their writing paper cut OF
map o. Newark and its vicinity which
has been prepared at the instance of the
board OF trade. This il plain case OF
blowing oue's own horn, bnt tire board
OF trade is not 40 sGper'modest IN this re.
speot. The cut is about five inches IN
diameter aud eth braces g radius OF about
200 milns. Sewark ls marked out in the
csutre with bright EAio around it and
judging alone from the cut il is the eoptre
Of everything, 1t shows the remarkably
advantageous position which the town
occupies on the line OF two trunk rail.
rosis aud two other lines which have
their terminus here. Reading mat
ter calls attention TO its excellent educs
tional institutions in Delaware college
and Newark Academy and Normal School
10 its water works aud fire protection; Il
its 65 pass niger trains day; and to thu
advantages o; free land and trsnsporta
tion facilities as an incentive TO manufac
turing enterprises TO locate here.
! NEWARK. Jan. 29-The funeral Of Mrs
James Brown, daughter o. DR.. A. N
Raub, taxes place to-day at Willismsport
! Pa, where she died on Monday at tn
home o. her husband. Interment will b.
J made at her old home, In Lock Haven
. Pa. The news OF hrs. Browns dealt
cast gloom over Newark, where, befor
a her marriage, ahs was such an sttractiv
. and Vivacious member OF society. Sh
8 had been married but about year, ant
: her death was q severe shock to her fam
: lily and old friends here.
, The following Officers of Ogceol
a Lodge, K. of P, No. 8, were installed Las
g week y. p. O.. d. O. Rose; V. O., c
8 Morris; Prelate, j. Morris; X. OF r., F
4 ellis; M. of F., A. j. Orr; NJ. OF E., ]
l. O. Shivler; NJ of A., G. 5. Collision. The
y installation officers from Wilmingto
q were later dinsd by the members OF tn
local lodge.
/. Inquiry has lately been made In thi
Q vicinity for information OF the mel,
o OF William Holland, an enginee
}. in the United States navy, Who died i
1856 For many years he was merchar
o in this town. His heirs and kinsfolk al
supposed to be somewhere in the Stat,
SALTSBURF.
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