Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-02-27
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special Correspondcnce OF Gnzetto hhusour
NEWARK, Feb. 2l.--Servioes will be
held in st. Thomas Episcopal Church by
the Rev. MIR. Bond during Lent as fol-
lows: Evening prayers at 4 p. ne, on
Tuesdays; evening prayer and address OF
$50 D. M, on Wednesdays; morning
prayer and litany at 1880 o. m, on FRI
days. Services on Sunday will be ct
10. 80 q. m, and G 80 p. M, as usual,
with Sunday school sessions ct 80 p. m.
The Klauf organ factory ia now we'll
up IN the air. Both OF the wing struo-
turss are completed and covered by tin
roofing. Ehe main building is now
about SO feet high, but the brick work
Will extend 10 feet higher. Plumbers are
at WORK all over the building and the COLI
tract for this plumbing WAS secured by
William Smith d Company of Phila-
deIphia.
On Friday morning there passed north
ward over the u. 4 o. q special train
containing $50 of Reinstatement
Wan msker's Sunday school taaohers,
who had been spending day or w in
Washington as the guesta Of ME. Wanna
maker.
Thomas p. Fisher died here on Sunday
morning Of Bright's disease, after long
Illness. MIR. Fisher was about As years
old and was until quite lately in tine coal
business 1T the p, w. & b. station. The
funeral will be held on Wednesday ut 2
| p. N. from his home on Delaware avenue.
internent will take place at the Head OF
Chtistigna Church.
Mrs. Margaret II. Wilson, wife Of Benz
jamiu Wilson, died ON Saturday at her
residence opposite the post.offioe. The
deosaaed leaves daughter, Mrs. Charles
Shiyler Of New York. Mis-. Wilson was
about so years old and her funeral will
take place on Tuesday at 2 O'Clock, with
internent in the III. q. cemetery.
Miss Mollie II. Matthias was married in
this town on Wednesday by the Rev. DR..
Vellandigham to Egbert N. Shellender Of
| Cecil county, Md.
News has reached here of the recent
death Of the Rev. Peter Hossihgsr at
| Lebanon, Ill. He was a very aged man
aud was born near Newark.
Negotiations are in progress looking to
the sale OF the farm Of David j. Mucphey
near his town, for $l4, 600. Part Of the
farm lies within the town limits.
NEWARK, Fab. 25.-Hiram Lodge, No.
% A. +, A. NJ, gave q large dinner last
evening at the Deer Park H0te! in honor
/ of its many guests from Philadelphia
Wilmington, kawpott, New London. The
dinner was served in the room used by
the board Of trade on Saturday and was
partaken Of by about IS Masons. Before
the dinner q very large and pleasant
nesting of the lodge and Its guests Yves
held ia Odd Follows hall where speeches
v re- made by L. Irving Handy Of Har-
mony Lod e, smyrna, grandmother
Dobbs of WILMINGTON and others. Most
| of the 40 guests remained until the late
traing and the remain Ter Of the evening
was spent rs only jolly, congenial Mssons
know how.
About % new books have been placed
il the Newark library this week. They
include the latest and most talked OF
books Of fiction, travel and biography.
delegation from the Newark Grange
paid q visit 20 the Port Penn Grange last
Friday snd surprised the latter very
much. The visitors Wera Samuel Lindsey
and James HoSsinger and DR.. A. L. Eeale
and Professor ~. II. BeokWith OF the
Experiment Station.
Ebe Farmers Institute at Middletowr
GU Saturday, also attracted many leading
farmers and agriculturists from this
vicinity. Among til M wsre Delaware
Clark, George Kerr, George d. Medill,
Samuel Lindsey, Prof. f. d. Chester,
William IL. Homeweod, DIR. A. T. Eslle
JRmes Hossinger, David ]. Murphy, AND
others. This institute WAS first eRtab
iished and organized in Newark, and il
founders are very Jealous in theii
epdrRYors TO mske 1t successful and il
every respect beneficial to the farmers Of
the whole county, and to this end the
officers Of the Delaware College Expert
ment Station are lending willing and i'm
poftnnt aid.
This town experienced the same spell
of mid day darkness yesterday a. Will
mington. Lamps were lighted all over
town, and the routine OF the schools was
sadly disturbed for the time being. Some
few OF the auperstitioua were beset with
evil forebodings and were hore-afrsid,
but others took it philosophically and
did not have to wait long for the return
Of the light Of day.