The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-09-15
OUR CARD BASKET. I,


My love, the queen OF pretty girls,
Looks through the slender channels
And at playhouse or at ball
They make a thousand passes;
Pm jealous till she let's them fall
Her dazzling opera glasses
Hugh Garrett and Edward Young of
Newport have returned home from trip
to Chester.
Mrs. John Bennett is visiting in Dover
Miss Miriam Davidson OF New Castle,
has resumed her duties as assistant princi-
pal of the shorthand department in Col
dey's College,
Miss Lulu Jeifries who has been sojourn.
ing at Rehoboth returned home yesterday
Mrs. j. M. Eastwood is visiting in Phil
adeiphia.
Robert B. Ludy Of Philadelphia visited
friends here yesterday
Mrs. Walter Bender of Port Penn Is
the guest of Wilmington friends
/ Miss Bessie Dorsey of this city Is visit
ing her cousin, Miss Kate Carroll Of West
Chester.
Mr.. David Chambers and wife, Howard
Pussy, wife and daughter Anna, Edwin
Chambers and wife, all of Chatham and
Miss Nutter, Miss Artense Wright Mr..
Eugene NJ. Chambers all of Wilmington,
were guests of G. w. Chambers, Lenape,
on Sunday.
Miss Lizzie Stubbs daughter Of the late
Enoch Stubbs Of Philadelphia Is visiting
| Upland, Pa. friends.
A pleasant party was given last evening
at the residence Of B, Lambiard on Frank.
| lin street. The evening was spent in play.
| ing games and dancing. AT an early hour
a repast was served.
Miss Bessie Miles is the guest of her
| cousin, Jessie Webb of South High street,
West Chester fora week
Howard Conner, of Thornda1e, q mer-
chant of that village came here to-day
and expects to oiliciate as best man on
Wednesday at the wedding of his brother,
Harry Conner.
Misses Florence Fite, Anna Sutton, Eva
Dillin..and Lena Dillin formed quartet of
ladies who drove from Wilmington to
West Chester yesterday afternoon and re-
manned at the Mansion House for supper.
Howard Conner, of Thorndnlc and Will
liam Morton, of Wilmington, were in
West Chester yesterday afternoon and
took supper at tho Turks Head Hotel, after
which they took a trip to Lenape, Upon
their return they drove home to Thorn
dale.
Jonathan w. Aydon left to-day to at.
terd II convention ut Brooklyn, N Y, of
fire alarm superintendent Of the United
States.
Mrs. Frank Armstrong of Delaware City
Is visiting in Chester.
Miss Josephine +, Owens has returned
home from Il visit at Crozierville
Sergeant Black and John Sinclair rode
to Philadelphia yesterday on their wheels.
They made the return trip in hours and
Is minutes.
Mrs. B. B. Tuxbcrty has returned homo
arrangements for the convention
of the ladies of the U. V. L., to be
held the second week in October.
Mrs. Tuxberry is National President and
Mrs. Wogan, National Secretary.
Tomorrow evening u wedding will take
place in Christ's Episcopal Church, vii.
mngton. The groom of the occasion is
u well-known Chester county man, Harry
Il. Conner, son Of solomon Conner Of
Downingtown. Mr. Conner is telegraph
operator here and the bride will be Miss
Mary Fisher, daughter Of James Fisher,
who is one of the officials in DuPont's Pow.
der Works. Quite IL number of Chester
county people will attend the event.
Miss Mary Bonner ha, been visiting her
brother Frank of West Chester.
John johnson Of Coatcsville was here
on saturday
Mr. Fred Taylor of Now York, followed
by William Michael Byrnc will make
speeches on Thursday cveningin the Au-
ditorium. All workinymcn are invited
to attend. Ladies are especially requested
to be present.
A party of men from Kenneth Square
are looking for Il resident of that town and
u team. llo drove the latter away last
| evening from tho front Of one of our hotels
1t was reported on the streets this morn
| ing that the returns ofSaturday's nomina-
| ton election for Senator would be thrown
out and Il third man named who was Of
| Catholic procivitics. Such report could
not be verified by the reporter of the RE
| PUBLICAN.
Mr.. Elliott Is at Newark to-day on u
| cunning trip. He expects to capture sev-
eral squirrels.
Division No. ., A. O. II. of Henry Clay
on Saturday evening celebrated its seven
tcenth anniversary. The members and
| their friends had an enjoyable time.
! Speeches, songs and music filled the pro-
gram with refreshments in abundance.
Miss Nina G. Scott, daughter OF Lovy
Court COMMISSIONS: w. 4 sept Of T9wE;
send, Del, and Miss Maude Smith Of
| Middlctown, are the guests Of Mrs. Geo.
| II.
IlJohn McPikc of Chincotcague is in this
city to-day.
John H. Hoffccker, tho Union Republi
| can party candidate for Governor was in
city to-day.
Presiding Elder Cochran was among the
| visitors to our city to-day.
Rev. Frank Moore of Forrest Presbytcr-
ain Church, Middetown, is in this city
| t,l Hn 10 nf IA n
vestigators of the Olivct Church trouble
A. A. Richardson engineer on the y A,
road Is in PIttsburg.
| Howard Staats is in Dover to-day.
Mr.. John Bnnthrum, wife and daughter
have arrived safe in California and are
! highly delighted with tho country and
people No tongue or per, they write
home to friends in Wilmington can give
an adequate description of the beauties Of
tie country.
The twenty-tirst annual celebration of
tho Cannstatter Nolksfest Nerein opened
Yesterday in Licrz's Washington Park,
and by o'clock in the afternoon l5,oOo
people passed within the enclosure. 1t was
possibly the most successful first days
gathering the popular organization has
| held in many years, and fortunately the
proprietor Of the park made ample pro-
vision for this large attendance.
The decorations were of u magnificent
order The grand stand was particularly
beautiful and tho dancing pavilion looked
pretty with the stars and stripes wrapped
about shields, which represented each one
of the States of the old German Coufrdcr-
alton There We're several bands of music
discoursing patriotic and popular air, and
several peasants bands, which provided
music especially selected for the exercises
during the afternoon and evening. There
were hundreds Of big, jolly-looking men
and goodlooking young women, dressed
in the Swabian farming costume There
was scenery erected at great expense on
the eastern side Of the park to represent
the old town of Munderknyscn.
Scenes of the Revolutionary year of 1913
were enacted realistically and the exer.
cises closed by tablcau In front of the big
fruit column, showing the Insurgents who
fled to America to find protection under