Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-22
DEIAWAnn AND PENINSULA.

j.. W. Robinson of Svaford has been
elected an alderman. u
Fisher & Robinson's factory, at Mil
ton, is being enlarged
Cambridge will have professional
baseball team this season.
b. D. Brumbaugh of Tuckahoe Neck,
fellrecently and broke hip.
According to it's new directory Nil.
ford has 100 business houses.
-Four hundred young shad were put
in the Laurel river last week.
Arthur Nichols of Oxford was seri-
ously injured recently by fall.
The pension of Wesley Il. Boulder of
Cecil county has been increased.
". II. Anderson has been appointed
Adams Express agent at Denton.
Edmund g. Hill. formerly of North
east. died in Philadelphia recently.
Caroline Gamer estimates that 10
per cent of the peach buds are dead.
Mrs. Joseph S. Terrell of Elkton was
stricken with paralysis few days ago.
Joseph Thompson of Pearson's Cor
ner has been granted an original pen.
sion.
Fiys hundred thousand young shad
were put in the Wicomico river last
week.
The Sassafras creamery, at Chester
town, was destroyed by fire Tuesday
week.
James W. Grier has heen appointed
mail carrier between Frederick aud
FELTON,.
Edward Lambert has teen appointed
postal clerk between Clayton and
Eas:on.
Ihe Centreville IND. J Manufacturing
Co, has elected Francis \. Emory
president.
A conclavs of thu Improved Order Of
Heptasophs is being organized at st.
Michael's
Cyrus Hatfield and Miss Annie Smith.
both OF Georgetown, will be married
in Baltimore on April 2Sth.
George W. Wackerman of Ricetown,
Pa, dropped aead at railroad station
near Port Deposit last week.
Lawrence Rigg has exchanged the
McGraw farm, at Colora, for the Drum
mon6 mills, near Middletown.
A factory for the manufacture Of
straw coverings for bottles will probably
be erected at Centreville. Md.
James NJ. Wooters of Talbot county
has resigned the position of deputy
revenue agent at New Orleans.
The Woodia@n campmeetinp will
begin on ugusr Sd, with the Rev. j.
ID. Kemp as minister in charge.
The channel OF the Pocomoke river,
from Shad Landing to Snow Hill, will
be dredged to the depth of nine feet
Harvey S. Marganthall and Miss
Marie Butler will tie married in CAL
vary Church, Easton, on April 2Sth.
The Cecil Chemical Co., composed of
Philadelphia men, will operate the
carbon works of the Mccullough Iron
10.
Mrs. Annie +. Colley of Sudlorsville
graduated from the dental department
of the University of Pennsylvania re-
Gently.
Letters testumentary ON the estate of
John II. Wiltbank of Broadkiln hun.
bred have been granted to Martha A.
Wiltbank,
While i:indling fire ia the Dover
Methodist Protestant Church George
Tucker the sexton, dropped S. note
huu IL WAS DurHeu.
Cards have been Issued for the wed.
ding Of Robert L. Kemp and M ISIS Ii.
Anna Powell, which will take place at
Easton on April 2Sth.
A gasoline steamer willirun between
Franklin City and Chincoteaguv, and
Q boat will probably ply between Ocean
City and Cbincoteague.
The wedding of Preston NJ. Brock of
Philadelphia and Miss Emma Hopkins,
formerly OF Easton, wills take place ia
Baltimore on April 9th.
\ Thomas Humphreys, formerly mayor
OF Salisbury and formerly State Sena.
tor from WicomicoS county, died at
Salisbury Tuesday week.
The Steamer Favorite will run be-
tween Philadelphia and Augustine Park
next summer, and will stop at Chester
and New Castle on each trip.
Lemuel Crossan of Mill Creek hun.
dred was bitten few days ago by
dog supposed TO have been mad. He
will take the Pasteur treatment.
A. G. Reynolds, formerly of Rising
Sun, Nd, has secured position as
assistant pharmacist on tine Clyde line
between Philadelphia and Liverpool.
Il. James Tull of Pocomolse City has
laid the keel for large fishing boat,
and has contracted to build a steam
boat for G. S. Darling g. Son of Hamp.
ton, Va.
Tho Rev. W. W. Kirschman, who
recently resigned the passionate of Salem /
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Balti-
moro. because of i'll health, has removed
to Cambridge.
The furniture, &C., shipped from New
York to Milton by Mrs. Mary Estelia
Gordy, who was murdered by James
NJ. Gordy, will be sold at auction in
NJ ilton next Saturday by Administrator
Samuel j. Wilson.
,Salisbury's Town Council has re.
iected the offer of a company seeking
franchise to erect plant and do the
towns lighting, and has contracted
with the Wicomico Falls and Electric
Light and Milling Co. on agreed rates.
The Northeast, Rising Sun & Elk
River Electric Railway Co. has elected
the following officers: james Mallen,
e. L. Duyckinck, Vice
President; George W. Cosden, Secre-
tary and Treasurer j. Q. Carhart, Cor
Secretary.
The Rev. i. L. Ward has assumed |
charge Of st. Luke's Church,
Seaford. and st. Mary's Church, |
and the Rev. John War |
mock has assumed temporary charge of !
st. Paul's Church, Georgetown, and |
st. Johns Church, Milton.
Apents for the Oueen Annals railrnan |