Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-12-02
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at Pocomoke City Sunday week.
Charles Gill has been appointed
deputy sheriff Of Kent county. Md.
Ex.Sheriff Green will serve as deputy
sheriff Of Caroline county until Janu.
ary LIST.
William 7. A. Lockerman has been
appointed deputy sheriff OF Talbot
county.
The Caroline county Board Of Com.
missioners has elected beit @. Towers
attorney.
Tho Rev. George G. Graham of Trappe
has become au assistant rector at Pater-
son, n. j..
John Banks of chesapeake City has
been appointed assistant treasurer OF
Cecil county
Samuel Todd has been elected rresi.
dent OF the Kent county (Md. Board of
Commis sionerH
William B. Smith of Elkton has been
appointed mail inspector Tor the Wash
ington division.
NJ. W. Wrigh: has been appointed
constable for the Third district, Of
Caroline county.
Willard Q. Todd has been elected
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of Commissioners.
John ID. Adams has been elected
president of the Somerset county Board
of commissioners. :
George Fl. Truax has been elected
president of the Talbot county Board
of Commissioners.
A Methodist Episcopal Church, to
be called Goodman, lie being erected
near St. Michael's.
Henry Goldsborougb Pascault has
been appointed deputy register Of wills
for Talbot county.
Charles Speights, residing near
Princess Anne, fell from wagon, last
Thursday, and broke leg.
Charles Bishop of Carmi chael. Queen
Annals county, recently fell from a
horse, and had both legs broken.
The Cecil County Medical Society
has rsorganized. DIR. r. E. Bromwell
is president, and DIR. H. Il. Clemson
secretary and treasurer.
During a recent runaway Paynter
Frame of Sussex county fell from a
carriage, and was severely bruised
about the head and face.
Henry I. Bell and Daniel II. Lewis
have been appointed deputy sheriffs of
Worcester county, and Zedekiah Truitt
has been appointed iailer.
The blacksmith shop at Snow Hill
owned by Thomas D. Purnoll and occu-
pied by Daniel H. Bradford was de-
struyed by fire Monday week.
The will of james c. Bell. a million.
aire, who resided at ConowIngo, has
been admitted to probate. His estate
is left TO his widow and five children
Capt 7. G. B. Howard, formerly
commander of the Maryland State fish
ing force, will become master of tho b.,
@. & A. Railroad Co. % steamer Avaluu.
William E. Boston has been elected
president of the Worcester county
Board of missioners. and Dr..
George W. Bishop has been re elected
clerk.
George A. Massey. William Britton
and Warren Gladen have been appointe
deputy sheriffs of Somerset county, and
Charles s. Dryden has been appointed
jailer.
| r. j. Wilson of Queenstown has
raised two large turnips, one weighing
ii pounds and measuring 2 feet 4
inches in circumference and the other
weighing 10 pounds and measuring 2
feet inches in circumference.
The Rising Sun Shoe Manufacturing
Go. OF Cecil county has elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, DIR. q. S.
Dare: Vice Presidents II. H. Haines
and Edwin Thomas; Secretary and
Treasurer, NJ. L. Kirk; Manager, j.
L. Delaney.
Richard Ii. Thomas and George W.
Cruikshank of Cecil county, recently
dismissed from tbs service of the in
ternal revenue office by Collector Par
lett, have been reinstated in their posi-
tions temporarily.
Edward A. Powell and Solomon S.
Thompson are applicants for the posi-
tion of jurige of tine Orphans Court oil
Talbot county made ya9ant by the re-
tirement of Judge Edward Woodal,
who has been elected a member of the
Maryland Legislature.
Licenses have been issuel 10 Cecil
county for the marriage of A. +. Eek
lun OF Principle Furnace and Lulu b.
GerhRuser OF Blythedale, Walter A.
Meyer and Ella Eassnacht of Reading
and David +. Clouds of Summit Bridge
and Beulah A. Benson of Chesapeake
City.
The names of several candidates are
mentioned for the presidency of tho
Pilots Association of the Bay aud River
Delaware, the term of the present in
cumbent expiring in short time.
Frank Eldridge, who will have the sun
port of tho Cape May pilots; j. g.
Clumpitt. Pennsylvania pilot, and
j. p. Virden, one OF the Delaware
pilot commissioners and now president
Of the association. are all candidates.
Voting will begin on December 1st,
and continue until all OF the pilnts
have cast their ballots.
Hugh Boyd, aged 80 years, the oldest
citizen at PerryviIle, died Sunday week.
Fifty years ago he was employed as an
engineer on the Philadelphia, Will.
mington & Baltimore railroad and ran
the engine which conveyed President
Polk's message from Batiu ore to
Philadelphia. On this trip an accident
occurred to the train at Delaware
Junction, which resulted in the death
of his fireman. A widow and three
children survive him. The children
are Amos Boyd, conductor on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
railroad; James i. BOYD of Philade
phia and Mrs. William Calvert Of
Perryville.
Women are not the only ones who are
sensitive about their ages. A man doesn't
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