Smyrna times., 1898-01-12
DELAWARE ITEMS.


take place to-day.
Captain Thomas Draper has loft
his farm near Hazlettville, and
moved into Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otho Marvel gave a
dinner last week, near Leipsic, to about
twenty of their friends.
The congregation of a certain Sussex
county church are kicking because one
OF the trustees snOres so loud duIino
the sermon that the rest can't sleep.
The Wilmington Board of Health
has received a quantity of anti-toxine.
which will be used in treating the
poorer families afflicted with diphtbe-
ria
The Dover Machine Works owing to
their increased business are about to
put III 25-horse tubular boiler, made
by the Erie City Iron Works. Also
a 25-horse engine.
Farmers about Milford are making
contracts with Gamers tofurnish toma-
toes next season at $G per ton, an in
crease OF 81 ton over last year
Chester A. Baum, Sr., formerly of
Dover, aged GS years, died of appolexy
at Delaware City on Sunday week last.
lnterment at Lakeside Cemetery
! Dover.
Thomas Wilder Hanson and Miss
Augusta Blanche Slaughter were mar
RED at the residence of the brides
parents, in Jones Neck, Wednesday
evening, the Rev. c. F. Sheppard Of
ticiating.
Thomas X. Taylor, living near Leip-
sic, while walking the streets of that
town on Thursday, was seized with an
attack of vertigo end fell to the ground.
He was carried to his home and medi-
cal aid summoned.
Elmer p. Taylor, of Dover, who for
the past year has been acting as agent
for the Prudential Life Insurance
Company, has been promoted to the
position of assistant Superintendent
with headquarters at Smyrna.
The death of the Rev. Lafayette
Marks, which came so suddenly last
week, is a distinct loss to that city.
For nearly thirty years he had filled
the pulpit of the Hanover Presbyterian
Church and was known to almost
every one in that city.
The st. JOsephs Colored Orphanage
IN Wilmington will in the future be
managed by Rev. NJ. B. Size, and the
Industrial Village at Clayton, will be
IN charge of Rev L. J. Welbers, who
has had the management of both insti- |
tutions.
Thomas Foster, Frank StaytOn and |
John Eskridge have removed from
Dover to Wyoming, with their families
This removal was made necessary bv |
the removal of the railroad drepair shops !
and a change in the section gang.
Dover loses eight families by this
move.
Wesley NJ. E. Church, at Dover, is
to be dedicated on Feb. 9th The new
carpet has been purchased of McCallum
q McCallum, of Philadelphia. 1t is an
ingram and the colors are green, oak
and black. The Sunday school classes
have agreed to pay for the carpet The
new financial system has proved a
great success. The church has been
able to pay the running expenses each
month sinceits adoption. The amount
received up to last Sunday was S1274. 30,
amount expended, $1195.71. The me-
mortal windows have also arrived.
DEATH OF DIR. MARKs.-The sud
den death of the Rev. Lafayette Marks
d. D., in Baynard's jewelry store,
Wilmington, Wednesday afternoon,
was great shock to the community.
DIR. Marks had been apparently in
good health, although his heart had
given him some uneasiness. About
two weeks ago while returning home
from church with Mrs. Marks he re-
marked that he was afraid he would
some day fall dead in the street. DR..
Marks was born in Hancock county,
Va, near Liverpool, about 65 years
ago.
A new order recently issued by the
Post Office Department at Washing
ton, making all fourth class post offices
money order offices will apply to sew
eral in New Castle, Kent and Sussex
counties of this State. The new order
effects the following offices: Chris
tiana, Deakyneville, Elsmere, Henry
Clay Factory, Rockland, Summit
Bridge, WOoddale, and YOrklyn, New
Castle County; Concord, Dagsboro,
GumbOrO, Millville, Roxana and Stock
ley, Sussex County; Hartley, Houston
Station aad Rising Sun, Kent county.
DIR. BUOY's GIFT. The recent death
of Rev. DR.. Buoy, pastor of Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church, Phila- ,
delphia, removed a staunch friend of
the Wilmington Conference Academy {
at Dover. Dr. Buoy's private library {
of 800 volumes, valued at more than '
$1,000, has been given to the school and f
has been added to the already large s
number of volumes at the disposal of 7
The students. DR.. Buoy was a member a
Of the Wilmington Conference in his @
early ministry, and in 1871 at a meet f
ing in Smyrna, of Peninsula Metho- i
lists, he read a paper recommending
the establishment of a school for sec
1ndary education in the Wilmington !,
Conference. p
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