The sun., 1898-11-27
RUUNi, ABOUT TOWN,

visiting in the city. ,es
Miss Margaret Kane is spending sev-,
eral days In Baltimore. ...
Miss Mabel Canning, of Yonkers. is
the guest Of Miss Rsbec;a Smith.
Mrs. A. E. Grove, of this city, is visit
ing Mrs. Horsey, in Crisfeld, Md.
Andrew Holler, Of Reading, has been
visiting Charles Brady in this city.
Miss Edna Williamson, of Harrington,
is the guest Of Wilmington friends.
Mrs. Howell S. England and children
are visiting relatives in Wes Chester.t
Mrs. A. J. Pearce is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. John 8. Writ, at Elk
ton. s- - 4s,.sF Se F
Miss Laura G. James Of Germantown,
is the guest Of DR.. and Mrs. Henry Pat
tersOn. IVY
The remodeled steamer Of the Friend.
slip Fire Company WAS placed in service
yesterday. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mcpherson, Of
Morristown. N. j., are visiting friends
in this city. ,,I
City Solicitor H. c. Conrad and family
returned from Caroline County, Md,
last evening. no
A number of repairs have been made
to the roof Of the Mccullough Iron Com
pany'a works.
The Newport Good Government Club
met last evening at the residence Of Mrs.
Jennie Gallagher. p
The monthly meeting OF the Alum ng
Association of the High School was held
yesterday afternoon.
The funeral of Henry W. Slaysman, Of
No. 1923 Lancaster avenue, will take
place this afternoon.
The tug Fidget, Of Philadelphia, towed
the three master CUNNINGHAM from the
Diamond State Iron Company's wharf
down stream Yesterday.
John Roberts, q bugler in the First
Delaware Regiment, was married on
Friday to Elizabeth Lutz.
Harrison Street Church has invited the
Rev. Ralph 7. Coursey to return as pas.
tor next conference year.
Right Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, d.
D., Bishop Of Pittsburg, will preach at
Trinity Church this evening. q
Mrs. Elizabeth Bradford, Of No. 1906
Delaware avenue, is i'll at her home suf-
fering with an attack of grip.
The travel over the railroads passing
through the city has been unusually
heavy during the past few davs.
Reopening services will be held at the
A. u. M. r. Church today. The church
has been improved and repainted.
Local merchants will aellt tyon goods a.
cheap and as fine in rnaterial as you can
purchase anywhere at the same price.
Cards are out announcing the we'd
ding Of Miss Mary f. Sweatman, of this
city, and Edward A. Riley, Of Havre de
Grace. 4. a
The jackson & Sharp Company are
completing fdlp new coaches for use on
the Wilningpn 4 Brandywine Springs
railway. IL
Bishop Coleman will preach in St..
Johns Church, this city, this morning
and at ST. Simeon Church, Philadelphia,
this evening.
The St. Agnes Guild and the Junior
Auxiliary of Trinity Church will give a
supper in the parish house on Thursday
evening next.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Michael J. Gallagher,
of No. 1915 Chestnut street, yesterday
buried their little daughter, Katie, who
died Of diphtheria.
Charles Welsh, one of the men con-
victed OF assaulting little girl near
Townsend, is lying at the point OF death
at the almshouse.
Isaac D. Sheppard, the B. d Q. rail-
road fi,eman, who had his skull frac-
tured two, month ago, has recovered suf-
ficiently to be about.
Miss Ellen La Motto, a wel-known
Wilmington society girl, will enter Johns
Hopkins University at Baltimore to be-
come trained nurse.
Lizzie M. Boyd, of Wheeling, w. ya.,
will begin evangelistic services in Asbury
M. E. Church today and will probably
continue them for two weeks.
Alfred D. Warner, Jr., on Friday en-.
tertained six Cornell University men by
taking them down the river on the tug
Taurus as far as New Castle.
The clearings in the local banks for the
week ending at noon yesterday amount
ed to 1862, 735, as against $609, 290 for the
corresponding week of last year.
A local composer, Alice Pierson, has
recently had copyrighted two musical
compositions, 'The Triplet Waltz" and
the song, 20 to See the Old Homestead
Once Again"
Through the efforts of General John
P. Donahoe, Frank d, Dudley and W. G.
Bateman, both OF Company A, Third
New Jersey Infantry, at Athens, Ga,
have been discharged. %"
During the past week there were Is
births, 30 deaths and Is marriages re-
ported at the Board of Health office. For
the corresponding week last year the
figures were l6, 2S, and II. E
A book of Spanish-American war
poems has been published in Detroit.
1t contains Howell s. England's Battle
of Manila and George B. Rodney's
"Battleship of the War Of 1922"
If the writer's OF the anonymous let
ters to the Internal Revenue Office call.
ing attention to alleged violations of the
law will call in person at the Office they
can get whatever information they de-
| sire.
The official register given the steam
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