Evening journal., 1898-06-10
PEHINSULA MEMS PARAGRAPHS

PENINSULA MEMS PARAGRAPHS
Harry Vane, of Dover, made a CEN
tury run to Wilmington and return re-
Gently on his bicycle. He covered the
100 miles in nine and a-haf hours.
Thomas r. Ingram was elected as
SCISSOR for Lewes and RehObOth hun
dred at the special session OF the Levy
Court held yesterday at Georgetown.
Lewes authorities are building a new
bridge across LeWes creek on the road
leading from South street
The Kent County Levy Court room is
being thoroughly renovated. The in
terror is being handsomely repainted
and papered, and will be very pretty
when completed.
Magistrate John S. Camperson has
been appointed alderman for the town
OF Clayton by a recent vote of the
Council, to succeed Thomas A. Rees.
The tax rate for Cecil county for the
ensuing year has been fixed by the
county commissioners at So cents on
the S1OO.
During the busy fruit season the Bal
timOre and Delaware Bay railroad is
running two trips each way between
Clayton and ChestertOwn, carrying
passengers on all trains.
William X. Knight, Of Dover, lost a
horse last Wednesday that had been In
the family for thirty-three years.
The p, w. & B. Railroad Company,
which lately purchased the old Del
marvia Phosphate Works, at Clayton,
has taken them down, and now the lot
is vacant.
There was a large crowd at the com
mencement exercises Of Newark Acad-
emy last night in Caskey Hail. Miss
| Louisa J.. Station and Miss Meta Mac
sorley were the only graduates. Rev
William F. Jones delivered the annual
address.
/ At the West Nottingham Academy
yesterday was the 16Sth annual com
| mencement day. The exercises were
| held at 2 o'clock in West Nottingham
1 Presbyterian Church. George A. Blake
II Elkton, WHO is president of the
school commissioners Of Cecil county,
made the address.
The dust on Clayton streets is terri
Die. The oyster shells that were put
On some years ago have become pulver-
zed to that degree that the stores and
| dwellings, are filled with the fine dust
caused by the teams passing through
The streets.
The stockholders have elected DR..
William p. Orr, John NJ. Vessels, Will
liam II. Virden, l.. w. Mustard and
Robert Arnell directors Of the Lewea
Bank. The site for the bank building
will be selected at a meeting of the
directors on Tuesday, when they viii
also elect officers.
The infant daughter OF Captain
Joseph Griffith, Of Denton, Nd, was
run over by a loaded wagon yesterday
evening and almost Instantly killed
The baby had escaped from the h0usj
and was crawling in the street in from
Of its home when the wagon came
along. The driver, William Friend
colored, did not observe the child in
the twilight.
st. Polycarp's Roman Catholi,
Church, of Smyrna, win celebrate itl
fifteenth anniversary on Sunday.
The Cecil County Medical Society
was in session at Perryvhle to-day.
Potato bugs are reported to be dam
aging crops about Hockessin.
A large monument has been erected
10 the memory Of Rev. James E. Bryan
in BrOOkview Cemetery, at Rising Sun
The plant of the American Fisherie
Company, at Lewes, will be in opera
ton within a month, when severa
hundred persons and twenty-five fish
ing steamers will be employed.
Fish are reported to be dying II
large numbers in the Chesapeake an,
Delaware canal, near Summit Bridge
Dr. Melancthon Stryker, president o
Hamilton College, Will preach the ser
mon to the graduating class Of tn
Jacob Tome Institute. at Port Deposit
On Sunday in the Tome Methods
Church. The graduating exercises vii
take place on Wednesday, and an ad
1ress viii be delivered by Bishop Johl
] H. Vincent
The MoClenahan & Brothers Gran
lte Company, Of Port Deposit, has bee
awarded the contract by the govern
e ment to furnish 600 buoy sinkers, fo
r use in the Fifth Lighthouse distric
e The price Of the contract is Sl,357.