Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-27
opEE IN pKNNsYLVAHIA.

The new telephone company recently
beginning business with headquarters
in Oxford, He'd the Octoraro Telephone
e. Telegraph Co., has done enough
business to justify the declaring of 6
per cent dividend.
The Borough Council OF Media has
decided to hold the special election to
decide unon the adyisability Of in.
creasing the borough debt $40, 600, for
the purpose OF constructing system OF
puniic sewers and for the improvement
OF the water works, on February 18th,
the same day as the regular municipal
election.
Truman Lloyd of Lenaps Gays the
farmers of Pocopson township had good
crops last year. His own farm on the
Brandywine hills was productive of
wheat and corn, II acres OF wheat yielded
about 10 bushels per acre, and his corn
field about so bushels; he mad 4OO
bushels of marketable potatoes from
three acres.
Charles W. Sill, from near Kennett
SQUARE, was operated upon at tine
| Chester County Hospital. last Friday,
for severe attack of appendicitis. by
Dir. William II. VRnLennep, chief sur
| gem of the Hahnemann Hospital, Phila-
delphia, assisted by DIR. j. e. Jones Of
| this place. MIR. Sill has been suffering
| at times for months past from the
| disease, but it had only lately assumed
d dangerous condition. He is doing
very well.
A West Grows special says: Members
| OF tho Society Of Friends in West Grove
| and vicinity are not satisfied with hav-
| ing the Home for Aged Friends located
in Kenneth Square, iiiasmuch as this is
a much more Friendly nsighborhuod,
and for many REASONS is entitled to the
institution. Had the meeting house
heen located in the borough, instead of
over Mt New West Grove, there would
have been no opposition to the place OF
the home here, as the only objection
urged by the committee in charge " as
the distance to the place of worship.
This also revives the project of having
the meeting changed from its present
location to the borough, and it is proha-
bile that several members of the society
will interest themselves in the move
ment, as such change would greatly
strengthen the cause and attendance.
The following real estate news is re-
portei: George Blenkin has bought
from the estate of the late John hall
house and lot on Darlington street,
between Price and Sharpless, for $3.50
W. l.. Gilbert. Oxford. has sold q
acres Of land near Avondale to Truman
Cooper on privats terms; B. +. Myers
OF Baltimore has sold his farm of about
80 acres in New London township IL
Owen Scott of Wilmington, for about
So, 500; John Il. Van Deventer of West
Grove has purchased from the estate Of
Elizabeth G. Hughes, deceased, the
mill property and farm near Avondale
]. NJ. G. Dickey has sold lot 30 feet
front on South Penn avenue, Oxford,
To w. II. Harrison. The latter expects
to build new huuse on it at once,
Mrs. Il. d. johnson of Lower Oxfort
has sold her property, house and be
tween four and five acres of land at thu
east end of Oxford. to George Barnet
of Oxford on private terms. lie vii
{ move tbere and erect new greenhouses
the Benjamin Passmors property, a
} Concord, was offered for salo a couple
of days ago, but was Withdrawn afteI
| being bid to 500 per acre. Iha farm il
one Of the finest in that section,