The sun., 1898-12-30
ROUND ABOUT TOWN

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The Rev. Ralph T. Coursey has been
visiting in Centreville. Md.
]. Roland Maddox, of Elwyn, Della
ware county, Pa, is visiting friends in
this city.
Harry Lloyd Ward of Cincinnati has
been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Patzowsky.
A number of Wilmingtonians at
tended the Kent Club dance at Dover
last evening.
The railroads are carrying many people
who have been away from home visiting
on Christmas.
The coming Lenten services will com
mence on February II in st. Andrews
Church as usual.
The children attending West Presby-
terian Mission were given dinner yes
terday afternoon.
Officers are being elected this week
in the councils of the Junior Order of
American Mechanics.
Joseph Comfort and Frank Riley have
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to friends in West Chester.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton will hold open house for the young
men of the city next Monday.
The cold weather has made enough
ice for skating on the smaller ponds, but
larger bodies of water are hardly safe
yet.
A collection of curios from the Brazil
ian Curio Museum has beeI received
by Miss Kathryn B. Rodgers, of this
city.
Sheriff Finn yesterday morning sold
the property of James E. Sadler, situated
in Delaware City. to D. J. Reinhardt for
$1,000.
Mrs. Mousseroune and daughter, Flor
ence, of Jamaica, N. Y, will be the
guests of the family of the Rev. j. R.
Waters.
The Rev. Frederic Doerr, pastor of
st. Stephens Church, is attending the
general conference of Lutherans in Phila-
delphia.
The Brunswick New Years Shooters
contemplate parading with fife and
drum corps tomorrow night from 8 to IL
O'Clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Cavanaugh, OF
this city, have returned home from visit
to the family of Wilmer Smith, of West
Chester.
Mrs. Helen Wier will go to Boston
about the middle of February, and make
her home with her sister, Mrs. 5. Wallis
Merrihew.
To correspond with the number of the
company Weccacoe Fire Company wants
the number of the tax check on its dog
to be No. s.
Assessor Harvey Hoffecker has recov-
cred from severe attack of the grip, but
a sprained ankle is causing him some in.
convenience.
George Hickey had his legs injured
while az work at the w. & n. pier on the
Delaware river Yesterday He was taken
to the Delaware Hospital.
A horse drawing one of the Charles
Warner Company's mortar wsgons fell at
Second and Shipley street yesterday
morning and was injured.
Register of Wills Crossan has granted
letters of administration upon the estate
of John B. Meggnson, late OF New
Castle, to Maria T. Megginson.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Edith B. Pyle, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac c. Pyle, Of this city, to John J.
Monahan, of Milwaukee, Wis.
Joseph Vinsinger, gateman and time
keeper at the West street gate of the
Harlan & Hollingsworth Company,
is seriously ill at his home with the
grip.
Officers elect will be installed in the A.
O. U. w. as follows: Industry Lodge,
January 8; Delaware, January 4; Will
mington, January 5; America, Janu-
ary g.
No more trans-Mississippi postage
Omaha Exposition, will be received by
the local post office, as the issue has
stopped.
Willie Lang had his foot slightly lacer-
ated on Wednesday afternoon by drop
ping hatchet on the member. He was
taken to the Office of DR.. Smith where the
wound was dressed.
The Imperial Machine Company, which
was recently incorporated with capital
stock of $50, 900, is about to organize. 1t
may have its Office in the uthwestern
part of the city.
A delegation from Quaker City Lodge,
A. 0. U. W., of Philadelphia, will visit
Wilmington Lodge on Thursday night,
January 10, in order to see the workings
Of the Wilmington Lodge degree team.
John Brown, colored, aged 70 years, of
No. 5l2 McCaulley street, became sick
on French street between Eleventh and
Twelfth yesterday morning and was
taken home in the Phoenix ambulance.
Funeral services were held yesterday
over the remains of Lille Williams,
aged 35 years, who died in Philadelphia
on Tuesday of complication OF dis
eases. 1nterment was made at Lombardy
Cemetery.
Mrs. Daniel b. Mcguire, widow of
Police Officer Mcguire; wishes to thank
the members of the police force and also
of the Weccacoe Fire Co., and her friends
in general for the kindness shown her
since the death of her husband.
As a result of the police taking CEN
sus OF dogs in the city, by direction of
Chief Dolan early in the year. about
$1,000 has been collected in dog tax