The sun., 1898-12-15
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

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4 J. F. Crew has returned from Florid,
4 Mrs. Nelson Warner, Of EIkton, Md
is visiting here.
Miss Edna Barker. Of Milford, is visi
ing in this city.
Thomas McCorkle will address the Y
M. q. A. m:n's meeting on Sunday aitel
noon.
The barge Iantha has been towed t
Pusey q Jones' by the tug Martha for re
pairs.
On Monday night there will be re
1 cltal on the new pipe organ at RODNEY
Street Presbyterian Church.
Linemen of the Delaware and Atlanti,
Telegraph and Telephone Company ar,
changing the wires from the old building
to the new one.
The Young Peoples Guild of St.
Johns Church will give reception tc
members of the parish this evening in
the parishhouse.
Mary Miller was arraigned before Mag.
istrate Kelley last evening, on the charge
OF annoying Elizabeth Graham, and was
held in $500 peace bond.
Employees of the Water Department
are engaged in placing meters on pipes
which supply water for motors in the
various churches in the city.
The board of directors of the River
view Cemetery Company have decided
to take several steps looking to the i'm.
provement Of the burial grounds.
Arrangements have been completed for
the concert to be given at the synagogue
OF the Ads Kodisch Baron de Hirsch
Congregation tomorrow evening.
At 7.3O O'Clock last evening Rev. NV.
Tracy, D. D., of Kentucky, began n
series Of Gospel temperance meetings for
two weeks, in the Bijou Theatre of this
city. ......
The calithumpian band of the Will
mington Bicycle Club on Tuesday even.
ing serenaded Mr.. and Mrs. James A.
Oliver at their home, No. 1O12 Trenton
Place.
The special services being held in St.
James Church, Newport, were continued
last evening. Bishop Coleman and Rev.
Henry Ward Cunningham made ad-
dresses.
The next members social at the Y. M.
G. A., will be held next Tuesday even
ing. The New Years reception to the
young men of the city will be held on
January2.
The Pioneer Benevolent Society gave
masquerade dance on Tuesday night in
Eden Hall. The costumes were novel
and grotesque and caused much mirth
and merriment.
United States Marshal John Cannon
Short has resigned his position as Gus.
todian Of the Federal building and Post
master Hugh G. Browne has been ap-
pointed to fill his place.
Mary Smith. colored, Of Girard and
Tatnall streets, fell in a fit at Fifth and
DUPONT streets on Tuesday night at 10
O'Clock and was taken to her home in
The Phoenix ambulance.
Quite number of prominent Will
went to Newark Yesterday
20 attend the funeral of Mrs. Katherine
Whiteley Howell, widow of the late
General Joshua B. Howell.
Complaint is made Of the condition of
Sycamore street at Union. 1t is said
hat the sewer has been stopped up for
'ome time, forming pond and allowing
water to flow over Union street.
Rev. Hugh Latimer Elderdice, D. D..
PRESIDENT OF Westminster theological
seminary of the M. P. Church, will lec-
ure on "Old Sweethearts" in the First
I. Church tomorrow evening.
The steamship being built by the Har-
an & Hollingsworth Company for the
'orto Rico trade will be named the
'once. This steamship is one OF the
argest ever built by the local firm.
The Water Commissioners at the re-
ent meeting commented on the fact
here were no applications for water SER
ice. This was the first time in several
lonths in which there were no applica-
ions.
Hawkins & Co. have sold for Mrs.
largaret Wiltbank, the store, dwelling
nd stable property on the south side Of
wentty-ninth street, between West
nd Washington to Robert Blair for
800.
The work of examining the members
the Third Battalion of the First Della {
are Regiment is progressing as rapidly i
possible at the Armory, and in a t
tile while Delaware will be without ]
presentation in the army.
b. s. R. Butler, who came to Viii. .
ington from Sussex county in 1S4l, t
III today begin the fiftieth year of his
tive business life. He has probably a
en longer in business than ali but two b
three men in the city. h
Daniel Bubenzer, the well-known = =
flee roaster, who was thrown from his = =
am one day last week, is improving u :.
der treatment at the Delaware Hos T.
;al. He has not yet entirely recov- "
I'd his mental condition. =
Arthur Sullivan, acting hospital stew. st ST
cf the Second Division Hospital "
rps, now at Augusta, Ca, has received
honorable discharge, and is expected
me in a few days. Sullivan was
mber OF the First Delaware Repi- @
mt.
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