The sun., 1898-01-15
LOCAL DOTS.

Nv" } VI IDI UWO weeks.
Miss Ella Jones, of Dover, is visiting
friends in tbs city
Chancery Court will be held on Janu-
ary 26tl.
Brad Murphy, Of Dover was in town
yesterday.
Waldo thse is engaged in the saloon
business in New York.
Mrs. Eva Butler, Of this city, has been
visiting friends at Concord
VIM. c. Palmer of Kirkwood, was a
visitor in this CITY on Thursday.
One newcase Of diphtheria has been re-
ported to the Board of Health.
John $. Harrington, of Harrington.
was in Wilmington yesterday.
Miss Elsie Ferguson has been enter
tanning Miss Garabrant, of New York.
! John p Mcintyre of Midd]etown,
visited friends in this city on Thursday.
Miss Anna M. Eastburn, of Union,
lel., has been visiting friends in this
city.
Miss Annie Boies, of this city, is the
guest Of Miss Name Howard, of Hart
vile
Mrs. William Balance who has been
visiting friends at Eikton, has returned
home.
Leslie Van Dyke is visiting his grand
father, George A. Vandegrift at Cecilton,
Md.
Moving time is drawing near and
housewives are beginning to fret and
worry.
Of the four seasons autumn is the most
literary, for then the leaves are turned
and are read (red).
The Harlan Il Hollingsworth Com
pany Will not engage any more machine
apprentices.
Next Sunday evening, at the Calvary
Baptist Church, the ordinance of baptisIn
will be administered.
A qlire does not always contain "a
sheets, as, for instance, the choir of or
ganized singers.
George f. Hinton, manager of the
Sousa Concert Company, is registered at
the Clayton House.
Miss Anna Brcnton, of Baltimore. is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. George $. Almond,
of this city.
Work on the house at No. 404 Della
ware avcnne, which is being repaired, is
progressing finely.
Mrs. Acklan and her mother, Mrs. r.
ID. Crocker, of Cleveland, Ohio, visited
friends in this city yesterday.
Henry Ting'e, colored man, who has
been sick for some time at tie Homeo
pathic Hospital, is no better.
A little boy learning the alphabet and
a postage stamp are very much alike
they often get stuck on letter.
The ordinance Of Baptism will be ad-
mlnlstered Sunday evening at the Cal
vary Baptist Church,
Miss Dora Morris, of this city, was
maid of honor at the Clark -Vandyke
marriage in Elkton, Thursday.
Much business will be transacted at
the session of Orphans Court today, as
there was no court last week.
Rev. W. W. Ewing, pastor of Mt
Salem Church, preached last night at st.
Paul's, Seventh and Market streets
Walter McLear, the Mayors son, took
down their beautiful and much admired
Christmas tree on Wednesday.
The house No. 15O2.Van Burn street,
belonging to Medholdt V. Wistoft, has
been sold to c, P. Dougherty for 1880.
Norman /. Downes is spending week
il, this city as the guest OF his aunt,
Mrs. John Il. Pierce, before returning to
Brazil.
Constable Smith, of the Eleventh ward,
has been relieved OF $40 in gold by
trespasser, who. has left for parts I'M
known
About fifty wires of the Dclmarvia
Telephone Company have recently been
cut and detectives are watching for the
perpetrators.
The directors of the Wilmington City
Electric Company hayc declared a divi-
dcnd of 3! per cent, for the past six
months.
Complaint is made that the Whining
ton City Railway Company is still run
ming unhratcd cars on West Fourth
street.
The Womcn'S Missionary Society met
on Thursday afternoon in West rrcsby-
terian Church ard the usual reports were
read.
W. Il. Bourne, president, and J. A.
Smith, manager Of the Old dominion
Steamship Company, are i'll this city on
business.
Chas e. krlrz reports the sale of the
following properties at a nice price, viz:
Dwellings at ll2l West Fifth, 1881 and
)nt hnSt MT Strppts
A pie social for the benefit OF the
Wesley NJ. L. Church was given on
Thursday evening 1T the home OF |. A.
Gray, NJ. olS Reed street.
A new ornamental galvanized iron
cornice is being placed around the bell
tower OF the engine house OF the Fame
Fire Engine Company.
Miss Marion Hushebeck, John Car
rick, Miss NJ. Carrick and Thomas
Gravel, Of New Castle, spent Thursday
evening with friends in this city.
1t is r,,mored that syndicate of sport
ing men are negotiating for tract OF
land near this city to be utilized in the
construction Of a race tack
Frederick W. Ileiss very pleasantly on
tcltaincd number Of his friends at an
oyster supper, on Thursday e'cninE, at
his home, Sixth and Walnut street.
Chief Of Police Dolan has ordered the
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