Evening journal., 1899-09-25
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w. NJ. Ross has leased the Coulbourn
property at Seaford, and will erect a.
large oyster packing house thereon.
Mr.. Ross will employ 250 persons. Hel
has extensive oyster beds in the Wi
cOmicO and NanticOke rivers, and ex-
poets to talse up 100000 bushels of
oysters this season.
One thousand dollars is offered by
the Minnesota Horticultural Society
for an apple that will grow satisfactor
lily in that state. Quite a variety has
been entered for the contest. The
right apple" says Superintendent Lat
ham, of the State Fair would be
worth $1,OOO,OOO to the people Of Min
nesOta.
Robert Neal who lived near Cam
bridge, died in a peculiar manner re-
Gently. He was taken sick during the
night and went into his yard to vomit
/ He leaned over the palings and his
neck got caught between two of them
and he choked. His wife becoming
alarmed, went to look for him, and
found him dead in the position de-
scribed
DR.. r. w. Fisher, a prominent physi-
clan of Salt Lake City, Utah, and a for
mer resident of Seaford, has been elect
ed secretary Of the Utah State Medical
Association.
The annual report of the commits
sioner OF pensions at Washington
shows that Delaware has 2,643 pen
sioners, who drew last year $4O1, ,615.
William B. Biggs, son of the late
II governor, has made considerable prize
money by his participation in the
Pennsylvania State Fair at Bethlehem
with his fast string of horses, all OF
which he drove himself. Free Silver
took first money in the 20 class, while
Alice AXE in the "A pace, and Star
light Patchen in the .2S trOt took good
ly snares Of the liberal purses.
Charles Schellenger, of Lewes, has
, passed the preliminary examination al
, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, and ha!
entered that institution for a five
years course in electrical engineering
The steamer Sparta, belonging to ID
] w. Burbage & Co., and Senator Maull
which has been at Chester for SOM
g time being repaired is having a nev
boiler put in at Milford. Several o
: the local contemporaries have it tina
d Senator Maull has just returned from
{ Connecticut, where he has purchases
a steamer No, no, friend, the steam
or was purchased way last Spring.
j. E. Bryan, Jr., a son Of the lat
Rev. ]. e. Bryan, Of the Wilmington
y Methodist Episcopal Conference, hs
4 become superintendent of the publ
l. schools of Camden, N. ].
Viola is proving one of the most pre-
gressive towns of all Kent municipal
ties. for there the merchants, tired {
insisting upon more street light, hav
established lamp-posts in front {
their places and keep the lamp
lighted.
A Milford cannery boasts OF rex
7, ord of canning a ton of tomatoes
Z three and a half minutes. The repol
does not state whether the tomatoC
were peeled, or whether they came
baskets and any old thing that wi
laying around loose.
: Camden and Rising Sun canning fa
4 tories are still glutted with tomatoe
s It is reported that the farmers WI
a contracted are running in with the
y own the tomatoes of those farmers wi
D did not contract thus getting the CO.
Z tract price, 81 a ton, in place of S4, Il
Y present ruling price. a-t
N Tomato growers are In fine hume
y They are held all day at the facto
y waiting to unload. and their baske
are kept to store the tomatoes in. La
of baskets for the use OF the facto
. and their own demands prevents pic
y ing and delivery, and this is just VIII
the packers want.