Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-07-13
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The Elwood campmeeting will begin
on August 18th.
The Rev. E. @. Atkins of Centreville
is recovering from severe illness.
A High School will soon be erected
at Centreville at cost of $4,000.
Fifteen feet of the shore of Hollands
Island was washed away recently.
Allen HI. Grosh OF Northeast has
accepted clerkship in Wilmington.
The FELTON, Hotel, Elkton, having
obtained liquor license, has reopened.
Harry Mcguire has bought the R. j.
II. Tall farm, near Madison, for 81, 100.
W. Goodman Orrell has bought R.
M. hopkins carriage shop, at Centre
vile.
Harry Clark has bought the Garrett
son Smith farm, near Queen Anne, for
So, 600.
The Rev. Mr.. Barnum has resigned
the pastorate of the Brethren Church,
Ridgely.
Alfred Green has bought j. Hersey
Halls large storehouse, at Centreville,
for So, 100.
Howard Stevens has bought the
Joshua Massey farm, near Centreville.
for IS, o50.
The Singerly mills, at Ellzton
and Providence, will soon resume
operations.
Bishop Monaghan will officiate at
Centreville, Cordova and Queenstown
next Sunday.
Warren b. Long of Crisfield was
graduated from the New York Law
University recently.
The Rev. and Mrs E. r.. Sidell cele-
brated on Monday last the 10th ami
versary of their marriage.
The contract for erecting Methodist
Episcopal Church at, Vienna has been
awarded to w. A. Hastings.
Washington College has conferred
the degree of master of arts upon
Norman Cameron of Elkton.
Former Congressman Miles will de-
liver an address at Deals Island
church festival next Wednesday.
The steamer City of waterville has
been put upon the route between
Princess Anne and Deals Island.
]. Howard McIFarlane of Centreville
was severely injured on Tuesday by
being thrown by a runaway team.
DIR. Charles Oochey has been elected
president and o. Tilghman Davidson
cashier of the Queenstown Savings
Bank.
f. Olin MacSorley, who was recently
graduated from Delaware College, has
engaged in the ice cream business at
Pocomoke City.
The Centreville National Bank has
declared dividend of per cent for
the last six months, and added 5000 to
its surplus account
The Dorchester National Bank and
the National Bank of Cambridge have
each declared dividend of 3 per cent
for the last six months.
The farmers boat line between
Smyrna and Philadelphia will begin
business next Monday. The barge
Coleta will be put on the route.
The Queen Anne's National Bank,
Centreville, has declared dividend of
2l6 per cent for the last six months,
and added $500 to its surplus account.
Prof. Carroll Edgar of the Maryland
Nautical Academy and Harry Hobard,
a student, are journeying from the
Miles River to the Hudson River in a
canos. ...
b. Gootee Stevens has been selected
for appointment as census supervisor
for Cecil, Talbot, Caroline. Kent,
Dorchester, Queen Amos, Somerset,
Wicomioo and Worcester counties.
Licenses have been issued in Cecil
county for the marriage of the follow
ing couples: Oliver A. Sheridan and
Carrie X. litter, John T. Ingram and
Martha r. Potts, Harry d. Lee and
Amanda M. Lewis, Perry E. Harris
and Margaret Anderson, Francis B.
Gray and Helen Faux, John Furrell
and Mary Harris