Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-05-22
PENINSULA NEwsPARAGRAPHs

The Sussex County Bible Society will
meet IN Georgetown on Friday
u Is about settled that Georgetown
VIII have at least one wedding before
the snow flies.
commence this year on July %, and con
tirue ten days.
Smyrna, CheswoFd and clayton wiz
combine and paint old ElaNfnQ a dc,
carmine on the glorious Fourth
Reading Clerk OF the Senate Th.nls
Baxter has been elected president. Of the
Delaware College Press Association.
Il. II, Graham, formerly proprietor al
the Hotel Henlopen at Rohob0th hA
leased a hotel at Sea lac CITY. n. j.
The Delaware Railroad Company has
begun the erection Of a new freight IF
Zee at Wyoming, the fruit-shipping cen
tire.
Officials OF the Pennsylvania road Wis.
I iicd RchoD0th on Wednesday with a
summer travel
While j. Brown. OF Liberty, drove
Nd, wns cutting timber on Tuesday. the
axe slipped and. striking the mans foot
cut It Wide open, sevefing an artery
The annual meeting OF the Wilmington
Conference auNiliaries cf the WOman's
Foreign Missionary Sccioty Will be held
In Easton, MD, on Wednesday, May 81.
The annual meeting OF the sloekho d.
ers Of the Diamond state Telephone
Company Will be held al their ofIlce A.
Dover on rhursday nect ut II o'clock.
The Diamond state Telephone Com
pany, wla.ch has rs headquarters On
Dover, has decided TO extend lis lines
over the whole Perlngu!a IN the near fy-
ture.
William Cannon. Who was among The
killed In the railroad accident at Exeter
Ia. on fr44ay OF last week. was rp-
lated TO Mrs. W. 7. Sudier, OF Bridge.
Work is new being pushed on the now
water works a laurel ara a Is expect
ed that they VIII be completed in short
time. The digging FOR the pacing Of
mains is now bung done,
The ProhibitonlF,s Of Cecil county.
WIN assemble In convention at EiktOn
on Thursday, May u, for the purpose
OF nominating county ticket and Sc
| leoting delegates TO the state convention.
Among the cighty-hve young doctors
graduated al Jefferson College on Men
4 day were the following graduates frlm
! Delaware; George Cooper, Moore, VIII
iand Eugene smith, James Harvey
Spruanc0.
Lucius Darby, Of Milton, who for sew
eral years WAS a deck hand OF the Amer
/ can Dredging Conpanya tug Lightning,
/ has been granted IA plots Incense bN the
| United States Inspectors for the district
OF Philadelphia.
On Friday OF last week Cecil Cooper
| Of Charlestown, Nd was engaged In
digging well al Seneca Point, when
/ the earth caved IN, lnturing the man
seriously both legs were broken. his hip
badly injured, and he was painfully
bruised.
Under the specifications made by the
! engineers employed by the Town C0un-
/ cil OF Dover, the proposed electrical sys-
/ .cm fer the town will have a capacity OF
| Loco incandesccnt and sixty arc lights.
Il Is expected the PANT viii be In opefl-
don by November.
- tlIr h.ia
been taken from the wrecked schooner
! Thomas b. Steelman, al the Breakwafer.
| The barge I0tle has the cargo. and in
tow Of the North America left yesterday
main on the wreck.
C. A. Johnston. assistant to ]. II
Richards. superintendent Of the Break
water station Of the Maritime Exchange
| has rendered his resignation, and VIII
accept a position with the West Jerse'
| Railroad Company at Cape May. as.
successor has not yet been appoin ed.
The entire plant Of ths singerly. Pub
| and Paper Company VIII be sold on
Wednesday, June "a, by the trustees ap
pointed by the court TO make sac
Messrs. w. T. Warburton, Albert Con
stable, ST., and John $. Writ. This IN
cludes the mills at Elleion and Provl
dence.
Cards are out announcing the mar
| Mage Of Dr. j. Thompson Jones, OF Gum
boro and Miss Florence virginia Bow
man. in Hopewell NJ. e. Church a
Woodlawn, Nd, on Thursday. May q
The ceremony viii be performed by tn
BRIDES father.
The public school teachers Of the stat
are now getting statistics Of the school
for the use of the State Board Of Bdu
cation. The report when completed VII
be the best which has ever been securel
and Will give the State Board consider
able Information which VIII be valuahi
In mapping Out work
The Farmers and Merchants Bul.dini
and Loan Association, of Dover. ha
e.ected the following officers; Presidenl
\ Samuel w. Hall; vice-pres.dent, Ncwe
Bail: secretary and treasurer. Harry
Walker; directors. g. II. Atkins. II. G
Conrad. r. l.. Holiday. John Hum, i
c. Maui and c. d. Sypherd.
The superintendent OF the publ
schools of Kent county, Caleb C.. Tinda
has been recommended as a principal }
the public schools Of Philadelphia. afte
4 having successfully pissed the examine
tlon with others, and the committee O
qualifications Of teachers OF the Boar
l. OF Education recommended that ne
e granted permanent certificate.