The Delawarean., 1900-06-27
THE DELAWAREAN.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Scanlon.
]. j. Scanlon has bought 400 lambs
for his trade.
Get your berry checks printed at this
office. Prices the lowest.
Ice cream soda, all favors, for cents.
at Wilkinson's drug store.
Work is sometimes a pretty good
tonic for rundown system.
Wesley NJ. E. Sunday school excur-
stoned to Woodland Beach to-day.
Colonel James Merrick died at Bar
clay, Queen Anne County, Nd, on Sat
urday.
New things in summer suits for
men and boys, opened yesterday at
Lewis.
Any pugilist will tell you that belt
around the waist is worth two in the
jaw.
When women become power in
politics we may look for bargain sales
in votes.
To the man who has a cold in his
head a rose by any other name would
smell as wheat.
Rev. Frank H. Moore, pastor of the
Middletown Presbyterian Church, has
left for a European trip.
Delaware Republicans can't get rid
of Addicks any more than hound dog
can ticks.-Snow Hill Messenger.
The number of census enumerators
at work over this country is 52,631.
Delaware has 103 of this number.
Two cars of Michigan potatoes, Rural
New Workers and Green Mountainers,
price coo. per bushel.-J. ]. Scanlon.
Messrs. G. w. Tebo and w. E. Kirk
of Bradford street entertained their
guests on Monday by a fishing trip
TO Kits Hammock where they boated
250 trout of the deep-sea size.
A charter list has been opened for
new lodge Of the Ancient Order OF
United Workmen at Millsboro Already
lotto Is have signed and the lodge is
to be instituted in a short time.
GOLD BRICK.-I am now prepared
to furnish a first-class paving brick.
Hard red and arch brick at very rea-
sonable prices in any quantity. Apply
TO John P. Hudson, Smyrna, Delaware.
Two weeks ago Herman P. Hazel of
Smyrna. cut from two acres OF alfalfa
a crop of five and one-half tons of hay
Since that time the crop has grown 10
16 inches in height One year ago this
piece of ground produced thirteen tons
at four cuttings.
Don't waste your money on cheap
fertilizer and risk losing your crop by
buying fertilizers recommended as
lust as good The ]. E. Tygert Com
pany's Fertilizers have been recognized
as the best for many years, and they
are lust as they always were, the high
est grade on the market"
Sunday school workers have organ
lied the Kent County Sunday School
Association with the following officers:
President, Rev. ]. c. Pierce, of Dover;
vice-presdent, DR.. E. W. Cooper, of
Camden; secretary, Wesley Webb, Of
Dover; treasurer, John S. Collins, OF
Dover
Union Lodge, No Z, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons of Dover, has
elected the following officers: Wor-
shipful master, William L. Pritchett;
senior warden, Reynolds Clough; jun
ior warden, Henry D. Dorzback; secre-
tary, R. J. Ferguson; treasurer, John
H. Jones'
The degree of Doctor of Divinity has
been conferred by Dickinson College
on Rev. Robert Todd, well-known
minister of the Wilmington Conference
now residing at Laurel. DR.. Todd has
just resigned from five-years' term
as agent of the Maryland Bible So
ciety, and previous to that was for
about forty years an active minister
in the Conference.
A severe electric storm passed over
this section yesterday afternoon, but
it is not thought the hail accompany
ing the deluge of rain did much dam
age. Some of the hailstones were as
large as marbles The rain was badly
needed as the ground was very dry. At
Camden, Wyoming and Woodside it
did not rain at ALL but ON each side
of these towns and below them the
rain came down in torrents. Light
ming struck a tree at Wyoming.
DIVIDEND NoTICE.-The Board of
Directors of this company has declared
a semi-annual dividend of per cent.
payable on and after July 2, 1900, to the
stockholders as they stand registered
June 5, at O'Clock p. m. Checks will
be mailed to all stockholders or their
legal representatives who have left
dividend orders at the treasurer's
ofice.-M. HAYES, Treasurer.