The Delawarean., 1900-08-29
THE DELAWAREA.N.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

right prices at The Magnet.
All we ask is an examinaulon of our
goods and prices, they'll do tine rest
The Magnet.
A napdha launch is running between
Milford and Salem, n. j., carrying 250
baskets of peaches at each trip
Regular services will be resumed in
Christ Church, Dover, and ST. Paul's
Chapel, Camden, on Sunday next,
September 2,
Rumor has it that Magistrate John
Hutton of Dover, and Miss Ella Par
dee, of Lebanon, will be married dur
ing October.
1t is rumored that Capt Thomas
Pardee of Lebanon, and Miss Ella
Mensch of near Magnolia, will be
married This fall
For Sale ait Bowers
Cottage, best location on lthe beach.
Apply to Angelo Miller, 9O4 Chestnut
ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
The National Councillor of the Jr.
o. U. A. NJ, has appointed DR.. L. S.
Conwell of the Camden lodge, Deputy
State Councillor for Delaware.
The basketmakers at Murphy's fac
tory WENT on a strike Monday. They
had been receiving 50 cents per hun
dred baskets, and demanded 81.
Officers are looking for Torbert
a Peterson for lan assault and battery ON
his mother, and for running loose
about town striking several men with
a shotgun.
Charles Alloway, am aged and we'll
KNOWN Citizen, suffered paralytic
stroke yesterday. On account of his
advanced age serious results are APP
pretended.
The household goods of Howard M.
Wilkinson, seized by preferred cred
itors for the payment of his debts not
cancelled by other seizures, have been
appraised at $3.50.
Register of Wills w. f. Causey of
Sussex, has granted letters of admin
istration ON the estate of Anna M. Bar
ber, of Cedar Creek hundred to Cora
NJ. Barber.
Raymond Taylor, a farmer residing
near Lebanon, has lost several horses
with cerebro spinal meningitis. Mr..
Priestly another farmer near Lebanon,
has had five to die from the same
disease the past few weeks.
For Sale-Three town lots, two of
six acres, one of three, valuable for
building, pasture or trucking, nicely
set in grass and in fine condition
George A, Millington, Dover, Del.
Politics have come to blood heat in
Sussex and during an argument in the
Sussex Republican office between we'll
known men Monday, blows were ex-
changed and blood was drawn, while
glass separating the private office was
shivered.
The Prohibition party of Sussex
county will hold a convention next
Thursday at Georgetown, meeting at
. o'clock in the afternoon, for the pur-
pose of nominating county ticket
and transacting such other business as
may be introduced.
Captain Thomas James Sipple, until
recently master of the schooner
Thomas Humphreys, which he sold,
has been engaged to assume charge of
the new steamer the Emma c. Refs, to
be placed on the line between Milford
and Philadelphia.
While William Gehman and friend
were returning from Lebanon, Satur-
day night, their horse plunged into a
hole, and the occupants of the carriage
were thrown lout, sustaining severe
bruises about THE face and arms.
The dwelling of Henry Pratt, a
farmer residing near town, was struck
by lightning during THE electrical
storm Monday evening. 1t was dam
aged but slightly. Fortunately no
one was injured.
1t lis said the State Sentinel Printing
Co. has purchased the Cowgirl build
ing on State street, now occupied as
a carriage emporium by Joseph Nc
Daniel, and will take possession of the
building as soon as vacated and neces-
sary alterations made.
Samuel Cole, a well-known young
citizen of Smyrna, tried to commit
suicide last Thursday ait Woodland
Beach. He jumped into the river from
the steamboat pier, but was rescued.
Domestic difficulties are said to have
been the cause.
A Great Slaughter of Straw Hats.
Finish out the season with a new
one. Every one of our $1.00, $1.20 and
$1.5O straw hats goes down to soc. All
of the Soc. and 75c. ones go down to
Csc. Unless you are very early bird
these will all be gone before you get
n.