Evening journal., 1901-05-27
VETERANS HEARD
GOSPEL STORY
Service Was Held in Naz.
areth Church Other
News Of Day
Special to The EvenIng journal.

New Castle May 27-Owng to the in
clement weather OF Saturday afternoon,
the New Castle and the Athletic teams
of Chester. did not play ball in Chester
That the teams did not play was a bitter
disappointment to the three thousand
people who had assembled on the grounds
in Chester TO witness the game. Among
the spectators were $50 people from this
city.
The clubs win play here in the near
future
In accordance with an annual custom,
veterans of the civil war, accompanied by
survivors of tho Spanish-American war,
attended service in Nazareth Church yes
torday. The pastor, the Rev. w. G.
\ Koons preached q sermon appropriate TO
Memorial Day. the lesson of which made
an impression on the minds of the old
and the young soldiers. The evening SER
vice in the church was preceded by a
meeting under the auspices Of the newly
organized Epworth League.
Complaint is made that colored families
in Delaware street are disturbing the
quiet of the people in that neighborhood.
Dances are INDUCED in by the colored
people almost nightly.
The regular meeting of the Board of
Education will be held tomorrow night
I There is only routine business to be dis
posed Of
The local High School baseball team de-
feated the Wilmington Athletic Club team
at Battery Park. Saturday afternoon, by
the score of 10 to G. The score was called
back to the eighth inning by Albert VIII
liams. the umpire, on account of the visit
ors putting I'm their heaviest batters out
Of regular order.
Several of the local fishermen will enter
the skin race Off Pennsville, ON Memorial
Day one OF the trophies Is a'handsome
silver loving cup given by Mrs. NJ. A.
Acton. A suit of sails. including jib and
extra mainsail or storm mainsail for
heavy weather also viii be given as a
lprize. Another prize will be a pennant OF
lgik, bearing the figures 1901.
A cactus with nearly fifty blooms is
seen on the portico over the bulk window
Of the store Of Mrs. Mary Weggenmanr
in Second street, south of Harmony. The
y plant has been greatly admired.
e Miss Susie b. Patton. daughter of Mrs
4 Annie Patton. is very IN with typhoid.
e pneumonia at the home of her mother.
The dreaded smallpox has appeared il
. Delaware City There is but one cas-,
Y there, however
The shad season has about come to
close. with the end OF this week sevora
fishermen will hang up their nets bu
l. others say they will not stay in until thl
j. law compels them, their catches having
u been very light.
Hundreds of dead catfish are founi
floating in the creeks which empty int
the river below the city. An old trappe
?. states that he has seen at least twenty
" FIVE bushels. but no one accounts 70
10 their presence.
I'll The outward bound schooner Charles 4
ID Campbell. while bound from Philadelphi
d, for Bangor. was yesterday reporte
in ashore in the Delaware Bay, inside a
m the buoy on the Ben Davis shoal. Whe
ly last seen "A tue was pulling on her.
IS believed she was afterwards floate,
as the tug Reese. which had her in tov
IN afte-ward passed up the river wit
another vessel I'm tow.
NJ Mrs Charles J. Hofmann sailed fC
/. Bremen this morning. on the steam'
M Kaiser Wilhelm. TO be gone three month
h. The local Woodmen win meet i'm speci
e, session on Friday night Concerted effor
- win De made by the lodgemen TO doub
the membership of the local lodge befo
September T. The order IS fourishiI
throughout the country.
The steamboat Clio. before report
ai high and dry at the mouth Of the A
III poquinimink creek. below Reedy Islau
~ has been fioated. and is now in Philad
a. phia. She was not damaged.