The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-07-15
STATE NEWS
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weather the evening services OF th'
i Lewes NJ. f. congregation will be helt
on the bay shore. 1t is likely tina
! an arrangement will be made with the
other churches OF the town for joint ser
vices. These meetings were popular last
summer
Work has commenced on the new sta
ton at Seaford. 1t will be on the site
of the old one and will be 25 by GA feet,
built of brick and frame. Levi Patter
son, of Perryville, Md, is the contrac-
tor. The new station will be handsome
and modern one.
The Milford Board Of Education has
selected this corps of teachers for the
school year beginning September End:
Principal, John D. Brooks, OF Carlisle,
Pa; assistants, Mary Billings, of Car
Isle, Annie Hall, May Foulk, Bessie
johnson, Mary Pierce, Cora D. Sipple,
Lulu Ross, Linda Clifton, Mary Hall and
Annie Radcliffe, Of Milford.
The N. Y. P. & N. and the D. M. & Y.
Railroads sent north over the Delaware
road one day last week $40 carloads of
potatoes.
From April 1st to June 3oLh there
haye beeu 20 marriages, IS births and
l6l deaths in. Kent county.
James Camp near Epworth NJ. f.
Church of Bethel charge in Sussex
county will commence August 10 and
continue until August 10. There will be
picnic at the camp ground July 20 and
the privileges OF the camp will be
sold.
Delaware now has Is routes under the
rural free delivery 81 stem as follows:
Harrington, 3; Laurel, 9; Smyrna, |
Marshallton, .; DeImar, 2; Bridgevi!Ie,
J; Pennington, 2; Newark, 2; Towns.
end, 3.
After an absence of thirty years in
the west, Winfield Scott Cooley is Wis.
iting New Castle relatives. He is an
uncle Of Miss May Good!ey, one Of New
Castles beautiful and efficient school
teachers. During his absence Mr.. Good
ley has been in the farming business
in the west and has been very success.
f1l.
John Whitlock, night operator at Wy
oming has been transferred to Dover as
assistant to Agent II. +. Cain during the
freight season.
J. Edward Beck, of Dover, on Mon
day sold his fast PAGER Rocket, with
record OF 2.2l, to John G. Blizzard, OF
Smyrna.
The barn and outbuildings on the
farm owned and tenanted by Sias Hin
son, near Cedar Beach, were burned to
the ground at an early hour Friday
1t is not known how they be-
came fired.
The State Board of Agriculture has
issued Bulletin No. ., in reference to the
peach yellows law. This law makes it
he duty of the board to suppress and
eradicate the "yelows," and to make
rules and regulations for that purpose.
1t is therefore directed that all peach
trees diseased with the yelows shall be
destroyed by cutting eff the tops at the
earliest practical moment, and all
stuinps, trunks aud branches be de-
stroyed by fire.
The members of the Robbins Hose
Company, Dover's volunteer fire organi.
lation, have received their new badges,
)rnamented with freman's cap, hooks ,
ladders and other insignia. ]
James Erwin Carter, of Iewes, and
Miss Salie B. Byron, OF near Milton, .
will be married at the home of the ,
BRIDES mother, Mrs. Mary j. Bryon. on
Wednesday next. The ceremony will be
performed in the morning and the cou- {
de will leave at once for a Tip to New a
i iork and Buffalo. E
Professor Il. W. Allen, of the Rilgely c
Academy, has been elected principal Of
he RedsviIIe, N. G., graded schools, at
salary Of $1,000 year.
The first shipment of Delaware
reaches were some fine ones of the
need variety sent by G. II. Lackett, of
lincoln, on Tuesday morning. They
Ietted VI per basket.
The daily output OF Greenbaums pea II
at Seaford during the season +
which has just closed was 10000 cans. IT,
'wo million cans were packed and about l
5000 week was paid QUIT in wages and q
or supplies. $
A few apples are being shipped from t
tations along the Delaware railroad, t
ut go far they are not OF tirst.cass I
uality. r,
J. w. Jones, of Smyrna, has purchased S,
Daniel c. Bailey his entire crop of a
caches. 1t is estimated it will be al n
'ast 6 GOO baskets, and the price paid r. r
as 30 cents a basket, delivered at ~ ~
renford Station, on the Delaware rail- "
oad. a!
Professor G. Harold Powell, OF the 81
elaware College Experiment Station, o.
writing monograph on the Chinese g.
ing group of peaches, which will be g.
ltroduced in Delaware orchards. Pro. in
ssor Powell has received varieties OF
le Chinese group from Texas and the ct
ale orchards in Georgia. The peaches y,
e said to be very fine and may supplant i,
rawfords, Old Nixon and some OF the =,
hnr sIananrd unrintias lO