Evening journal., 1902-02-28

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dents of penOlogy, and those who
gather statistics whcrewith to buttress
lcharitiee and reforms need to come
close and know things as they are. But
the great outside world that has no
liability, or wish to deal with the abomi-
nations of iniquity in Whitedhapel orl
the vices of Paris has no more right
to wade through this slough Of realism
than it has to make personal visits tol
pest houses and smallpox patients be-
cause they exist in THE world.
Miss Florence Bayard Kane, whose
headquarters are in the parlor Of the
State House during her services here
as organizer for the State Library Com
mission, is not depressed over the black
eye given by the people of Smyrna to
the free library movement in this State.
Miss Kane has gone right ahead, and
has issued an appeal TO the people of
! tine thirteen towns which have yet to
hold their annual municipal elections,
urging them to get ready by petition
+ ing their Councils thirty days before
the proposed election, so that they may
secure the right of a special election
; on the day following. The towns which
will hold elections during the spring
, land which have been appealed to by
S Miss Kane for tie State commission
are: Clayton. first Saturday in May;
S Delaware CITY, first Saturday IN April;
Frankford second Saturday in, May;
D. Greenwood first Saturday in May;
Z Lewes, first Saturday in April Mag
lnolia. second Tuesday in April; New
! ark, first Tuesday in April; New Cas-
! tie. second Tuesday i'm April; Newport.
I second Saturday in April; Odessa, first
r Monday in April; RehOboth, last Sat
/ urday in April; Odessa, first Monday
/ in April; RehobOth. last Saturday in
4 July; st. Georges, first Monday in
April; Townsend, first Saturday in
May
B.. About 2.30 Wednesday afternoon, the
people of Dover were alarmed about
e having a lion carried through their
2 streets. The lion belonged to a com
nany playing in the Peoples Theatre
g James S. Goodwin carted the lion up to
the theatre. where it was found that
the lions cage was too large to permit
: its being carried into the building
Later it was returned to its car and fed
with ten pounds of fresh rump beef
p steak, at fifteen cents per pound.
. d. A. Sternier while on a business
. trip at Philadelphia, was attacked by
+ highwaymen, who pushed him into an
" alley, where they Hi1ed his pockets
While Mr Sternier was resisting this
:, attacks Of the thieves he had an arm
broken in the struggle. The injury
was dressed at the Jefferson Hospital
The cOlored people of Dover held q
g. supper in Whatcoat A. M. E. Church
last night. During the evening a pro
gram of music, recitations and speeches
were rendered.
At union missionary meeting of al
church last night the committee il
g charge was Mrs. J. B. Turner, Mrs. AL
= den r. Benson and Mrs. r. l.. Holmes
- Speeches concerning tine missionar!
" work were made and an interesting
:, program was presented.
- The PeninsulaCannedG Goods Association
y held its eighth annual meeting in thl
"a assembly room of the Hotel Richard
q. son yesterday afternoon, at which t.her
ls was an unusually large attendance o
!, packers. Great interest was manifest
= ed in the proceedings, and the cannes
VI goods situation was carefully cOnsid
cred. In accordance with the custom
y OF THE association, no attempt wa
= made TO fix the scale of prices for eithe
The raw material or the canned pro
= duct, there being simply an interchang
~ of views upon the subject G.. r. T
le Brown, representing the brokerage frn
H. of Bulifant & Co., spoke in regard &
' contracts for the output for the ensu
ing year. The following officers wer
ie elected to serve one year: President
40 II. p. Cannon, Bridgeville; vice-presi
~ dent, Thomas l.. Day, Ridgely, Md.
II secretary and treasurer, c. n. Dashiel
10 Princess Anne, Nd; Executive Com
IN n mittee James Wallace H. B. Messenge
u and David Refs. Among The mos
~ prominent Gamers who attended were
n James Wallace, Cambridge, Md; c.
, Dashiell, Princess Anne, Md. /. I
81 Leonard, Cambridge, Md. B. II. Mei
20 senger, Fredericksburg, Nd; Dani'
vi Hirsch Milford: David Reis, Milford
at George L. Counselman, Houston; zac
a. Johnson, Houston; j. S. Reynolds
. Fredenca S. S. Bward, Belair, Md
c. c. Ryan, Jr. Landenberg, Pa. Pal
50 Eolsinger, c. r. Smith and r. l.. Da.
a.. of Ridgely, Nd; c.. Il. WriglhtsOn, Ea.
ou ton, Md: w. c. Todd, Willston, Md
ey II. p. Cannon, Bridgeville; George I
d Draper, Milford; George c. Calhoun
os Georgetown; G. W. Suadley. Laure
~ John Hyde. FELTON,, and w. T. Buchanan
is Rising Sun, Del.
- William E. Smith, Mrs. Mary Wo
=, colt and Or. and Mrs. Klump wei
oSg among q large party of pleasure-seel
10 who sailed yesterday from philadelIh
nd for Savannah Ga, on one of the Ear
,~f Line steamships, EN- route for for
4, nights stay in Florida.
Use The certificate of incorporation issue
ln. yesterday at rhe State House to the
IL /. DUPONT dc NemoWs Company,
No Wilmington, with it's capitalization
els $4,000 600, was phe biggest act OF d
IH- General Incorporation law save one.
lie that OF the steel company which w
est consolidated and chartered here und'
is the care of the Corporation Trust Con
,h- pany about two years ago, with S6l
i'm 100000 capital stock. The DUPONT ce
are titicate, whidh has just been filed her
we brought into the State a revenue
advance Of $4,000, for which the cor
her pany's check. drawn TO the order OF q
TO Secretary of State. accompanied its a
ate plicatiOn The incorpOrators we