Evening journal., 1902-03-20
DEMOCRATS APPEAR CARELESS
Charge Against Them in Levy Court Nat
terS News Of Dover
Special to mo Evening journal.

uhe Levy Court appear to be rather
careless as TO the continuation Of time
honored Democratic customs, and when
the time came for the annual election
of tax collectors. the Democrats did
not caucus nor agree upon any course
that party workers in the various hun
dreds might be encouraged and COM
| plimented. Realizing that the vote Of
Clerk Of the Peace DoWnes would throw
the Office of tax collector in each legis
latve district over to the Republicans.
they sat shiftlessly in their seats and
voted for their fellow members, or for
any persons who came into their
minds, so they were Democrats. True,
In some OF the districts, where a
Democratic member mentioned a can
didate to some Of mis- associates near
, by, there were several votes cast for
that candidate. Commissioner Moore,
| (Dem), OF Dover, reported TO the
court that two OF the Republican mem
bers appointed as overseers of the read
in his district would not take the roads
lassigned to them, and asked what the
court proposed to do Commissioner
Benson (RepD, of Dover, asked Com
missioner Moore to name the men
who had refused. He replied that as
Commissioner Benson had come over
into his district and named the over
| seers. he ought to know who would
and would not accept
The Republicans carried through
their slate for collectors Us follows:
First district Frank +. Postles; Sec
cond, Thomas M. Bullock; Third
Charles S. ForeaIer; Fourth, James NJ.
Downes: Fifth, Amos A. Watson;
Sixth, Leroy c. Smith; Seventh, John
A. Barnard; Eighth, c. p Rogers;
Ninth. Isaac ID. Alexander; Tenth, D.
| Frank Marvel. The principal persons
voted for by Democrats were:
First district, James J. TruaX; Sec
ond, John Dillon; Third. David Boyce;
Fourth. Samuel Hufnal; Fifth. Wat
son Broadaway; Sixth, William
Moore: Seventh and Eighth, scatter
ing; Ninth, j. II. Morgan Tenth
George r. Moyce.
The Rev. Samuel McBurney, d. d.,
the well-knOwn all-round Methodist
| preacher, who succeeded in raising the
debt from Armory NJ. E. Church, Do
yer, has just had another debt-raising
triumph, and has been the cause of a
worthy Methodist preacher going to
i Conference with all his church debts
/ wiped out. The scene of his latest
i victory is Clayton, where he raised
$335 on Sunday for the Rev. J. A.
i Arters.
], Clarence Townsend, Of Franldord,
has returned to his studies ut the Viii
; mington Conference Academy. Mr..
Townsend was compelled TO stop
school on account Of ill-health.
Professor r. L. Cross. principal Of
the Wilmington Conference Academy
has been in New York on a business
trip.
Henry Ridgeiy. a prominent Dover
lawyer. addressed the Century Club
yesterday afternoon on his recent
European tour. The women invited
their men friends to be present. Mrs.
lC. w. Fisher had charge OF the meet
Ing
Misses Ethel and Ella Ennis have
been the guests Of the Misses Dulin,
of Smyrna, the past week. Miss Maie
Ennis of MillingtOn, who also has
been visiting in Smyrna, will stop of
I'm Dover for q few days.
Kings Daughters met Tuesday even
ing at Mrs. e. Il. Adkinson's, in Brad
ford street. The meeting was more
Of a social than q business nature.
r.
morning and afternoon trains yester-
day afternoon en- route for Crisheld
Nd where Conference meets This year
Among the people who went from
Dover We're the following: The Rev
Alfred Smith, pastor Of Wesley
b Church; the Rev. 3. r. Campbell. pas
3 tor of Armory Churoh ire Rev. WI
liam II. Hudson. the Rev Jesse Mccoy
] the Rev. T. Howard Jones. Presiden'
> William Salisbury. of the Wilmington
I Conference Academy. and Treasurer
John S. Collins, of the Academy Fund
A citizens meeting win be helC
shortly TO consider the advisability o
, having a complete sewerage plan FOL
g Dover Il. Chalkley Hatton, OF VIII
q imington. who has been engaged b,
Council to make survey of sewers
has come down, and is already a
work. He has two assistants with hin
and expects TO have the work flnishe,
by April.
Many people were out at the rail
road station Yesterday looking for thi
Rev. George ". Brownback the Con
= lgregatiOnalist minister of Reading
Pa. who is looking for a wife On
Imam who got off of the noon train an,
q jumped into one of the hacks at th'
g station excited suspicion because o
e the initials on his dress suit case. TIL
i initials were "W. j. b., Reading, Pa
People thought that NE had borrowe'
3. his brothers dress suit case and has
n come to Dover to search for his wife.
p, In some sections OF the Peninsula
growers of tomatoes have accepted th
e terms of the Gamers at 81 per ton
= Some growers. rather than have fur
g ther trouble, have agreed to delive
t all their crop at The above prices, Will
Is others have bargained to deliver tn
product of certain parts of their land
i The Kent county Levy Court yester
day viewed the new steel bridge a
Silver Lake. w.Sich was recently sum
several feet by freshets. II was foun
J. that a new bridge would have to b
u built The twenty-foot bridge. viii
+. therefore. be replaced by forty-too
suspension bridge. and the presen
- bridge removed IN more secure fOunda