Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1902-02-20
DOVER

Special to the Evening Journal
Dover, Feb. 19-The 200 or 300 teams
which usually pour into Dover, bring
ing country people to trade with and
buy from the busy merchants have mott
appeared in town since Monday, and
Things are badly clogged.
Not since the Civil War have eggs
sold at FROM forty TO sixty cents a.
dozen. especially right in the centre of
IA poultry producing district, as they did
today II was hard to believe until
ones groceryman informed him that
eggs We're forty cents at wholesale, and
only those who wanted to make cakes
or fine waffles are buying them. 1t is
true that the blocking of the country
roads sent up the prices, but eggs have
been commanding a high price all win
ter. and there is a general impression
gaining ground among the farmers that
the man who can be a successful pOul-
try raiser is a money-malIer. The eX-
lceedingly thigh prices of corn and grain
feeds have had much to do with the
rise but the cold storage experiments
with eggs in the West and in the larger
Eastern cities have made them far more
valuable all the year round
Harry b. Coulbourn, one of the lead
| ing athletic students at the Whining
ton Conference Academy, whose train
ing in football this year brought him in
the heavyweight" class at 1874 pounds
! is reported by the students to have
eaten a quart of chow chow the other
night because he had been assigned
the subject. "a Trip to Hades, upon
which to write an original compost
/ ton What Mr.. Coulbourn's fellow
lsmdents are puzzled over is whether
he ate the hot stuff to simply get into
condition for his struggle with pen and
paper that night or whether he really
intended TO make the trip and stay
there.
The sleighing i'm and around Dover
was fine Yesterday afternoon and last
night. State street Governors ave-
nue. ana King street clear out to the
fair grounds. were the finest sleigh
| ing places A number OF prominent
members of the Kent Club last night
obtained a spirited team and attach
( ing it to number of sleighs and sleds,
started down a street and making too
/ short turn. were overturned. The
horses, being frightened by the COM
motion started down the street at a
I rand rate demolishing the sleighs. A
double team of Alonzo Rust, livery
man. was overturned while making too
short a turn. throwing the driver out.
Edward Milburn was also thrown out
lof his sleigh while making a short
turn
This has been a great winter in Kent
, lcounty towns and country homes for
the ice man. Every old ice house
which has been abandoned for years
as we'll as all the new ones and some
hardly completed. have been brought
into service as storehouses for the
finest ice that has been harvested In
/ Delaware i'm twenty years. Even now
/ the ice harvcsters are still at work, ant
in some places ice is being garnered
/ which Is sixteen inches thick. This is
I the kind OF ice that keeps all through
the summer and sometimes into the
5 next season.
b. The Peninsula Student. a periodical
% ISSUED semi-monthly, by the Scott Lit.
erary Society. is fast becoming one OF
b the best of school papers The articles
b are newsy and the whole school enters
r into the spirit of IT, The editor Il
Harvey p. Keller and the business
manager is Grover Cleveland Parvis.
G Manager Herbert S. Blackiston. O.
r. the PEOPLES Theatre. is already max
ing an extensive hooking for next year
b The Gus Sons Mlnsrels. which are e
appear on February 3. 1908. are nov
lplaying i'm Texas.
The Lenten services of Holy Gross
. parish arc proving of much interes
6 this wear Tho Rev r. r Waldron. thu
q nastor holds mass and instruction
;, every morning at Q o'clock And Of
n Wednesday and Friday evenings. Len
ten sermons. stations Of the cross ant