The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1902-03-13
KENT COUNTY
AT A GLANCE.

Dover. March 13.-Accordlng t
ST alenen,s b. President George NJ
! Stevenson lll other trustees OF tn {
poor Ter kcat ccglty, who appear.
ed before tle Levy Court to report
upon their year j stewardship as
trustees, IS Inmates have been cared
Tor and treated Oh til, aiinshousc
iarni ior all appropriation OF only
5000 IRON the Lazy Court ior the
year. When Tie cIurt cat down
this appropriation from 5000 10
$1,000, some 0! the trustees talked
OF resignlns their posts as they did
not see how both ends could be me.
at This institItion on 5000 q year.
1t is antic pated that this will b.
great year FOR the Delaware rail.
road, and it is SAID that while the
farmers and growers have seen fit
not to adopt any of the su.ges. On
made to them for facilitating trans
portat!on by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. the company
proposes to give the peninsula the
best car service this year that it
has ever cnjoyed. Such a condition
as the scarcity Of cars this year,
they say, cannot possibly result
Hundreds OF patent refrigerator
cars aud some Of the new steel
freight cars have been purchased
aud these with the ventiiator cars
already in possession OF the Coin
pany, will carry away all the pro.
ducts Of III: Delaware peninsula as
fast as they can be grown.
Chancellor Nicholson. who re-
Gently granted an preliminary in.
junction against James e. Oils. re-
straining him from issuing any writ
OF execution or disposing OF in any
manner the property assigned to
him by the Gam brothers, being
the Delaware Bay resort known as
Augustine Pier, has notified An.
thouy Higgins, who represents Mr..
Otis, that he may appear before
him on March -, in Wilmington aud
make motion TO dissolve the in unc-
tion. The suit against Otis is IN
sttuted By Willard Salisbury for
Wm. J. Thoinpsonot Gloucester, who
interested iii Augustine Pier prop.
erty because he has landing rights
for his steamer.
State Senator J. Frank Alice,
president Of the new General Elec-
trio Company, in the event OF Mr..
Addlcks obtaining control OF the
Smyrna. .Dover.Mi il(ord franchises.
spent the day going over the streets
and sections ot the proposed s..
mile route to-day, with W =. Will
liams, a well.known New York en-
giu,er.
The Kent county Levy Court has
received petition from the Council
Of Milford, and similar Que has
been sent 10 the Levy Court of Sus.
sex county, asking for a new bridge
over the Mlspillion River, Chc
stream which divides the two coun.
ties and runs through MlIford) at
Railroad avenue. that town. The
street having been widened, and
the present bridge having long out
lived its usefulness, it is deemed in
adequate and an iron bridge is de-
sired,
The beneliccnt act CT George i.
Bowcrman, the Wilmington book ey-
pert and librarian Of the Institute
Free Library, who donated a complete
travelling library oliiity three vol
nmes to the State Library Commission
for free circulation among the couu-
try districts in the lower part Of the
state, has been most literally follow
ID by Miss Florence Bayard Kane, the
state organizer Of libraries, engaged
~ the commission with offices at the
state House.
Miss Kane has donated two masni-
iccnt travelling Libraries, in quartrred
,ak cases, nicely finished. These
'aSes are to travel through the agri-
cultural districts Of the state where
hey organize u school, grange, Sun
lay school and lodge library. They
include some books just out Of the
,ookcric5 and fresh from the press.
from works of biography, history and
aturc study by some Of the most
tandard authors, they grade down
Trough fiction and verse TO the books
hat will interest the smallest child.
Years of suffering relieved in night.
tchlng pilos yi,la ~ Onco to the curative
roperJle' Of Doans Ointment Never