Evening journal., 1905-12-11
STATE NEWS NOTES

The now wigwam OF Pocomoke Tribe
No. %. Improved Order OF Rcd Men. at
Gumboro will be dedicated ON next
Thursday the 18th inst, at which time
supper win be given for the benefit Of
the building fund
A meeting of the stockholders OF the
Georgetown Building and Loan Assoca-
tion will be held on saturday, December
16, ut o'clock p. M. for the purpose OF
adopting new bylaws to be presented by
the committee appointed TO revise the by
laws to conform to the new charter.
The extra meetings in the Methodist
Protestant Church in Georgetown, have
proved "a great success. Something like
81 conversions are reported.
The scarcity OF partridges throughout
Delaware this season has caused much
uneasiness among the sportsmen for fear
that the partridge will, in few years, be
extinct. An old Milton gunner gives the
following information:
every now and then there comes a
severe winter like last winter, and plays
havoc with the partridges. Where there
is intense cold and the ground is covered
with snow the bird is deprived Of its food
supply and freezes to death. Multitudes
perished In this manner last winter. But
the greatest enemy Of the partridge Is the
rapid-nre gun, or the breech-loading gun.
With the old muzzle-loading fowling piece
the sportsman got two shots into covey
and then while he was ramming in an
other load the surviving birds had some
chance to escape. But where the sports
man does not have to stop to load he can
follow up a covey until the last bird is
slaughtered. Another circumstance that
makes against the bird is that the coun-
try is more thoroughly cultivated and
there is less cover for them TO hide in.
Rev. and Mrs. p. II. Rawlins Of Sea-
ford have issued invitations for their
hftieth wedding anniversary which they
win celebrate tomorrow evening.
A very successful revival service is be-
ing held at Ebenezer church near Lewes
The meetings have been going on now for
two weeks and on a few occasions they
have not been dismissed until nearly mid.
night.
William II. Virden, OF Lewes, has Just
finished taking out two apple orchard.
containing about eighty acres on tho
Hickman farm he bought recently. lie il
tearing out hedge-rows. fixing up build
ings and making the place look like new
money
Rural mail carriers have received or
ders from headquarters 10 refuse to TAX,
unstamped mail from the boxes. Hereto
rsa.NH Il.
mail i'm the boxes also deposited penniei
for the postage. Hereafter such method
will not be permitted. and stamps mus
be procured from the carrier or elsewher,
and be properly afHxed by the patron Il
insure the service desired
Mrs. Theodosia Renniger, OF Delmar
has issued invitations TO the marriage o.
her daughter Maggie TO Charles II. Terry
The ceremony viii take place on Thurs
day December 10, at o'clock p. IN. in thl
N. z. Church.
AZ a recent meeting OF the NJ. r. sun
day School Association it was decided q
give a Christmas entertainment som
evening during the holidays. The date vii
be given some time soon.
At the odessa Public Schools the fol
lowing students were given special com
mendation for department and progress
for the month ending November 2ith
Room 1-Mary Aspril. Emma Carpenter
Minnie Armstrong. Gertrude Wallace
Lola Harris Frank Keen. William Craig
Mary Carpenter, Emma Pennington, Allc
Mccoy. Mailly Davis. Room Mabe
Wallace, Mary Evans. Ralph shallcross
Rose Evans, Lloyd Caulk. Arthur Phil
lips, Emma Wallace. Robert Heller, Leon
ard Wallace. Norman Ward Room g
Maggie Burton. Esther Burton. Isabell
, Smith, Naomi Morgan. Helen Iumpe
Minnie West Craig Naudain, Earlon Mas
sey Hazel Burton. Frank Croft.