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Middletown transcript., 1906-05-12
lunicated.
THE DOG QUESTION


Mr.. EDIToR.-I note the Town Com
missicners have passed another ordinance
relative to dogs, copies Of which are
posted for the public's attention. !
would like to ask aquestion or two. They
say the owner of a dog must have him
registered, collar and tag put on him, and
a metal muzzle, for which registry lee
OF one dollar is charged. The owner is
already taxed from fifty cents to tao dol
lars for his dog; why this double cost?
Then again the notice says: ''any dog not
tagged, colared and muzzled will be
killed" in extra large letters. Who is TO
do tile killing, and who is to pay tile
damages? :? Will the Town Commissioners
pay the damages? yes, they will pay their
share Of taxes-but tile rest Of us don't
want to help pay them. The writer Is
not a lawyer and therefore cannot stale
the legal status Of the case, but the law Of
common sense tells us that what Is sauce
for the goose ID sauce for the gander, and
we are taxed as citizens to pay for water
when we don't Use it, because it is Tor tlre
protection, and for light we do not use
because the town has to pay for it, aud IT
strikes me that if my dog (if had oht
should get away from home without all
the legal harness on him and he shonid
be killed, good LAWYER would be enl-
ployed td see where the protection to me
and mine comes in.
Do you mean, gentlemen, to deprive US
Of the privilege of keeping dog? Do you
mean to put costs on Us without adequate
protection to our property? A dog prop
efty-you have made him property BY
taxing and imposing penalties. DO you
mean to arbitrarily say to US you are not
allowed to have dog unless he is llar-
messed up all the time, enough to give
dog the rabies, even if lie has never been
bitten. Your law is unjust, unfair; you
do not give the owner any chance at all,
but if he should be seen on the street
without tag &C., he will be killed. Oh,
no, Mr.. Commissioners that won't do.
People will not stand it. We are all en-
Titled TO a chance to save our pets. The
matter can be made entirely satisfactory
o all by establishing pound. Let the
stray dogs or unregistered, unmuzzled, ,un-
agged dogs be impounded for 4S hours.
Making small charge for cost, and if
he owner does not appear to- claim it
lien despatch it; no reasonable citizen
would object to that course.
And again, all the dogs seen on our
treets do MT belong in Middletown.
)ugs come in from the country, there is a
ieat many dogs in Ham Town" They +
re on our streets, going to kill them too? {
I so all right, when you get them all
illed there will not be many left, only
~ around in our town.
| know a gentleman who had pet dog
nd had him duly registered, tagged, &c.
nd while out of his owners sight but a !.
hort time, yet long enough for some :
lief to steal collar, tag and all from him.
hat is more than probable to happen
gain. Suppose it should happen to one or
lore dogs this year, and they should be
iled, how many owners of dogs would 4
ep up and pay dollar for registration
nother year? Taxation without some o
nance Of protection won't GO.
Mr.. Commissioners, give our dogs .
nance. CITIZEN.
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New CASTLE COUNTY, IS.
ON SATURDAY,
THE 10TH DAY OF MAY, 1906

1HE STATE OF DELAWARE.
To THE SHERIFF OF New CASTLE County,,
GREETING
Whereas, Daniel NJ. Jones by
his Petition to the Judges of our
Superior Caurt, filed in the Of
fee of the Prothonotary OF said
Court in and for New Castle
(SeaiJ County, for the canse of COM
plant therein alleged, has made
application to our said Judges
that decree may be pronounced
dissolving the marriage existing
between the Petitioner and Bet
tie A. Jones.
We, Therefore, Command You, as you
were heretofore Commanded That you
Summon Bette A. Jones' that she be and
appear before the Judges of our said
Court at the next term thereof to be held
at Wilmington, on Monday, the Twenty
first day of May next to answer the allie
cations Of the said petitioner, Daniel Nj.
Jones according to the Act OF Assembly
in such case made and provided, and also
to do and receive what the Court shall
then and there consider concerning her
IN this behalf as to the Court shall seem
meet and consistent with the provisions
of the said Act of Assembly.
And have you then there this writ.
Witness the Honorable Chas. b. Lore,
at Wilmington, the Twenty -eight day of
March A D., nineteen hundred and aix.
FRANK L. SPEAKMAN,
Issued April 5 1905. Prothonotary.
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AN IMPORTANT AMENDMENT

"By a vote of ten to one the
Senate has broadened the scope
of the railway rate bill in an alto
gether new direction. The adop
tion of the amendment providing
that after May 1st, 1908, no cor
poration acting as a common car
rier shall bc permitted to trans.
port from one State to another
''any article or commodity man.
ufactured, mined or produced by
it, or under it's authority, or
which it may own in whole OF in
part, or in which it may have any
interest, direct or Indirect is
a direct blow aimed at a practice
whose prevalence is now gener
ally regarded as an abuse which
has attained dangerous proper
tionsin Strengthening andspread-
ing corporate power.
'The purpose of this amend
ment is to confne railroads to
the primary business for which
they received their charters and
their valuable privilege of exer-
cising the right or emenent do
main-the business of acting as
the carriers of persons and
goods. 1t would prevent the
same corporation from mining
coal, taking it into another State
and selling it there. In that res
pect it aims to do with regard to |
interstate commerce what the
Pennsylvania Constitution was
designed to do within the limits
of this Commonwealth.
'The principle thus laid down, |
whether it is applied to coal, oil,
or any other commodity, is es-
sentially sound one. The per-
iod Of practically two years which
is specified before this section Of
the law goes into effect should
give railroad companies an op-
portunity to dispose Of their coal
holdings or other sources of pro
duction without undue loss to
their stockholders. The clause,
therefore, it is not to be consid-
cred as eonfscatory in any sense.
It embodies safeguard which
will undoubtedly meet with
nearly unanimous public ap-
proval. - EUening Bulletin.
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opE ssA

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Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Watkins have been
spending this week in Norfolk, va.
Miss G. Y. Janvier. Of Wilmington, is
visiting at tile home Of Mrs. ]. W. Wat
kins.
Mr.. Shoonkoff, a native of Bulgaria,
spoke at PRAYER meeting last night in the
NJ E. Church.
John Kiekopf, Of Philadelphia, spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr.. ]. g. Kiel
kopf and wife.
The Ladies' AID Society met at the
class room Of the NJ. E. Church on We'd
nesday evening
Miss Helen Townsend lad as her guest
part Of last week Miss Helen Harper, OF
Brooklyn, n. Y.
Mr.. Alvin Rose, Of Philadelphia, is
spending this week here with his aunt,
Miss A!ollie Rose.
Mr. George H. Cleaver. OF PhiladeI-
pllia, visited friends in town from Satur-
day until Monday.
Miss Catherine Whittock has returned
home after very plea+aut visit with
friends in Philadelphia.
Mr.. E tward Rhein, ri Philadelphia, is
spending sometime with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William G. Rhein.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Green and son, Of
Philadelphia, spent part Of last week with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Clpaver.
Children's Day will be observed by
the Presbyterian Sunday School on Sun
day evening, May 9Th, to which all are
cordially invited.
Mis- Annie Workman, Of Penn's Grove,
n. j., and daughter, Miss Aida, Of Viii
mington, we're guests Of her sister, Mrs.
Mary Morgan, part OF last week.
To morrow, (Sunda, J. will be the 18th
anniversary of the Epworth League, and
the local Chapter has secured j. P. Hol-
land Of Milford, TO speak in the evening.
Services will begin at 1902 NJ. There
will be no other Epworth League
Devotional service that evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. g. Cleaver entertained
at their home near town on Sunday Mr..
and Mrs William A. Davidson, OF Della
ware City Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Gre and
son, of Philadelphia Mr. and Mrs. Ii.
D. Ratledge and daughter Bertha, and
MIR. Julian Cleaver. of the Levels Mr..
George Cleayer, of Philadelphia Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas George and family, of Nc
Donough Mr. Isaac NJ. Green,-of Mid.
lletowu, and Mr.. and Mrs. William C.
Jleaver, OF this town,
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MrDDLETowN, DEL. MAY IL. 1905.
LIGHT AND WATER ELECTION

At the election last Monday,
the old Board of Light and Water
Commissioners was given an en-
phatic endorsement. The vote
received by Mr.. Crouch was in
deed lattering. There are, of
course, some mutterings of dis
content about the way certain
things happened and how certain
promises were broken. But the
fact remains that a large ajority
of the tax-paying strength of the
town is in favor of the actions of
the old Board, and endorsed its
method of doing, business in the
past, as well as expressed conf
dence for the future. As THE
TRANSCRIPT has pointed out,
there can be no doubt that the
members of the Board have well
managed and improved both the
Light and Water plants; they
have given of their time and
loaned their individual credit to
the Improvement they have
doubled the capacity of The light
plant without increase of the
bonded debt, and with a floating
debt of only $1,000; they have
made of the deep wells a success.
All of these have cost money and |
much labor. The plant is TO- day |
we'll worth all that it has cost. |
On more than one occasion, the
water works, in connection with
the Hose Company, has saved the
town from disastrous fire. The
lights make life in the town more
pleasant, and are furnished as
cheap as in any other town on
the peninsula or elsewhere, ex-
cept in places using water power
to generate electricity.
All of this entered into the
contest, and the only question
raised by the "Reformers" was
hat of free light and water. This
question is probably determind
oy the election. By the vote cast
he action of the Board, even if it
includes the free light and water
S endorsed.
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sHERIFF's sALE.-BY VIRTUE OF

SHERIFF'S SALE.-BY VIRTUE OF
writ of Vend. Exp, to me directed
will be exposed to Public Sale at the
Court House. on Market street, between
Tenth and Eleventh streets, in the city
of Wilmington, New Castle County,
Delaware,
ON SATURDAY,
THE 18TH DAY OF MAY, 1906.
at 10 o'clock A. M.
the following described Real Estate, viz ::
All that certain lot of land with four
houses thereon erected situate in the CITY
of Wilmington, State of Delaware. bound
ed and described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at point on the southerly
side OF Sixth street at the distance of
tnirty-four feet easterly from the south
eaSterly corner OF Sixth and Spruce
streets thence easterly along said side of
Sixth street forty mine feet to a point :;
thence Southerly and parallel to Spruce
street seventy-eight feet the Northerly
side of Turner street; thence thereby
Westerly and parallel to Six tn street forty
nine feet TO point, and thence Northerly
and parallel to Spruce street seventy-eight
feet to the Southerly side of Sixth street
and place OF beginning, be the contents
thereof what they, may.
Seized and taken in execution as the
of Mary Ann Alker, administra-
trix d. b. II. C. t. a., of John T. Barnes,
deceased and Mary Ann Alker, IT,, and to
be sold by
HARRY I. GILLIS, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Delaware,
May 3rd, 1906.
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New CASTLE County, IS.

The STATE OF DELAWARE,
To THE SHERIFF OF New CASTLE County.
GREETING =
Whereas, Alice Saunders by
her Petition to the Judges of
our Superior Court, filed in the
Office ol the Prothonotary of said
Court in and for New Castle
[SealJ County, for the canse of conf
plant therein alleged, has made
application to our said Judges
that decree may be pronuur ced
dissolviHg the marriage existing
between the Petitioner and
Leander L. Saunders
We, therefore, Command You, as Won
were heretofore commanded, That you
summon Leander L. Saunders that he be
and appear before the Judges of our said
Court at the next term thereof to be held
at Wilmington, on Monday, the Twenty
first day of May next to answer the al
legations OF the said petitioner, Alice
Saunders according to the Act of Assem-
bly, in such case made and provided, and
also to do and receive what the Court shall
then and there consider concerning him
in this behalf a. to the Court shall seem
meet and consistent with the provisions
of the said Act of Assembly
And have yon then there this writ
Witness the Honorable Chas B. Lore,
at Wilmington, the Twenty-eighth day
of March A. D. nineteen hundred and
six.
FRANK L. SPEAKMAN.
Issued April 4, 1906. Prothonotary
Middletown transcript., 1906-05-12
WARWICK

Mrs. J. W Parriss is visiting in vii
nlington.
Our public schools close here on jun
1st, 1906.
Mr.. E. A. Jones was Wilmington yisi
tor on Monday.
Mrs. Hamel Bouchelle has returned
from Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. NJ. Garner spenr
Monday in Wilmington, Del.
Master W. W. Akin has returned to III,
home in Middletown, Del.
Crops have been greatly benefited by
the rains Of the past week.
Senior Endeavor prayer meeting TO
morrow evening at 7.30.
Mr.. Joseph Sullivan spent Sunday Will
his brother, John in Middle Neck.
p Miss Myrtle Stradley spent from Friday
until Monday with lier parents in Cecil
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Fl Hodg>on, Of near
Sassafras, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Latto.
mus this week.
Mrs. James S. Merritt, OF Colts, has re.
turned to her home after visit with her
son, James S., Jr
Owing to poor health Miss Mamie L,
Merritt has given up her studies for the
present school year.
R. B. Merritt, Jr., has been grading his
front yard during the past week and will
erect a new front fence.
Mrs. Robert Lipiscomb has returned to
her home in Wilmington, after a weeks
visit with her parents here
Mr.. and Mrs. s. D. Wilson were Sum
day visitors at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. O. Spear on Bohemia Manor.
Washington Camp, No. 8, P. o. S. of
A., has organized degree team and will
prepare themselves for the work at once.
Miss Bessie w. Gnnkle will have charge
Of the music at the Sunday School Con-
vention which conyenes in Cecilton Sat-
nrday and Sunday, May 10Th and goth.
Mrs G. Richard Manlove, Of near Mid
1letown, accompanied by Miss Bertha
Eaton, Of the Quaker City, were visitors
It the home Of Mrs. Mary A. Lof1and on
tuesday.
There will be preaching at the NJ. P.
church on Sunday morning followed BY
The public is most cor
Tally invited to be present. Rev. Frank
. Cain, pastor.
Mr.. NJ. Mock, State Superintendent of
he Maryland Methodist Protestant Sun |
ay Schools will lecture in the NJ. P. /
'hurch, May 18th, at Pm. Subject:
That girl of yours" Admission, 10
ents to all.
Bertha Perkins was assaulted while on
er way from school by Archie Lambert
The little girl is only seven
ears of age. Lambert was arraigned be-
ore Squire Johns and held under 5000 bail |
,r his ap pearance at court
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New CASTLE CouNTy S

NEW CASILE NOUNF1, SS.
The STATE OF DELAWARE,
To THE SHERIFF OF New CASTLE COUNTY.
GREETING ::
Whereas, Elizabeth S. Willis
by her Petition To the Judges OF
our Superior Court, flied IN the
office Of the Protlonulary of said
Court in and for New Castle
lSeal County, for tie cause of COM
pIaint therein alleged, has made
application 10 our said Judges
that decree may be pronounce d
disolving the marriage existing
between the Petitioner and
Harry P. Willis.
We, therefore, Command Yun, as YOU
were heretofore commanded, That vou
sunmonHarry P. Willis that he be and ap-
pear before the Judges of onr said Court
at the next term thereof to be held at
Wilmington, on Monday tie Twenty first
day of May next to aneweffhe allegations
OF the said petitioner, Elizabeth S. Willis
according to the Act of Assembly in such
case made and provided, and also to do
and receive what the Court shall then
and there consider concerning him in this
behalf as to the Court shall seem meet
and consistent With the provisions of the
said Act of Assembly.
And have you then there this writ.
Witness the Honorable Chas. B. Lore.
at Wilmington, the Twenty eighth day of
March A. d. nineteen hundred and six,
FRANK L. SPEAKMAN.
Issued April 4, 1905. Prothonotary.
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New CASTLE COUNTY. IS.


THE STATE OF DELAWARE,
To THE SHERIFF OF New CASTLE County,
GREETING
Whereas, William P. Young
by his Petition to the Judges of
our Superior Court filed in the
office OF the ProthonotarY of said
Court in and for New Castle
[Seal] County, for the cause of COM
plant therein alleged, has made
application to our said Judges
that decree may he pronounced
dissolving the marriage existing
between the Petitioner and Lu-
ceala G.. Young.
We, Therefore, Command Ynu. as YOU
were heretofore Commanded That You
summon Lncealia c. Young that she be
and appear before the Judges of our said
Court at the next term thereof to be held
at Wilmington, on Monday the Twenty
first day of May next to answer the allie
cations Of the said petitioner, William P.
Young according to the Act of Assembly
in such case made and provided, and also
to do and receive what the Court shall
then and there consider concerning her
in this behalf as to the Court shall seem
meet and consistent with the provisions
of the said Act of Assembly.
And have you then there this writ.
Witness the Honorable Chas. B. Lore,
at Wilmington, the Twenty-eighth day
of March A. d. nineteen hundred and
six
FRANK L. SPEAKMAN.
Issued April 4, 1906. Parliamentary.
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TOWNSEND

Mrs. John Stradley is visiting relatives
in Baltimore.
Albert Wilson and family spent Sun.
day near Blackbird.
Leonard Dickinson, Of Wilmington,
spent Sunday in town.
Miss Lillian West visited Miss Elsie
Carey, near Smyrna, last week.
Joseph H. Jones, OF Philadelphia, vis-
tied relatives in town over Sunday.
Thomas Lusby, Of near Kennedyville,
Nd, was visitor in town over Sunday.
Miss Anna R. Lawson was the guest Of
relatives in E'smere Saturday and sun.
day.
Mrs Anna Allen, Of MiddIetown, spent
Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. Jane
Wilson.
Miss Bessie Palmer. OF Wilmington,
was the guest Of friends in and near town
last week.
Mrs. D. B. Maloney and daughter, Miss
Ethelwyn, were in Philadelphia and Will
mington this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Price, OF Better
ton, spent several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. W. N. Watts, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fl. Money entertained
the Ladies' Aid Society of Townsend NJ.
=. Church Tuesday evening.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF Union NJ.
Z. Church was entertained Wednesday
evening by Mr.. and Mrs Harry Deakyne.
Mrs. Albert Watts and son Edgar, Of
Cecilton, Nd, were the guests Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Z. B. shockley.
last week.
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New CASTLE COUNTY IS

The STATE OF DELAWARE
To THE SHERIFF OF New CASTLE COUNTY,
GREETING:
Whereas, Narcena B. Cowlint
by his Petition to the Judges oi
our Superior Court, filed in the
office OF the Prothonotary of said
Court in and for New Castle
[Seall County, for the cause of com.
plant therein alleged, has made
application to our said Judges
that decree may be pronounced
dissolVing the marriage existing
between the Petitioner and Mary
Y. Cowling.
n We. therefore, Command Yon, as YOU
were heretofore commanded, That YOU
summon Mary Y. CowIiHg that she be
ana appear before the Judges of our said
Court at the next term thereof to be held
at Wilmington, on Monday the Twenty
first day Of May next to answer the allie
cations Of the said petitioner, Narcena B.
Cowling according ID the Act Of Assembly
IN such case made aud provided, and also
to do and receive what tile Court shall
then and there consider concerning her
in this behalf as to the Court shall seem
meet and consistent with the provisions
Of the said Act Of Assembly.
And have you then there this writ.
Witness the Honorable Chas. B Lore.
at Wilmington, tile Twenty eighth day Of
March A. ID. nineteen hundred and six.
FRANK L. SPEAK MAN.
Issued April IS, 1906. Prothonotary.
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Pear Crop Damaged

The Keller Pear crop on this Peninsula
for the current year is believed to be a
failure. In some sections there may be
an exception but as rule the fruit viii
be very scarce. The buds have begun to
fall from the trees and the ground in
many Of the orchards is litera y covered
with dead blossoms, while nsasly trees ap-
pear to be stripped entirely. The frost in
April is believed tt have caused the
trouble, but 20 far a. is known, notti, g
was damaged in tile slightest de-
gree, except the Keller pear, and it as 50
BADLY damaged that from present indica-
gion there will be only traction OF q crop.
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SHERIFFS sALE.-BY VIRTUE OF
writ of Levaria Facias to me directed
will be exposed to public sale al the
Court House on Market street, between
Tenth and Eleventh streets, in the City
Of Wilmington, New Castle County,
Delaware,
: ON SATURDAY,
THE 10TH DAY OF MAY, 1906,
at 10 o'clock A. NJ
the following described Real Estate, viz /:
All that certain lot or piece of land with
q three-s story brick building thereon erec.
ted, known as No. zoos Tatnall street, sit
uated in the city of Wilmington, State of
Delaware. on the westerly side of Tatnall
street at the distance of one hundred and
eighty feet southerly from the southerly
side Of Eleventh street, and having a
frontage of eighteen feet and depth of
ninety feet and two inches.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Mary S. Preston and VeryI
Preston, executors under the will of Sey-=
mour Preston. deceased, mortgagor aud
the said Mary S. Preston, surviving
mortgagor and terre tenants, and to be
sold by
HARRY /. GILLIS, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Delaware
May 3rd, 1906.
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10 EGIsTER'S ORDER.
REGISTER OF WILLS oFFICE

UT w II,
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DEL, NOV. % 1905
Upon the application of Edward Hart
Administrator of Ca sar Rrinkley late ~
Appoquinimink Hundred, in said county
deceased, 1t is ordered and directed hy
the Register of Willis th;Et the Administrator
Aforesaid give notice of granting Of let
ters of Administration upon the estate of The
deceased, with the date of granting thereof
by causing advertisements to be posted with.
in forty days from the date of such etters
In six Of the most public places of the
County OF New Castle, requiring all per.
sons having demands against the estate to pre-
sent the same. or abide by an act OF
Assembly In such case made and lroyided !.
and also cause the same to be inserted within
the same period in The MIDDLETOwN Tran
OH PIT, q newspaper published in Middietown.
Del, and to be continued therein two months.
f~A>1 Given under the hand and seal of
SEAL office of the Register OF Wills afore-
s~-y-1' said, at Wilmington, In New Castle
Co ,nty Aforesaid. the day and year above
FRED Z. BACH. Register Of WINS.
NoTICE-Notlce is hereby given that Letters
of Administration we've in cue form of law
granted unto the undersigned on the Twenty
ninth day Of Nov. Al. ID. 1906 and that all per.
sons having claims against the estate of the
deceased must present the same. duly aftested
TO the said Administrator on or before tt1e
Twentv-ninth day or Nov. j 900, or abide the Act
oI Assembly In such case ma0e and provided
EDWARD HART.
administrator
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EoTICs--Notice Is hereby given that Letters
OF Administration were in due form Of law
day Of ltecember A. DIy05 and that all persons
having claims against the estate OF the deceased
must present he same, duly attested, 10 the
SAID Administrator, on or before the Fourth
day Of December / eG, or abide the Act Of
4 Assembly in such case made add provided
HOW RID A. lOOI.
Administrator
Address. Martin B. Burris, Esq Attorney
at .aw. Mid ilet1 yn, D. aware.