Newark post., 1910-08-10
NEWS
Here and There

ItpiS SoHlpdIy Is assuming INTEREST
ing proportions. The windows are
now being placed. 1t is an interesting
sight. Reinforced concrete--home
contractor and home labor.
Jacob Thomas and Joseph Thomas
OF the Jacob Thomas Company, left
today to attend the two weeks Wall
Paper Convention at Hotel Breslin,
New York City. The building opera
tions, along with the repairing of the
old mill, are in charge of Mr.. Ad
Thomas. The company contemplates
starting their new mill on September
Ist, then employing over I25 hands.
are adding much to the appearance of
that street
The residents around Cooch's feel
happy over the Improvement of that
station on the Delaware City road.
The old building is being turned
around and remodelled and new
platform being built.
The Republican meeting which was
to have been held on Monday evening
at Glasgow, was postponed on account
OF the rain. The meeting will be held
tonight
Local peaches are coming in market
| now One of the largest crops will be
that of f. B. Mlburn, of Barksdale,
Nd. He will begin to harvest his
crop next Monday Mr. M:lburn is
one OF the most successful fruit grow
ers of Cecil county.
The demand for houses seems to be
greater than at any time this season.
No less than twenty inquiries have
come to us during the last week.
Waiter Beasten, of Middletown,
| candidate for Register of Wills on the
| Republican tscSet, was in town Tues
DAY looking over the ground.
| The Democrats of Whiteclay Hun
dred will hold meeting at the Deer
Park Hotel on August nth. Candi-
| dates for coming election will be dis
| cussed |fd
| Walter X. Powell, one of Company
E's crack shots afNthe coming shoot at
| Camp Perry, was in town this week
The truckers who go to Wilmington
are discussing the low price of pro-
| duce. Everybody has plenty of work,
but money seems scarce and prices
are low
u Note the list of orators at the next
Harvest Home at Whitemaus Grove
Prof. c. A. Short returned this week
from a t/r down in Sussex county
| He is now ready for his years work
Charley Burns, of the Burns Car
riage Shops at Havre de Grace, was
in town TUESDAYS
| The downpour of rain on Monday
evening showed need of street i'm,
proyements. The cutters on South
Chapel street are not large enough
to carry away the water. The water
was running across the street below
the Fibre Mill.
Mrs. r. F. Roberts. who has beer
quite i'll at her home with typhoid fe
yer. is slowly improving.
1856 people took the trip over ths
Pennsylvania railroad to Pcrryville
thence by boat, down the Susquehann;
and Chesapeake to Colchester, las
Wednesday One hundred twenty-on
of the excursionists bought thei
tickets at Newark.
Fairview Lodge. No. 8, |. O. G.. T
will hold an open meeting on Satur
{ day evening, August 10, in Fairviev
Hall. A program representing fin
talent. will be rendered.
The Board of Health reports tw,
answers from I47 requests sent ou
to close up surface wells One is from
a tenant while the other is disputill;
the right of the Board to go out o
town limits-and so the world pro
crosses.
The announcement by Abbott
Dairy OF the increase in price OF mil
: was received with good grace by ou
farmers. SI.So per hundred will begi
the 18th of the month.
Many Newark people Went to tn
Harvest Home to hear Hobson wit
the same feeling as many did fe,
, years ago when Carrie Nation was tn
; star A great surprise was in store
Those who heard him are loud in prais
oi the Southern orator. The speec
, lacked that appeal to sentimentaisr
heard on many such occasions, but wa
filled with scientific information ser,
, ed without touch of humor-an
oratory served on the sde-showin
> a man of greater daring than the her
: Of the Merrimac, disp, p,aying more fee
ing than bekissed naval officer, Civ
ing more facts than an Alabama Cor
gresham, and portraying more soil
!, manhood than was anticipated. hi
presence and spee,h was greater tina
his advertisement.
All day woods services were held
Pennock's Grove, Sunday August I'll
, by Union Sunday School of Pike Creel
The Rev. c. d. Sharpless spoke morn
ing and evening and the Rev. Howar
Ennis in the afternoon
c w. H. Hilton and family have move
into the house formerly occupied b
Professor Short Mr., Hilton has re
!, Gently purchased this property froi
the John Z. Lewis estate.
Between fifty and sixty young VIC
men and three men took the teacher
examinations last Saturday. The re
: suits will be sent out by Superinter
+. dent Spaid by August 18th.
/ Professor Hayward has been invite
y to speak at the southeast SUISSE
S | Grange picnic to be held at Bethan
: Beach on August 18th
The NProkeu Arrow" COmnany a