Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1911-01-18
NEWS NOTES HERE AND THERE

An opportunity is given to New
ark to witness one of the best basket
ball games of the season in the Col
lege Gymnasium this evening, when
Delaware plays the University of
Pennsylvania five. This game will be
fast one and the spectators are as
sure that they will have plenty OF ex-
citement.
The item appearing in last weeks
issue of the press stating that Sher-
man Dayetts farm had been sold
was incorrect; this farm is still for
sale.
Last Sunday morning fire was dis
covered in the barn on the Sherman
Dayet, farm Some inachilitfy was
burned, which with the damage done
to the property, resulted in loss Of
5000.
Newark has lost the chance OF a
shiftwaist factory. Let us profit by
past experience and do better by the
Snider proposition now in hand.
Mrs. Rose entertained few friends
at cards last Thursday evening Pro-
gressive five hundred was played.
Edythe Whittingham, Stanley West
and Ira Steele are leading i'll the
number of subscribers credited IL the
piano contest.
Representatives OF the International
Correspondence School at Scranton,
Pa, have been in town advertising
the work which they are doing. The
four large windows in the Opera
House building have been used for
the exhibition OF drawings, books, tes-
timonials instruments, etc, which
have attracted much attention from
the passerby.
Edward Sharpless, OF Landenberg,
and John Hopkins, of Thompson Sta
ton, have sold to w. P. Wollaston 80
head OF steers.
The team of John Anderson, the
we'll known Kemblesville stage driver,
when hitched in front of the National
Bank last Friday became frightened,
supposedly by becoming fastened by
the chain of the hitching post. The
animal in his efforts to free himself,
broke the bride at the bit, and started
street, turning in at Huber's sheds,
east of town. Aside from the broken
harness, no damage was done.
A horse hitched in front of w. P.
Wolaston's store became frightened
on Monday at passing automobile.
In its frenzy it wrapped itself around
the hitching post several times. The
excitement resulted in broken wa
gon, but no serious harm to the horse.
The meeting of the Tuesday After
noon Bridge Club was postponed un-
til Friday this week, when the ladies'
will be entertained by Mrs. R. A. Whit
tingham.
Newark Grange will hold meet
| ing on 6onday, January 23rd in the
College hall, ats o'clock The sub
| ject for consideration is The Buying
of Clover Seed.
Md-year exams start next week at
Delaware College. New resolutions
are already being made by the stud
ents to "study more, etc. Mid-year,
to the student is very similar to New
Years to the average person. Then
| is the time that new resolutions are
made, some to be broken. and some
kept.
Mrs. Harvey Perkins has what she
thinks a very valuable Buff Leghorn
pullet. 1t was SIX months old last
Wednesda yand on that day laid her
tenth egg and has laid every day ex-
cent one. since then. She also has .
Brown Leghorn hen that lays in =
box in the kitchen in time for Mrs,
Perkins Sunday breakfast. Can any
one beat this record? II 10 she would
like to hear from them.
The farm belonging % Miss Anna
Hossinoer, near Elbow LAAAS not far
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