Newark post., 1913-11-19

Among the Jurors drawn IOf Ine
December term Of the Cecil Circuit
Court are the following residents Of
the Fourth district: William H.
Campbell, Wier M. Seth, Howard
Scott, Richard Beers and David II.
Devlin.
Superintendent A. j. Whitney,
Jr., Of the Maryland Wivision Of
the P. b. & w. r. R. is reported
seriously i'll at his home in Will
mington.
The question Of consolidating
school districts /, 2 and 73 in Bran
dywine hundred will be decided at
a special election to be held on Sat
urday.
Ladies of Lebanon M. E. Church
Red Lion, will hold their annual
supper this and tomorrow (Thurs-
day evenings.
Forty Hours Devotion began in
st. Peters Church, New Castle,
Rev. Father Campbell, pastor, on
Sunday morning and closed last ev-
ening.
George II. NAPLES and Frank O..
BRYAN of the Lewes section, con-
tested for the best field of sweet po-
tatoes from an acre, the latter win
ming with 720 baskts to the form
er's $40.
Sussex county supervisors hav-
ing overdrawn their accounts, the
Levy Court last week notified all OF
them that work on the roads must
cease unless authorized by the Com
missioners for the several districts.
One supervisor, it is reported, had
exceeded his limit by $4,000, and a
general halt has been called.
Senator Willard Salisbury, who
arrived home in Wilmington last
Thursday from a recent trip abroad
was quoted as saying that he had
never doubted that Alfred Raugh-
ley of Harrington, would land the
Observation-Disclosures Internal Rev
enue Collectorship.
The Wilmington Police Commits
sion last week appointed the ten ex-
ira patrolmen recently provided for
by the City Council. Six Republi-
cans and four Democrats were
chosen. One Of the Republicans is
Raymond Smith, colored.
Thirty-three Government liquor
licenses, it is stated, have been is
sued to clubs i'll and around Will
lmington and to several proprietors
of alleged disorderly houses, since
July l. City Judge Churchman in
April last held that sales of liquor
by clubs were illegal The Police
Commission last week ordered all
questionable houses to close by Sat
urday with notice to those who con-
duct them that prosecution will fol.
low their re-openlng.
The second trial Of Charles D.
Naylor, the aged farmer of the
Townsend section, for fatally shoot
ing Earvil Frances, a neighbor 4
; son, in January last, while the lat
ter was trespassing on Naylor'
marsh, closed on Friday night il
Wilmington with a verdict of man
: manslaughter. At his former tria
a verdict of murder in the secont
degree was rendered but new trai
, was granted to enable Naylor
brother to testify in his behalf
r which illness had prevented hin
from doing. The brother died be
fore the new trial began. Naylo
protested that he had not meant t
kill the boy but merely to deter hir
and his brother from troubling hi
{ muskrat traps set on his marsh
Work has begun on the new s
Michael's Catholic Church i
: Lewes and on new rectories in Mi
f ford and Rehoboth Beach
5. Victor du Pont, 3D., had a livel
< bout with a hold-up man last Wet
]. nesday night, near the Wilmingto
II Country Club, but came out best
the battle, though not unscathed.
ty to one hundred miles from tt
;. place where they report for duty.
The subject has been brOuRl