Newark post., 1913-07-09

LOCKWOOD sending his eight-year
Old son to drive a reaper and bind
er drawn by four horses. He de-
MED his wife's charge and said she
attacked him.
The Sussex county grand jury
having found an Indictment against
William Grier, agent for a Phila-
delphla liquor dealer, for violating
the Hazel law, the validity of the
statute will be attacked this week
at his trial before the Court of
General Sessions in Georgetown.
The validity of the Webb-Kenyon
Federal statute will also be tested
II. II. Ward, d. o. Hastings, and
Il. r. eKnney will appear for Grier
and Attorney General Wolcott and
deputies for the State.
Another Delaware Democrat.
with the backing of Congressman
Brockson, has caught on with I'm
Gle Sam, S. Leroy Layton of Frank
ford, landing the berth of Secre-
tary in the consular service at Tam
pico, Mexico.
Residents Of Milford will have
the bottom of the recently emptied
Silver Lake cleared Of stumps after
/. which the dam will be rebuilt, the
lake or pond refilled and used for
pleasure purposes by means of
launches and other craft.
Early potato shipments over
the Delaware railroad up to July
3 showed 1862 barrels compared
with 3,O27 for the same period last
year.
Wilmington City Council is hav-
ing an ordinance drawn authoriz-
ing an issue of $SOO,00O to cover
the cost Of construction Of the new
City Hall to be sold in successive
amounts. Later 100000 in bonds
will be issued to pay for the pur-
chase by the city of the present
Court House site. The cost Of the
new Court House, 100000, will be
met by county bond issue.
Chrles Lamborn, coal dealer of
Avondale, who had been visiting
young woman, one night last week
was fired upon near Fosters
Bridge, while driving home. One
shot cut his whip lash and another
entered the body Of his buggy.
George Oliphant Of Georgetown,
with William and George Fisher,
during a heavy thunder storm last
Wednesday night sought shelter
under tree on the Hastings farm,
at Sandy Fork in lower Sussex
county. Lightning struck the tree
and Oliphant was instantly. killed
Returning from Port Penn, one
day last week, George Richards OF
Middletown, on a motorcycle, met
team driven by a colored man
who confused him by turning to
the left. Richards was thrown
upon a barbed wire fence and was
badly gashed and bruised while
his left arm was nearly y severed.
He was sent to Delaware Hospital
for treatment and tainted twice
from loss of blood.
Kent county's bond issue, to
fund a debt of $95, 1000 maturing
Nav 1, was disposed of last Tues
day at par to the following bidders
Farmers Bank Of Dover, sou,
900; G. M. Jones, for First Nation
al Bank of Dover, $12, 1000; II. r.
Fooks, $4,000; Elizabeth j.
! Wright, Newark, $1,000; William
| Ellison. Camden, $4,000; Donahoe
& Son, Dover, $4,000; Clayton
Bank, $4,000; Franklin Temple
Dover, $4,000; Mrs. M. M. Penne
: will. Dover. 81, 900. Fourteen bld'
. totalling $4,000 were received
Tn to last Wednesday 12,17
baskets of early apples had beel
). shipped over the Delaware Ran
+ road against 3,425 baskets for tn
i same period last year.
" George B. Davis, a well-know'
" farmer of the West Amwell sector
near Iron Hill, died at his hom
It last Tuesday of paralysis, aged 3
n years. His wife, who was MIS-
,e Kitchens, survives him with mn
children. His funeral was held o
Friday with interment in Elkto
,e Cemetery.
n William X. Potts, a we'll know
=. carpenter, died at his home IN Ell
na ton last Tuesday, after a prolon'
TO ed illness, aged 60 years. A sol