Evening journal., 1914-05-23
new CASTLE WOULD
ship SUNDAY MAIL
Postmaster Asks Department
For Permission to Inaug-
urate Change
MANY OBJECT TO
NEW ASSESSMENT
Special to 1HE EVENING JOURNAL.

SPECIAL TO LIE LN tNlNN JOOhNAls-
NEW CASTLE, May %. Postmaster
John p. Murphy has naugurated "a
movement for a Sunday mail. lie be-
lieves that many letters mailed here ON
Saturday night and others ON Sunday
should be- sent out of the city before
Monday morning, and has applied to The
second assistant postmaster general FOR
permission to send locked pouch con
taining the mail to Wilmington on
Sunday evening He proposes using the
trolley cars, and Postmaster English, OF
Wilmington. will assist in the move
ment and take tine mail from Front and
Market streets to the postoilice. As
soon as the permission is obtained the
postmaster will put the new service
into effect.
Civil War veterans, both Confederate
and Union, will be admitted free Of
charge with seats on the stage at the
performance by the Two Old Conteder-
ates" and Polk Aliller's Old South
Quartette, to be given in the Opera
House on Wednesday evening. The
Confederates are Captain Tony Miller,
brother of Polk Miller, and Colonel Tom
Booker, both of them from Richmond,
Va, and famous as banjo players and
entertainers. The advance sale OF seats
already assures a large audience for the
| Two Old Confederates in the Opera
House. The present tour has been a
| long line of oyations thus far, and from
present appearances will continue so TO
the end. Tickets are on sale at James
T.. Briggs store, and the proceeds arc
for the benefit of the NJ. E. Church.
The Boy Scouts. Industry Council, Jr.
o. u. A. NJ, and Company II, Organized
Militia of Delaware, will accompany the
veterans tomorrow morning to the First
| Baptist Church when the Rev. j. H.
Hill will preach a special sermon. Inc
| c. 4. II. men will be busy next week
preparing for Memorial Day.
In the Knights OF Pythias Hall this
evening the Dorcas Society will hold a
strawberry, ice cream and fru41 festival
There is a contest among the women
over the best cake TO be at the festival
The committees in charge are; Cake
table. Mrs. Robert II. Harrington, Jr.
Mrs. Harry Holiday, Mrs. Harry z
| Ahern Mrs. Jacob Wright, Mrs. Ihco
dore W. Lavender; ice cream, Mrs. Har
old Hobbs. Mrs. William Newlove Mrs
William Connor, Mrs. Spencer Clymer
Mrs. George w. Proud, Mrs. William
Weggenmann; candies. Miss Emily
Lmt, Mrs. Elmer Megginson, Miss ld'
johnson. Miss Mabel Clewell; straw
berries. Mrs. Rudolph A. Nallette, Mrs
Edward II. Naylor. Mrs. George Swami
In st. Peters Church today a novenl
in honor of the Holy Ghost commenced
Ii will continue for a week.
Many kicks continue TO be mad
against the new assessment. Propert.
owners have been hocking to In
mavor's Office since THE ENENlN'
JOURNAL published the notice that th
assessment book was there for inspee
tion.
MANY of the fishing crews out o
Ponnsvillc who have been pursuing sha'
i'm the lower Delaware river and ba'
pulled mp their nets yesterday and re
turned home. The season does not OH
ciallv end until early in June, but Oh
catches have been so poor, especially II
the last fortnight, that Few Of TN
crews win complete it.
The shad season this year has beel
remarkable in the extreme high prices
With ordinary prices prevailing none O
the crews would have cleared expense
this year, but the small catches and in
creased demand caused the price to soa
10 nearly double that in past years
Fair-size roe shad have been sellln
without trouble at 81 each. while tn
wholesale price for the fish right at tn
boats has been from 500 TO 500 a hun
drcd.
No big profits were made on the ba
or river this season, although some q
the gillers have benefited by luck
catches of sturgeon, which have begu
TO run up the bay again in fair mum
bers.
, More than 80 of the big fish have bee
caught i'm the last fortnight. and hay
brought their captors from $50 to $50
each.
The lure Of the bigger prizes ha
caused several Of the crews to lay asid
their gill nets and get out the heavi'