Newark post., 1914-01-07
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! he opened the drawer to put a |
check with the others but found 1t
empty. AS the drawer lock had
not been forced, it would appear
that the thief had key to it and
watched for his opportunity.
Henry r. Isaacs, special master
in the case of the National Real
Estate Company, now in receiver s
hands, reported to Chancellor Cur
It's in Wilmington on Saturday that
there had been embezzlement in the
management of the thrift fund Of
the concern but he could not de-
termine whether the missing money
was intercepted in transit to the
fund or withdrawn therefrom for
illegitimate purposes. Former
Treasurer Thayer, prior to the ap-
plication for a receiver, had balanc-
ed the company's accounts and
found deficiency Of about $4,000.
William E. Holland, 81 years old,
Il WGll-kllONH Ii Idl IlCI VI tllC l. Oil
Hill section, was found dead in
Carter's woods, near Singerly, on
Saturday, by James Williams, col
ored. The dead man, who lived
with his brother, had left home on
the previous Sunday, to walk to
Church at Pleasant Hill. AS he
did not return his relatives grew
anxious about him but nothing
was heard of him till Williams
came upon his corpse. Coroner W.
P. Dean Of Elkton held an inquest,
the jury finding a verdict of death
from heart failure.
Mackie Bros, cattle and poultry
dealers of Fair Hill, shipped fiji
teen tons Of poultry from Elkton
to city markets during the holidays
Rev. DR.. E. L. HoffecEer, Sup
erintendent of Wilmington dis
trict, preached the sermon at the
reopening of the M. E. Chapel at
Baldwin, on Sunday afternoon.
While driving near the Bacon
Hill bridge, on the Elkton-North
East road, on New Years morn
, ing, Andrew Wilkinson Of Elkton,
and Ralph Andrews and Cleveland
Dean, connected with the Allen
Construction Company in road
/ building, were thrown out Of a
team when their horse bolted. One
of Wilkinson s ribs was broken and
Andrews was mole or less bruised
= about the body.
: Stricken with apoplexy while
= hauling gravel on Monday of last
$ week, Wilmer G. Bouchelle, aged
So years, a well-known farmer
living near Union Church, Cecil
: county, fell senseless from his
r wagon and died before physician
t could reach him. His second wife
and three sons, Theodore W., {
d chemist, now in Nicaragua, Will
t lam II. S. and Henry w. Bouchell'
+ rural mail carrier, survive him.
Clifford Cook, prominent farm
er, died at his home near Calvert
( last Tuesday, Of uraemic poisoning
o aged 81 years. Two young daugh
= ters survive him.
One hundred ninety-seven MAI
k riage licenses were issued in Elk
t. ton during December. Nine cou
Ie pies braved Saturdays storm an
s. secured permits there to join fol
tunes.
It A building, said to be 200 year
lie old, owned by Mrs. Emory Scot
IS ten, on Bank Lane, Dover, used b.
1t colored Baptists as mission chap
ell, was set on fire on New Year
night by an exploding lamp droE
le ped by the aged janitress, who wa
re rescued by a chance passer. Th
3. building, which was PRACTICAL
"a destroyed, stood near the ga
er plant but luckily the wind wa
A. not brisk and no serious const
n quences resulted.
81 Fort Dupont Orchestra furnisl
ed music for a well-attende
dance given in the engine house 6
st Delaware City, for the benefit {
s. the firemen, on New Year eve.
n Special Constable Bowers 0
Friday secured warrants for
owners and drivers of automobile
ne charged with exceeding the spec
X limit while crossing Washingtc