Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11


evening of Thursday, November 9.
Residents of Delaware City who
have long used the groundsabout
the locks as park are reported as
Gisgruntled at the Canal Com |
pany's enclosing them with a
fence.
During September $50 marriage
licenses were issued at Elkton.
John Long, a driver for Tyson
Bros. Of Wilmington, whose back
was broken last November when
he fell from wagon at Carney's
Point, died on Saturday at Della !
ware Hospital, where he had lin
gered since the accident, showing
improvement at times but with lit
tie or no hope of recovery.
Sixty odd recruits for the Della
ware, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania commands, stationed on the
Mexican border, were to leave
Fort du Pont on Monday in charge
of Sergeant James H. Thomas of
: Dover, and Corporal William E.
Cell Of New Castle.
The Executive Board of the Del
aware Equal Suffrage Association
! met at the home of Miss Ella w.
7 Johnson at Newport on Monday
: evening of last week and adopted
the recommendation of the Nation
al Association to observe October
: 81 as Federal Amendment Day.
l with street meetings and demon
l STATIONS. It was learned that
A Miss Updegraff of New York,
would be sent into Delaware as an
organizer.
David S. Purnell, the veteran
Court Crier at Georgetown, who
was appointed ffty-six yeas ago
: by Chief Justice Gilpin and Asso-
k ciate Judges Houston and Wooten,
0 has rendered continuous sevrice in
e the long interval.
Children smoking cigarettes, it
is thought, caused the destruction
l. of two large straw stacks on Ed
I, ward Willin's farm, near the
4 Dover waterworks on last Mon
dya afternoon.
William l.. Laws, of the Laurel
- section, recently sold to the Wangc
~ Manufacturing Company, a tree
- on his farm, 100 feet in height and
y about three feet in diameter from
which yielded 2,672 feet of sawed
lumber.
i, The Wilmington Lodge which
IS recently purchased the property
IF 1119 Market street, will shortly
S arrange for erecting on the site {
new up-to-date home. The prop
erty at the corner of Tenth ant
lie Tatnall streets bought some tim'
J. ago as a site for home for thu
er Elks was sold to the Gomery
II Schwartz Company at profit, ant
the new site was then secured.
ne Wayne Mason, farmer Twin!
at west of Cannon, near Seatord
of while repairing Notwithstanding
p on the side of his home was sur
prised when an old-fashione
watch came to view. His mothe
ELL recognized it as one which ha
at been missed from an upper bee
on room thirty years ago. 1t is llkel
d. that the watch fell from a yes
as hanging on the wall and droppin
through a hole in the plaster re
manned where it was found.
9s- The congregation of West Pre-:
as bvterian Church, Wilmington, {
* it's reopening on October l, afte
extensive improvements on Learn
ing that their cost was $500
lg promptly subscribed the amour
Tor and at the evening service col
on tributed Sl70O more.
ip-
Ensign Paul A. Stevens, son
Mrs. Mary A. Baker, Of 9O2 We
ere Eighth street, Wilmington, WI
Try while serving on the battlesh
So, Minnesota, was wounded in tt
landing at Vera Cruz, has be-
promoted to lieutenant. He ma
err ried Miss Ella Moore, of Leipsi
ght Del, about three years ago.
on
Justice Francis at Wilmingt'