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delphia, is on a visit to her father,
Alexander H. Wilson, and William
Spencer. of Wilmington, grandson
of Mr.. Wilson, is also visiting him.
George VanWinkle and wife, of
Philadelphia, are in town, guests of
his father, James VanWinkle.
Miss Clara Rewley and Miss
Hama VanGasken have gone on a
weeks visit to Frederica, guests of
the family of Rev. T. H. Haynes.
Herman Roe and family are
spending a week or SO visiting in
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Martha A Cummins, of
this town, who is in very poor
health, returned with her daughter
Mrs. DR.. Dirickson, to her home in
Berlin, Md.
Miss Matte Robinson, of Will
mington, is visiting Miss Maud
Carr.
Miss Alice Stillman of Philadel-
phia, is visiting Miss Minnie Glenn
ent.
Allan Cunningham, of Harvard
College, is home for his summer
vacation.
Miss Jennie Brooks of Baltimore
is spending the summer with her
sister, Mrs. William H. Janney
S. L. Kahn and family are spend
ing several days with relatives
here.
Miss Lydia Evans, of this town,
is spending several days with rela-
tives in Salem, n. j., and Miss
Nora w. Cotton is visiting friends
in the same place.
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
Romance Tammany was elected
principal of the Lewes Public
Schools on July 9Th, in place of
Roger S. Powell.
During the absence of Rev. H. l..
Bunstein in Europe, the pulpit of
the Presbyterian Church in Mil
ford, will be filled by Rev. j. S.
Willis.
Bob Allen, the noted burgar who
was captured in. Philadelphia on
Sunday, arrived in Dover yester-
day in charge of the colored police
man who detected and arrested
him.
The number of tents already
taken, for the Camden Camp ex-
ceed the expectations of the most
sanguine, and some think that
there will be al least one hundred
tents, possibly more.
E. Reynolds & Co., who for sew
eraI years have occupied the store
house of T. o. Culbreth, corner of
State and North Streets, Dover,
have vacated the store and moved
their goods to Middletown where
they haves a large business.
Some farmers in lower Sussex
have abandoned their corn crops
entirely, deeming it more profit
able to allow the fields to grow up
in grass than to attempt to culti-
vate them, now that the grass has
gotten so far ahead of the corn.
In the death of the venerable
Samuel McIntire Couper at New
Castle on Sunday afternoon the
brotherhood of Delaware railroad
men lost one of its pioneers, and
yet it is only thirty-six years ago
that he first assumed the duties of
a ticket agent in that ancient
town.
For the better accommodation of
the citizens of Newark, the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
Railroad Company has had a 'Y"
constructed from the main line of
the Maryland division directly into
the town, a distance of nearly one
mile nearer than the regular sta
tion.
The Milford Hook and Ladder
Co., made a grand failure with
their 4th of July exhibition. The
people of this town and vicinity
were taken in and paid well for
their folly. Out of the two hun
dred and fifty dollars worth of fire.
works they advertised to show off,
they had about five dollars worth.
The temperance men of Lewes
and Rehoboth hundred organized
club ON the evening of July 5th, of
which Charles M. Marshall is pres
ident, L. E. Noel, secretary, and
William E. Chambers, treasurer.
1t is called the "Lewes and Reho-
both Temperance Reform Club"
and starts out with about twenty
members. 1t will meet every
Monday evening.
Mayor Rhoads of Wilmington,
says it will be many a day before
he issues any more Fourth of July
proclamations forbidding the use
of explosives. The ordinance is en-
tirely imperative, like many more
laws, for instance the law against
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