Newark Post from Newark, Delaware • 6

HERE AND THERE ilmington bank clearings last week totaled $3,839.919.89 against £2,668,485.02 for the like week last year. Rishnn ginorvion -h vening. Anthonv Tr ton leather wn 1 filmingSax from Tf ht a "ernnd victim j. 1( es the the Htv with disease in the city within two weeks. PatrtVV tip Mu rph of Ne Cas 1 tirCd a pension i a Servi ce as a -j r08 Sing watchman ithout an accident.

i Justice Gillis of Wilmington on Saturday held Alfred Williams for the Grand Jury for stabbing Joshua Kauffman and setting fife I to the home of John Anderson colored, of Christiana. I The automobile of Stephen Springer, of Newport, was stolen from in front of the Hotel du Pont, in Wilmington, on Saturday and was found abandoned, several hours later. Georgetown is planning for the construction of a $15,000 stretch of concrete road to connect with duPont Boulevard. An ordinance providing for semi-monthly pay day has had two readings in Wilmington City Council. Wilmington City Council has directed City Solicitor Hastings to draft a bill authorizing the city to buy and sell foodstuffs in emergencies.

U. S. Commissioner Mahaffy in Wilmington last week held Eva Jenkins and Ada Johnson, two colored women, in $250 hair for raising a money order 1 from $2 to $2.61. I I An electric motor and pump for the pipe organ and hardwood floors in the Sunday School building will be supplied by the efforts of the Dorcas Society of New Castle M. E.

Church. Permits were issued in Wilmington during February for new buildings costing $51,355. A piece of tin thrown playfully by a companion in Wilmington, one day last week, cost 8-year-old Rose Otteni the sight of one of her eyes. The Wilmington Street and Sewer Department has been authorized by Council to rebuild the Christiana River banks so that the Government can fill in back of them, thereby making several hundred acres of high, fast land. The New Castle Grocers' Association has decided to close members' stores at 6 p.

m. on Mondays and Wednesdays and at noon on Thursdays, all through the year. Practically all the tomato canneries in Kent county have contracted with growers for the coming season at the price of 25 cents per basket. The generosity of a public-spirited citizen will enable Wilmington to secure enough ground to connect North Brandywine Park with Alapocas Woods, tending the park system several miles along the creek. The salary of Rev.

Thomas P. Holloway, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Wilmington, is to be increased by $400. thus ex5 Satisfied Customers in the world. the greatest publicity agents are Years Practical Experience Sixteen KjJ IN Steam and Hot Water Heating Plumbing and Tin Work nlv winning for us good words from our customers. Estimates cheerfully given are Country work a specialty.

xs DANIEL STOLL NEWARK 'Phone 159 me Rev. W. A. Hearn, a graduate of Dickinson College, will become assistant to Rev. Herbert F.

Randolph, pastor of Graco M. E. Church, Wilmington Younger members of the Dela, ware City Fire Company have German-Americans of Wilming- contributed $450 to the Irish'old, Relief Bazaar fund in that city. mo The Levy Court has received $8,569 from the Wilmington Philadelphia Traction Company its sh 0 the cost of floorin 1 new Third street bridge, over i the Christiana, in Wilmington. Geor W.

Crabbe, dent of the West Virginia Anti- i Saloon League, has telegraphed acceptance of Lie like posi- the Maryland League, succee ding Rev. Thomas M. Hare. I I Ladies of Trinity Church, Elk- ton, cleared $40 from a bake held on February 24. The Maryland Roads Commission invites bids for the construction of 1.11 miles of concrete road through Elkton this summer, and leading residents of Rising Sun last week urged the commission to extend the proposed Rising Sun-Porters' Bridge section of State road through that town.

William C. Cloud, 55 years old, died at his home, 421 North Franklin street, Wilmington, I early on Saturday morning, from an attack of heart disease, brought on by over-exertion while cleaning snow from' his sidewalk on Friday night. I I 1 Following the organization of the Farmers' Protective Association there was a lull in chicken i around Middletown, but the thieves are again active and recently visited the poultry I houses of James Money and Ellis Sartain, near Mt. Pleasant, where I they bagged 150 of the former's and 75 at the latter's. The State Supreme Court at Dover on Wednesday affirmed the conviction in the Kent County Court of Rev.

Howard Lowber. colored, of Smyrna, of an offense involving a girl and re-sentenced him to three years in the Workhouse. The County Commissioners, the State Road Commission and P. W. R.

R. officials met at Bacon Hill below Elkton. last Tuesday, and considered the needed change in the dangerous approaches to the overhead bridge south of that point. The railroad officials submitted plans to meet the situation, but public opinion inclines to the belief that the bridge 'should be rebuilt and the danger bus curve eliminated and that the same course should be followed at Charlestown. The Maryland Road Commission has awarded the contract for the superstructure of the drawspans of the new bridge over the Sassafras River, between Fred ericktown and Georgetown to the Strobel Construction Company of Chicago, for $14,765.

A Frankford, dispatch reports that 18-year-old Edward Lockwood was awarded a barrel 'of flour after carrying it threequarters of a mile to his home, without putting it down, on a bet that he could perform the feat. The duPont Fabrikoid Company has purchased the interests of the Markoene Company, of Elizabeth, N. which produces a material resembling fabrikoid. used largely for upholstering au-jture tomobiles and carriages. R.

Heyward, assistant superintendent of the Newburg Fabrikoid plant, will have charge of the Marokene plant. Senator Josiah 0. Wolcott on Saturday announced that he had retary. Mr. Wolcott is 42 years Irish'old, was educated at Phillips-Ex'eter Academy and Princeton Universify and was admitted to the 'bar of Delaware in 1897, locating and practicing at Dover, The Levy Court at its meeting last Tuesday having been informed that orr W.

Lovett, tax collector for White Clay Creek hundred, had settled in full for 1913 and 1914, ordered that his bond be satisfied and returned. While John Kenneth Danby, son of John H. Danby, President of the Union National Bank, of Wilmington, was riding home to supper on Friday evening a heavy touring car collided with his big limousine at Pennsylvania avenue and Rodney street. The glass back of the rear seat of the limousine endank closed the gashes with Twenty stitches and he was taken which Mr. Danby was occupying was smashed, the flying fragments severely cutting him about the head and face.

Dr. E. T. Negto his apartments in the Hotel du Pont. The touring car disappearpeared and who owned it was not learned.

I Death of Frank R. Scott Frank R. Scott, president of the National Bank of Elkton and of the Scott Fertilizer Company, of Elkton, died at his home on East Main street in that town on Friday, aged 60 years. He had been in failing health for upwards of a I year past but gave attention to business at intervals until a few I weeks ago. He was a son of the late David Scott.

Clerk of the Cecil Circuit Court from 1867 to 1873 and was a business man of marked ability. He had served in the State Legislature and wa postmaster at Elkton from 1894 till '98. Rachel J. Wilson, with three sons and two daugh- ters. His funeral was held on Sunday afternoon with services ai his home and interment in Elkton Cemetery.

i His wife who was Miss survives him Coroner's Jury' Clears Motorist quest in the case of George Smith colored, who was struck and fatally injured, several weeks ago. by an automobile owned and drtven by Frank Pierce, proprietor of the Buck Hotel, at Summit Bridge, found a verdict of death due to acci'dent. Witnesses test The Coroner's jury at the infled that Smith was on his hands and knees in the road and that persons in the car thought he was a dog. Pierce on February 22. was held under $3,000 bail, which he furnished, on a charge of manslaughter in connection with Smith's death.

Dover's Coming Gala Week Dover's Pageant Council Mayor Arley B. Magee, President and Mrs. Henry Ridgely, secretary, in charge of arrangements for the celebration during the first week in May of the town's two hundredth anniversary, met at the Robbins Hose House on Wednesday evening. It was decided, if possible, to secure Miss Brady of the Women's College Delaware, to advise as to the pag eant features and details, and invite her to a conference some night this week. Mrs.

A. E. Watson and Mrs. T. F.

Dunn were ap pointed a committee to work for the bill pending in the Legislaau-jture to appropriate $500 toward the cost of the pageant. The project is meeting with hearty and growing approval. Old City Hall Sold The Mayor and Council of Wilmington have formally transferred the old City Hall to John S. Mullin, who recently bought it at public sale, and he in turn has formally transferred the title to the Security Trust and Safe Deposit Company, which with the Equitable and the Wilmington Trust Companies will hold the property in trust for the Delaware Historical Society, pending the raising of a fund needed for its purchase and proposed changeIt is planned to restore the buildIII II: MABEL WEEKS With "Alone at Last" at Playhouse, March 13 and 14 Whether it is for complete plumbing work for a new house or a small repair job, any service we perform large or small receives the same careful attention and skilful handling. We have the experience, the knowledge and the facilities to do any job right, at the right figures.

Get our estimates. Sf IS AV Impm W. D. DEAN NEWARK, DEL The First Requirement PURITY AND CLEANLINESS Our home-made Candies conform to all these rules, daily. Also a fine line of and Bonbons Glace Fruits and Nuts Hot Drinks and Sandwiches.

Egg Diinks and Milk. Ice Cream and Ice Cream Sodas the year round. A Full Line of Sunshine Biscuit and Cakes A fresh assortment MANUEL PANARETOS NEWARK KANDY KITCHEN NEWARK DELAWARE aP MMM Flffl SECURITY TRUST AND SAFE DEPOSIT tOMPAftf Sixth and Market Wilmington. DM. Surplus, $700,000.

Our Truat ol Pepoidt are an Excellent good aa Paid-up Ulfe Insurance Policies in denominations of $100, $20 $500 and fl.OOO and bear dct cent. Interest, These OertJfl. hare Coupons attached, the interest, be out off evert sit months, and on presentation will be paid Capital, $600,000. uvestmem trThry ore Issued I Company. Ntelds, Prejt Scow Townaond.

Vtoe-P 8. Rowell, Vlas-Proa Harry J. Ellison. Secy. Ii.

aloney, Treasurer. 4 ing to its original Colonial style and make alterations in the grounds about it so as to serve the historical significance of the structure and its site. pre l'rices, ioc, 25 and Private PartieR A Trip to Wilmington is not Complete Without a Visit to the 3 iiTARRICK I 'J THEATRE Wilmington's Handsomest Playhouse HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE Twice Daily, Afternoon at 2.15 Kvenings at 8.15Î Box Seats 75c I I Betwixt and Between New Spring Goods rolling in and crowding for Many of them in stock and ready now. New Suits, $10 to $30. Spring Overcoats, $10 to room.

$30. Custom Tailoring, $20 to $45. New Hats, $1.50 to $5. New Shoes, $3 to $8.50. New Shirts.

$1 to $5. New Ties, 25c to $2.50. Everything else in Clothing, Hats, Shoes and all Furnishings. I I Our Clean-up Sale many left, but good among them. Heavy Suits, $8.50 to $22.50.

Overcoats, $6 to $30. Heavy Trousers, $1.50 to $5.25. Special Sale of Shirts, Underwear and lots of other good things. Not some MULLIN'S HOME STORE 6th and Market, Wilmington Upholstering Your Fall Upholstering Carefully Attended To Goods Called for and Delivered A Good Storage Room Back of My Office PRICES REASONABLE R. T.

JONES Phone 22-A FUNERAL DIRECTOR PROMPT AND PERSONAL ATTENTION TENT AT CEMETERY APPOINTMENTS! THE BEST Picture Framing Upholstering and Repairing A Vicious Pest UUh 4 I v. m4 mkcm a mi wutpymr low with RAf CORN in. Dwdlf to but karnlcM to bolwgi Rita simply £4ry No Talubk booklet cock coo. SSc, ud $1 .00. JOHN F.

RICHARDS Delaware Newark NEWARK'S LEADING Meat Market CHARLES P. STEEL DEALER IN Fresh and Salt Meats Home Dressed Meats a Specialty Main Street Opposite College Call or Phone Order D. A. 44.