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HISTORY : A DAY IN LEWES 1882



A DAY IN LEWES

AUGUST 15 1882



Lewes, Delaware Events at the Breakwater 15 August, 1882

Lewes is full of summer visitors. The fruit evaporator of William B. Yeardley began

running Wednesday and Virden & Draper started theirs on Friday. After several days of

stormy days we are enjoying fine weather. Dr. D. H. Houston and his family of Lewes are

visiting in Rehoboth. There is very little sickness in Lewes at the present time. Many of

the Lewes young people are visiting Rehoboth.

Peaches are coming in large quantities, also watermelon and cantalopes.

Last Saturday , the horse hooked up to the J. H. Dodd store wagon, standing unhitched, at

their Market Street store, was firghtened and ran away, smashing the wagon to pieces by
contact with a post. It was soon caught ithour anyone getting hurt.

Mosquitoes are very thick and increasing both in size and numbers. J.A. Nixon, mail

agent on the P. W. & B railroad, returned home sick today. Miss Sally B. Waples returned

to Lewes today from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she has been visiting with her uncle a few

weeks.





Abstract Wilmington Morning News, Tuesday 15 August 1882.

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