Middletown transcript., 1891-03-19
DELAWARE cry.
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK IN A THRIv-
ING TOWN. PERSONAL ..
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK IN A THRIv
ING TOWN. PERSONAL a.s.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Miss Mamie Silva is visiting Al
Chester, Pa.
Mr. VIM. 7. Wall spent Tuesday il
Wilmington.
Mr.. W. C. Thompson spent Tuesday
in Wilmington.
: Mr.. A. !. Swan is the happy father Of
a brand new daughter.
- Mr.. VIII Mccall of Wilmington, was
in town this week.
= Master Willie Asher, who has been
very Ill, is better.
- Miss Tilhe Bruner is visiting rela-
tives in Philadelphia.
- Mr.. james A. Mulliga n spent Tues
day in Philadelphia.
= Miss Maggie 0'Neil is spending a
week in Philadelphia.
Rev. Mr.. Braddon spent Monday and
Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Mr. Clarence Price of Kennedyville,
Nd, was in town this week.
= Mr.. Raymond Hicken of Chester, Pa,
visited his parents here last week.
= Miss Anna Pennington of Med Donough,
is visiting her cousins here this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Reybold are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Reybold.
Mr.. Isaac Powell, the veteran clerk
of the steamer Major Reybold is again at
his post.
- Miss sallie Girard of Chester, Pa,
visited her sister, Mrs. A. B. Holiday,
here on Sunday.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Grant of Cambridgeport,
Mass, left Delaware City for home on
Tuesday morning s.--sz
- Past Commander Peter B. Ayars of
Wilmington, spent Sunday " ith Mr.. J. N.
Warren.
Mr.. ]. Frank Reybold will move into
the Cleaver residence lately occupied by
Mrs. Bradway.
Mr.. M. w. Hibshman and son,
Howard, are visiting his parents at Myers
town, Pa, this week.
- Mr.. Harry W. Bigger is slowly inn
proving, and walked out short distance
on Tuesday.
- Prof s. T. Foard gave one of his
enjoyable readings at Assembly Hall on
Monday evening.
Mr.. I. Fl. Ubil is painting and i'm
proving his property on Fourth street and
on Washington Avenue.
- Rev. VIM. G. Starr and daughter
Miss Belle Starr of Philadelphia, visited
Delaware City last week.
= Miss Carrie Brown, who has been
spending few weeks in Salem, N. j.,
home on Saturday.
= Miss Maggie Gallagher, who has been
spending few weeks at her home here,
has returned to Philadelphia.
Mr.. Lester P. Wingate who has been
confined to the house for many weeks with
is now able to be out.
= The Pennsylvania railroad depot is
being repainted and refurnished this week,
and will be very cosy little depot when
the workmen are through with it.
- Mr.. vinton B. Asher removed to
Edgewood on Wednesday where he is now
located as agent for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., and Postmaster.
- Mr.. Fred Shriver Of Baltimore, of the
Ericsson Steamboat Line spent Tuesday
and Wednesday in Delaware City, the
guest of Mr.. j. Thomas Price.
- The choirs of the several churches are
rehearsing their Easter music /;
and few towns of its size have better
music in their churches than does Della
ware City.
- Mr.. and Mrs. John Vail cele brated
the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding on
Tuesday, and entertained many OF their
friends at their homestead, near Nc
Doneugh.
The Rev. R. A. McEwen Bell will
deliver a lecture in the Presbyterian
Church, on Monday evening, March 23d,
for the benefit of the Christian endeavor
society.
- Mrs. Nettie Cleayer, now residing in
Brooklyn, sold her household goods at
public sale, at her former residence on
Washington Avenue, on Thursday (this)
afternoon. A. I. Swan was the auctioneer.
= Trade in the Chesapeake and Della
ware Canal started with rush last week,
and the prospect is bright for good
season. Contracts have been made for
shipping sixty thousand tons of coal from
Baltimore and thirty thousand tons from
Newport News by barges to Philadelphia
via the canal.
= The steamer Alsenbourne, which ran
ashore in fog just below Delaware City
last week, was lighted, and several at
tenpts made to pull her off, but all In
vain. She was so high on the mud that on
Tuesday it was concluded to dig her out
with dredging machine, which was ac-
cordingly done. The boat seems to be un
fortunate, as it has been but short tims
since she ran ashore on Reedy Island and
knocked hole in her bottom.
= Mr.. William A. Brazell of Hethering-
ton & Co., the well-known jobbers in wal
papers of Philadelphia, spent Friday and
Saturday in our town. Mr.. Brazen was
born and spent his early boyhood in Della
ware City for which he still retains warn
regard and it seemed to afford him much
pleasure to visit the scenes Of his school
days, where each familiar object recalled
some pleasant recollection. Nor was tht
pleasure all on his side, for no young mar
comes to Delaware City whose friends ar,
more pleased to see him.
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