Middletown transcript., 1891-06-18
DELAWARE CITY. !
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK IN THRIv.
ING TOWN. PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK IN A THRIv
Q ING TOWN. PERSONAL
, ITEMS OF INTEREST.
D = Hon. George II. Bates, wife and SON
) visited Delaware City on Sunday.
= Mr.. William J. Morris of Philadel
phia, was in Delaware City on Saturday
and Sunday.
There has been very good trade iI
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal thi,
week.
Mr.. George W. Craig left this weel
for Connecticut, where he will visit chill.
dren residing there.
= Sturgeon are very scarce this week,
and some of the fishermen have already
put away their nets for the season.
= Ex-Department Commander Peter B.
Ayars Of Wilmington, spent Sunday here
with his son-in-law, Mr.. ]. N. Warren.
: Mr.. F. Tugend has had his two houses
on Front street repainted and improved,
making very neat appearance.
A new summer kitchen and other i'm
provements are being added to the DWELL
ing attached to Mr.. n. w. Hibshman's
drug store.
Fifteen members of the Wilmington
Wheel Club rode down here on Sunday.
They dined at the Robinson House. In
the afternoon they took q spin to Port
Penn and back, and returned to Whining
ton on the Christina.
= The Atlas nine played practice
game on their grounds on Saturday after
noon. They appeared in uniform for the
first time this season, and played a very
strong game. With more infeld practice
they will give any amatuer club an inter-
esting game. Manager Jester was on the
ground.
= Mr.. J. E. Simpson of New York, with
his engineers arrived in Delaware City on
Monday. He was met at the depot by
Mayor Reybold and committee of the
Board of Trade, and driven to the Della
ware City Hotel, where he engaged rooms
and will spend most the week, making
some preliminary surveys preparatory to
locating the contemplated dry dock and
ship yards.
= Miss Marion McConaughy of San
Diego, California, has been spending few
days visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. George B. Money, on Clinton street.
She left for Philadelphia on Tuesday, and
will spend several days at the sea shore
this week, returning here on Monday next,
will visit friends at Middletown, Odessa
and Smyrna, Del, and at Sassafras and |
Millington, Md.
= The steamer Major Reybold made her |
first Sunday excursion from here to Phil
sdelphia last week, stopping at New Castle,
Pennsgroye, Chester, and Lincoln Park
The steamer Christina of the same line
also made her first Sunday excursion from
here down the bay to Woodland Beach the
same day. The trips will be continued
during the summer months.
= The bathing season at Reybold's
Beach, above Delaware City, was opened
on Tuesday evening by q party of our
young folks. This beach is about q mile
and half from Delaware City, has a
broad slope of gravel bottom, and is one of
the finest and safest beaches on the river.
Several moonlight excursions are booked
for the beach for the early part of the
season.
The closing exercises of the public
'chool will be held in Assembly Hall ON
he evenings of the 29th and 3Oth. On
Monday evening the pupils will give an
to consist Of dialogues, reci-
atiOns, readings and music. On Tuesday
'vening the regular commencement ex-
'rcises viii be held, and DR.. w. L. Good
ng, principal or the Dover Conference
academy, will deliver an address. Every
fort is being put forth to make both of
hese evenings very enjoyable events.
Gibbons Dunham made very narrow
scape from being gored by bull, on the
wharf of the steamer Major Reybold, on
tuesday morning. Four of these animals
Teree being driven aboard the steamer for
hipnent to Philadelphia, when they be-
anne enraged and made break for
Iberty, scattering the crowd, almost corner
,g Joseph Reynolds, and forcing Dun
am over the edge of the wharf. And down
long the timbers, just holding on by the :
ap log. The bull charged on the man,
7hlle the majority of the crowd found re- =
lge on vessel lying at the wharf, and in G
oite of the danger, could not restrain 3
heir laughter as the comical sight of the
ian and the bull, looking each other in ! !
ie eyes, the man peeping up over the
harf log and the bull glaring down from 9
oove not two feet away. By powerful
pplication of clubs the bull was turned t
nd driven on the boat, and the man re- a
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