Middletown transcript., 1891-04-16

Opera House at New Castle proves tt
be untrue and without the least
foundation, and just how it frs
originated is mystery.
He never plays cards,
But his manhood he sinks
In that cesspool OF gaming
Called Tiddledewinks.
The new road machine recently
purchased by the Town Commission
ers was used on our streets the first
of the week with very good results.
1t is quite an-improvement over the
one formerly used and does it's work
better in every way.
- The good people of Snow Hill
could not screw up enough conf.
dence to believe that the Harrington
Concert Company could organize a
singing class properly in one week,
and accordingly Professor Harrington
did not start a class there. The
people Of Snow Hill don't know what
they have missed.
- The Board of Town Commission
ers will receive proposals for remov-
ing all garbage and slop from the
town limits up until six o'clock on
Monday evening, April Goth. All
proposals to be handed to W. s. Leth-
erbury, secretary. Farmers living
near town should not fail to hand in
their bids.
- Miss Georgia Harlan, Of Summit
Bridge, left her pocket book on the
last car Of the afternoon south bound
express Monday afternoon, March
3Oth, she leaving the train at Middle
town. The book was long alligator
wallet and contained besides some
keys, nearly sixty dollars. A reward
Of $5 will be paid for it's return to Mr..
Harry Jones, baggage-master at
Middletown.
The funeral of WIn. Simpkins, Of
near Delaware City, whose death
was noted in these columns last week,
took place Friday afternoon, the in
terment being made in the M. E.
Cemetery. He was member of Union
Lodge, No 5, A. f. & A. M. of this
town, and the members of the order
attended the funeral in a body. The
pail bearers were Thos. E. Hurn,
Clayton Wildes, J. B. Deakyne, 7.
E. Lindley, George Echenhofer and
Corbit Jones.
1t is proposed to greatly enlarge
the postal facilities of the peninsula.
The regular mail train south in the
afternoon will be the one which
leaves Wilmington at 4.50, and mail
will be distributed at points as far
south as Delmar. This train will
return from Delmar early in the
morning and will bring the mail
north. In addition to this, the New
York and Philadelphia night mail for
all points along the road will be
taken to Delmar to be distributed by
this early train north. At present
the people along the line south of
Wyoming, have only one mail per
day each way.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison, who
has for some time resided on Lock
wood street, this town, was arrested
Tuesday afternoon, charged with
keeping house of ill-repute. At a
hearing before Squire Ferguson she
was fined $25 and costs, in all
amounting to over $50, and in de-
fault of which she was sent to Jail.
Her four children, Benjamin, aged
q years, Jessie, aged years, Harry,
aged years and Gertrude, aged 10
years, were taken charge of by Agent
Frank E. Stout of the the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Child
rem, and placed in the Home for
Friendless and Destitute children at
Wilmington. The children had not
been i'll treated in any way and were
much opposed to leaving their
mother. Mr.. M. B. Burris of this
place, kindly conducted the case for
the s. P. G. G.
= Some time ago Rev. F. II. Moore
pastor of the Presbyterian Church,
promised the Sunday-school scholars
that when the attendance reached
one hundred he would give them an
evenings entertainment in the way
of a magic lantern exhibition. That
number were present last Sunday
morning and Mr.. Moore decided to
give the entertainment in the lecture
room of the church on Monday even
ing, and accordingly at the appoint
ed hour the room was filed with not
only the children, but older persons
as we'll. The views as shown by the
lantern were very good and the young
folks were much pleased. At the
conclusion Mr.. Moore promised to
secure new views and give them
another entertainment at an early
date, and this the children are now
eagerly looking forward to. During
the past few months the Sunday
school has very much improved in
more ways than one, and the attend
ance is increasing all the time. There
is now some talk of enlarging ,the
library by purchasing a number of
new books.