Middletown transcript., 1891-09-10
DELAWARE CITY.
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK IN A THRIv.
ING TOWN. PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

visiting her uncle, Mr.. John J. Messis
this week.
- Mr. Thomas Murray of Wilmington
has improved his property here by hand
some coat of paint.
= Mrs. Theodore Dunlap and daughter
Miss Bessie Dunlap of Philadelphia
visited here last week.
- The steamers Major Reybold an,
Christina have discontinued their Sunda,
trips for the season.
= Mr.. Eugene Lindsay and wife, WIN
have their Summer residence here, spen
Sunday at Colchester Beach.
Mr.. VIM. Bealey and wife and Mis-:
Lizzie Messig of Woodhaven, N. Y, ar
visiting Mr.. Joseph NJ Messig this week.
Collector of Taxes Dickey will si
at the Delaware City Hotel to receive tave
on Sept 18th and 21st, instead of the 18tl
and 10th, as previously announced.
Mary Jane Simmons, colored, wa.
found dead in her bed on Wednesday
morning. She had been i'll for severa
months.
| Rev. R. A. McEwen Bell will preach
his farewell sermon in the Presbyterian
Church on Sundny evening, and will sal
for Europe on the 18th.
"A float containing eight cars loaded
with coal arrived here for James III. Clark
on Saturday, and was unloaded on his
wharf this week.
- Miss Hannah Swan who has been
spending several weeks vacation here, re-
turned to Philadelphia on Monday.
Several Philadelphians who have
been boarding at the Delaware City Hotel
during the summer months, returned home
this week
= Captain Leroy Brown, U. S. A. in
structor at Newark College, spent Friday
cunning for reed birds on Fort Delaware,
and returned home on Saturday.
- Messrs. George Price, Harry C.
Gardiner and William J. Bowen opened
the ducking season on Dragon Creek on
Monday, and succeeded in bagging ten
summer ducks.
= In interviews with number of the
farmers around the neighborhood they re-
port short crop of tomatoes the con-
tinued wet weather causing many of them
to rot on the vines.
= The steamer Thomas Clyde will make
her last trip down the bay on Sunday.
She has had very successful season. She
will go into winter quarters, as usual, at
Salem, N. J.
Manager Jester OF the Atlas base ball
club is trying to make arrangements for a
game with the Elkton club, and if satisfac-
tory arrangements can be made game will
probably be played here on Saturday of
this week
- Mr.. Scott of the firm of johnson,
Elliott & Co., brokers, of Wilmington,
DEL, who has summer residence near
Delaware City, with his wife and several
friends were entertained by Mr.. A. Col
burn on board of his yacht, on Sunday
afternoon.
= Work is progressing rapidly at the
Delaware City creamery. The building is
nearing completion, the cement floors and
tanks are finished and the steam boiler
erected. The engine and machinery will
be placed in the building this week, and
will be put in operation the first of next
week.
= Beck & Pancoast will begin the
manufacture of their celebrated brand of
mince meat this week They have large
number of orders ahead. Mr.. Pancoast
left for Baltimore and Pittsburg on We'd
nesday in the interest of the firm.
- Mr.. H. F. Mullin of New Haven,
Conn.,, formerly of this place, spent "a few
days here this week. Mr.. Mullin is agent
for the well-known soap manufacturers,
Proctor and Gamble, for the State of
Connecticut.
Mr.. r. A. Moody has on exhibition
one of the scientific corn cutters manufact-
ured by the FoOs Mfg Co., of Springfield,
Ohio. 1t was given trial on Saturday in
the cornfeld of Mr.. Amos Collins and
worked very satisfactorily, cutting two
rows Of corn at once.
Messrs. R. Anderson & Son have con-
tracted to build two large seows for J. E.
Simpson & Son, dry dock builders, to be
used in driving piling for the dry dock
which they will build here. Two vessel
loads of lumber are expected to arrive here
this week, to be used for piling on the
river 'front.'
= Mr.. Samuel T. Lewis of Philadelphia,
formerly Of Delaware City, spent Sunday
here, where Mrs Lewis is making visit
several weeks. Mr.. Lewis is one of the
Delaware City boys who has made his
mark as mechanic, having learned his
trade (carpentering) here under Mr.. 1. H.
Ubil. He removed from here about four
years ago, and is now foreman for one of
the largest contractors in Philadelphia.
= The steamer Major .Reybold of
the Salem and Philadelphia Navigation
Line, and the Ericsson Line steamers which
have been carrying oil here for years, re-
,eived orders last week to comply with |
The law which forbids passenger boats to |
carry coal oil or other illuminating oils.
The freight on barrel of oil from Phila-
1elphia to Delaware City by the Ericsson
inc was fifty cents, by the Philadelphia |
md Salem Navigation Line thirty cents /;
'y the Pennsylvania railroad sixty-eight |
'ents. The Wilmington and Northern |
abroad company, which now owns the
Philadelphia and Salem line does not pro-
,ose to allow the Pennsylvania railroad to |
the trade, and have made ar
to carry oil once week to New
Castle and Delaware City on floats which
will be towed by a tug at the rate of |
twenty-five cents barrel, from the
Atlantic Refnery's works at Wilmington. |