Middletown transcript., 1891-07-09

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then on the following Sunday.
The Board of Trade will meet
regular session tomorrow night at
o'clock, at the Board of Trade room
Cochran Block.
- The long bridge over Augustin
creek, south of Port Penn, is unsai
for heavy travel, and Levy Coul
commissioner Jolls has given motto
to that effect.
The Band OF Hope will hold n
more meetings until September Isl
During the past year the meeting
have been well attended, and hav
had an average attendance of fort,
each time.
i w. a. Comegys purchased AM
shipped for Ell. Rogers Il Co., o
Philadelphia, the first carload of neV
wheat of the season Tuesday. Th'
wheat was in good order and OF goot
quality.
= The Sunday school of Fores
Presbyterian Church, will go tc
Augustine Pier on their annual picnic
on Tuesday, July 81, if the committee
can make satisfactory arrangements
for that day.
- List of unclaimed letters remain
ing in the post-ofice, which can be
had by saying they are advertised
| J. A. Amsbough, Fl. G. Mullen, Miss
Deliah Blackson, Y. Calvin Riley,
Theodore Lambert.
After repeated attempts to secure
singers for the cantata of Esther the
Beautiful Queen, y Professor Drucken-
miller has given up the project and
left town Wednesday for the lower
part of the State, where he hopes to
meet with better success.
up to this morning there had been
211 baskets of peaches shipped from
here this season. Mr.. w. D. Bradford
shipped 30 baskets of this number and
the remainder came from different
farms in the neighborhood. Those
shipped so far have been mostly pre-
mature and have brought low prices.
- The residence of Mr.. Rufus
Stewart near Newark, was destroyed
by fire yesterday afternoon. The
house was destroyed, but the furni-
ture was saved. A lamp is supposed
to have caused the disaster. Mr..
Stewart was formerly resident OF
Port Penn, and is well-known in this
neighborhood.
= The members of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union have
decided to hold monthly public gos-
pei meetings at their headquarters.
Meetings to be conducted by one of
their members. The first one will
be held Friday evening at 7.45 o'clock.
All friends Of temperance are invited
to attend.
s = Owing to the stormy weather the
pier party which was to have been
given by some Of our young men last
evening, did not come of. 1t has
been postponed until next Wednes-
day, when it is hoped the weather
will be more suitable.
= Mr.. Thomas McWhorter an aged
and respected citizen of this hundred,
died at his residence near st. Georges,
this morning. Mr.. McWhorter was
the father OF J. F. McWhorter of this
town;:.he had resided for many years in
the vicinity of st. Georges and owned
there a valuable property. The de-
ceased has been in bad health for
several months, and was very i'll for
several weeks last winter. He was
about seventy-five years of age, and
during his whole life was an active
business man and successful farmer.
= 1t will be pleasure to many to
learn that the good Professor Weber,
mentioned some weeks ago as having
broken one of his legs, is just on the
mend, notwithstanding his advanced
age Of 90 years, and it is indeed very
hard to decide which is doing him
the most good, the skilled physician,
thoughtful and kind attention, or
that wonderful bed of Mr.. Wilson's.
1t will do anything but talk to the
sick or manned. Since the Professor
has been on the ways for repairs he
has been interviewing Miss Ana
Tony, and the boys may look out
for something new from that quar-
ter.