Middletown transcript., 1891-08-06
Townaend Topics.
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= Miss Lille Naudain Is Visillng
her parents on South street.
Mr.. A. Bratton of Philadelphia,
| is visiting his parents in town.
= Miss Nina G.. Scott is visiting her
uncle, Thomas Scott, at Oxford. Md.
= Miss Angie Foxwell Of Philadel.
phia, is home on a short vacation.
Doctor Herdman Schwatka OF
Baltimore, Nd, is the guest Of friends
in town.
= Mrs. Cowell of Wilmington, is
the guest of Mrs. Rittenhouse on Com
merce street.
= Miss Florence Ringold of Hills
boro, Md, is the guest of her aunt
Mrs. G. F. Hubbard.
- Master Lee Maloney and Willie
Lyman ara visiting at the home of Mr..
Richard Hutchinson.
- Rev. Frank Fletcher and wife
left Monday morning for Wye camp
to be gone week or ten days,
Mr.. William Bramble, salesman
for j. S. & w. Lattomus, spent Sun
day at Bay Ridge. Md.
- Mrs. D. C. Collins and son OF
Wilmington, DEL, we're guests of Mrs
John Townsend for several days last
week.
- Geo. M. Watts and son were en-
tertained in Cecilton, Nd, on Sunday
by the formers brother, Samue
Watts.
- w. II. Money and family and Mr.
Lewis Truax and family returned
home on Saturday from q week.:
sojourn at Collins Beach.
- Miss Lille Young of Philadel-
phia, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Bratton. Miss Young, Mr.. and Mrs
Bratton spent Tuesday at Augustine
Pier.
i - Mr.. d. P. Hutchison returned
home on Saturday from weeks out
ing on the Delaware waters. He visit
cd Collins, Woodland and Bowers
beaches, and had grand good time.
- The Ladies' Aid Society of EN-
manuel M. E. Church. held its regular
monthly meeting on Tuesday evening
at the residence of Mr.. James L. Tay.
| lnr npar Townsand
= Messrs. j. A. Hart, Walter Gill,
Levi Lattomus, Doctor Sclwatka
Gus. Gill and George Daniels drove t
Collins Beach last Sunday and spent
the day.
- Road Commissioners Crouch ani
Gears have appointed Mr.. Edward
Morgan to fill the vacancy caused BY
the resignation of Geo. L. Townsend a
few weeks ago.
= Thieves broke in the meat shops
of Geo. M. Watts and William Motif
either Saturday or Sunday night, but
as both had sold out the thieves were
not rewarded for their trouble.
i Rev. Alfred Scott preached last
Sunday morning and evening in tht
NJ. E. Church, in the absence of Rev
Frank Fletcher, who filled the pulpit
| in the M. E. Church at Smyrna.
On Monday afternoon two trampI
had little spat over some money wher
one cut the other on the leg with a per
knife, inficting a small wound which
was dressed by DR.. Enos. Tramp No.
2 went on his way swearing vengeance
on tramp No. l, if he ever caught uI
with him again.
- Blackbird Sunday.school hello
thair annual picnic at Collins Beach
to-day and quite number from
Townsend joined them and helped
swell the number. Mr.. John Willis,
the present proprietor of the beach,
will do his best to make everyone COM
Portable.
Lightning struck the wheat
stacks of Mr.. ?. S. Daniels, on The
Levels, one night last week and two
stacks containing 250 bushels Of wheat
were burned. Mr.. Daniels was not
aware that anything unusual was
going on and was very much surprised
when he awoke to find his wheat de-
stroyed.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Wells en-
tanned few friends on Tuesday even
ing. A few hours was spent in social
chat, after which refreshments were
served. The guests present were Mr..
and Mrs. David Wells, Misses Annie
Hutchison, Della Stradley, Florence
Ringold and Messrs. John Morris,
Benjamin Hutchison and G. H. Col
lins.
= Sojourning at Collins Beach from
Townsend are Misses Mollie and Susie
Gill, Eta Morris, Katie Hutchison,
Gladis Robinson, Elva and Beulah
Naylor, Lena Peachy, Mary Watts,
Rosa Reynolds, Mollie Maloney, Nan
Townsend, Fannie Rittenhouse and
Miss Cahall of Wilmington, guest of
the Misses Naylor, and Miss Flora
Crosin, guest of Miss Mary Watts,
Messrs. Edgar Reynolds, Harry Hart
and John Strong.
& Our hopes have been blighted
and gently do we fold the suits that
once our boys did adorn and lay them
away to refresh our memory in years
to come. The bats, ball, gloves and
mask will be kept in fond remem-
brance Of days when baseball was
played in Townsend. Kind friends
come mingle with us your tears of sor-
row, for we did think at one time we
would feel proud of baseball club.
Never was mans hopes put to fight
quicker than did Delaware City, and
to think that Cecilton did push us
further down the hill. Yes, from the
beautiful soil of Cecil came a club
which nndnd oil Of our oI,u;. e.