Middletown transcript., 1891-08-13
DEnAwAR
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK IN A TIN
ING TOWN. PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A few sturgeon are being caught here
this week.
= John H. Rodney, Esq, of New Castle,
was in town on Tuesday.
i = Howard Davidson is lying seriously
ill with typhoid fever at his home here.
i = Master Sewe1 B. Webb is spending
the week with his brother, in Newark.
= Mr.. Albert Churchman of Whining
ton, visited her cousin, Mr.. George Price
this week.
= Miss Annie Roberts who has been
visiting in Philadelphia since April has re-
turned home.
= Miss Kate Roberts of Frankford,
Del, is visiting her sister, Mrs. VIM.
Householder avenue.
- It has been rumored about town that
the Maxwell property had been sold, but
the property is still on the market.
= Miss Bella Hathaway of Philadelphia,
spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss
Annie Schunder.
- Mr.. and Mrs. BIZ. Dunlap and son
Bennie, will leave for Atlantic City this
week on short vacation.
= Mrs. w. C. Webb and SON Rodney,
accompanied by Miss Lizzie Craig, are
visiting Mrs. Webb's mother, Mrs. Murray,
in New Castle, Del.
- Mr. Charles Jordon and daughter, Miss
Maud of Philadelphia, who have been
spending short vacation with Mr.. F. D.
Dunlay will return home on Saturday.
| - Several catches of trout (weakfsh)
were made along the Fort Delaware bar,
opposite here, this week. They are un-
usually large Trout are not often caught
this far up the bay.
= Rev. Father DAILY who has been spend
ing a vacation at Ocean City, Md, return
ed home on Saturday and celebrated mass
at st. Paul's Catholic Church on Sunday
morning.
- The Red Lion NJ. E. Sunday school
gave an excursion to Woodland Beach, on
the steamer Thomas Clyde, OF Wednesday.
The Sunday school drove to Delaware City
and New Castle, and boarded the boat at
both places.
= Mr.. Frank Hendrickson and family
living on the Duck Neck road few miles
from Delaware City, who were poisoned
with ice cream on Saturday and made
very dangerouly i'll have, under the good
treatment of DR.. Belville, recovered suff-
GENTLY to be about, but still feel the i'll eff
| fects. Mr. Hendrickson was so i'll that he
vomited blood.
x Proposals for carrying the mail for the
ordinance department, between Delaware
City and Fort Delaware were opened by
Ordinance Sergeant Weleh on the 31st
ultimo, and forwarded to the quartermas-
ter's headquarters at Baltimore. The bid
ders were James E. Sadler, Frank E. La
boube, John Cannon and William Givison.
It is not known here who is the lowest
bidder, and up to this time, "wednesday
morningl the contract has not been award
ed.
Il ~
their mince meat factory in order for the
coming season in which they expect to do
more than double the business of last
season, which was very good one for
them. During the slack season they have
been experimenting with the manufacture
of condensed mince meat, block Of which
we examined this morning. 1t has proved
a success both in flavor and keeping quail
ties, and they will put it up in neat form
of solid blocks neatly encased and with
printed directions.
= The steamer, David Reeves is running
peaches to Philadelphia from Port Penn
and Delaware City. She leaves here at
6 o'clock in the evening, landing at Phil
adelphia about midnight. Her rates are
five cents per basket. Four of the Ericsson
Line steamers pass through here daily,
with peaches from points along the Sassa-
fras and Elk rivers, Md The Ericsson
Line rates are eight cents per basket from
all places along those rivers.
~ The Atlas baseball club of Delaware
City are arranging for grand excursion to
Woodland Beach, on the steamer Thomas
fClyde ON Wednesday, August 26th, on
which day a match game will be played at
the beach with the Salem nine. The
Salem is one of the best mines in South
Jersey. The batteries will by Lawson
and Wildermat for the Salem, and skelly
and Madden for the Atlas, and it will un-
doubtedly be the most interesting game of
the season. Tickets will be sold from New
Castle, Delaware City and Salem.
A very one sided and uninteresting
game Of base ball was played here on Sat
urday between the Atlas of this place and
the Glasgow nine, the score being 81 to Q
in favor of the Atlas. The work of Skelly
and Madden, the celebrated battery of the
Atlas club, was perfect. Not base hit
was made off Skelly, and only one man Of
the Glasgow reached the second base. The
battery was well supported in the field,
not an error being made. The game was
witnessed by large crowd. The game
was umpired by Mr.. McCaffe rty of New
Castle.
i - The heaviest thunder storm that ever
4 visited Delaware City occurred on Tuesday
might. Successive streaks of lightning
chased each other up and down the princi.
pal streets accompanied by terrific peals o.
thunder and a kissing sound similar te
that made by rocket Balls offre drop
ped to the ground, and the town was beau
tifully illuminated for nearly an hour, the
falling water sparkling like showers O
countless diamonds. Timid people retired
to darkened rooms and corners while other'
were on the alert for danger. A bolt
struck the house of Edgar Bristor, tearing
some shingles from the roof, damaging thu
chimney and breaking the kitchen stove
The same discharge struck one Of thu
lightning rods on DIR. Belville's house
blackened the copper tip, and bent th'