Middletown transcript., 1894-03-10
PENINSULA NEWS.

The Wicomico Neaos of Salisbury will
publish daily during conference
The Milford shirt factory, which has
been closed for time, will resume opera
ton this week.
Ira Roe, of Harrington, caught thirty
one and half pound swapping turtle in
gill net this week
Up to February 1st, about half mill
ion bushels ofoysters had been opened by
the Cambridge packers.
The term of Frank E. Smith, of Will
mington, as justice of the piece, has ex
pired, and on Thursday Governor Reynolds
appointed John A. Kelly to succeed him.
Geoge Spence has astonished the people
of Salisbury by lifting an iron safe
weighing 1900 pounds, clear of the floor.
He weighs about 100 pounds and is COM
pactly built.
Mrs. George Sentman, the wife of Chas
Sentman of the County Herald, of New
Castle died on Saturday morning Of pneu-
nomia. She was A years old and two
children survive her.
The hosiery factory at Dover started up
Wednesday morning with small number
ofhands. They have orders for their goods
and will commence operation Monday
with force of thirty hands.
Cards have been issued for the marriage
Of A1ory 1r,n T41
Frazer, of Glasgow. The ceremony will
take place in the Pencader Presbyterian
Church on Thursday, March 18th, at half
past one o'clock.
There are eight applicants for the con-
stables Office in East Dover Hunared. The
allowance of this office by the Levy
Court have been over $500 per year for
some years, besides other business. The
office is worth at least $4,000 per year, the
way the country is MIXED for fees.
The CemterUiUe Observer says: A new
game for evening parties is as follows:
All the young ladies bring photographs of
themselves, taken when they were babies,
or at least very young. They are arranred
in a row, and the young men who can
identify the greatest number receives a
prize.
About half of the peach trees in Talbot
county Md, have been destroyed this
year by their owners because of the un-
certain and improbable features of the
peach crop in recent years. Few young
trees were planted last year and fewer will
be set out this year, hard fact for the
nurserymen.
The members of the quarterly conference
of Wye MP. Church at meeting held Satur-
day agreed to seperate the WyeNeck Church
from Ruthsburg. The Ruthsburg church
will likely join with Ridgely and Ashland.
The Wye Neck people purpose erecting
parsonage near their church property in
the Neck. Rev. J. S. Ewell is serving the
circuit this conference year.
On Wednesday last Mr.. William NJ. Reed
venerable and highly respected citizen of
Chesapeake City died at the residence of
Joseph H. Brooks in thas town with
whom he has resided for number of years
past. Mr.. Reed attained ripe old age
being in his ninetieth year. He was the
son of Martin Reed of New Castle county
where he was born August % 1904.
New counterfeit silver dollars said to be
met so frequently oflate are the only coun-
terfeits ever known worth intrinsi-
cally as much as the genuine dollar Sill
yer is so cheap that the maker of these
dollars puts exactly as much in them as
the Government puts in its dollar-that is
about so cents worth or a little less. Be-
yond roughness and varying thickness it
is difficult to tell counterfeit from a gen.
uine dollar. Both ring alike, and judge
ing from the number in circulation both
pass equally well.