Middletown transcript., 1895-07-27
Local News.


Peaches in the local market are selling
for 20 cts per basket.
The weather this week is good enough
for corn, maybe, but not good for much
else
The State Board of Medical Examiners
met this week at Dover. There were twenty
applicants.
The surplus and profit of the Securely
Trust and Safe Deposit company is now
s119,7s2,OO.
Prof Roman Tammany has been
elected Principal of the Public Schools at
Georgetown.
Apples are plentiful and cheap in the
local market, and unusually fine in size,
color and quality.
will make low price on Peach Baskets
in carload lots. Address James A Evans
Georgetown, Delaware.
-Oat harvest has been in progress this
week. A larger acreage and better crop
than for years is the general report.
Since the President has named the
baby Marion, Marions will be thick enough
to stumb lie over for several years to come.
Huckleberry pies. blackberry puddings
and appledumplings are among the tooth
some delights on the peninsula bill of fare.
1t is even said the "new woman" is try
ing to displace the man in the moon, and
the woman in the moon" is next in order.
Mr. Louis Dreka is improving his prop
erty on Crawford street by having a new
fence built, and other needed repairs added
The first shipment of wheat for the sea-
son from here was made this week by Clerk
of the Peace Foard. 1t consisted of three
cars.
DIR. G. A. Ritchie took the examination
before the Board of Homeopathic Medical
Examiners which met in Wilmington this
week.
The Board Of Health of Wilmington.
confscated 1S baskets of premature peaches
this week, and consigned them to the
garbage pyle. ..
Prof D. B. Jones. who was an appli-
cant for the Principalship of the Middle
town schools, has been elected Principal of
the public schools at Bridgeville.
Henry G. Turner, ex-City Solicitor of
Wilmington, an old soldier, has become
almost totally blind, and has gone to the
Soldiers Home at Hampton, Va.
The friends of Mr.. Emlin Massey Will
be glad to know that he has SO far re-
covered from his recent illness, at Ocean
Grove to be able to go out, and is expected
home next week.
The steamer Sassafras will take an ex-
cursion to COLCHESTER on next Tuesday
July 30th where days pleasure may be
had at this popular resort. See the ad. in
another column for rates etc.
Good early celery always finds ready
market at paying prices. We have to offer
nice "White Plume plants now ready at
80 cts per 100 81 90 per 1000, Circulars free,
Slaymaker and Son, Dover, Del. If
Business practice from the start is the
splendid new departure at Goldey Will
mington (Del.) Commercial and Short hand
College. If looking for a good place to at
tend school, send for it's catalogue.
Mr.. J.. D. Stewart, recently of Texas,
formerly of Seaford, and a nephew of ex-
postmaster Stewart, of Wilmington, has
opened jewelry store in the Opera House
building next door to the post Office.
Mrs Ada Herbert, widow of the late
Frank Herbert of New Castle was paid
two thousand dollars insurance this week
by the Peninsula Mutual Relief Association
which is represented here by Mr.. Samuel
Pitt.
James Voshell, of Mt. Pleasant while
driving to Middletown on Monday, was
shot in the hand by ball from a rifle fired
by an unknown person. 1t was doubtless a
random shot, but the wound was as pain
full as if it were an aimed one.
Miss Mary G. Thompson, daughter Of
Rev. H. S. Thompson, of FELTON,, formerly
of Odessa secured the prize of 800 offered
by the Philadelphia Inquirer for finding
the sequel to the story 'The Broken Anne
thyst," published in that paper.
Mrs. Jacob S. Cochran chaperoned a
number of young folks at grabbing party
ON the Bohemia river on Wednesday.
Among them being Misses Lizzie Hanson,
Lucie Cochran, and Helen Price, Messrs.
Irving Hanson and Harold Green.
The Schooner Caroline Hall, from
Jacksonville to Philadelphia, is quaran-
tined at the Reedy Island Station. The
crew is suffering from Malarial fever, con-
tracted IN the southern swamps where
their cargo of lumber was taken on.
Among the hot weather stories, one
from New Orleans takes the lead. A poor
workings man entered the City Hall to pay
his taxes, and left his frugal lunch, a ham
sandwich, on the steps. When he returned
he found two slices of toast with piece of
fried ham between.
The barn on the farm of Joseph Clea-
YER. near Port Penn, was totally destroyed
bv fire on Thursday night of last week.
There was no grain in the building but
ouite lot of hay was destroyed. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is
covered by insurance.
Grabbing is one of the popular diver
sions with local pleasure seekers, and nearly
every day there is grabbing party to some
of the fayorite haunts. On Thursday Mrs.
w. B. Biggs, Mrs. J. P. Cochran Jr. and her
,.,,as,s. with several others visited FOX
Hole" ank spent delightful day.
-Deputy Sheriff Hutchison sold on
Tuesday at the National Hotel, the DR..
Constable property on Crawford street, to
the Middletown Building and Loan Asso-
citation for s1a25. and the Mrs. Wilhelmina
Blackway house. on Catherine street, to
Harry Perkins, of Philadelphia, for s45o.
John T. Walker, a shoe dealer in Will
mington, was married on his death bed
sunday night, by Rev. D. G. Hanna, to
Miss Catherine Fitzpatrick, to whom he had
been engaged % years. He had borrowed
money from her at various times and
wanted her to be his heir. He died on