Middletown transcript., 1895-07-20
Local News.

Wheat threshing is the event of th
week on the farm.
Peaches and apples and berries, berrit
berries are in the local market.
The summer girl of '95 is quite as er
gaging as her predecessors, so they say.
The Seventh Day Adyentists will hol
camp meeting at Newark, beginning Aus
ust 1st.
-There.are already about forty familit
tenting in the camp meeting grove at Brar
dywine Summit.
Mr.. C. A. johnson of Smyrna has bee
given the position of engineer at the Elee
trio light Station.
The Presbyterian Sunday School Q
Port Penn will give excursion to Wood
land Beach, to-day.
Will make low price on Peach Basket
in carload lots. Address James A Evan
Georgetown, Delaware.
Beware of the women who gossip. Th
lips that utter idle. silly things. will sool
learn to say spiteful, wicked things also.
e. T. Wood, Department Commander
G. A. R., of Delaware, made an officia
visit to Post %, Major John Jones las
evening.
With the editor sick and an employe
gone fishing, naturally enough the paper
is blue this week, but no doubt it will be
read all the same.
! am still writing Fire Insurance, com
petitors yarns Notwithstanding, and it will
be to your interest to consult the rates Of
Continental Co. w. R. REYNOLDS.
1t is estimated that from fifteen to
twenty thousand baskets Of peaches will be
shipped from this station this season, so
that the peach is not wholly extinct in this
section.
MIR. Clinton Hall has very greatly i'm
proved his residence on Crawford Street, by
pretty coat of paint with neat trimmings,
which have changed its appearance won
derfully.
Joseph Booth, workman in the Jack
son & Sharp shops in Wilmington, was
struck by board which he was planning,
on Wednesday, and died from the injuries
in few hours.
The Shirt Factory closes to-day for the
annual vacation Of two weeksduringwhich
time the building will undergo thorough
"bousecleaning." The factory will be re-
opened August 9Th.
Business practice from the start is the
splendid new departure at Goldey Will
College. If looking for good place to at
tend school, send for it's catalogue.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Burnham have
discontinued housekeeping, and are board
ing at Mrs. Talbot's pleasant suburban
home. Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hall will occupy
the house on Crawford Street vacated by
Mr.. Burnham.
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
ITO welcome the coming and speed the
for some are coming and some are going.
and its "down the good bye lane, to the
farewell gate, oh, my honey, my love-"
-Bagging grapes has been the occupa-
ton ofour local vine dressers lately, and
many lusty vines have their fruitage al
ready protected with paper bags, thus in
surfing perfect punches when the purple
harvest comes.
The dead body of an unknown white
man was found floating in the Christiana
Saturday afternoon. The body was badly
decomposed and without clothing. It is
supposed that the unfortunate man was
drowned while bathing,
The Apostles Of the Single Tax doc
trine spoke in town on Friday night Of last
week, and in spite Of the many Interrupt
tions and efforts to disturb them by few,
their Utopian gospel was heard by large
number of interested citizens.
MIR. Jno. Morrison, an old resident and
at one time the leading builder and con-
tractor of this town, was stricken with
Apoplexy Monday night and has been crit
ically i'll all the week. His condition was
some what improved yesterday.
Growing crops are looking well corn
has made very rapid growth in the
last few weeks, the re-plant after the cut
worm destruction in some instances out
stripping the earlier planting. The oat
crop in this section is the best in years.
The swell young man has brought out
his last summers duck trousers, but he has
not grown to them yet. They are still a
quarter of yard or so too long. and he is
wearing them turned up at the bottom. It
may be very swell, but it isn't bit pretty.
The M. E. Sunday School of st. Georges
will make an excursion to Woodland Beach
by steamer Thomas Clyde on Wednesday
July oath. leaving Delaware City at $50 a.
m. returning at 4. p. m. giving hours on
the Beach. Tickets 80 cts. Children under
u, Is cts.
A LAWN Fete' and family party was
given yesterday afternoon, in the beautiful
park surrounding the country home of
John P. Cochran Jr. Supper was served
on the lawn, in true picnic style, and the
affair was as enjoyable as it was novel and
picturesque.
Wages have been increased by the
railroad authorities 1Oper cent, making the
price per day for trackmen and laborers
81 10 per day, instead Of $1Oo as hereto
fore. The increase was voluntary one, it
Is said, by the company and affects all
their outdoor employees.
Prof. A. Lee Ellis, of Millsboro, Sussex
county, and graduate of Delaware colleae,
was elected Principal of the Newark Public
schools on Monday, with the following
reacbers as assistants: Miss E, Fanny
Mad;ll. Miss Annie Newman, Miss Emma
cboate and Miss Sallie Lumb.
Rev. H. G. Vincent, for number OF
.,aars nastor of the Pencader Presbyterian
Church as Glasgow, has resigned, to take
efTact August 25. He gives as his reason
~ a. owing to the decision of the Presby-
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