Middletown transcript., 1895-08-03
Local News.

services Ill lIt M II. SiluiSh
as usual, preaching by the pastor.
DR.. J. H. Caldwell and family are
spending the summer on farm near New
Castle.
Will make low price on Peach Baskets
in carload lots. Address James A Evans
Georgetown, Delaware.
About 500 members of the Christian
Endeavor Societies of Wilmington held a
grand rally in Shellpot Park on Tuesday.
The welcome sound of the Shirt Fac
tory whistle will be heard again on Mon
day, when work will be resumed after a
two weeks vacation.
There are seventy nine men on the Po-
lice force of Wilmington, Chief of Police
Dolan in his annual report recommends
the appointment of six more.
The prayer meeting of the Christian
Endeavor Society will be held on Sunday
evening at 6: As. The topic is. "Our prom
ised land and how to reach it."
The Seventh Day Adventists of the At
lantic Conference began their Camp Meet
ing at Morrow's Grove. near Newark, on
Thursday, and will continue it u days.
The local weed crop is quite profuse
In the interest of good health, it will be
well to remove them before they begin to
decay, for dying weeds produce malaria.
The laying of tracks for the Claymont
Electric railway will begin about Sept. 1st,
the road has been surveyed from the Penn
sylyania line to the home Hon. R. Handy.
Good early celery always finds ready
market at paying prices. We have to offer
mic "White Plume" plants now ready at
80 cts per 100 81. 90 per 1000, Circulars free,
Slaymaker and Son, Dover, Del. If
The Trustees of the Poor had their
quarterly meeting at Farnhurst on We'd
nesday. There are 179 inmates of the in
stitution 80 men 55 women, and children
There we're four deaths in July.
Business practice from the start is the
splendid new departure at Goldey Will
mington (Del.) Commercial and Shorthand
College. If looking for good place to at
tend school, send for it's catalogue.
The will of the late DR.. j. V. Crawford
was admitted to probate on Thursday.
George W. Lockwoo is named as executor
and the estate is variously estimated at
from sixty to seventy thousand dollars.
Jacob Hamilton, an old soldier, for
merly resident of this town in the en-
ploye of N. J. Williams, died July 18th, at
the Soldiers Home at Hampton, Va. where
he had been living for the past year and a
half.
July went out on Wednesday with the
coolest day of its date on record in 25 years.
Blankets were in demand, and the fire in
the kitchen stove felt good. On Mt. Wash
ington the tempature was below freezing
point.
A Wilmington man recently complain
ed to the Police Department that neigh
boris dog had barked for thirteen years,
causing him much annoyance and this was
his first complaint. Such deliberation is
unparalleled.
Prof. DeKeller Stamey, the new Prin-
cipal of the Middletown schools visited
town this week. The Board of Education
gave him cordial reception, and are well
pleased with him on first acquaintance.
ProfStamey with his wife, will take up his
residence here about September 1st.
Rev. Z. Snowden Thomas, the popular
editor Of the Peninsula Methodist, with
his daughter, Miss Elizabeth R. Thomas,
arrived in port homeward bound from Eu-
rope last Saturday. The many readers of
his interesting church paper welcome his
return home, and are already anticipating
the racy products of his pen.
The Green Bros. at Odessa, haae begun
shipping game to the city markets, and
blackbirds by the hundred dozen are be-
ing sent to the New York buyers, but they
are doubtless transformed TO reed birds by
the time they reach the table of their cpl
curian consumers.
When I proposed she did not blush,
And not one word she said.
The maiden did not tell me yes.
She simply shook her head.
She simply shook her head, and yet
No man in all the town
Could be more pleasant than was, for
She shook it up and down -Lge,
Willie proceeding to grain elevator
near nier No. 9. Philadelphia, Tuesday, the
steamer Clio of Odessa, was struck by
.no and considerably damaged. Several
tnes went to her assistance and she was
towed to a shipyard for repairs. Her
cargo. which consisted of wheat shipped by
Clerk Of the Peace Foard, was only
slightly damaged.
Conference Academy, Dover, Del. stu
dents prepared for business, for teaching,
and for college. During the past year stu
dents prepared at the Conference Academy
have been in attendance at Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Dickinson. Wesleyan, Univer-
s;tv of Pennsylvania. Brown, Woman's
College. Wellesly and Byrn Mawr. For
catalogue apply to W. L. Gooding, Princi-
pal.
The weather this week has been al
,,,ost too cool for q midsummer nights
dream under vine clad bowers in the moon
light with here and there blinking fire
.ay to keep guard, while the soft grooming
and chiring of the insect orchestra are the
lullaby sounds of the summer night. Un-
dor such witching spell. tbs not surprising
that amorous youths soft dalliance hold,
and do not welcome the breezes that drive
them indoors.
The six victims of supposed mad dog
a,;,e in Wilmington were sent to the Pas
.enr Institute for treatment on Wednesday,
rbe Every Eucmimg having guaranteed the
necessary fund to meet the expense. The
P w. &B. r. r. furnished transportation.
and the unfortunate people, five children
and one man. were very grateful for the
opportunity to havetreatment against the
possibility of hydrophobia. The humane
neople Of Wilmington are sending liberal
contributions to the fund.