Middletown transcript., 1895-09-07
Local News.

alton.
The harbinger of Autumn-the sound
of the school bell!
The Addieks divorce hearing will be
resumed next Saturday.
Ten thousand children in Wilmington
started to school on Monday,
Water melon parties and hayrides are
the local fads in all classes of society al
present.
Again the Trustees found the bids too
high at Farnhurst for the new building
They will have to try again.
Andrew C. Gray, son of Senator Gray has
passed the examination for admission to
the New Castle County bar.
The tennis tournament of the Delaware
Field Club which was to begin this week in
Wilmington is postponed for several weeks.
Governor Watson and staff. will leave
for the Atlanta Exposition, November 6,
and will be present at the Delaware Day
celebration.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Joseph B. Handy of New
ark, to Miss Helen Thompson Calvert, OF
Philadelphia.
Superintendent Smith was in town
this week and rented the town hall for the
Annual Teachers Institute to be held the
first week in December.
Mr.. Samuel Pitt attended the 18th an
niversary of the Queenstown Conclave OF
Heptasophs last week, and made timely
address that was we'll received.
The Harlan and Hollingsworth Com
pany of Wilmington has contracted to
to build two large steam vessels and the
outlook for shipbuilding is better than for
months.
BY the withdrawal of Ex-senator John
Pilling and Son from the Kiamensi Wooden
Mill Co. at Newark, the management is
left entirely in the hands of Thomas Pill
ing & Son.
The members of the levy court and
trustees of the poor have an outing this
week ON an excursion to Chincoteague
Island where they will witness the annual
ponny penning.
The old brick schoolhouse at Newport
has been sold by the board Of school COM
missioners to Andastake Tribe of Red
Men for 81 ,195. 1t will be converted into a
wigwam by the warriors.
Alexander Moody of Woodland Beach
formerly of Middletown, is harvesting $500
acres of marsh hay. He receives IS ton
for it right at the place and is shipping 100
tons week to Philadelphia.
The New Castle Presbytery will hold its
annual meeting in the West Nottingham
Church, Elkton, beginning Tuesday Octo-
ber 1st. Rev. Frank III. Moore, retiring
moderator will preach the sermon.
The ninth anniversary of the great
Charleston earthquake was celebrated on
Sunday by another shocking little affair,
but nothing alarming or damaging. Mid
dletown felt it though, SO they say.
1t is getting to be quite the thing to
graduate and get position through the
dey's Wilmington, (Del.,) Commercial and
Short hand College. Geta catalogue.
-WANTED:-I desire to place the agency
with some good party for the Barnes Bicy-
cles the coming wheels of '96. Those desir-
ing same please communicate with, Elliott
Bros, 1918 Market St., Wilmington, Del.
AT recent meeting of the Directors Of
the Peoples National Bank, Mr.. G. w. w.
Naudain was elected President, vice DR.. J
". Crawford, deceased, and Mr.. q. A. Poo
was elected Vice President in place of Mr.
Naudain.
The gold watch offered by the Viii
mington Daily Republican, for the mos
popular base ball player, was given to Fer
guson the short stop of the Columbia Ath
letic team of New Castle, who received tn
largest number of votes.
Hannah W Richardson, one of the old
est and best known members of the societ
ofFriends in this state, died in Whining
ton on Monday, aged 76 years. She wa
related to the Tatnalls and Tatums, an
was an elder in the Friends Meeting.
Register of Wills Cooch celebrated th
anniversary of the battle of Cooch's Bridg
on Tuesday by raising flag on the site Q
the ancient battle field. On Sep. 1876. in
skirmish with the British, who then hat
their headquarters in this neighborhoo
the mill at Cooch's was burned.
-Messrs. John s. Crouch, Lee Darlin
ton. A. NJ. Brown, L. c. Scott, ]. w. Ba
nett and James Collins celebrated Labo
Day at Betterton to the dismay of the fir
nv inhabitants of the Chesapeake. tits
near Heaven as care to get just now
said one of the enthusiastic followers
Isaak Walton.
The golden-rod is blooming and wavil
its autumn scepter DER the broad al
cleaning plain" Fair pilgrims to WOO
land haunts are seen daily returning hon
laden with the flowers from field and fo
est and wild flowers are more than ey
nonular for table and parlor decoration
and also for personal adorning.
Monday, Labor Day, was legal ho
dav in this State and by an Act of Asser
bly passed February 14th, 1893, the brav
and brain of Delaware are given day o
but"Uncle Sans employees were abo
the only ones who were able or willing
afford the holiday The great majority
,aboring, working people are too glad
have a Job to spend one idle day unnec'
sarily.
-'Tis September's golden month al
The oyster doth appear not in the loo
market but on the menu cards. No whe
IN all the land is there a place that c.
boast of more table attractions at one tn
than the Delaware Peninsula, with 7
sportiye bi-valve and the luscious pea'
riyalling each other for the place Of hone