Middletown transcript., 1895-08-10
Local News.

The Cecil County Fair at Elkton wi
open Tuesday September 10 and will col
tinue until the 18th.
Mayor Evan G. Boyd, of New Castl
has be- en- appointed on Governor Watson
staff, with the rank of Colonel.
w. S. Moore the photographer, b,
been taking number of v Jews of the tow
and some of its pretty homes this week.
More premature peaches were conf
Gated in the Wilmington Market this wee
and consigned to the garbage crematory
The catalogue of the 42nd Annual Fai
Bridgeton, N. j., is on our table. 1t will /
held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thur:
day, August 27, 2S, 10Th.
-Jno. w. Jolls has purchased over 1000
bushels of wheat during the past montl
The farmers are not rushing the marke
and are selling only as they need to.
Mine Host McIntire of the Nations
Hotel has built bar room .16. by 16. to tn
north and adjoining the regular bar of tn
hotel. for the use of the colored people.
John Arthurs of Kenton, is quite al
expert wheelman for Ia year old boy. Il
company with Mr.. Clarence Ludnum o
Long Island, took 60 mile spin on Tues
day.
Thursday is the excursion and picni
: day at the Piers, and so many town folk:
spend the day at that popular and only
nearby resort, that Midtown seems quit'
deserted.
The Woodlawn camp meeting opened
on Tuesday. Rev. DR.. T. E. Martindale, o.
Milford, is the preacher in charge. There
are more tents on the ground than fol
many years.
The Camden camp meeting whic b
closed on Wednesday was very successful,
sixty persons having professed conversion,
one of them being tramp who wandered
into the meeting.
-Mr.and Mrs.A Edwin Read of Whining
ton announce the birth of daughter. Es-
ther Read, Aug 2. If the little lady has her
mothers amiability and her fathers vim
she is well endowed.
Good early celery always finds read y
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 good place to at
tend school, send for it's catalogue.
Refreshing showers have been well
come on several evenings this week. The
rain on Wednesday evening came up quite
suddenly and a number of persons on
pleasure bent, were caught in the shower
The out-buildings on the Lumm farm
near Kirkwood, owned by Mr.. Rich
ard Cam, and tenanted by his son, Alibone
Cam, were destroyed by fire on Monday
morning. The origin of the fire is not
known.
The State Board of Education met at
Dover this week, and decided to make
several additions to the list of school books,
including Hyde s Lessons in English and
Raub's Primary work on the English Lam
guage.
DIR. I. S. Vallandighamn, was present at |
the Medical Council in Wilmington on
Tuesday, when the order was given to reg
lister the diplomas of the new physicians
who were recently examined by the State
Board of Examiners.
The Williamson Schools at Media, Pa.
are closed for the midsummer holiday. and
the pupils. of whom there are several from
this neighborhood, are having their vaca-
ton, Messrs Harry Lockwood, Louis STAN
and Willie Hall arriving home on Satur-
day.
The farmers will hold their annual
picnic on Bohemia Manor, ON Thursday,
August 18th, in Boulden's Woods, near
Cayott's Corner. There will be dancing
and and music and the usual amnsements.- ts.-If
The weather is unfavorable, the picnic will
be held next day.
The cornerstone for the new home for
The Sisters of st Francis was laid in Will
nington on Tuesday with impressive rites
md ceremonies that were witnessed by a
,reat many Catholics and members of the
Rev. Father Birmingham de-
ivered an interesting address.
Since the fire at Berlin, Md, carpen-
ers and mechanics here are looking that
yay for work, as many of the people there
ire already arranging to rebuild. There
las scarcely ever been such a dearth of .
york for the local artisan here as during
his season and several of the leading
uilders and contractors are considering
he question of seeking new field.
The Middletown base ball club will 6
lay the first game on its new grounds on 1
londay, August 18th, when the strong i
myrna club will make its first visit to our
'wn. The game will be called at three 9
clock, p. m, and lovers of the National ,
anne will have an opportunity to witness f
great treat. An admission of 10 cents Il
ill be charged.
Conference Academy, Dover, Del. stu
,nts prepared for business, for teaching,
I'd for college. During the past year stu Il
,nts prepared at the Conference Academy g
i've been in attendance at Harvard, Yale,
.inceton, Dickinson. Wesleyan, Univer N
" of Pennsylvania, Brown, Woman's c,
,llege, Wellesly and Byrn Mawr. For v
talogue apply to w. L. Gooding, Princi-
i. r;
Miss Tot McAleer, of New York is Z"
ewn girl of the athletic sort, whose feats
baseball in recent game have given =,
+ considerable prominence. The May r.
,eens, and the "June Birds" played a
e game, which lasted over four hours =
d was viewed by many spectators, TOT :.
Aleers slide enabled her tean the r,
" Queens, to win the day. The r layers :
ALI well-known young women Of New -
rk and Brooklyn and Miss McAleer is
own to many readers of the TRANSCRIPT. w
mother, nee Miss Mollie Craddock,
ug at one time reigning belle in this i
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