Middletown transcript., 1896-05-30
Local News.

Always in season. Hopkins Steame
Hominy (Hulled CORN. Elegant lul.ch il
Milk. OF. can l0c.
Remember that ]. f. McWhorter ha
a full line of carriage and argricultura
Implements OH hayd.
The annual convention of the Viii
mil gton District Epworih League was hell
at Port Deposit this week.
Gov. Watson and staff. in full dres
uniform. will participate i'll the Memoria
Day exercises at Milford to-day.
Mr.. w. J. Wilson has purchased th'
building Of the Old electric light plan
which he will use as stable.
Straw berries, four quarts for 25 cents
are plentiful in the local market. Th'
crop is large and the fruit fine.
The best way to eat strawberr les is thu
way you like them best. To sugar then
down several hours before serving is I
good way to spoil them.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.-Dr. w. E. Barnard
Surgeon Dentist. office same location, op-
posite the post office. All operations per.
tanning to dentistry guaranteed. Odon
un der and Gas for painless extracting.
commencement exercise of the Della
ware College will begin June 14th, with the
Baccalaurate sermon by DIR. Merritt HUI
burd. The commencement proper will be
on Wednesday at 1890 a. m.
-Mrand Mrs.C.W Lloyd, of Odessa have
issued cards of invitation 10 the marriage
of their daughter Mabelle to Mr.. Fletcher
Caulk, Wednesday evening June the 10th
"A number of Middletown ladies and
gentlemen will have a sailing party to-day,
driving over 10 the Augustine Pier where
they have chartered boat 10 cross the
bay to the Jersey shore.
William Guy. colored man living on
the farm of John R. Davidson near Mt
Pleasant, was accidently shot while return
ing home from a Whit-Sun-tide party on
Monday. and it is feared his injuries are
fatal.
Mr.. Joseph Edwards, Lear town. had
several valuable horses seriously injured
by being cut in wire fence on Saturday
they were hard run by the cars and. made q
dash into the fence to escape being run
over.
The monthly meeting of the Trustees
of the Poor was held at Farnhurst on Wed
nesday, all the members being present
The Superintendent reported 1856 inmates
157 white and 20 colored. and two deaths
during the month.
of the attendance at the opening of the
Belmont Driving Park, Smyrna. on We'd
nesday. the day being delightful and the
crowd enthusiastic. VIM B. Biggs entered
five horses and got away with large share
of the honors.
Three teachers in the Wilmington
Public Schools are charged by Judge and
Mrs. Frank Ball with cruel abuse of theil
eleven year old daughter. An investiga.
ton will be made and if the ch argos are
found true the teachers will be deemed un-
fit for their positions.
Some members of Congress could have
taken pointers from the debate on the rec
ognition of Cuba by the U. s., in the rooms
of the Y. M. C. A. on Monday evening
Messrs. Cox, suydam. and Pitt, and Rev
1. L. Wood discussed the subject in an in.
structive and entertaining way.
Mrs. A. G. Cox entertained the mem.
bers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the NJ. E. Church, of which
Society she is President, at q strawberry
ocial last evening. A few friends outside
the society were invited and company Of
about twenty-five enjoyed very pleasant
evening.
AS announced in the TRANSCRIPT lasi
week, DR.. Vallandigham will preach at the
union services at Old Drawers Church to-
morrow morning, and the society for the
preservation of this memorable landmark
of which L. G. Vandegrift, Esqr., is the
chairman, will have charge of the after
noon exercises.
-Goldey's College. of Wilmington. has
issued cards of invitation to the tenth an
nual Commencement to be held in the
Grand Opera House. Thursday evening.
June 4. Melville D. Landon, eli Perkins, u
will deliver the annaul address, and George
s. Graham, Esq. District Attorney. oi
Philadelphia will address the graduates.
Examination for entrance to Delaware
College will be held at Newark. Whining
ton, Middletown, Smyrna, Dover, Milford
Seaford and Georgetown on Friday, june
10. beginning ate a. m. Candidates will
please send their names 10 President A. N
Raub, Newark, Del, OH or before June Is
stating which examination they will attend
MIR. Edward Reynolds attended th,
meeting Of the Board of Trustees of Della
ware College, at Newark on Wednesday, t,
consider the election Of a new President
The committee IN charge of the matter rec
commended that the choice of Presiden
be deferred and some member of the fac
ulty appointed temporary President, whicl
the Board decided to do.
The picnic season is or, aud pilgrim
to the fields and forest will find that tn
spiders and snakes are as frisky as ever an
the ticks as sociable and frierdly. But the
delights OF the lunch basket as usual. vii
atone for any misalliance with the habit
ants OF the wood, for tho picnic dinner
always the best ever spread before hungr,
mortals. 1t always tastes SO good.
Mrs. H. T. Bachelor, OF Wilmington
will give an illustrated Viavi Health Tall
to the ladies of Middletown at the parlor
of the Misses Beasten. South Broad street
on Wednesday afternoon, June 8 at o'c:osl
and will remain over Thursday for con
suItation. Mrs. Bachelor interested all til
ladies who heard her first lecture and NOR
! will undoubtedly attend this ONE. All ar
invited.