Middletown transcript., 1896-06-13
Local News.

The copious rains of this week have
done an immense amount of good in the
agricultural world
The Camden Camp-meeting will com
mence July 22d with Rev. ]. E. Graham. Of
Wyoming. in charge.
Chief Justice Chas. B. Lore, of Whining
ton, has been elected trustee Of Dickinson
College, at Carlisle. Pa.
Mrs. Mary A. Barker died at the resi-
dence of her son-in-law, ex-Sheriff Gould,
last Saturday in the SD year of her age.
Don't you pity the man whose wife
has the blues when the sun does not shine
and complains of lis fading the carpet
when it does shine?
Rev. James Morris, pastor of Trinity A.
NJ. e. Church, of this town, has been re-
turned to that charge by the A. NJ. E. Con-
ference, held at Reading Pa. this week.
Wheat harvest win be on in full force
next week, the grain is ripening fast and
the broad fields are beautiful and rich with
promise of plentiful yield.
Wendell Hulburd, ESQ., of w Wilmington
is recent graduate from the University
Law School of Pennsylvania, and has been
admitted to the bar in Philadelphia.
The barn on Jacob Cazier's farm tenanted
by George Sartin. near Glasgow, was de-
stroyed by fire last week and the contents
including, hay grain and farming imple-
ments, were burned.
E. r. Cochran, Jr. has been appointed
deputy Judge of the Municipal Court. Of
Wilmington, by Judge Grubb. to succeed
Harry Emmons. Esq. resigned, and in the
absence of Judge Ball, Mr.. Cochran will
preside at the City Court.
If you happen to find among your
change silver dollar bearing the date of |
1895 hold ON to it. Dollars bearing that |
date are said to be worth $5 now and will
be worth more in few years hence, as but
1000 of them we're coined last year.
The season has opened at ''Silver
Lake" Mrs. VIM. Taylor and family, Mr..
s. M. Reynolds family and several other
friends picnicked on the shady banks of
this pretty stream on Wednesday evening
and enjoyed an hour Of sylvan delights.
This is the way a Middletown girl
parses kiss "Kiss is a noun, though
generally used as conjunction. 1t is more
common than proper. 1t is not very sin
gular, and generally used in the plural
number, and agrees with Me-" This is leap
year frankness for You.
The Supreme Council Jr. O. A. NJ. will
meet at Denver; next Tuesday. The fol-
lowing delegates from Delaware will be in
tendance: H. c. Johnson, of Clayton, c..
L. Moore, Of Georgetown, Fl. III. Biliany,
VIM. G. Lynch and Frank w. Pierson, of
Wilmington.
The Wilmington Board of Education
has adopted resolutions exhonerating the
three teachers charged with i'll treating the
child of Judge and Mrs. Frank Ball. The
rested. but if such action is taken the
Board will defend them.
The marriage Of Mr. William Alexander
of Chesapeake City, to Miss Lydia B. Hard
grave, of DeLand, Fla, is announced to
take place at the home of the bride We'd
nesday. June, II, after which Mr.. Alexan-
will bring his bride to Chesapeake
9 they will make their future home.
The President has appointed George s.
,Smithers of Delaware to be consul at
Chung King. China. This is new post
established by the Consulate and Diplo
matte Appropriation bill which passed this ,
session of Congress. The salary is fixed at (
g., 900 per annum. Mr.. Smithers is native ;
of Dover.
Genuine and innocent wit is surely ,
the flavor of The mind. Man could not !
direct his way by plain reason, and sup
port his life by tasteless food; but God has
given us wit, and flavor. and brightness, !
and laughter. and perfumes, to enliven the {
days of mans pilgrimage, and to charm :
his panied steps over tine burning mari.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Cazier gave party '
at their beautiful home mt. Vernon f
Place." near st. Georges, Tuesday evening, b
which was very charming and recherche {
affair. Refreshments we're served by cater
ers from the city. Among sthe half an
hundred guests were Messrs. Re zee Parker,
VIM. Brady, Louis Naudain and VIM. Roth
well of this town
II always let my daughters have their say
about the color Of the lamp shades and the u
arrangement ofthe doylies," says a sensi- ?
BILE Atchinson mother. find, as a result
that they are not in such hurry to get u
married. The foundation of most girls p
desire to marry is to live in house where 0
they can have their own way about lamp
shades and doylies."
Mr.. Samuel McVey died on Sunday at
the residence of his sister, Mrs. Isabel El- q
hott. at Newport. aged "a years. He was q
well known farmer in this community a
where he resided until few months ago 7
when he moved to Newport. He survived
his wife only year. His remains were G
brought to Forest Cemetery for burial on
Wednesday.
The TRANSCRIPT Acknowledges an in
vitation to the twenty-sixth annual Com
mencement Of the Western Maryland Col
lege at Westminster. June 14-1s. Miss Bessie
Wilson Gunkel Of Warwick, is one Of the !!
thirty-eight graduates. and there are two in
the class from Delaware, Miss Hannah
Elizabeth White. of Midway and Mr.. will
lam Orion Livingston, of Seaford. IL
-GilbertS. Jones, Of the Smyrna High
School. won the first prize given to the
State Of Delaware by the Philadelphia
Press for the best essay on "Who are the
Three Greatest Americans" The prizelwas
fifty dollars in gold to be awarded to the
school boy under 1s years who made the
best attempt. Mr.. Jones gave the honor of
being the three greatest Americans to
Washington. Lincoln and Grant. The
judges were Francis q. Hofecker, Wash
ington Hastings and Judge Marvil. e
-,Picnics, excursions and various closing
day exercises are the order Of the day with :
the schools throughout the country, the
ID xaro6tahlo Of 4i,oso fu..aa