Middletown transcript., 1896-03-07
MIDDLETOWN, DEL. MAR. 7, 1896
Local News.

Try a can Of Hopkins Steamed HON.
my (Hulled CORN. 1t is delicious. Full qt.,
I0c.
Remember that ]. F. McWhorter has
a full line of carriage and agricultural
Implements on hasd.
Prof. De Keller Stamey has organized
class in voice culture for course of lessons
for term of ten weeks.
1t is very hard to believe man is tel
ling you the truth about a matter. when
feel you would be apt to lie if you were in
his place. Wash. Hatchet.
The younger men Of the several
churches in town are discussing the feasi-
bility of organizing Y. NJ. g. A.. feeling
the necessity for such advantages and COM
panionship that such society would af-
ford them.
-Disgraceful college pranks have struck
Newark, Del. One morning last week one
of the Professors arrived at the college and
was more than surprised to see cows
head sticking through pane of glass in
his study. The cow made the room look as
If cyclone had struck it.
The Misses Anderson gave tea to
some Maryland friends on Saturday even
ing last. The ladies were Miss Mary Nc
Gruder. of Montgomery county, Misses
Maggie Anderson and Ethel Stewart, of
Chestertown, the Misses Jacobs, Of Sassa-
fras. and Miss MYRTLE Houston.
"A facetious exchange arises to suggest
the young woman's privilege to ask
young man to marry her also extends to
inviting him to have an ice cream or a
Hamburg steak with her. And it might
have been added: There is no law against
her asking him also to be allowed to put
on his skates.
Some one has found out how far a
farmer has to walk to put in and attend to
forty acres of corn. To plow the ground
with 16-inch plow he walks $50 miles, to
harrow it thoroughly before planting he
walks so miles, and to cultivate il afterward
he will have to travel $50 miles, making a
grand total of 750 miles besides garnering.
Mrs. George Janvier gave tea on Sat
urday evening in honor of Miss Marie
Watson, of Bainbrid &c, Pa, who has been
visiting her school friend, Miss Estelle
Cochran. Besides Misses Cochran and
Watson there were present Misses Bessie
and AIDA Foard and Mabel Paryis.
AT 10 o'clock yesterday morning vii
liam Boulden let out fox on the west side
of town just beyond the depot and in fif-
teen minutes pack of thirty dogs had.
started on the trail leading towards the
Maryland line. The fox was trapped on
George Gill's farm in Maryland, about six
miles from Middletown.
AT the annual enca mpment of the Del
aware G. A. R., held in Newark on Thurs
day last, the following officers were elected:
Department Commander. William B. Nor
ton; Assistant Adjutant- Genaral, William
s. Bryon; Assistant Quartermaster-General
Elwood Craig; Senior Vice Commander;
Sylvester Soloman; Junior Vice Comman-
der. Allen Anderson, cclored; Chaplain,
William Anderson.
Mary had little mule
Which followed her to skule:
And the teacher like q fule,
Stepped up behind the mule
And hit him with rule
Now there isn't any skule.
Now the timid, doubling suitor
By Prof. Roentgen's art.
May, before he speaks. discover
If she has marble heart,
AT the TRANSCRIPT office there is
half ton of old papers, more or less, appar-
emily decidedly more than less, to which
the good people of Middletown are well
come, and who is not good at this season
when of all seasons of the year every one
should consider the end that sooner or la
ter oyertakes us all? Old newspapers are
valuable In many ways but if they are not
called for soon they will be hauled out and
burned though not totally destroyed since
there is no such thing as annihilation.
Last month was even As degrees colder
than the average February. The tempera-
ture dropped 81 degrees in one day, Feb
ruary %. and went down to th minimum
of the winter. five degrees, February II.
February IS and 20 it also went down to
eight degrees. According to the Weather
Bureau records, the rainfall was about three
inches above normal. The usual amount
for the month is 3.67 inches, and 2.4S in
ches fell in one day. There were extreme
yelocities of wind as follows. February
Gas miles; February II, AZ miles. February
10, 40 miles.