Middletown transcript., 1897-11-13

Cleveland after the maternal grandfather
WANTED. Operators on Shirts. Apply
TO F. b. Burgess at Factory.
IF. B. Shreve. Experienced Auctioneer,
is ready for your sales. Middletown, Del.
House now occupy for Rent. Pos
sion December LIST. J. B. MEssrcK.
Simmons q slocum,s Minstrels wers
very good but the jokesI-they were CEN
tury old.
Mr.. VIM. 8. VanDyke. Of Odessa fell al
the Shirt Factory on Monday dislocatine
his shoulder.
Now is the time to have colts broken
or handled cheap. Horse clipping neatly
done by F. B. Shreve.
Odessa contributes thirty men and
youths to aid in the construction of the
Delaware City Battery Works.
-Chancellor Nicholson has decided that
the sureties of John ]. Dougherty, formerly
County Collector, must pay $4,000 to the
county.
--MiddIetown's new constable, Mr.. Agus-
tus Hushabeck, had his first sale this week,
disposing of the goods, chattels. &C. OF
David Polacheck or the gambling den" on
Lake street.
Mr.. Jos. C. JolIs has the agency for the
celebrated W. L. Douglass shoe. He will
tell you of them next week but has them
now on sale. You know what they are
the best for the money.
The rain fall for the present year up to
Nov. 1st was greatly in excess of the aver
age for twelve months, and yet It continues
to rain. Yesterday it turned cold and the
prospect for to-day is colder still.
The entertainment proposed for Novem-
Der 18th. has been postponed to December
9th, because of the time being too short to
put upon the stage the drama. Timothy
Delano's Courtship." A laughable panto-
mime will follow the play, A Search for
Happiness"
The Teachers Institute will be held at
New Castle during the week beginning
Monday, Dec. 9Th. The great attraction
will be Henry Watterson's lecture on Abra-.
ham Lincoln. It will be worth trip to
hear the eloquent southern editor upon the
Martyr President.
The Milfo rd Herald" got off the fol-
lowing last Saturday: "Middletown is to
have new publication, the Monthly Amer
ican." Brother Downham. of the TRANS
cRTPT is getting better, Brother Freeman of
the New Era" is to get married. and alto
gether the prospects are bright for Hot
Time in the Old Town"
The death of Ex-Governor Ponder at
Milton on Friday, November 5th. reduces
the list of Delaware's ex-Governors to
Messrs. Cochran, of this town; Stockley, of
Georgetown; Reynolds, of Petersburg; and
Watson, of Milford. Governor Ponder
was gentleman of the old school, an
active politician. and an excellent business
man. He was 7s years old.
During the past week three farms in
Blackbird hundred have changed hands.
They are all situate near Smyrna. A. e.
Jardine has sold the mason" farm, con-
tanning seventy acres, to John Deakyne.
The "Crow" farm. containing 140 acres,
owned bv the Kent County Mutual Fire
Insurance Company. has been'purchssed by
Millard F. Reed Dominick McElwee has
sold his farm containing eighty acres to
Andrew Hawkins.
"Out in the st reefs" is the title of the
drama to be given in the Opera House,
Thanksgiving night under the auspices of
the Mercy and Help Department of the
Epworth League, NJ. E. Church. The fol-
lowing is the very competant cast Of char
acters:
Colonel Wayne Harry Budd
Solomon Davis ..........W w. Reece Parker
Matt Davis. his son. John Paryis
DIR. Medfield ............J John 9. G. Kelley
Pete. e.-................. Jacob B. Maxwell
Mrs. wayne .......,.... Miss Lizzie Parker
Nina Wayne. ..-....- Mrs. VIM. Green
Mrs. Bradford ........Mrs. w. E. Barnard
Minnie, her daughter. ....... Susie Arthurs
Say a good word for genial John
Othoson" was the warm-hearted suggestion
of one who remembered that the writer
never knew the cheerful old man, so long
a resident If the town. but who has gone to
his last long home. He was for years with
Mr.. w. P. Biggs who testifies to the many
excellent traits in his character. and it is
said he became II regular attendant upon
church services at Farnhurst where he went
two years since because of old age and
failing health. Services were held in st.
Peters R. @. Church yesterday morning and
interment in st. Anne's Cemetery.
The Dover "Index" says: Last Sunday
morning Rev. Alfred Smith, D. D.. pastor
of Wesley NJ. E. Church. preached one of
the most interesting and eloquent sermons
that has been heard in that edifce for
long time. He took for his subject the ten
virgins who went forth at the midnight
hour at the coming of the bridegroom, and
handled it in a very able manner. When he
finished his pleading fors higher and no.
bier type of true christianity the audience
was spell bound and there was hardly a
dry eye in the large congregation. After
the audience was dismissed the pastor re-
cei we'd much praise for his excellent dis
course.
The cunning season in this State opens
next Monday when it will be lawful for
the space of seven weeks to kill partridge
and rabbits. but they can only be sold by
persons killing them. it is said that birds
and rabbits are both more plentiful
than they have been for severa,
years. There is difference of opinion as to
the opening day whether Monday or
Tuesday, but the law reads as fol-
lows: 1t shall be unlawful to kill partridge
quail or rabbit except between the 10th day
of November and 3lst day Of December.
Those wanting trespass notices can get
them already printed at the TRANSCRIPT
Office.
It is remarkable that reading public
should be 30 often swindled. The Smyrna
'Times" of this week SAYS: IA young
smooth-talking man. who claimed to rep :
resent an Agateware house in Philadel
phia, has been playing the swindle game in
this vicinity. He has been going from house
to house, taking orders for his wares. de-
manding cash in advance on the promise of
prepaid expressage. He gave the number of
| the firms place of business as 7O1 Marka