Middletown transcript., 1897-07-10
John Grubb, ten ssafa old, vas drowned

ton on MONDAY, the MI. Pleasant Bahd luT
! nished the music.
Sheriff Finn was in town on Tuesday
: He sold the John, G. Gears property L
Thomas Davis. attorney. for $3.50 ant
$500.
The wheat yield is just delightful There
are numerous reports of 80, 35,and 40 bush
els to the acre. Mr.. John Bigenear is said
to have gotten 406 bushels from ten acres
Mr.. Daniel Corbit is also reported to be get
ting 40 bushels to the acre.
Thursday afternoon John Thomas, a
negro tramp from Cincinnati, was in com
pany with Others stealing ride on freight
northward. At Mt Pleasant his knee was
caught and jammed, and he was brought
here on the late even ing train DR.. Now
land dressed his wounds and he was sent to
Farnhurst.
i The FOURTH" or Monday, was OBJ
served by a display of Old Glory and the
noisy cracker. lis estimated that powder
enough to build another Washington mon
ument with foundation four times as large
was burned on Monday, and itcost as much
as campaign in the Revolution. 1t comes
high but the patriotic American boy must
khave it.
-LeGore's combination of lime is no
building or magnesia lime. 1t is manu-
factured exclusively for the growth of crops
and the general improvement Of soils. By
experimenting, farmers will find it to have
double the power of other lines. Now is the
time to lime sll sod fields and bulk ahead
for the stubble and wheat fields Nothing
equal to this lime for grass and wheat.
For full information, address,
j. W. LeGore, Woodsboro, Md.
Some of the leading lawyers in Will
mington, are asserting that the Adams Tax
bill, passed by the General Assembly at the
last session, taxing bonds and mortgages,
is unconstitutional. Under the operation
of the bill this county would receive about
so, 600. 1t is claimed that the bill. is un-
constitu tional because it is class legislation,
and that it is a double tax, since it taxes
the real estate and the mortgage that may
be against it.
Eastern farmers have heard of the won
derfnl Western machine which cuts the
grain, threshes it, grinds it, and bakes it,
throwing out nice hot rolls. They have al
ways doubted the story, but now Price and
Davis, dealers in machinery, &C., have in.
troduced thresher with such labor saving
attachments as to make any story plausible
1t is the vibrator" and in full running
order saves the labor Of eight en-. 1t has
threshed 900 bushels of wheat in half
day, and with lighter straw than this year
can get out 1000 its makers claim. The ma
chine is in the neighborhood of Odessa.
."For seventeen years the same reaper has
cut my wheat without accident or loss,' is
the testimony of farmer near Middletown,
and the wheat was harvested as well this
year as in 1881 when the machine is new.
How done? Every year on coming from
the harvest field this reaper is thoroughly
overhauled, oiled and put in order as though
the reapiDg had vet to be done for the year.
Then the machine is housed. To-day there
are machines, to the value of thousands of
dollars, left exposed to the heat Of the sun
and the dews and rains in the fields A
month from now some of the same ma
chimes with plows, harrows. &c., will be
unprotected, uncared for. OF course farm
ing doesn't pay" not that kind at least,
but it is different with the:farmer who runs
a reaper IL years.
The Christian Endeavorers of Forest
Presbyterian Church gave Lawn Party at
the residence Of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer c.
Pennington near town on Thursday even
ing. The host, like the generous farmers here
have a way of doing, Sc mt in his big spring
wagon early in the evening which took out
80 endeavorers as jolly, joyous a party as
could be found. More than half as many |
more went in other conveyances. Arriving |
at Lone Manor they found the hostess with |
her assistants had decorated the lawn,
porches and dwelling, with Chinese Ian
terms. bunting, &C., until It looked like a
reception for the national body of .en- |
deavorers now in San Francisco There |
were music and games and good time |
BCACAalys AAC HOotCco oOCAACA w pC CtOty
where seeking the pleasure of her guests.
Later in the evening refreshments were
served and the party taking leave of the
host and hostess returned to town about
11.30.
Governor Tunnel has re-appointed
Superintendents Smith and Tindal of New
Castle and Kent counties, but has named
Roman Tammany, Principal of Georgetown
Public Schools, to succeed Mr.. Knowles
Persons interested in education will ree
member that MIR. Tammany served as sup
intendent for Sussex county one year, be-
ing appointed in 1893 by Governor Rey-
nolds. Politicians will recall the circum-
stances. During the presidential campaign
of 1892 Mr.. Tammany who was then as
now at Georgetown, was a Republican and
greatly interested in political matters, GER
tainly the latter and it was supposed the
former was true He was in the secret
councils of the party and served on cleo
ton day as Republican clerk. 1t was be-
lived at the time that some one was giving
away the Republican campaign. The next
spring ex-Gov. Stockley, Judge Marvel, Mr..
Ebe W. Tunnell and one or two others, vis-
tied Gov. Reynolds one day and Mr.. Tam
many was named as Superintendent of
schools for Sussex county. Less than half
a dozen were informed of the scheme and
the result was "a tempest in a tea pot"
The friends of Mr.. Knowles in Little and
Broad Creek hundreds threatened political
revolution, and Mr.. Tammany at the end
Of q year stepped down and out. Now
Gov. Tunnel appoints him again. 1t was
said of him that he was the best superin-
tcndent the county ever had, redeeming
feature. He is native of Havre de Grace
and is well known here.
HEIR TO THREE MILLIONS.
A RaIxer,s Go0d I.uaIx Fortuna an