Middletown transcript., 1897-07-17

The biennial session OF the District
Convention. No is, improved Order Hepta-
sophs, was held at Harrington, July g.
Hon. e. B. Riggin presided and Frank
Wilds acted as secretary. There were thir-
teen delegates present. D. G. Montgom-
cry, Jr., of Dover, was elected as District
Deputy Archon for two years, and Fl. A.
Houston, Of Mlllsboro. alternate.
The TANscRIPTs local scribe has been
looking around since last week for the tax
payer in st. Georges hundred whose taxes
are lower This ear than last. He has not
not found him, and il is matter of regret
that he has not One large taxpayer went
to the trouble to compare last years asses
ment and taxes with the present. He finds
that his property is assessed for $2710.00 less
than last year but his taxes are $565 more
this year than last Let others report;
it is barely possible the politicians may be
shamed into giving to people their rights
the right of economical admin stration of
public affairs.
Mr.. Joseph C. Jolls has purchased of
Mr.. Edwin Prettyman his stock of Shoes,
&C., the inventory having been taken this
week. This hastens the departure of Mr.
Prettyman and family from town for which
there is general regret but it also guaran-
tees the confluence of business without in
terruption at this old business stand. Mr..
Jolls for the present will contin ne the
Closing Out Sale and at the same time will
add new goods, having given an order the
day the inventory was taken. It is his
purpose to push the business to its fullest
capacity. There are expressions of general
satisfaction that Mr.. Prettyman has so
worth successor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Droll represented
Middletown at the dedication st. Jo-
sephs Industrial School at Clayton on
Thursday. Mrs. Droll in description of
the imposing ceremonies, was enthusiastic
over the success of the enterprise and the
attendance and endorsement ofso many
prominent Catholics and Protestants from
all over the State. The plans are laid out
on large scale for the education and man
uel training of hundreds of the colored or
phan boys of the State. There are about
fifty there now. Judges Lore and Spruance
were present and score of other promi-
nent citizens. Kind and tender words were
said of Father De Ruyter whose labors
founded the institution and whose remains
were laid finally to rest beneath the chapel.
Mrs. Droll expressed regret that others from
this vicinity had not witnessed the impos-
ing ceremonies.
Paying Teller Boggs got away with
| $107 900 of the moneys of the First Nation
al Bank of Dover. On Wednesday the
Bank was re-organized on the basis of cut
ting down the capital stock from 100000
to $4,000. The stockholders will lose just
about one-half of their investments There
has been much gossip concerning alleged
confederates of Boggs in handling The large
sum of money stolen by him, but as far as
the knowledge ofany of the directors or
officers of the bank are concerned not a
single fact has bee CLEANED. They are as
much in the dark with respect this fe4-
ture of the defalcation as anyone. 1t has
been a mystery to many who were ac-
quainted with Boggs as to what become of
the Sl07 900 which he distracted from the
bank funds. To others who met Boggs out
side of Dover, there was no mystery about
it. There is little doubt that most of the
money was lost at gambling. The manager
of a well-known Wilmington business
house who does great deal of business on
the Peninsula, said, to the Sunday STAR
the other day: 'Boggs was great poker
player and so fascinated was he with the
game that there was seldom big game
anywhere in the State which he did not
attend"