Middletown transcript., 1897-10-09
MIDDLETowN. DEL. OCT. .. 1897.
Local News.


Every body uses Bragdon's Poultry Rem
edy. it cures; 25 cents.
Governor Tunrell and staff win leave
Wilmington next Saturday to attend the
Nashville. Tenn. Exposition.
Only hree high grade wheels left, one
for $40. ]. @. PARKER.
The Superior Court in Wilmington Sat-
urday granted ss applications to sell liquor
in the city. three applications that were OPP
posed being withdrawn.
Remember that ]. F. McWhorter has
a full line Of carriage and agricultural
Implements on hand
Some New Castle folks object to
brass bands playing ''There Will be Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight" when
they visit that place.
It's folly. to lose your poultry when the
use OF Bragdon's Poultry Remedy is guar
anteed to you for 25 cents.
"A fortune awaits the person who will
invent acontriyance by which woman
can tell who is at the door when the bell
rings without exposing herself.
IA graduate of your school Examined
with many others,) was selected as secre-
tary in this Office, (Phil.) The attainments
evidence your careful training" Read adv.
Goldey College and send for catalogue.
Sheriff Finn, of Wilmington. DEL, has
levied on the bottling establishment of John
P. Donahoe, and also the property of his
wife on claim of $4,000 held by the
Equitable Guarantee and Trust Company.
Advantages Of LeGore's Combination
of Lime above others are, it acts quicker,
asts longer. takes less per acre. For State
analysis and scientific test. testimonials,
prices. &C, address. J. w. LeGore, Woods
boro, Md.
IF cat and half can catch mouse
and half in minute and a half; how
many delinquent subscribers will it take to
swamp a country editor2 To the first per-
son sending the first correct answer to the
above, we will give him a free trip to
Europe at his own expense.
PRoFEssroSAL CARD.-Dr. W. E. Barnard
Surgeon Dentist, Office same location, op
posite the post Office. All operations per-
tanning to dentistry guaranteed. 0dontun-
der and Gas for painless extracting.
Alonzo Davis who is serving two years
sentence In New Castle jail for driving off
and attempting to sell team belonging to
another, has received notice of the death of
his mother in Queen Anne county, Md, and
he is the sole heir to 100 acre farm valued
at 5000. He has over year of his term
yet to serve.
-FARMERs, LOOK TO YoUR INTEREST
Visit the Flour, Feed and Exchange Store of
Evans & Son, next door to Parker's Harness
Store. Wholesale and retail. Flour, Meal
aud Feed given in exchange for grain.
John Townsend, pitcher for the Town
send base bali club, is one Of the coming
stars of the diamond. In Saturdays game
against Havre de Grace he struck out 20 of
the MarYlanders, allowing them but seven
hits. The game resulted in a victory for
the Townsend club by the score Of 8 to 6.
We have now stored in the Ware
House, Middletown, fifty tons of assorted
brands of Fertilizers for late buyers and
hose farmers that will run short when
seeding wheat.
s. III. REYNOLDS, agt.
JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
This is the time of the year, as James
Whitcomb Riley puts it,
when the frost Ia on the pumpkin
And the folders in the shock"
Ts this We may add:
When The boys are hunting chestnuts,
And the girls they follow suit.
Governor Tunnel has re-appointed Lewis
Sasse Justice of the Peace for the city of
Wilmington for term of four years. as
provided in the new Constitution. His
first term was term of seven years, being
first appointed in 1890. The terms of Mag
istrate John F. Daley expires April 28th,
1901. and Magistrate John A. Kelley, Feb
ruary 27th, 1901. and Magistrate William
w. Pritchett, in December 1902
The Rev. J. A. B. Wilson, D. D., who
has been pastor of Fort st. Church. the
leading NJ e. Church of Los Angeles, Cal,
has been transferred TO San Francisco to
the second largest church of the denomina-
tion in that city. 1t seems the doctor disa-
greed with some of his leading officials in
Los Angeles as in New York and had he
remained his salary would have been re-
duced. He win receive $2500.0O in San
Francisco. He made many friends in Los
Angeles who claim that" he preached pure
gospel often too severe for worldly off,
ciais."
The New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk Railroad, which is the southern con-
tinuation Of the Delaware Railroad from
Delmar, now owns the largest steel vessel
ever launched from private shipyard
int MeH Xesk matters Il WAS 3hnilt ut
Nixon's Elizabethport shipyard. It is a
mammoth car float. 345 feet long. Al feet
beam and 10 feet deep. Four car tracks
are bolted1on the steel deck on iron sup
ports that would extend in single line
for half mile TMenty-eight cars weigh
ing 1000 tons, will be the usual load of this
float. Elaborate and massive cleats. eyes
and bits are arranged for towing. Anchors
2 and chains are carried at each end with
Windlasses and davits for handling. A
large boiler developes steam for pumping
out the numerous water tight compart-
ments and for working the steam steering
engines. A rudder at each end Of the bal
.,,-,o,1 f,,,. 4. ,<s,,e tel t,, hr,th 1,.,S e,,d
steam gear from the pilot house on top Of
the central bridge. which il built up high
enough TO permit the cars 10 60 beneath it.
Oyera million and . half pounds of steel
are built into the hull. She has twenty
transverse watertight compartments so ar
ranged that they can b emptied Or filed
very quickly BY steam pumps Of great Ca
paciiy. Clayton Call.