Middletown transcript., 1897-08-21

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o'clock.
The Peninsula Press Association will
start for the Nashville Exhibition on Sat-
urday. September 25th.
-Middletown can now boast of boot
black. the stand being located in front of
of G. w. Peterson's blacksmith shop.
The last private Pier dance of the sea-
son will be given next Friday evening by
the young men of Middletown and Della
ware City.
The tester of weights and measures for
New Castle county was in town on Thurs
day testing the scales and measuring ap-
paratus of our merchants.
-Workmen are repairing East Main
street, putting down new cobbles along the
gutter and filling up the numerous holes in
the centre OF the street.
Rev. Thomas Houston. the blind evan
gelist who conducted revival services in this
town last winter. breaches in Smyrna the
first two weeks in October.
The Chesapeake City base ball team de-
feated the Townsend club on Wednesday at
Chesapeake City by a score of to 6. Town
send struck out thirteen men. The same
clubs play at Townsend to day.
John Carrow, aged "a years, died on
Wednesday at the residence of his sOn-in-
law on the Houston farm on the Manor.
He was buried at Glenwood cemetery near
Smyrna on Friday.
"A horse belonging to Dr.. /. s. Vallan-
digham, hitched near the National Hotel,
occasioned some commotion on Thursday
by lying down in the shafts. No damage
was done except to the harness.
w. B. Biggs secured third money with
May in the 240 class at Reading on Thurs
day. In 2.20 class George Frazier driven by
Mr.. Biggs was run into by Red Weed,
causing an upset aud both horses were
shut out.
John Reed and Groome Steele, of the
Chesapeake City base ball team, were in
town on Thursday and secured Wallace
Holten to catch for them against Elkton
Friday, their catcher having sore hand.
Albert CHM will also play with them.
Very few peaches are being shipped
from this station this year, J. W. Jolls only
receiving 100 baskets during the week,
while in 1895 he shipped about carload a
day. The small number shipped shows
what complete failure the cropis, as in
1886 when there was full crop twenty car
loads were shipped in day by Bfr. Jolls.
They have been retailing in town at 75cts
basket.
why did you credit my visitors to
other people2" "Why don't you find out
| the facts2" were few of the queries shot
so thick and fast at the inoffsnsive reporter
that no room was left for him to say,
"Why do you not report your visitors and
the facts accurately as the paper invites
you to dor" The frightened reporter slipped
away and Joined the Moses Adamseses.
John c. Pennewill died in Wilmington
Sunday evening of typhoid fever. He was
well known in this town, being passenger
brakeman on the Delaware railroad. Mr..
PennewiIl was a son of the late John G.
Peunewill of Dover, and brother in-laW
of Senator r. r. Kenney, Mrs. Kennedy
being his sister. Mr.. Pennewill married q
sister of DR.. Josephine M. R. White; and
his wife and two children survive him.
-0n Tuesday the canning factory of ].
Il. Preston & Co. began operations, about
seYenty-ive Bohemians.h having arrived on
the morning train. In conversation with
TRANSCRIPT reporter, Mr.. Preston stated
that he did not expect to put up very many
cans this year as he did not get as many
acres of tomatoes as he wanted, and that
the yield per acre promised to be small.
He had not as yet been able to see all the
farmers with whom he had contracted, but
he hoped to have enough to keep him run
ming on full time.
-Forty-six years ago Robert Houston
came from Sussex county and engaged in
undertaking and cabinet making. The
firm was Gray & Houston. After residing
here six years he left, served three years in
the army, travelled through the west exten-
sively and is now the janitor Of big build
ing in Philadelphia. On Monday after an
absence of forty years Mr.. Houston re-
turned. looked over the field with a Rip
VanWinkle eye as ii were and left for
LIE yes to pay visit to still older friends.
Dollar wheat which has been the desire
of farmers for some time past, is now a
reality, that:price being offered for it in the
IoonI ,,,nrLata x,aokardary ond - ;c ooY,F
IDENTIFY claimed by some buyers that it will
still continue to advance. Corn and
oats have also steadily advanced, and il
looks as if all the cereals were going con-
siderably higher. 1t looks at present as if
we were going 10 have those good old
times promised as by Senator Gray in 1892,
only it occurs under the Mckinley admin
istration insisted of the Cleveland, as pre-
dicted by him.
Contractor Shannahan began work
Monday on new twelve inch driven well
for the Middletown Light and Power Com
pany. The old we'll. while only an eight
| inch one, has been sufficient for the de-
mand, but it is deemed advisable to sink
the new one in order to have double sup
ply in case of accident. There has been
pumped daily from the old one 10000 gal
Ions, the railroad company requiring 50.-
900 gallons daily, for which they pay $1,000
year. The residue is consumed by local
subscribers, there being about ito Of THESE.
| Mr.. Shannahan does not think it will be
necessary to go as deep as the old one, it
being 537 feet, and willmake frequent tests
of the water as he progresses in the work.
When this Improvement is completed, Mid
dletown will have one of the best water
supplies in the state, and with this abund-
ant supply of water and the efficient Hose
company it possesses 1t may never fear des.
trnction by fire.
Mr.. F. II. Burgess. of the Middletown
Shirt factory, has completed arrangements
for the establishment of another bran ch
factory at Dover, making the fifth factory
under his ecntrol, the others being located
at Middletown. Smyrna, Denton and Ridg-
ley. The Dover factory will contain be-
tween 125 and $50 machines and Mr.. w.
r. Bandell will act as superintendent. Mr..
Burgess stated to TRAEscIPT reporter that