Middletown transcript., 1898-12-24
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Local News.


A car load of salt" just received at De-
Vaiingar's-selling wonderfully low.
60 TO Weber's for fruit cake, lady cake,
pound cake, denoughnuts and all kinds oi
mixed candies.
AT Cost.-I will sell my entire stock OF
Millinery at cost.
Edith B. Morgan. Odessa, Del.
The Christmas Festival at Forest Pres.
byterian Church will be celebrated next
Thursday evening.
-Michsel's Vaudeville Co.. will appear
tn the Middletown Opera House, Christmas
night, December 26th. Popular prices.
A fine Fresh Mich Cow for sale on
terms to suit, by G. E. HUKILL,
Middletown, Del.
If you are going out of town for an out
ing leave your address at The Transcript
Office and the paper will follow you. 1t is
the only way to keep posted on town
affairs.
We have fine line of Ladies' Wrap
pers which would make suitable Xmas
gift for the ladies, also full line Of Ladies
Eubies, Fancy Embroidered Silk and Linen
Handkerchiefs.
s. BURsTAN.
III you want to buy whole outfit call
onS. Burstan. You can get fine Suit of
Clothes. overcoat, Shoes and Gents Fur
nishing Goods at the lowest prices. Give
US call and you will not 60 elsewhere.
Mrs. Laura Truax, administrative of
Robert L. Truax, sold his farm property in
Appoquinimink hundred Thursday. She
was the purchaser at $1,000.
-on tomorrow Sunday, December 25th,
at the Forest Presbyterian Church, the Rev.
FIJI. Moore will preach Christmas sermons
at both services. There will also be special
Christmas music.
Remember that J. T. McWhorter & Son
have full line of carriages and agricultural
Implements on hand
Your choice nuts fresh and at the low
est prices for quality at DeValinger's.
Shirts, 1Oc; Cuffs, 4c; Collars. &c. All
work guaranteed to be the best.-Lee Sing,
!. North Broad Street.
DO you want the "best farm wagon
made?" If so, buy the Milburn. Do you
want to double the profits from your cows2
If so, buy the American Separator. The
above are for sale by
]. +. McWHoRTER & SoN
The Cantwell Mutual Insurance Co., of
Cd essa. gives notice that the annual meet
ing will be held at Lloyd's Hotel, on
Monday, January ID, 1899, for the purpose
Of electing seven directors. A dividend of
Eve per cent. has been declared.
I'm the efforts to get something for
nothing at the sale here on Saturday of
unclaimed express packages nine out of ten
bidders were bitten. The articles were
nearly all valueless-patent medicines, old
circulars, eic. IT'S strange TIE spirit there
is for gambling.
The third battalion of the First Della
ware Volunteers was mustered out at Will
than 800 men. They received in pay about
$4,000, much Of which was spent with
dealers in clothing. Several Of the men
enlisted in the regular army.
The weather the whole week has been
miserable. Such heavy fogs have been un-
known. Navigation and railroad travel
have been interferred with. On Thursday
evening an electrical storm cleared the
atmosphere and yesterday was bright and
clear, the first good day of the week. The
bad weather interferred much with Christ
mas shopping.
AT Bethesda NJ. E. Church there will be
special Christmas music tomorrow. The
pastor, Rev. /. L. Wood, will take as the
morning topic, the Visit of the Magi, st.
Mat. -. Ia the evening at 7.3O the Song
of the Angels. st, Luke 2-l4. At p. NJ.
the Sunday School will have a special pro-
gram with special music All are invited.
Miss Sheppard, the leader of the choir, will
be assisted by Mr.. Milton Davidson, of
Dover
With ChristmasEve the Christmas holi-
days may be said 10 practically begin. Ac-
cording to ecclesiastical computation the
the holidays begin on the 16 tn of Deem
ber Rnd end on February 1, or the evening
before the parihoation of Virgin Mary,
Gandlemas day. In popular parlance the
christmas holidays comprehend a period,
almost q fortnight, beginning on Christmas
eve and extending to Twelfth Night. This
season, however, is very much changed
now from what it used to be in the feudal
times of our ancestors. Two very popular
obseryances ofthat period. belonging par
ticulary to the Xmas season, are derived
from the worship Of our pagan ancestors.
the hanging up of the mistletoe and the
burning of the Yule log. The, former GUS
tom is still practiced in our day.
AT the meeting of the Rehoboth Com
missioners in Wilmington on Tuesday,
Robert Pennington, representing United
States District Attorney Lewis C. Vande-
grit, presented the request of the govern
ment for the right of way for the Assawa-
man canal through the property of the
Rehoboth association. 1hesection required
10 but small piece Of land where the
tracks of the Delaware, Maryland & Vir-
ginia railroad cross the canal, but because
1t was not owned by the government some
delay has resulted to the work. The com.
missioners instructed the, proper officers to
make deed for the property in which they
had a. reversionary interest in case the
sajlsasd cracks should be removed. The
canal is nearing completion. 1t extends
from Chincoteague TO Rehoboth and forms
p part of the inland water way system
devised fo- the use of vessels of light
draught which system is to extend from
Delaware Bay 10 Albermarle Sound, s. c.
For several weeks past the grip has pre-.
vailed here and elsewhere. Physicians are al.
most unanimous in the opinion that grip is
contagious, and they base this conclusion
on the fact that whenever the disease makes
its entrance into household il rarely leaves
before two or three members of the family
are included in the list of victims. It Is
therefore, important that persons suffetins