Middletown transcript., 1899-07-08
MIDDLETowN, DEL. JULY 8, 1889
Local News.

What became of the Boys Brigad
parade on the Fourth?
The Delaware City School Board has re
elected the teachers OF last year.
DIR. R. B. Mckee and family go
Rehoboth next week for the summer.
-Workmen are putting in the memoria
windows in Forest Presbyterian Church.
The showers of rain this week hay
done great good and cooled the atmosphere
Fire destroyed the summer theatre
Union Park, Wilmington, Tuesday morn
ing.
DIR. w. E. BARNARD, SURGEON DENTIST
Office Southeast corner of Main and Scot
streets.
Fourteen persons were injured in I
trolly collision near Wilmington on th'
Fourth.
Copies made from Tin Types or any
other pictures of any description at Trink'
lere's Studio.
For kicking his three. year-old daughter
John Linkoski was fined $40 and costs in
Wilmington.
Forty candidates for admission to
Delaware College have taken the entrance
examinations.
Wesley Fisher, aged II years, of New
ark, disappeared Friday of last week and
it is feared he has been drowned.
The camp meeting at Trinity A. M. E.
Church, Rev. S. J. Corbin, pastor, begins
Tomorrow and continues until the goth inst.
&C. E. Bross, of RidgefeId, Conn.,, has
bought the New Castle News.-Editor Hof-
mann recently got married and has retired.
Mr.. James A. Pierce on his farm in
Cecil county threshed 2100 bushels Of wheat
from 80 acres, an average of 26l bushels to
the acre.
The latest thing in butter making is
the Wheeler Gravity Cream Separator.
Price from $4 to S1IO0. For sale by
J. F. McWBoRTER & Son.
The Wilmington Board of Education
has reelected the present teachers, and the
salary of Miss Mary C. 1. Williams was in
creased to $1,000 year.
About so property owners have had
pavements condemned by the Town
Fathers. Tree roots must be leyeled down
and holes must be leveled up.
-FoR RENT-Morton house on Green st.
Possession given in two weeks. Good side
board for sale. Apply to
DR.. w. E. BARNARD.
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.
DO you like ice cream? Do you make
your own ice cream? If not, the TRANSCRIPT
is advertising book of instructions given
away under certain conditions. See ad. in
another column.
WANTED. and honest men
of good appearance as agents for the In
dustrial Accident Insurance Company Of
the United States. Apply to G. Schirmer,
Sec'y, Dover, Del.
-"All men meet with their betters some
day." says the defeated pugilist. The great
man here speaks great truth. No one
is quite so large and important in the
world as he thinks he is.
Principal N. W. Wilkinson of the Della
ware City Schools held the examination
last Saturday at the Academy building
here. There were % ladies and gentle
men examined for certificates.
Mr.. c. F. Crockett has built new pavi-
lion at Chesapeake City, music every after
noon and Tuesday and Friday evenings.
Ericsson steamers run daily excursions.
Best of order. Public invited.
Little Delaware's trust mill isn't grind
ing as fast as the one in New Jersey, as the
latter has turned out to date, ''1179 horrible
trusts" Jerseys, fees up to date amount to
$s3, ,538, while Delaware is cleverly on the
other side Of the 900 line.
: Pensions have been granted Delaware
ans recently as follows: Renewals-Eben-
ezer A. Workman, Georgetown. $6; Henry
G. sipple, Wilmington, s6. Increase-sam-
uel H. Craig, Delaware City, $l4 to Sl7;
George w. Jones, Port Penn, Sc to SS.
Original widows, observation-disclosures
Larrison, Wilmington, $l2.
The big shipyard about which the Viii
mington papers have had so much to say
the past several months, expecting 1t to be
constructed near that city, has at last been
located by Henry G. Morse, at Camden, N.
]. Ithas frontage Of 800 feet and depth
Of water at low tide. 40 feet 1t has cap
ital of SO ,O0O, 900. and 1000 men were put to
work Monday digging for its construction.
Doctors here say the kissing bug" was
discovered here last January. A member
of the DUPONT family was severely bitten
by bug which was sent to L. o. Howard,
entomologist of the Department of Agri-
culture at Washington. He returned the
bug, saying il was one of the species oi
melanolestes principes or kissing bug
Wilmington Ex.
-Postmasters are directed to open all
letters upon which postage has not been
paid, to ascertain the name of the writer
To avoid this no one should fail to hav'
their names and address printed on one
corner Of all envelopes used for mailing
letters. The TRANSCRIPT" Office afford
everyone an opportunity to have this dom
at very trifiing expense.
Word was received on Saturday nigh
of an attempted murder near Bear Station
Ag.A4..Ilss. Grad fupn ahnfN mt hi
father-in-law, William Biddle. McMulli
had had words with his wife and struck hel
Biddle heariug Of this, started to remor
strate with ais son-in-law, when the latte
whipped ont revolver and fred two shot
Neither shot hit the target.