Middletown transcript., 1899-06-10

Il sentiment of denunciatlon against sucl
| conduct should be expressed by all, max
/ ing an impression.
The standing commission appointed TO
the purpose of assessing damages of lant
wanted by the Delaware Railroad Compan.
to straighten their track at New Castle con
sists of Richard G. Cooper, of New Castle
Henry Cleaver, of Port Penn, SeWell G
Biggs, of Middletown, ex-United State
Marshal Henry McMullin and Francis N
Buck, of Bear Station. They met ant
rated the whole strip which consists O
nearly two acres, at $500. As soon as tht
findings of the commission are confirmed
the railroad company will begin the work
of Strengthening their tracks between the
Christiana bridge and New Castle.
DIR. ]. J. Black speaks of the fruit crop
in this county as follows: "We have good
crop in New castle county, a good prospect
for grapes and currents and a small crop of
gooseberries. Pears have gone. Nearly all
the Duchesse dropped off after setting q
fair crop. Standard Lawrence set a poor
crop and Dwarf Lawrence are fair. This
is the off year for Manning. Even Kiefers
are not very full. Ounces are gone, after
beautiful promise. Apparently the ex-
tremely cold weather last winter did it.
Apples promise quite well but I am even
afraid of them. Peaches are very few. /
have 5000 pear trees and shall of course
have good many pears but no crop such
as hoped for"
: The closing examinations of the Mid
dletown Public Schools will be held next
week. All pupils in Room No. are re-
quirred to take the examinations. The
following have earned promotion during
the year on class average: Room No. 2, A
class IA, B class 2; Room No. 8, A class 13,
B class 6; Room No. 4. A class z, B class 2;
Room No. 5, A class Z. The Baccalaurate
Sermon will be preached by Rev. F. 81
Moore, D. D., in Bethesda NJ. E. Church on
Sunday evening. June 18th. Commence
ment Exercises will be held in the Town
Hall, Monday evening, June 18th. Robert
H. Richards, Esqr, of the Wilmington Bar,
late of Georgetown. Del, will probably
make the address.
Clerk of the Peace Foard has made his
usual settlement with State Treasurer Ball
paying him 32,901.18 for licenses, issued
April to May 81. They were divided as
follows: Inns or taverns, 96 licenses $780,
937, so; special inn or tavern, 4s, $1,000; re-
tailor to sell liquor, s, $500; special re-
tailers to sell liquors, druggists to
sell liquor, 2, $40; peddlers, 2, 500; hawkers
or peddler, II, 1925; merchants, yearly, SO,
$514 81, merchants, six months 40, $240 81;
manufacturers, yearly, %, $3.50 95; manu-
facturers, six months, s, $91.55; marriage,
IA, $283; auctioneers, /, $40; broker, $125;
circus, l, 500, doctors II, $135; dentists,
4, $50; eating houses, 4,$112.5O; lawyers, II,
$3.50; real estate, s, $3.50; stations and jacks,
9, 800.
The Cincinnati Inquirer has the follow
ing to say for Victor G. Willis, of Newark,
who four years ago often pitched for the
Middletown Club: willis is now rated as
the greatest pitcher in America. The Bos-
ton players are proud of the big twirler.
They have words of praise for him. He
is pitching wonderful ball, or rather was
until he was injured" said good-natured
Manager Selee. II told him last fall that
all he required was control and to learn
how to watch the bases. He must have
taken my tip and put in the better part Of
the winter pitching. Anyhow he had con
troll and it was hard to get lead on him
in the very first game he pitched this
spring. I think he must have been doing
some work with battery partner in barn
last winter"
The general topic of conversation this
week has been the heat, and the question
has been repeatedly asked tif there was any
hotter weather during last summer" Let
the record speak for itself In June 1898
there was no such heat experienced as dur.
Ing this week but on Jnly and the ther-
mometer registered 991 degrees in the shade
and Ill in the sun. On the third day of
July it was 103 in the shade, or about 115
in the sun. On Monday last the tempera-
ture went up to 81 in the shade, Tuesday
96, and Wednesday 90 officially while ther-
mometers in exposed places registered 1O4.
In the city of New York there were 26
deaths from prostration on Wednesday.
Wilmington had one death. Thursday was
not quite SO hot, Thunderstorm brought
rain at Sassafras, Warwick, and south of
Middletown. Yesterday morning vii.
mington had nice shower with promising
clouds all around, and rain later in the dav.
The many friends of Capt. William g.
Eliason and Mr.. John NJ. Naudain, two of
Middletown's boys who are making bust
ness go, will be glad to learn of another
enterprise added to the several they are 50
successfully running. It is the consoli-
dation Of the Sassafras River Steamboat
Company with the COLCHESTER Steamboat
Company, beneftting both companies and
also their patrons, giving better service.
The plans have been under discussion for a
month past Andrew Woodall, of George
town, Kent county; Henry Clark, president
Of the National Howard Bank and presi-
dent Of the sassafras River Line, and Capt,
William Cundiff, of the steamer Sassafras,
will be added to the list of directors of the
COLCHESTER Company, and with the mana.
gers of that concern win form the new
board Of directors. Capt. William @. Ella.
son will be retained IS president of the new
company and Mr.. John M. Naudain as
treasurer. Capt. Cundiff, who understand
the conditions reigning in the fruit trade Ii
Maryland, will have charge of the freights
along the Sassafras River. The new sche
dule goes into effect June 18th.