Middletown transcript., 1900-03-10

will no~eo to the exchange uftice and
pay them 10 cents for to talk ia /
! neighboring town and save the SIG !
year.
A number of the business men ol
Galena Nd, are contemplating the
Organization of a savings hank, The
capital stock is placed at $40, 900, par
value 500 per share. Committees
have been appointed to solicit subscrip-
tions in different localities, and lie
major par of the s. ock has been sub
scribed. Mr.. J. Thomas Pennington
was chairman Of the meeting and Mr..
r. II. Hicks secretary.
Mrs. Lizzie Parker of near Seaford,
was thrown into eonvulsions Monday
evening as a result of the miscbievous
pranks of two young men. Mrs. Par
ker was feeling unwell and was lying
in bed upstairs when tbs two uDg
men, who had dropped in, caught two
white pei lats, which were running
about the room and proesedsd to dec
orase them with red ink. They were
then released and i'm ediately ran up,
stairs and into the room of Mrs. Par
ker. She had just a@akrned and the
appearance of the fantasticsliy decor
ated rats SO badly frightened her that
she was seizsd with commissions.
Bridge v lie steps forward with an
other singular yarns, for which she
possesses an uueuviable reputation.
This time the report says that Elisha
Smnllen, col0red man of that town.
advertised in Baltimore paper toi i.
wife and got IN answer. After d
little correspondence the compile met IN
Baltimore and were married. The
featurs of the affair not entirely satis-
factory is the fact that The WOMAN is
whi:e. She says sha Didn't know
Smul;er was colored man until the
day of the marriage. Smuller has
considerable money. May be the
money bIiuded her such cases have
bee known; or maybe it i'another one
of BridgsviIle's imaginary fairy
tales, for which that town breaks the
record.
William T. jones, one of the oldest
and stonemasJHs 10 Cecil
C Iunty. Nd, died yesterday morning
at the hone Of his sDn, near Elkton,
10 the 8lst year Jf his age. Up to the
time of his last illness, month ago, he
WIS one # the most vigorous man in
the Coin y, notwithstanding his ad-
vanced age, and was able to work at
bis business. He was born near Elk
ION on April 5, 1919. He built the Uni
We salist Church on the road between
Elkton and Chesapeake City, and
walked from his home in Elk Neck 10
lis work, a distance of about seven
niles, making the trips on ice which
1t that tiGe covered the Elk river from
shore to shore. lie was the father of |
De ective William T. Jones of the |
Pennsylvania r iilroad company.
Last Saturday traction engine,
With its rig, consisting of thresher,
separator and straw carrier, which had
tatted from Wiugard's S ops. Eas;on,
Nd, for Hickmantown, Dell, iu charge
# Engineer JOIN McQuay broke down
be draw If Dover bridge, and the
whole outfit went to the bottom of the
in 35 feet of water. The
ngineer Went through with il, but
aved himself as he struck the water
y catching on to one Of the late.als of
be draw. The accident has obstructed
}hoptank navigatioI. The side wheel
teamers of the Baltimore, Chesapeake
nd !Atlantic Company cannot get
through the dIaw. The narrower pro-
'ellers of the Wheeler Line are able to
queezs through. Transit over the
ridge etween Talbot aud Caroline is
.lso stopped.