Middletown transcript., 1900-11-10
DELAWARE CITY

George Thompson came home to vote.
Russell Eaton was in town this week.
Henry Higgins was in town this week.
The choir of the NJ. E. Church is to be
reorganized.
Miss Caroline Aker visited in Whining
ton on Friday.
Mrs. George G. Bennett has returned
to Quarryville, Pa.
Mrs. Edmonsun was transient visitor
to Philadelphia this week.
Mrs. Samuel Craig spent Wednesday
down the bay et the bulkhead.
II. G. Clark is further improving the
house built for Capt. Laf1tte.
Mrs. George Green, Of Wilmington,
visited her mother this week.
Mrs. Olive fell on Wednesday from a
step-l&dder and sprained her ankle.
w. B. Jester started for Tennessee on
Friday to see his cousin DIR. Shepard.
Mrs. Norman and Miss Lidie Stonb, of
Philadelphia, were in town on Friday.
Mrs. Isaac Cleaver and Mrs. Samuel
Haman spent Thursday in Wilmington.
Mrs. Isaac Cleaver, of Kennedyville,
Nd, is visiting relatives in and near
town.
Miss Anna Lofland spent Tuesday in
Newark to attend the funeral of Mr..
Choate.
Mrs. George N. Bright is in Philadel-
phia to see Rip Vanwinkle and Ben Hur
played.
Mrs. S. Hickey is the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. VonCulin in Jamestown,
New York.
Miss Ada Hayes and two cousins from
Pittsburg, Pa, spent Sunday with Mrs.
o. Wingate.
Mrs. F. T. Eagle, Of New Castle, and
Mrs. d. Murray, of Philadelphia, were IL
town Thursday.
Two social clubs have been organized
in town entitled the Dancing Club,
and the ''Social Club.
The golf fever has attacked the boys Of
the town and there are some quite prof.
cient already in the game.
Miss May H. Bennett has returned to
Philadelphia and resumed her duties at
the Medico Chirurgical Hospital.
Harry Warren had his hand split open
on Monday by large stone falling on it
while hauling stone to the q. S. reserva-
ton.
Mrs. Lavinia Smith and son, of Allan
tic City, were in town Wednesday to at
tend the funeral of Mr.. Eaton of Port
Penn.
Miss Josephine Foard who has been
spending two or three weeks with friends
in town, left on Thursday for New York
City.
More bids were opened at the office of
Capt. Lafitte ON Thursday for the build
ing of an ordnance store-house at Fort
Dupont.
Mckinley flags are flying and some of
the windows are decorated with pictures
OF the successful candidates. There was
no disturbance at the polls on election
day. =.
Miss Anna Ware died in Wilmington
last week in her S8th year, and her re-
mains were taken, as she requested, to
Salem N. j. for interment.
On Sunday evening at $50 P. M, the
Rev. II. 5. Thompson will give an unus-
| ualy interesting talk with blackboard
demonstrations on the Epworth League.
Mr.. Arthur Colburn's aged mother is
suffering with a compound fracture of
the hip, the result Of fall. Mrs. Colburn
although ninety was remarkably active
woman for her years.
The Rectory Improvement Fund 30
ciety held meeting in the parish house
on Monday evening at the conclusion of
the social hour, following Miss Foard's
talk" Of which brief account has been
given in this column.
A. Mitchell Gibe. son went to Whining.
ton on Monday to obtain work. and bav-
ing done so, while on an elevation fell
and injured himself. He was brought
nome ana taken to the polls to vote on
activity.