Middletown transcript., 1900-02-10
PENINSULA NEWS.
Little Items Gathered Together for
Our Busy Readers.

Galena, Nd, will probably shortly
have a national bank established IN
that town.
Greenbaum Bros, the Seaford car.
ners, have distributed $500 bushels of
seeds among the farmers of that neigh
borhooi.
1t is reported that work on The New
Castle and Delaware City electric rail-
way will commence next month, so as
to be finished by the first Of June.
Last Tuesday evening Rev. Henry
l.. Burstein, of Milford, celebrated the
twentieth anniversary az pastor Of the
Presbyterian Church at that place.
A new fl .ur mill, to be run with a
22-horse power engine, will shortly be
erected in Clayton by David Rees. The
building will be two stories in height
and 28x30 in size.
A fire at an early hour Wednesday
morning destroyed the stable Of Theo-
dore Hastings at Laurel. Two val
liable horses, all his vehicles and some
grain and provender we're destroyed.
One hundred people have already
been converted at revival meeting
now being held at the M. P. Church at
Laurel. Rev. H. S. Less, of WASH
ington, D. c., is now assisting at this
meeting.
Some of the most representative
tomato growers in the neighbOrhood of
Kennedyville, Nd, at meeting held
recently, decided to ask $500 ton for
tomatoes the coming season and the
packer to furnish the baskets.
Elk Judge David G. .Marvil is making
strong effort to get the custody Of
his fourteen-years.old daughter, Ann
B. Marvil, who is staying with her
grandmother in Milford. Attorney H.
H. Ward represents Judge Marvil.
There have been several parties at
Seaford the past two weeks negotiating
for property near town to start several
industries. Among the industries to
be established will be the manufacture
of instruments and apparatus for
dentists.
Messrs. Wright and Tracy, who
have the contract for the electric light
ing of the town of Chestertown, have
notified the Town Commissioners of
that town that they will not renew
their contract when it expires the last
of next month.
A young man in the vicinity of Sea-
ford SAINT twenty-five cents to find out
how to prevent shot gun from SCAT
tering, received this answer on postal
card: "Dear Sir:-To prevent shot
gun from scattering use but one shot. "
That's the idea.
While sitting alone in the cabin on
his sloop at the mouth of the Murder,
kill River on Saturday night, Captain
Charles Simpson was fired at four
times, the bullets entering the cabin.
He saw his would-be assassin and gave
chase with a rife, but Intellectually.
Fruit experts in and around George
town are now of the opinion that Della
ware has chance for crop of peaches.
The cold weather has kept back the
buds and this is regarded as favorable.
A number of times the peach crop has
been destroyed by'mild weather adVanc-
ing the buds and then a sudden freeze
killing them.
Two years ago Some erset county,
Maryland farmer gave his daughter two
chickens and promised TO feed the in
crease for four years, providing she
would take care of them. He says she
has S64 in the bank and has 200 chick
ems that he has to feed this winter. He
also says that al the end of four years
she will own the farm and will be charg-
ing him rent for living on it.
Word was received in Clayton that
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
contemplates making great improve
ments to its prope. ty there. 1t proposes
erecting new depot on what is now a
large flower bed. This change will
Ering the depot on the other sideOf Clay
TOMS main street opposite the Bingham
House. The Smyrna branch track will
also swing toward the north instead of
the south after the change is male.
What is to be done with the old station
| is not known at the present time.
Sarah Brown and her child, both
/ coIored, living near Aberdeen, Md, were
burned to death Monday. The house
caught fire and it was burning rapidly
when she returned TO rescue her child,
when the roof gave way and the moth-
or and child we're burned beyond re-,
cognition. The child was about six
months old and was asleep when the
mother tried to rescue it. The moth
| er could have escaped but returned for
the child when it was too late. Her
husband survives her with several
children.
The valuable stock farm near Elk,
ton, Nd, which belonged to the late
William M. Singerly, of Philadelphia,
we're offered at public sale at the Court
House door at Elkton, on Tuesday.
} The sale was in accordance with a
degree of the United States CiucuiI
Court for the District of Maryland
issued in the suit Of Richard Y. Cook
ct al, VS.. William M. Rogers, who oc
cupies the property, and others. Tht
farms, which represent an outlay Of
S65, 900 are divided into three tracts, al
follows: No. /. 147 acres; No. 2, 12i
acres; No. 8, 81 acres. The prices OBJ
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