Middletown transcript., 1900-03-03
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M1DDLErowN, DEL. FEB. "a, 1900.
Local News.

DIR. w. Il. BARNARD, surgeon Der
tist, Office Southeast corner Of Mai
and Scott streets.
Read the adve. tisemeDt on his. rag
announcing the postponement of th
public sale of J. ]. Williams persona
property.
MovED.-Mr. John W. Spicer. o
East Main street, moved his family t
the John Wilson farm near Kenton
on Friday.
DIR. J. C. Sites, Dentist, Office, Pen
ington Building, opposite Messick'i
store. Painless extraction. Gas ad
ministered and Obtunder used.
Two $4,000 POLICIES. Frank L.
Gates, agent of the Home Life Insur.
ance Co., of New York, placed two
policies of $4,000 each during the past
week.
How TO SUCCEED.-The only way
to succeed is to go at IL in the right
way. Therefore, place your adve tise,
ments in THE TRANSCRIPT. Also let
Us do your job work.
PREACHED IN WILMINGToN.-Rev.
William j. Wilkie, rector of st. Anre's
P. E. Church, preached an interesting
sermon at Calvary P. E. Church, Will
mington, last Thursday evening.
DIED OF HEART FAILURE.-Pen
Brook Spearman,a sixty-year-old color
ed man, digd on the farm Of Mrs Gibbs
near town. on February 21st, and was
buried last Saturday at Lees Church
cemetery. Heart failure was the cause
of death.
MISSIONARY MFETINGs.-Mrs r.
II. Matlack, of Wilmington, spoke at a
missionary meet ing yestel day afternoon
that was held 1t the residence of Mrs
A. G. Cox on Green street. Last
evening the same lady made an address
at Bethesda NJ. E. Church.
j. Frank Brinkerhoff, of Pniladel-
phia, Pa, Specialist in lenses for the
eye, will again be in MiddleIown at
Mrs. Massey's Jewelry Store, on Tues
day, March 9Th. The most difficult
cases of defective vision corrected with
out charge for examination.
PASSED ExAMINATIoN.-I an ex-
animation for clerks for the Whining
ton post office held recently Jay c. t
Davis, of this town, received an aver
age Of 81 45 out of a possible 100 |
This makes Mr.. Davis eligible to an
appointment when a vacancy may
occur.
GOES TO CHESTER. Mr.. Ralph
Stats, who for the past two years has
been the engineer at the shirt factory,
will 60 to Chester to-day to take a
similar position with the factary of
the Delaware Shirt Company located
there. Mr.. Stats will be succeeded
here by RLbert E. Lewis, of Smyrna.
"How GOD PAYS MEN. 1.-THE SUBJ
ject for the Y. P. S. G. E., of the
Presbyterian Church, and the Epworth
League, of the M. E. Church, to-
morrow will be 'How God Pays Men,
Both societies meet in their respective
churches a. 80 pm. You are cordially
invited to attend these meetings.
MUST ANSWER. Swan, en-
gineer of the steam yacht Caperon,
whose boiler exploded at Delaware
City on January 17lb, injuring ten
persons anG causing the death of Capt.
George A. Cleaver, has been summoned
to appear before the quartermaster de-
partment at Washington, and make bis
defence to the charge of negligence.
VOTING CONTEST. fair to be
held by the Wilmington Bicycle Club,
March 5th to 18th, voting contest for
tho most popular school teacher in the
State will be held. The winner will
get 38-day trip to London and Paris
free Of cost. If you have any money
to spend in voting remember our Mid
dletown teachers. Each vote costs one
cent.
UNCLAIMED LETTERS. - The fol
lowing list of letters remains unclaimed
in the post Office at Middletown, for
the week ending February 22ud, 1900:
Lsdies.-Mrs. Josephine Artful, Mrs.
Mary G. Benson, (2); Maggie Clark,
Ella Duhadway, Idle Rothwell, Miss
Turpin. GentIemen.-George Boulden.
Persons claiming the above will please
say advertised" and give date of this
list. JOHN w. JoLLs, P. M.
COLoRED WOMAN DEAD.-Mrs.
Amanda K. Henry, we'll known col
Ored woman of tIis town, lied last
Monday of bronchial pneumonia, at
her residence on East Lake street.
She was in the 81 It year of her age and
was the OWNER Of some little property
here. Her funeral took place on We'd
nesday afternoon, and was largely at
tei ded IDtermeut was made in the
colored Forest cemetery. Undertaken
J. II. Emerson had charge of the fun.
eral.
TIE NEW CENTURY CLUB The
meeting of tbeNew Cen. .ury Club was
held as usual on Tuesday afternoon at
their club uolns. The roll call was an
swered by qIniati0ns from james Rus
sell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Homes.
The following papers were then read;
"Reconstructions Period,n by Miss
Mary Cochran. read By Miss Anna
Derrickson; Edgar Allen Poe," by
Mis- Agnes Cochran. Next weeks
program will be quotations from Long
fellow, current events in answer to the
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