Middletown transcript., 1901-04-06
DELAWARE CITY
r.. Trent is quite sick.

Mr.. Trent is quite SICK.
t Miss L. w. Price was in Wilmington
Saturday
, Miss Mary Messick was in Wilmington
on Thursday.
Miss Lidie Bradway spent Monday il
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Gilbert Green has returned I.
Wilmington.
Mrs. Anna Lonand visited in Philadel
phia this week.
Bernard LaBouhe, Of Wilmington, wa;
i'll town on Thursday.
Miss Lucy jackson is visiting her sis
ter at London Grove, Pa.
Mrs. John Warren is convalescing from
an attack of the grippe.
Miss Julia Sadler visited Miss Agnes
Vail near town this week.
Mrs. George Reightner patronized Will
mington stores on Monday.
| Miss Alice Vail is enjoying the hospi-
tality of friends in Baltimore.
Miss BERTHE Clark has returned from a
visit to friends i'll Philadelphia.
Miss Lena Sadler, of Philadelphia,
spent Sunday with her parents.
We hear Of rumors of wedding bells in
the near future Oh Clinton street.
Mr. Copper met with an accident on
Monday, cutting his fingers badly.
Miss Maude Sadler is staying with her
grandparents, MIR. and Mrs. Sadler.
A surprise party was given Mrs H. G.
Clark Monday evening by her friends.
Messrs. Samuel and Fred Ford, of New
Castle, were in town Monday evening.
| Mr.. Wilson, of Montana, visited friends
in town on Sunday, remaining over night.
Miss Margaret Janvier, of Lansdowne,
Pa, is the guest of Miss J. w. J. Marley.
Mrs. H. C. Clark and daughter were
transient visitors to Philadelphia this
| week.
DIR. Kells, of Philadelphia, was a guest
on Sunday at the home of Miss Sadie
Roberts.
Rev. H. S. Thompson and family left
on Thursday for their new home in Will
mington.
Misses Gertrude Sadler and Mabel,
Hickey spent Tuesday with Mrs. G. Clark
near town.
Elections will be held on Saturday for
mayor, and three school directors to serve
two years.
Samuel H. Craig has returned to Della
ware City and resumed his duties at the
bulkhead.
Miss May Everengam is home from
school for the Easter holidays, also Don
aid Cheairs.
Maxwell Reybold spent few days in
town, returning to the South early in the
present week.
Rev. Mr.. Northrups wife is quite sick
with pneumonia and cannot be brought |
to her new home just now.
An unusually high tide carried the |
water over the drop gate at the locks |
creating miniature Niagara.
Mrs. Charles G. Ash is very i'll at Men-
tone, France. She has the pneumonia |
and is in critical condition.
Miss Bessie Mills, of Wilmington, and |
her guest Miss Meta Russell, of Winches-
ter, Va, were in town on Friday.
Mr.. Megginson, Levy Court Commits
sioner, was in town this week bargaining
for oyster shells for the use of the County. |
The Right Rev. Bishop Coleman will
administer the rite of confirmation Sun
day evening, April 18th, in Christ Church.
The fire company of our town will be
glad to offer the use of their hand engine
to New Castle on the occasion of the next
fire in that town.
This being Holy week services were
held twice every day in Christ Church.
Easter evening service with baptism of
infants will be held.
A wash out on the trolley road, the re-
suit of the severe storm Tuesday night,
prevented the cars from running on We'd
nesday, but they resumed their trips on
The Superintendent of the water works
was in town on Monday to make arrange
ments for furnishing Ft. Dupont with
water in connection with the Delaware
City water works.
1t is reported the town is to have JUS
ice of the peace again after many years s
nave passed without one William House
holder, it is said, is to be appointed by
he governor.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Schunder and
laughter will spend Sunday in Philadel-
ohia and will bring her father home with 7
hem. He has been visiting his children :
n the city for week or two.
Mrs. Pordham, Sr., was robbed of her
pocket book by colored man who :
it from her hand as she stood =
lpon the porch at her home. The thief :
las not been apprehended yet.
Special services appropriate to Easter a
will be held in Christ Church. The choir G
will render full program as usual. All a
he churches will be decorated with plants
md cut flowers.
Stewart Beck was obliged to shoot one
# his hogs recently owing to the animal
laving hydrophobia. 1t bit some of the
ther hogs which Mr.. Beck has fastened Y
Up anL is watcbifg closely. As further
he shot his dogs. The town 7
5 regular harbor for all sorts of dogs {
md it is no unusual thing for a man to
'ossess several for which he manages to n
'ay no tax. An ordinance should be
'assed that no one should own more than +
ne and that one should be taxed accord {
ng to the laws Of the State.
The sale to be held next week by the l
aides of Christ Church promises to be l
cry attractive and convenient affair. 1
hIrt waists at most reasonable rates will
e ON hand, also quantity of gingham
prons. A new sort of fish pond will
rove attractive to the children who will
ig in sand in lieu of the usual fish pole.
he bill of fare is rather an unusual one
IL such occasions but beyond a doubt it n
ill prove to be one, if not the greatest
TRACTION of the evening. The ladies
ave collected number of miscellaneous n
rticles worth seeing and buying and they o
ope to see their friends in goodly num- =
ers.
Now is the time-before warm weather
egins-to fortify the system by taking A
good tonic-Pearson's Beef, Iron and !.