Middletown transcript., 1901-02-23
DELAWARE CITY

ii. Y. CLARK was IN wilmington We'd
nesday.
W: n Vail spent Thu rsday in Phila
aeIphia.
Miss Emma Clark IS visiting in Pitts
burg, Pa.
William Anderson was in Wilmington
Thursday.
W. B. Jester and DR.. Irwin Shepard
are in town.
Harry Williams, of Pittsburg, Pa, was
in town this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Price spent We'd
nesday in Wilmington.
Mrs. John P. Belville is very i'll at her
home in Wilmington.
Mrs. G. C. Bennett returned to Quarry
vile, Pa, on Monday.
The Whist Club met at the home of
Mrs. H. C. Clark last week.
H. C. Clark spent Monday and Tues
day in Washington, ID. G.
Mrs. Neff has recovered sufficiently to
be able to be down stairs.
The corps of Artillery at Ft. Dupont,
Co. L. is changed to Co. 45
Miss Laura Householder, of Philadel-
phia, is home for brief visit.
Mrs S. Pines, Jr., is entertaining her
sister, Miss Fisher, of Hockissin.
Miss May H. Bennett spent Saturday
night and Sunday with her grandmother.
Mrs. Mary Smith, of State Road, at
tended the Pancake Social ON Tuesday
night.
Miss Gulia Heather is entertaining two
or three young lady friends from Har-
rington.
The canal is open to traffic and the
Ericsson line expects to resume their
usual trips.
The sewing society of the Episcopal
Church met at the home of Miss Hunter
this week.
Mr.. Fulton, of New York, was enter
tanned this week by his brother-in-law,
Rev. w. J. Hamilton.
The W. c. T. U. held memorial ser
vice in honor Of Miss Willard Monday
afternoon at the NJ. E. parsonage.
The cold snap enables those devoted
to the sport, to go red-upping on the
canal at the wide waters and up Scots
Run.
The pancake sociable held in the par
ish house on Tuesday evening netted
eight dollars for the ladies of Christ
Church.
Edison's moving pictures of the Cuban
and Boer Wars will be exhibited here on
March 1st and I'd in Central Hall, for
the benefit of the fire company.
Miss Edith VanKirk, of Philadelphia,
lis spending part Of her vacation in town.
She is employed as nurse in the Phila-
delphia Hospital and has completed her
first year.
The Rummage sale began Thursday
night and will continue for week. Be
sides the sale, there will be refreshments
and entertainments.
Samuel Lewis, Sr., is critically i'll at
time of writing at the home of his son
Thomas, in Philadelphia. Mr.. Lewis
resided in Delaware City for great
many years, going to Philadelphia to
make his home with his son after the
death of his wife. He is Sc years old.
When the locks were pumped out pre-
paratory to making necessary repairs, a
kes of beer, which one of the soldiers at
Ft. Dupont had dropped overheard
sometime ago, was found at the bottom
along with some other unimportant ar
ticles.
The little daughter Of Mordecai Steel
died few days ago while her father was
attending a service in the Methodist
Church. The child was motherless and
was i'll for sometime with consump-
ton. She was buried on Monday. In
terment in Delaware City Cemetery.
The Height" sociable given by the
Christian Endeavor Society in Central
Hall Tuesday evening resulted in a clear
gain of thirty-five dollars. This Gum will
be used to procure hymnals for the use of
the prayer meeting and the remainder
will be turned over to the Mite Society.
The society is in fourishing condition
and the ladies are making model house
of the Manse.