Middletown transcript., 1901-02-02
PENINSULA NOTES

The junior military promenade at Del
aware College will take place February Is.
Wagons have been hauling lumber from
Milford to Frederica to erect an ice plant
at that place.
John Bowers, aged 75 years, once
commission merchant, died on Monday
in Wilmington.
DR.. Caleb R. Layton, the new Secretary
of State, will move to Dover as soon as he
can secure suitable house.
The newly organized council of Amer
ican Mechanics at Sycamore, Sussex
county, has already over fifty members.
The executors of Joseph Tatnall have
sold to Preston Lea a wharf property on
the Brandywine, at Wilmington, for
81, $50.
An effort is being made to organize
brass band in Clayton. Over 500 has
been promised by the citizens of the
town.
William Y Ham Russell vas injured BY BY being
thrown from his carriage at Newark, his
nose being gashed and the tip of it almost
cut off.
Municipal Judge E. R. Cochran, Jr.,
Wilmington, has recommended the ap-
pointment of Sylvester D. Townsend, Jr.,
as Deputy Judge.
Public sentiment in Delaware is opposed
to the abolishment of the whipping post,
but it is in favor of an extension of its
application to cover wife-beaters.
The Bachelors Band, of Smyrna,
which was recently organized, will pre-
sent drama in the Smyrna Opera House
on Tuesday evening, February IL.
The new Secretary of State is admins
tering the affairs of his Office with
smoothness born of fitness and especial
qualifcations.-MiJord Chronicle.
The Christian Endeavor Society, of
Asbury M. E. Church, Smyrna, will give
social in the lecture room of the church
on Thursday evening, February 7.
The Legislature has a bill before it
which fixes the punishment for kidnap-
ping at death. This is not considered too
drastic by the papers of other States.
Joseph L. Carpenter, Jr., Whining
ton real estate agent, is seeking large
piece of land in Wilmington as site for
a concern which will employ about 200
persons.
Prof. E. w. Manning, of Delaware
College, is to address the Wilmington
City Council in support of the proposition
to remove the college from Newark to
Wilmington.
The Harlan & Hollingsworth Company,
of Wilmington, has decided to make an
annual appropriation of 5000 each in the
Delaware Hospital and the Homeopathic
Hospital, of that city.
Frederic Reeves Pettiiohn, of Will
mington, and Miss Minnie Steele, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. James M. Steele, of
Georgetown, were married at the home
of the bride, in Georgetown, Wednes-
day.
The young people of Brenford NJ. E. |
Sunday School held box social in the |
school house Wednesday night. This
Sunday school has only been organized |
a short time and is making rapid pro-
gress.
A model submitted by Fl. c. Elliott, of |
Washington, in the competition for the |
Bayard statue, is still at the freight sta
ton of the P. w. & B. Railroad, in Will
mington. He will probably arrange for
its return.
The lawyers of Alex. Pullen will make
the plea that he is a "tiller of the soil,"
and therefore exempt from bankruptcy
proceedings. The creditors deny this
ayerment, and set forth that his business
of nurseryman is that of commerce.
Mrs. Hannah Ann Leach, who died in
Wilmington last week, in her 95 year came
of long-lived family. Her brother, John
Fraim, died in his Goth year, and a sister,
Mrs. Sallie Daring, lived to be 90. The
Fraim ancestors came from England with
William Penn.
Colonel William A. LaMotte, J. Will
kins Cooch, Chief Justice B. Lore and
Howard D. Ross have been appointed a
committee to secure suitable design for
q monument to mark the site of the bat
tie of Cooch's Bridge, of September 8,
l777.
Isaac Robinson, the tomato Gamer,
has gone into bankruptcy, and those who |
got judgment and made foreign attach
nent made a useless expense on them
selves, as the National Bankruptcy law
goes back four months in all transactions.
Those having claims must now file th em
n the proper channel in bankruptcy pro-
,eedings.
It is not generally known that mar
,iage can be performed in Maryland
Without a license. The law says no per-
on shall be married without a license
unless the names of the parties intend
ng to marry shall be thrice published in
ome church or house of religious worship
n the county where the woman resides
IN three several Sundays by some minis
er residing in said county.
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