Middletown transcript., 1902-03-15

day, March 18th, closes the Conferen
!. year, and the pastor, Rev DR.. Barrel
win preach morning and evening Sd
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! To-" 7.30 7. AZ IIow to Reach Il
Throne tliinsited. Come.
The Young Peoples Society 81 chri
tian Endeavor Of the Forest Presbyteria
Church. meets every Sunday evening
6.45 o'clock. A cordial invitation
extended TO everybody TIE topic fl
tomorrow evening is: A Noble Pul
pose = Dan. 1890. Temperance meev
ing.)
One Of the largest public sales that ha
occurred in this section for many year
was that Of Mr.. Alex. Maxwell on Tues
day Of this week. Some people plac
4 the attendance at 1900, and the price
realized were very gratifying to Mr.
Maxwell. The receipts Of the sal
amounted to about IS, 600
The masquerade ball given in til,
Opera House Tuesday evening, for th,
benefit of the newly organized base bal
club, proved to be most enjoyable affail
for the participants. but financially i
was a failure, but possibly when the bas,
ball season is farther advanced the lov
ers Of the national game will be more
liberal and assist the boys.
Mr.. John P. Mcintyre has placed an
order with Messrs. j. F. McWhorter &
Son for large hack to carry passengers
| to and from the Middletown Hotel after
March 25th. This will be one OF the fin
esthacks in the state, fitted up with solid
rubber tars and many other late improve
ments. and win seat ten persons comfort
ably.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Shepherd enter
tanned at their home on Saturday even
ing last q number of their friends
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs. John
s. Crouch, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Gray Tay-
lor. Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Letherbury, Mrs.
Henrietta Parvis, Mrs. Henry schroe-
der, Mrs. A N. Brown, Mrs. John Arm
strong, Miss Mary Hutchin, Miss Nora
Armstrong, Misses Shepherd, Miss Grace
Parvis, Messrs r Z. Price. B. Lynn
Caulk and W. H. Brady.
The Town Commissioners have organ
lied for the year with g. w. ". Naudain,
President; Geo. 6. Rowe, Secretary, and
the following committees have been!
named: Committe on Streets, Charles
h. Howell, ]. F. McWhorter and VIII
liam R. Cochran; Committee on Light
and Water, William r. Cochran, Geo. G.
Rowe and Charles H. Howell; COMMITTEES
on Finance, Geo. G. Rowe, Charles II.
Howell and J. F. McWhorter; COMMITTEES
on Law and Ordinances, J. F. McWhorter,
William R. Cochran and Geo. G. Rowe.
Complaint has been made that mail
bags on the Delaware division have been
tampered with and in several instances
cut open and robbed of valuable letters.
1t is believed that most of the offenses
have been committed on the midnight
Cape Charles express trains which run
rapidly through the State and Peninsula
and make very few stops. It is stated
that several pouches have been cut open
and then thrown on the tracks, to be de- /
stroyed by the car wheels 1t is under
stood that the Post Office Department
will place secret service men on the line
in order to discover the offenders.
Every steamer, SO says the Baltimore
papers, for some weeks has brought sew
eral thousand sacks of potatoes from
Rotterdam, Glasgow and Liverpool.
Here is an object lesson for the farmers
If Delaware. Just think of it, potatoes
have to be imported to supply the home
demand, when two crops of this table
Tegetabie can be grown right here at
lone, and good prices always realized. |
rhe farmers of this Peninsula, with a
title push could supply the demands of
he whole country and make profits
reater than raising wheat and corn.
Mrs. Edgar Clark entertained mum.
'er of her friends at a tea at her beautiful
ountry residence Sunny Lawn Thurs
ay afternoon, from 2 to O'Clock.
Imong those present were: Mrs. Henry
chroeder, of Lancaster. Pa; Ms. L. g.
terner, of Camden; Mrs. HI. G. Browne.
( Wilmington; Mrs. J. P. Cochran, Jr.,
frs. w. B. Biggs, Mrs. A. M. Brown,
frs. w. E. Barnard, Mrs. J.. G. Taylor,
FRS. G. A. Richie, Mrs W. R. Parker.
frs. Bessie Vaughan. Mrs. ]. L. Shep- /
erd, Misses Dora Price, May Holten,
Ignes Cochran, Martha Heaton, Louise
Lucie Cochran and Bessie An
erson.
DR.. and Mrs. @. A. Richie entertained | /
be members Of the New Book Club ut |
heir residence on North Broad street.
uesday evening. Those present were: /
Ir. and Mrs. Edgar Clark, Mr.. and Mrs.
'. Reese Parker, DR.. and Mrs. w. e.
Mrs. J. L. Shepherd, Misses
dda Foard, Dora Price, Martha Heaton.
Eary Hutchin, Jessie Hukill, MAY M.
[clten, Viola Ennis, Louise Reynolds :
lizabeth Shepherd, Viola McWhorter,
essie Anderson, Messrs. George T. vii
m, W. A. Hukill, Jr., George L. Town v
md, Jr., and H. Norman McMullin T
ere present. Miss AIDA Foard, Mrs.
dgar Clark and George r. Wilson were Z
Farded prizes in literary contests. t,
On Thursday evening March 18th Al b
ha Tent No. /, Knights Of the Maccabees b
as instituted in this town by Dep, Sup.
ommander. George H. Terpany and
ate Commander, DR.. George I. Truitt.
bis is the first Tent of the order to be n
-ganized in Delaware, although the y
Iaccabees are very strong especially in Ii
le West, Michigan alone having over n
)0,00o members. The order is a frater- D
y insurance society, paying sick, acci- Z
ant and death benefits, the rates of G
onthly payments being low. The men, y
srs who were present at the institution N