Middletown transcript., 1902-04-19

i HE town commissioners have give
! notice Of the assessment list for the yea
: OF 1902. The list has been accepted b
!; the board and il now hanging III I'll
!. Middietown Iiutel, where II viii remail
i until Blont'as. sIay 18th, appeal day
when they viii sit at the council room
On South Broad street as conrt 0
appeals.
The Young Peoples Society Of Chris
tian Endeayor OF the Forest Presbyterian
Church, meets every Sunday evening al
6.45 o'clock. A cordial invitation is ex.
tended to everybody The topic for TO-
morrow evening is How Can know
that am Saved9 John s:32; John
3:14; Rom. S:l-l6; John Al. Leader,
Miss Annie Ellison.
Grason stitchberry. OF the Diamond
| State Telephone Company, Dover, is in
town attending to some important busi-
ness Of the company. He has secured
several new patrons They are DR.. G. A.
Richie, H. G. Devallinger, MIDDLEToKN
TRAsscRIPT, J. G. Bragdon, w. 7. Con-
nellee, Jesse L. Shepherd. residences;
Middletown Hardware House and A. G.
Cox.
Bethesda Epworth League meets in
the lecture room of the M. 3. Church
every Sunday evening at 6.45 o'clock.
Everybody is invited to attend. The
topic for tomorrow evening is; Mission
airy Activity. The First Christian Cen
tury and the Twentieth" Acts 2s4l-47;
5-l4; 26:15-2l; Heb. 8-Ss; Rom. 1874.
Read Mott Chap. nv. Leader, Mrs vii
liam B, Hates.
Franklin Devalinger, father of Messrs. |
II. G. and William DeValinger, Of this
town, died at the residence Of bis son,
Charles DeValinger. in Elkton on Sun
day, aged 79 years. He was resident Of |
this town, and was on short visit to
Elkton when the infrmities Of old age /
removed him from his loved ones and
friends. Mr.. DeVaIinger was a captain |
for many years on the Elk River and |
Chesapeake Bay. The remains were
taken to Wilmington for interment on
Thursday, Rev. w. J. Wilkie, Of St.
Anne's Church, this town, officiating.
The opinion of some of the most pros
persous farmers of the peninsula is, that
the coming season will be record break
ing one, both in large and small fruits, to
say nothing of the potato crop. Many Of
the farmers have started to plant pota-
toes on larger scale than ever before.
Potatoes arrive at the end Of the tomato
crop. which is the last crop harvested,
and it is thought that several hundred
cars of potatoes will be shipped from the
Peninsula this year. The strawberry
crop it is believed. win be enormous, and
it is feared that growers will experience
great difficulty in securing pickers this .
DR.. and Mrs. G. A. Ritchie rendered q
their little son Master Charles, most I
enjoyable birthday party last Thursday
afternoon from to 6 o'clock, it being I
bis third anniversary. The daisy, being ]
The April flower, its colors were carried
but in the decorations. The little ones ,
zach received pretty basket Of candy =
trimmed with yellow ribbon. Those
present were: Charles Kelley, Bobbie
Pool, Jefferson Pool Timothy Hukill,
Frank Tyson, w. Alden Parker, Now
and Letherbury, Francis McWhorter,
Letitia Pool, Dorothy Ellison, Mildred l
Vaughan, Helen Biggs, Jessie Shepherd, Q
Nellie Janvier, Francis Beasten, Helen
Barnard, Hilda Wilkie, Janet Wilkie and N
Helen Manlove. II
Notices are out for the election of MEM
,ers of the Light and Water Commission, q
o be held at the Office of Justice of the !,
Peace A. G. Cox, on Monday, May 5th, :
,etween the hours of and 4 P. M.
There are two commissioners to elect this ~
'ear; one to ill out the unexpired term Il
4 one year, of the late Samuel M. Rey- W
lolds, and one for full term OF FIVE
ears in place Of DR.. Thomas HI. Gilpin. cs
)r. Gilpin is candidate for reelection, ca
nd az he has made a good commissioner, II
! is thought there viii be no opposition.
Tor the other place, Jesse l.. Shepherd h,
J the avowed candidate, and So far, the Il
My one. At this election each taxpayer Of
las one vote for every dollar Of town tax
aid by him, her or 1t, and voting can be
lone either in person or by proxy. There ls' m
an be cast about six thousand votes, al os
hough usually about two thousand are e
ast. at