Middletown transcript., 1902-04-12
LOCAL NOTES

National Guard officers are trying to or
ganize Gatling gun squad.
Prospects for fruit in the lower part of
New Castle County are fine.
Ex-Clerk of the Senate Hastings will
erect fine residence in Laurel.
e. L. Peacock has been installed as ex-
alted ruler of the Wilmington Lodge of
Elks.
The Crescent Club has been organized
at Seaford, with Clarence Donaho as pres
ident.
Thieves stole 70 fine fowls from James
Reed at Townsend, and Daniel Massey's
roost was also looted.
The annual meeting of Baptists of the
lower peninsula will be held at Smiths
Mills, near Laurel, OIL April 18th.
The fftieth anniversary of the found
ing OF the Heptasophs, or Seven Wise
Men, vas celebrated in Wilmington Fri
day evening.
Farmers about Laurel are preparing
for an enormous yield of potatoes this
year. Double the usual quantity will be
planted this season.
While handling pistol, 12-year-old
Howard Nutter. of Wilmington, acci-
dentally shot his brother Walter, aged
s years, in the chin.
In connection with the turnfest in Will
mington on June 9th there will be big
parade of all the German societies and
athletic organizations.
James Roberts has brought suit for
$4,000 damages for alleged false arrest
in Wilmington by one of the officers of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
The trustees OF New Castle County
Workhouse Monday elected J. Newlin
Gawthrop, president; J. Frank Ball, sec
retary, and Joseph L. Carpenter, Jr.,
treasurer.
The Democratic League of Wilmington
celebrated the anniversary of the birth
of Thomas Jefferson on Thursday, April
10th. Congressman Grigga, of Georgia,
was the speaker.
Philip r. Garrett was Monday ap-
pointed trustee of the affairs of George
R. Townsend & Co., real estate operators
of Wilmington, who recently went into
involuntary bankruptcy.
Citizens of Pennsgrove, N. j., have
presented the Liberty and Friendship
Fire Companies, of Wilmington, with
handsome silver horns, in appreciation
OF their services at fire.
Another new fire company has been
in the Twelfth ward, Will
mington, to be called the Union Com
pany, former Councilman Oberly being
in the movement.
The heavy rain and high wind Tues
day blew off the roofs OF, two houses
on East Twelfth street, Wilmington,
and also caused the Brandywine to
overflow, some houses beyond the Elev- |
enth street bridge being flooded.
Franklin Duane, assistant engineer
for the Delaware division of the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Rail |
road Company, has been promoted to
the same position for the Maryland di-
vision. with headquarters in Whining
ton.
After policemen had testified that |
George Rubicon, arrested for begging on
the streets, was deaf and dumb, the pris-
oner surprised Judge Cochran, in City
Court, by announcing that he would con-
duct his own defence. The Judge sent
him to the workhouse for 80 days.
While George Hettrick, or George Will
Iiams, as he was called was being execu-
ed in Trenton Jail last Friday, his wife,
Mrs. Letitia Smith Williams, one of the
chief witnesses at the trial, was serving
meals in restaurant in Wilmington.
She said she did not send her husband
arewelI message and did not receive one
rom him. 81 did not want to see him."
aid Mrs. Williams |