Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-07-22
PENINSULA PARAGRAPHS


mother Catherine, infant daughter {
George Hastings, well-known farmer {
Laurel, fell into a bucket Of water an
drowned
Long Train loads Of Vegetables from II,
lower iaa't-'f Ia. peninsula pas tltrnis
Middleton daily. As MANY as Il d,'z.'
trains of 90 cars loaded entirely Wit
J potatoes, cabbage and cucumbers is a
ordinary occurrence.
While there were many remarkabl
Yields OF strawberries around Bridgevill
the past season none surpassed the GRO
Of Oliver A. Newton. From one acr
200 quarts of berries were picked, whicl
Melted $50362 The berries were Of tn
Candy variety, extensively grown there
1t is said that Senator J. Frank Alice
accompanied by Secretary of State Cahal
as representative of Governor Lea, vii
go to Washington soon and receive OF
the part of Delaware Government draf
for nearly $45, 900, the amount due thi
State from the Government accruinl
since the war of 1912, for munitions 0
| war and certain valuable things.
Each of Georgetown's rival lighting
companies is driving things as fast a.
possible. The gas company began laying
pipes this week and are making good
progress. Work on the tank will shortly
be renewed. The electric company is
making the house connections and is
pIa ing in meters and fixtures. Theil
intention is to turn On the current July
29th.
Mr.. John L. Truax who for several
years has been the Assistant Superinten.
dent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company for this, District, has received a
well merited promotion in the form of a
transfer which will make him Assistant
| Superintendent of the Paramount District
in Philadelphia, much broader field and
with greater opportunities for advance
| ment.
After having carried a needle in his
| arm for 81 years, John G. Hardness, a
grocer at Eleventh and Orange streets,
Wilmington, succeeded in removing 1t
Thursday with pair of tweezers. The
needle was broken off in his knee and
Mr.. Hardness entirely forgot about it
until Thursday when the needle pro-
truded and was removed without diff
Guilty.
Miss Frances E. Husbands, who has
been the popular and efficient principal
of the Black bird Schools, has been elected
by the Board of School Directors Of
Odessa, to become the principal of the
Odessa Public Schools Miss Husband
was highly recommended for the posi-
ton, not only by her County Superin-
tendent A. r. Spaid, but by prominent
educators throughout the State.
DIR. Howard Ogle, one of the best
known physicians of Wilmington, died
suddenly Wednesday night at his home
at No. Sl7 Washington street. An acute
attack of indigestion that affected the
heart was the cause of DEATH DR.. Ogle
was well known all through the state.
His genial and benevolent disposition
won for him wide circle of friends who
will be grieved to hear of his sudden
death.
Barking at times like dog and froth-
ing at the mouth thirteen-year-old
Alice Pierce's case puzzles the physicians
of Wilmington. While most of her
symptoms are of hydrophobia, she lacks
that important manifestion OF rabies
which causes sufferers to revolt at water.
During one CONFUSION on Tuesday the
girl leaped out of bed, and crawling out
around the floor she snapped and barked
like canine, even biting at her mother
She was never bitten by a dog or any
other animal.
The thirty-eighth annual meeting Of
the Maryland State Teachers Association
opened at the Blue Mountain House,
Centreville, Md, Tuesday evening, and
attracted representative gathering OF
teachers from every part of the state.
The address of welcome at the opening
session was made by ex-State Comptroller
J. w. Herring, OF Westminster, and the
response by President S. B. Soper, of the
Baltimore City College, and the annual
address was made by the president, Mr..
Arthur F. Smith of Homecoming.
That the great peach industry OF Mary
land is annually growing smaller and has
ceased to rank among the foremost pro-
ducts of the state, is being daily mani
tested by the small shipments of this
fruit received by the local merchants.
Along the Light street wharves, the CEN
trial point where this product is mostly
received and which in former years have
been so abundantly laden at this time of |
the year with large shipments OF peaches
from the Eastern Shore OF MARYLAND, |
there is noticeable scarcity of the fruit.
Now that the June drop is over,
growers are able to form some idea Of
the peach crop for this vicinity and after
all districts are heard from, the opinion
seems to prevail that there will not I've |
tenth Of a crop. Farmers who last year |
reaped bonaza will scarcely have any
this year and indeed it is said that tile |
largest and best orchards will not produce
over seven or eight hundred baskets if |
they produce that much. Peaches are
said to be more prolific down in Thor
oughfare Neck this year than any other
section.
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