Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-03-22
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hi. Shallcross named the young son
Of Governor Biggs as tax collector that
day.
Middletown is still booming although
t is s.dry." The hotels are not on the
map and unlike the days Alex Maxwell
was in charge of the National no more
are the colored men served at window
as they stood outside.
Gideon E. Hukiil was one Of the men
one met in those long-ag0 days.
Everyone knew the late John W. Jolls.
He was in his delight when he was buy
ing the big Reeves peaches or the wheat
like that raised on the Bohemia Manor
farms which were in charge of Father
HAYES and later Father Hackemeyer.
Mr.. Jolls served in many positions in
Guiding postmaster and Levy Court
Commissioner.
l see Josie Jolls. his eldest son, still
in town, andhe goes every day to Will
mington where he is Deputy Register
in Chancery and Clerk OF the Orphans
Court. j,
In those days the Catholics attended
service once a month In room IN the
Opera House which burned down this
winter. Then Rev. Father Gaffpey, 5.
j., good, dear old soul, was presented
with the building lots where stands st.
Joseph's Church and rectory. The late
E, r. Cochran'was the donor and the
late Governor Biggs made the first do
nation of $l0O to the building fund.
'5ay," said a friend. do you re-,
member the fire in the Naudain block
Well it was the first to be responded to
by the Volunteer Fire Company. Among
those in town then were the Morreau
Bros, who ran the Transcript in those
days. The ever particular editor waited
after the alarm to put on his collar and
cuffs. The first line of hose did not ap-
pear to subdue the blaze and another
line of hose was attached but it had no
nozzle.
Its too bad, too bad to waste the
water that way" echoed the New Era
representative, Caleb J. Freeman. he
picked up the end of the hose to play
on the fire but he played the stream on
two young fellows, just like volunteer
would do. Well one of those young
fellows said things in Anglo-Saxon that
would not look well in print Mr.: Nor
reau made notes on his white cuffs and
sure as day preferred charges against
the young fellow for "cussin' at fire.
A Presby terian minister defended the
young man and he claimed such extenu
ating circumstances would make any
one 'cuss."
The confectionery store of Mrs. Kos;
Weber brought recollections OF the eve
iovial E. B. Rice, ice cream manu-
facturer.
Well, well, here is the square Will
the Middletown Hotel and memories O
Curt Lippincott, George Ortlip ant
John Armstrong. In the brick bloc'
where John A. Reynolds held forth il
it's entirety MiddIetown's Wanamaker
j, B. Messick and w. T. Connellee ar
monarchs of all they survey.
In going south on Broad street by tn
bank of the Delaware Trust Co. on
surely misses John S. Crouch who die
suddenly during the past winter. Mem
cries Of George L. Townsend, the BANK
er, were revived here. Across from tn
bank is the site Of Coke s place bull
after the fire of 1882 and it is now tn
Burris garage. One who fails to sto
and see Deputy Sheriff Harry BURR
misses treat for Curly" has a stoc
of stories from running two cent clu
to the days he spent as Uncle sam
soldier.
Surely one could not help but think Q
Charles Beasten at one time Phothonc
tary of New Castle county. tom
Cochran used to tell this big, goo
natured fellow he never saw snail eS
cept the one he met for he never over
took one. AS so many houses here wer
new it felt good 20 look towards histori
St. Anne's Church. That brought u
memories of Bishop McCabe, ~Fathe
Brown, Bishop Leighton Coleman, ver
cradle old man Beers, H. NJ. Willitts
Nathaniel Williams, Henry A. Nowlan
and host Of others.
Down on Main street again the Per
nington machine shop doomed up whlc
went in the grea' fire and now one read
]. F. McWhorter & Son. Frank NJ
Whorter and "Ned' Jones, the barber
are about the only business men VIII
were here thirty five years ago. Ne
still can give you good shave althoug
he has grown much stouter and has les
hair on his head as ''hair producer