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Middletown transcript., 1920-06-26
Middlefown Hotel improvements

The improvement to the Middletown
Hotel where the Virginian Movie Thea
ire was, is nearly completed. When
finished this will be the cosiest and
prettiest place of its kind in Delaware.
Its appointments and Accommodations are
up-to. date for taking care of its pa
irons. You will be able at any hour
from 6 A. NJ. to IL midnight to have
served you anything from light lunch
to regular Table-de Hote Dinner.
Ice cream, Ssoft drinks, candy and
cigars for the gentlemen. Electric
fans, large and roomy DINING room
insures cool place for your enjoyment. /.
A we'll appointed retiring room especial
ly for ladies will be an improvement
appreciated by the ladies' of Middletown
as well as all other patrons. It is ex-
pected to be open for business July 1st.
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Bethesda Church Notes
Sunday, June 9th, 1920.

Sunday, June 9th, 1920.
$50 A. NJ. The Brotherhood meeting
will be in charge of Brother George
Wilson. Come and help make this q
great meeting.
1890 A. NJ. Morning worship with
sermon by the Pastor.
11.45 A. M. Sunday School. Come
and bring the children. Show them
that you have an interest in that which
will help them. Don't think you are
too old to attend the Sunday School.
You are just the right age.
7.3O P. M. Evening worship with
sermon by the Pastor.
Prayer meeting each Wednesday
evening at 8 o'clock. You are cordially
invited to attend any and all of these
services.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
Official Board will be held on Friday
evening, July 2, at 8 o'clock.
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The sweetest Irish picture ever
produced, kathleen mavourneen,"
featuring Theda Bara, will be
shown at the Opera House, next
Friday evening.
Re-stocked With Shad

Several million shad fry have been
liberated in the upper tributaries and
head-waters of the Delaware river by
cooperation of New Jersey and Penn
sylvania fish and game commissioners.
Still confident that the shad and other
food fish can be restored in their old
time plenty to the Delaware under
proper conditions, the commissioners
will continue propagation, believing
that public sentiment will eventually
become strong enough to force the
State health authorities to check pollu.
ton of the stream.
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OBITUARY
Annie N. Price

Mrs. Annie N. Price, wife of Charles
S. Price, of near Warwick, Md, died
in the Cambridge, Md, hospital last
Saturday morning. after an illness Of
one year, aged 81 years. Mrs. Price
who was greatly loved by large circle
of friends, throughout this entire COM
munity. had resided on the farm where
her husband now lives for the past Al
years.
Deceased leaves to mourn her death
a husband, three sons, Kenneth Price,
of near Cecilton; Charles S. Price. Jr.,
Of near town; H. Raymond Price. at
home; and three daughters, Mrs. Hor-
ace VanDyke, of New York City; Mrs.
Lewis Ash and Mrs. Ray S. Dickson, of
Wilmington.
Funeral services were held at her
late home, Tuesday afternoon, in charge
of Rev. C. M. Cullum, and were largely
attended. Interment was made in st.
Stephens cemetery. near Earleville,
Md.
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Don't miss seeing Dorothy Cish
in ''Nugget Nell," Wednesday
evening at the Opera House.
His Fifth Birthday

Forty-eight young friends of Master
H. Reed Combs, gathered at the home
of his parents. DR.. and Mrs. W. S. P.
Combs, Wednesday evening, from six
to eight o'clock to celebrate his fifth
birthday anniversary. The little folks
spent delightful time on the lawn
playing games and various other amuse-
ments. A large table, beautifully
decorated with cut flowers, tiny pink
candles, etc., was spread on the yard
and the guests were bountifully served
with brick ice cream, cake, candies,
etc.
At eight o'clock the tots departed.
after wishing their young host many
more happy birthdays.
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St. Georges People Aroused

There was much bitter feeling engen-
dered last week at St. Georges over the
sugar situation. a large barge carrying
2lOO bags Of sugar having been tied up
there for day or two. The captain of
the barge told residents of that town
that he had loaded the sugar at thila-
delphia refinery along with five other
barges, because of the overf1owing con-
dition of the storage house at the re-
finery. He had taken the barge load to
Baltimore and was compelled to lay off
the port there with his load for three
weeks, being unable to unload on ac-
count of there being no storage room,
at that port. Great quantities of fruit
will go to waste there this year on ac-
count of the scarcity and high price of
the sugar.
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STATE AND PENINSULA

Peas and tomatoes will be canned by
anew factory recently erected just out
side of Lewes. !.
Wilmington City Council has asked
fOr bids on three automobiles. for the
fire chief and his assistants. |
Because of the scarcity OF dwellings
at Rehoboth Beach, many summer Wis
itors have arranged to use tents.
Outdoor services by the congregations
of four denominations will be started in
Wilmington for the summer this Sum
day.
The bridge across the mill dam at
Millsboro has b.en turned over by the
town to the State and will be widened
to 60 feet.
There will be no change in the New
Castle county tax rate, according to a
decision of the Levy Court The rate
has been fixed at 70 cents.
More than 81, 900, 900 worth of prop
erty changed hands in Wilmington dur
ing the last three weeks, according to
the report of the registry clerk.
Delaware oysters have been given a
cls AL bill of health by Federal officers
who have been making q careful survey
of the waters off the Delaware Bay.
The schools of New Castle county
will need $71O, 800 during the coming
year, it was reported at the meeting Of
the Levy Court in Wilmington Tuesday.
State silver medals in recognition of
war services were distributed to about
100 men whose names began with IA"
and "3" in Wilmington Tuesday night.
The present owners are making prep.
arations to rebuild Slaughter Beach,
once one of the most popular bathing
and summer resorts on the Delaware
Bay.
1t is reported in Wilmington that
General T. Coleman DUPONT is negotia-
ting for the purchase of the Hotel EN-
erson, Baltimore, Md, at price said
to be 4.OOO,OO
DR.. Lloyd Bevan, of Kenyon College,
Gambler, O., has been appointed asso-
ciate professor of history at Delaware
College, succeeding DR.. K. Robel Is
Greenfield, resigned.
]. Herbert Owens, superintendent of
schools at Havre de Grace for eleven
years. has been appointed superintend-
ent of schools at Newark, DEL, at a
salary of $25OO year.
A call for recruits to fill the Will
mington police force and establish an
eight-hour day is expected to be issued
by the commissioners in a few days.
The board has asked City Council for
authority to raise the force to 165 men.
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SUMMER SCHOOL JUNE 18TH

W8nteO-lnteIugenC young men Auu
women of experience in the school
room; public spirited men and women,
with a civic consciousness capable of
interpretating to American boys and
girls the underlying principles of
Americanism. To lend itself to the full
fillment of this demand on the part of
the State and the Nation, is the pur-
pose of the Delaware College Summer
Session, which opens on Monday, June
%, to continue for six weeks. Support
ed by State funds to an extent unequal
led in any other American Common
wealth, the delaware Summer Training
School for teachers is as definitely
part of the State line of defense
against ignorance, disinterestedness in
civic affairs and their attendant results,
as the training camp of the army or the
navy Of the Nation. The boy or girl
taught by an unframed teacher faces
future handicap from which the State
must shield him. Scores of Delaware
men and women, alive to the need of
the hour in the school situation, are
therefore planning to enroll for work
at the State College. Already large
number have applied to the Director,
w. A. Wilkinson and Dean Mary E.
Rich for room assignment and record
breaking enrolment is anticipated on
the opening day, Monday of next week.
VARIETY OF COURSES OFFERED
The courses offered at the Summer
School this session are broader and
more varied than ever. The faculty
has been strengthened by number of
instructors who have established rec
ords IN particular lines of work; old
courses will be varied in order to as
sure no repetition for students return
ing from year to year, to take up the
same subjects; and college credit will
be given for the first time to students
successfully completing college grade
work. School music is receiving place
never before accorded it, and Commu-
nifty Civics, persistently demanded in
every progressive community, receives
a place on the curriculum. A Demon
stration School, in which the most ap-
proved teaching methods will be prac-
tised, will be conducted daily in the
Newark Grammar School building. The
work will cover the first eight grades
and exceptionally strong teachers from
Teachers College, Columbia University
and the Oneota IN. w. State Normal
School have been secured to carry on
the demonstration. Students under
twenty-five are required to live in the
college dorms, all of which are attrac.
tive new buildings, equipped with every
modern convenience. Meals will be
served in Old College dining hall under
the personal direction of Miss Hall, the
college dietician. Glasses convene at
8. Is and continue until one o'clock.
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Lessin's Forced Sale

Our fine tailor and merchant, NJ.
Lessin, is about to be forced out of his
store, because the building is soon to be
torn down by the Delaw are Trust Com
pany to make room for their new bank.
This means, he says, big bargains in
much reduced prices on his stock. Call
on him.
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Governor Signs School Code

: Governor Townsend, before leaving
the state.house Thursday. was waited
on by the members of the state board
of education and was asked to sign the
revised school code oct passed by the
General Assembly at the recent special
session.. Complying with such request,
the governor affixed his signatures,
which makes many material changes in
the school code passed by the General
Assembly in 1919, especially the tax
question.
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Appointed to West Point

WASHINGTON, JUNE 21.-Representa-
tive Caleb R. Layton has designated
Reed Graves, Of Newark, Del, for ap-
pointment to the United States Military
Academy, at West Point. Mr.. Graves
holds certificate from Delaware COL
lege. This appointment fills all va
cancies to West Point for the present
year under Representative Layton.
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Fogel's ed. tells Of lower prices
much lower it, then 60
see }.
Entertained at Dance

A few young people gathered at the
home Of Frederick Brady. on Monday
evening and enjoyed dancing with VIC
trola music. Those present were:
Misses Clara Brady. Caroline Fouracre.
Mary Records, Marjorie Records. June
johnson, Edith Cochran. Alice Holiday,
Georgia Wiggin, Edna Reynolds, Percy
Donaghay, Purnell McWhorter, Har-
mon Reynolds, Harris Mcdowell. Harry
Roberts, Edward Hart, Jr., and Rogers
Fouracre.
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ST. ANNE'S REUNION
A Very Fine Sermon and Interest
ing Address
LARGE CROWDSN ATTENDANCE

The second of the. two big yearly
church memorial events took place last
Sunday at Old st. Anne's. where the
215th anniversary was kept with appro-
pirate ceremonies. morning and after
noon, when Rev. Thos. j.. Lacey. Ph
d., rector of the Church of the Re-
deemer. Brooklyn. N. Y, preached a
fine sermon, and Samuel C.. Mitchell,
Pm. D., made an interesting address.
The weather was propitious, and
June's verdure. the flowers and the oc-
casional twitter of bird and insect hum,
with Heavens clear blue vault over all,
made the days visit delight: The at
tendance at both services was as al
ways, quite large. though one missed
many who for years have never failed
to pay their devotion at this ancient
shrine in Goods first temples, the
woods"
But alas for the ravages of time !
How true the words of "Abide With
Me-" that swan song Of the gifted sou
and saint of the Episcopal Church,
Rev. Henry F. Lyte. dying so young in
south France: "Change and decay in
all around see."
One missed in the chatting throng,
the smiling faces and hearty hand grasp
of some old and true friends of St.
nne's-gone to slumber for aye with
the yet older friends Of the venerable
church lying beneath the green turf
about her.
Even that stout old centenarian, by
far the oldest Delawarean, the Aged
Oak that has so long kept his faithful
sentinel watch beside her walls, shows
plain signs of ''change and decay. "
His LEAKAGE is gro wing very thin, and
the huge Briareus arm that once in ver-
dant benson stretched almost to the
very portals of the sacred edifice, has
become pitifully shorter.
The Rev.. Lacy gave brief but
thought-compelling discourse from the
words in 8 Daniel, verses 1926 that re.
count the story Of the three Hebrew
children whose garments were not
touched by the fires of Nebudchadnez-
zar's fiery furnace, as type of things
that endure. The burden of the speak
er's theme being the eternity and i'm.
mutability of spiritual things as con.
trasted with the changing, decayipg
things of time. Alexander, Caesar.
Napoleon founded kingdoms that re-
mained but a day; but lone thing re-
mains unshaken, one thing comes eter-
nally forth from the fiery furnace un.
touched by the f1ames-the foundations
of the kingdom of God, Jesus Christ
the same to-day, yesterday and for
ever"
The choir assisted by visiting singers
gave fine musical treat and the devo-
tional services conducted by the rectors,
Revs. Percy In nponaghay and Lacey
were impressiv4P
The church's handsome interior had
again been furnished up with paint and
kalsomine, and Old St. Anne's never
seemed more inviting amid the solemn
quiet of the wood as place in which
to worship God.
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WILMINGTON LEATHER A. A. TO-DAY
The Leather Athletic Association, of
Wilmington, member of the Industrial
League, will be the attraction at Acad-
emy Park this Saturday afternoon.
Game called at 3. 90 o'clock sharp.
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Mrs. E,telle M. VanHekle

Mrs. Estelle M. VanHekle, wife of
Norman VanHekle, and daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Austin, of near
St. Georges, died at her home in Will
mington, Monday, aged % years.
Deceased leaves husband. two sons
and one daughter, to mourn her death.
Funeral services were held at her
parents home. Thursday afternoon, and
interment was made in St. Georges
cemetery.
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Cards Issued For Reception

Mrs. Cuthbert S. Green, Miss Ethel
w. Brady and Miss Helen F. Brady
have sent out cards for a reception at
the home of Mrs. George F. Brady,
near town, on Wednesday afternoon,
June 3Oth, from four to six o'clock, to
meet Mrs. S. Rodman Smith, of Will
mington, daughter of Mr.. and HRS.
Frank b. Watkins, of Odessa, who was
recently married in St. Anne's p. E.
Church, of this town.
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Mrs. Lillian G. Stats

Mrs. Lillian G. Stats. wife of Calvin
H. Stats, died at her home, near St.
Georges, Tuesday afternoon.
Deceased leaves to mourn her death,
a husband, thee sons and three daugh-
ters.
Funeral services were held at her
late home, Friday afternoon, at two
o'clock and interment was made in st.
Georges cemetery.
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
The dinner and supper served for the
W. C. T. U. at Blackbird netted nearly
500.
The offering at the 215th anniversary
of st. Anne's P. E. Church, last Sum
day, netted nearly $500, the largest in
25 years.
Thieves in automobiles have been
raiding poultry houses about Townsend,
one place being robbed of AZ hens and
12O small chicks.
Thomas r. Claringbold, of Newark.
has announced his candidacy for Levy
Court Commissioner for the Fifth Dis
trict on the Republican ticket.
Children's day services were held in
the Blackblrd M. E. Church Sunday.
A very interesting program was given.
The collection amounted to $40.
Mrs. Frank Moore, of Delaware City
in an effort to avoid collision with
motor truck, wrecked her automobile
by running into telephone pole.
The strawberry season is about at an
end. there has been an abundance Of
the fruit and all raised locally has found
a ready market at prices from Is to 35
cents quart.
The new Chesapeake City Commits
sicners have elected Frank F. Conrey,
president; S. s. Sawtelle, secretary;
John M. Reed, treasurer, and Reuben
Hevelow, bailiff.
The steamer Lewis NJ. Price, owned
by L. NJ. Price & Son. Smyrna ferti-
lizer manufacturers, which recently
sank in the Appoquinimink creek, near
Odessa, has been raised and most of
the cargo of coal saved.
A dance was given in the fire engine
hall, Delaware City, Thursday evening.
The dance is a new venture of the ath-
letic association, and on its success as
we'll as those of future dances, will de-
pc I'd the fate of the Delaware City
base bali team.
The Board of Education of Cecil
County, Md, has awarded the scholar
ship at St. Johns College, Annapolis,
to David McCauley. Of Chesapeake
City, and the scholarship to Western
Maryland College to Miss Ruth Nutter,
of Chesapeake City.
Pleasant Summit W. c. T. U. will
hold their next meeting at Mrs. Re-
becca Kronemier's on Thursday after
noon, July 1st. While Mrs. Kronemier
will conduct the fourth entertainment,
it would add to the success of the meet
ing if each member would respond by
an appropriate patriotic recitation.
Farmers of this section are getting
ready for harvest. Labor is very
scarce, men being enticed by high wages
paid on the road work. Many farmers
are making preparations to thresh from
the fields as it will not be possible to
stack the wheat. Ten cents bushel
will be the price set for threshing
wheat.
Epworth NJ E. Church choir, of Viii
mington, gave concert in Cecilton.
Nd, on Saturday evening to an audi
ence that crowded the main audience
room of the Methodist Church of that
town and overaowed into the adjoining
Sunday School room. The trip was
made from Wilmington in twelve auto
mobiles donated by friends of Epworth
choir, the singers leaving about A.. 80
| o'clock SATURDAY. afternoon.
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Women Speakers Used in Campaign

One hundred thousand women from
all walks of life will take the stump in
support of Presidential candidates at
the coming election, according to state
ments issued by political leaders in both
parties.
The value of women speakers has al
ready been recognized by candidates
who are now active.
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Card of Thanks

We wish to extend thanks As an ex-
preston of gratitude to our friends dur
ing our recent bereavement in the sick
ness and death Of my wife and our
mother.
CHARLES PRICE AND FAMILY.
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Chicken Thieves Busy

Thieves early last Thursday morning
raided the poultry house of George S.
Biddle, near Walkers school house and
stole AZ hens and 120 small chicks. They
ESCAPED in an automobile.
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Bryant Washburn in two Of his
best pictures will be show at the
Opera House on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings Of next week.
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Millington, Md, in Darkness

The dam at Steinke's electric plant
from which Mi:lington receives electric
current for lighting purposes, has
again been washed out and the town is
in darkness,
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FRIENDS & VISITORS
Personal Items About People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND GO

0VO anu 1A11OW
THOSE THAT COME AND GO
Mrs. E. H. Beck and daughter Helen.
are visiting relatives in Washington,
D. C.
Misses Gladys Otwell and Leila Pilot,
of Laurel, are visiting Mrs. Herbert T.
Pyle.
Miss Helen Shapley, of Smyrna.
spent Sunday with Miss Caroline Four
acre.
Miss Edith Eliason, of Wilmington,
was the guest of Mrs. l.. E. Ennis on
Sunday.
Miss Madge Corkrsn. of Centreville,
Md, is the guest of Miss Helen Biggs
this week. -.
Miss Hilda Cleaver, of near Odessa,
spent this week with Miss Dorothy Rat
ledge. near town
Mrs. Harry Stevenson, of Green's
boro. Md, is spending this week with
Mrs. Arthur Foraker.
Mrs. Louise Griffith, of Philadelphia,
spent the weekend with her father,
Mr.. Robert A. Cochran.
Mrs. Elizabeth Vinyard spent this
week with her daughter, Mrs. j. K.
Valiant in Salisbury, Md.
Misses Margaret and Elizabeth Brady
have been visiting their aunt, Mrs.
Embree, in West Chester, Pa.
Misses Mary and Prudence Lewis, of
Plainfeld, N. j., have been guests of
Miss Bernice Metten this week.
Edward Rhein, of Philadelphia, visit
ed his sisters, Mrs. William Hall and
Mrs. Arthur Foraker this week.
Mr.. Vernon Hamburg. of Hagers-
town, Nd, spent last week with his
brother Ross Hamburg and family.
Mrs. Lester NJ. Shestack, of Philadel-
phia is spending sometime with her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Berkman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Podesta, of
Philadelphia, were entertained over
Sunday by Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Massey.
Miss Margaret Cochran, Of East
Orange. N j., has been recent guest
of her grandmother, Mrs. M. H. Coch-
ran.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard S. Rodney and
little daughters, OF New Castle, were
Sunday guests of her mother, Mrs. E.
c. Green.
DR.. and Mrs. A. M. Phillips, of Will
mington, are spending sometime with
his sister, Mrs. E. Fl. Heverin, near
Townsend.
Mrs. Carlton D. Pepper and little
daughter. of Pamplico, S. c., are visit
ing her parents, DIR. and Mrs. H. B.
Mcdowell.
Misses Myrtle Houston and Mary
Gotee, of Baltimore, Nd, were enter
tanned this week by the Misses Beasten
on Cass street.
DIR. and Mrs. G.. B. Pearson, of New
ark, and Miss Corrine Hardcastle, of
Germantown, Pa, spent Sunday with
Mrs. M. H. Cochran.
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Milligan. Jr.,
of Seaford, were guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert T. Pyle and other rela-
tives in town this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hotis and daugh-
ter, Miss Hazel, of Evans Mills, N. Y,
are spending the week with their son,
Mr.. and Mrs. R. P. Hotis.
w. C. Lane and wife of Hagerstown,
Md, and Charles Mcclellan Black, Of
Harrisburg, Pa, are spending this week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Hamburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Ratledge, of near
town, entertained on Thursday Mrs. j.
R. Graham and Mrs. Herrick, of Phila-
delphia, and Mrs. J. H. Lyman, of the
Levels.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas P. Callahan and
son Frank, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Zipler.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Canaan, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Canaan, of Swedesboro,
N. j., and Mr.. Joseph Meyers, of Glen
shaw. N. Y, were Sunday guests o1
Mrs. J. ]. Shannon.
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Bridge Contract Awarded

Scott and Wells, of Townsend,
have been awarded the contract for the
construction of concrete bridge across
the creek, near Odessa. The contract
price is $5215 and the structure is to be
completed within forty working days.
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ENLARGEMENT Announced

Mrs. Rosa Weber announces the en-
gagement of her daughter. Viola E., to
Mr.. j. Carson Segelken, son of Mr.. and
Mrs, Henry S. Segelken, of this town.
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William Farnum in 'sLes Miser-
ables," az reel special, will be
the attraction at the movies Sat-
urday evening next.
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Locals Continue to Win

A larle number of fans witnessed
the defeat of the All-Star Base Ball
team, of New Castle, on the local
grounds last Saturday afternoon, by the
one. sided score of II to 2. The visiting
pitcher was exceedingly wild and his
numerous passes proved to be very
costly for the All-Stars. Brittingham
for Middletown pitched a fine game and
Weber is catching in real professional
style.
The score follows:
All Stars.........,..2 90 o. 2
Middletown.........3 8 90 ! 1O22 XII