Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1922-07-08
HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items o.
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

The moon will be full Saturday, July
I8.
A Ford runabout owned by Clifford
SPOTS was stolen in Elkton Saturday
night.
The carnival at Chesapeake City is on
this week, but the weather has been
most unfavorable.
Vacant houses here. are scarce.
Practically every available house in the
vicinity is occup6d or is being fitted up
for occupany.
The regular weekly dances at Angus
tine Beach begun on Thursday evening
of this week, and will be held on Thurs
day of each week until Labor Day..
Reassessing real and personal prop.
erty in. Cecil county, Md, has Leen
started and will continue six months
The cost of the work will amount to
$40, 1000.
Benjamin Vinton. of st. Georges,
attended the first golf tournament of
the new Newark Country Club on Tues
day and finished fifth among a large
list of entries.
The rainy weather greatly interfered
with the enjoyment of the Fourth.
which was very quiet one here except
| for the base ball games and scattering
| fireworks in the evening.
During the thunderstorm Monday
afternoon, lightning struck one of the
sleeping shacks at Bakers corn cannery
tearing off two doors, which was prac-
ticalIy all the damage done.
Monday was one of the biggest days
in many months for the issue of mar
riage licenses in Elkton. Forty-three
couples procured the permits AMI were
married by Elkton ministers.
Mr.. William Duffy has purchased of
Mr.. Frederick Brady building lot on
| West Cochran street, where he Will
erect modern home which he hopes to
/
have completed in the early fall.
John Heldmyer, Jr., Real Estate
| Broker, North Broad street, Middle
town, Del, has sold for Albert Henry
4 Donovan his 355 acre farm, near Earle
vile, Md, to John M. Reed, of Nc
| Donough.
| A freight car loaded with lumber
jumped the tracks south of the Middle
town station, early Tuesday morning.
and the wreckng crew from Clayton
was called and quickly removed the
wreckage.
AS result of the heavy rain storms
during the past week, there has not
been any wheat threshed from the fields
this season, and the majority of the
farmers will be compelled to stack
their crops.
Four large barges owned by the In.
land Transportation Co., which went
INTO the hands of receivers last winter
and have been tied up at the wharf ir
St. Georges for SIX months, were towec
away this week to Baltimore. Md.
The officials of Augustine Beacf
, have reported that the crowd on tn,
Fourth of July there was the larges
! in the history of the resort. They estl
, mated the holiday pleasure seekers a
> high as 8, 600 and the number of cars a
800.
John H. Lester of State Road ha
his car torn up Wednesday about fou
o'clock when it was run into by anothe
e car on the street in st. Georges. Oc
: cupants of both cars were considerabl
y shaken up, but no person was seriousl
;, injured.
Storms have weakened the Delawar
river bank adjoining the ST. George
marsh, between Delaware City an
Port Penn and Levy Court Commits
sioners Buckson, Lattomus and McCo
. went there Wednesday afternoon t
. make an inspection.
!. Monday morning Delaware car cor
!. tanning two ladies and young ma
J.. parked near the Clerks office in Ell
r. ton. A few seconds later another De
r. aware car drew up, mi1dle-aged ma
8. stepped out, shook his fist in the youn
IS mans face and carried the youn
r woman off with him We nresume
r. was an elopement. nipped in the bud
:; Cecil Co. Neus.
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