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MIDDLETOWN, DELAWAEE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 22, 1892,
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THE TBAHSCRIPTte BUDGET,
N WHO HAVE APKALEa TO
OUR COLUMNS*
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As the Best Medium to Adrç
Thier Holiday Novelties-WhJ
Buy and Where to Buy It.
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With the coming of Christmas tht
usual questions of "What shall I buy"
and "Where shall I buy" my presents
the things that bother the aver
age purchaser, and to those we would
simply say consult the columns of
the Transcript. For the past three
weeks we have presented to onr read
the tempting array of holiday
goods which our Middletown mer
chants have secured and placed be
fore you from which to make your
selection. They vie with one another
in presenting novelties both useful
and ornamental and in point of
beauty and low price you cannot do
better anywhere else.
The Transcript has been the me
dium through which our merchants
have sought to reach the reading
public, and their appreciation of our
efforts have not been In vain. We
have distributed with this issue
15,000 copies during the past three
weeks, and onr advertising space has
been increased by the busiuess that
has come to us unsolicited.
Next week we will again get down
to our usual four pages, and can pro
mise our readers even a better paper
than through the exigencies of the
occasion we have been compelled to
give them.
The subscription list is still increas
ng, aad when we enter upon the
New Year we will open our new books
with at least 1500 names on our list.
This is the largest circulation ever
gained by any newspaper in Middle
town, and we propose to have at least
twice that number before the close of
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another year.
Tbe Transcript's annual visit
its advertisers was made ves
among
terday and we briefly outline what
we saw on tbe trip. At
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Mrs. Thomas Massey's
You could not get by without stop
ping even if you wanted to, for her
window is so attractive, with an array
of beautiful things so tastily arranged
that it is quite bewildering; you will
scarcely get away without making
some
you could mention in the way of fine
silverware,pretty clockBaud handsome
ornaments, jewels, necklaces, rings
and everything to please the femi
nine fancy, from a gold watch to a
hair-pin, and all at prices which will
make it pay yon to bay at home.
E. B. Rice.
There are toys, games and
dolls, all of which most have a place
among tbe Christmas purchasers
where the little people are to be
pleased. There are also all kinds of
candy, cheap enough for every one
to have plenty of it, and fruits from
every clime, in tempting profusion.
Indeed there is everything at Kris
Kringie's Headquarters. His hand
maids greet yon with a smile and
seem eager to do your bidding, and
tbe whole place seems fall of the
Christmas spirit. If you have not
felt much of it yet, you will surely
find it at Rice's.
purchase. There is every thing
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old
D. L. Dunning.
Here is the pioneer ofholiday goods
in Middletown, so don't fail to give
him a call this year. Good books are
the best friends one can have, and
no presents are more acceptable to
old and young. Mr. Dunning has a
special lot for only 20 cents each, in
pretty bindings, good type and con
taining excellent reading. There are
also books of poetry, and sketches
from 85 cents to a dollar, and a great
variety of juvenile books and book
lets. Get some good reading for the
family circle this winter.
8. M. Reynolds & Co.
Anywhere on Cochran Square will
do. No matter into what depart
ment yon enter, just keep on till yon
see it all. You'll not only find every
thing in nioe dress goods, fancy articles
and notions, but also fine china and
glass ware, lamps, umbrellas, rugs,
and all sorts of household things. It
is a common saying " if you do not
find what yon want at Reynold's, no
need to try any where elese in town."
It is the place for Christmas shop
pers.
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J. H. Emerson.
The mistletoe hung in the castle
hall," bnt you can also find it at Emer
son's. In his window is a minature
drawing room, where you can learn
how to arrange your parlor for
He has also just ra
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Christmas,
oeived a special lot of couches, tables
desks and easy chairs ail suitable for
holiday gifts.
W. J. Wilson.
Has an attractive window and lots
of nice and pretty things. Beautiful
easels, tables and cabinets and a full
line of furniture. Here is tbe place
to set up housekeeping.
Diamond State Harness Factory.
In all yonr Christmas shopping,
don't forget yonr faithful bone. He
will only know it is Christmas by the
extra nice warm blanket which you
can get for him at Parker's, where
you cap also get robes, harness, etc.
Messlck's Bargain Store.
In the world of toys and novelties
bo place presents such a charm for
the out-of-town shopper as Messick's
Bargain House under Town Hall.
He informs os that he has sold 4000
pounds of candies during^h
two weeks, and bas beeg^tblj
get in another large
the past week to be a
large demand made l
stock of toys and \ac
finer; and then them
some suits and overdh
not be duplicated einer in price or
quality. Â visit to M^dletown is not
complete without a visit to this mam
moth palace of toys and novelties.
W. R. Reynolds.
In the harness Emporium of W. R.
Reynolds holiday shoppers will find
an excellent line of fancy plush robes,
harness etc., from which to select
a handsome present. A visit to his
place will pay you.
Edwin Prettyman.
For useful presents, slippers, shoes
and boots are never out of place, and
Prettyman has some that will please
the most fastidious. You'll find his
prices low and his goods reliable.
Out of Town.
Of course there are some who will
go from home to do a little shopping
and a good deal of looking. If you
go to Wilmingion remember Sharp is
the place to buy dry goods. Mnllin's
for clothing.
If you go to Philadelphia it is need
less to mention Wanamakers, for you
would hardly go if it were not for the
charm of his big store. And Straw
bridge & Clothier is not far behind
him. If you are going to buy suits
for all three of the boys just read
Wanamaker & Brown's ad. and then
see where you are.
If everybody on the Peninsula does
not find what they want in the Tran
scipt advertisers, they must be hard
to suit indeed.
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Fruits of Advertising.
Real Estate Agent Ingram last week
inserted an advertisement in tlie
Transcript for the sale of a valuable
property in town, and as a result, it
was sold this week. This conclusively
shows the value of the Transcript
as Hie best advertising medium in this
section of the county.
CHURCH NEWS.
Mass will be celebrated in St. Jo
seph's R. C. Church on Christmas at 7,
8.30 and 10 A. M.
Rev M. N. Browne announced on
Sunday evening that revival services
would begin in the M. E. Church on
New Year's night.
The Epworth League will hold its
regular meeting on Friday night at
7.30 in the lecture room of tbe M. E.
Church. The service wijl be appro
priate to the Christmas time.
The Wilmington Conference Com
mittee on Anniyersaries met in Mid
dletown on Monday to arrange for the
celebrations at the next session of
Conference. The members of the
committetr»are Revs. Alfred Smith,
H. S. Thompson and N. M. Browne.
Forest'' Presbyterian Church will
celebrate Christmas with appropriate
services. The choir is engaged in re
hearsing some excellent selections for
Christmas and the music will be some
thing grand. The Sunday school will
bold its Christmas festival on Tuesday
evening. December 27.
Next Sunday being Christmas Day,
the services in St. Anne's Church,both
morning and evening will be in ac
cordance with the important event
commemorated on that day. The
church will have its usual Christmas
decorations, and tbe choir will render
some new Christmas music. The pub
lic are invited to attend these services.
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Christmas Cantata.
The entertainment by the M. E.
Sunday School which will be given in
the Opera House on Friday night Dec.
29, promises to be very fine. Tbe
young people are rehearsing tbe music
and tbe parts are all well taken. Real
old Santa Claus himself will be present,
and the patron saint of children will
manifest his interest and pleasure in
those of all grades and stations. Tbe
Bootblack, Albert Cavender; Tbe
Newsboy, John Parvis, and tbe little
Tot, Grace Parvis will be very pleas
ing. There are other solo parts, and
the choruses are all bright and full of
Hie Christmas ring. Admission 20 cts.
A Young Physician's Death.
The death of Dr. Quale which oc
curred last night in Virginia, is a great
shock to his friends here. He was
formerly a resident physician at tbe
Medico Chirurgical Hospital in Phil
adelphia, where as a physician and
gentlemen he was highly esteemed.
He was a man of many qualifications
for a successful and useful career, and
his untimely death is greatly lamented.
Those who are uuder the shadow of
bereavement have our deepest sym
pathy.
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A Day of HI Omen.
New Year's day will fall upon Sun
day, concerning which event the fol
lowing prognostication of our fore
fathers may be consulted:
firmed by some when New Year's day
falls on Sunday, then a pleasant win
ter doth follow; a natural summer;
fruité sufficient; harvest indifferent,
yet some winde and raine; many mar
riages; plentie of wine and honey;
death of young men and cattell; rob
beries in most places; news of prelates
and kinges, and crnel warres in tbe
end.
'It is af
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Mission Band Bazaar.
The Mission Band of Forest Presby
terian Church held a bazaar in Mc
Whorter's Hall last Thursday even
ing. There were numerous fancy and
useful articles, the handiwork of tbe
young girls, which were very readily
sold at fair prices, and more than six
teen dollars were realized.
THE CHRISTMAS MENU.
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TURKEYS, CRANBERRY SAUCE,
AND OTHER GOOD THINGS.
What The Thrifty Housewife Has
to Choose From, and What She
May Expect to Pay For Her
Christmas Dinner.
Buying the Christmas dinner is no
small task, but it also has its charms.
A novice in the marketing may get a
few helpful hiuts from us. The first
and most important article is the
turkey. We hope every reader of the
Transcript will have turkey for
their Christmas dinner. Yon will find
perfect beauties at Echenhofer's,
about the finest we have ever seen.
You had beter make haste to get one,
for he's shipping them to the city
markets. The prices ai£-gbod, both
for seller and buyer, 16 and 17 cents
per pound. If your family is a big
one and yon will have a re-anion
don't mind about the turkey being
big: it ought to be big, for " Christ
mas comes but once a year."
Some folks say that little turkeys
are the best, but we say that " de
pends."
They are Indeed all exceptionally
fine this year, besides turkeys there
are chichens and ducks at 124 c per
pound. Well, having bought your
turkey, a 14 pounder, its so natural to
get carnberries next, that you may as
well stop at the first store and get
them, 15 cents per quart, nice ones
too. Celery next. Not going to get
that at a store? Why not? Ah! go
ing to get it from a boy who brings it
"fresh from tbe country." That's
right, buy everything you can from
the country people. They don't have
half a chance anyhow. You have I
sweet potatoes and white po
tatoes, but vov haven't any hominy.
It accompanies turkey very nicely,
both so American, too.
say anything about onions, but cer
tainly get some if you likethem.
Don't forget your groceries, and
butter and eggs. You get those from
a farmer too. All right. Yon can
order your oysters and have them
brought to you Christmas. Better get
them from Rice. We've proven them
and found them prime. And do you
think that's all. and you still have
money enough left to get raisins, figs,
oranges, bananas, etc. You're a good
marketer, and you'll have a good
Christmas dinner, too, if you have it
cooked and served all right. We
could tell you ^how to do that too,
only we are sureW soon as we begin
to tell you about''basting the turkey
you'll tote your'pretl&hetid and say
" much he knows about it."
We did intend to give our lady a
readers a few nice recipes for Christ- on
mas for we heard ong^ say she would
rother have a half
We didn't
to
to
H.
n good, prac
tical household recipies for a Christ
mas present than many of the iodotic
things she does receive, and we
thought we'd like to please her and
our other readers by giving the
recipies. But we'll have have to wait
till another time and will now simply
give our own Christmas Menu.
Oyster Soup with Celery,
Chichen Croquettes with Peas,
Fried Oysters,
Cold Slaw,
Chicken Salad,
Roast Turkey,
Cranberry Sauce,
Cheese, Crackers, Olives,
Plum Pudding,
Candies, Nuts, Fruit,
Coffee.
8.
The Hill Murderers,
Unless unforseen circumstances
should arise, the fate of the murderers
of Dr. Hill is that all will hang. The
petition to commute tbe death sentence
of the young murderers to imprison
ment for life is not meeting with much
success, and the sheriff of Kent county
will usher them into eternity at noon
on January 13. Every detail of this
last act in the tradegy is being con
cluded. It is the iutention to erect
the scaffold in the jail yard just outside
the door, and it will be sufficiently
large to accomodate all the murderers
at one time. The prisoners will meet
their doom together, as at the fall of
the drop each body will swing from a
hempen necklace. Only twenty wit
nesses besides the special deputies
w hom the sheriff may appoint will be
allowed to witness the hanging.
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Will Visit Baltimore.
A number of the Old Fellows lodge
of Middletown will go with Eden
Lodge of Wilmington to Baltimore on
February 27, on the occasion of tlie
fraternal visit of that lodge to Pacific
Lodge of Baltimore.
It
Paupers to Have a Treat.
A number of young ladies of the Y.
W. C. T. U. intend gladdening the
hearts of the inmates of Farnhurst on
Monday afternoon uext with cake,
fruits, etc. This is an example that
might be emnlated.
Closed for the Holidays. '
The Diamond State Harness Fac
tory has shutdown for the holidays to
enable its employes to 6pend the sea
son away from home if they so de
sire. Work will be resumed about the
first of the year.
Big Business.
That popular actor Frank Jones de
lighted a large audience in the Opera
House on Friday night last, in "Our
Country Cousin,
largest audiences of the season.
It was one
.f tie
Old Dave Hoskins.
The Hose Company entertainment
on Monday night will doubl less be the
most taking thing of tbe
tickets are selling rapidly, and if you
want good seals do not delay getting
seasou. The
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them till the night of the play.
PERSONAL, PARAGRAPHS.
Jos. Parker was in New York this
week.
Miss Ada Cuchrau is home for the
holidays.
Miss Addie Hazzacd will spend her
Christmas holidays in New Castle and
in Baltimore.
Mrs. J. M. Arthurs and family, of
Kenton, are visiting her mother, Mrs.
M. M. Wright.
Preston Hardcastle and wife, of Chi
cago, were the guests of Mrs Thomas
Chchran last week.
Miss Jessie Hukill returned home on
Monday from a protracted visit to
friends in Yoik Slate.
John J. Hoffecker, of Philadelphia
came home yesterday so spend (he
^holidays with his parents.
Mise Ethel Parvis, returned home
on Saturday from the Lutherville
Seminary to spend the holiday season.
Mrs. V. L. Culberston and daughters,
Misses Dora and Jessie, will spend the
holiday season at Mt. Washington. Md.,
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James
Lake,
Misses Ethel and Nellie Covington,
and Miss Burgess of Still Pond,and Miss
Jump, of Easton, spent a fewdays last
w'eek visiting Mr. and Mrs. Cowgill
Allston, near town.
We are sorry to know that Miss Sadie
Howell is quite ill of pneumonia and
that Miss Emma Burnham who has
been so sick for a uumber of weeks is
still very weak and suffering.
Mr. D. Cleaver and family, of Phila
delphia, are spending the holiday sea
son with Mr. Cleaver's brother. I. S.
Cleave! at Port Penn. Both gentle
men were in town this morning and
gave the Transcript a pleasant call.
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a grand ball at the Hotel Richardson
on Tuesday evening next. The pa
tronesses are Mrs. Aides B. Richard
The Boys and Girls.
The Middletown schools will close
on Friday for the holidays, and will
resume on January 3. A number of
our young people who have been at
tending boarding schools and colleges
are home already and find a hearty
welcome on all sides. All over the
country the seminary girls and college
boys are going home for Christmas.
The cars are full of them; they go in
bevies, and are always recognized by
their bread-and-butterish, sophomor
ish tone and style that somehow seem
to belong to them alone. But they
are none the less pleasing. A merry
Christmas to them all, and especially
to the teachers, among whom are our
own faithful quintette.
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The gentlemen of Dover will give
Dancing at Dover.
son, Mrs. Harry A. Richardson, Mrs.
Ruthanna J. Harrington, Mrs. William
H. Walker, Mrs. Richard R. Kenney,
Mrs. William H. Peck, Mrs. Eldad L.
Clarke, Mrs. Robert L. Holliday, Mrs.
Simon C. Long. Mrs. John R. Nichol"
son, Mrs. Beniah Watson, Mrs. Clar
ence D. Sypherd, Mrs. Robert J. Fer
guson, Mrs. Phillippa L. Fisher. The
committee is composed of the follow
lowing gentlemen: Henry Ridgley,Jr.
DuPont Walker, William Penniwell
and Andrew A. Bateman.
The Social Club.
The young men comprising the
Middletown Social Club met at
the office of W. R. Reynolds and
formulated their plans for the winter's
dances. The following officers were
elected. President, J. P. Cochran,
Jr.; vice president, Fred Brady; sec
retary, C. S. Green; treasurer, Dr. H.
Vaughan; executive committee, J. P.
Cochran, C. R. Clayton, J. C. Kelly, C.
8. Green. A. P. Corbit, H. A. Pool,
Dr. Vaughn, Fred Brady, J. P. Roth
well.
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Rock Hall's Postmaster Robbed.
The post office at Rock Hall was en
tered by thieves last week. Entrance
was effected by means of a false key
and admission to the safe was gained
in a similar way. The thief was
shrewd enough to take only money
belonging to the postmaster himself,
leaving Uncle Sam's intact. The post
master is out $135, most of which had
been intrusted to him for safe keeping
by his neighbors. It is supposed to
have been Ihev work of some one ac
quainted with the store.
The Shortest Day of tbe Year.
Wednesday was the shortest day of
the year, and from this time the days
will grow gradually longer. On sev
eral recent clear evenings the after
glow succeeding the settingof the sun
was remarked for its beauty and color
It prolonged the daylight. The sun
set at 4 41 on Wednesday and the af
terglow was bright at 5.10, its last
tinges fading out of the west abont 6
o'clock.
November Milk.
The Middletown creamery goes
Odessa one better aud pays $1.31 for
November milk. This is the highest
rate pa d by any creamery in this
eel ion for November milk.
Cloths and Casslmeres.
We have a full line of the above and
when cut and shaped by Mr. T. E.
Hum they are really works of art.
Mr. Hurn is doing excellent work.
Perfect fit guaranteed.
S. M. Reynolds.
A national hank has been organized
at Crisfield, Md., with Clarence Hod
president. A savings bank will be
Cris
sou
connected with the institution.
field has 4.000 inhabitants and seveniy
five stores in the town and vicinity,
while one thousand boats make their
headquarters there, but there lias
been a bank within twenty
never
i miles.
THE RURAL DISTRICTS.
TRANSCRIPT PENCILINGS BY OUR
CORRES PONDENTS.
Interesting Incidents of the Happen
ings and Every Day Events
Among our Neighbors.
NEWARK.
P. Blair Pie, of Ottawa University, is
home for the holidays.
The Misses Gillespie of Wilmington, are
guests of Miss Lena Evans.
Miss Clara Cooper, of Wilson College, is
visiting Miss Carrie Cooch.
Miss Helen Calvert of Philadelphia, is
the guest of Miss Annie Wilson. \
, appropriate to Christ
in the M. E- Church next
Special servi
mas, will beJw
Sunday.
Mrs. J. Janvier and Miss Frances Hurd
have returned from an extended visit to
Atlantic City.
The annual meeting of the Patrons of
Husbandry was held in Grange Hall, Sat
urday afternoon.
A little son of Dr. E. B. Frazier recently
sustained a fracture of the arm, by
falling down stairs,
The minds of the college boys are engrossed
this week with examinations. School will
close Friday for ten days.
Joseph B. Handy, principal of Delaware
City public schools, spent Saturday and
Sunday with friends in town.
The. old electric lights along our streets
are gradnallly being replaced by new ones
with the umbrella attachment.
Invitations have been issned annonneing
the mArriage of Canhy Hopkins and Miss
Clara Derrickson, on Wednesday evening
next,
Quite a party of Newarkers will attend
the musical entertainment in Goldey's
Wilmington Commercial College Thursday
evening.
Rev. Thomas Maslin, of New York, who
has spent several years with evangelists
Moody and Sankey, delivered a very inter
esting discourse in the M. E. Church Sun
day evening, taking for his subject, " The
Bright Side of Life.
The young men of Newark and Delaware
College gave one of their inimitable hops
in Caskey Hall, Friday evening last, at
whieh the elite of the town displayed their
knowledge of the Terpsichorean art to the
sweet and mellow strains of Oglesby's
orchestra.
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Joseph H. Caleb, a prominent citizen of
this town and Miss Mary Whatley, ofPhil
adelphia, were married at the home of the
bride's parents in Philadelphia, on Thure
day evening last., A|t«r a two weeks -trip.
Vthey will reside in their beantifnl home on
West Main street.
An exceedingly enjoyable entertainment
was given in the College Oratory Thnra
evening, under the auspices of the M. E.
Sabbath School. The participants, who
were young men from Wilmington, rend
ered a program of a musical ard elocution
ary order, in such a manner as to elicit
considerable applause and freqnent encores.
The members of the College foot-ball
team, being imbued with the idea that
they had labored assiduously daring the
season, and considering it only right and
proper that they should end their toils
with a jolly good time, ordered caterer
Dobson to have prepared for them in the
dining rooms of the Deer Park Hotel, Sat
urday evening last, a sumptuous repast,
which he did in his nsual execellent man
ner, and it is needless to add that the foot
ballists did ample justice to the numerous
viands.
DELAWARE CITY.
Harry Cleaver, of Wilmington, spent
last Sunday in town.
Mayor W. E. Reybold is spending a
few days in Philadelphia.
Miss Marley and Miss Ella Cleaver spent
Saturday last in Wilmington.
Miss Agnes Ubil and Miss Fannie Cheairs
are home from school for Christmas holi
days.
The postponed lecture in the M. E.
Chnrch will be given Thursday evening,
22 inst.
Miss Handy, of Princess Anne, Maryland,
on Thursday visited her brother here,
Joseph Handy.
W. H. Evans, of Newark, is acting as
P. W. & B. agent here, while O. B. Win
gate is taking a vacation.
W. A. Jester, onr popular druggist, has
been on the sick list for a week or more,
bnt is now able to be abont.
Onr public school will close on the 23d,
inst., and resume dnties again Jan. 3d,
1893. The principal will spend the holi
days with his parents at Princess Anne,
M aryland.
Alexander Holiday has lately purchased
of H. C. Clark for $1000, the brick
store stands on Main St. Mr. Holiday in
tends in the spring to build an addition to
serve as a dwelling, and will remove his
tobacco and cigar store there. For the
present he is using the store part as a pool
room, having lately put in a new pool
table, and the balls can be heard going at a
lively rate.
The snow that covered the ground here
on Tuesday morning last was quite a sur
prise, and while there was not enough to
afford sleighing, the small hoy was eqnal
to the occasion, notwithstanding the
mud and slnsh so annoying to other people,
he fonnd enjoyment by ahe wholesale with
sled and jumper. It also brought relief to
some extent to the superstitions terror of a
green Christmas.
One of our popular hotel proprietors has
qnite a fad for collecting cancelled postage
stamps, and the strange part of it is, no
one seems to know what tbe stamps are
being used lor, unless it is to try the col
lection of one million, as a dealer has ad
vertised in a daily paper offering to pay
one hundred dollars to any person who will
turn over to him a million cancelled stamps.
Probably he has not stopped to realize how
large a snm a million is. A little calcula
tion will show that at the rate of 100
stamps a day he will collect 36,500 a year.
This sum divided intJ 1,000,1
startling revelation mat it M
27 years and 145 daysdggjfnr]
$100. As he very recently began this col
lection, the question is—as he is past mid
dle age now—how long must he liva and
labor? ■-»
idKngs the
Kd nbjajost
to make^Hr
The change of temperature was also
gladly received by two gentlemen from
Salem, N. J., who arrived here Monday
evening, en route for home, from Middle
town with 14 barrels of dressed poultry.
On their arrival here no communication
could be bad across the river, except in
a small sailing skiff. The undertaking
though was bargained for with Captain
John Nichols, one ofonr brave waterman,
but the night proved so unfavorable the
start was not made, and cooler weather
prevailing Tuesday, the gentleman re
turned by rail via Philadelphia, and the
poultry left for shipmei
bold on her regular tri]
evening.
The Episcopal Church will be opened
Christmas day. the first time since the de
parture of Chaplain Sherman, the Kev. Mr.
Jenning, of Philadelphia, officiating. There
will be four exercises including Snnday
School, throughout the day. Early morn
ing service at 6 o'clock, regular services
and sermon at 10.34 a. m., and in the
evening at 7 o'clock. The programme is
as follows : Processional hymn, Hark, the
Herald Angels Sing ; Yenite, Robinson ;
Glorias, From Haydn ; Te Deum, Hop
kins ; Jubilate, Buck ; Introït, Shout the
Glad Tidings ; Kyrie, Dr. Mitchell ; Gloria
Tibi, Emerson ; Hymn, What Mean Those
Holy Voices ; Lanctus, Taylor ; Commun
ion Hymn, Ths King of Love My Shepherd
is ; Gloria Excelcis, Old Chant.
ST. GEORGE'S.
Mrs. Jas. Garman was in Wilmington on
Monday.
C. M. Riley is visiting Mr. William
Janvier.
Mrs. Schnitz was in Philadelphia on
Monday.
Miss Mattie Richardson was in Wilming
ton on Friday.
Miss Ollie Paynter visited friends in
Wilmington on Tuesday.
Miss Mary Barnett is spending the
week at Mrs. Cann's near town.
Mr. Ckas. Riley, who has been seriously
ill for several weeks is still quite sick.
Messrs. G. G. Smith and Thomas Laws,
spent part of last week in Wilmington.
Principal Lattomos and G. G. Smith
took a trip to Philadelphia on Saturday.
Messrs. A. McMullin C. Poore and A.
Hopkins have accepted positions in Phila
delphia.
Rev. G. L. Hardesty attended the
Preacher's Association in Wilmington on
Jlnn.aj; .
Mr. Wallace Gillespie of Philadelphia,
bas accepted a position in the drag store of
E. W. Jester.
Miss Rachel Clover, who has been visit
ing her brother near Kennedyville, Md.,
has returned home.
Messrs. Oakes & Hudson are rapidly
pushing the new dwelling of Chas. Stew
art towards completion.
Rev. Dr. Shanks, Principal of New
ark Academy, preached in the Presbyter
ian Church on Sunday.
Mr. Wm. Hutchinson of Delaware City,
took charge of Mr. Jester's drug store one
day last week, Mr. Jester being in the
city.
Presiding Elder, L. E. Barrett, preached
an eloquent and impressive sermon to a
large congregation in the M. E. Chnrch on
Sunday morning.
Mrs. Henry was in Philadelphia last
week and laid in a large and well selected
stock of Christmas goods. All of our mer
chants have a fine assortment of Christmas
goods.
The M. E. Sunday School will have its
Christmas treat and entertainment on Mon
day evening, Dec. 26th, and the Presbyter
ian Snnday School will have its entertain
ment on Wednesday evening. The
Methodist will have a tree while the Pres
byterian will have a representation of a
chimney, and will impersonate Old Kriss.
Mr. Joseph Fisher has moved from his
country residence, near here, to Philadel
phia. Mr. Fisher has a meat market in
Philadelphia, but for several years has
been residing in the country. An attempt
was made to rob the place a few nights
ago which so alarmed Mrs. Fisher that
her hnsband decided to move his family to
the city.
Mrs. Sally Heriott, of Philadelphia, who
came down a few days ago to visit Mrs.
Craig, was taken ill with pneumonia and
then with typhoid fever to which she final
ly succumbed on Snnday morning. Mrs.
Heriott was about forty-six years of age.
Two months ago her husband died and on
the day of his burial she contracted a cold
which developed in topneumonia after com
ing here. The body was taken to Phila
delphia Monday.
TOWNSEND.
The Knights of the Golden Eagle are ex
periencing a boom.
A merry Christmas and a happy New
Year to onr friends.
Mrs. F. L. Reynolds, of Clayton, spent
Sunday with Townsend friends.
Mrs. Della Garton and the Misses Rey
nolds were in Philadelphia on Monday.
Rob Hodgson entertained his sister, Miss
Jennie, of Sassafras, for a few days last
week.
Mrs. Carpenter, the mother of Mrs.
Frank Fletcher, has returned to her Vir
ginia home for the winter.
The pastor of the M. E. Chnrch has an
nounced that he will begin revival services
with the opening of the New Year.
An entertainment will be given in the
M. E. Cuurch on Christmas evening.
There will be a tree and distribution of
gifts.
Rev. and Mrs. Fletcher were tendered a
surprise at the M. E. Parsonage on Wed
nesday evening of last week. Mrs.
Fletcher was presented with a parse of
money.
Deputy Sheriff Money's store was visit
ed by burglars on Thursday night last and
bedpf about $50 in money and a few
llPchecks. The thieves broke into the
road tool house and secured some heavy
col
and
the
rob
crowbars, and after forcing an enl
through a side door of th«(8iojf)fiJlwfl
the binges of tbe safe,
a very heavy one, bi
«to be satisfied as tb
fe thieves seemed
^disturbed nothing
in
re
el
•EIN.
Sydney C leaver,»?
visiting at Port Penn.
The Debating SocW
Henry Price's on W4
next week.
It is rnmored that
dent Griffiin will join t
diets with the comiDg of the New Year.
The Presbyterian Sunday School. will
have their Christmas tse» and celebration
in tbe^hureh on Saturday evening when
they will gladden the hearts of the little
ones with candy and the larger ones with
bon bons and kisses.
ty «11 meet at Mr.
jin «day evening of
nty Superinten
army of Bene
is
;
SMYRNA.
From the Clayton Call.
The young men of Smyrna will give
a dance in the Opera House on Mon
day evening, Jannary 2d.
Miss Bessie M. Reynolds. Miss Mary
P. Cochran and Miss Sallie Cochran,
of Middletown, were guests of friends
here on Monday.
The Clayton Creamery received in
November 50,298 pound of milk,
made 2,327 ponnds of batter and paid
$1.25 for milk, which is the highest
price they ever paid for November
milk.
John C. Bailey has purchased the
Budd" farm, near Rothwell's Land
ing, tenanted by Clinton Ransom, the
property of the late Wm. Green, of
Middletown. The price paid was
about $7,500. The farm contains 144
acres.
Alexander Martin, a prominent
farmer living near Deyter's Corner,
in New Castle county, died ou Satur
day of pneumonia, aged 84 years. He
had been sick but a short while. His
remains were interred at Townsend,
Monday. Mr. Martin leaves a widow
and four children—two sons and two
daughters.
Mrs. Sarah P. Mason, one of onr
most respected citizens, who has been
in feeble health for some time, will
leave in a few days for the Old Ladies'
Home in Philadelphia, the place
being provided for her by her many
warm friends here. She is an ex
cellent lady and one of whom, for re
finement and culture the community
has long been proud. She is a mem
ber of the Historical Society of Dela
ware, having contributed much by
her facile pen to the historical archives
of her native State. She is the oldest
member of the M. E. Church, having
joined it in 1821.
Rey. W. W. W. Wilson took John
Moran to Philadelphia Monday and
placed him in Will's Eye Hospital
where he will be treated for the eye
trouble from which he has been suff
ering since August last. The sight of
his left eye from ulcer of the cornea
will likely be entirely lost though
there is hope that the right eye may
be cured. The whole trouble arose
from wiping the perspiration from his
forehead with his hand while weed
ing his garden, it being supposed
that some poisonous substance at
tached itself to the forehead and ran
down into the eye.
It
Very Important.
No holiday goods exchanged.
8. M. Reynolds ft Co.
PENINSULA NOTES.
The number of office seekers is on
the increase.
Dover's new Baptist Church is about
completed.
Armory M. E. Church of Dover will
be dedicated next Sunday.'
The Peninsula Creamery Association
is going to fight oleomargarine.
The cost of remodeling the Lewes
M. E. Church was $2120. All but
$650 has beeD paid.
The ojster dredgers at Bowers'
Beach say that the season has proven a
failure. They found the oysters in
bad condition and tbe catches very
small.
The contract for carrying the mail
for the next four years from Warwick
to Sassafras, 3 miles and back, six
times a week, has been awarded to C.
G. Steele; $168.
W. Polk Cummins of Smyrna bas
purchased the interest of Joshua T.
Jerman in the tile-making firm of
Jerman & Cosgrift at Smyrua. The
new firm of Cummins & Cosgrift will
continue the mai ufacture of tile in
that town.
Capt. Eliason says that notwith
standing the Rock Hall boom Tol
Chester will be open next year and the
improvements to be made there next
year will be greater than ever before.
We expect to see Tolchester spread out
into a Cape May or a Newport in a
short while.
A heavy snow storm struck Kent
county, Md., Monday night, which
continued _until near noon Tuesday.
About four inches of snow fell
level, but quickly disappeared before a
warm wind and bright sun during tbe
afternoon. This is the second sub
stantial snow-fall of the season.
Four marriages have occurred in the
family of Wilson W. Bryan, at Sussex
county, this year. Last March, Edith,
the youngest daughter eloped with aud
was married to a neighbor's son; on
Tuesday, November 29, the remainiug
daughter, Effie, was married toa Mary
Jaud man, and on Wednesday, Decern
ter 14, the two sons, and only remain
ing children, were both married.
on a
BOOK.
THE
PROVEMENTS THAT ABE BK
Handsomef New Tenements To Be
•ther
Modern PI
Items of
Improvement^?
1 street is havjfg a bon
Tore
North
Beside th^dwellings and
Mr. T. H.mymstrong \jjfi in pi
construction^
will have two
incut t
led • B
occupied by
inundations
m will ha
b/f.
the lot adjoining t
Miss Spicer. Air
are being laid, ant
ready for occupai
lias been, of
Middletown,
able rentalJ
demand. Ml
modern am
windows anc
will rent for about eight dollars per
month. We are glad to see improve
ments at that end of the town.
hoi
by
great
pr small bousj
'bese bout
ey will
in
jfat reaaon
411 meet the
'small, pretty,
lent, having bay
other attractions, and
Increasing; Facilities.
Mrs. Comegys, who owns'the Tran
script building will next week begin
tearing down the petitions in tbe third
story of tbe building and make it one
large room. Other alterations will
also be made during tbe Dext few
weeks, previous to its occupancy by
the Diamond State Harness Factory.
The first floor will be used as a show
room and office by Mr. Parker, while
the second and third floors will be the
work rooms. The increased trade of
Mr. Parker compels him to seek
larger quarters, and he has leased the
whole building, and will take posses
sion as soon as the Transcript *
moves out.
Unclaimed Letters.
List of unclaimed letters remain
ing in the post-offee, whieh can be
had by saying they are advertised :
James Collins, Miss Emma Hastings(8)
John Milligan, John E. Medford,
Charles T. Pratt. Robert C. Phillips,
Miss Mary Redgrave, Messrs. Sparks
ft Devine, Miss Lizzie Thomas. ,
Chrlstmas Entertainment.
We acknowledge an invitation fr« m
tbe Goldey Commercial College to at
tend their annual Christmm enter*
tain meut. An excelleat programme
of vocal and instrumental music w ill
be rendered. yr '': yi
BRIEFS.
A Merry Christmas.
Have you bought your present yet?
Fine Chocolates of all kinds at Rey
nolds.
Raisins for mince meat at Reynolds
& Co's.
Low priced Buggies. W. R'
Reynolds.
Choice layer Figs 20c per pound at
Reynolds.
Lemons 18 to 30c. per desen, at
Reynolds'.
Everything for the Fruitcake at
Reynolds.
Christmas presents at all prices at
Mrs Masseys.
Florida Oranges 20 to 35c per dosen,
at Reynolds ft Co's
Apples for eating and cooking pur
poses at Reynolds.
A English Butternuts 10c per pound
at Reynolds & Co's.
"Our Country Cousin" at the Opera
House Friday Dight.
California paper shell almonds
25c per pound at Reynolds.
Good Mixtures 10c per pound, 8
pounds for 25c at Reynolds.
New Grenoble English Walnuts
18c, at S. M Reynolds & Co's. .
Princess paper shell Almonds 8
pounds for a dollar at Reynolds.
The finest Malaga Grapes, large
clusters, 20c per pound at Reynolds.
We make a specialty of engraving
ladies visitipg cards. Send us your
orders.
A complete assortment of plain and
fancy Candies by the pound or toa at
Reynolds.
Don't buy your Silver or Plated-wwe
before you get prices at Mrs. Masseys.
None lower anywhere.
The finest California London lay
ers and loose Muscatel Raisins 16e and
18c per pound at Reynolds ft Co's.
Butter Knives, and Napkin Rings,
25 cents up, and Tea Spoons from 25
cents a half dozen up at Mrs. Masseys.
Meat Cutters, Sausage Stuffers
and Lard Presses of the most approv
ed kinds, at lowest prices at G. E.
Hukill's.
We have tbe finest line of samples
of ball programmes ever teen around
Middletown. Come in and inspect
them.
The first snow storm of the
visited this section last Monday nigLt.
Tuesday morning it readied a depth of
about four inches.
If you are going to move the first of
the year and wish the address of your
paper changed let us know and give ns
both your old and new post office.
The newest fad in autograph books is
one of cooking receipts. Each form
ula written in the book has the sig
nature of the contributing friend under
season
it.
Remember the large stock of Dry
Goods, Notions, Hats and Gaps, Boots,
Shoes, Clothing, Carpets, Oil cloths
Curtains &c., of W. H. Moore ft Co.,
must be closed out quickly. Do not
fail to take advantage of this
for getting great bargains.
W. H. Moors ft Co.