Middletown transcript., 1896-08-01
August is the month of picnics and

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day evening.
The Peninsula Press Association will
60 to Atlantic City August 20. for the edi
tors annual outing.
Now is the time for midsummer clean
up of weeds and other accumulations as
sanitary precaution.
Another version of 16 to 1 is sixteen
girls to one man, the condition that con
fronts the summer resorts.
MIR. d. L. Dunning inyites the atten
ton of the public to the private sale o.
household furniture in the Comegys Build
ing opposite the National Hotel. Bargains
are offered.
Prof. W. G. Jason. president of tn Col.
lege for Colored People and an educated
divine. will preach tomorrow afternoon at
the village camp which is being very sue
cessiully conducted by Pastor Horsey. All
are welcome.
Mr.. George R. Truitt, of New Castle
is fitting up the middle store in the Coch-
ran Block. He will sell sheet music, organs
pianos and things in that line. He will
also put in ice cream and soda fountain OIL,
one side and expects to be open to the pub
lie to-day.
A memory is a good thing to have, but
tits nothing to compare with a good forget
ting for real comfort. So ifyou want to be
boppv moo foroof fn1nooc Of Tho nnlr;rd
unpleasant. uncomfortable things that
have come in your way, and you'll have
found the secret of happy life.
The Mercy and Help Department of
the Epworth League. which is under the
management of Mrs. William Taylor, will
give Lawn Fete and Festival in the Acad-
emy yard next Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings. Ice cream, cake, lemonade,
peaches and cream and other fruits will be
served and the Diamond State Band will
furnish music.
Misses Edith Derrickson, Viola Ennis,
AIDA Foard, Sadie Pharo, Maria Nowland,
Mabelle Taylor, Annie and Susie Ellison,
Annie Freeman, Sallie Manning, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Emerson. Mrs. C. A. Richie,
Mrs. W J. Barnett, Mrs. G. P. Gears, Mrs.
VIM. Taylor, Mrs. J. Collins, Messrs Edgar
Clark and Julian Taylor were among the
Middletown excursionists to Colchester
via the Emma Giles which EN-
barked from Chesapeake City
The Single Tax foolishness may lead
to violence in Dover. Yes terday's Phila-
delphia "Times' said the sixteenth man was
arrested after narrow escape from mob"
and committed to Jail. They foolishly in
sist on talking upon the most public streets
in violation of law to "vindicate free
speech" Governor Watson has pardoned
one Single Taxer at the request Of the
sheriff. He was threatened with typhoid
fever.
There is charm about the flowers that
bloomed in the old-fashioned borders that
Dur grandmothers planted, that somehow,
seems to hold the fancy as no other flowers |
do, at least some folks think so. Miss |
Mary Morrison has in her yard white |
Phlox which her grandma ther planted. her
ather, who is now IS years old, having |
brought it from his boyhood home many |
7ears ago, and though he has lived in sew
,rIl States and moved many times. the
white Phlox always moved with him, and
! bit cf the old home from his mothers /
loor yard. is now a sacred treasure
n,.1
1T. Pleasant, entertained large company
# young folks Monday and Tuesday even
ngs in honor Of their daughters guest,
Hiss Meade, of Hanover, N. J. Ameug
hose present from Middletown were Misses
3easton, May Holten, Lucie Cochran,
lola McWhorter, DR.. J. c. Sites. Miss
dary Rothwell and Mr.. John Rothwell.
The lawn was handsomely illuminated
Vsth Chinese lanterns and the mansion
vas beautiful in festive array. The Mid
lletown orchestra furnished music. and in
pite of the temperature, dancing was the
eature of the evening
Flies are despied, but if every one was
s persistent and hard to discourage as a
y, more people would succeed says an ex-
hange. When fly gets after person, it
ever knows what it is to stop. It may be
,raped off fifty times. but it Immediately
ONES back, and lights in about the same
lace. Sometimes it flies off some distance,
nd the prosecuted person thinks it is gone,
ut it never forgets, and soon returns, and
Iofn |
ii efforts to kill fly usually result only +
| personal injury, and do not even scare
lie fly. The Bible holds Job up as an ex-
mple Of patience, but we bet there were
o flies in his time.
A conference of Republicans of st.
eorges hundred was held in the Opera ,
louise, Odessa, Thursday evening. to agree ,
pom local ticket to vote at to-day's pri- /
laries. All Republicans were invited and
Il factions were represented in the 25 or
lore present. The action taken was not ac-
eptable to all but under the leadership of
[artin b. Burris, Esqr., was approved by
majority along the line of compromise
nd concession" the following ticket con- {
aiming the names of two or three promi-
ent "Union Republicans" Delegates to
district Constitutional Convention-D. w.
orbit. ]. X. Williams, John W. Jolls. Al
ed G. Cox and John NJ. Clayton; Repre- .
sntative to General Assembly,. Frank
'liason; Road Commissioner-Jvshua Clay .
IN, Jr.; Assessor-Peter B. Alrichs: Inspec-
C. Parker and Thos E. Hurn
'r Middletown. HarrisonI Vandegrift for I
dessa. 9
Almost Crushed to Death.
Lloyd Bragdon, the eight-year old son of
'ruggist JIG. Bragdon, is critically ill from
ne effects of an accident on Tuesday morn
,g at about eleven o'clock. by which the
ttlefellow narrowly escaped a horrible