Middletown transcript., 1896-03-21
The railroad station Is being frightened
up with a Eating Of fresh paint.

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my tHulled Corn). 1t is delicious. Full ct
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I Remember that ]. F. McWhorter ha
full line of carriage and argricultura
Implements on haad.
Public Sale of high grade milk cows il
Middletown, on Saturday, March %. Se'
the advertisement in another column.
Mr. 1T. Atherley of Odessa is still buy.
ing and selling country produce to be
shipped on the steamer Clio. See his adver.
tisement.
Mrs. Long, the aged and infrm mother
off. K. Long, suffered stroke of paralysis
on Wednesday, and has been critically i'll
ever since.
Parties having rooms to rent suitable
for the use of the Y. M. c. A. should report
at once to the editor of the TRANscRIPT,
| stating dimensions of rooms and terms
MIR. Geo. G. Rowe is busily engaged in
fitting up the store room in the Dunning
property, corner Main and Scott streets,
where he expects to put in new and stylish
line of Wall Papers, etc. opening March
25th.
| The old Holten no mestead, near town.
has been purchased of Messrs Maxwell and
Ingram by Mr.. Jones of Baltimore, and his
brother-in-law, Mr.. W. B. Williams will
move there from the n ]. Williams farm
near Chesapeake.
Alfred Filter, who several years ago
fitted up an elegant summer residence at
Town Point, died of appoplexy, in Phila-
delphia, on Thursday, in his 77th year. He
was wealthy real estate broker and a
brother of ex-Mayor Filter of PhiIadel-
phia.
Norris Reese, a brakeman on the P. w.
& B. R., was killed at the West Yard. Will
mihgton, early Thursday morning, by
being brushed between the cars. He was
Is years old and leaves widow. He was
the son of James E. Reese, of Cambridge
well known printer.
The Young Mems Social Club will
give their usual after Easter dance on
Tuesday, April-7th. The executive COM
mittee are F. R. Poole, W. R. Parker,
G. R. Clayton, A. W. Tatman and
W. F. Metten. Oglesby's orchestra of
Chester, will furnish music.
"A man who believes in the old saying.
See apin pick it up, and all day long
you'll have good luck" saw pin in front |
of the Post office the other day says an ex-
change. Bending down to get it, his hat
tumbled off and rolled into the gutter; his |
eyeglasses fell and broke on the pavement
his suspenders gave way behind; he burst
the button-hole on the back of his shirt
collar, and he all but lost his new false |
teeth. He got the pin.
The Auction Sale of French Trotting
Bred Horses by Messrs. J. J. Ross & Son |
will take place at their stock farm, Seaford |
DEL, Tuesday, March oath. They will sell
some excellent roadsters. Sale will begin at
II o'clock a. m. Catalogues will be furnish
ed upon application to J.J. Ross & Son,
Seaford, Del, giving full description and
pedigree. Ifrainy next fair day.
The business of Green Brothers Odessa,
dealers in Poultry, Fish and Game, has
been very profitable TO the town the past
winter. They have caught over go tons of
German Carp worth in the town over a
hundred dollars ton. This has been
shipped to the city. These enterprising
gentlemen will begin very shortly fishing
for surgeons. having spent over $4,000 90 in
he past few weeks in fitting up the Della
ware Bay squadron. They have another
rev in the lower part of the Chesapeake
Bay.
Mr.. George D. Kelley. Cashier of the
Peoples National Bank, has had under
consideration for some time the prospective
nomination for Comptroller of this cou nty
ind he has now announced to his friends
hat he is in the race. Mr.. R. G.. Buck.
ngham presented his card last week to the
eaders of the TRANSCRIPT for the same
'f3ce Other Republican candidates for
ther Offices are announcing themsel-
'es, and all seem eager for the race All
# this is hopeful. 1t is indicative of Re-
'ublican success which is to follow.
The "Curfew' ordinance is being intro
luced before city councils throughout this
ountry and several large cities in the north
md west have recently made it law,
)mala being the latest to fall in line. The
ordinance provides that children under
fifteen, unless accompanied ay guardian. {
hall be at home at p. m. in the winter i
nd I'm, 4la l
'ther place besides western cities where such @
law might very proftably be enforced, and +
Where is my boy to-night" would no lon
,er be the late hour query of over-indul- b
GENT parents Il
The pupils of Miss Anna Lynch's
chool at Mt. Pleasant gave a masquerade
,arty on Friday evening last in honor of
heir school mate, Miss Edna Cleaver. The I
Toung people had delightful time. There
we're present besides the hostess, Pierce t
Alrich. James Brown Russell Cleaver, t
Tames Colpitt. Leslie Carnagy, Willie Cal
loun, Sewell Downs, James Dougherty, 5
Helen Dougherty. Morris Eliascn. Blanche
sliason, Lydia Eliason. Emma Hall, =
Tins, Mollie Harris, Clarence johnson
acob Ogle. Sallie Swartz. Beulah swartz,
iary Swartz, Kate Swartz. Joseph Swartz
dyrtle Swartz, Mallie Walter, Bessie
Walker, Hudson Walker, and John
Walker.
The article in the TRANSCRIPT last week |
giving an account of Middletown as it was '
orty years ago, was read with great inter- /
st by many readers. 1t brought back the q
ecollections of We olden times "when you /
md were boys, you know" Of the many
persons therein mentioned as being is bus
ness here in Sc the following are still resi-
lents of Middletown: Miss Amelia Streets t
Who now holds the longest residence in the r
own, Miss Annie r. Maxwell, Messrs. A.
!. Cox, Thos. e. Hurn, Henry Foster, An '
rev Hushabeck, Jonathan Leatherbury,
md Nimrod French. !. Many of those men, c