Middletown transcript., 1896-08-15
MIDDLEToWN, DEL. AUG. Is 1896
Local News.

Milk. Qt can 10c.
Remember that j. &. McWhorter has
full line of carriage and agricultural
Implements on haad
Its folly, to lose your poultry when the
use of Bragdon's Poultry Remedy is guar
anteed to- you for 25 cents.
There is pretty new moon this week,
but the weatherwise say It's dry hot
moon
-Twenty-nine tickets to Ocean City and
three t., Rehoboth were sold here for the
excursion ON Thursday.
Miss Mary Shallcross will entertain
company of young folks tonight at her
home at white Hail." near Mt. Pleasant.
Won en- lead in many advances. No
dude has yet been bold enough to wear his
necktie ON the back of his neck while sober.
w. E. Graves, one Of Townsend's s mer-
chants, surprised the politicians yesterday
by announcing himself as a Democratic
candidate for the Levy Court.
Among the excursionists to Rehoboth
on Thursday were Mr.. and Mrs. George T.
French of the Windy City and their sister
Miss Alexina French.
John Biggs ESQ.,, has sold one of his
peach orchards of 5000 baskets to Mr.. Burg
enhoff of Scranton, Pa: for 32cts. per bas-
bet which, considering the prices as they
range just now, is good sale.
Miss Eliza Green was eleven years old
yesterday, and in honor of the day she
entertained party of her little friends at
her East End home last evening and very
happy fine was spent.
One of the finest school catalogues is
sued in the world-and it will surprise you
Is Goldey's, describing his famous Com
mercial and Shorthand College in Will
mington. Just write for it.
PRoFE ssIoNAL CARD.-Dr. w. E. Barnard
Surg con Dentist. Office same location, op-
posi- te .he post Office. Ali operations per
tai lining to dentistry guaranteed, Odontun-
der and Gas for painless extracting.
1t was a plain case of sour grapes with
the fair damsels who did not go grabbing
with the Wilson's Point party" said the
managers of that outing in manner that
carried conviction to the reporter as he
passed near the speakers.
Glasgow Pencader Presbyterian Church
will give Birthday Reception at the
church on Friday evening, Aug. 81, from
to 10 o'clock, to which the ladies of the
church invite all their friends. The usual
penny for every year" is on the bill of
fare:
Gardner Winfield Scott, grandson of |
Thomas Gould, and a well-known young
colored man this of community, for several |
years in the employ of ]. H. Emerson,
died on Tuesday at his father-in-law's at |
Odessa of typhoid fever. His funeral took |
place on Thursday in Dale's Chapel.
The Middletown Cannery, run by J. H. |
Preston & Co., of Aberdeen, Md, began |
operation this week in full force Sixty |
five Bohemians, from Baltimore arrived in |
town on Wednesday. via: Birds Landing
and are at work there, besides number of |
persons from the town. ]. II. Preston & |
Co. also operate the cannery at Mt. Pleas
ant
We believe THAT those who desire TO /
save money on COAL, will do well to place
their orders in time to have them filled |
this month, as the price has already ad-
vanced once, and will most likely be ad-
vanced again lst of September. Orders
must be in before the Goth to insure August
price viz. $3.50 cash per 224O lbs. high
grade coal delivered on your sidewalk. or
shoyeled into your bin from cart.
G. E. HUKILL.
George H. Mefntire, has purchased of
D. NJ. Osborne. one of their famous Self
Binding Corn Harvesters, and now has it
at his home near Warwick. Md, where he
will be pleased to show it to his friends and
the public in general, and is prepared to
take orders for limited number of ma
chimes. their supply is small, as their la,t
.yeaiss sale was unprecedented and they were
unable to supply the demand. Each ma
schine is under positive guarantee.
Strange. isn't it The farmers complain
that peaches shipped to New York hardly
lpay expenses. and yet if a peach hungry |
willager, with that unsatisied longing |
which is only appeased by''a basket of sum
mer fruit" goes to an orchard and offers to
buy basket of soft peaches he will have |
TO pay fifty cents for them,. the farmer
stoutly declaring that he will sooner ship |
them or feed them to the hogs than take
cent less" Why this reckless discrimina
iion on the part of the peach growers.
Scott Way writes from the land of gold
and other unfading treasuers, that having |
possessed himself ofa fruit ranch at Cucam
onger. San Barnardino, County, California, |
he is again permanently settled literally
beneath his own vine and fig tree" His
daughters healthis already much improved |
and the ex-editor will soon be absorbed in |
the mysteries of fruit growing. He pro-
misses the readers of the TRANIcRIpr |
an occasional letter as a reminder Of his /
continued interest in their welfare.
Your girl may be averse to telling you |
her age, but you can find out by following
the subjoined instructions, the young lady |
during the figuring; Tell her to put down |
the number of the month in which she |
was born. then TO multiply it by two, then |
add five, then multiply by fifty, then add
her age, then subtract S66. then add Tx, and
tellyou the amount she has left. The two |
figures on the right will denote.her age, and
the remainder The month Of her birth. For
example, If the amount Is 822, she is22 years |
old, and was born in the eighth month.
The Democrats Of st. Georges hundred
held a meeting at Lloyd's Hotel. Odessa.
Wednesday evening - select delegates to
the State Convention next Tuesday. DR..
T. II. Gilpin, T. H. Armstrong D. NJ.
Cochran, Jas. T. Shallcross and Janvier
Woods were named with power to select
aIternates. There i considerable unrest
among certain politicians who see two II
not three votes therein for Hon. Peter J.
Ford John W. Carrow, Samuel B. Foard.