Middletown transcript., 1897-05-15
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Local News.

coy, II cures; 70 cents.
Remember that J. r. McWhorter has
full line Of carriage and agricultural
Implements on hand
"A difference of taste in jokes is great
strain on the affections. George Eliot.
Its folly, to lose your poultry when the
use Of Bragdon's Poultry Remedy is guar
anteed to you for 25 cents.
Delaware strawberries are in the mar
ket, Georgetown and Laurel producing some
fine ones this week.
-FoR SALE CHEAP, five drawer Singer
Sewing Machine as good as new-never
been used, sold for want ofuse. Apply at
this Office.
1t is noticeable fact at a hotel that
the greatest eroWIers at the table are those
who live the poorest at home.
$40 per month salary. A few energetic
ladies and gentlemen wanted to canvass
Shure salary guaranteed. Call or address.
w. E. GERMAN, Delmar. Del. Box 1853.
Rev L. Wood sent check for six
teen dollars, Middletown's contribution to
the Armenian relief fund, to the Secretary
in New York this week.
DIR. Stanley Steele, recent graduate Of
the University of Maryland, has opened
dental parlors in Chesapeake City. He will
also have branch Office at Cecilton.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.-Dr. W. E. Barnard
Surgeon Dentist, Office same location, op
posite the post office. All operations per-
tanning to dentistry guaranteed. 0dontun-
der and Gas for painless extracting.
The May Term of the Court of General
Sessions commenced in Wilmington on
Monday with VIM. Pierce Biggs, OF this
town, foreman of the Grand Jury.
-LeGore's combination of lime Is no
building or magnesia lime. It is manu-
factured exclusively for the growth of crops
and the general improvement of soils. By
experimenting, farmers will find it to have
double the powerbf other lines. Now is the
time to lime all sod fields and bulk ahead
for the stubble and wheat fields. Nothing
equal to this lime for grass and wheat.
For full information, address,
J.W. LeGore, Woodsboro, Md.
Scarlet clover is coming in bloom this
week down the state, and the country is
beautiful, great fields of waving bright |
hued bloom meet the eye ON all sides in
the lower counties where the scarlet clover
is most popular.
THE OLD STAND UNDER New MANAGE
MENT. Having leased the Black Smith Shop
formerly occupied by Jno. T. Gears, on
East Main St.. and engaged Harry Riggs as |
foreman, l am prepared to do all kinds of |
Black Smith Jobbing, and will make a |
speciality of Horse Shoeing in all its |
branches. Satisfaction guaranteed at prices
to suit these 1897 times. All we ask is a |
chance to please you. and we will do the |
rest. THEODORE KUMPEI, East Main Street. |
Middletown, Delaware.
drama to be given in the Opera House
Tuesday evening by the Ladies Auxiliary
of the Y. M. G. A. to be followed by a |
strawberry festival with the usual attrac-
tions.
Rev. F. B. Short, of Epworth Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, has been admitted |
by the New Castle County Bar Committee
as law student. OF late he has had throat
trouble and win adopt the profession of law
If he is unable to preach.
William C. O'Brien, of Wilmington,
was among the passengers on the steamer
Leona, which took fire off the Delaware
Breakwater on Sunday. There were thirteen
lives lost on the Inflated steamer, which
was bound for Galveston.
The National Guard, of Delaware will
participate in the Washington. Monument
parade in Philadelphia today. $500 having
been appropriated by the Legislature for
that purpose. The Legisl ature will attend
in abody.
"A bill to incorporate the Diamond State
Lumber Company of Middletown, has been
introduced in the Delaware Legislature
George v. Peverley, Edwin R. Cochran and
Augustus Hushebeck are the incorpora-
tors. The capital stock. is $4,000, with
power to increase it to 100000.
Rev. Mr.. Williams, pastor of the Red
Lion M. e. Church, entered the wrong
door at Danforth's drug store in Whining
ton on Tuesday and fell down an elevator
shaft, spraining and bruising himself but
no serious injuries have resulted. He fell
feet into cellar.
Shelter & Blakley's Refined Ministries
will be at the Opera House Thursday May /
Goth, with brass band and Orchestra. This
is one of the strongest minstrel Companies
travelling. and those who will witness the
performance win enjoy rare treat.
-You who are letting miserable misun-
derstanding with friends run on from year
to year, meaning to clear them up some
day, If you could only know and see and
feel that the time is shortl How you would
go instantly and do the thing which you
might never have another chance to do.
Phillips Brooks.
The freight and passenger steamer
Canute Bulnes. built by the Pusey and Jones
Company Of Wilmington for Bulness
Brothers to ply in Mexican waters. has been
turned over to Capt. Joseph Ware. the New
York agent Of the company. She Left on
Tuesday for Tobasco, Mexico, with Capt.
Michael Vincennes in command.
Miss Lucille Martindale has resigned
the Office of Secretary and Treasurer of the
New Castle Gas and Water Co., which she
has so acceptably filed for a number Of
years, and after few days visit with her
father, DR.. T. K. Martindale. at Milford,
will take charge of the ladies department
OF the Mutual Life Insurance Co. in VIII
niington. Miss May Thompson. of Delaware
City, will be her assistant in the Office.
The Diamond State Band Boys will have
q strawberry festival in the Opera House
on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
June 9th and 10th There Isl organization
in town that gives the public so much
pleasure as the band, especially during the
summer months when open air concerts
make our evenings so delightful. and the
Boys" are entitled 10 liberal patronage
which thepeople will hold in reserve for
than 4