Middletown transcript., 1897-01-02
Mrs ~ Ksnnedv entertained the


Card Club Tuesday evening at her home al
the West End.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Golf spent seyera
days in Philadelphia this week making
purchases for their new home in Warwick
-Losr-On Cass street or on Main be
tween Cass and the Town Hall on Thurs
day evening black feather boa. Bring to
TRANscRIPT Office and receive liberal re-
ward.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.-Dr. W. e. Barnard
Surgeon Dentist, Office same location. op-
posite The post Office. All operations per
tanning to dentistry guaranteed. Odontun-
der and Gas for painless extracting.
Many rejoice that they ever heard Of
"Goldey's,p that well-known Wilmington
(Del.) Commercial and Shorthand College.
Its short, practical courses soonftted the Of
young people for good positions.
Quite number of our citizens got ice
on Tuesday and Wednesday. about 5
inches. The skating, owing to the snow,
was not very good and was rather danger
Gus several persons breaking though the ice
MIR. Daniel Keith, night operator at
this station, is soon to bring bonny bride.
to town, and is having his house made ready
for her coming, having rented the East
End residence formerly occupied by Miss
Fanny Stats.
IF you want blankets to put your
horses in condition for the sale, we have
them and will sell them to you in large lots
at quantity prices Wholesale & Retail.
J.C. PARKER.
The son Of Mrs. Margaret Jones,
one of the roll of honor mothers mentioned
in the TRANSCRIPT last week, and father of
Mrs. Joseph L. Parsons, Mr.. John Al ones,
died in, Wilmington last week and was
inferred in Forest Cemetery on Monday,
services being held at the home of Mrs
Parsons on the arrival of the noon train.
A representative of the Transcript this
week looked in upon the busy workers at
the shirt factory where the hum of the
machines sets in circulation the dollars of
trade so welcome to our merchants. The
first of the experts in the new laundry
department were at work, an addition OF
fifteen or more to the force at the factory.
Manager Burgess is the right man in the
right place.
MIR. and Mrs. Clarence Pool, gave six
o'clock dinner at their home "SilVer Lake.
,,oo, NEonono,oh Tnasdau fba Yuocfo af
honor being the bride and groom, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Janvier. Those present were: Mr..
and Mrs Howard Pool, Mr.and Mrs.Janvier
Woods. Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Bright, Miss
Pool, Miss Marion Janvier. Mr.. and Mrs.
John Stuckert, Mr.. Frank Pool. Mr.Clayton
Riley and Mr.. Sutton. The guests were
each presented with souvenir, bouquet
of holly tied with the ribbons correspond
ing to the colors of the bridal party.
Year by year, as the number of people
who read periodicals and newspapers in
creases, it is found that short stories are be-
coming more and more popular, and that,
in fact, the average reader enjoys short
stories more than anything else. Editors
in their endeavor to meet this demand are
finding that it is becoming very difficult to
secure good short stories from the best
writers, since each author can only do so
much work. and in the increasing demand
many periodicals are unable to secure
stories for them. 1t is the more extraordi-
nary, therefore, to learn what we under
stand to be the fact, that Harper's Round
Table is to publish during the year 1897 at
least fifty-two short stories, one in each
Number Of the paper, by authors whose
names are know all over the world as being
the best in the field of fcti on to-day. A
few of these are: William Dean Howells,
Bret Hart, Maragret Deland, Kate Douglas
Wiggin, Owen Wister. Joel Chandler Har-
ris, John Kendrick Bangs. Frank R. Stock |
ton, Octave Thanet, Charles Dudley War
ner. Molly Elliot Seawell. Ruth McEnery |
Stuart. Howard Pyle, Charles F. Lummis |
In England: Laurence Alma Tadema,
George Meredith. Thomas Hardy, FL. Rider |
Haggard, Jerome K. Jerome, s. r. Crockett, |
Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, William |
Black, StanleyJ. Weyman, Marquis of |
Lorne, Sir Walter Resent, W Clark Russell,
Ian Maclaren, Andrew Lang. In France:
Francois Coppee, Camille Flammarion, |
Jules Verne.
Besides his the paper announces three
ong stories. to run through third of the
year each; one on the Naval War of 1912,
,ne on the Arizona desert, and one in the
midst of the famous siege of Gibraltar All
.hese are adventure stories, full of absorbing
interest. And furthermore there are hunt
ng stories by Honorable Theodore Roose-
Telt, Casper Whitney, and Frederick Rem
ngton.
With such list of contributors the
paper promises to furnish in 1897 reading
natter that it would be difficult for any
,ther paper in the United States to equal.