Middletown transcript., 1897-07-03
Local News.

MIR. George G. Rowe would like word
with you in our ad. columns or at bis store.
Get your fireworks at J. n. Burrows
Cigar Store and News Depot on Main Street
-Mr. C. B. Satterfeld has improved his
dwelling and store by a new dressing of
paint.
-Prettyman's is genuine 'sCIosing Out
Sale" and he offers bargains in Boots, Shoes
and Hats.
Remember that J. F. McWhorter has
full line Of carriage and agricultural
Implements on hand
-Four Mich Cows for SaIe-one with
calf at her side. Apply Thos. 81. Swan,
Delaware City, Delaware.
It's folly, to lose your poultry when the
use of Bragdon's Poultry Remedy is guar
anteed to you for 25 cents.
Mr.. Harry Crockett had his hand cut
quite badly in mower on Thursday. DR..
Wright dressed the wound.
The President sent to the Senate yester-
day the nameof Hon. John G. Higgins, of
Delaware City, as consul at Dundee, Scot
land.
"It was pleasant affair was the verdict
of those who attended the Middletown-
Delaware City dance at the Piers on Friday
evening.
The citizens of Middletown who are
not satisfied with fire-cracker celebration
will go to Smyrna or to Augustine Park
on Monday.
Everybody is guessing a. the October
wedding announced in the TRANsoRIPr last
week. Suppose guess should be taken
for one month earlier. True.
-Wanted-0ne hundred thousand bush
els of wheat for export ON orders. Ship
ment by rail or water to Baltimore and
Philadelphia. JKssIE L. SHEPHERD.
BE slow in choosing friend, and slow
to change him. Be intimate with few;
slight no man for his poverty or low estate.
nor esteem any for their wealth and high
position merely.
A FRIEND. "A good man is the best
friend, and therefore is first to be chosen,
longest to be retained, and, indeed. never
TO be parted with. unless he ceases to be
that for which he was chosen.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.-Dr w. E. Barnard
Surgeon Dentist, Office same location, op
posite the post Office. All operations per-
tanning to dentistry guaranteed. 0dontun-
Ao~n e. wtrnn
FARMERS, LOOK TO Your INTEREST
Visit the Flour. Feed and Exchange Store of
Evans & Son, next door to Parker's Harness
Store. Wholesale and retail. Flour, Meal
and Feed given in exchange for grain.
Before buying farm implement Of
any kind consult Geo. Il. Mcintyre of
Warwick who is agent for the celebrated
Osborn goods who will furnish them at the
lowest possible price, Also repairs forsame
The water was not turned off Silver
Lake promptly ss notice was given be-
cause of that oft-heard- of affair. "there was
a grist to grind" or perhaps several Of
them. Repairs will be made soon. however.
Hon. Thomas r F.Bayard win deliver an
address at the patriotic celebration to be
held in Independence Square, Philadelphia.
on July 5th, under theauspices of the Soc
iety of the Colonial Wars,
-'I was chosen out of five applicants for
aposition in Philadelphia, because / was q
graduate of Goldey evil. Del) CONNER
cial and Shorthand College adv. in this
paper and send for free catalogue.
The first appointment by Mayor Nc
Lear was made on Thursday to fill the
place of II. F. Pickles, water commissioner.
Alfred Belts of the Belts Machine Com
pany was named, selection satisfactory
to all.
IF every man owned newspaper and
would say in it what he asks newspaper
men to say in their paper about other pee
pie, our race would soon be exterminated.
Every man in business would want to be
surgeon or an undertaken.
Chancellor Nicholson Friday granted
to Mrs. Abbie II. Dearborn. of Philadel-
phia. an order restraining J. Ford Fox. a
piano dealer OF Wilmington. from dispos-
ing of between $40, 900 and $4,000 in prop
erty which Mrs. Dearborn claims.
The four Republican city officials
elected the first Saturday in June in Will
mington entered upon their duties, July
LIST. Henry McLear, mayor; Henry G. Con-
rad, city solicitor; VIM. @. Curry, city treas
urer; and Chas. NJ. Leitch, president Of
City Council.
The M. E. Sunday ay-school of Middle
town has decided upon 3 picnic at st. Aug
ustine Piers. At meeting held Thursday
evening Messrs. Burris, Parker and Lether-
bury were constituted committee of ar
rangements, to consult the proprietors of
the Piers as to the most suitable time, &C.
why are you chewing gum as though
it were business rather than pleasures"
inquired one fair Middletown maiden of
another. Don't say you haven't caught
on" was the reply" Beeman's Pepsin
Chewing Gum is the best remedy for pune
tured tires, the kind you buy at----
drug store, You know.
We have few Of the reliable Elgin
Bicycles which are as good as any on the
market for $40 This is genuine high
grade wheel. Have 2 Ladies wheels for
$s5. as good as some that are represented az
500. wheels. Come see them quick as they
will not stay long.
J. C. Parker.
.-LeGore's combination of lime is no
building or magnesia lime. 1t is manu-
factnred exclusively for the growth ofcrops
and the general improvement of soils. By
experimenting, farmers will find IL to have
double the power of 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.
]. W. LeGore, Woodsboro. Md.
Greenbaum Bros, canning factory as
6eaford closed Friday, having packed
100000 cans OF peas during the season.
Among the amusements announced Tor
Fourth Of July celebration at Seaford Is
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