Middletown transcript., 1898-05-07
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Local News.

The individuals who usually spend all
their time telling editors how they ought
to ru n their papers will now give the editor
rest, in order to tell the government how
to fight the war.
If you want photographs of yourself or
family, go to Trink 'leer, West Main street.
Bethesda Epworth League meeting
every Sunday at 6.45 P. NJ. The subject
for tomorrow is-"The Gift Of Patience." !"
The meeting will be led by Mrs. Darling.
ton. Everybody is invited.
Every body uses Bragdon's Poultry Rem
edy. it cures Is cents.
The Board of Education, of Whining
ton, has secured by purchase the Church.
man property, on Delaware avenue, and
will erect thereon handsome and commo-
dious high school.
-FoR SALE-Chestnut posts and rails
Apply to George Buckwith, st. Augustine,
Md.
"A new fake is being worked on the
people just now. A peddIer is making the
rounds selling goods, "the profits of which
go to relieve the suffering Cubans" A thin
pretext, but it does the work.
Call on Mrs. A. NJ. Mckee. she can
please you now. with some of the most
beautiful hats for ladies and children.
The Rev. J. b. Wiley. D. D., formerly of
the Wilmington Conference, has been trans
ferred from the East Ohio to the New York
East Conference and stationed at the Nos
trand Avenue Church. Brooklyn.
Remember that ]. f. McWhorter & Son
have Ia full line of carriages and agricultural
Implements on hand
There are men who talk war with
energy, who could serve their generation
much better by carrying in the wood for
an overworked housewife, or spading the
garden for spring planting.
The millinery display at Mrs. M. C.
Barnett's is the most attractive to be seen
in town.
The people who try to make a heaven
Of this earth through their generous
deeds, tender sympathies, devoted friend
ship, kindly words and sweet affection,
need not waste time thinking of heaven
beyond death.
-FoR RENT.-One Dwelling on Main
street and two in the rear.
MISS FANNIE SHEPHERD.
1t is reported that five horses that were
driven from Wilmington to Middletown
last Sunday we're abused and died along
the road. It is also said that several horses
belonging to persons in this county died on
the road from exhaustion.-Dover Index.
It's folly, to lose your poultry when the
use of Bragdon's Poultry Remedy is guar
anteed to you for 25 cents.
Great occasions do not make heroes or
towards; they simply unveil them to the
eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly,
as we wake or sleep. we grow and wax
strong, we grow and wax weak; and at
last some crisis shows US what we have
become.
See our Cook StoVes and R dnges, me
dunn size, large or small All at surprising
low prices. and yet ten per cent off for
cash. MIDDLETowN HARDWARE HOUSE.
The MiddIetown girls are already max
ing faces at our Wilmington soldier hsys
and the guards have been troubled to keep
them in camp. Still the flirting is contin-
ued at distance. as it is said that distance
lends enchantment to the view.-Ex-
change.
We call the attention of farmers who
wish to contract for pickles to the advertise
ment of the Philadelphia Picking Com
pany in anotherlumn.
The NJ. E. Church trouble at Laurel
and Pocomoke City has been adjusted by
transferring Rev. D. II. Corkran 10 Ser
anac Lake, N. Y, and Rev. W. T. Valient
to Camden, New Jersey, and bringing from
these places the Rev. George Woodall for
Laurel. and Rev. E. G. Sunfield for POGO
moke City.
Choice Chrysanthemums. Geraniums.
Grape vines, Cabbage and Tomato Plants
for sale by C. R. CLAYTON, Cass street
Middletown. Del
FARMERS AND HoRsEMEN.-I desire to
call your attention to the fact that / have
secured the services of Mr.. George W..
Howard, who is considered by those for
whom he has done horse shoeing to be one
of the best shoers in the country. A trial
is earnestly solicited. FRANK L. Gates.
The man who gets fswest letter com
plains the most Of the postoffice; the man
who complains the most of his neighbor is
the meanest neighbor. the man who has the
least sense is the most conceited. and the
man who borrows his neighbor's paper is
the one that does the most kicking about
the news contained therein.
ITO FARMERs-Send your teams in at
any time and get any kind of phosphate
you may want. Large stock always in
warehouse. JESSE L. SHEPHERD
s. NJ. REYNOLDS, Agt.
Somebody with plenty of time on his
hands has figured that the average number
of hairs-on the head of red-headed per-
son is $4,000 that dark haired people have
about 1O5 900, and fair-haired men and
women from 100000 to 100000. 1t has
also been calculated that if all the hairs on
the head of fair.haired woman could be
plated together they would sustain
weight of eighty ions.
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.
A clever swindler is taking advantage
of the war 10 work the farmers in lower
Delaware and on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland. He represented himself to be
government veterinarian and goes to the
farmer on the claim that he is purchasing
horses for the government. The horse is &C
cepted and check rendered in payment.
The check il for an amount in excess of