Middletown transcript., 1899-05-20
Local News.
Early peas are in blossom.

EARLY peas dTG III DiOSoOnh'
:. FoR sAIE-One Ladies' Side Saddle. Ap
ply at this Office.
The whistle of partridges is now hear
along our roadways.
:, DO you pay 10 cents for prunes? Mrs
Matthews asks only &c.
Notes, bonds, warrants, in fact all kind
of legal blanks at this office.
Rev. J. d. G. Hanna lectured at st
Georges on Monday night last.
White Leghorn Eggs so cents per set
ting. WN. R. REYNOLDS
Copies made from Tin Types or any
: other pictures of any description at Trink'
lere's Studio.
Shirts, 1Oc; Cuffs, 4c; Collars. &c. All
+ work guaranteed to be the best.-Lee Sing,
North Broad Street.
Remember that J. F. McWhorter & Son
2 haYea full line of carriages and agricultural
Implements on hand
-Goyernor Tunnel and staff will attend
the National Peace Jubilee to be held at
Washington next week.
A class of seven young ladies was con-
frmed in st. Annes Church on Sunday
last by Bishop Coleman.
Congressman Handy has been adm tilted
as member of the New Castle,county bar
and will have his Office in Wilmington.
Don It forget the entertaining and in
structive Bethesda Epworth League. Meet
ings every Sunday evening at GAS o'clock.
If you are going to marry, you need
nicely gUtten-up invitation. Cell at the
TRANSCRIPT and get our prices and see
samples.
BY recent ruling from the Treasury
Department at Washington, witch hazel is
a toilet water and must bear the regular
revenue stamp.
-Middetown's streets have had a gen.
erous watering from Dame Nature this
week. The pave wash has not been of
much use to the subscribers.
PLANTS FOR SALE.-Tomato. Sweet Po-
tato and Cabbage Plants for sale. Also
E. J. STEELE, Florist, Middetown, Del.
IF you are going out of town for an out
ing leave your address at The Transcript
Office and the paper will follow you. 1t is
the only way to keep posted on town
affairs.
More shad have been caught in the
Delaware River this year than ever before,
and often a catch from 1000 to 1900 is
made in twenty-four hours. Prices at
present are very low.
--AGENTs WANTED To take orders for
my specialties in Roses. Shrubs, Fruit and
Ornamental Stock. I have few specialties
that sell at sight. Write for terms. G. L.
Yates, Rochester, N. Y.
Among the S5 young doctors graduated
al Jefferson College on Monday were the
following graduates are from Delaware:
George Cooper Moore, Willard Eugene
Smith, James Harvey spruance.
do you want the "best farm wagon
made?" If so, buy the Milburn. Do you
want to double the profits from your cowsP
II so, buy the American Separator. The
above are for sale by
J. F. McWHoRTER & SoN
The Ladies Aid Society Of the Odessa
M, E. Church will hold the first strawberry
festival of the season in the Town Hall on
May oath and 18th, Wednesday and Thurs
day. They are always very successful in
entertainment and financially. =
j. Frank Brinkerhoff, off Philadelphia,
Pa, Specialist in lenses for the eye, will
again be in Middletown at Mrs. Massey's
Jewelry Store, on Tuesday, May %, The
most difficult cases Of defective vision
corrected without charge for examination.
Mrs. o. M. Matthews has just received
alot of fine china which she is giving away
on coupons, which are given away with
your purchases. Money saved on fine
cakes and crackers, choice groceries and
fresh vegetables in season. Uneeda Biscuit
Get 1t at Mrs. Matthews.
Mr.. W. A. Hukill, Jr., disclaims being
q new brother-in-law. preferring that rela'
tion to come to him in q more personal
way. Miss Hulk Ill recently married was 6
distant relative and daughter of another
gentleman of the same name of the one sc
weIl-known in Middletown.
Freight conductors of the p, W. & D
r. r. are compelled to make statement
Of the number Of hoboes carried on theil
trains. where they got on and where they
left the train. This is one Of the hardes
Jobs they have to encounter and many arr
glad it is to continue only this month.
-Philadelphia and New York ate straw
berries last Saturday at three cents quart
Salisbury feasted upon them Ut sfiye cents
while the people of Middletown considere,
them luxury at "two for a quarter" Tel
cents has been the ruling price this week
ConneIlee had few homegrown berrie
on Wednesday.
William b. Bryan, for the past 81
years cashier of the East Orange IN.
National Bank. has been appointed ban
examiner for New Jersey, Delaware and a
Of southern New York south OF Pougf
keepsie and east of Port Jervis. with Il
exception OF New York city. He win a.
sumo his new duties about July ist. NJ
Bryan succeeds Bank Examiner 6amslsy.