Middletown transcript., 1899-12-30
MlDDLEToWN, DEL, DEC. 80 1899
Local News.

Sausage Machinery, Lard Presses, LARD
Cans, Butcher Knives, Carving Knives and
Knives and Forks. Best Goods and Best
Prices, at Middletown Hardware House.
Coming Jan. End, the Dickinson Col.
lege Glee Club and Orchestra. rare
treat You can't afford to miss it. Admls-
sion CSC. Reserved Seats 35c, and soc, at
Latherbury's.
A SECONDHAND "Spea rs" Fireplace
Heater for sale at bargain, not much used.
Middletown Hardware House
Ii you enjoy music, good singing, &C.,
go to the Opera House next Tuesday Even
ing 10 hear the Dickinson College Glee
Club and Orchestra. This is q great musl-
cal treat and you cannot afford to let 1t
pass. Reserved seats at Letherbury's.
Exchange Store-Eyans & Son-Hom-
iny and Flour
The entertainment for the Sunday
school at Armstrong; on Thursday evening
was largely attended and very satisfactory,
rs was the celebration for the main school
at Forest last evening.
Evans & Son sell Buckwheat Flour at
81 cts lb. at Exchange Store.
The NJ. E. Parsonage was opened by
the Mite Society to delightful Social last
eve.-.e4
DIR. ]. C. Sites, Dentist. Office Pen
ington building, opposite Messick's store.
Painless extraction. Gas administered
and Obtunder used.
Mr.. Nathan Hinsley, watchman at
Frogtown Crossing, is among the fifty-old
employees of the Pa. r. r. laid off on PEN
sion.
Bag inning with Jan. list, 1900 J. G. Par
ker & Son Co., will do strictly cash busi-
ness in their Retail Department.
Z PUBLIC SALE. Tuesday, Jan. 9th,
of Farm Implements and Stock by Samuel
Dickerson near Med enough.
Mrs. Margaret Darlington h as received
from the Heptasophs the full amount of
insurance on The life of her husband, $4,000.
-DR w. E. BARNARD, SURGEON DENTIST
Office Southeast corner of Main and Scott
streets.
The great story, "In His Steps,"
now running in the TRANSCRIPT will
Z be followed by his last startling story,
"Tne CruciGxion of Philip Strong.'
Every subscriber will thus get the
paper and two books fo the price of
dollar.
For $3.50 Per month $500 worth Of
Building Loan Stock % shares) and your
wife tor beneficiary gets the $500 if you die.
w. r. REYNOLDS.
Mr.. Michael G Grimminger of Odessa
was stricken with apoplexy and par
Alysis yesterday.
Call and investigate Building Loan
Stock and Life Insurance combined $3.50
Per month far $4,000
W. R. REYNOLDS.
An interesting Delaware Ci y let
ter was received yesterday after the
"formsn were full. Sorry the paper is
not large enough for all.
$500 Per month, and you get the
Thousand Dollars B. L. Stock or your wife
ge.s it ifyou die.
W.R. REYNOLDS.
A rather odd but not unacceptable
gift was received by young lady OF
this town as a Christmas present,
In the form of little black pig
In basket. When being presented
the young swine became restless and
jumped from the basket and caused
much excitem ment for a short time.
The gift has been named "Jack."
The social by the Junior Social Club
held in the new building to the Academy
on Tuesday evening was very pleasant
affair. There were present: Misses Lucy
Cochran, Ada Cochran, Blanch Cochran,
Daisy Naudain, Mabel Parvis, Helen Brady
Esther Shallcross, Helen Cochran, Justine
Peverely, Gertrude McCrone,. Catherine
Truax, Grace Parvis, Adele Cochran Louise
Mcdowell. BERTHE Cochran, Louise Cochran,
Emma Kelley, Eliza Green, Susie Foard,
Sylvia NJ Moore, of Middletown; Annie Coch-
ran, Nellie Cochran, Mary Williams,
ofNew York; Ethel Nichols, of Balti-
more, Nd. Carrie Foard, Dover, Della
ware; Alberta Tull, Elkton, Maryland;
Julia Lockwood, of Warwick Maryland;
william Brady, Fred Crouch. George KEEL
bert Peverley; Lucisn Green, Julian Foard,
Sydney Peverley Rossiter McCone, Joseph
p. Comegys, Middletown; Agustus Now
land, Armstrong; Corner; Clarence Aspril,
Odessa; Fred Terrell, Sanantonia, Texas
George Lockwood, Warwick, Md; Mr.
SHREDDER, Lancaster, Pa.
The thirteenth annual meeting of the
Peninsula Horticultural Society will be
held at the Courthouse iu Salisbury on Jan.
uary 10, II and II. A program has been
arranged with great care and many practi-
cal questions will be discussed by experts.
The cultivation Of apples, pears,
peaches and plums, The marketing of ber-
ries, the production Of nuts, packages and
baskets, the nursery and diseases which
attack fruit trees will all receive attention.
On most of these subjects carefully pre-.
pared papers will be read, and a general
discussion will follow the papers. In these
discussions all fruit growers are invited to
take part.
The many patrons and friends of Mr.
j. b, Messick heard with alarm for week
past the rumors that he might move hi:
store from Middletown possibly TO Dover
or Wilmington. There was difference In
the rent question, lease, &c, for the Cochran
Block where Mr.. Messick has increased the
number of his patrons and friends the pas
three years. Happily matters have beer
adjusted as follows: Messrs. Reynolds &
Copp move from the Pennington Corner 10
the Cochran Block where Mr.. Messick nov
IS, and Mr. Mess:ck moves to the store they
vacate. He has leased ground on North
Broad street and win build four LIS TO th'
present store giving him, "a by 100 feet
The contract has been awarded to be com
pleiea March 1st Middletown cannot AFFORD
to lose Mr.: Messick. His business method
bring trade to all, and the people are con
gratulating themselves on the permanencl
Of bis engagements 70 remsin.