Middletown transcript., 1902-10-04
sAssAFRAs ITEMS

Mr.. Stephen Boyer, Jr., visited Mid
dletown on Tuesday.
Messrs. Hampton and Johns visited
Sassafras on Saturday.
Mr.. Louis Dreka visited friends at
Odessa on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Henry Rosin is the guest of Miss
Emma Wilson, of Townsend.
Miss Nora Borton visited Chestertewn
relatives several days.last week.
Mrs. Herman B. Massey, of near Mas
sey, visited Sussafras on Tuesday.
Mr.. Stephen Boyer, of Middletown, is
visiting his nephew, Stephen Boyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Il. Spry enter
tanned Mr.. Henry Rosin on Monday.
Mrs. Frederick Robinson and little
daughter visited Sassafras on Tuesday.
Miss Emma Johns entertained friends
from Wilmington and Newport last week.
Mr.. William H. Spry has an abundant
apple crop on his farm near Sassafras.
Mrs. Rachel Stradley has been visiting
Mrs. Scott Rosin for the past two weeks.
Owing to the storm Tuesday evening
no meeting was held by the Jr. o. U.
A. M.
All the canneries in Cecil County are
working full time with an abundance of
tomatoes.
Rev. Mr.. Shears, of Baltimore, has
been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Robinson.
Mr.. A. Wilson Cochran, one of our
wide-awake farmers, began seeding wheat
on Tuesday.
There will be a cake walk and dance
at "Dewey" Park Wednesday evening,
October 22d.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Goldman, OF
Philadelphia, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Johnston.
Messrs. Stephen Boyer, Sr., and Robert
s. Griffith spent Tuesday fishing and had
very successful catch.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tarbutton's little
son has been very ill with typhoid fever
for the past three weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sheppard Morris, of near
Colts, spent Sunday with their son, Mr..
and Mrs. w. Sheppard Morris.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lucas, of Mt.
Pleasant, we're the guests of his sister,
Mrs. John Clothier on Sunday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Griffith and two
daughters spent Sunday with her mother,
Mrs. w. X. Lockwood near Warwick.
Misses Mary and Edith Willis, of Ches-
apeake City, were entertained last week
by Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Rosin near town.
Prof. Henderson, Of Philadelphia, gave
very interesting entertainment in the
Sassafras Town Hall on Monday evening.
Miss Alyce Dreka, in company with
her brother, Mr.. Louis Dreka were en-
tertained on Sunday by McDonough
| friends.
DIR. w. 7. Taylor, of Laurel, Del, a
former physician in this vicinity, has
been visiting friends in Earleville the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sylvester enter
tanned on Sunday Rev. ]. McLain Brown
! Of Warwick, and Messrs. Bayard a1d
Edgar Jones.
Owing to the proposed increase of rates
I by the Laurel -Seaford Electric Company
| many of the merchants of the two towns
will use coal oil lamps.
The next stated meeting of the Presby-
| terry of New Castle will be held in the
i Presbyterian Church at Elkton, Tuesday,
/ October 9TH, at 7.30 P. M.
/ Mr.. Phemies II. Jones left on Friday
! for Wilmington where he will remain sew
eral days this week as the guest of his
daughter, Mrs. Frederick VanSant.
The Day Basket Works at North East
are rushed with work, and have a large
order from Seattle, Washington Territory
/ for 800 dozen baskets Of various sizes.
Mrs. Elias 0thoson and Mrs. Thomas
fGoodwin, Of Kennedyville, were enter
! tained on Tuesday by Miss Mollie Otho-
i son and Mr.. r. 0thoson near Sassafras.
sfr. Merritt N. Willis, of Middletown,
president OF the New Castle County Levy
(, Court, is at the Samaritan Hospital, Phil
adeipliia, being treated for stomach
!, trouble
Rev. r. K. Stephenson, pastor of the
4 Eikton M. E. Church, on Sunday last an
nounced to his congregation that he had
accepted the call to the pastorate OF Scott
M. E. Church, Wilmington.
The Kent County School Board has
4 ordered soft coal for the schools. This
coal will be tried and only used until the
lstfike is over, as it requires more con-
slant attention than hard coal.