Middletown transcript., 1903-02-21
We have just received car Of Soft
Coal. Price a little lower than recently.
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road.
/ WANTED-Good canvasser for unoc
cupied territory: free outfit; cash eaci
week for whole or part time. Western
| New York Nursery Co., Dept. 2, Roch
ester, N. Y.
| Mr.. w. R. Polk, secretary OF thu
Odessa and Middletown Railroad Com
pany. has notice in another column 0
| this issue, calling the attention OF th'
stockholders to a meeting to be held a
the hotel of Charles W. Lloyd, in Odessa
on Saturday evening, March 9TH, at
o'clock. A large attendance is desired.
The young lady friends of Miss Katie
lDroll rendered her pleasant surpriss
party at her home on Anderson street
Tuesday evening last, and the ten couples
present had very enjoyable time. Music,
dancing and games were INDUCED in un.
til a late hour when the guests were in
vited to the dining-room, where refresh
ments were served.
Unclaimed Letters.-The following list
of letters remain unclaimed in the post
| Office for the week ending February 18th:
Mrs. E. Beeson, Mrs. Annie Beel, (pos-
tai card) Mrs. Mary Boarder (postal
card) Mrs. Edward Carey. Mrs. Annie
Deputy, Miss Ema Martin, Miss Dell She
fen, Mrs. Mary Wallace, Walter Crump-
ton, James Moss, Isah Pratt, Thos Price.
Tomato growers are demanding SO and
$40 per ton as basis for contracting
and, in view of the fact that labor has ad-
vanced from 12 to 20 per cent. the in
creased contract price is not an unreas-
able one. 1t is probable that a compro-
mise of the matter between the Gamers
and growers will be arrived at and, the
price be fixed at about $50 or 50 per ton.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, mother of Mrs.
George NJ. Wilson who resides on Lock-
wood street has just finished bed quilt
containing 7S4 squares, and each one of
these squares contains 8 small squares,
making the quilt contain G, PIP squares all
told. This is indeed remarkable piece
of work for lady of Mrs. Cooks age, as
she celebrated her S3d birthday on satur-
day last.
Mr.. George Minner who drives the
Standard Oil Company's wagon between
Middletown and Newark, had many try
ing experiences on his trip last week.
The roads were very heavy, and in places
the large wagon would fall in to the hub,
and in some instances it would require
four or five horses to pull it out. Mr..
Minner arrived home one day later than
usual, and let many of his regular GUS
toners unserved.
To put two columns of matter in one
column of space is often the difficult task
that confronts the TRANSCRIPT on Friday
mornings, and if our regular correspon-
dents would send in their weekly letters
on Thursday morning instead of day
later, much of the trouble would be OBJ
waited, and we would be spared the very
delicate task of cutting our correspon-
dents. and they themselves would te
spared the trial of having their contribu-
tions mutilated by the ruthless hand of
the editor.
The shirt factory which has been closed
since Christmas resumed operation Wed
nesday morning under the manage
ment of D. L. Robertson & Co., of Glen's
Falls. n. Y, and we are informed the
new firm have already booked several
large orders. At the present time they
are short of operators, but many of the
old employees who have secured positions
in other towns will return in short
while, and the factory will then be in a
position to turn out large quantity of
work.
"The mention Of Rev. G. T. Wyatt's
name as the probable Presiding Elder of
the Easton district of Wilmington M.
E. Conference, meets with strong -appro-
val at Rock Hall, Md, especially among
the membership of the Jr. o. U. AN. he
being one of the most prominent members
of the order and an orator OF great abil-
ity. It was he on behalf of the State
Council of Maryland, Jr. o. q. A. M,
who made the presentation speech in
Washington when the order presented the
handsome medal to Commodore w. s.
Schley about Is months ago" ."-Chester-
to,on Enterprise.
Special services will be held in the
Forest Presbyterian Church beginning
tomorrow, Sunday and will be contin-
ued every evening excepting Saturday
evenings. The Rey. Henry Runner, d.
D., will preach next Tuesday and We'd
nesday evenings, the Rev W l. Freund
on Thursday evening, ard the Rev. Jos.
eph B. Turner. of Dover, will preach on
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
evenings of week after next. The Pas
tors class of inquirers will meet this
afternoon, at o'clock. and on the fol-
lowing Saturdays at 2.30 o'clock. The
Sacrament of the Lords Supper will be
administered on Sunday morning, March
Sth. All are cordially invited.
A cold wave accompanied by snow
arrived Monday night, the drop of the
mercury accompanied by high winds
blowing about thirty miles an hour, maxi
ing the air too zero-like for grumbling
humanity to enjoy. The thermometer
stood at three above zero Thursday morn
ing in Middletown, and the water pipes
and furnace fires have made more than
one man and woman wish for cline
where such ills are unknown. 1t takes
q very fanciful imagination at such times
10 find much beauty in Jack Frost's auto
graph on the window pane, especially if
The house plants are nipped by his chill
ing breath. But there are worse ills than
shese that come with the drop in the
srIfforino from fha urort of