Middletown transcript., 1903-08-22
KIDDLErowN, DEL, AUG. %, 1908.
Local News.

Try Huber's Steamed Bread. Fol
sale by JONES & BRADLEY.
Pocxstbook Rolls, s cents per dozen, a
JONES & BRADLEY's.
DR.. w. E. BARNARD, Surgeon Dentist
sffice Southeast corner OF Main and Scot
streets.
Ask for Huber's Bread at
JONES 4 BRADLEy's.
Pocketbook Rolls, s cents per dozen, al
JONES BRADLEY's.
For a Bicycle or Phonograph 60 tc
WoRKMAN's, Odessa, Del.
Crab meat by the quart at JONES &
BRADLEY's.
Huber's Steamed Bread at
JONES < BRADLEY's.
For plate Of good Ice Cream or Ice
Cream Soda gn la
WoRKMAN's, Odessa, Del.
Deyiled Crabs at ,JeNEs & BRADLEY's
For anything in the Fruit line 60 to
WoRKMAN's, Odessa, Del.
The new boiler for the Middletown
Farms has arrived, and will I've placed in
position in few days.
The attention OF cur readers is called to
the new ad. of Lippincott & Co. of Nos.
3O6-8 10 and IL Market street, Whining.
ton.
President of Town Council w. R. Coch-
ran is having a new brick pavement
layed in front of his residence on East
Main street.
The local market is over run with all
kinds OF vegetation, and the high prices
which prevailed few weeks back have
given way to more moderate ones.
Mr.. Thomas E. Hurn is the champion
tnmato grower of this section. Mr.. Hurn
has pulled two tomatoes this week from
his garden of the Pondarosa variety--one
weighing two pounds and the other 26
ounces.
As soon as a suitable schedule can be
arranged for the Odessa and Middetown
trolley road, it will be printed and dis
tributed to the patrons of the road. The
schedule will also be published in the
columns OF TIE TRANSCRIPT.
DIR. Drake is holding forth in the square
each evening, and the entertainments
given by the doctor and his black faced
comedian are highly appreciated by the
large audiences which assemble to hear
them. The doctor gives short talk on
the merits OF his patent medicines each
evening, but the comedian is the chief
attraction. as his jokes and comic songs
are new and up-to- date.
About so Bohemians from Baltimore
arrived in town yesterday to work in the
tomato cannery of Preston & Co. Mr..
Preston informs us that he expects to be-
gin canning sometime during the coming
week il a sufficient quantity Of tomatoes
can he secured, but at this time they are
ripening very slow, and it may be some
time before the cannery will be running
TO its full capacity.
II an abundance of reeds has anything
to do with making successful season,
the coming one for reed and rail birds
promises TO be the best for many years.
According to local gunners who already
have been making thorough inspection
Of the marshes, reeds which serve as
food for the toothsome feathered tribe,
were never SO plentiful. This fact makes
an excellent cunning season almost GER
tainty.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Browne, Mrs.
Henry Schroeder, Miss Grace II. Paryis,
Messrs. John Fl. Parvis and John r.
Cronch, composed fishing party on
Wednesday. Silver Lake was the spot
selected, but owing to the threatening
weather and the occasional showers few
fish were caught, but Hugh is not dis
couraged, and is spending his leisure
moments in sharpening up his hook, and
telling his friends what large fish he pro-
poses to capture on his next trip.
The State Convention of the Patriotic
Order of Sons of America was held in
Dover Tuesday. Twenty delegates were
present. E. C. DAILY was elected delegate
to the national encampment which will
be held in Baltimore next week, and J i.
W. McCann, of Wilmington, was elected
alternate. Henry McCann was elected
president for New Castle County; A. N.
Brown, president for Kent County; the
Sussex County presidency was not filed.
Messrs. J. A. Suydam and Harry Hilyard
represented Washington Camp, No. 9, of
this town.
We are reliably informed that the shirt
factory will resume operation on or
about September lst. This will be well
come news to the people OF our town, and
especially to those who depend on the
factory for livelihood. We'll, Haskell
& Co., who recently bought the mach
inery, fixtures, ETC., will run the business
in the future, and as they have had many
years of experience, We have no doubt
but that under their able management
the factory will be run to its full capacity,
and all the old employees, together with
many new ones, will have steady employ.
ment.
The trolley party given by Mr.. and
Mrs. G. w. Peterson Tuesday evening
was most enjoyable affair for the par
ticipants About s. persons responded
to the invitations sent out, and at 8
o'clock the merry party assembled in
front of the store of Mrs. Peterson on
East Main street, where they boarded a
car for Odessa. 1t was indeed a great
treat to those who had not had the OPP
portunity OF riding over the line, and
will doubtless long be remembered as
the first real trolley party that the new
road carried. When the party returned
tley Darfook of refreshments at Jones