Middletown transcript., 1903-08-22

4 Cui iiHc VI fresh 0rOCefleS ab Il. I
TNGRAh's.
Delicious Ice Cream Soda, at
| PEARsoN's PHARMACY.
David Wolfe Brown, official shorthan,
reporter i'm Congress, recommends tn
shorthand course given by Goldey Col
lege.
Until further notice the MiddletowI
Public Library will be open ON Tuesda,
evenings, from to $50; Saturday after
moons, from to s.; Saturday evenings
from to $50.
1t is said that the profitable hen eat
10 times her weight in year. Her egg
are six times her own weight, and wortl
six times the cost of her food. Feet
plenty of wheat, oats, grit, clover ant
! bone.
Unclaimed Letters.-The following lis
of letters remain unclaimed in the pos
office for the week ending August Is tn
Mrs. Maude Davis, Miss Edith Denney
Miss Amanda Hollingworth, Mrs. Mary
Plator, Gilbert Bullock, Gilbert w. Bul
lock. Felis Cuffey, Almond Faison, Sam
uel Pearch, Charles Wallace.
FREE TROLLEY FARE.-Anyone
coming from Odessa to Middletewn by
trolley and purchasing S.. 90 worth Of mer.
chandise at the GLOBE CLOTHING STORE,
will have their transportation paid. II
will pay you to remember this Offer
when coming to Middletown.
This is circus day in Middletown, and
the small boy-and larger one too-are
delighted. Hargreaves big railroad shows
will give two performances here to-day
afternoon and evening, and judging from
the press notices this show received
in Wilmington, it is far superior to many
of the travelling shows.
From the various stations along the P.
B. & w. Railroad in the State come re-
ports to this Office that peaches are bring.
ing fancy prices although they are being
shipped in very small quantities. Craw-
fords, the leading variety now being ship
ped, are selling from 81 90 to 81. so, while
poorer grades bring 70 cents a basket or
less.
There has been considerable talk of
the tomato crop OF this Peninsula, and
the possibility of glut in the markets,
but many of our farmers are now think
ing differently. We have talked with
several of the largest growers in this
section during the past few days, and if
they are not badly mistaken the crop
will be short, and those who did not
contract with the Gamers will undoubt-
edly get fancy prices for their tomatoes.
Mr.. Andrew Woodall, of Georgetown,
has had built at Cambridge, one of the
largest power boats yet brought out for
service on the Chesapeake Bay. The
Cambridge Manufacturing Company built
the hull, which is now at Georgetown
being filed with joiner work and Globe
gas engine OF S5-horsepower. The boat
is intended for the grain and other trade
between Georgetown and Baltimore.
She will have a capacity of 5000 bushels
OF grain, or about It's tons dead weight
cargo.-Bahimore Sun.
On Thursday morning Mrs. Vaughan
gave a euchre at her home OIL West
Main street from 10 to II o'clock. Those
present were: Mrs. F. R. Pool, Mrs. H.
NJ. Schroeder, Mrs. Hugh C. Browne,
Mrs. W. B. Biggs, Mrs. ]. P. Cochran,
Mrs. George Janvier, Mrs. Howard Pool,
Mrs. ]. Gray Taylor, Mrs. J. c. Sites,
Miss Martha Heaton, Miss Dora Price,
Miss May Holten, Miss Sallie Cochran,
Misses Mary and Lydia Cochran, Miss
Valley, of Virginia, and Misses Blanche
and Ada Cochran.
Miss Dora Price entertained a number
of her friends last Saturday afternoon
from four to six o'clock at porch party,
in honor of her guests, Mrs. Edgar Var
NELL of Philadelphia, and Miss Whaley,
of Richmond, Va. Those in attendance
we're: Miss Whaley, of Richmond, Va;
Mrs. Edgar YarnaIl, of Philadelphia;
Miss Emma Jones, of New York; Mrs.
Henry Schroeder, of Lancaster, Pa;
Mrs. Hugh G. Browne, of Wilmington;
Miss Ray Lank, of Philadelphia; Misses
Ida O'Hara and Retta Meyer, of Trenton,
N. j.; Miss Blanche Wright, of Warwick,
Nd; Mrs. Fannie Lockwood, Mrs. w. F..
Barnard, Mrs. Alex. Comegys, Mrs. ]. c.
Sites, Mrs. Bessie Vaughan, Mrs. Jesse
L. Shepherd, Mrs. ]. Gray Taylor, Mrs.
C. j. Freeman, Mrs. John Cochran. Mrs.
Chas. A. Ritchie, Misses Martha Heaten,
May Holten, Viola Ennis, Helen Clayton,
Mary Shallcross, Ada Cochran, Sarah and
Agnes Cochran, Adele and Mary Coch-
ran and Edith Derrickson. Refreshments
we're served consisting of ice cream, cake,