Middletown transcript., 1903-04-04
sAsSAFRAs ITEMS

Everyone is getting ready for Easter.
Little Miss Annie sylvesteris quite sick
with the measles.
Mr.. John F. Ernest visited Middle
town on Wednesday.
Mr. Jacob T. Shallcross was in Banker,
Md, on Saturday last.
Apples are unusually plentiful and
prices are quite reasonable.
We are pleased to state Mr.. Hampton
Johns is able to be out again.
tertown relatives Sunday and Monday.
It is said the markets are full of ba-
nanas and yet they sell for 2 for 5 cents.
Many here regret to learn of the death
Of Mr.. George w. Mcgee, of Ceciton
Mrs. J. McLain Brown and Miss Hattie
Day spent Thursnay with Mrs. Henry
Rosin.
Mr. Robert S. Griffith left Wednesday
for Pocomoke City to attend conference
as delegate.
Mrs. A. p Emerson, OF Fairlee, is being
entertained by her sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Johnston.
Miss Bessie Gunkil, of Warwick, was
entertained by her sister, Mrs. John F.
Ernest, Wednesday.
The sixteenth annual convention of the
Delaware Sunday School Workers will
begin at Lewes on April 10Th.
Miss Estella VanDyke and Miss Mary
Money, of Townsend, were entertained by
Miss Mamie Pearce Thursday.
County Commissioner Lewis P. Atwell
and sister, Miss Edith, visited relatives in
and near Chestertown Tuesday.
Mr.. Stephen Boyer who has been con-
fined to his room for some weeks, We are
pleased to state is much improved.
The Farmers Club met at the home of
Mr. w. D. Pennington in lower Kent on
Thursday last, with full attendance.
Mrs. Stephen Fl. Ford, of Ford's Land
ing, is visiting her daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Jeans, Of Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Davis, of the
Levels, are visiting their daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. William Cleaver, near Ken
nedyville.
The duck shooting season on the Sus-
quehanna flats closed Monday, while
shooting from blinds along the shore may
be continued until April 10th.
York, Pa, capitalists are negotiating
for the purchase of certain properties near
Rising Sun, with a view of establishing
an extensive iron mining business.
Mr.. James W. Robertson, retiring State
Councillor of the Jr., O. U. A. NJ, was
presented with handsome silver service
by the State Council in Wilmington on
Tuesday evening.
Rev. j. McLain Brown, of Warwick,
preached an eloquent sermon in tile M.
P. Rehoboth Church last Sunday to a
large congregation. We all feel sorry to
lose Mr.. Brown. He expects to preach
| his last here on Easter Sunday.
| The death of Rachel A., wife of Mr.
William Ford, of near Chestertown, on
| Thursday night last was very sad indeed.
Mrs. Ford lived all her early life before |
her marriage near Glasgow, Del, where
her father, the late David Ford. owned
| fine farm and was an influential farmer.
Mrs. Ford was one of the most lovely
characters, always bright and cheerful
and anxious to make others happy, never
thinking of SELF. She leaves one OF the
kindest and most devoted of husbands,
two daughters, Mrs. William Clough, and
Miss Susie B. Ford, and one son, David |
B. Ford, all Of Chestertown. She leaves
two sisters, Mrs. Eliza Barr and Miss
Susie Ford, Of Philadelphia, and three
brothers, William and James Ford, of |
Glasgow, and David B. Ford, of Newark,
Del. Mrs. Ford had been suffering for
the past five weeks, and although every
thing that loving hands and skilled ply
| sicians could do was done, she passed peace.
fully away on Thursday. Funeral services
were held Sunday afternoon from her
late residence; interment being made in
ST. Paul's Cemetery, near Chestertown.