Middletown transcript., 1903-05-23
MfDDLETowN, DEL, MAY %. 1908.
Local News.

wire fence at right price.
G. E. HUKILL.
Earliana and Stone Tomato Plants for
sale. George H. Kohl, near Cherry Tree
Corner, Middletown, Del.
100000 Sweet Potato Plants for sale.
E. J. STEELE, Florist,
Middletown, Del.
A fine stock of dry goods just opened.
Lawns from 81 cents to Is cents.
Mrs. G. w. PETERSON.
DIR. w. E. BARNARD, Surgeon Dentist,
sfice Southeast corner Of Main and Scott
streets.
F. I. Alper, optical specialist, has a
new ad. in this ISSUE If your eyes are
troubling you give him call, at his resi-
dence on West Main street.
100000 Sweet Potato Plants now ready
to pull, at $3.50 per 1000. Apply to
CHARLES w. FLINTHAM,
Middletown, Del.
Over l50 patterns of summer dress goods
Just received in lawns, dimities, madras,
silks and grenadines. Mrs. G. w. PETER
son.
Until further notice the Middletown
Public Library will be open on Tuesday
afternoon, from $50 to 5; Saturday after
moons, from 3 to 5; Saturday evenings,
from to $50.
The advance in price of cotton makes
muslin much higher. We have large
stock on hand to sell at the old price.
Ready made sheets at 40 cents. Pillow
cases 10 and 124 cents.
Mrs. G. W. PETERSON.
Unclaimed Letters.-The following list
of letters remain unclaimed in the post
Office for the week ending May 18th:
Miss Emma Archey, Miss Annie Cane,
Miss Hannah Seddler, F. D. Kelley, Will
man Lockmond.
William II. Elsey who was arrested
three weeks ago for the larceny Of 46
cents from the money drawer of Mr..
John Fortner, was sentenced in the
County Court Wednesday morning to
serve term of six months in the Work.
house.
Bethesda Epworth League meets in
the lecture room OF the M. E. Church
every Sunday evening at 6.45 o'clock.
Everybody is invited to attend. The
topic for tomorrow evening is: "Atten-
dance on the Means OF Grace" Heb. IL:
2)-25.-Leaders Miss Allie Mckee.
The Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian EGdeavor of Forest Presbyterian
Church, meets every Sunday evening at
6 40 o'clock. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to everybody. The topic for to-
morrow is "Power and Prayer" Acts /:
IL, IA: 2:1-4,4l. Leader Miss Elizabeth
Hall.
The "Friends of Old Drawers" Church
will hold their annual meeting on Sum-
day, June 7th. The Rev. Joseph Brown
Turner, Of Dover, will preach the morn
ing sermon and James Brown Dilworth,
of New York, will make the address in
the afternoon. The speaker will take for
his subject: 1.-TWO Centuries of East St.
Georges Hundred"
Constable John w. Dickinson arrested
Eva and Lizzie .,Robison, colored, on
Thursday, for the larceny of wearing ap-
peral and 81. .05 from the home of Abram
Griffith. The children who are 10 and
IL years of age, resided at Mt. Pleasant,
and their mother had deserted them
some weeks back and now resides in
Wilmington. At the hearing Friday
Squire Cox decided to send them to the
Ferris Industrial School.
Rev. C. T. Wyatt, D. D., pastor of Be-
tiiesda NJ. f. Church, will preach to-
morrow morning at 1890 O'Clock, from
the text: $50 built we the wall, for the
people had mind to work." and in the
evening, at 7.30 o'clock, will preach
special sermon to the members of Major
John Jones Post, No. %. G. A. R. All
members OF the Post, all soldiers and
marines, and all members of Patriotic
Orders, are cordially invited to be pres
ent.
The remains of Mr.. Paul Otway Burns,
of New York, son of late Capt. Burns,
formerly of Fredericktown, Maryland,
were brought to Middletown on Satur-
day afternoon for interment in Bohemia
Cemetery, near Warwick. Mr.. Burns
died suddenly of accute Bright's disease
at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the 9th inst,
and the body was just one week on route
to Middletown by express. They were
taken to the undertaking rooms Of w. ].
Wilson and on Sunday afternoon at
o'clock, were buried in the Burns burial
lot at Bohemia, Rev. Father McGodrick,
officiating.
A large force of Italian laborers are
now at work on the Odessa and Middle
town trolley road, and the ties and polls
lave been distributed along the line
from Middletown to Odessa. The out
look for the road being in opperation at
an early date is very encouraging, and
those who were inclined to make light of
the project when it was first started are
now convinced that the Tennis Construc-
tion Company is pushing the work rap
idly. The men are now grading the road
bed through Odessa, and they will be at
work in Middletown in short time.
The continued dry spell Of weather is
now becoming serious. 1t has been at
least month since we had any rain, and
as consequence all vegetation is suffer-
ing, and if there is not some relief in
few days the strawberry crop will be a
total failure, and this will mean the loss
Of thousands of dollars to the people of
this peninsula. Wheat and hay are also
showing the effects OF the dry spell, and
there is every indication that these crops
will he very short and all these trouhlas