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Middletown transcript., 1903-07-04
PERSONALITIES

Mr.. B. P. Wilson, of Elkton, is tn
guest Of his parents.
Mr.. Lee Corrie, of Chester, Pa, visited
friends in town this week.
Mr.. Edward Boggs, Of Cheswold, wa
in town Saturday evening.
Rev. G. 7. Anderson, of Lewes, visited
Rev. G. T. Wyatt this week.
Miss Grace Parvis is spending the
month Of July in Rehoboth.
Mr.. John Gill, of Philadelphia, is the
guest of his mother on Green street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Minner and chill
dren are visiting relatives in Magnolia.
Miss Elsie r. Jones visited Miss Eliza
beth Hopkins, at Farnhurst, over Sunday.
Mrs. w. P. Cullen has returned from a
two weeks visit with relatives down the
State.
Mr.. and Mrs William Barnett and son
Taylor, were Philadelphia visitors one
day this week.
Mr.. James Adkins, of Philadelphia,
will spend Sunday with his parents on
East Main street.
Miss Nellie Ernest, of Philadelphia,
will be the guest of Miss Addie NJ. john
son over Sunday.
Mr.. Charles Ernest. of Philadelphia,
was the guest of Mr.. William II. johnson
and family last Saturday.
Mr.. Raymond j. Wilson and lady
friend, of Philadelphia, are visiting MIR.
and Mrs. w. w. Wilson.
The Misses Alice and Cornelia Ford, of
Beverly, N. j., were the guests last week
of Miss Elizabeth R. Hall.
Miss Sylvia Moore who has been at
tending the West Chester State Normal
School, has returned home.
Mr.. G. Ernest johnson, of Philadel-
phia, will be an over Sunday guest OF his
father on West Green street.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Van SAINT, of Phil
adelphia, are being entertained by Mr.
w. w. Wilson, on Lake street.
Mr.. Bright Cleaver, of Mt. Pleasant,
has accepted a position as bookkeeper
with the. .Middletown Hardware House.
Mrs. James Hamilton, of Wilmington,
is the guest of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
J. w. Burrows, on North Broad street.
Mrs. William Clark who has been Wis
iting her mother, Mrs. Anna Gallagher,
has returned to her home in Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. John Allen and children, Mildred,
May and John, of Philadelphia, are guests
at the Middletown Hotel, where they |
will spend the summer.
Misses +. B. Freeman and Florence |
Endicott, of Philadelphia, were enter
tained during the first of the week by Nh.
and Mrs. w. W. Freeman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Styles and daugh-
Ter, Miss Grace, of Philadelphia, will ar
rive at the Middletown Hotel to-day,
where they will remain for several weeks.
Miss Elizabeth Hopkins has resigned
1er position at the Delaware State Hos
9ital and returned home yesterday. She
las accepted position in the telephone
exchange here.
The Rev. F. H. Moore visited Wash
ngton on last Tuesday, and in addition
o visiting the places of public interest,
le had the pleasure of seeing the Rev.
Dr.. and Mrs. W. G. Alexander, formerly
# the Forest Church. Doctor Moore re-
eived a cordial welcome, and found DR..
md Mrs. Alexander in excellent health,
md deeply interested in the welfare of
heir Middletown friends.
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WARWICK
Ho ! for the Fourth!

Ho for the Fourth
w. j. Lofand, Jr., spent Thursday and
Friday in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Merritt were the
guests of Mrs. Arabella Piser on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Everett, of Wash-
ington, D. c., are guests of Mrs. A. Jones.
Miss Mamie Spear, of the Manor, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. S. D. Wilson
Mrs. John Ernest, OF Sassafras, was
the guest of Mrs. Sallie Gunkel Monday
The Junior Endeavor held social at
the home of Miss Mamie Merritt last
Saturday.
Mrs. G. R. Manlove, of near Middle
town, was the guest of Mrs. w. ]. Lof-
land Sunday.
Mr.. Ernest Litsinger, D. D., delivered
an able sermon to large congregation
last Sunday morning.
The M. P. choir did not 60 to Sassafras
on Sunday evening owing to the death
of Mrs. Robert johnson.
The Senior Christian Endeavor Society
held its monthly business and social
meeting at the home OF w. Fl. Bennett
last Thursday evening.
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WHITE POTATO CROP

From present indications, the pres.
ent season will be a profitable one for
the growers of white potatoes, and every
day hundreds Of barrels OF the staple
product are shipped up the Delaware
road from the southern part of the Penin-
sula. One of the principal shipping
points is Cape Charles, the southernmost
Peninsula point, where on one day TO-
O5O barrels were shipped. These come,
largely, from Virginia towns, and came
all the way up the Delaware division OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The prices
realized ranged from $3.l5 so 1910 per
barrel.
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LAYING THE RAILS

Work on the Middletown and Odessa
trolley road has been going on rapidly
during the week, and the rails are laid
from the Pennsylvania Railroad track in
this town to Mill Lane, and in short
time the contractor will complete the
task OF laying the rails.
The work OF placing the poles in posi-
-,-.-e;..u a., for savaral davs
and the scene along the entire route is
one of great activity, and from present in
dications the entire line will be COM
pleted in few weeks.
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Fireworks ofsall kinds at
JONES & BRADLEY's,

| oO4tIAo ~ DhhOAIA os
Wheat sold in Baltimore Wednesda,
for 802 cents; corn, 55a cents.
Until further notice the Middletowl
Public Library will be open on Tuesda,
evenings, from : to $50; Saturday after
moons, from 4 to 5; Saturday evenings
from to $50.
Our Town Fathers have decided to in
prove Railroad Avenue, one of the mos
used streets in our town, and during the
first of the week engaged traction en-
gine and the large pillow used by the con
tractor for the trolley road to plow the
street. 1t is the intention of the Com
missioners to use the stone taken from
the West end of Main street along the
trolley track, and place them on this
thoroughfare, thus insuring substantial
road, which will undoubtedly be a great
improvement.
The farmers of New Castle county have
finished cutting their wheat, and many
of them will start to thresh in a short
time. Many of the farmers say that the
wheat crops will turn out better than
they expected, ard in most cases they
expect fairly good yield. In this Sec
tion of the county a fair crop is expected,
but the straw is very short. Those who
intend to thresh out of the field will start
in next week, when the parties who own
threshing outfits will reap harvest for a
few weeks. The market price of wheat
at the present time is about rs cents a
bushel.
The day we all celebrate is at hand
and the spirit of patriotism has not moved
the people of this part of Delaware to
make any special effort to observe the
day by any of the many ways usually
taken to express the patriotic feeling that
should burn in the breast of every man
owing allegiance to the American flag.
Perhaps the spirit is there just the same;
but the energy to arise to the occasion is
lacking. Every child should be taught
to understand what the Declaration of
Independence means TO him as citizen
of this great federation of States, and at
all times pay honor to the flag represent
ing the very greatest country that the
light Of day shines upon.
This is the Fourth of July, and as has
long been the custom, there will be
large quantity OF explosives used by our
boys, such as fire crackers, rockets and
various others, and in the face of the
many accidents that occur every year
from careless firing of these things, we
deem it timely to call the attention of
our people to the fact that too much pre-
caution cannot be taken to avoid the
danger to life and property. This year
the Fourth comes on Saturday, and there
doubtless will be many teams hitched
along the public thoroughfare, and if
fire crackers are fired without due discre
tion, may endanger the lives of children,
and all pedestrians. 1t is also
quite noticeable on this National holiday |
that in the heat of excitement or the |
false idea of joke, these crackers are |
thrown under the feet of men and
which is to say the last, dam
,erous.
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DEATH OF MRS. ROBERT W. JOHNSTON
SAssAFRAs, MD, July Sd, 1903.

SAssAFRAs, MD, July 81, IVU3.
The death of Mrs. Robert w. Johnston
occurred on Wednesday last. She had
been i'll about two months with consump-
ton, and everything was done to prolong
her life, but her Heavenly Father willed
1t otherwise. She was 2S years of age
and leaves devoted husband and three
little boys. Funeral services were held
in Rehoboth NJ. 2. Church; interment in
the adjoining cemetery, Rev. j. T. Lit
singer officiating.
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MRS. ANNA PADLEY

The mortal remains OF Mrs. Anna Pad
ley, who was found dead in bed ON Sun
day morning at her home at Boyd's
Corner, was laid to rest beside her hus-
band, James Padley, whose death oc-
Cured just two weeks ago, in st. Georges
Cemetery on Tuesday. Mrs. Padley had
been in i,nnr kaaitb for sayaraI n,ontha
but her sudden death was great shock
to her family and friends, who were not
aware Of her being dangerously i'll. Mrs.
Padley was aged 70 years.
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Received Their Certificates

OF the seven applicants for license to
practice medicine and surgery in this
State, who came before the Medical Ex-
amining Board, representing the State
Medical Society of Delaware, which was
held in Dover last week, the following
passed and will receive their certificate.
from the medical council: Dudley M.
Munson, of New Castle; Anna G. shiplev.
of Seaford and Freeman s. Roover, o.
Milroy, Pa.
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If YOUR EYES ARE
TROUBLING YOU

n any way, or if you suffer any headache
that you cannot account for, consult the
well-known and reliable Optical Specialist
E. l. ALPER. have the very best faci-
lities for the purpose OF determining eye
refraction. / have followed this profess
sion all my life time; my vast experience
is at your service. l will gladly exam
inc your eyes by the latest improved
methods absolutely free of all charges.
Special attention given to school children.
| recommend glasses only when needed.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-04

ton OF the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the sum of 55' cents
per one hundred dollars be levied as the
tax rate for county purposes and the sum
OF 10 cents per hundred dollars be levied
for the year 1908.
Resolved. That the sum of 30 cents
per hundred dollars be ordered to be
levied upon the real estate and personal
assessment of colored people for school
purposes in the several hundreds of New
Castle county for the year A. D. 1908"
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MARRIED

DINSMORE HAYES On Tuesday,
July 30th, 1908, by the Rev. John
Shape, in Wilmington, Mr.. Leroy
Dinsmore and Miss Mary E. Hayes.
The bride was former resident of this
town.
Middletown transcript., 1903-07-04
Young Mems Suits.

These come in sizes from IA to 20. And there very
nne collection here Scotch Chevios Tweeds, Cassmeres
Flannel and Serges They cut and made in the nobbest
syesstyles that the young want and couldn't get at
other store town for less than So Our sale price
only s6 So
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ONE PRICE
Clothing! !!
That is the Cheapest

Before you buy a new
suit for anyone of your fam.
lily consider that goods sold
at half price is not always
the cheapest. The farmer
does not sell his corn at 25
cents when it is worth so
cents, or his wheat when if
is worth a dollar, neither
will the merchant sell his
regular goods at half price.
There are seasons when
every store closes out all
the odds and ends, broken
sizes and unsaleable goods,
it is all right, bargains may
be picked up then, but when
an epidemic of continuous
performance of underpriced
clothing takes place. Con.
sider! and consider it we'll.
The goods we handle are
always worth the money,
we cannot afford to sell our
customers worthless goods,
therefore no matter how
low the price is, the right
quality is there. t
JOS. BERKMAN, 5
EAST MAIN STREET, {
MIDDLETOWN, DEL. {
100000 o-o-Oo oooIo
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DIED

PADLEY-On Sunday, June 2Sth, 1903,
near McDonough, Mrs. Anna Padley,
aged ~ years.
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Mems Outing Suits.

Those comfortable two-pece suits (coat and pants)
large variety in Homespuns Chevos Wool Crashes Elan
nels and Serges The built shapey front
shape that's there to stay) The pants have belt straps
with cuff buttons. They would be cheap the regular
price of $40. Our price, S. So
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CURRENT PRICES

NIIDDEETOWN GRAIN MARKET.
Wheat-No. IFS Corn
No. 2.....76 Yellow, shelled Al
Timothy Seed So. 90 cob $50. so
(lo,.nr GOOD III 1Aln 0nkc SA
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The Middletown Transcript

Trains Leave Middletowu as Follows:
North Bound-saO, 7.52, go and 1927 a. m;
LA and SOS p. m.
$3.50. 4. "a and Sep. m.
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laiis Close as Follows.

eng North-7.30 a, m, l005 9. m, $50 PM,
SD p. m. and 9p. m.
Going South-S.l 10 a.m., 4.36 p M, and pin
For Odessa-93O a. M, IL 40 a. m, sos p. m
For Warwick, Cecilton, Earlvilie and sassa-
fras-940 q. m.
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VIUN6I ooeu 10 IU2C Odls '''''......''.. u
MIDDLETOWN PRODUCE MARKET
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-28
The Presidents Ever.Present Body Guard
Protected by Dead Shots Wherever He Goes

Ever behind President Roosevelt whether walking riding dv
ing dead shomen hit the playing
as far they IT, who puncu half dollar thrown
into the
suspect presence OF these men, but
be sure the New hanging
around That nohensye looking half pres
dent be of them. Make threatening
Roosevelt the behind The president will probably shoot
first and ask questions afward scarcely necessary
that president bitterly
al liberty he terms it. In spite OF his
better guarded than the asassna-
on President Mckinley the system guarding the president has
been added TO and improved until
be made.
could possibly escape When Mr. Roosevelt goes
walking Of these two dead shots" always lowering ahou.
him. When he riding another horseback is be.
hind him.
Every person approaches watched Ike hawk unn no
passes. This is the regular Washington routine
II is the crowds that president a every on
ping place his about the country greatest efforts arc
made for his protection Two three men travel
ahead the president the police as 10 tho hoe,
Vice They the ground that IA no travelled
by the president from the time he until he returns
TO T..
The exact spot where the where the nreser,
carriage to stand and the he reach ara in
dad and marked The president and h no
stand the side nearest the deno on N
others the opposite side The at which the nrsl1sn t. a.
stop the hal in which he to speak, every place he il IN v
are similarly Inspected As the last before city in which
the president to BE- entertained train f. oarda b
the local secret service who men on tho tra, :, ~
arrangements that have been Wv
When Mr. Roosevelt from train his guards oro =, Ut,
heels or In front OF him. When he carriage bev r ono
Immediately behind keep watch on the oros ~ -,
are placed close to him. when he
stage; wherever he they within Of him Tta roaLo
no display and few know the identity the two ouo, sc h
never allow the president 10 get Of sight w
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-28
PRES ROOSEVELT AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE;
"SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIC STICK"

The Monroe international law think
day become such necessary remains
cardinal feature Of foreign policy both
the VIII and the strength make This fellow
citizens all important and az
ford to forget believe with all and
soul am convinced majority
men believe IN IT, hut would Infinitely er 10 see ne abandon II
Than to put forward buster about fail build
up the efficient fighting strength which in the alone make
respected by strong foreign whose interest ever hap
to be to violate
Boosting Objectionable among nations as
among individually and the public nation their
sense of national sespect courteouy owust
as brave and seeeeg man treats all around him coarteouy
But though boast
yet than all 1t to be guilty boastng, insult
ana when called to the proof to be unable to make such boang good
There homey old adage which Speak softly big
stick; you will go far"
II the American nation viii bud
pitch the highest training thoroughly navy,
roe doctrine win far, ask think this you you
viii come to the conclusion that plain OBJ
yousy that the blind fail only
weakest ana most iesoute fail
Well in the last two am happy
strides in advance regards The
smaller upon
efficiency Of any navy in war ultimately depends pro-
yd the necessary
to make the ships worth having Meanwhile department
to It that ships have been constantly sea-
great and in that efficiency fighting units
both individually when acting steadily improved
Remember that all Of this is varsbp huge
mechanism well nigh delicate and complicated
takes years build It, 1t takes years to teach the officers and
how handle good advantage imuossbty
mproys war between any
two nations has lasted as long takes to build bahp;
Just as impossible to improyse the officers the improvsc
the
To lay bateship and only send war
with untrd merely folly but
crime for would invite both disaster which
quickly decided the built and made
efficient during the preceding 10
Santiago had been built un-
administrations with money appropriated by previous Con-
The officers and the did their duty because they
had already An honor to the
gallant officers and gallant who nghng but
member honor the public shpVrghts ana steel work.
the OF the shpyards plants TO whose
united foresight exeron that had craft so good
OF
the urrets and In the too late TO
for when has come and sufficiently
powerful efficient navy not for
purposes but the peace we have
navy building up-we may assured that
that come 70 this ma.
likewise that power will ever
quarrel the Monroe doctrine.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-28

at Santiago a modest voice was
heard, exceedingly polite addressing a
militia regiment lying upon the ground
while the Spanish bullets were lying
over them, This voice said Get one
side, gentlemen, please; one side, gem
tlemen, please, that my men can get
out
A POLITE MAN.
"And when this polite man got his
men out in. the open where they could
face the bayonet and face the bullet
there was transformation, and the
transformation was that the dude had
become a cowboy, the cowboy had be-
come a soldier, the soldier had become
a hero, and rushing up the hill. pistol
I'm hand lgreat applausel the polite
man shouted to the mlitIamen lying
down. Give them hell, boys give
them hell [Applause,l
"Alusion has been made by one OF
the speakers TO the fact that the DEM
ocratlc convention Is to meet on the
Fourth Of July. Great Scott! The
Fourth Of july [Iaughterl On the
Fourth OF July all the great heroes OF
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-28
THE RESIDENTS
FOREIGN POLICY,

/ IT believe we are face TO face
|, with great world problems said
/. the president "and that we can
|. not help playing the part of a
/ great world power, All we can
!. decide Is whether we can play 1t
/ well or H. do not want to see
!. us shrinking In the least bit from
! our duty. We have got to hold
!. our own.
! 81 do not believe the United
: States should even suffer a
! wrong" he continued. II would be
. the first that would resent a
wrong from the strong as | would
. be the first to insist that we do
. not wrong the weak. ! believe in
. the Monroe doctrine, and as long
. as am president 1t shall be lived
: UP TO. / do not intend to make
that excuse Of fertilization for
. being unpleasant to the other
. powers. We want the friendship
: OF ali mankind. We want peace.
We wish well to the nations of
: mankind"
: In substance he said his foreign
|. policy Is this;
Don't boast, don't insult any
one, make up your minds coolly
what Is necessary for US to say
say It, and then stand by It, what
ever the consequences might be-"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-28

this hammering at the gates OF Pekin?
Why this marching Of troops from Asia
20 Africa? Why these parades Of peo-
pie from other empires to other lands?
1T Is because the surplus productions
Of the civilized countries Of modern
times are greater than civilization can
consume IL Is because this overpro-
duction goes back 10 stagnation and to
poverty.
1.-THE American people now produce
two thousand million dollars worth
more than we can consume, and We
have met the emergency: and. by the
providence Of God, by the statesman
ship OF William Mckinley. and by the
valor Of Roosevelt and his associates
Gapplausel we have our market IN Gu
ba, we have our market In Porto Rico,
we have our market In Hawaii, we
have our market In the Philippines and
we stand In the presence Of S0000O,000
people, with the Pacific as an Amerl-
can lake. and the American artisan pro
ducing better and cheaper goods than
any country In the world. and, my
friends, we go 10 American labor and
10 the American farm and say that,
with Mckinley for another four years,
there Ia no congestion for America.
Let invention proceed, let produc-
tion go on, let the mountains bring
forth their treasures, let the factories
do their best. let labor be employed at
the highest wages, because the world
is ours, and We have conquered Il by
Republican principles and by Republic
can persistenoy In the principles Of
American Industry and Of America for
Americans. Applause.l
EAST AND WEST.
you and !, my friends-you from
New England with all It's culture and
its coldness, and you from the middle
west who, starting from Ohio, and ra-
dating In every direction, think you
are all there Is Of Il; you from the
west who produced. on this platform.
a product Of New England transformed
10 the west through New York, that
delivered the best presiding officers
speech IN 0ratory and all that makes
up a great speech that has been heard
in many a day In any convention IN this
country. lDepew referred 10 Senator
Wolc0tLl II was glorious thing TO
see the fervor OF the west and the
culture and polish OF New England
giving us an ammunition wagon from
which the spellbinder everywhere can
draw the powder TO shoot down opposl-
tion east and west and north and
south.
MANY Of you I met In convention
four years ago. We all feel what little
men we were then compared with what
we are today. There Is not a man here
that does not feel 400 per cent bigger
In 1Q00 than he aid in 1906 bigger in
tellectually, bigger hopefully, bigger
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-28
A YEAR ABROAD.

Following his graduation Theodore
Roosevelt spent year abroad. Imme-
diately on his return home he entered
the political arena NJ the metropolitan
city Of New York. He might have sat
In any one Of the clubs TO which he
was eligible and dawdled away the
hours. He did not neglect the clubs,
but was popular with the members and
at the same time was man with
purpose and an honorable ambition.
He went out among men, shook hands,
and az times when necessary, eXchang-
ed blows with HIS fellows so that while
he was still very young man he had
friends and admirers, not only at the
club but numbered among those he
knew and liked-the men who drove
trucks, streetcars, omnlbuses; the men
Of the docks, with shoulders, perhaps,
broader than his the fine sun bronzed
fellows who 90 out TO sea, the pilots
and tugmen the men Of the shops and
the stores with them he learned the
truth that "a mans a man for a that"
He was elected to the assembly Of his
state, and Il was not long before his