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Middletown transcript., 1904-08-06
M1DDLErowH SHOOTING ASSOCIATION

Several members of the Middletown
Shooting Association enjoyed couple OF
hours at the traps on Thursday afternoon
and the several events wer closely con-
tested.
A 100 targart program was first shot in
events as follows =
Event No. l at Is Targets for prize of
25 loaded shells Barnard Is, Stephens
IA, S. E. Massey 12, H. Pool TO-
Event No. 2 at Is Targets for 25 shells:
Stephens Is, S. E. Massey Is, Barnard
IL, HI. Pool Z.
Event No. at Is Targets for % shells:
Barnard II, Stephens IL, S. E. Massey
10, III. Pool 8.
Event No at 25 Targets for Silver
Medals. E. Massey %, Barnard 20,
Stephens 20, III. Pool Is.
Event No. at Is Targets for 25 Shells:
S. E. Massey IA, Barnard IA, Stephens
IA, H. Pool.
The shoot-off Of the tie at 10 Targets
resulted as follows:-Barnard 10, Steph-
ems s, S. E. Massey 5.
Event No. at Is Targets for 25 shells:
H. Pool IA, Barnard IA, Stephens Is, s.
E. Massey IL.
The shoot-off Of the tie at 10 targets re-
suited as follows:-Barnard 10, HI. Pool q.
This completed the 100 Target Program
and Stephens and Barnard tied for high
average with 81 out Of 100, S. E. Massey
So out Of 100 III. Pool 66 out Of 100.
Stephens then shot Brice for the Gold
Challege Medal, result tie at 20 out of
25 Targets.
In the shoot off OF the tie Stephen won
the medal with 18 out of 20 to Brice's IL
out OF TO-
Several extra events were shot, and the
Totals tOE the daY were as fOffOWS.
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HORSE SHoEING rs cents cash.
Bucks Foundry, MiddIetown, Del.

.. Ii. RIGGS,
Bucks Foundry, Middletown, Del.
Have you made arrangements to enter
Goldey College September lst? Il not
write for the catalogue.
Unclaimed Letters-The following list
of letters remain unclaimed in the post
office for the week ending August 4th:
Miss Regina Corsey, Mrs. Annie Elburn,
Mrs. Annie Elbeart, Mrs Myra Johnson,
Mrs. Sarah Williams, Mary w. Rider.
Mr.. William Elmer, Mr.. James Thomas
George.
In addition to Tuesday and Thursday
evenings of each week, the Odessa and
Middletown Trolley Company has de-
cided to reduce the fare to. five cents on
Sunday evenings. This move on the
part of the company is greatly appre-
ciated by our people, and the cars have
been carrying large crowds since its
Inauguration. Mr.. w. S. Letherbury the
genial superintendent, has decided to
give the patrons of the road one more
evening in each week to enjoy this most
pleasant ride at reduced prices.
Middletown transcript., 1904-08-06
On a New Track


We have just added to our
stock a FIVE AND TEN CENT
COUNTER-the name fully ex-
plains the idea. Everything sold
on these counters will be things
for every day use in the kitchen
or somewhere else in the home,
and the goods we put on them
will label them as bargains with
out telling. We are going to try
and make these 5 and 10 cent
counters SO useful to you in the
money-saving way, that you'll
think of us whenever you want
something for the kitchen.
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PERSONALITIES

Mrs. w. J. Wilson has returned from
Betterton, Md.
Mr.. James Burrows. of the Quaker
City, was in town Monday.
Miss Lottie Jolls has accepted a posi-
ton as assistant postmistress.
Miss Alice Lowe, OF Crisfeld, Md, is a
guest at the M. E. Parsonage.
Mr.. Martin Daugherty, of Smyrna, was
brief visitor in tow Monday.
DR.. and Mrs. J. G. Sites are spending
sometime at Atlantic City, n. ].
Miss Minnie Adams is the guest Of
friends in the Monumental City.
Mr. William Draper, of Washington,
D. c., was in town the past week.
Miss Sadie Finn is being entertained
by the Misses Gill on Green street.
Miss Mae Buehm, spent Sunday with
Miss Amelia Buehm, at McDonough.
Misses Bernice and Jean Metten are be-
ing entertained by relatives in Lewes.
Mrs. Ira Owens is the guest Of her sis
ter. Mrs. William Barnard, Of Perryville,
Nd.
Mrs. E. w. Caswell, of New York, is
the guest of her mother, Mrs. Mary
Jones.
Mrs. Albert Massey, of Dover, is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Smith.
Mrs. I. S. Fouracre has returned home
after weeks visit with friends in Will
mington.
Mrs. Emma Lamb, Of California, was
the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs E. s. Jones on
Thursday.
Miss Beulah Doson, OF st. Georges, is
spending sometime with her friend Miss
Ada Scott.
Mrs. A. E. Holten was the guest Of her
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. II. P. Shapley,
over Sunday.
Mrs. Louise McColgan and grandson,
Master Jay, are being entertained by New
Castle relatives
Mr.. and Mrs. B. S. Clark and Mrs. A.
E. Crow. Of Wilmington, are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. J. H. Emerson.
Mr.. Warren Ellicott, of Wilmington,
spent several days this week with rela-
tives and friends in town.
Messrs. John and Irving Metten, OF
the Quaker City, were the guests OF their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Metten.
Mrs E. R. Cochran and daughter Miss
Blanche, have returned from Seabright,
N. j., after a pleasant sojourn of two
weeks.
Mr.. II. w. Pharo. attended the funeral
OF his brothers. wife, Mrs. Alice Pharo, in
Philadelphia on Friday. Mrs. Pharo
departed this life on August 3rd, aged
Sc years.
Mr.. Howard Powell had as his guests
on Thursday DR.. w. L. Minister, Messrs.
George Clayton, r. divers and A. III.
Lungum, Of Philadelphia, and Messrs.
Fred Stangar and G. H. Cobb, Of Town
Point, Nd.
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FARMERS TAKE NOTICE

We have secured the AGENCY for the
Celebrated Listers High Grade Bone Fer
tilizers. In connection with all our other
well-known BRANDS we are now in posi-
ton to serve ynu better than ever. If
you wish to use fertilizer that is strictly
q Bone Goods, we would be pleased to
quote you prices on the LISTERS GooDs
delivered at your point Of delivery. They
lave been tried for over fifty years.
Ground and Stone Land Lime delivered
at all points JESSE I. SHEPHERD.
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MIDDLEToWN GRAIN MARKET.
nonpre.rrn wrEKIY BY JOHN w. JoLLs.
Administrator 5 Safe
PERSONAL PROPERTY

The Personal Property of Henry G. De-
Valinger, late of st. Georges Hundred,
deceased, will be exposed to sale at
Public Vendue,
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SASSAFRAS

The storm on Monday was very severe
here.
Mrs. Therza Shallcross will entertain
a house party of Delaware friends.
Miss Bessie Gunkel, of Warwick, was
entertained on Tuesday by her sister Mrs
John F. Ernest.
Miss Elizabeth r. Mitchell, Of Atlantic
City, who has been visiting her aunt Mrs.
John F. Ernest, left on Saturday for her
home.
Mr.. Joseph Peacock who has been SER
iously ill for many weeks with typhoid
fever, is very much improved at this
writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Humford and child
ren, OF Galena, were entertained Sunday
by her parents Mr.. and Mrs. James
Thornley,.
The Misses Powderley, Mr.. Stevens
and Mrs. Rachel Stradley were enter
tanned at tea Monday evening by Mr..
and Mrs. John Johnston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander 7. Laws are
entertaining his sister Mrs. Frederick
Shibles and daughter Miss Virginia and
son Fred W. Jr., Of New York City.
Mrs. Rachel Stradley is entertaining
the Misses Katie and Ella Powderly and
Mr.. Edward Stevens, of Smyrna, at the
home of Mr.. Robert Johnston's near
Colt.
Kent County is the garden spot of the
world, and her fruits and flowers just
now are magnificent and never looked
50 beautiful as they do at the present
Middletown transcript., 1904-08-06
Thursday, Aug. II, N

AT $50 O'CLOCK, A. NJ,
At his late Store on Main Street, in
Middletown, New Castle County Della
ware, consisting of
Household Goods, the entire stock OF
Goods in his Grocery Store, Scales, Meat
Racks, Blocks, Counters, Show Case, Oh
Pumps and General Fixtures; Electric
Engine, Fans and Sausage Factory, a lot
of Hides, contents of Slaughter House
and Fixtures, Ice Wagon, Calf Wagon
and Harness, Ice Tongue and Plow, Ice
House on ground rent, and stock OF Ice,
lot of Ice Saws and Tongs, one Bay Mare,
Store House on ground rent, and other
items too numerous to mention.
TERMS CASH.
Attendance will be given by ssl.
w. REESE PARKER,
Administrator, or by his Attorney.
nutIiiisGraGof, Ur py his liel
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Barnard had run OF SO straight and Ste
phens had run of 26 straight.
Middletown transcript., 1904-08-06

Collector OF Taxes for btackDird HUDuI
P. 0. Address --Taylors Bridge.
Middletown transcript., 1904-08-06

The burned district Of Millington is
beginning to look like large camp meet
ing because of the numerous temporary
buildings which are being built on the
camp style.
There will be tent meeting at st.
Paul's Church, Earleville, in the near
future under the auspices of the NJ. E.
Church. Rev. w. A. Dawson will have
charge of the meetings.
Mr.. Robert S. Griffith, OF Pittsburg,
was entertained at family dinner on
Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Griffith.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Stats and Mrs.
Frank Batlett and daughter we're also in
attendance.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20

General Splitter of Ohio, leading
banker and a delegate at large from
Lucas county to the republican conven-
ton, says: I'VE have something to
think about that is more important,
and that is the nomination OF President
Roosevelt. I tell. you that if he Is
chosen for another term, as the candl-
date of the republican party, he will be
defeated, and it matters little who the
democrats put up. base my predic-
ton on what / learn from all parts or
the country. We have correspondents
in all sections and word from them
bears me out in my assertion, Roose-
welt will be defeated as sure as you
live. He has placed himself in sucl
position that no one fels safe with
him.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20
HEARD IN PASSING

Some men make money, and money
makes some men.
A great many people think with their
stomachs. That is the reason a dys-
peptic is usually pessimist.
A man who recently lost his foot
says he can still feel a corn on one of
the missing toes. Inasmuch as he can
not pare the corn, he should pare his
imagination.
The 'faous Semenoysky footguards"
are on their way to the front from st
Petersburg. III they are any livelier
on their fet than the other Russians
they will have to be good sprlnters.-
Chicago Chronicle
An ambitious inventor has contrived
what he calls "a fool proof boat" He
does not specify just what the new
design is. but if it is to fill the bill 1t
will violently throw the imbecile over
board who tries to rock 1t.
Englishmen say that Russia has
been found OUT and that her defeats
will keep her quiet for the next fifty
years. That is what good many PEG
pie in Europe were saying about Eng
land when the Beers were making
things so uncomfortable for her foul
years ago.--New York World.
i Norristown, Pa, has some very pc
Isculiar paupers. Out of the entire mum
Der $50 have been investigated and
found to possess means of support
| The investigation was prompted by
the discovery that one alleged paupel
had between $T00 and $500 in bank
and owned several pieces of real es
tate. The cases are in the Norristowr
state insane hospital and the city pays
$1.75 a week for each of the 450, while
the state pays as much more.
This choice between political bad
eggs does credit to Mr. Grout's nose
PROFESSIONALLY, Murphy is the stalel
of the two. No boss can afford to be
beaten habitually, and Murphy has al
ready a damaging record Of defeat
Routed ut the state convention, he is
likely to come ANONYMOUSLY out of the
| fight with the Brooklyn organization
Meanwhile, Mayor Mcclellan has treat
ell cavalierly many Tammany requisi
tions for patronage. In fact, Mr. Muir
ply is for the moment In the position
OF a leader who can neither reward
the deserving nor punish the mutinous
New York Evening Post.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20

What kind of provinclalism and ed
vocational in-breeding is Waterbury
suffering from that its school author
tiles should decide not to go out of
town to hire a teacher so long as a
homemade candidate can be found
Hartford Post.
The board of education probably be-
lieves in a high tariff. and the protec-
ton of home industries The state
gives preference to the product of its
own Normal schools, why can't a
town do the same thing? This quess
ton is like sharp-edged tool that
cuts both ways. The members OF the
board of education want the best
there is to be had, but at the same
time they want to encourage home in.
dustry, just as every business man
and every storekeeper is doing, trying
to keep trade at home.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20
FOUNDRY FOR DAILY MEALS.
Chicago Woman's Project for Solution
Of the Servant Problem.


If the Utopian and philosophic
scheme evolved by Jane Adams for
American home makers will ever
in Chicago will be solved and the
name of the benefactor will be placed
high in the Hall of Fame. says "a Chi
cago dispatch to the New York World.
The young woman advanced her
theory at a meeting of the South Side
Woman's club recently. Some Of the
features of Miss Addams's scheme
are breakfast foods and predigested a
la Francois. public chefs, more time
for clubs and philanthropy for wives.
No longer will the family breadwinner
find cold and unprepared dinners on
his return home and there will be no
more sudden departures of cooks and
family raids on restaurants. All these
lofty ideas are embodied in Miss Adj
dams's dream.
The household would be Organ
lied, or agonized, on the French sys-
tenn, and families would have their
food cooked on the wholesale plan the
same way i'll which the household
mash now is managed, coming to
each house ready for use a public
bill of fare would be got UP for every
city, and no one would envy his neigh
Dor, for every man, woman and child
in every city in the country would
have the same meal each day. Then
Miss Adams would establish del
icatessens, public soup and meat shops
and bakeries The program" of the
weeks meals would be something on
this order: Sunday, chicken for eve
<.I,{ l.G SylN
ried chickens wings. left over from
Sundays diner; Tuesday, roast NUT
ton: Wednesday, pork chops; Thurs
day, steak; Friday, turkey and fish,
and Saturday, lamb rosettes.
But in this scheme OF public supply
Miss Addams could not leave out some
work for the wife. for what the public
shops did not prepare the wife could
Fix up in the dainty little French
cooking closet" says the originator OF
the public cook scheme.
In her address Miss Adams Nsaid
the only trouble would be that some
of the women might not want mutton
on Tuesday. A reform was needed
she said and we must look to women's
clubs to see it inaugurated. The same
scheme was tried in Des Moines, but
failed because the women did not take
it seriously. and got so they would moi
warm over for breakfast and luncheon
what was lett from dinner, so as to be
in readiness for the, new meat from
the shop at dinner time.
According to Miss Adams. we take
breakfast foods as matter of course
then why should we not take cooking
shops? Why not, indeed? The do
mestics. do not object to kitchen
work, continued Miss Adams, but K
! the name Servant"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20

"A new plan OF distributing the i'm
migrants who land at New York har-
Dor is embodied in a bill introduced
Dy Senator Simmons and reported "a
vorably by the committee on immigra..
ton. 1t provides for the establishment
at Ellis Island Of bureau of infor.
nation and display to be run under tAe
auspices of the commissioner of fmmi-
grafton, for the purpose of guiding the
new arrivals to the most favorable
place in the United States for them to
settle. The bureau would have per
sons in charge to tell of the routes the
character OF the country, and the like.
ilhood of getting work as we'll as the
current wages paid. In short, every.
thlng would be done in the way of sun
plying information Of a reliable charac.
ter to pave the way to locating tie i'm.
migrants where they would be of most
value to the country and themselves
Any plan that will send the immi
grants away from the crowded tene
ment district Of New York city should
find favor.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20
NINE DOORS TO THIS JOINT.
Well Fortified Saloon in Prohibition
Maine Raided at Last.

Well Fortified Saloon in Prohibition
Maine Raided at Last
County Attorney Bertram r.. Smith
has just made a new record In his eff
forts to enforce the law against liquor
selling, This week his officers sue
ceeded in getting into a place known
as the Maze, which for years has de-
fed them.
The Maze was conducted by Charles
Tremblay, Il Canadian Frenchman, and
was ingeniously arranged. so much SO
that Tremblay used to- say: 1.-THE man
who fins his way i'll dose place an
catch man lax be was tam smart
man."
The place was laid out by an archi-
tect who knew his business. The bar
room was in the rear of vacant store,
with peep hole giving a view of the
street door.
When customer entered the door
an electric bell jingled in the barroom,
and the bartender looked out at the
peep hole to inspect the person who
had entered. If satisfied that all was
safe. he pulled wire that slid bolt
in an oaken door leading into corr
ridor ait one side and the customer en-
tered there. proceeding through that
passage. brilliantly lighted, to another
door. and another, to second passage,
also lighted
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20
HORSE SHOWS AND HOSPITAL
rnrNNy


TO stride for blue ribbons on the tan
bark in the hope of gaining a place in
society, or, at least, that society that
has attained the eye OF the newspaper
reporter, is the accepted motive OF
more than one horse show exhibitor.
1t is not often, however, that the party
who seeks society through the stable
door rises up the voice of complaint.
But at Boston recently the plant came
from frequent exhibitor that al
though social favors are extended to
him in other places where he shows
horses, at Boston he is not even asked
to have "some soda and a cracker
A somewhat continuous passing of
the members, with professional whips,
to clubroom back of the boxes was u
side feature of the Boston show so
soda and crackers must have been pro-
durable, and it is evident the com
planning exhibitor wanted something
more the opportunity, for, instance,
to partake of the simple repast in the
seclusion of certain family homes on
Commonwealth Avenue Of Beacon st.
Hereafter says this exhibitor, he will
only show at places where he receives
some attention socially. 1t would be
terrible if New York, too. is to be for
saken. The situation prompts the
query, How many exhibitors at horse
shows are lovers of the horse P From
The Illustrated Sporting News.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20

If science had done nothing more
than to discover the microbe, its claim
to human gratitude would be estab-
lished, and if 1t should now lay down
its work its glory would still be eternal
In our history Over its grave would
be erected monument. OIL which
would be carved Il gigantic bacillus,
and underneath the figure would be
craven; Sacred to the Men Who Res
cued Me from Obseurity" To think
of all the ages through which human
beings struggled in ignorance of what
allied them! They had diseases, took
dope and died, but the dream never
came to them that they We're vast per-
ambulating menageries, says III eX-
change They had no thought that
they We're full Of monsters beside
which the tabled sen serpent would
knew not that they were theaters of
war compared with which the Skin
mishes around Troy would pale into
mere love feasts. Science turned on
the light, Then it was that men for
the first time realized that they are
fuller of germs than an oyerripe linn
burger cheese: that in them are more
populous nations than those that
swarm over the ant hills we call con-
tinents Wonderful Is science. Be
side it all other discoveries dwindle
into insignificance. Columbus may
have found another hemisphere, but
science lifted the veil from world
undreamed and, revealed to us the mi
crobe. This age has many distine-
tions. 1t built the locomotive, made
electricity carry its messages and uo
its work, erected skyscrapers and
evolved the aew woman But in ages
to come these will not constitute It's
greatest claim to renown. In the per-
spective of time they will be dwarfed
by the ever growing figure of the bacil-
lus. And in the 242nd century, after
the wonderful things that Tesla was
always about to do have been forgot
ten, the present era will be marked
| upon the map OF the centuries as the
bug hunting age. For millions OF
years the humble disease germ toiled
on unknown and unappreciated. But
patient merit wins at last He long
had dreamed of fame. Finally the
scientist found him, obscure but not
alone. saw his wonderful possibilities
and dragged him forth from his retire
ment thenceforth to be known of all
men. And now he has become tbs
fashion, the lion of the hour. Long
disquisitions have been written on his
ancestry, his habits, his future. He il
cultivated. and all sorts OF attentions
are showered upon lin. Learned so
cieties discuss him. He is the subJec
of lectures. of papers and Of dope
| Newspaper artists draw pictures o.
him that are the occasion of night
mares. He has filled the earth will
new diseases and pipe dreams.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20

AS soon as man or a woman gets
to be somebody in New York. IL Ia
next to impossible for them to eet
along without a secretary. The ways
Of business and society are so arduoug
and complex, and things are, done 90
differently here from what they are in
other places, that it takes one with a
knowledge OF New York and it's WAYS,
an acquaintance with the people and
their peculiar1ties, good deal of tact
and dead loads Of bluff, to steer ambi-
tious persons through tue intricacies of
Gotham life. The demand for such as
sistanee has created supply. ANY
number Of persons, both men and wo-
men. are employed as secretaries. Of
course, the requirements of a man sec
rotary are quite different from those
asked of woman, and perhaps the
man has the easier time Of IT, Bust
ness is business, and what men have
to do can be done in businesslike
way. The woman secretary must be
right up to the last minute on all the
fads. foibles, frills and new things in
all the branches Of etiquette. she must
know the gossip OF the town, old and
new. the antecedents OF everybody and
what their resources are.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-20
M1NCE PIE AS BRAIN FOOD.
Young Woman Says Men Eat 1t Cold,
With Ice Water

A young woman who is III an office
in which there are a number Of men
says that it is a constant surprise TO
her to see what these brain workers
eat for luncheon. The firm she is
With is one of those which was burn
ed out, and SO, as the lunch room
which the clerks once frequented was
burned also, these young fellows now
patronize the basket which an timer
ant coIored man and his clean and
pretty wife bring to the new quarters.
The young woman says that one OF
the most capable of the FIRMS em-
ployes lunches thoughtfully off cold
nince pie and ice water, while he
sorts his mail. She says he COM
plains of headache ever and anon, but
he never thinks of attributing it to his
diet; instead he says he thinks he is
getting what one estimable old lady
used to call "the la grippe
The other men. the girl says, are
partial to hot gingerbread, and when
they can't get that they will take q
cheese sandwich reluctantly. The
colored man has u can of hot coffee
with him, but in this building 1t has
no patrons, for clerks agree that .'hot
coffee is bad for fellow" even while
they drink freely at the water cooler
and nibble their piping hot ginger
bread.
II wouldn't have believed it if
hadn't seen it with my own eyes,
| said the girl to friend. II always
1 thought men lunched off a porterhouse
steak and sweetbreads and macaroni
and sensible things, and as | ate my
modest beef sandwich and drank my
cup Of chocolate / would picture to
myself my friends OF the opposite sex
living on the fat of the land. If had
known about the cold mince pie and
the hot gingerbread ! wouldn't have
been astonished that some of our men
are thin and some are Respondent
Such a diet is enough to give the
strongest person the polly wobbles
forevermore. And then they say
women eat silly things!" Knoxville
Sentinel.