Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-23

little later the original man will appear.
! He will ask for the pay for his goods.
When told it has been handed over to the
other fellow he will simulate anger. To
get rid Of him the price demanded Is
handed over. The pair are confederates.
Newspaper advertising is generally re-
cognized in this day and generation as a
valuable adjunct in the business world.
1t is not only regarded by large major
ity Of retail dealers as necessity and one
that pays compound interest, but the
buyers likewise insist upon consulting the
advertising columns Of their favorite Jour-
nal. In the city the popular newspaper
is the daily. In the country the weekly
press has an equally strong hold on the
reader. The best argument that adver-
Using pays is found in the progress adver-
Using has made in the past few years,
both in the city daily and the country
weekly.
Henry Nash, a negro, was arrested here
Friday night for stealing horse and
buggy belonging to Wallace Beasten. Mr..
Beasten makes his home with his brother
In-law, Mr.. George B. w. Rhodes near
here. He had been spending the even
ing in town and about 10 o'clock went to
the hotel for his team and found it had
disappeared. The owner and policeman
Joseph Gary started in search OF the
team and the man and found them at
Odessa. Nash was brought here and
given hearing before Magistrate Cox,
who ordered him sent to the county
workhouse, where he was taken Saturday
morning by policeman John W. Dickin-
son. Nash is stranger here and has
been working on the farm OF Robert
Cochran.
The young men of Middletown gave
another enjoyable dance Tuesday night in
the Century Club room on South Broad
street. Miss Lena Pleasanton presided at
the piano. among the guests were; Miss
Dora Price, Miss Julia Lockwood,
Miss Marie Lockwood, Miss Martha
Heaton, Miss Helen Cochran, Miss Mary
Rowland, Miss Justine beverley, Miss
Susie Foard, Miss Eliza Green, Messrs.
Harry Brady, William Brady, Cuthbert
beverley, Harry Lockwood, Sidney Pew
erley, George Lockwood, Julian Foard,
James Lockwood, William Lockwood,
DR.. E. NJ. Vaughan and Harold Green, Of
Middletown; William Hall, Of Phoenix
vile, Pa; the Misses McAleer and Miss
Mabel Derrickson, OF New York; Miss
Grace Weller, Of Cumberland, Nd. !;
James Whitaker, Of Philadelphia, Pa,
and George Dutton, OF Seaford.
The w. G. T. Z. met on Monday even
ing at the home of the President, Mrs.
William HI. Moore, to elect officers for the
coming year, and delegates to the State
Convention which will be held in Milford
in October. The election Of officers re-
suited as follows: President, Mrs. L. S.
Moore; Vice President, Mrs. J. T. Nc
Whorter; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.
NJ. L. Cox; Recording Secretary, Mrs. G.
A. Hoffecker; Treasurer, Mrs. A. NJ.
Heaton; Collectors, Miss Ida Ceaver and
Miss Mollie Wilson; Delegate to Conven-
ton, Mrs. J. T. McWhorter; Alternate,
Mrs. ]. w. Barnett. After the business
Of the evening was finished, the hostess
invited the guests to the dining room,
where cake, coffee and fruit were served.
Several members of tlfe local Union at
tended the Harvest Home held in Rey-
nold's Grove near kirkwood on Tuesday.