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

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MONTGOMERY is now making his choice
candies.
Leave your laundry at Jones' barber
shop. The best of work and prompt ser
vice.
Oysters at
Middletown Restaurant 4 Supply Co..
HORSE SHOEING.-Plain, Is cents
cash. Satisfaction guaranteed.
j. C. GREEN.
Laundry collected Monday. delivered
Thursday. Also clothing cleaned. pressed
and Owed. d. G. PLEAsANToN,
Corner Cass and Main Streets.
FOR SALE.-Mule l6 hands-l1 years
-sound-$lOO. 7. R. BRADSHAW, near
Odessa
BUILDING SAND FOR SALE have 2OO
tons of good white building sand for sale.
Will siye and deliver sand for $l.50 per
ton w. II. Voshell.
Middletown, Del.
Strictly high-class dental service at
moderate cost. Free examination and es-
innate. DR.. ]. ALLEN JOHNSON, Main
street. Middletown, formerly Of Indian
apolis..
Our special sale will begin September
Goth. 800 ladies shirt waists to go at
greatly reduced prices. Mrs. G. W.
PETERSON.
Mr.. A. Fogel has been in New York
this week buying new fall and winter
goods. Read his opening ad. in this issue.
The Middletown public schools opened
on Tuesday after being closed for the past
eight weeks, with all the teachers and
about 200 scholars present.
After Oct. 1st the library hours will be
as follows Tuesdays from $50 to 5 P. NJ;
SATURDAYS from $50 to 5 P. NJ, and to
$50 P. M.
Bakers corn cannery will close in a
few days, after run OF five weeks. The
seasons pack has been a large one, and
Mr.. Baker is well pleased with the sea-
sons work.
The, new residence of Mr.. Joshua z.
Grassland on South Broad street has
been completed, and Mr.. and Mrs. Cross
land will move into their new home dur
ing the coming week.
Local gunners are out daily in quest OF
the toothsome rail and reed birds, and
many Of them have succeed, in bagging
large numbers. Rail birds are unusually
numerous, and one Of our gunners killed
60 Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, the aged mother
Of Mrs. George NJ Wilson, died at the
residence Of her daughter, on Lockwood
street, on Tuesday, aged So years. Mrs.
Cook had been feeble for several weeks,
and her death was not unexpected.
On Wednesday, September Goth, will
open and 10 cent store. Many useful
articles will be found in the this depart
ment. Mrs. q. w. PETERSON.
The next full moon occurs on the 18th
inst, and is known as the harvest moon, !"
the moon near tue full at the time of har-
vest in England, or about the autumnal
equinox, when by reason of the small
angle Of the ecliptic and the moons orbit
with the horizon, it rises nearly at the
same hour for several days.
NOTICE.-Tax payers of the town Of
MiddletOwn should remember that Sep
TENDER is the last month in which they
can get per cent off Why not save the
5 per cent? The town is needing money,
and it must make immediate collections.
L. G. SCoTT, Collector.
The work Of extending the new block
system for train dispatching exclusively
down the Delaware Railroad is progress.
ing. rapidly. The new block house fol
Afiddletown has been erected south Of
the Middletown Farms, and the mer
engaged in this work are now at Dover
Mrs. Martha B. Tibbett, wife OF Sam
uel Tibbett, died at her home neal
Cooch's Bridge on Thursday last Of hear
trouble. Mrs. Tibbett was 5+ years old
and was twice married. Six children and
her husband survive. Her funeral was
held on Sunday and interment was made
ia Bethel.
Don't forget that Sunday is the day for
the reunion at the Union M. E. Church
near Townsend. Many from distance
will be there to meet old friends. Service
in the morning at $50 o'clock. Preach
ing al 1890 by Rev. G. P. Jones, of Mil
ford. At o'clock, P. M, preaching by
DIR. A. w. Lightbourne, Of Middletown.
Joseph G. Hutchinson, the assessor fol
Appoqninimink hundred, well-knowr
farmer near Townsend, met with a serious
and painful accident that may cause hin
TO lose the sight Of an eye. While slack
ing lime in milk can for white washing
The contents exploded. He was terribly
>calded over face and body.
A county exchange asks: What ha
become of the boy in patches Ant
answered the question thus Why he i,
out on the farm choppy logs l6 hours &
day. He will come to town after while
to run the banks and stores and be sue
cessful lawyers, preachers, physicians ant
merchants. Don't worry about the DO,
patches. It's the slick looking store
clothed nicely groomed lad, with cigar
cite between. his teeth, that you want tt
inquire about He's going to drol
through crack in the sidewalk out o
sight one of these days.
True the farmers of this peninsula have
had few peaches this year, but the fact
remains that the people OF the peninsula
are the best fed people in the world. NJ
other country in the world can furnish it
own crabs, fish, oysters and CLAIMS TO
breakfast and its corn, beans and meats
for dinner and its dozen different fruit
for supper, to say nothing OF watermelons
grapes, cantaloupes, ETC., for deserts. w
may not be the richest people on eartl
but we live the most sumptuously.
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