Middletown transcript., 1905-02-25
FOR RENT Seven room dwelling on


FOR RENT Seven room dwelling OF
North Broad street. Possession Marcel
25th. Apply To d. 9. PLEAsANToN.
/ Mr.. James A. Bradley has just com
pleted Queen Anne stairway for Mrs
G. B. Satterfie on North Broad street,
which is a credit to its builder.
j Instead # h.irg asked to pay their owr
expenses, as had been anticipated, visitor:
to the Wilmington Methodist Conferences
| viii receive free hospitality.-Ex.
| Unclaimed Letters-The following lisi
of letters remain unclaimed in the post
office for the week ending February 18th
Mrs. Calihnis Armsruy, Mrs. w. M.
Grogan, Edgar Maneral and Fletcher
Right.
And now the farmer is having an elec-
trio bell placed in connection with his
rural mail box where the box is located
some distance from the house, the mail
carrier ringing the bell when he delivers
the mail What next?
i Frank Whelen, the well known Della
ware newspaper man, for several months
with the State, Register, Laurel, will resus-
citate the Smyrna Cal. He has secured
the plant and will move his family there
this week. The first issue under his man.
agement will appear in March.
A newspaper can satisfy some of the
people all OF the time, and all Of the
people some of the time, but it cannot
satisfy all of the people all of the time.
| The best it can do is to please the largest
number and to pray fer the conversion of
the others.
The TRANSCRIPT will be glad to receive
items of interest from its readers. If you
are going visiting, or if someone is visit
ing you, if you entertain your friends or
your friends entertain you, if you have
ideas looking toward the advancement
OF our town, all these things we would
like to have. 1t is impossible for US to
see and know all without some help from
our friends, and we want every reader
of THE TRANSCRIPT to feel that he or she
is factor in furnishing the various news
happenings that occur. We want this
paper to felp in the advancement of our
town and We exert every effort in that
direction.
One of of the most enjoyable social
functions of the season was given by Mr.. |
and Mrs. Thomas Roberts on Tuesday |
evening in honor of their daughter, Miss
Ada NJ, when 30 of Miss Roberts young
friends assembled at her home on East
Lake street, and spent delightful evening.
The dining room was beautifully decorated
with national colors, red, white and blue,
ard was presided over by Mrs. ]. E. CHM
and Mrs. William Green, who served ham
and tongue sandwiches, pickles, coffee,
ice cream and cake. Miss Ada was the
recipient of number of beautiful gifts
Among those present were George Price,
of Smyrna; Mr.. and Mrs. Harry H. Hall,
Mrs. J. Z. CHM, Mrs. William Green,
Misses Hattie Cullen, Elizabeth j. Hop
kins, Jennie and Elsie Jones, May
Buehm, Elizabeth Holten, Lillian Sol
way, Kathryn VanSant, Mary Adkins,
Dora Evans, May Kumpel, Jeanette
ard Messrs. d. w. Stevens,
Oscar Whitlock, Arthur Evans, William
Beasten, Ellwood Brown, Victor Jones,
Paul Messick, Chester Davis, Norman
Kumpel and Delbert Gallagher.
Misses Mary H. Maxwell and Eugene
Beasten entertained number OF friends
at the home of Miss Maxwell on Wednes-
day evening. 1t being Washirigton's
cherries and hatchets were in
evidence all during the evening. One Of
5he most amusing features being when
each guest in turn was blindfoldei and
armed with pair of scissors with which
The was to cut the cherries from minia-
ure tree on the table. The dining-room )
vas beautifully decorated in the National 7
;olors. The favors being candy cherries,
led with red, white and blue ribbons.
The menu consisted of dainty three t
,ornered sandwiches tied with red, white t
md blue ribbon, chicken salad, biscuit, T
offee, pickles, olives, ambrosia, cakes, '
alted nuts and chocolate mints. Among
hose present were: Mrs. John Armstrong, r
hrs. Walter Beasten, Mrs. William Con- 4
lellee, Mrs. Albert Price, Misses Ida V.
Howell, Bessie Anderson, Bernice Met s
en-, Nora Armstrong, Florence Gill, il
lyrtle Houston, Mary Beasten, Viola A
lcwhorter and Mary Rothwell. I