Middletown transcript., 1905-05-06
MIDDLETowN, DEL, MAY 8, 1905.
Local News.
Deviled Crabs, at

DeVlleu CFaDs, de
Middletown Restaurant & Supply Go.
Leave your laundry at Jones' barber
shop. The best Of work and prompt ser.
vice.
The attention of our readers is called
to the large ad. OF Mrs. G. w. Peterson
on the second page of this issue.
Have your teeth examined free by DIR.
j. Allen johnson, Middletown. Oxygen
and Gas used for painless operations.
HORSE SHOEING.-Plain rs cents
cash. Satisfaction guaranteed.
j. C. GREEN.
Genuine Pekin Duck eggs, SO cents per
setting OF IL. Address P. o. Box 346.
Middletown, Del.
Teams 10 hire and parties driven to all
near by towns THos. BoULDEN,
Lockwood Street.
Deviled Crabs, at
Middetown Restaurant & Supply Co.
The tramp season is at hand. They
are all looking for a meal without the
wood pile or garden spade as an ap-
petizer.
Now is the proper time to brag about
your wealth, dogs. fast horses, blooded
cattle and so forth-tle assessor has made
his annual rounds.
Victor C. Kohl, will have for sale at
Davis Bros. store, the latter part of April,
Early Tomato Plants, Earlinna and Stone
Good strong plants.
After October lst the library will be
open on Tuesdays from $50 to O'Clock,
p. NJ, and ON SATURDAYS from 3 to 5
O'Clock and to $50 o'clock, P. NJ.
FOR SALE.-A very fine farm Of three
hundred acres on Bohemia River, near
Cecilton. GEORGE L. TOWNSEND, JR.,
1Ol5 Market Street, Wilmington, Del.
III you are going to get Refrigerator
or Ice Box call on us and see our large
line before you place your order.
j. f. MCWHoRTER & Son.
FOR RENT.-Stable on West Main
street. Possession given Immediately.
Apply to THIS OFFICE.
Laundry collected Monday, delivered
Thursday. Also clothing cleaned. pressed
and dyed. ID. G. PLEAsANToN,
Corner Cass and Main Streets.
RHODE ISLAND RED EGGS FOR
SALE.-SeIected from my best pen at
$3.50 per setting Of Is, Or IS. so per 100.
Pen No. 2, $l.O0 per setting. or $4.OO per
100. G. P. COCHRAN, Middletown. del.
Unclaimed Letters-The following list
of letters remain unclaimed in the post
office for the week ending April 9th:
Miss Amelia Valentine, Z. Y. Brown,
Andrew Goldsbough, J. J. Higg, William
M. Wilson.
''THE HEN THAT SCRATCHES LAYS THE
EGG THAT HATcHEs." - $1O0 for Is
Rhode Island Reds, White, Buff and
Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes, S. G.
White and Black Leghorns. T. r. BRAD
SHAW, Odessa, Del.
The New Century Club will hold a
special business meeting in their club
room ON Monday afternoon next at 2.3O
O'Clock. Business of importance will be
before the meeting; and full attendance
Of the members is hoped for.
If you will clip the coupons which will
appear in our ad. during the month Of
May and bring them to our store be.
tween the 1st and 9th of June, you will
receive cash prize.
MRs. g. w. PETERSON.
PLANTS FOR SALE.-Persons want
ing early cabbage and tomato plants will
leave their order with Mrs. S. NJ. Satter-
field on North Broad street, plants will
be kept on hand. E. j. STEELE, Florist,
Henderson, Md.
EGGS FOR HATCHING.-Sin
Comb Brown Leghorns seventy FIVE cents
per setting of l5 from my great laying
strain. Send for circular and prices by
the hundred. T. f. CLAYTON,
Mr.. Pleasant, DEL.
Thursday was an ideal Summer day
until the heavy wind appeared. The
mercury suddenly dropped about 25 de-
grees, and those who had gone out wear
ing their Summer clothing went home
shlvering. The weather really resembled
that Of late fall.
DR.. Dorsey w. Lewis is the owner Of
the first automobile in our town. The
machine arrived OH Wednesday, and
since that time the doctor has been maxi
ing his professional visits in his new pur-
chase. The automobile is Ford pattern
with two seats, and has been great },
admired.
A drama in three acts, entitled ''The
New Woman," will be given by the
Odessa Public School, in the Town Hall,
Odessa, on Thursday evening, May 18th,
at 7o'clock. Admission, adults, 20 cents;
children, 10 cents. Doors open at 7.30
p. M. Refreshments consisting of ice
cream, cake, sandwiches and coffee, will
be on sale Immediately after the enter
tainment.
The election on Monday for two mem
bers of the Light and Water Commission,
resulted in the reelection OF Messrs.
Sewell C. Biggs and John A. Jols, there
being no opposition. The board organ
lied by electing Mr.. Biggs, President.
and Mr.. Jolls, Secretary. There were
5000 votes cast.
Moses Ryan, colored, Of this town, met
with painful accident at Bear Station on
Sunday afternoon. Ryan is Is years old
and started to walk from Wilmington to
Middletown. When he arrived at Bear
Station he went on the tracks OF the Della
ware railroad. A southbeund freight
train came along and Ryan, it is said,
caught hold of car and got one Of his
feet under the wheels. His toes were
mashed to jelly, but his shoe was not