Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
MIDDLETowN, DEL, AUG. 10. 1905.
Local News.

shop. The best OF work and prompt SER
vice.
Oysters at
Middletown Restaurant 4 Supply Co.
HORSE sHOEING.-Plain, 70 cents
cash. Satisfaction guaranteed.
J. G. GREEN.
Teams to hire and parties driven to all
near by towns THos. BoULDEN,
Lockwood Street.
Vanilla, Chocolate, strawberry, Bisque
and Pineapple Creams. These havors are
made from new fruit. MONTGOMERY.
FOR RENT.-Stable on West Main
street. Possession given Immediately.
Apply to his oFFicE
Laundry collected Monday, delivered
Thursday. Also clothing cleaned, pressed
and dyed. d. G. PLEAsANToN,
Corner Cass and Main Streets.
After June LIST the library hours will be
as follows Tuesdays from to $50 2. NJ;
Saturdays from to 5, and 7 to $50 ?. M.
BUILDING SAND FOR SALE have 2OO
tons OF good white building sand for saie
Will sive and deliver sand for Sl.5O per
ton. W. H. Voshell
Middletown, Del.
Don't let yonr teeth become decayed
and discolored without consulting the
dentist. DIR. johnson, Middletown, will
make careful examination and give an
estimate of cost of service, without charge.
The latest and most approved methods
used for painless operations. All work
guaranteed.
The Railroad Company has decided to
furnish the irons for eqnipping cars for
shipments of tomatoes but the shipper
will be required to supply all other fix
lures.
''Albert L. Massey has purchased Of
Charles Postles the vacant lot on State
street adjoining the home Of ex-Sheriff
John B. Wharton for $3.50, and will build
a residence thereon for himself in the
near future. "-DOger Lnder.
The first shipment of peaches from New
Castle county this season is said to have
be IN IS crates shipped by ]. R. Price, last
week Mr.. Price picked the fruit from
eight trees and the consignments sold in
New York for 1915 per crate. There are
still several crates oil the trees.
The Atlantic City excursion on We'd
nesday from Delmar and points on the
Delaware Railroad was largely patron
lied. There were two sections of % cars
and the first train was filled to its full ca
pacity when it reached Middletown.
Unclaimed Letters-The following list
of letters remain unclaimed in the post
Office for the week ending August Sd :
Miss Annie Clifton, Mrs. Ednor Fields,
Mrs. Walter Hunt, Postage Due). Miss
Lizzie Jackson, VIM. Coleman, John
Weldon.
The picnic advertised to be held in Mr..
Charles Prices woods, near Warwick,
Nd, on Tuesday evening, August 18th,
under the auspices OF St. Francis Xavier
Church, has been postponed. The date
has not been fixed at this writing, but
VII be announced in few days.
Edward F. Wright, son Of Representa-
tive John Wright, OF Blackbird hundred,
and Miss Matte ii. Goldsboroueh, Of
Smyrna, were quietly married at st.
Panl's NJ. E. Parsonage, Clayton, Thurs
day evening, August Sd, by Rev. V. P.
Northrup. They will reside in Dover
Has man a right to spit? asks an ex-
change, and then it proceeds to answer
the question thusly: You bet he has, and
right to breathe, right to live, and "a
right to express his opinion; right to
kick and right to work. also right to
vote and pay taxes, and to find fault with
everybody and everything he don't like.
Man has whole lot of rights, but he
should exercise them all like a gentle
man."
Mr.. J. Warner Brockson will exhibit
his new Combination Corn Harvester and
Shocker in the Middletown Hotel yards
to-day, and would be pleased to have any
one interested to call and inspect the ma
chine. At 4.30 this afternoon Mr.. Brock
son will exhibit his harvester in opera
ton in one of the corn fields near town,
when those present will have an oppor-
tunity to see inst what his new patent
will do in the way of cutting. binding and
shocking.
In another column of to-day's issue
will be found the advertisement of the
.fnwn Commissioners, asking fer PfePes
as for 700 feet of curbing and paving for
the side walks in Middletown. The Com
missioners are determined that their no.
tice to property holders sent out three
months ago shall not be ignored, and in
cases where the property owner has failed
t" put in pavement they propose to
have it done for him and sell the prop.
erty if necessary to pay for same.
A walk about town shows that the
fences are coming down slowly but
surely. 1t is hard for some folks to give
up these reminders Of bygone days wher
the pigs ran at large and the cows played
hi-daddy with the slop bucket by the
hack steps at night but the march of inn
provement and improved methods hal
marked the fences in town, and the i'm
provedappearance of the places where
they have been removed is argument
enough for the retirement Of the onct
useful and ornamental adjunct to early
Village life.
Owing to a bill passed at the last SEES
zion Of the legislature, making the CLOSED
season for squirrels the same as that fo
rabbits and birds, gunners in this section
will be deprived of great deal OF spor
during the latter part of August and Sep
TENDER, the favorite season for shooting
these animals. The present law provides
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