Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-07-01

Laundry collected Monday, delivered
Thursday. Also clothing cleaned, pressed
and dyed. d. C. PLEAsASToN,
Corner Cass and Main Streets.
LOST.-A bunch OF Keys on a round
steel ring. The finder will please return
To THIS OFFICE.
After June 1st the library hours will be
as follows Tuesdays from to $50 P. NJ;
Saturdays from to 5, and to $50 ?. NJ.
We have just received car Of GEORGES
CREEK" Superior Seam-Making Pituminous
Coal !; also lot of IL feet and 20 feet
Ladders BaF Lowest prices.
&. Z. HUKILL
We will offer great Bargains during the
five days of our special sale, beginning
July LIST and continuing until the 9TH
Mrs. &. w. PETERSON.
Summer Suits for Ladies and Misses
reduced to one-half price.
Mrs. G. w. PETERSON.
Mr.. j. F. McWhorter has purchased
the Chamberlain property on Green
street for q consideration of $2250.
Farmers have their wheat safely in the
shock and threshing machines will be
busy by next week, and some big yields
of wheat will be reported.
WANTED-A good white man to assist
in making ice cream and candies. A
good chance to learn the business. Only
those who are not afraid of work need
apply. Call at THIS OFFICE.
Unclaimed Letters-The following list
of letters remain unclaimed in the post
Office for the week ending June 22nd !:
Mrs. Sallie Guist, Miss Katie Lushe,
John Drowmans, Captain ]. ID. Foard.
Do not forget that Monday is the last
day for our coupons to be returned for
the month OF June. If you purchase
$l.0O worth OF merchandise you will have
a chance of securing one of our cash
prizes, ranging from 5 cents to $500
Mrs. &. w. PETERSON.
Dorothy May, the infant daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Whitlock, died
Thursday morning at IL o'clock, aged
eleven months and ten days. Funeral
services will be held at the house, this
Saturday afternoon at two o'clock; in.
terment in Forest Cemetery.
Don't let your 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.
Next Tuesday being the Fourth Of July,
a legal holiday, our banking institutions,
factories, stores and business places will
close for the day. The prospect is for a
quiet Fourth in this vicinity. While
some will 90 away for recreation, the
large majority Of our people will prob
ably spend the day home.
WANTED.-Energetic man to repre-
sent the Southern Mutual Investment
Co., in Middletown, Townsend and
Odessa. Exceptional proposition which
bears the closest inspection. Doing bust
ness in 81 states. Only able men of good
standing need apply, who are ready to
furnish bond Address, p o. Box $50.
Wilmington. Del
number of our young people enjoyed
straw ride on Monday evening They
passed through Odessa and Townsend, re-
turning home about II o'clock. Among
those who went we're Misses Mary Lewis,
Mary Gill, Helen Rowe, Lillian Walker,
Jean Metten, Prudence Lewis, Ernest
Sirman, Victor Jones, James Lightbourne
and Harmon l. Yerkes.
Mr.. Paul Weber, the local baker, has
purchased one of Days Self Contained
Dough Mixers, and will have the same in
stalled in his bakery during the coming
week. The machine will do all of the
mixing in the future, and will be run by
electricity. Mr.. Weber is doing large
business, and the addition OF the mixer
will help to facilitate his already modern
bakery.
The Board Of Stewards Of Bethesda
Methodist Episcopal Church has unani.
monsly decided to pay their pastor
$1,000 salary annually, an increase of
$500. The board has had this matter
under consideration for long time, and
is decision will be much appreciated BY
the friends of the church, as it places
Middletown among the first grade ap
pointments in the Wilmington Confer.
cree.
Mr.. Chas. Collins who is connected with
the Dover Delawarean, in the publication
OF the Delaware Edition" is in town this
week calling on our business men in the
interest OF the publication which will dea
with the agricultural, industrial and com.
mercial interests OF the State 1t will al
SO tell OF the opportunities here offered te
the investor and home seeker There
will be articles upon the agricultural
horticultural, educational, religious, fl
nancial, industrial and commercial affairs
OF the State by persons qualified to write
inteligently upon the several subjects.