Middletown transcript., 1908-11-14

Optician, corner Broad and Main. streets,
Middletown. All work guaranteed.
High grade dental service. Examina-
ton and estimate, free. DIR. ]. Allen
johnson, Middletown. Phone is.
WANTED.-S2OOO and $4,000 on first
mortgage on farms; uDquestionable secur-
Sty. GEO. W. INGRAM
FOR SALE IL have several farms
email and large. well located, at reason-
able prices, in st. Georges Hundred.
GEO w. INGRAM.
DR.. j. G. Sites has removed his denta
Office to the building recently Vacated by
tbs Western Union Telegraph Co., next
door 10 J. L. Shepherds Office.
Laundry mnst be left not later than
Thursday il you Eant il by Saturday. A
trial solicited, HENRY Toy.
The pr0trsctive n.sefiHgs vii begin at
Colts Sunday night. Nov. IS n. A ] are
cordially invited.
The ladies 0f Cult Church will hOld an
oyster supper. ice cream, cakes ,e'c, s. tar
day night. Nov. l4th Pae et Il r tena-
fit OF the Church.
The coal business of the bate G. [,
Cochran has been purchased by hr. J. /,
sSheetlerd, who will continue TO handle
nothing but the best grades of coal.
FOR SALE-Nursery Stock. Your or.
.ders will be- filed promptly. All stock
sprayed, clean and healthy.
E. ]. STEELE, Florist,
Middletown, Del.
The leyntas neelipg Of the Woman's
Christian Teinpsranss Union will be
held next Monday evening. Vt half past
sayeu, at tl,e home OF Mrs. J. 2. Nc
Whnrtey, OIL North Broad Street.
A Inncheon aad clipping will be held
at Mr.. Harvey Js@elfs, on Bohemia
Manor, Friday evening, Nov. 20th. Pro-
ceeds for the bene6t OF Bethel NJ, E. Sun
day ssiAnoE All invited.
Bneai med Letters-The following lis
of letters resussa unclaimed in the post
office for ttle week anding Nov. 18th:
Mrs. Henrietta Haeket. Mrs. MazreIla
Harrieon Mr.. Lille MoFyis, Miss
Bessie York.
TIE New Century Cub will pre- ;ei t
the eOmedy, "Tommy's Wife," in Il Q
Opera HOase, on Thanksgiving night.
3IiddletoSS's hsat local talent will assist
In the production, aud Pools Orchestra
will furnish music for tie occasion.
Tickets are now on sale at W. s. Lether-
bury's hard ware store.
DR.. A. S, MowbfaV, District Superin.
tehdent, will make his third quarterly
visitation to Bethel and Summit charge
tlIis week, holding quarterly conference
at Bethel to-day, Saturday, at 2.30 P.
M.. aud preaching at Bethel and Summit,
respectively, Sunday morning and alter
D0on.
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At meeting of the Town Commission
ers on Monday evening, it was decided
to appropriate $1,000 to build the new
lime stone road west OF the railroad. The
work will be completed in q few weeks,
and this will give US about four miles OF
highway west Of town and eK
tending to the Maryland line.
Jenkins q Co., of Wilmington, have re-
placed the old smoke stack at the Light
and Water plant with new one at cost
OF $500. The new stack is 80 feet high,
three feet in diameter, and made Of 4
b IiIer iron, and the contractors claim it
should last for at least 25 years. The
old stack had been in service for the past
ten years.
The skating rink in the Opera House,
80 popular with the young people last
fall and winter, will be opened on this
Saturday., afternoon for the winter and
spring. The rink will also be open every
Tuesday and Saturday afternoon and
every evening for visitors, and it is hoped
to have large attendance at all times. as
the ladies Of the New Century Club have
fuIiy determined to srecta new club house
and the proceeds are to be applied to that
purpose. II
According to the reports recently issued
by tins government, Delaware is one of
the Ave leading States in the production
Of tomatoes. The figures presented show
that during the last twenty years the
production Of tomatoes has increased rap
Idly. The statisticians, who always re-
duce things to cold figures, tell us that
the production in the United States bas
increased from 5000, 900 cases of twenty
four cans each (actually 1900, 900 cans)
in 1887 to 3,000, 600 cases (actually 3l2,-
O0O, 900 cans) IN 1907.
Nine COWS we're burned to death in a |
are that destroyed the barn on the Rich. /
ard Cam farm. near Kirkwood, and ten.
anted by George Deputy. early Wednes-
day u,orning. A large quantity of hay I,
and straw and many farming implements
were HIsedestroyed. Although the cause
ri the fire ia in doubt il ia believed to I
have been the work Of tramps who spent
the nie.,; in ihe barn. The fire consumed
the lmrn aud then communicated to the
etahip al iui hich also was destroyed.
The Esr vi ! reach s. eco II
The members Of the Library Committee
are delighted With gift jpst received
from Rev +. H. Moore, Of Forest Presby-
ierian Church. II il a set nf books
Maker. ~ Literature" edited by John 4
They areiD thirty two volumes, l
nicely ls.und, and are the biography Of
Byron. GoIdsmith, Thackery,
Addison. Sheridan. Chances. Keats, Sid.
ney. tsp~ptr. Hume, Bnnysn. Gray,
u,xla .u.Yx-@ Wonfis rnS4I, T..al,n