Middletown transcript., 1908-06-27

10Olawn shirt waist suits, 98 cents each
dressing sacks, SO cents; wrappers, 6e
cents. My own make.
Mrs. G. w. PETERSON.
The annual school election will be held
at the school house on North Broad street
this Saturday. afternoon, between the
hours of two and four o'clock, when two
Commissioners will be elected for three
years each. Messrs. George d. Kelley and
Edward s. Jones, whose terms expire this
year, are candidates for reelection.
There are few towns where the stores
present more pleasing appearance than
those of our own town. Our merchants
take a pride in the appearance of their
respective places of business and such
pride is certainly commendable. That is
not all, they carry good, clean stocks of
merchandise and their reputation for fair
dealing draws a splendid patronage from
the surrounding territory.
We are pleased to note an increasing
desire on the part of our readers to secure
at the first possible moment copy of
this paper aud some call at the Office and
get copy as it falls fresh from the press.
The reason is We publish all the news all
the time. We want you to help US make
it still better by notifying US of death,
marriage or important transactions in
which anyone from this county is con.
cerned.
Friday and Saturday last were "Tag
Days" for the children of the Middletown
High School, and the man who escaped
being tagged by the children must have
remained indoors. The proceeds were for
the benefit of the piano fund of the school,
and $48 68 was the amount raised by the
children's efforts. The tags used were do
mated by Mrs. ]. L. Shepherd, and were
very neat, with the little pink cord and
printed in red.
One of the largest funerals ever seen in
Middletown was that of Wednesday
afternoon attending the burial of Rhoda
Jefferson, wife of David Jefferson, we'll
known colored resident, who died early
Monday morning. She was about IS
years old, and was known as "Aunt
Rhoda" by almost every white and color
ed person of this town. She had been
an active member of Dales NJ. E. Church
for many years and the funeral services
were conducted by her pastor, the Rev.
J. L. King.
Between 80 and 95 degrees were con-
ferred upon the citizens of Middletown
several days this week, and, although
many we're the unwelcome recipients of
them, heat, like the law, is no respeetor
OF persons, and the mercury scared stead
lily higher and higher until 95 degrees was
registered. Man and best suffered alike,
while myriads and swarms OF flies added
insult to injury. The soda fountain man
did rushing business in consequence,
but even he INDUCED the hope that the
atmospherical conditions would improve,
and cooler wave follow.
John A. Jones, colored, was arrested at
the station in this town Wednesday even
ing by detective Minner, and placed in
the lookup for the night. The charge
against Jones was the larceny of gold
watch and $50 in cash which he had re-
lieved railroad man OF at Lewes, and
when taken into custody the watch was
found i'll his possession, but the money
was missing. So was Jones when the Of
ficers visited the lookup at eleven O'Clock
that evening, and for while the authori-
ties were puzzled to know how be had es.
capped, as the doors were locked and
everything just as they had left it. But
the supposition is that Jones, who was
rather a small man, had craW led through
a small hole at the top of his cell, and
then through one of the front windows
and departed.
An entire new let of r. L. Stevenson's
works has just been presented to the
Library by Miss Emily Brazier of PhiIa-
delphia.- The Library Committee has
just purchased number of new volumes,
including set of Ruskin's works. The
fiction includes "a New England Num-"
by Mrs. M. Z. Wilkins Freeman; "Marcia
Schuyley;" Eleanor" by Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward; "Micah Clarke" by A.
Conan Doyle; "The Circle" by Kath-
arine Cecil Thurston; Mother" by Owen
Wister; Love is the Sum of ALL" by
George Cary EggIeston; "The Princess
Dehra," by John Reed Scott; "Rosalind
at the Red Gate" by Merideth Nichol-
son; "His First Leave" by Allen Harker;
'The Long Road" by John Oxenham;
Under the Crust" by Thomas Nelson
Page; "Sabina; A Story of the Amish,"
by Helen R. Martin; "Seeing EngIsnd
with Uncle john" by Anne Warner;
"Days Off," by Henry VanDyke; "The
Junior Officer of the Watch" by Rufus
Z. Zogabaum; ''The Heart of Child"
by Frank Dandy; "Mr. Crene's Career"
by Winston Churchill; "That Affair at
Elizabeth" by Burton E. Stevenson;
"Vesty of the Basin" by Mrs. S. P.
Green; ''The Weavers," by Gilbert Par
ker; Through one Administration" by
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett; boy
hood Days on the Farm" by Charles C.
Mum; "Margery's Vacation" by Ella
Beecher Cuttings.
OFFICER DOWNS BURGLAR