Middletown transcript., 1909-07-10
Local News


be; Tuesday, to $50; Friday, to $50
and Saturday 8 to5P. M.
Z. v. Kinks grocery store will close
during July and August at six o'clock.
Saturday evenings at II o'clock.
High grade, steam. making, fresh mined
Bituminous Coal. Price low as the low.
est. g. +. HUKILL.
The attention of our readers is called
to the new ad. Of A. Fogel in this issue.
See what he has to say in his reduction
sale announcement.
At meeting of the Town Council on
Tuesday evening it was decided to fix the
Town Tax rate at 81. 10 on the 500, the
same rate as last year.
DR.. J. G. Sites has removed his dental
Office to the rr'lding recently vacated by
the Westei 'l:.:on Telegraph Co., next
door to J. L. Shepherds Office.
100000 Late Cabbage Plants for sale at
STEELE's.
Now is the time to have your teeth at
tended to-, Don't wait for hot weather.
DIR. johnson will give you upto date SER
vice. Fresh gas daily.
Rev. E. W. Caswell, of New York, will
preach in Bethesda M. E. Church next
Sunday morning, and Rev. j. A. Arters
will preach in the evening.
The new cash grocery and meat store
of Mr.. w. T. DeValinger will be opened
on Saturday, July 18th. Painters and
carpenters are now decorating and max
ing alterations to the room, and goods
are arriving daily.
When you want Ice Cream, try two or
three favors. All the favors We make
are good, and We don't mind putting as
many different kinds in an order as our
customers wish.
MIDDLETowN FARMS, Inc.
Send your items and personal notices
into the paper, that is the way to help
make it interesting. Just sign your name,
we won't publish it, and then the article
will be sure of getting in.
I wish to inform the public that having
engaged Mr.. S. Harry Riggs, an expert
blacksmith, l am now prepared to do
HorsesIoeing and all kinds of Blacksmith.
ing on short notice. G. II. HOWELL.
We have in STORAGE several hundred
tons OF HIGH GRADE LEHIGH and |
BITUMINOUS COAL. You don't have
to place your order beforehand as it is AL
WAYS IN STOCK. We have just added |
to our yard nice lot of SAWED WOOD.
Phone 5. JEssE L. SHEPHERD.
Unclaimed Letters-The following lis! |
OF letters remain unclaimed in the post
office for the week ending July LIST /: 1
Ida Bouword, Mrs. Mary Jones, Mr.. Gil
bert Fountain, Mr.. George Lee, Mr.. VIM.
Pratt, Mr.. Emery Pyore, Mr.. Herbert
White.
y NOTICE All persons are forbid tres
passing on the farm occupied by E. R.
Marker under penalty of the law. The
farm does not belong to the public, and,
the carting away dirt corn, wheat or any.
thing else without permission is stealing
beware. J. R. HoFFECKER.
July 7th, 1909
A mule team belonging to Mr.. Richard
Manlove, attached to wagon with load
of hay was frightened by an automobile
on Thursday in front Of Mr.. Manlove's
residence on the road leading from Mid.
dletown to Odessa. The mules bolted,
upsetting the load of hay, and Mr.. Man
love who was driving the team, was
thrown to the ground, but neither Mr..
M. or the mules were injured.
Mrs. Mary B. Tatman, wife Of Mr..
Harry G. Tatman, died at her home in
Wilmington on Sunday, July 4th, in her
32d year.. Funeral services were held at
her late residence, on Wednesday after
noon, and interment was made in the
Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery.
Mr.. Tatman is former resident OF Mid.
dletown, and has the sympathy of a large
number Of friends in his bereavement.
An Illinois editor retired from journ-
alistn and his goodbye" is chIopicIed
ihathe following language: The under
signed retires from the paper with the
conviction that all is vanity. From the
hour his paper was started to the present
time be has been solicited to lie on every
given subject, and can't remember having
told wholesome truth without diminish.
ing bis subscription list or making an
enemy. Under these circumstances Of
trial, aud having a thorough contempt
for himself, be retires in order to recruit
his moral constitution.
In every city there are movements
which call for the expenditure of money.
Some of these are Of distinctly public
character, and are paid for through taxa
ton. Others are Of a semi-publiC
character, and for them the funds must
be raised by voluntary contributions.
These must come from the men who are
doing the business OF the place and who
have the money. There is no other way.
The man who has the money is the man
who must pay the bills, If they are to be
paid. Most enterprises of public nature
which have for their object the betteriDg
of conditions, business and otherwise, in
city will, directly or indirectly, return
more than the money expended to those
who pay it.
It is more fun to see a man read puff
on himself in newspaper than to see
fat man slip on banana peel. The
narrow minded man reads>it over seven
or eight times, and then goes around to
appropriate what copies he can. The
kind hearted man goes around to the
Office and pays what be owes. The sue
cessfu business man who adyertises reg
uIarly and makes money by it, immedi-
atsIy starts out to find the editor and the
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