Middletown transcript., 1909-06-19


The street sprinkler has lost bis job.
Summer excursions next on the pro-
gram.
Asparagus Roots-SOOO Palmetto at
STEELE's.
High-grade dental service, Exa nina
ton and estimate, free. DR.. J. Allen
johnson, Middletown. Phone l8.
Give your little chicks good start by
using Chick Food, at
EVANS EXCHANGE STORE.
Strawberry Plants 600 best varieties
at STEELE's.
After June first, the Library hours win
be: Tuesday, to 8 80; Friday, 7 to $50
and Saturday s to5PM.
Dr.. ]. G. Sites has removed his dental
Office to the pnilding recently vacated by
the Wester r1=;on Telegraph Co., next
door to ]. L. Shepherds Office.
High-grade dental service. Examina
tion and estimate. free. DR.. ]. Allen
johnson, MiddIetown. Phone Is.
$4,000 Sweet Potato Plants, $500 per
1000 at STEELE's.
Unclaimed Letters-The following list
of letters remain unclaimed in the post
Office for the week ending June 10Th
Mrs. Sarah White.
Seventy.five House Dresses made OF fine
quality chambary, in blue and gray. All
sizes in the lot, regular price Sl.25, for
this week only 75c at A. FoGEL's.
100000 Late Cabbage Plants for sale at
STEELE's.
Not only will the new pennies about to
be coined at the Philadelphia mint bear
the head of Abraham Lincoln, but the
inscription Sin God We Trust" will ap.
pear on the coin.
Send your items and personal notices
into the paper, that is the way to help
make ii Interesting. Just sign your name,
we won't publish it, and then the article
will be cure OF getting in.
Hour stock Of Ladies', Misses and Chill
dren's dresses and suits is now complete.
A great many bargains waiting for you.
Every can get suited ia all sizes and
prices at A FtaEL's.
wish TO inform the public that having
engaged Mr.. s. Harry Riggs, an expert
blacksmith, am now prepared to do
Horseshoeing and all kinds OF Blacksmith.
j ig on short notice. @. H. 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.
Phone5. JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
A baby department to care for children
while their mothers are attending church |
was established at the Delaware Avenue
Baptist Church, in Wilmington. The de.
partment will be maintained during the
Summer.
ANNoUECEMENT.-Iw wish to inform my
patrons that am now making my own
ice cream, and can serve you with all
havors either by the gallon or in bricks.
Special prices for festivals, picnics and
Others wanting large quantities. All orders
filled promptly-wholesale and retail.
Mrs. Rosa WEBER.
E. H. Beck, Real Estate Broker, has
sold the farm belonging to Joseph Fisher,
located near Kirkwood, containing l54
acres to J. Frank Elliott, of near Middle
town, consideration $500. Mr.. Elliott
expects to make it his future home.
Partridges and rabbits are reported to
be more numerous at present than for
some years past. Both can be observed
by those who use the public highways.
The mild winter is said to be the cause
of the game being so plentiful.
The Town Commissioners have placed
large sign boards on all four roads leading
to town, warning automobiles to "go slow"
through the town limits 1t is fact that
many Of the touring cars that pass through
our town, run at speed exceeding u or
l5 miles, anl the Commissioners have
acted wisely in having these signs placed
in conspicuous places along the four roads
entering our town.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal last week, G. L. Nicholson was re.
elected President for the coming wear. I
The annual report for the year ending
May Both, showing total earnings, $780,
l99, an increase over 1908 and 1907, but
a slight decrease from the earnings for
1906. The net revenue for the year was
$l07, ,696 as compared with $l04, 799 for
1908, $S7, 800 for 1907, and $ll3, 6O4 for
1905.
Rural mail carriers are directed to turn
in list Of patrons on their routes whose
mail boxes cannot be served without leav-
ing the road, dismounting, driving in
deep bitches, or on steep inclines or upon
or across railway tracks. Il is desired
that boxes be fixed on posts firmly set,
and at height sufficiently for carriers to
reach them without rising from their
seats or reaching through the ppokes of
wagon wheels.
]. Frank Biggs, Trustee, on Saturday
afternoon last, at the MiddIetoWn Hotel,
sold at public sale the real estate of the
late Joseph Roberts, consisting Of tract
Of woodland containing ten acres and ten
square perches, situated in Appoquini. /,
mink hundred, near Barlow's Bridge, to
Mrs. Anna Laura Trusx, of Whining
ton, for $780, Also, the large frame Y
dweliing-house on North Broad street, c
now tensnted BY Mr.. B. Frank Gal. e
lagher, for sl4OO, the purchaser being
Mrs. Emily ] Roberts. OF this town.
The man who makes money in COM
nunity has a dnty to perform TO that b
community. Il may be that he has made G
his money by his superior business abiI- c
Ivy, and that he would have done as we'll Q
a INV w hare That d.,aa NOT altar tI,a oaaa | m