Middletown transcript., 1909-09-18

FOR SALE-l000 bushels Seed Wheat
JosEPH e. HoLLAND, Milford, Delaware
l0-inch double.faced Disc Records. $50
Ellison Records S5e and 50c at
MoNRo's.
DR.. ]. @. Sites has removed his denta
Office to the rrilding recently vacated BY
gthe Western :~.:on Telegraph Co., mex
door to ". L. Shepherds Office
Now is the time TO have your teeth at
tended to. Don't wsit for hot weather
DR.. johnson will give you up-to-daie ser
vice. Fresh gas daily.
E. H. Beck, Real Estate Broker, bal
sold the farm belonging 70 Omar D,
Croshers, Eeq.. located adjoining Elktonl
containing ] % acres, to Henry 7. Wilhelm
Of Philadelphia, Pa, for $4,000.
Send your items and personal notices
into the paper, that is the way to help
make it interesting Justsign your name,
We won't publish it, and then the article
viii be cure Of getting in.
Unclaimed Letters-The following list
Of letters remain unclaimed in the post
Office for the week ending September Ssh :
Mary Anna Brown, Mrs. Brack, Stella
Gibbs, Mrs. F. Slaughter, Mr.. Enocb
KaIe.
After October first, the Library hours
win be as follows: Tuesday. $50 to 5; Fri
days, 4 TO $50; Saturdays, 8 to 5. The
Library win be open on Tuesday evenings,
from Z to $50, for school children exclu.
siysIy.
The new Delaware bay patrol boat, the
s. s. PennewiII, owned BY Ehe State and
commissioned to protect its oyster beds,
arrived off Port Mahon 10 Delaware waters
Tuesday morning and was formally re-
ceiyed on Thursday.
A bazaar will be held by the ladies Of
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, in the
Town Hall MiddletowH, Del, September
18th, 18th and 3Oth. Open each evening
al 4 80 and on Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons from 70 4. All are cordially
invited.
The Sunday School Convention Of APP
auiniGnink and Blackbird hundreds will
be- held in Salem Methodist Protestant
Church, Warwick Circuit, Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 18th. Prominent speakers will
address the convention. All Sunday
School workers are especially invited to
be present.
We have in STORAGE several hundred
tons of HIGH GRADE LEHIGH and
BIrUMINOUs COAL. You don't have
20 place your orderbeiOre-handa Is it is Al.
WAYS IN STOCK. We have just added
to our yard nice los of SAWED WOOD.
Phone 5. JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
WANTED. Reliable party to run al
established Tea and Coffee wagon in
Middlstown and vicinity selling to con-
rutners. Large inducements to purchas-
ers and liberal terms TO agents. Address
at once. GRAND UNION TEA COMPANY.
500 King Street,
Wilmington, Del.
AIlthis week the tomato glut has con.
tinued 10 all parts Of Delaware. Favor
able weather has caused the fruit to hold
up we'll, and the Gamers are getting the
largest pack in the history of tomato
growing; as the somato is almost solid
meat and devoid Of water.
Miss Sarah B. Walker Of Wilmington,
Nho was recently elected assistant prin-
cipaI OF the Middletown High Schools, to
sneceed Miss Hester E. Wiley, resigned,
las resigned, because of illness. Miss
Laura Collins also of Wilmington, and
graduate Of West Chester State Normal
School, has been chosen TO succeed Miss
Walker and entered upon her new duties
on Wednesday.
The post Office department has ruled
that al guessing contests such as nam
Ing the number of beans in bottle. the
number Of admissions that will be sold
1t fair, the number of cigars that will
be made in factory, etc., constitute a
lottery and that newspaper that COM
tains mention Of any such guessing con-
tests cannot be circulated in the mails.
The annual inspection Of the PhiladeI.
pllia, Baltimore and Washington Rail.
road viii be held on October 10th. Prizes
Tor weIl-kept tracks will.amount to 81, 800.
II. w. Myers, successor Of w: w. Alter
bury as general manager, will have
charge Of the inspection. Two hundred
ana ffEy persons win be 10 the inspection
party, and they will travel 10 special in
spection care.
How about your stock Of envelopes,
letter heads, shipping tags, statements,
business cards, order blanks, receipt
books, due bills. circulars, postal cards
and special blanks required in your bust.
ness2 If you have need for any Of these,
why not send your order to THE TRAN
SCRIPT Office where il viii receive prompt
and careful attention, and where the work
Is guaranteed TO give satisfaction. Esti-
mates cheerfully furnished. Let - hear
from Jon.
Are our merchants prepared to meet
the competition, constantly growing
more attractive 70 the unthinking, Of those
aiIuring fall catalogues from the metro
poIitan department stores2 OF course the
bargains at home are better when you
consider that the home merchant gives
you personal attention and the chance to
return the goods that are not what vas
represented. But the public forgets this
trade has to be dlummed, and the only
existent drummer for the home merchant
Il She local newspaper.
There are too many boys and girls in
tile country and city, more in the latter
than in the former, who are prone to
look upon work as beneath them. There
are thousands Of them on the threshold
OF maturity who retain the same views