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Middletown transcript., 1914-05-30
FRIENDS & VISITORS
Personal Items About People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND co

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Mr.. Woodall Cochran has returned
from New Jersey.
Miss Mollie Wilson has been visiting
friends at Milford.
Mrs. Warren S. P. Combs was a
visitor on Monday
Miss Eliza C. Green is visiting friends
in Georgetown, Del,
Miss Ada Scott spent Sunday with
relatives at Pleasant Hill, Md.
Mrs. Mary A. Hall is visiting rela-
tives at Principle Furnace, Nd.
Mr.. Thomas M. Hall was a visitor
at the Forest Manse on last Sunday.
Mrs. N. P. Crouch, of Wilmington,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph C.Jolls.
Miss Jennie Wood, of Wilmington,
was a Sunday guest of Mrs. E. S.
Jones.
Mrs. Amanda Truax, of Smyrna, visi-
ted her sister Mrs. Sarah Gary this
week.
Mr.. Houston Naudain, of Baltimore,
Md, was an over Sunday visitor in
town.
Hugh C. Brown, Jr., of Wilmington,
was an over Sunday visitor with his
mother here.
Gertrude Palmer is suffering from
broken arm the result Of playing "sling
the cat" at school. q
Mrs. J. W. Barnett will leave on
June 4th for Rehoboth, where she will
spend the summer.
Mrs. Mary Drolll is spending two
weeks with Mrs. Thomas Cochran in
East Orange, N. J.
Robert Polk, of Nashville, Tenn, was
a visitor at the home of his uncle Mr..
Joseph Biggs this week.
Miss Lillian Hodge, of Elwyn, Pa,
has been the guest of Mrs. Sewell
Green the past week.
Mrs. Eugene Hanson, of New York,
is spending sometime with her sister
Mrs. Julian Cochran.
Misses Laura Connellee and Elizabeth |
Gibbs are at home after a years study |
at St. Mary's School Virginia.
Miss Marion Cochran, of Elwyn, Pa,
is visiting her mother Mrs. w. R. Coch-
ran for several months.
Mrs. Edward Reynolds has returned |
from a visit with her daughter Mrs.
D. P. Barnard Jr.. in Wilmington.
Mr.. S. Burstan will spend next Mon
day and Tuesday in Annapolis with his
son Mid-shipman Rupert N. Burstan.
Mrs. A. Fogel and daughter Laura,
will leave for Annapolis Monday to at
tend the June week exercises, at the
Naval Academy.
DR.. Edward M. Vaughan will be out
of town from June 1st to July fifteenth
course in Special Medicine
at the John Hopkins University and
Hospital, Baltimore, Nd.
Invitations are out for the marriage
of Mrs. Anna G. Clark of Wilmington,
and Mr.. Richard Lockwood Price, of
The ceremony will take
place at the residence of Mrs. Clark,
704 Franklin street, Wilmington, on
Thursday, June 4th, at o'clock, P. NJ.
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GIRLS SCHOLARSHIP
Viii Go To The VFoman's Col
lege At Newark
THREE HAVE BEEN AWARDED

The $100 scholarship annually award
ed by the Wilmington High School
Alumnae Association Will go this year
to the Woman's College of Delaware,
at Newark. This makes three scholar
ships awarded only recently to the new
Institution, the other having been an
nounced last week. They too are for
500 each and are from the Delaware
State Federation of Women's Clubs
and the Delaware Association of Col
lege Women.
The High School Alu nae decided to
award their scholarship to the Woman's
College of Delaware at the annual May
party at Shellpot Park 'Aturday after
noon. The decision vii crafty those
who will be in charge of the college, as
well as the young women who intend to
go there, and will have chance to com
pete for the scholarship.
> At the meeting new president Miss
Lillian Rosin was elec.ed to succeed
N4loO u OCSolC IL OulOCLl0NJ WIN lAdu oil
nounced that she will be unable to serve
longer. Her term expires in September.
The election of officers took place in
March, but the president and treasurer
were not elected at that time Miss
Edith Bakey, who is at present the
treasurer, will be asked to continue in
this Office. She had said she expected
to be unable to serve again, but the as
sociation has planned to provide her
with an assistant to be- elected later,
and it is now expected she will continue
in office.
The members discussed plans for the
annual reception of the association to
be given late in June.
Being a picnic and outing, as we'll as
meeting the affair Saturday afternoon
was greatly enjoyed. A picnic lunch
con was served.
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WARWICK

Mrs. Laura Doolittle is visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Banks.
Mrs. Wilson Merritt was visitor in
town on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Williamson
spent Sunday with Mrs. Robert Snyder,
near Cecilton.
Mrs. Edward Lynch, of Elkton, vis-
tied her sister Mrs, R. B. Merritt last
week.
Mrs. H. NJ. Eaton is spending some
time with her dnughter Mrs. Bayari
Jordan who is quite ILL.,
Mrs. Joseph Rhoades, of Middletown,
is spending this week with her motEee
Mrs. c. NJ Davis.
Mrs. R. B. Merritt and daughter
Miss Name, are spending this week in
Philadelphia and Wilmington. Hiss
Name will spend Saturday and Sunday
in Gettysburg.
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Forest Church Notes

Sunday, May 31st, 1870 a. m. Morn
ing Service. 11.45 Sunday School.
23Op. m. Preaching at the Armstrong
Chapel.
6.45 p. m. Christian Endeavor Con
verted Purses.
73O p. m. Evening Service.
Immediately after the morning SER
vice the congregation will vote whether
to close the Church or hold service on
the morning of June 7th, Drawers
Day.
On next Tuesday afternoon at three
O'Clock in Forest Church, Mrs. WILDER
Field, Secretary for the Board of Home
Missions, will address an interdenomi-
national meeting Of ladies in the interest
of Missions, and cordial invitation is
extended to the ladies of the other
churches.
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CHESAPEAKE CITY

Mrs. c. c. Laws is spending several
days in Baltimore.
Miss Marguerite Loveless, of Will
mington, Del, is visiting her parents
here.
Mr. Reed Graves, of Marietta, Pa,
is visiting his grandmother Mrs. Emma
Reed.
Miss Marian E. OFT, of Elkton, is
visiting Miss Felicita T. Slicher this
week.
Mr.. Nelson Cooling, of Wilmington,
Del, is visiting his brother Mr.. Charles
Cooling.
Mrs. Clifford Dale, of Philadelphia,
Pa, has been spending some time with
Mrs. Nellie B. Reed.
Mrs. Alfred Cox and daughter, of
Macena, N, Y, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Lindsay.
Miss Elizabeth Aiken, of the Manor"
spent last Thursday with the Misses
Edna and Edith Brown.
Mr.. George W. Vaughan, of the
University of Maryland, is visiting his
father Captain James Vaughan.
Mrs. Jennie Caldwell, of Liberty
Grove, visited her son Mr.. Hugh W.
Caldwell during the past week.
Miss Wiber, of The Presbyterian
Board of Home Missions, spoke in the
Presbyterian Church, on Tuesday even
ing last.
Mrs. Jennie Ogden who has been
South for several months past, is now
at the home of her brother Mr.. F. Nc
Intire, near town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank S. Clayton enter
tanned at dinner Sunday Mrs. Ida Bou-
chelle, of Chesapeake City, Mrs. Charles
Green and Miss Katheryne Green.
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Communicated.
OH! YOU BUM SIDEWALKS

Towns everywhere in our own and in
other states, are putting their best foot
foremost; making their city or town
more uninviting to strangers; offering
inducements of all sorts to bring more
settlers and more business etc.
Middletown does the opposite thing;
seemingly takes a pride in showing
strangers her worst. A number of years
ago several very big manufacturing
concerns were refused quarters here.
More recently, about four years ago a
shirt-making company wrote asking
only place to do business-no bonus
etc. The town authorities did not
think their letter worthy a reply, and
the Company went to Clayton where
they have greatly prospered
Other towns are repairing their side
-Middletown clings to her shame
fully broken pavements on North Main
Street, and so gives the stranger as he
stumbles over them, or, after a rain,
plumps in the tiny water reservoirs
that abound, notion that he has for
certain struck" Waybackville!
One of Middletown's newcomers has
very creditably -concreted before his
whole place of business, and given the
pedestrian, level pavement from the
railroad nearly to Cass street, where
other good pavements are found quite
to Broad.
Unfortunately visitors never approach
the towns center by that fine route,
but go up by the brick curduroy way on
left Main street which pays Middle
town left handed compliment in their
eyes.
So, too, on North Broad street there
has been for many years a pavement
which after a rainfall is quite impass-
able at one point, and generally miser-
ably sloppy as far as Anderson Street.
When will Middletown. cease to be
the banner town for its mean business
street sidewalk! What is the "pulI''
political or otherwise, that has for 10!
many years so paralized the arms of
successive town officials that have re-
fused, and still are refusing, to compel
well-to-do owners to give the town a
sidewalk from the depot to
Broad street and thence on Broad to
Anderson?
Were these pieces of property on
West Vain street owned by poor me-
chanics, we hazard the guess that long
years since these disgraceful pavements
would have been replaced with decent
ones.
VISITOR. |
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Annual Service at St. Anne's

Work is progressing on the brick
wall around St. Anne's cemetery.
Bigger Bros. who have the contract
are running large force and propose
to have the wall completed by June l.
The annual service will be held On
June q and it is the intention of the
committee in charge to make this the
most attractive service ever given in
the old church. In the morning Bishop
Kinsman will preach and in the after
noon Mr.. E. c. Cattell, chief of the
Bureau of Statistics who recently was
a guest at the dinner of the Chamber
of Commerce, Wilmington, to the mer-
chants of Delaware, will deliver an ad-
dress. Several singers of note from
Philadelphia will be there.
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Afflicted Wife Disappears

Arnold Kober, of Georgetown, has
written to THE EVENING JOURNAL
to aid him in finding his wife, who, he
says, is mentally afflicted, and who
has disappeared from the home of her
mother in Odessa. His wife's name is
Lizzie Kober or Himmelsbach he says
and her mother, whom she was visiting,
is named Bogenshutz. She disappeared
from Odessa, Wednesday, May 49,, She
went to MiddIetown in a hack and from
there all trace of her has been lost.
She is described as 81 years old, with
dark complexion, cross-eyed and wore
a dark coat and suit and black waist.
Kober is greatly worried and will well
come any news of his afflicted wife.
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INJURED BY AUTOMOBILE

While driving at high rate of speed
on the State road about 200 yards north
of Armstrong; Corner, Saturday morn
ing, an automobile carrying license No.
2,O13, driven by a man who gave his
name as A. J. Lyman, and his address
as New Castle, struck an Italian road
workman named Carlo Quattroni, and
severely injured him.
Quattroni was working with a gang of
men spreading stone on the new road
being built by the Juniata Paving Co.,
north of Middletown. The driver of the
automobile, as he approached the gang,
was directed to run on the side of the
road by a man stationed there for that
purpose, but he paid no attention to the
order and took the middle of the road,
knocking the Italian down and running
over him with both wheels. The others
of the gang stopped the machine and
for few minutes things looked very
serious for the automobile party, but
the arrival of the boss of the gang
averted hostilities.
The injured man was picked up and
carried to a nearby shanty. DR.. D. W.
Lewis was called and found him very
much bruised around the body and took
him to the Delaware Hospital, fearing
he might have internal injuries.
Much difficulty is experienced by the
road builders, owing to automobiists
paying no attention to the warnings to
keep off the roadbed. Last summer a
similar accident happened at nearly the
same place and it cost the automobile
driver $3.50 to settle the case.
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1.-THE SAINT OF OLEY VALLEY"

Do you know the romance of Mary
Young, "the saint of Obey Valley?"
Have you heard this strange story of
the good woman who lived alone in the
wilderness Of this valley near Reading?
When you buy the Sunday North Ameri-
can on May 81, turn to the Romances of
Pennsylvania History in the Magazine
Section and read this beautiful story. 1t
is not romance of love and strife, and
all the more extraordinary on that ac-
count. Mary Young never met a lover
in the cleaning or bound up a hero s
battle wounds. She never performed
to the applause of crowds. Far from it.
Yet the worldly and wise climbed the
mountains and clambered over the de-
files merely to worship at her feet and
to learn from her nature taught words
of wisdom. In the day hurry and hustle
this saint of the backwoods should have
been, by all the rules of greed, passed
by unnoticed But she was Of such
commanding devoutness and sanity that
all those who saw her in the clearing
which her ak had made spread her fame.
1t isa story, the like Of which even as
comprehensive a collection of romances
as The North American is cleaning
from all corners of tile state seldom un-
folds.
Once you have read it, you will want
to save it, because in the first place it
is about local things and people, and in
the second place it is story which is
novel and interesting.
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PETIT JURY DRAWN

The following petit jury was drawn
on Monday to serve in the Court of
General Sessions and Superior Court
for the period beginning June 1:
First Representative District-John
C. McCabe, William F. Macklin, Lewis
E. Sasse and Thomas Reardon.
Thurston NJ. Lowe, Charles
Taylor, Thomas N. Stay ton, Howard S.
Hayes.
Third-Benjamin D. Bogia, Victor
DUPONT, 3rd, Charles E. Dubell, Frank
S. Garrett.
Fourth-V. V. Harrison, Elmer E.
Hare, Manuel Cramer Thomas Q'Con-
nell
Fifth-James B. Oberiy, Charles H.
Blaine, William H. Ewing, Samuel ].
Allen.
William. H. Dazenbaker, S.
Rodman Smith.
Seventh-Harry T. Conner, Frank C.
Melvin.
Eighth Joseph M. Wilson, ]. Morton
Gregg.
Ninth-Norris B. Wright, John P.
Armstrong.
Tenth-Harry C. Hunter, James B.
Hance.
Eleventh-John W. Davis, Edgar Nc
Mullen.
Twelfth Charles S. Wingate, Ed
ward Neeff.
Thirteenth Jefferson B. Foard,
Walter Beasten.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ferguson, VIII
liam G. Knots.
Fifteenth-SamuelC. Derrickson, Ed
ward Latta.
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Bethesda Church Notes

May 31-Children's Day exercises will
be observed at Bethesda M. E. Church
next Sunday, both morning and evening.
At the morning service the pastor
will hold a baptismal service. Parents
will please note this fact. The program
will be rendered by the primary depart
ment.
2p. m. Sunday School. The contest
will soon close. Let every member of
the school work just a little harder.
Our goal next Sunday is 200.
? p. m. Children's Day service by
the larger scholars. The children will
have the right of way at all the services.
The Brotherhood Devotional meeting
at $50 a. m.
Junior League Saturday at 3 p. m.
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A VIRGINIA HEROINE
Interesting Program Presented By
Queen Esther Circle
YOUNG LADIES CLEARED $lOO

Too much cannot be said in praise OF
the young ladies of the Queen Esther
Circle of Bethesda NJ. E. Church who
produced so successfully Wednesday
evening, ga Virginia Heroine, in the
local Play House to a large audience.
The music by the Delaware College
Orchestra and other musical numbers
were good drawing cards. The pro-
gram was as follows: Music, Delaware
College Orchestra; Act 1; music, Male
Quartette; music, Orchestra; Act IL;
music, Orchestra; Act III; music.
CHARACTERS:
Mrs. Dare, mistress of Greylawn... Miss
Ada M. Scott.
Margaret Leighton, sister of Mrs.
Dare, Miss Lottie Jolls. .
Virginia Leighton, niece of Mrs. Dare
and Miss Leighton, in love with
Philip Lee, Miss Lena Weber.
Betty Dare, Mrs. Dare's daughter Miss
Mildred Freeman.
Ruth Lee, Southern gilr, champion
ing the North.,......Marian Vinyard.
Bessie Allen Mrs. Baynard Marvel.
Nell Carey Miss Viola Weber.
Originals friends with abnormal
bumps of curiosity.)
Granny Royal, an old woman living on
the edge of the woods. Miss
Emily Alice.
Topsy, a self constituted necessity.
Miss Anna Denny.
Nora, hostile to naygurs... Mrs. D. w.
Stevens,
Martha Lane, the village gossip. Miss
Lillian Melvin.
Time-During the Civil War.
Place-Virginia.
SYNOPSIS
Act 1-Sitting-room at Greylawn,
the home of Mrs. Dare.
Act II-Scene I-House and Garden
of Granny Royal.
Scene H-House and Garden of
Granny Royal at night.
Act III-Room at Greylawn.
The treasury of the Queen Esther
Circle was enriched $1OO from the re-
suit of this play.
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EQUAL SUFFRAGE
A Very Interesting Debate Friday
Afternoon
THE YOUNG LADIES WON

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A Debate on Woman's Suffrage was
held in the Middletown School last Fri
day afternoon, in connection with the
class work in History. the question be-
ing: Resolved that Woman should
have Equal Suffrage with Man" Those
on the affirmative side were: Elizabeth
Alexander, Mildred Redgrave, Alice
Boulden and Sarah Hates. Those on
the negative side were: Charles Myers,
Frank Tyson, George Shaw and Raynor
Carrow.
Some of the main points by the girls
were, That woman is told that she
should stay at home and that she is re-
sponsible for the cleanliness of the
home and health of her children. She
can clean her home, but how is she to
keep it clean if the house is old and can
not be kept clean She can cook her
food, but how is she to make it whole
some if the dealers sell impure food.
She cannot protect her children from
sickness if the house is badly built.
She cannot make the things right alone.
The City must do it. The men are re-
sponsible for the government of the
cities and we hold them responsible for
these conditions. Is not woman edu-
Gated as man, and hasn't she as much
right to vote as man. 1t is said that
one-third of the property in the United
States is owned by women They pay
taxes. Then why haven't they right
to vote? Women is higher morally than
man and she instructs her children more
in the moral uplift of the country than
the man. Woman is usually more edu-
Gated than man and can take his place
fully as well.
p Some of the main points argued BIZ
the boys were, that the home is the
place for woman. Look at the slums in
the cities. The women are ignorant,
most of them not even being able to
read and write. The negro is TOO iguo-
rant to vote and still if women were
allowed to vote, the negro's vote .
would count as much as any other
woman's. The average woman would
not vote under these conditions. The
lower class Of women would not better
the conditions any, but would only make
them worse. Woman should care for
the home and this cannot be done if she
is going to be an active suffragette
More than all, they would have better
men if they would stay at home. If
they voted, they would run for Office
and woman would be practically useless
in framing laws. Woman is said toim-
prove schools, but if she had her way,
she would naturally have women teach
ers, and men have more influence over
the pupils than a woman and especially
over the young men. If woman would
attend to her business as she should,
there would not be so many jails ard
Some other minor points were proyet
and Mildred Redgrave and Charles :
Meyers upheld their respective sides in
1t was considered by the judges and
teachers to be very fair Debate and
the first of its kind ever held in tie
School.
The judges who were, Mrs. John
Cleaver, Miss Lillian Aelvin and Mr.. D.
W. Stevens, decided in favor of the
girls who decidedly had the better ar
gument.
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A Lawn Fete

A pleasant place to spend a moon
light evening in JuneI
On the lawn of the Forest Presbyter-
ian Church, June secondl
.'The Can and VIII Glass" of the
Forest Presbyterian Sunday School win
sell Strawberries, ice cream and cake.
Come take a look at the ice cream
cone booth and the candy tablet
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St. Anne's Church Notes

Sunday, May 91st, Whitsunday.
Morning Prayer, Altar service and
Sermon 1890.
Sunday School session at AS.
Evening Prayer and Address at 7.30.
The Wednesday evening services will
be omitted during Juue and July.
The offering for the Coal Fund will
be received on Sunday. Envelopes
marked for this purpose were distribu-
ted last Sunday. Let US have a gener-
GUS offering.
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In Memorial

In sad but Loving Remberance of my
Dear Husband who departed this life
May 13, 1914.
A precious one from me has gone
A voice | love is stilled
A place is vacant in my heart
Which never can be filed
For when he breathed his last fare
well
The sting meant more than tongue
can tell
For God called home to him be near
My patient sufferer Husband dear.
LUCY M. WARD.
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FOR SALE.-Several Indian Runner
Ducks.
MRS. L. C. DRULEY.
HIDES WANTED-The highest cash
prices paid for horse and COW hides.
W. C. JONES.
A strawberry festival will be held on
Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
June Sd and 4th at Summit Bridge by
the ladies of the Summit M. E. Church.
FOR SALE. is, 900 Tomato Plants.
M. D. WILSON, Middletown, Del.
DR.. Warren S. P. Combs Dentist.
Successor to the late DIR. J. c. Sites.
DR.. W. S. P. Combs has discontinued
his weekly visits to Smyrna, and is now
devoting his entire time to the practise
of dentistry in Middletown.
Now is the time to have that summer
suit cleaned and pressed. The highest
class work only; also Panama and Felt
hats cleaned.
ROBERT B. JONES.
HIGH GRADE LEHIGH COAL
always in stock and under cover, guar
anteed free from dirt.
Phones 5 and As
JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
Unclaimed Letters-The following list
of Letters remaining unclaimed in the
Post Office, for week ending May 21st:
Mrs. Annie Davis, Mrs. Emma Burk,
Mr.. Stephen FoES. Mir. Eugene Read
ing, Joe Warner, Aaron Briscow.
WANTED-Tobacco statesmen. Earn
$10O monthly. Expenses. Experience
unnecessary. Advertise and take or
ders from merchants for Smoking and
Chewing tobacco, Cigarettes, Cigars,
etc. Send 2 cent stamp for full particu-
lars.
HERMET TOBACCO Co.,
New York, N. Y.
The Town Commissions have instruc-
ted Chief Hilyard to enforce the auto
mobile ordinance, and beginning to-
morrow Sunday, all automobile driv-
ers who fail to blow their horns at in
tersecting streets or exceed the speed
limit of II miles, will be liable to pay
fine.
Miss Mary S. Rothwell teacher Of
the young ladies class in Forest Presby-
terian Sunday School, was on Sunday
awarded the gold and enamel bar for
perfect attendance for five years. Miss
Rothwell has really been perfect in at
tendance for seven years, but the Cross
and Crown system of awards has been
in use only for the past five years. She
is the only one in the school who has
been rewarded for five years attendance,
ou5 few weeks ago, Bruce Whitlock
was given the Cross for four years of
perfect attendance.
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THE TRANSCRIPT sl.OO per Year
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LOCAL NEWS

FOR SALE.-Several Indian Runner
Ducks.