Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
cAaTER Ia KeM Yurk Sus

In lHlS AND NEAkbI FOINIO
Canners-busy.
Eggs mounting higher.
Squirrel season is now on.
Cut the weeds before they go to seed.
The days are rapidly becoming shorter
and there are many sings Of approach
ing autumn.
One advantage a ball player has over
a railroad man is that it takes three
strikes to put him out.
Miss Jennie Pordham, of Delaware
City, has been appointed assistant ma
tron in the Presbyterian Orphanage.
For letter heads, envelopes, bill heads,
statements, due bills, cards, circulars
in fact, anything you may want in the
printing line-give US call.
John Heldmyer, Jr., Real Estate
Broker, North Broad street, has sold
the Wesley Duhadaway house in Odessa,
to James Conner, of Blackbird.
Unclaimed Letters. s.-The following
list of letters remain unclaimed in the
Post Office for the week ending Sept.
7th: Laurence Sardner, R. E. Ireland.
A meeting of the local branch of the
Hebrew Charity Association was held
Sunday evening, at the home of the
president, Joseph Berkman, with full
attendance.
The recruits at Fort DUPONT are being
given training in small arm firing on the
range at the fort. These men are given
this kind of training before they are
sent to the Mexican border.
The public school will open for the
season on Monday, with the same
teachers as last year with the exception
of Miss Frances Davis who will be sue
ceeded by Miss Helen Mcdowell.
Fifty years ago they started to make
chewing gum, and fifty million human
teeth are now upon the bum, and fifty
million jaw bones, working facial muscles
tight, have made of pretty countenances
nothing but fright. .-Ex.
Messrs. William B. Hates and Samuel
Buckworth have been notified from the
Postofice Department at Washington,
that they are to serve rural routes, Nos.
and 2, from the local office. They go
on duty Monday, September 18th.
Richard Hodgson, freight agent of
Townsend, boasts of being the only per-
son in this locality to have Strawberries
this year on September 10. He has a
small patch in his garden and it has
made its second growth for this year.
The berries are large and firm.
The dance given by the young people
of Townsend, in the new school house
Wednesday evening, was attended by a
large crowd from Delaware City,
Mlddletown, Townsend and other places.
Jacobs orchestra of Wilmington fur
nished excellent music for the dancers.
A large detachment of militia recruits
will leave Fort Dupont Monday morning
for the border. The detachment will
include men from the New Jersey
National Guard at Douglas, Ariz. the
Delaware Organizing Militia at Deming,
N. NJ, and the Pennsylvania National
Guard at El Paso.
That interest in the dances given by
, the Pool orchestra in the New Century
Building is increasing, was shown by
the large crowd present last Tuesday
evening The hostesses were: Mrs
Frank j. Pennington, Mrs. Richard L.
Price, Mrs. John G. Green, Miss Laura
Willis and Miss Helen Brady.
Smyrna is to have Pony and Cart
Contest similar to the one recently held
in Dover. The contest will begin Octo-
Der 1st, and continue four months. The
ten. business men in combination will
present a Shetland Pony, buggy and
harness to the girl or boy under 16 years
of age who receives the highest number
of votes.