Middletown transcript., 1922-06-10
TOWNSEND

V1Slt0r IN Town on MOnudy.
Miss Gladys Money spent the week.
end with Miss Elizabeth Maloney.
Mrs. Clara Knots is visiting her sis-
ter, Mrs. John Dolson, at Cheswold.
Harry Ransom, of Massey, Md, call
ed on friends in town on Wednesday.
Elmer Kelly, of Pennsgrove, N. j.,
spent Thursday with friends in town.
Misses Grace Money and Ethel
Daniels spent Monday in Wilmington.
George Fisher, of Wilmington, spent
Friday among relatives and friends
here.
Mrs. Anna Bacon, of Philadelphia,
has been visiting G. w. VanDyke and
family.
Martin Lee and wife. of Philadelphia,
have been paying visit to Walter Lee
and wife.
Miss Pearl Wells entertained over
the weekend, Carlisle Spicer of Della
ware City.
Mrs. Walter Gill visited her sister,
Miss Mamie Townsend, in Philadelphia.
on Saturday.
Misses Grace Money, Gladys Pollitt
and Alonzo Cleaver visited Lester
Cleaver on Sunday.
Frank Jester, of Wyoming, spent
several days recently with w. A. Scott
and G. W. VanDyke.
Misses Caroline Fouracre and Margie
Records, of Mlddletown, are visiting
Miss Georgia Wiggin.
Misses Grace Money and Ethel DAN
iels spent Tuesday with Mrs. Clinton
Norman in Baltimore.
Mr.. Tilghman and wife, of Salisbury,
Md, visited Miss Ethelwyn j. Maloney
a few days last week.
Mr.. Turner and wife, of Smyrna, are
spending sometime with their daugh-
ter, Mrs. S. A. Collins.
Mrs. w. P. Wilson is spending sew.
eral days with her sister, Mrs. Zets
Barham, in Philadelphia.
Miss Leilah Money entertained ovel
the weekend Leslie Schofield and Stan.
ley Dubois, of Wilmington.
William Timmons and son Elmer, OF
Wilmington, have been spending severa
days with friends in town.
William E. Wright, of Atlantic City
N. j., spent the weekend with his
parents, w. H. Wright and wife.
L.. L. Maloney and wife returned or
Monday from three days cruise dowr
the Chesapeake Bay on the yacht Elfir
I'd.
Mrs. ]. H. Beauchamp has returned
to her home in Wilmington, after spend
ing a week with her daughter, Mrs. w
H. Reynolds.
Some of the displays of peonies il
full bloom on some of the farms alon,
the State Highway are attracting man.
admiring visitors.
The Ladies Aid Society will be en-
tertained at the parsonage next Tues
day evening the 18th, by Mrs. Georg
P. Jones and her helpers.
Miss Corinne Outten and friend, Eai
Layman, accompanied by B. F. Conan
and wife, all of Wilmington, visite
friends on Tuesday evening, while on
motoring trip.
Three members of the teaching stat
of the Townsend Public schools hav
resigned, they being Miss Rothwel
the principal, Miss Dexter and Wis
Morgan. Their places are to be file
at the next meeting of the board.
Local strawberry growers have rear
ed a harvest from their crops, althoug
the amount picked and sold does nc
equal the amount they secured las
year, but the prices have RENAME
higher in many instances than that
last year.
We are glad to state that the cond
ton of Arthur Mcdonald, who is at tn
Delaware Hospital. suffering from a
injury which he sustained while at wor
on the construction of bridge and wh
was employed by Scott and Wells.
now much improved.
On account of the inclement weathe
on Saturday the game of baseba
scheduled between the local club an
the Delaware Bronze team had to /
cancelled and the game on next Satu
day will be with the Good Will FIJI
Company, of Chester, Pa.
James H. Carton has bought til
Blackbird mill property, also two dwell
ings that are located nearby, the priG
paid being private. 1t is learned ths
Edward Phillips who has Eeen in chare
of the mill for the past year, will col
tinue in charge as heretofore.
We regret to lose the genial presenC
of Clifford Clark who gained hosts {
friends while conducting busine.
here, but being offered lucrative p,
sition with the Harrison Engineerin
and Constructing Company, left tow
on Monday to accept the position.
Local farmers are boosting plan
hold summer field meeting either I
Townsend or Middletown. A varie
program of field trips, demonstration
and talks on agriculture, horticulture
dairying and poultry raising are IL
planned features of the meeting, if
can be held.
The annual picnic of the Townser
public schools was held on Monde
afternoon, the inclement weatht
causing the affair to be held in tt
basement of the school building instes
of in the church grove as had bee
planned and the event which alwa.
affords much happiness to the sms
pupils was highly successful.
Some canneries in the lower end I
the county have already started up
pack early vegetables, mostly pea
spinach and asparagus. These ca
neries have their storehouses most
cleared of old stock and they will hand
many hundreds of tons of the Delawa
crops, principally tomatoes which W
reach the height of the season durir
August.
Following the copious rains whit
proved of vast benefit to their crop
many farmers secured the town for 1
the available ren and boys they cou
find to help them set out tomato plant
some farmers having contracted for
high as so acres of tomatoes with Il
local canning establishment, and maj
of the unemployed were given jobs
good wages in helping to get the mai
different tomato acreages starte
Farmers are predicting that the toma
and corn crops will be bumper one