Middletown transcript., 1922-04-01
TOWNSEND

Wilmington.
Samuel Nelson, of Leipsic, was 9
caller in town on Tuesday.
Miss Reba Rittenhouse was a Viii.
mington visitor on Saturday.
George Wiggin and wife motored to
Dover on Monday to visit friends.
George G. Palmer, of Pocomoke City,
Nd, visited here on Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Ella johnson. of Dover, paid
Townsend friends visit on Wednesday.
Augustus Davis and wife, of Colt,
Nd, spent Sunday with his parents,
William Davis and wife.
Mrs. John Townsend and granddaugh-
ter, Dorothy Beardsey, were visitors
in Middletown on Tuesday.
During the past week W. Hartman
Reynolds has delivered several new
Studebaker cars in this vicinity.
Mrs. Elsie Schwatka and daughter,
Miss Mary Schwatka, spent Sunday
with relatives and friends at Leipsic.
Mrs. Edward Reynolds and daughter,
Mrs. Clayton johnson, of near Sassa-
fras, Md, spent Thursday in Whining
ton.
George L. Wright and son Howard,
of Aberdeen, Md, spent several hours
here Monday attending to business mat
ters.
Levi Lattomus and wife are receiving
congratulations on the birth of d baby
girl, the stork having visited their home
on Thursday last.
A box social and parcel post sale
were held in the School Auditorium on
Thursday evening by the Sewing Club
girls and was highly successful.
Mrs. Clayton johnson and little
daughter Maxine, of near Sassafras,
Md, are spending few days with her
parents, E. e. Reynolds and wife.
Rev. George P Jones returned from
Chestertown on Tuesday afternoon,
having attended the funeral of Rev. l..
E. Barrett at 2 O'Clock on that day.
Some of the local merchants are en-
gagged in price-cutting war with the
result that out-of-town folks are in
creasing their visits when in quest Of
supplies.
Frank Reynolds, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with his father, w. P.
Reynolds, and his sister, Mrs. Richar I'd
Hodgson. who is recovering from an i'll.
ness of two weeks duration.
Mrs. John Mannering, who has be en-
Ill at the home of her parents, William
Foraker and wife, is now steadily i'm
proving, after having been compelled to
stay indoors for three weeks.
On Saturday, Mrs. Zeta Barham left
for Philadelphia to join her husband,
Everett Barham, who has secured a
position with the Keystone Construction
Co., and the couple will make their
future home in the Quaker City.
Mrs. Edward Hart who has been Wis
iting her daughter, Mrs. Clinton Nor
man, in Baltimore. Md. returned ho me
on Saturday and was accompanied by
her daughter. who is spending few
days with Townsend relatives and
friends.
A Shifters Club has been organized
by several school girls Of this town.
The local organization is said to be
similar to tn. city clubs, with but a
slight difference in the methods of gain
ing new members, the local members of
the Shutters organization making the
initiation ceremony more simple and
more popular one. There are said to be
% members here at the present time
Several farmers have already finished
their Spring plowing, having begun two
weeks ago, while a number of others
e are just commencing this line of work.
Farmers, generally with whom the
Transcript Scribe has happened to con-
verse with on farm matters, are ex pect-
ing record-breaking crops on account Of
the previous year being in many re-
spects, quite an unfavorable one. Many
gardeners have their gardens in shape
and some have even set out their radish
and onion crops.
Bishop Philip Cook of the Episcopal
Diocese, conducted services al St.
Mary's Chapel at 8 o'clock on Sunday
afternoon, and large congregation as
sembled in the Chapel and enjoyed a
very impressive discourse by the dis
tinguished church leader The Bishop
made his last visit to the local mission
previous to the one of Sunday last,
sometime in October of last year, and
then, as now, delivered a very helpful
sermon to a large assemblage of men,
bers of the mission, together with a
good quota of their friends.
DR.. J. A. Cotton, Superintendent of
the Swarthmore Chautauqua Circuit,
spent Saturday and Sunday as d guest
of D. b. Maloney and his daughter.
Miss Ethelwyn J. Maloney. On Sunday
he delivered an interesting address to