Middletown transcript., 1922-05-20
TOWNSEND

w. p. Graves was in town on Mon
day.
]. Corbit Reynolds was Whining
ton visitor on Monday.
Mr.. John P. Collins is visiting Mr..
George Warren in Wilmington.
w. p. Wilson, who was taken i'll with
lagrippe on Friday. is much better.
Morris Collins and wife spent Sunday
at Chadds Ford, Pa, the guest Of
friends.
Leland Price and wife, of Whining
ton, were visitors in town the past
weekend. a
Price Lattorus and wife, of Phila-
delphia, were guests of b. A. Collins
and wife on Sunday.
Walter Morgan and wife have as a
guest this week his sister, Mrs. Anna
Cleaver. of Philadelphia.
The Quarterly Conference of the
Townsend M. E. Church was held at the
church on Wednesday evening.
Children's Day services will be OBJ
served Sunday. May 18th, and real
nice program is being prepared.
Mrs. Andrew Lockerman, of Milling
ton, was the guest of Mrs. Richard
Hodgson on Thursday and Friday.
C. M. Unrub, wife and children, of
Dover, spent Sunday with his parents
J. A. Unruh and family near town.
Mrs. Edward Reynolds spent the past
week at the home of her daughter Mrs.
clayton johnson, of near Sassafras.
Mr.. Hampton Johns and wife, of
Warwick, were callers on Sunday even,
ing at the home of Mr.. w. 2. Reynolds.
Charles Medill, of Newark, was
Sunday visitor at the home of Mrs.
Susan West and daughter, Miss Lillian
West.
William Deakyne and wife, Joseph
Deakyne and Miss India Deakyne mo-
tored to the home of William Mccoy
and wife, near Wilmington, on Sunday
afternoon.
Miss 1nez Noble and Miss Tuttle, of
Philadelphia, and Miss Elsie Wright, of
Newark, and Mr.. Harry Warburton and
wife. of Wilmington, were week lend
guests of Miss Ethelwvn j. Maloney.
Charles Wiggin, of Portland Maine,
after an eight months sojourn at the
home of Mrs. Edna Wiggin and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Daisy johnson, returned home
on Monday accompanied by Mrs. john
son.
Ed. Collins, of New York, is spending
this week at the home of John Town.
send and wife, Who entertained on Sun.
day Daniel Collins and wife, and Clar-
ence Malcolm, wife and daughter, of
Wilmington.
Mrs. Walter Lee returned home on
Friday after spending the past week at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Morris.
of near Smyrna. Mr.. Morris who has
been critically i'll the past ten DAYS is
improving slowly.
Rain which was so badly needed the
early part of the week, was gladly well
coined when bounteous supply come
the latter part of the week, giving the
farmers and truckers strong hopes of
now raising some good crops.
Nathan Morgan and wife, of Chicago,
who have been spending the past few
weeks at the home of his sister, Mrs.
William Naylor, also at the home of his
brother, Robert Morgan, started on q
return trip Tuesday morning.
The annual town election was held in
the school building on Saturday after
noon. No changes were made. the
same officers being reelected, viz.
bSohy yhSt w dilcI NJiIl, W. ID
Donovan, j. A. Hart and Walter Lee.
The Transcript correspondent stricken
with lagrippe and with fever as high
as l03, was compelled to remain in beo
for five days but since Monday has beer
steadily improving. The illness, how.
ever was quite factor in the curtail.
ment of the local news-gathering ser.
vice for the present week.
Mothers Day exercises at the M. f.
Church on Sunday drew forth large con.
gregations at both the morning and
evening services, the Rev. George p.
Jones delivering sermon in the morn
ing which so ably touched upon the
sterling worth of motherhood, and
there was special program of music
which also added much interest to the
noble occasion. In the evening the
same sweet charms of mother love and
devotion shone as radiantly as in the
morning when the Rev. Jones delivered
special sermon to the lodgemen of the
community as well as those of the sur
rounding communities, and as all pres
ent were requested to weaG a white
flower, the assemblage as composed of
lodgemen and others, presented a scene
of gorgeous tribute to mother, unsur-
passed by any previous occasion. AT
the service five fraternal orders were
represented as follows: Mohawk Tribe,
No. So, Improved Order of Red Men,
Appoquinimink Castle, No. 10, Knights
of Golden Eagle. Townsend Council,
No. II, Junior Order United American
Mechanics. Washington Camp, No. %,
Patriotic Order Sons of America, Gold
en- Rule Council, No. 5, Daughters of
America, all of Townsend, and a few
members from Seneca Tribe, |. o. r.
M, of Middletown, and from Appo-